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A look at Moberly's history
Friday-Sunday, October 26-28, 2007
•A porch located at 817 Gratz Brown was decked out for the fall season and ready to welcome Halloween visitors next week, featured in a photo. There are many yards in the area decorated for the Halloween festivities.
•United Way superheroes hung posters throughout downtown Moberly Thursday encouraging shoppers to become superheroes too by contributing to the United Way. Heroes included in the photo were Andrew Galaske, Maggie Galaske, Lauren Bautista and Alaina Nichols.
Sunday, October 27, 2002
•Officers of the Moberly Police Department and Randolph County Sheriffs Department will be handing out candy to children while they are out on patrol on Halloween, thanks to a generous donation of supplies provided by the Moberly Optimist Club. Children are encouraged to visit an officer on patrol who will hand out candy while they are safeguarding the community. Detective Jeff Vogan of the sheriff's department, David Haley of the Moberly Optimist Club, Moberly Police Chief Michael Garbulski and Assistant Chief Dennis Cupp were featured in a photo with the goodies.
Monday, October 28, 2002
•A poisonous copperhead snake was found at the home of Bob and Julia Gaw, north of Moberly near Sugar Creek Lake. It was correctly identified by a local conservation agent who said a copperhead snake is a rare sight in this area.
Monday, October 26, 1987
•Santa Claus led the second annual Toy Run through Moberly yesterday. Fifty-seven bikers, dressed in leathers and riding gear, participated in the run. Bikers from Moberly, Columbia, Mexico, Clarence, Macon and the Ozarks all brought toys and canned goods and donated them to the Salvation Army. Gary Trustee was one of the many riders carrying stuffed animals, featured in a second photo on today's front page.
Tuesday, October 27, 1987
•Royalty for the Cairo Fall Festival was crowned Saturday night at the Cairo High School and included Jill Jarrett and Brian Rogers, Young Mr. and Miss; Anna Elliott and John Sanner, Little Mr. and Miss; Kym Creed, second runner-up; Steve Hunt, Audrey Allred, 1987 Queen; Bill Wheeler, Renee Gruenloh, first runner-up; and Aaron Prange. Other activities at the festival included an auction and carnival to raise money for the Cairo School system.
•Trustees of Moberly Area Junior College Monday night gave approval to a proposal that MAJC enter into a contract with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to upgrade the current Basic Education Initiative project. This fulfilled the request of the State Department so that MAJC may be responsible for advertising, bid specifications, awarding contracts, receiving materials and distributing materials to the 56 BEI sites in Missouri.
Wednesday, October 28, 1987
•In observance of "Manufacturers Appreciation Week" in Moberly and Randolph County, cookies were delivered today to a number of businesses. Ambassadors assisting were Rita Daly, Ellen Jean Mead, Dorothy Hedges, Morris Hibbs, Hazel Ruble, Wynn Rutledge, John Carter, Marvin Camp and Bill Daly. Community Betterment Committee members helping were Carolee Hazlet and Carol Lang and C of C representatives assisting were Gerry Williams, Glenda Walker and Judy A. Moon. Donating cookies were Food Barn, Briggs and Dailey, Price Chopper, Marsha Bain, Beverly Garnett, Millie Iglehart, Carolee Hazlet, Sharon Connelly, Jane Kitchen, Lin Landreth, Hazel Ruble, Annabel Young, Marva Viley and Johanna Adams.
•Approximately 125 persons attended the first Mayor's Prayer Breakfast held this morning at the Moberly Municipal Auditorium. The breakfast was sponsored by Moberly Regional Medical Center and the Moberly Ministerial Alliance and held in conjunction with National Pastoral Care Week. National Pastoral Care Week was established to recognize the important role hospital chaplains play in the recovery of illness.
Friday, October 26, 1962
•Bill Ray Hall Heather, 32, 410 Patton Street, suffered an injured left knee when he was pinned between two station wagons at 6:40 p.m. yesterday at the Cities Service Station, Coates and Morley. He is a patient at Woodland Hospital and his condition is described as "good."
•The Conservation Commission has named William C. Scrogin, 23, of Linn Creek, as conservation agent for Randolph County to replace Gary Wagner recently transferred to Ste. Genevieve County. Scrogin is one of 13 men who will complete a four-month agents' training course on November 1. He attended elementary school in Wellsville of Vandalia High School. He also attended Moberly Junior College.
•The Park Board, which is in process of grading and sanding the bathing beach at Rothwell Park, needs some broken concrete to riprap the beach, according to members of the board. Any broken concrete will be appreciated and calls should be made to the park superintendent.
