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I'm thrilled to have a new breakfast spot downtown, especially one that is so bright and cheery at 7 a.m. Thanks to the colorful pillows, multi-patterned accoutrements, and free-flowing coffee, Cockadoos is a great place to get the day off to a good start. I especially like the fact that customers — ones like me who don't like to speak too much in the early morning — can Facebook or Tweet in their orders ahead of time. Their signature Memphis bar-b-que omelet is definitely something to crow (and Tweet) about. This three-egg powerhouse is filled with a hearty serving of pulled pork, grilled to perfection and held together with a sweet embrace of mild provolone cheese. The barbecue sauce, which could make or break this unusual combo, definitely makes it. It's tangy, a little sweet, and downright delicious. (If you like your 'cue with some kick, add a dash of hot sauce.) With a cathead biscuit as accompaniment, this is a breakfast you can easily split, which is probably a good thing, since one of the dish's selling points is that it will "put some meat on your bones." Or don't split it. I won't tell. — Stacey Greenberg
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Elves with no sense of humor! Legolas thought wryly. I'd like to see these humans make it through 3000 plus years of living side by side with such a moronic race as their own! Try doing that without an extremely good sense of the absurdity of life and not committing mass suicide, or genocide! Ah well the lad was just a youngster. And a near barbaric horse boy. He could be forgiven his ignorance. Especially with those eyes!
Derfel had gone on with, "But you know I should challenge you for that. The Dunedain are now my kin. I could have taken that as an insult."
At that exact moment, Legolas felt, with extreme alarm, telltale rumblings of a gaseous nature in his lower belly. Gimli and his cram! Of course, the disgusting stuff had seen them through these last few days after the pack with the lembas in it had so vexingly fallen in the river. But really! It was worse than beans!
To the elf's dismay, Derfel seemed to have noticed the mixed look of embarassment and concentration that passed over Legolas' face as he waged that ages old battle of good manners pitted against often untimely and awkward bodlily urges
"Joking," Derfel said with a grin, as Legolas manfully, er, elfishly overcame his body's traiterous attempt to sabatogue this encounter. Legolas relaxed once more as the lad continued with a tale of having been kicked in the head by a horse when he was six. The elf barely contained a snort of laughter at this disclosure, coming as it did as the supposed justification for why so many of the Rohirrim were raving nutters. Well, it was as good an explanation as any, Legolas thought with an inward grin. Whatever the cause, he had to admit the overpowering masculine reckless of that race was . . . one of their best features. That and the blonde hair, the blue eyes, the tall, muscular build . . .
With a slight start, Legolas realized he was staring at the rider and that somehow Gimli was now regaling the lad with some tale of how many times he had been smacked on the head with a war axe. "And that is why, young lad" the dwarf was saying, "I always carry a tub of butter about with me. For you see. my head often swells, especially in weather such as this, and if it weren't for the butter, I'd have no way to get my helm off."


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I often find myself writing the article I was trying to find on the Internet but couldn't. Under "skiing toddler" there was some information, but I was having a hard time nailing it down. So we got some tiny skis, dressed M in her winter finery and jumped in with both feet. And now, here's that piece I was looking for.
M turned two in mid-November. She weighs about twenty pounds and is just over two feet tall, coming in at barely the single digits in percentile for her age. So, just like mommy, finding sports gear is a bit of a challenge. Luckily there are some people crazier than us who start kids even younger, so we were able to find some gear.
Since she started walking late (17 months), I had some doubt as to how liberally to use the word "skiing" for what we might accomplish this season, so we entered into the adventure with the attitude that we would be introducing some fun new gear and playing in the snow.
Obviously the kid needs warm clothes, and there are so many wonderful things to choose from at the Patagonia outlet that will never, ever wear out before they are outgrown. We also got lucky through www.sierratradingpost.com, Costco and REI as well as a local second hand ski store in Salt Lake called 2nd Track Sports. They have an eBay store as well. Level Nine Sports is another great option for new, but very reasonably priced baby gear.
Long underwear: Hers is probably nicer than mine. Patagonia capilene. She still fits in her 12 month sized onsie and pants. Messes just bounce off these. It's her second pair since infanthood and they are baby-proof. REI also has some synthetic long underwear sets for kids that are really nice.
Pants: We opted for an inexpensive pair of black insulated bibs. She is not potty trained yet, so this is feasible. It would be difficult if she were potty training and perhaps we would have looked for pants. (We're waiting until after ski season to work that in).
Jacket: Her go-to winter coat is a Patagonia Down Sweater. It isn't super heavy and isn't appropriate for wet conditions, but then again, taking a toddler skiing in a wet storm isn't really appropriate (or fun) either.
Mittens: Surprisingly we found an awesome pair of Head brand mittens at Costco. They have zippers up the side and are really long. We put them on before the coat and they never come off. The side zippers are such a huge bonus for squeezing little uncooperative hands into mittens. Don't worry about the thumbs.
Buff: I got her an adult-sized Buff. It reaches from under her chin to over her head easily and creates a nice transition from jacket to helmet.
Helmet: This was an internal debate for me. On one hand, skiing with the level of supervision I anticipated, it really didn't seem necessary yet. On the other hand, I wanted to create the habit immediately. I ended up finding a used Giro, who start their sizes at an XS to fit the smallest kids. The idea of a used helmet was a second debate, but after inspecting it I decided that it was barely used. As she gets older I will likely only buy new ones.
Goggles: Seems silly, but honestly, it is more comfortable and she can see better. There was a tiny pair of Smith's used next to the goggles and I got them. They have been a popular item with her.
Socks: REI has excellent ski socks for toddlers. They are thick and come in fun colors long
enough for the boots.
Poles: No way am I giving ski poles to a toddler!
Boots: Here's where I started to have trouble finding information, so I'm giving it up here. The smallest size that seems to be available is a 15.5 mondo. That's approximately a 15.5 cm long foot. Here's a mondo chart with toddler shoe sizes. The boots I found were 16.5 and a bit big. What I found is, they are so stiff and proportionally tall, you can get away with them being slightly big. Also, it's really hard to get a toddler to tell you how a boot fits. You could probably take the liner out and size them, but honestly, if a boot were to fit the kid correctly today, chances are it won't next week. We found some at 2nd Tracks, and Level 9 had an excellent selection. Fischer and Dalbello are the two brands that seem to make lots of tiny boots.