•The administration building at the Bradley Airport now has a gas furnace heating system, which replaced a hand-fired coal unit. The gas furnace that was in the former Amy Lou theater building purchased by the city for a parking lot, was installed at the airport.
Saturday, October 27, 1962
•The Rev. Standrod T. Carmichael, canon of Christ Church Cathedral, warden and program director of Thompson Retreat and Conference Center of St. Louis, with his two quartets, one instrumental and one vocal, closed Religious Emphasis Week last night with a strikingly interesting Jazz liturgy, which, although it inevitably remains "controversial" and largely unheard by the usual church goer, is not so new a thing, and bears out the young clergyman's view that man may well seek and find a new voice to praise his God."


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Volunteer Conservation Task at Avon Heath
Thursday 12 October 2017 10:00 - 16:00
Activity: Conservation activities such as using hand tools to cut small pine trees and other invasive plants threatening the heathland. Tasks will reflect the needs of the park depending on the season and may even be based round visitor facilities if required to support the running of the park such as creating planters. Volunteers also help to create and tend to a fire for burning the waste. Volunteers will ideally be able to bend and lift/carry item (within their limit), but the rangers are happy to discuss any special needs and may be able to organise activities to suit the individual with the activity as a whole.
Where: Avon Heath County Park, Brocks Pine, St Leonards, St Ives, Ringwood BH24 2DH - varied location depending on task (to be notified prior to event)
Suggested things to bring: waterproofs, suitable walking footwear, warm clothes, lunch (drinks and biscuits provided)
Cost: Free
More info and to book: 01425 478082

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Kids say the darndest things -- and Google wants to know about and memorize each and every one of them. And not just what they say, but the sites they visit, the things they buy, the things they don't buy, the browsers they use and anything else it can suck up relating to the kids' computers, phones, networks and geolocation. Google just loves kids -- especially the part about how much retailers will pay for all of that information.
Google's move to start offering Gmail, YouTube and other accounts to children younger than 13 years old for the first time has huge implications for child privacy. This change in policy, detailed last week in The Wall Street Journal, precariously throws the search engine giant into territory controlled by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, which is enforced (OK, to be accurate, we should say "is supposed to be enforced") by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). COPPA sharply restricts how companies can track -- and especially advertise to -- youngsters. But there is a loophole that e-commerce companies (and some solidly brick-and-mortar physical chains) have been salivating over, and Google is finally making its move.
First, though, let's see how Google is spinning this. Google points out -- correctly -- that a huge of number of the younger-than-13 set have used Google for many years, be it by using anonymous guest accounts, someone else's account or simply lying about their age and setting up their own accounts. Google is trying to sound pragmatic and responsible, saying that it can't protect kids when they enter through underhanded means, but by providing an acceptable and authorized way to get in, it can give those young shoppers the parental restrictions and age-appropriate content that COPPA was designed to deliver. Even if only 10% of that age group uses the new child accounts, the Google argument goes, at least that's more protection for kids than exists now. In other words, if we don't give these kids an option to use Google properly, we give them no choice but to use it improperly. (This argument presupposes that the alternative of kids simply not using Google at all is unimaginable. Sadly, at least for today, Google is probably right about that.)
That, however, is far from the full story. The laws are explicit that you can't market directly to anyone under 13. And although the law greenlights such marketing once the victim becomes a teenager at 13, parental concerns exist until they are 18, making such moves even to a 16-year-old risky, since alienating parents can be a bad revenue move, especially if the teen also feels manipulated. (At 18, the only protection is caveat emptor, which means we're all doomed.)
Here's the hole: Marketers -- especially retailers, online and off -- will pay big bucks for information about newly minted 13-year-olds. Because of COPPA restrictions, those new teen shoppers have been blank slates, since no one has wanted to go anywhere near the pre-13 set and risk awakening the FTC. But Google wants to change all that. As preteens set up their own accounts that list their actual ages, Google will quietly and discreetly start tracking them -- though it will do absolutely nothing with that data as long as the kids being tracked (potentially for years) remain younger than 13. But Google will then have petabytes of shopper-specific data to sell the instant those kids age out of COPPA protections.
Favorite colors, preferred brands, styles of clothing, musical likes, movie/book/TV show fondnesses and even what news stories they tend to click on -- that data will all be there for any merchant or marketer -- for a price.
There are many reasons why this move is a concern. (Let's set aside for the moment whether this violates Google's "don't be evil" motto.) First, even if you trust Google -- surely someone out there must -- any data collected and retained by a reputable firm can be stolen by evildoers, be they cyberthieves, identity thieves, kidnappers, rapists or simply aggressive marketers who don't want to pay for the data. Breaches happen. But let's say Google can manage to avoid that fate. You still have to wonder about the people who will pay for this data. How rigorously will Google screen the companies whose marketing dollars it takes? (OK, that's a very difficult sentence to type with a straight face.)
But beyond all of those concerns, let's not lose sight of the actual intent of COPPA. Did Congress just want to protect kids, or did it want to protect them from being tracked, to give them the freedom to explore the Internet without some virtual creep writing down everything they do and say?
The sad thing is that most of us would probably prefer that the virtual creep be Google. The company is hardly a paragon of virtue, it's true. It skims close to what's legal fairly often and does whatever it thinks is necessary to keep thriving. But that is what passes for an ethical corporation these days. Tracking preteens seems inevitable given the amount of money that it's worth to marketers. At least Google has lots of lawyers and investor relations people, as well as the inclination to enforce internal limits that comes with being publicly traded. Smaller and hungrier companies could well be less restrained.
Of course, if Google is successful with this course of action, others are sure to follow. I guess all we can do is hope they follow Google's example and don't make a complete mockery of COPPA.
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Friday, 14 December 2012 09:24 AM
U.S. factories rebounded in November from Superstorm Sandy, boosting production of cars, equipment and appliances.
The Federal Reserve says factory output increased 1.1 percent in November from October. That offset a 1 percent decline in the previous, which was blamed on the storm.
Total industrial output at factories, mines and utilities rose also rose 1.1 percent last month.
Auto production jumped 4.5 percent to lead widespread increases in factory output. It was the first increase in production at auto plants since July. Production of primary metals, wood products, electrical equipment and appliances all showed gains.
The increase in production is a hopeful sign that companies may not be panicking yet about looming tax increases that are set to take effect next month without a budget deal in Washington.
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1. Re: Graphs and Tables978377 Dec 6, 2012 12:41 PM (in response to 975806)Hi,
Why you think it's not possible?
2. Re: Graphs and Tables975806 Dec 6, 2012 1:16 PM (in response to 978377)Hi,
Thanks for responding. I need to display a table with dynamic number of columns and in the same page I need to display graphs also. Will it be possible to display? As Oracle forms supports fixed number of columns and also to display a graph I need to traverse another page for oracle report.
Can you please explain a little bit how can it be possible?
Thanks in advance.
3. Re: Graphs and Tables978377 Dec 6, 2012 2:39 PM (in response to 975806)Do you know max number of columns? If yes you can set visible = "no" dinamicaly for columns you don't need to be shown.
I developed form with 31 columns (for calendar) and managed columns in this way:
v_day_cnt NUMBER;
SELECT last_day(to_date(:global.p_date, 'YYYY.MM.DD')) + 1 -
to_date(:global.p_date, 'YYYY.MM.DD')
INTO v_day_cnt
FROM dual;
FOR i IN 28 .. 31 LOOP
set_item_property('v.d' || i, visible, property_false);
FOR j IN 28 .. v_day_count LOOP
set_item_property('v.d' || j, visible, property_true);
set_item_property('v.d' || j, enabled, property_true);
4. Re: Graphs and Tables975806 Dec 6, 2012 3:11 PM (in response to 978377)Thanks for responding.
No I don't know the maximum number of columns. It is not fixed. User can select 30 or more than 30.
This is a first issue and the second issue is to display the graph in the same page.
Please help me out from above two issues.
Thanks in advance.
5. Re: Graphs and Tables978377 Dec 6, 2012 3:19 PM (in response to 975806)It's not possible to add columns dinamicaly. Only you can do is to create fixed number of columns and show number of columns you need.
6. Re: Graphs and Tables975806 Dec 6, 2012 3:33 PM (in response to 978377)Thanks for responding.
Can you please tell me the solution of the second issue. Whether the graphs(bar,pie chart etc.) can be displayed in a form page(including a tabular data) depending on the user search criteria ?
If yes, then can you please explain a little bit ?
7. Re: Graphs and TablesFrançois Degrelle Dec 6, 2012 4:22 PM (in response to 975806)Hello,

For the first point, you can inspire from this 100% dynamic sample dialog

8. Re: Graphs and Tables975806 Dec 7, 2012 6:31 AM (in response to François Degrelle)Thanks Francois for your reply.
Can please help me out from the second issue?
9. Re: Graphs and TablesFrançois Degrelle Dec 7, 2012 8:15 AM (in response to 975806)
The Forms demo you can download from the OTN Forms page contains a bigraph sample that uses the FormsGraph.jar Java Bean. Download the zip file, then open the \demos_11g\bigraph folder.