Skis: The shortest skis on the market are 70cm. While it's one thing to buy the boots a little big, opt for the shortest possible skis. Here's why: The longer the ski, the more surface area on the snow, and the faster they go. It would be far better for a kid to ski a "too small" ski as they grow, than for them to be skiing giant skis at first. The bindings can even be re-drilled for a bigger boot if you want to get a little more use. We also found these at a second hand store, never used once.
Wedge-ease: Those little clips that keep the tips together and keep the skis in a wedge. There are a bunch of brands out there – I found some from Lucky Bums on Amazon that work well. An added side benefit of this product is that they keep the skis together for the inevitable, unpredictable tantrum with kicking legs that undoubtedly will happen. This is your warning. They give no additional warning. The clips also save you the trouble of going back down for the ski they kick off on the chairlift (I speak from experience).
Ski harness: Also a Lucky Bums. I didn't think we'd use it this year, but I got it because I wanted an extra handle to use to contain her. It turns out we are using it lots, and our backs are so very thankful.
A word on rentals: There are two ways to rent skis for kids. If you live in a ski town, there are
often places that have deals where they will sell you a kid's package of rentals, and each year they will trade them for bigger sizes. There are also deals where you buy skis and they will accept them for sale towards your next purchase. These are excellent options that we considered, and would have looked harder had we not found really good deals. We also know we're having another kid, so we'll hand them down.
The second way to rent is a standard rental. The shops in ski resorts do have the tiny sizes (Alta and Snowbird both have really nice stuff). However, they rent for a half-day at the least. Although I am thrilled to pieces by our current ski progress, there hasn't been a single outing that has lasted longer than about an hour. We considered trying this to see if she was interested, but then we decided that one day of disinterest doesn't mean anything with a toddler. If your skiing experience will be a week of vacation and that's it, a weeklong rental might actually be a better option, because then they don't need to be transported and they will be available for use the entire trip.
The First Day
I loaded a bag of mini marshmallows into my pocket. Why? She's not a dog, but I thought maybe a treat could be useful. These are less messy than MnM's (again, I speak from experience).
Remember your first day on skis? I sure do. I was twelve, it was ski club at a tiny resort in Cleveland, and I stood in line and picked up my rentals. Life was rough in the 80's, and you had to reach down and put your bindings on. And the stuff was heavy – disproportionally so for a smaller than average kid. Now imagine your stuff weighed half of you. That's what it's like to be two. So when I left the house (alone, with my toddler and pregnant), I didn't even know if we would set foot on the ski slope. It was entirely possible we wouldn't make it out of the car.
I left her strapped in while I put on my own gear. This is the ski equivalent to "secure your own
mask before helping others". Because that timer starts the very second the child can't move in all that stuff, so you'd better be ready to move. Think Randy from Christmas Story. I got her pants, gloves (before jacket), jacket, buff, boots, helmet and goggles on in that order. Fast. You must work quickly. I got a great parking spot within a few feet of the top of Chickadee at Snowbird and had already trucked our skis over the snow mound. I scooped her up and went.
First of all, those boots are very awkward. Remember that first time? Now imagine having just learned to walk. She wasn't sure what to make of the boots, the snow, the chairlift…so we played in the snow a bit until she declared loudly, "I want to ride the chairlift." Oops. I really hadn't counted on that. Remember, I thought we'd maybe not leave the car. I had already tried to put her skis on, but she kicked and yelled, and I didn't want anyone to think I was THAT MOM, so I let her be. But now she insisted on riding that chair. She agreed to the skis when I told her that was the only way to the bottom.
Tip #1. There will be yelling about putting on the skis. You're not a bad parent for putting on the skis. If the yelling stops, there you go. If not, maybe take them off and try again later.
So there we were, with M between my legs, me bending over and slowly snowplowing, while suddenly she's yelling "whee" and "skiing"! I stopped because I thought she was upset. It turns out that stopping makes her angry, so off we went.
The whole way down the hill, which is at least three times longer than my first ski run was at twelve, I was wondering how I was going to get back up. The thought of putting this possibly kicking and screaming toddler on a real chairlift was scary. Really scary. I had strapped on the little ski harness, giving me some hope that I could do this, but I was really considering walking back up the hill.
Tip #2: Just carry them onto the chair the first time. And if you ask ahead, the nice lift attendant will probably slow the chair down for you. If you're skiing in a designated beginner area they are used to it, and it is actually better to ask ahead than cause an unplanned stop.
I hopped on with M, skis on the seat, holding her very tightly. I brought down the safety bar
voluntarily for the first time ever so she wouldn't push me off the lift. She loved it. In fact she asked to go "down down and ride the chairlift again".
We took two more runs before my back was going to give out.
Tip #3: The first time, they are not skiing. You are skiing. They are dangling between your legs. Don't forget to look up. Leave before you die or they freak out.
That was it; there were no tears and very little yelling. She got some mini-marshmallows and played in the snow some more and we left. A week later we went again, and that time she coasted for a few seconds between Daddy and me. She got some MnM's.
Tip #4: MnM's do melt in your mouth. If you're two, mouth extends to "entire face". See, those goggles were useful. Stick to neat treats.
We went a couple more times, and each time has surpassed our wildest expectations. I mean if you set the bar low, which you really should in this case, you won't be disappointed. We were ready to leave upon arrival each time. Prepared to remove and replace skis multiple times. Prepared, even, to get that "look" from someone just like us, two years prior, who had never taken a toddler skiing. Instead we got to witness her ski an entire run standing on her skis, ride the magic carpet with assistance, and learn to sit still on the chairlift. And the season isn't nearly over.
Tip#5: Always leave the party while it's still fun. Obvs. In fact, we normally leave about a week between outings and believe me, she doesn't forget anything.
All told, the toddler skiing experience has been amazing. Would she learn just as fast if we waited until she was five? Likely. Is she learning to turn and stop? Probably not this year. What she's doing is getting familiar with the activity and the equipment and seems to be having fun. And seeing her have fun skiing is enough to make any ski mom or dad's heart full of joy; enough that I actually gave up a bluebird powder day to ski two runs with my sweet M and I didn't mind one bit.