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Bearwood is an area, originally a tiny hamlet, bordering Sandwell and Birmingham (England) in the West Midlands.
Get in
By Car
From Birmingham City Centre, Bearwood can be reached by travelling down the Hagley Road (A456), one of the main arterial roads in Birmingham. It can also be reached by travelling through Ladywood and Smethwick, past the City Hospital then down City Road.
By Bus
Bearwood is served by a number of 'West Midlands Travel' bus services, many of which terminate and begin at Bearwood Bus Station, just off the Hagley Road. Bearwood can be reached on the numbers 9,19,82,138,139,126, 120, 140 and 258 from Birmingham City Centre. The 126 connects Bearwood to Wolverhampton, the 140 connects it to Dudley (England), the 139 and 258 continue on to Merry Hill shopping centre and the number 9 terminates in Stourbridge (passing through Quinton, Halesowen and Lye).
Other buses not connecting Bearwood to Birmingham City Centre include the 444, 447, 448 and 450, all tracing various routes that terminate in West Bromwich and the 11 Clockwise and Anticlockwise services, known as 'the Outer Circle' which link the suburbs of Birmingham together, including Harborne, Selly Oak, Bourneville, Kings Heath, Hall Green, Perry Barr and Handsworth. Choice travel also run a limited service from Bearwood Bus Station to Weoley Castle, via Selly Oak and the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital.
By Train
There are no train stations in Bearwood. The nearest train stations are Smethwick Rolfe Street and The Hawthorns, both about a mile and a half away that serve the local area. Birmingham New Street is only around 3-4 miles away and has services to destinations all over the country.
By Plane
The nearest airport is Birmingham International, just over 10 miles away.
The majority of shops in Bearwood are situated on the high street and to a lesser extent on Three Shires Oak/Abbey Road. There isn't much in the way of supermarkets in Bearwood. There is an Aldi on the high street and a small Somerfield outlet but thats the lot.
On the high street there are a couple of clothes shops, 'Ethel Austin' and 'Peacocks' as well as Blunts shoe shop. The high street and other streets are mainly dominated by takeaway joints.
By far the best off-license in Bearwood is 'Global Wines' opposite the Abbey Pub, with a massive choice of Beers, Wines and Spirits it is a contender for best off-license in Birmingham. Other off licenses include 'Park Cellars' on the corner of Park Road and Upper Saint Mary's Road and 'Drink Stop' on the high street, both of these options are dearer than Global wines.
The Haweli on the Hagley Road opposite The Kings Head is widely regarded for its Peshawari cuisine. Allegedly, Sir Mark Tully ex India correspondent for the bBBC is a fan of its food
Bearwood High street is littered with a ridiculous amount of takeaway joints, most are not noteworthy of a mention.
Neelams Kebab House is the classic 's**t in a tray' merchant that is only suitable for a quick stop off at 4am after a night out in Birmingham the same goes for Karachi Kebab House opposite the Bear Tavern. It is open literally all the time.
There is a great chinese takeaway opposite Martins Tandoori and next to the Abbey. It is called Oriental Delight and is definitely one of the best in the surrounding area. For Traditional Fish and chips, 'The Abbey Fish Bar' is probably your best bet (opposite the Abbey). 'Lightwoods Fish Bar' sells interestingly coloured orange chips for the more adventurous traveller!
There are a couple of cheap hotels on the High street, at the Smethwick end, but they are more like hostels housing refugees and drug addicts/drunks from what I've seen.
There are many hotels on the Hagley Road between Bearwood and Birmingham of varying expense.


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DSL SpeedTouch modem
This howto shows one way to get a working speedtouch USB modem. It uses the kernel driver, not the userspace driver. This howto assumes that your ISP uses PPPoA and not PPPoE. For info about PPPoE with these modems see first url below.
Important sites where most info comes from:
If the below instructions are not enough to get it working, then read the above sites.
The following steps are needed to get the modem working:
Kernel config and ppp
Make sure you have a kernel with the proper support (at least the modules ppp_generic, pppoatm, slhc, atm, usbatm and speedtch). The default Arch kernel should work.
Otherwise make sure that your kernel supports firmware loading:
$ zgrep FW_LOADER /proc/config.gz
Install ppp:
pacman -S ppp
The Arch Way
Install the package netcfg-pppoaAUR.
Alternately, follow the steps below. The files used are the same as those installed by the AUR package.