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SAN DIEGO–As the HTC Sensation XL is currently only available in Europe and Asia, we leapt at a chance to take a look at it here at CTIA in San Diego.
It does seem a lot like the Android version of the HTC Titan, with its large and imposing 4.7-inch WVGA LCD display. It feels rather big in small hands, but the payoff is that you get a very generous and colorful display for watching videos or surfing the Web. It has HTC's usual excellent design aesthetic, with a slim silhouette and comfortable feel. The one we handled was white all around with a bit of silver on the back.
Features of the Sensation XL are impressive as well. It ships with Android 2.3 Gingerbread with the HTC Sense 3.5 overlay, and is powered by a 1.5GHz single-core processor. You get 16GB of onboard storage, but it seems that it's not expandable, which seems odd to us. There's also an 8-megapixel camera with 1080p HD video capture, and it features several cool camera features like an automatic panorama mode.
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As you are all well aware, we produce a core range of beers on cask which we try to have available at all times and we ensure that there are one or two seasonal or special beers to choose from in addition. A beer brewed with a seasonal ingredient can often be a welcome addition, keeping us in touch with local harvests and adding a certain je ne sais quoi to a particular style of beer. We have used elderflowers in a delicate pale ale and sloes to provide a little fruity contrast in a stout.
None of this in any way excuses the abomination that is pumpkin beer. Pumpkins are quite clearly only intended to be carved into a horrifying likeness of Donald Trump or added to a soup.
Last week's heroic orange peeling endeavours prompted quite a bit of interest in our Chocolate Orange Porter which may be finally casked this week. Despite my best efforts, the orange was a little overwhelmed by the chocolate so we've added some more which is now coming through nicely. We made a snap decision to brew it again last week as there's a lot of demand for it and rightly so.
This sort of flexibility / inability-to-stick-to-a-plan means that we regularly need to review our brew schedules. We need to have stocks of our core beers and also need to split brews between cask and keykeg on occasion. It's a delicate balancing act particularly as we begin to brew for canning as well.
From time to time we also review our core range and this is one of those times. At present (to recap) we have a traditional (not too hoppy) low abv session Pale (Ashburnham) and a much more modern session IPA (Skylarking). We have an all year round session stout (Dance First), Red Spider Rye which is our most distinctive core beer (4.8%) and Fatal Flaw, an Amber ale at 4.5% with ever changing hops. The addition of Skylarking at the start of this year made a huge impact and while we can't (for reasons of production capacity) have too many beers permanently available we are pondering if there is a particular style that is missing from that core range. We've never made a best bitter because it doesn't particularly excite us. We'd really welcome your views on this and look forward to any suggestions.


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TLA's 'The Privateer' presents piracy in the hands of a Trump-like fool
Transatlantic Love Affair's new show, now playing at Illusion Theater, is set on the high seas circa 1717. If you were hoping The Privateer would supply some good old-fashioned swashbuckling action to help you take your mind off today's headlines, though, sorry: This fictional story of an inexperienced sea captain who gets in way over his head turns out to bear some very pointed similarities to the terrifyingly true story of the man presently steering our ship of state.
Director Derek Lee Miller was also inspired, he explains in a program note, by the real-life Stede Bonnet, a "vain, oblivious, incompetent rich man who decided to become a pirate." Bonnet became the basis for the character of Captain Bevington (Heather Bunch), a shady businessman who buys a ship and convinces its crew to join him on what they hope will be a quick and uneventful foray to the Bahamas.
Bevington isn't properly a pirate, he tells the crew: He's a privateer, a man given official permission to engage in maritime warfare. At first, the (not technically) piracy seems to go pretty well, as the crew luck into an unexpectedly easy conquest. Things get more complicated, though, when Bevington cuts a deal with a real pirate who goes by the apt name of Blackbeard (Allison Witham). This duplicitous schemer's real name isn't Putin, though it might as well be.
The Privateer is a more broadly comedic play than the typical Transatlantic Love Affair offering, and it's rich in character-driven humor. Bunch's broad style is a perfect fit for the buffoonish Bevington, who contrasts not only with the tough and savvy Blackbeard but also with an experienced, loyal sailor (John Stephens) who comes to regret advising his peers to cast their lots with the dangerously inept ship owner. The company's best catch, though, is the effortlessly expressive China Brickey, whose warm and detailed portrayal of Bevington's right-hand man is key to the story's ultimate poignancy.
Are there rousing sea chanteys to be heard along the way? Is the Atlantic wet? Live instrumental accompaniment is provided by Dustin Tessier, who shakes a surprisingly wide range of sounds out of a drum kit stationed at stage right. In the company's trademark set-less style of physical theater, the sea battles can be a little challenging to follow, but fight choreographer Annie Enneking helps ensure that the close combat feels visceral.
While the play feels thematically close to home, it also evokes a sense of escape. For all the dastardly intrigue and hair-raising confrontations, the best moments in The Privateer come during quiet conversations between pairs of characters, as subtle cues create a sense of a gently rocking ship against the expansive sky, illuminated by lighting designer Michael Wangen. A red sky at night is a sailor's delight—and ours.
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WASHINGTON, DC, June 29, 2011 – In a joint letter to President Obama, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) expressed deep concern over recent comments and actions questioning the value of corporate aircraft use and proposing tax changes that would negatively impact the entire general aviation industry.
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When I make samples for shows, I always love to include photos of my loved ones in them. It is like having them at the show with me. For this sample, I featured a photo of my oldest daughter Anna. She has amazing green eyes that really shine in her senior photos. The photo of her was a perfect choice for this chippy vintage style shadowbox frame.
I have had this frame in my collection for a while. I found it on clearance several years ago at Hobby Lobby. It had a piece of metal in the back with magnets inside. I have used it as a display stand for different little collection bits. I decided it would be a really fun accent to use for the show.
I lined the inside back of the frame with a piece of paper from the Tim Holtz Yuletide collection. I love that paper collection, even though it is holiday themed, there are several really great patterns that can be used year round. There is a layer of vellum above the paper to help create a break between the pattern paper and the focal point.
The next layer is really fun! I adhered a sheet of adhesive backed copper foil to a piece of cardstock and then embossed it with my Horsehair embossing folder. I painted over the copper with Black Soot Distress Ink. I let the paint set for a couple of minutes and then buffed it off. That left the paint in the recessed areas to accent the pattern and the texture. I simply adore how deeply my embossing folders emboss!
Below the photo I added a cluster of flowers created from my Shabby, Pinwheel, and Floweret Posies. The leaves are from the Pom Pom Posies set. All are cut from crinoline and colored with Distress Spray Stain.
Keeping with the theme from several other samples, I tucked a few vintage paintbrushes into the arrangement. I liked having little recurring elements in the different samples.
I can not wait to show you how I colored the crinoline with Distress Spray Stains. Aren't the flower centers cool? I made them from cheap craft pearls, jewelry findings, alcohol inks, and Prills. I will show you how in a tutorial soon.
The thing I love most about projects like this one is that it shows how easy it is to dress up something like a purchased frame. The frame was a cool find but the decorations inside were not too pretty. A quick layer of pattern paper with a cool foil layer gave it a whole new look. Add in some fabric flowers and you have something truly unique!
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When Nanny McPhee arrives at the Green farm, she uses magic and discipline to help frazzled Mrs. Green run things while her husband fights in the war. Nanny McPhee arrives to help a harried young mother who is trying to run the family farm while her husband is away at war, though she uses her magic to teach the woman's children and their two spoiled cousins five new lessons.
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When Google Met Wikileaks by Julian Assange
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This book is primarily the transcript of a conversation between Julian Assange and Eric Schmidt (then CEO of Google) and Jared Cohen for their book The New Digital Age. The transcript is also available in its entirety (fittingly) on the WikiLeaks website along with the actual audio of the conversation. The transcript is book-ended by several essays: Beyond Good and "Don't Be Evil", the Banality of "Don't Be Evil" (also published in New York Times) and Deliver us from "Don't Be Evil".
Assange read The New Digital Age and wasn't happy with the framing of the conversation, or the degree to which his interview wasn't included. When Google Met WikiLeaks is Assange's attempt to reframe the discussion in terms of the future of publishing, information and the Internet. In particular Assange takes issue with Schmidt and Cohen's assertion that:
The information released on WikiLeaks put lives at risk and inflicted serious diplomatic damage.
Schmidt and Cohen offer no source for this bold assertion, and in a note they equate WikiLeaks with minimally enabling espionage, again with no citation. Assange makes the case that WikiLeaks is actually in the business of publishing and journalism, not secretly selling information for private gain. I think Assange does this, but more importantly, he presents a view of the near future of the Internet, that is presaged by WikiLeaks, which is actually interesting and compelling. The transcript itself is heavily annotated with footnotes, many of which have URLs, that are archived at archive.today.
For me the most interesting parts of the book center on what Assange calls the Naming of Things:
The naming of human intellectual work and our entire intellectual record is possibly the most important thing. So we all have words for different objects, like "tomato." But we use a simple word, "tomato," instead of actually describing every little aspect of this god damn tomato…because it takes too long. And because it takes too long to describe this tomato precisely we use an abstraction so we can think about it so we can talk about it. And we do that also when we use URLs. Those are frequently used as a short name for some human intellectual content. And we build all of our civilization, other than on bricks, on human intellectual content. And so we currently have system with URLs where the structure we are building our civilization out of is the worst kind of melting plasticine imaginable. And that is a big problem.
Transcript of secret meeting between Julian Assange and Google CEO Eric Schmidt
This particular section goes on to talk about some really interesting topics: such as the effects of right to be forgotten laws, DNS, Bittorrent magnet URIs, how not to pick ISPs, hashing algorithms, digital signatures, public key cryptography, Bitcoin, NameCoin, flood networks, and distributed hash tables. The fascinating thing is that Schmidt is asking Assange for these details to understand how WikiLeaks operates; but Assange's response is to discuss some general technologies that may influence a new kind of Web of documents. A Web where identity matters, where documents are signed and mirrored, republished and resilient.
Assange has been largely demonized by the mainstream press, and this book humanizes him quite a bit. It's hard not to think of him in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London (where he will have been for 1500 days tomorrow) quietly adding footnotes to the transcript, and archiving web content.
OR Books role in printing this content on paper, for bookshelves everywhere is another aspect to this process of replication. Hats off to them for putting this project together.
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Thu Jul 25,11:01 AM ET
RABAT (Reuters) - Surgeons have managed to stitch back a Moroccan boy's penis after it was bitten off by a donkey, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday.
Professor Mouaad Mounir, chief urologist at Ibnou Toufail hospital in the southern city of Marrakesh, was quoted as saying the operation on the seven-year-old boy was carried out last week.
He said the operation had taken 45 minutes and was successful.
MAP did not say how the donkey managed to bite off the boy's penis.
A source at the hospital confirmed the agency's report, but declined to give further details.
Donkeys in Morocco are used for laborious work on farms and garbage collection and are often subject to harsh treatment.


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Naturalist and Geologist
The death has taken place at Harpenden of Mr. Richard Lydekker, F.R.S., F.G.S., and F.Z.S., well-known as a naturalist and geologist.
He was born in 1849 and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took second place in the first class Natural Science Tripos of 1871, and joined the staff of the Geological Survey of India three years later. Carefully exploring the mountains north and south of the Kashmir Valley in 1877, he established the fact that the Kashmir area, is a compressed synclinal ellipse, on the pattern of the larger features defined by Stolicka in the Tibetan region, but containing no rocks younger than the trias. His keen biological bent found scope when the Survey collections in Calcutta were transferred to the newly-built Indian Society of Bengal. He undertook the arrangement and description of the extensive series of tertiary vertebrate fossils, to which large additions had recently come from the Punjab. He retired in 1882, but left behind an enduring record of is zeal and ability in his description of the fauna of the Siwaliks in the "Palæontologia in Indica."
Mr. Lyddekker's scientific activities were maintained unwearyingly through the latter half of his life. He catalogued in 10 volumes the fossil mammals, reptiles, and birds in the British Museum; he collaborated with the late Sir W. H. Flower in "The Royal Natural History" (eight volumes), and with the late Professor H. A. Nicholson in "A Manual of Palæontology" (two volumes), and he contributed three numbers to Allen's Naturalists' Library and many articles to the "Encyclopædia Britannica." He wrote a great number of learned monographs, but did not neglect appeal to the sportsman and the general reader, as is shown by such works as "The Great and Small Game of India, Burma, and Tibet," "Phases of Animal Life," and "The Sportsman's British Birds."He married in 1882 the eldest daughter of Canon O. W. Davys, and had a family of two sons and three daughters.