Create the file
/usr/lib/network/connections/pppoa with the following contents:
#!/bin/bash . /usr/lib/network/network _quotestring() { echo "\"${1/\"/\\\"}\"" } pppoa_up() { if [[ ! -d /proc/net/atm ]]; then if ! modprobe -q pppoatm; then report_fail "Kernel does not support PPP over ATM." return 1 fi fi local cfg load_profile "$1" if [[ ${INTERFACE:0:3} != "ppp" ]]; then report_fail "Expected INTERFACE to be pppX." return 1 fi if [[ -z ${PPPOA_VPI} || -z ${PPPOA_VCI} ]]; then report_fail "Both PPPOA_VPI and PPPOA_VCI must be set." return 1 fi mkdir -p "$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/" chmod 700 "$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/" cfg="$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/options" : > "${cfg}" chmod 600 "${cfg}" echo "plugin pppoatm.so" >> "${cfg}" echo "noauth" >> "${cfg}" if checkyesno ${DEFAULTROUTE:-1}; then echo "defaultroute" >> "${cfg}" else echo "nodefaultroute" >> "${cfg}" fi if checkyesno ${USEPEERDNS:-1}; then echo "usepeerdns" >> "${cfg}" fi echo "linkname $(_quotestring "$1")" >> "${cfg}" echo "unit $(_quotestring "${INTERFACE:3}")" >> "${cfg}" echo "maxfail 5" >> "${cfg}" echo "updetach" >> "${cfg}" if [[ ${CONNECTION_MODE} == demand ]]; then echo "demand" >> "${cfg}" echo "idle ${IDLE_TIMEOUT}" >> "${cfg}" else echo "persist" >> "${cfg}" fi echo "user $(_quotestring "${USER}")" >> "${cfg}" echo "password $(_quotestring "${PASSWORD}")" >> "${cfg}" echo "$(_quotestring "${PPPOA_VPI}.${PPPOA_VCI}")" >> "${cfg}" [[ -n ${LCP_ECHO_INTERVAL} ]] && echo "lcp-echo-interval ${LCP_ECHO_INTERVAL}" >> "${cfg}" [[ -n ${LCP_ECHO_FAILURE} ]] && echo "lcp-echo-failure ${LCP_ECHO_FAILURE}" >> "${cfg}" /usr/bin/ip link set dev "${INTERFACE}" up /usr/bin/pppd file "${cfg}" if [[ $? -ne 0 ]]; then rm "${cfg}" rmdir "$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/" report_fail "Couldn't make pppd connection." return 1 fi } pppoa_down() { load_profile "$1" local cfg cfg="$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/options" PIDFILE="/var/run/ppp-$1.pid" if [[ -e $PIDFILE ]]; then read PID < "$PIDFILE" [[ "$PID" ]] && kill "$PID" fi rm "${cfg}" rmdir "$STATE_DIR/pppoa.${INTERFACE}.$1/" } pppoa_$1 "$2" exit $?
Now configure the connection. We'll put it in
CONNECTION='pppoa' DESCRIPTION='ADSL connection' INTERFACE='ppp0' USER='username' PASSWORD='password' PPPOA_VPI=8 PPPOA_VCI=48 # This causes pppd to reconnect if the link goes down LCP_ECHO_INTERVAL=15 LCP_ECHO_FAILURE=10
You should now be able to connect by calling
netcfg adsl. For more details, see the netcfg wiki page.
The manual way
Configuring pppd
### /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch # To connect to using this configuration file, do # pppd call speedtch lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 10 noipdefault defaultroute user "username@ispname" noauth noaccomp nopcomp noccp novj holdoff 4 persist maxfail 25 updetach usepeerdns plugin pppoatm.so # Following entry is country/ISP dependent 8.48
The last entry depends on your country/ISP and is created from the VPI and VCI setting in the format
VPI.VCI. This page has a VPI / VCI Setting List.
You also need to configure /etc/ppp/pap-secrets or chap-secrets, depending on your ISP. pap-secrets files are of the format:
# Secrets for authentication using PAP # client server secret IP addresses "ISP-Username" * ISP-password *
See The PAP/CHAP secrets file for more details.
If you want to use the DNS servers provided by your ISP (you probably do!) then make a symlink /etc/resolv.conf pointing to /etc/ppp/resolv.conf:
cd etc rm resolv.conf ln -s ppp/resolv.conf resolv.conf
Configure udev
Make a file
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-speedtouch.rules and put something like the following in it:
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="atm", KERNEL=="speedtch*", RUN="/usr/bin/pppd call speedtch"
With this Udev will start pppd automatically, if you do not want this you can simply bring up your modem using
pppd call speedtch
Now you have everything except the firmware loading. The easiest way is to let udev do it. Download rev4fw.zip (note disclaimer here) and unzip it. It contains two files, a small one and a big one. Copy the small file to
/usr/lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin and the big one to
# mkdir -p /usr/lib/firmware # cp small_file /usr/lib/firmware/speedtch-1.bin # cp large_file /usr/lib/firmware/speedtch-2.bin
If you cannot download this file then follow the instructions of the second link above and use the firmware extractor (or download another firmware which has the two files).
If the modem is being detected correctly and the firmware is loading, you should see something like the following in dmesg:
usbcore: registered new driver speedtch usb 1-1: found stage 1 firmware speedtch-1.bin CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP generic driver version 2.4.2 usb 1-1: found stage 2 firmware speedtch-2.bin ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team ADSL line is synchronising DSL line goes up ADSL line is up (800 Kib/s down || 256 Kib/s up)
pppd output in /var/log/messages should look something like:
Plugin pppoatm.so loaded. PPPoATM plugin_init PPPoATM setdevname - remove unwanted options PPPoATM setdevname_pppoatm - SUCCESS:8.48 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 <--> 8.48 PAP authentication succeeded local IP address 184.108.40.206 remote IP address 18.104.22.168 primary DNS address 22.214.171.124 secondary DNS address 184.108.40.206
If you are having problems you can check pppd debug messages by adding debug to /etc/ppp/peers/speedtch. This can help identify authentication problems (e.g. pap vs chap auth), etc. Otherwise make sure you check your VPI/VCI settings!
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Treasure Island farm for culinary students
Learning how to be a chef requires doing time on the farm if you're a culinary student at the Treasure Island Job Corps Center.
The federally funded program has been on the island for 15 years and provides live-in training to low-income teenagers and young adults in a number of vocations, ranging from carpentry to the culinary industry. Job Corps is a nationwide program (there are 125 centers) that has been around since 1976 and serves 50,000 students - 600 of them attend on Treasure Island.
About a third of the Bay Area participants are enrolled in either the basic or advanced cooking programs at the center, where they learn nearly every aspect of running a kitchen - from cooking to stocking the pantry. Three years ago the school received a $180,000 grant to put in a 1-acre farm - it's called the Michelle Obama Green Acre - so students could get experience growing their own food and tapping into the growing farm-to-table restaurant movement.
"They're learning the relationship between chefs and farmers," said Corey Block, the urban farm coordinator.
And it's not only the culinary students who take part in running the urban farm, Block said. Students from the center's construction training programs also have participated by providing infrastructure on the 1 acre.
Block said she has no doubt that the farm is one of the draws for culinary students to choose Treasure Island over other Job Corps centers in the country. Of all the programs nationwide, Treasure Island has the highest overall job placement - 85 percent either go to work, into the military or enroll in college, according to the center.
Q: It couldn't have been easy planting a farm on an artificial island made from fill dredged from the bay, which served as a former military base. Since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found some parts of the island to be toxically contaminated, how did you handle that?
A: It was a vacant lot when we got it - just sand. We did thousands of dollars worth of testing before we did anything. Then we built the whole thing using green construction - reclaimed materials, rain water catchment and an aquaponic system.
Q: What are you growing?
A: Everything. We have 80 fruit trees: apples, pears, stone and citrus and all kinds of vegetables and herbs. We have bee hives, 20 laying hens and a rooster. We get about 20 eggs a day. The students are harvesting, depending on the season, anywhere from 200 to 600 pounds of produce a month. A hundred percent of it is used either in the culinary program or the cafeteria.
Q: What has been the students' reaction to the farm? It seems that some might think they came to learn how to cook, not grub around in dirt with the worms.
A: For some it's a very new experience. And there are those who don't like the dirt and bug part of it. But the advanced culinary students know that learning about the farm is an integral part of their education. They're getting exposed to things - French market carrots - that they otherwise wouldn't know.
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Five minutes into my centering prayer practice—though it felt like 30—with a dedicated Thursday prayer group at the Sisters of the Cenacle, I sat fidgeting in a stackable chair with coarse fabric and a pin-straight metal back. The sound of the fan whooshed overhead adding a distracting rhythm to silence: whoosh, pause, thump, whoosh, pause, thump.
The woman next to me coughed, then the chair to the left of me, a rocker like the one my grandmother sat in to watch "Judge Judy," began to creak. The symphony in my brain began to whir: whoosh, pause, thump, creak, creak, cough, creak.
I could almost feel the seconds ticking by on my watch, a slow-motion judgment of my inability to sit, be still and wait for God to do the heavy lifting. Its rhythm joined the sounds counting down to my failure to find bliss, peace and union: Tick, tick, tick, whoosh, pause, thump, creak, creak, cough, creak.