This work was published before January 1, 1925, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.


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The Warlord
Heston did a lot of films in his career, but some were overlooked because they were not the bigger than life Epics like Ben Hur and 10 Commandments.
But I have found Heston's works, The Naked Jungle, Diamond Head, Secret of the Incas (where Indiana Jones came from right down to the hat and leather jacket!!), The Big Country and The Warlord to be much more satisfying.
The War Lord especially is a rarely noticed and unappreciated film.
Set in Norman-Saxon England, he has been 'awarded' a small fief to hold against Frisans invaders (the same invaders that captured his father and bankrupted his family to ransom him). Tired of war, tired of the struggle, he is more than content with his lot – though not his younger brother, well played by Guy Stockwell. Heston only wants one thing more….the woman, a peasant promised to another. He can take her by right of being the lord, but he wants her heart and a woman's love.
Realistic portrayal of the feudal person of post Saxon era of the Norman invasion of England, the performances are solid making this one special film, most notable the late Richard Boone (Have Gun Will Travel), one of the most natural actors ever to fill the screen. Action and battle scenes are solid.
A must for Heston fans who want more than just the flash. A must for fans of medieval history, and an absolute must if you are a romantic at heart and love knights of auld and damsels in distress.


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A unique and ornate palace for sale in Las Vegas was home to Michael Jackson in the strange and isolated years before his death. In fact, the King of Pop was the last tenant in the 24,000-square-foot estate, and his portrait still hangs above the fireplace.
Jackson eschewed the main house and lived in the guest villa while he was rehearsing for his Las Vegas show, The One, from 2007 to 2009, according to listing agent Eddy Martinez of Miami Beach-based Worldwide Properties. To avoid the paparazzi, Jackson traveled through a tunnel under the main house and got directly into a car parked at the end of it, Martinez said.
The Hacienda Palomino has only had two owners since theater developer Horst Schmidt built it in 1952. The home at 2710 Palomino Lane is "enchanting," said Martinez, and the property's unique features -- including a musical note insignia used as an architectural feature -- intrigued the late superstar.
The home was built first in Mexico, then transported brick-by-brick and reassembled as a 1.7-acre estate with free-ranging horses, a 74-seat medieval chapel and a secret art vault.
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As Curbed reported, Jackson moved into the estate when he returned to the U.S. after living in Bahrain in a desperate effort to escape public scrutiny. Jackson rented other properties in Las Vegas during the same time period, and even considered buying there, according to reports after his death.
The owner of the estate, who is offering it for $19.5 million, is a diplomat from El Salvador who has used the home only occasionally since Jackson moved out in 2009.


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Three winners for the 2014 Civil Society Prize
President Henri Malosse together with Vice-President Jane Morrice announced the ranking of the 2014 Civil Society Prize winners during the October plenary session of the EESC.
ETP Slovakia received the first prize for their project Building Hope, through which they teach Roma communities in Slovakia how to construct their own houses.
IQ Roma servis from the Czech Republic and Reverend Archimandrite Athinagoras Loukataris from Greece shared the 2nd prize
The Award Ceremony
IQ Roma servis (NGO, independent civic association)
As a pro-Roma non-profit non-governmental civic association, established in 1997, the primary target group are Roma people. In its membership platform as well as within the employee team IQ Roma servis (also as IQRS) promotes multicultural approach and is an Ethnic friendly employer, fulfilling its vision in good practise on a small organisational scale, with the prospect of a wider development in the EU society in future.
Vision of IQ Roma servis: "We want a world where true and friendly relationships between Roma and majority people exist – a world in which Roma naturally hold dignified social roles with respect to their culture and nationality".
Mission of IQ Roma servis: "To be an intermediary who supports possibilities, opportunities and resolutions of Roma on their way of personal growth and social fulfilment and protects their rights and dignity within the wide society."


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Safe Passage: Travel Safety Tips
Travel safeguards to keep you prepared for disasters abroad!
by Donald J. Mihalek / Feb 18, 2016


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These 10 global cities featured in the video above are considered the safest by the Economist Intelligence Unit. I won't name them for you here, you can see for yourself.
But how did the Economist come up with their safe city list?
"Securing public safety means addressing a wide—and evolving—range of risks. The Safe Cities Index aims to capture this complexity," says the Safe Cities Index 2015 White Paper. "The Index tracks the relative safety of a city across four categories: digital security, health security, infrastructure safety, and personal safety."
The above video and the top 10 list have met some online flack though.
- "Miami or Houston way above New York in safety. Good people can actually fight back, instead of playing the victim."
- "Australia's gun control laws DO NOT positively contribute to factors behind why Sydney is a safe city. Thus making this video factually false."
- "Top 10 when Singapore is at #2 when it's actually #1, and when DUBAI is not directly below Singapore, (let alone nowhere to be found on the list)… and with NY included, Osaka and Tokyo over-estimated… is, ladies and gentlemen, what you call a load of c**p and a complete joke."
These are some of the online comments. So what do you think? Is this list out of touch?
The Safe City Index actually focused on 50 cities, which are below in descending order of rank.


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Our commitment to open source platforms, including support for Linux-based Vulkan drivers, offers developers confidence to deliver their games to multiple platforms. Many of today's biggest games are already optimized for AMD GPUs and developers expect many of those decisions will carry over when running on the AMD datacenter GPUs that power cloud-gaming. AMD also provides developers with tools and enhancements needed to fine tune game experiences. These include:
- The AMD Linux driver includes an application tracing component that, together with the AMD Radeon™ GPU Profiler (RGP), provides access to detailed, low-level information about how workloads run on AMD GPUs. Identifying timing issues that might suggest potential optimizations, this capability can dramatically improve developers' ability to create applications that deliver the best possible performance on AMD GPUs.
- RGP also allows game developers to visualize precisely how their application is utilizing the AMD GPU, including how graphics and compute thread groups occupy the GPU, enabling them to track event timing and optimize their games for the Stadia service/platform.
- RGP interoperates with the popular open-source RenderDoc graphics debugging tool to give developers deeper real-time insights into the rendering of each frame, which can significantly reduce the time required to debug and profile frames during the development process.