If only I could find a sacred image or word. But the search became a game of free association as my brain clamored for an anchor: God? No. Jesus? No. Joy? No. Peace? No. Fan? Um, really no.
"O.K." I told myself, "We're going to try peace." That seemed like a reasonably sacred aspiration. Slowing my breath—inhale deeply, exhale completely—I used physical breathing to command my mental hyperactivity to calm down. Peace, peace, peace. The word called to my soul to lean forward through the psychological noise.
Then, rushing ahead of the word, a figure came into view—soft hair, bright eyes, gentle—the childhood image of Jesus I had always carried with me, like a postcard from another life. A scene unfolded, as in a guided meditation. "This is something I could use in teaching contemplative prayer next week," I thought, trying to nudge this distraction from my head so I could contemplate my sacred word. Peace, peace, peace. Breath in, exhale.
Then, like an impatient customer on line at the grocery store, another image pushed forward, this time of a figure sitting knee to knee before me, each of us on a chair staring lovingly into each other's eyes. I see my mother and feel a wave of unconditional love. I see the closeness between us grow in the shape of warm, white lightradiating from her chest and mine.
"This will be a great meditation," I thought. "Now come on, brain, get back to silent prayer. Why can't I focus?" Peace, peace, peace. Breath in, exhale.
Again, the visualization rushed back, crisper than before: My mother and me, facing each other, knees almost touching, bright warm light moving together from the center of our chests into one larger light that encompasses us. The light grows with every breath, moving through us, then growing past us, around each side of us into the dark space beyond our chairs. With each breath the light grows, the warmth pulses, our bodies radiate with light and compassion.
"O.K.," I began again, frustrated with my lack of concentration. "Everyone around me is probably ensconced in a sacred word or image, and here I am struggling to stay focused, planning this visualization for my own contemplative prayer students. I'm an awful contemplative." I sighed a deep sigh of self-inflicted judgment.
The visual came back fiercer than before, and I gave up trying to control it. "I guess this will just be a 'working' contemplation," I thought, giving in to it—the warmth of light, the love. Then as I gazed into my mother's eyes, her face became that of Jesus, like the postcard image, but more alive. I felt her loving me with the vividness of my mother, and I saw her eyes in Christ's gaze and her face in his.
This was not my mind intruding on my contemplation, I realized. This was God, trying to get some quality time in a prayer meant to be God-centered. I smiled and let the warmth of the light wash over me, finally being quiet long enough to let God get a word in edgewise.
As a teacher of contemplation, I travel on daily pilgrimages of faith with others, acting as a roadmap or a tour guide, serving in whatever way God blesses me to be useful. Perpetually I am learning lessons in deeper and more humbling ways, trying to make my failings useful to other pilgrims.
I am surprised by the grace that regularly, softly shrouds the life I lead and the mistakes I make and by the God who helps me find the way when I stop interrupting. God calls us all to listen: "Be still and know that I am God." I am haltingly trying to learn that lesson.
"I also have many," she said, "but as soon as I am aware of them, I pray for those people the thought of whom is diverting my attention, and in this way they reap benefit from my distractions. . . . I accept all for the love of God, even the wildest fancies that cross my mind."
All is grace, even, I guess, distractions.
"Interrupting Grace" by T.B. Pasquale hit home, even though I do not practice "Centering Prayer" which sounds so me so confining. But I do relate to T.B. Pasquale's wild distracting rides and appreciate that dilemma. However, while by no means rigid at prayer having to follow this rule, or that rule, personal prayer is not exactly unstructured. It's structured like a Slinky! Do you know what a "Slinky" is? It has a mind of its own but God rules and the heavenly hint, "Be still and know that I am God" takes over in an adventurous way. "Slinky Prayer" is all about imagination which simply does what it does. As Rosalie, #1 post points out, like Therese of Lisieux, make distractions a useful part of prayer, not hard to do even if it involves falling asleep again and again. Let me tell you a brief story about that.
Once trying to get some quiet time with the Lord, I positioned myself as close to the tabernacle in a small chapel that I could get. But I kept falling asleep! Finally with "toothpicks of determination" holding my eyes open I decided to focus on the tabernacle door and imagined I was opening it! But sleep kept returning as the "toothpicks" fell out and so, in a dozing state still trying to force open the tabernacle imaginatively, I heard imaginatively these words, "Come on in!" In a sleepy way I thought it was Jesus speaking so I responded imaginatively, "Where, Lord?" Immediately through my ever active imagination the answer came, "In the
tabernacle with Me!"