- RGP operates the same way in a virtualized environment as it does when running on a dedicated PC client, making it as easy for developers to optimize their applications for virtualized GPUs in large scale environments as they would for any other gaming platform.
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Sorry, no post for tonight.
My brother asked me to do (another) poster for him and his work buddies, so I'll probably be busy photoshop-ing for the next couple of nights.
In place of my ramblings this evening, you will instead be treated to a clip of the comic genius that is Chris Farley…
A clip that just happens to be taken from one of his worst films.
Anyway, please enjoy watching Chris Farley fight an eagle puppet while I bust my ass and burn my retinas toiling away in photoshop:
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Question: How is the atonement of Jesus Christ portrayed in Latter-day Saint hymns
The Song of the Righteous
From the earliest times Christians have "sung hymns to Christ as to a God."[1] The singing of those hymns was a method of instructing the congregation in the doctrines of the Church. Paul wrote to the Colossians that at their religious gatherings they were to "let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord." (Colossians 3:16) He taught the same concept to the members in Ephesus: "speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." (Ephesians 5:19) Most frequently those hymns are meant simply as a means of expressing devotion to the Savior, or to His Father. But at times they have been polemical, a means of inculcating new doctrine, as in the period following Nicaea.[2] The hymns penned by John and Charles Wesley "were more than specimens of devotion. They were tools for doctrinal instruction."[3] The hymns of the Latter-day Saints have also been an effective means of instructing the membership of the Church about their relationship to the Savior. It has been so from the earliest hymnal, published in 1835, to the present. A look at some of those hymns will indicate the centrality of the Savior's atonement, and the elements of it that were taught to the membership.
The 1835 hymnal
The 1835 edition of the hymnal was a collection of ninety hymns, over one-third written by members of the young church, and put together by Emma Smith, wife of the Prophet.[4] Twenty-six of those hymns are still in the current hymnal, which includes many written by non-LDS authors. The 1835 edition (which is not available to me) includes hymns with the following thoughts expressed: "Blest inhabitants of Zion, purchased by the Savior's blood; Jesus, whom their souls rely on, makes them kings and priests to God."[5] Another hymn, by Isaac Watts, stated, "The Lord of Glory died for men. But lo! What sudden joys were heard! The Lord, though dead, revived again."[6] Another hymn, by LDS writer William W. Phelps, indicated that Christ "died for us."[7] One of the more popular hymns in the current edition, also written by W.W. Phelps, is "O God, the Eternal Father," and appeared in the 1835 edition. It included the phrases "Jesus, the Anointed…gave himself a ransom to win our souls with love… And die, or all was lost."[8]
The 1889 hymnal
In 1889 another edition of the LDS hymnal appeared. A third reprint of this particular edition was published in 1906. Many of the current hymns also appeared in it, but it also included hymns no longer in the current hymnbook. Among this latter group of hymns, for which no authors are listed, are several which declare the importance of the Atonement of the Savior. "Spirit of faith, come down, reveal the things of God, and make to us the Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see; who did for every sinner die, did surely die for me."[9]:173 Another hymn includes the phrase "remembering God's incarnate Son, who suffered death on Calvary to set the contrite sinner free."[9]:20 Another taught the Saints "when He our Savior did the same, without a place to lay his head, a pilgrim on the earth he came, until for us his blood was shed."[9]:31 Another hymn records that "they follow their General, the great Eternal lamb—His garments stained in his own blood—King Jesus is his name."[9]:105 Another, applicable to participation in the Eucharistic celebration (Sacrament of the Lord's Supper), reads: "O Lord of Hosts, we now invoke Thy spirit most divine, to cleanse our hearts while we partake the broken bread and wine. May we forever think of thee, and of thy sufferings sore, endured for us on Calvary, and praise thee evermore. Prepare our minds, that we may see the beauties of thy grace; salvation purchased on that tree for all who seek thy face."[9]:109 Another tells the family not to weep for their dead child, for "your child is saved through Jesus Christ [for they have] washed their robes and made them white in Christ's atoning blood."[9]:135 Another hymn, penned by LDS poet Eliza R. Snow, first appeared in an LDS hymnal in 1871, and continues today. It reads, as per 1906: "How great the wisdom and the love, that filled the courts on high, and sent the Savior from above to suffer, bleed and die! His precious blood He freely spilt, his life He freely gave; a sinless sacrifice for guilt, a dying world to save."[10] Another hymn indicates that Christ "died that we might live."[9]:42 Yet another refers to "him who died, that we might live."[9]:198 Another hymn refers to him "who died to save."[9]:224 One proclaims the activities of the missionaries who go out in order to teach "that divine and glorious conquest once obtained on Calvary." [9]:239 Another hymn, written by LDS author William W. Phelps, found in the 1835 hymnal and still very popular today, refers to "that sacred, holy offering, by man least understood… when Jesus the Anointed, descended from above, and gave himself a ransom to win our souls with love… He was the promised Savior." The recent edition includes a fourth verse that concludes "and die or all was lost."[11] Another hymn, still in the modern edition, tells that "Jesus, our Lord and God, bore sin's tremendous load."[12]
The current Latter-day Saint hymnal (1986 to present)
There are simply too many hymns in the current hymnal to recount all of them satisfactorily. But there are several which need some attention. First though, it should be remembered that there are several hymns in the current book which were written by non-LDS authors, and which bear on our theme. Many of these have already been mentioned above. The current hymnal contains many sentiments relative to our theme.
- "I am the sacrifice offered for thee."[13]:120
- "…thou Son of God, who lived for us, then died on Calvary."[13]:169
- "Thou gavest thy life on Calvary, that I might live forever more."[13]:171
- "Let me not forget, O Savior, thou didst bleed and die for me when thy heart was stilled and broken on the cross at Calvary."[13]:172
- "For us the blood of Christ was shed; for us on Calvary's cross he bled… Jesus died that justice might be satisfied."[13]:174 [14]
- "Oh, wondrous plan—to suffer, bleed, and die for man!… For Jesus died on Calvary! That all thru him might ransomed be."[13]:176
- "May we forever think of thee and of thy sufferings sore, endured for us on Calvary, and praise thee evermore… Salvation purchased on that tree for all who seek thy face."[13]:178
- "Leaving thy Father's throne, on earth to live, thy work to do alone, thy life to give… Bruised, broken, torn for us on Calvary's hill—thy suffering borne for us lives with us still."[13]:181
- "…praise and honor give to him who bled on Calvary's hill and died that we might live… The bread and water represent His sacrifice for sin; ye Saints, partake and testify ye do remember him."[13]:182 [15]
- "When thy self thou gavest an offering, dying for the sinner's sake."[13]:183
- Vilate Raile wrote: "Upon the cross of Calvary they crucified our Lord and sealed with blood the sacrifice that sanctified his word. Upon the cross he meekly died for all mankind to see that death unlocks the passageway into eternity. Upon the cross our Savior died, but, dying, brought new birth through resurrection's miracle to all the sons of earth."[13]:184
- "Again we meet around the board of Jesus, our redeeming Lord, with faith in his atoning blood, our only access unto God. He left his Father's courts on high, with man to live, for man to die… Help us, O God, to realize the great atoning sacrifice, the gift of thy beloved Son, the Prince of Life, the Holy One." Additional verses included: "Jesus, the great facsimile of the Eternal Deity, has stooped to conquer, died to save from sin and sorrow and the grave."[16]
- "Thyself the Lamb forever slain… View thee bleeding on the tree: My Lord, my God, who dies for me."[17]
- "Our Savior, in Gethsemane, shrank not to drink the bitter cup, and then, for us, on Calvary, upon the cross was lifted up. We reverence with the broken bread, together with the cup we take, the body bruised, the lifeblood shed, a sinless ransom for our sake."[18]
- "…sent the Savior from above to suffer, bleed, and die! His precious blood he freely spilt, his life he freely gave, a sinless sacrifice for guilt, a dying world to save."[13]:195
- "O Savior…upon the cross they nail thee to die, O King of all. No creature is so lowly, no sinner so depraved, but feels thy presence holy and thru thy love is saved. Tho craven friends betray thee, they feel thy love's embrace; the very foes who slay thee have access to thy grace. Thy sacrifice transcended the mortal law's demand, thy mercy is extended to every time and land… What praises can be offer to thank thee, Lord most high? In our place thou didst suffer; in our place thou didst die, by heaven's plan appointed, to ransom us, our King. O Jesus, the anointed, to thee our love we bring."[13]:197
Clearly, there is much in the hymns that the Latter-day Saints sing regularly which teaches that the Savior, Jesus Christ, came to earth for the specific purpose of "being lifted up upon the cross" to save the world. Through the sacrifice of His life, the spilling of His blood, he has redeemed all mortals who will come to Him.
- ↑ Pliny (ca. 115 AD), epistle 10:96, in Pliny. Letters, Vol. 2, translated by William Melmoth, Loeb Classical Library (Boston: Harvard University Press, 1958), 403. Pliny's letter to the Emperor Trajan can be found online at http://faculty.georgetown.edu/jod/texts/pliny.html. See now, Margaret Daly-Denton, "Singing Hymns to Christ as to a God (cf. Pliny Ep. X, 96)," The Jewish Roots of Christological Monotheism, edited by Corey C. Newman, James R. Davila, and Gladys S. Lewis (Leiden, Netherlands: E.J. Brill, 1999), 277–292. She points out that there are two types of hymns in the New Testament: hymnic and liturgical. The liturgical hymns are about Christ, not to him.
- ↑ Daniel Liderbach recently wrote that prior to Nicaea the hymns appeared to embody expressions that had their origins in response to the Spirit moving the congregation. "However after the Council of Nicaea and again after that of Chalcedon /451 AD/, the tone of the hymns used by the community shifted to polemical, theological insistence upon the doctrine that the church at Nicaea and Chalcedon had approved," Daniel Liderbach, Christ in the Early Christian Hymns (Mahwah, New Jersey: Paulist Press, 1999), 79–80.
- ↑ Alan C. Clifford, Atonement and Justification: English Evangelical Theology 1640–1790. An Evaluation (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990), 99. Estimates for the number of hymns composed by John and Charles Wesley vary between 6500 and 8000. They published at least 57 hymn collections during their lifetime. The most significant one was in 1780, and was based in part on eight previous collections. In the preface to the 1780 edition John Wesley wrote, "It is large enough to contain all the important truths of our most holy Religion, whether speculative or practical; yea, to illustrate them all, and to prove them by Scripture and Reason." He also wrote that "the hymns are not carelessly jumbled together, but carefully ranged under proper heads, according to the experience of real Christians. So that this book is, in effect, a little body of experimental and practical divinity." Quoted in Ken Bible, "The Wesley's Hymns on Full Redemption and Pentecost: a Brief Comparison," Wesleyan Theological Journal 17:2 (1982).
- ↑ See D&C 25:11–12 for Emma's call to edit the volume. The Preface to the 1835 edition states: "In order to sing by the Spirit, and with the understanding, it is necessary that the church of the Latter-day Saints should have a collection of 'Sacred Hymns,' adapted to their faith and belief in the gospel, and, as far as can be, holding forth the promises made to the fathers who died in the precious faith of a glorious resurrection, and a thousand years' reign on earth with the Son of Man in his glory. Notwithstanding the church, as it were, is still in its infancy, yet, as the song of the righteous is a prayer unto God, it is sincerely hoped that the following collection, selected with an eye single to his glory, may answer every purpose till more are composed, or till we are blessed with a copious variety of the songs of Zion," quoted in Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation (Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Co., 1947), {{{vol}}}:93.
- ↑ John Newton, "Glorious Things of Thee are Spoken," hymn 46 in the 1998 version. Newton, an Anglican clergyman, was also the author of the hymn "Amazing Grace."
- ↑ Isaac Watts, "He Died! The Great Redeemer Died," hymn 192 in the current hymnal. It is hymn 56 in the 1906 (1889) edition.
- ↑ W.W. Phelps, "Come, All Ye Saints Who Dwell on Earth," hymn 65 in the current hymnal; 114 in the 1906 edition.
- ↑ W.W. Phelps, "O God, the Eternal Father," hymn 175 in the current edition, 255 in the 1906.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 9.8 9.9 The Latter-day Saints Psalmody, Third Edition (Salt Lake City: The Deseret News, 1906). Citations are to hymn number, not page number.
- ↑ Eliza R. Snow, "How Great the Wisdom and the Love," hymn 136; number 195 in the current hymnal.
- ↑ William W. Phelps, "O God, the Eternal Father," hymn 255. It is hymn 175 in the 1998 edition. The 1835 edition contained eight verses; the fifth verses included "He is the true Messiah, that died and lives again; we look not for another, He is the Lamb 'twas slain."
- ↑ James Allen, "Glory to God on High,"., hymn 262. Hymn 67 in the current edition
- ↑ 13.00 13.01 13.02 13.03 13.04 13.05 13.06 13.07 13.08 13.09 13.10 13.11 13.12 Hymns of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1986).
- ↑ Also in the 1906 edition, hymn 50.
- ↑ Richard Alldridge, "We' Sing all Hail to Jesus' Name," hymn 182. It was first published as a poem in the Millennial Star, 1871, with music in Juvenile Instructor, 1883 (both LDS publications). It originally had a sixth verse which read, in part: "Then hail, all hail, to such a Prince who saves us by his blood!", in Karen Lynn Davidson, Our Latter-day Hymns: The Stories and the Messages (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1988), 199. That a verse is occasionally dropped from an earlier hymn book to a more recent one should not be interpreted as necessarily significant; John Wesley also did the same during his lifetime; see Bible, "The Wesley's Hymns on Full Redemption and Pentecost: a Brief Comparison," in the section headed "Overlap of the Two Collections."
- ↑ Eliza R. Snow, "Again We Meet Around the Board," hymn 186; first published in the Millennial Star, 1871, later in Utah Musical Times, 1877. It was included in the 1906 hymnal, hymn 13. The additional verse was included in the hymnals from 1950 until the 1985 edition; Davidson, Our Latter-day Hymns, 201–202.
- ↑ William H. Turton, "O Thou, Before the World Began," hymn 189; in LDS hymnals since 1927.
- ↑ Frank Kooyman, "In Memory of the Crucified," hymn 190. Notice that both the Garden and the cross come into play here, with the strongest emphasis being on the cross, where the sacrifice took place.


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"Dad" Matt Blaisdell recently sent me a link to an article by acclaimed author Seth Godin (with a first name like that, what's not to like?) Godin runs several blogs, many of them concentrating on marketing and business. In one post, from January 27, 2013, Godin talks about his dislike of flying - or rather, of having to use airports to fly. His discussion actually makes points about organizations. Many of the points he hits on can relate directly to DeMolay. Let's take a look... (my comments are in italics.)
"I realized that I don't dislike flying--I dislike airports. There are so many things we can learn from what they do wrong:
No one is in charge. The airport doesn't appear to have a CEO, and if it does, you never see her, hear about her or interact with her in any way. When the person at the top doesn't care, it filters down.
If your Master Councilor and Advisory Council aren't taking the reigns and being leaders, no one is going to understand what is going on.
If something goes wrong with your Chapter, man up and admit it. Finger pointing solves nothing.
The food is aimed squarely at the (disappearing) middle of the market. People who like steamed meat and bags of chips never have a problem finding something to eat at an airport. Apparently, profit-maximizing vendors haven't realized that we're all a lot weirder than we used to be.
At first, this one doesn't seem to fit, but think again! You need to realize who you are marketing your Chapter to. Are you interesting the young guys so that they recruit their friends, or are you only doing things that make a couple of members happy? Think about how you plan and organize things so that everyone is excited.
Like colleges, airports see customers as powerless transients. Hey, you're going to be gone tomorrow, but they'll still be here.
Your Chapter isn't forever. Just because the other guys in your Chapter are doing the work and recruiting members doesn't mean it'll survive. Every DeMolay has to step up to the plate to keep the Chapter moving into the future. Remember, if you stopped taking in members today, you're Chapter will, without a doubt, cease to exist in 9 years (at the maximum.)
Just remember, sometimes cheaper isn't better. When planning your Chapter activities, keep Risk Management in mind. Going to "Joe's Backyard Paintball" may be cheaper than Skirmish, but the professionalism, safety, and experience may not be the same.
The TSA is ruled by superstition, not fact. They act without data and put on a quite serious but ultimately useless bit of theater. Ten years later, the theater is now becoming an entrenched status quo, one that gets ever worse.
As we've always said, don't just do things because that's what you've always done. It's okay to question why things are done the way they are. Improvement only comes from understanding.
The ad hoc is forbidden. Imagine an airplane employee bringing in an extension cord and a power strip to deal with the daily occurrence of travelers hunched in the corner around a single outlet. Impossible. There is a bias toward permanent and improved, not quick and effective.
If you see an issue with your Chapter that you know you can fix, then by all means, do it! While everyone should be aware of how the issue is being resolve, waiting isn't going to help some problems. For instance, if you know a chair in the Chapter room is broken, don't wait until the meeting starts to fix the issue. Be proactive and let your Advisors know.
This goes back to the earlier point - your Chapter has to meet the needs of its members. Not everyone is interested in the same thing. Make sure you plan events and activities that appeal to everyone - and speak up if you don't enjoy the activities being planned!
There are plenty of potential bad surprises, but no good ones. You can have a flight be cancelled, even go to the wrong airport. But all possibility for delight has been removed. It wouldn't take much to completely transform the experience from a chore to a delight.
This is a great metaphor for meetings. Don't make meetings a chore. Have some fun! Do something different! As a Master Councilor, bring a surprise to share with your members. Making meetings interesting and fun is an important aspect of our program.
They are sterile. Everyone who passes through leaves no trace, every morning starts anew. There are no connections between people, either fellow passengers or the staff. No one says, "welcome back," and that's honest, because no one feels particularly welcome.
Feeling welcome is the most important compliment you can give to a new member. Let them know that you're excited they're part of your Chapter and that you want their input. Cliques help no one.
No one is having any fun. Most people who work at airports have precisely the same demeanor as people who work at a cemetery. The system has become so industrialized that personal expression is apparently forbidden."
Again - if I haven't stressed this enough - have fun! If you make your Chapter events fun, then everyone will get involved and your Chapter will grow. Each Chapter develops its own personality. Some Chapters love community service, others enjoy ritual, while some are into sports. Find your Chapter's personality and enjoy it!
See you on Monday!
Frat! ~ "Dad" Seth Anthony


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