Suddenly I became wide awake and wondered where Slinky had led me and just as suddenly I understood! It was all about Friendship. And it included everyone, not just me. Jesus is our Best Friend and he wants us all to be his best friend too! St. Therese was right – distractions at prayer are very useful, even the distraction of sleep. Thanks, "Dr. Martin"- I mean Slinky!
Rosalie: distractions, beautiful and chaotic, and everything inherent in the universe do carry with it so much grace-even a fan or a cough or my rambling thoughts!
Bruce: I love your "slinky prayer". Agreed on the premise that "Centering Prayer" can be restrictive for many. It is one of a variety of forms of contemplative prayer I practice and when I teach/facilitate contemplation groups it is only vaguely referential to the centering prayer suggestions of an image or a word which I like as an anchor in silence. I find the total commitment to the 20 minutes in silence practice for my beginner contemplatives is enough to send them running and I want them to embrace the practice; so my teaching is a guided and gentle path to silence-with a few "spiritual push up" exercises to get people in the head and heart and soul space to get there.
I love hearing your conversations with God and I love the many ways God speaks to us in the form of everything, sometimes even the words in our own head.
Thank you for the blessing of both of your words, as the grace in this magazine and further into the virtual world consistently keep erupting and doubling in size, like the light in my essay, with every article, each exposition, and each comment that creates a living conversation out of a static story.
Yes, in a real way all prayer in Centered Prayer, and its fragrance like that of a rose permeates all rooms in the mansion of the soul. Yet, each petal on the rose of prayer is unique to each person, very personally personal, even if it's "slinky!" The Rose scent emanating from the Rose's Center can be giddying in the best sense of the word, with a kind of hilarity akin to the Spirit's Gift of Joy, which is beyond understanding, but which I'm sure you "get!" Again, thanks!


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Despite a four-goal and four-assist performance by Casey Flynn, the MIT women's lacrosse team fell to NEWMAC foe Springfield College, 17-13, on Saturday. With the loss, the Engineers' ledger moved to 3-2 on the year and 0-1 in conference play.
Erica Little registered three goals and an assist as Stephanie Leger posted three goals and three draw controls. Katie Kauffman notched a goal and an assist while Laura Wacker and Kelly Duncan both scored once. Molly McShane totaled five draw controls and two groundballs as Alex Wright tallied four groundballs, four caused turnovers, and two draw controls. Lauren Rodda added four groundballs and three caused turnovers while Allison Hamilos made eight saves.
Each side recorded a goal before the Pride rattled off four in a row to take a 5-1 lead at 18:49. Two minutes later, the Cardinal and Gray ended its scoring drought when Leger converted a feed from Flynn. Springfield responded with a three-goal spurt to increase its margin to 8-2 midway through the frame. Kauffman set up Little for her second marker of the game as Duncan followed with an unassisted effort with 4:30 on the clock. The Pride notched a free-position goal 28 seconds later, but Little redirected a pass from Flynn to bring MIT within four (9-5). Another free-position shot by Springfield capped the scoring and gave the hosts a 10-5 advantage at the break.
Both squads traded goals during the first 12:35 of the second stanza as an unassisted goal by Leger narrowed the gap to 13-9. The Pride posted three consecutive goals to push its margin to seven (16-9) with 14:30 left to play. The Engineers registered four of the final five goals with Flynn picking up a point on all four tallies. She drained a free-position shot and followed with an unassisted goal before earning assists on blasts by Kauffman and Wacker.


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Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman announced the signup period for the new peanut quota buyout program authorized in the 2003 farm bill will begin Sept. 3 and end Nov. 22.
The secretary said buyout payments will be made after all program regulations have been issued. No timetable was given for the completion of that task, but USDA officials said they are working to complete the regulations for all the new farm bill programs as quickly as possible.
"The 2002 farm bill makes significant changes in the peanut program by replacing the peanut quota system that was established in the 1930s with direct and counter-cyclical payments to eligible peanut producers," Veneman said. "USDA continues to aggressively implement the new farm bill and this announcement today is another positive step in that regard."
Generally, to be eligible for the buyout program, a person must have owned 2001 basic peanut quota as of May 13, 2002. Eligible persons will have the option of receiving a buyout payment of 11 cents per quota pound owned in five equal installments or a lump sum payment of 55 cents per pound.
Letters were sent to producers in July asking them to update their peanut acreage history and yield information with USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA). The information will be used to determine each peanut producer's peanut base and yield for direct and counter-cyclical peanut payments for 2002 through 2007 under the Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002, the 2002 Farm Bill.
Signup for the direct and counter-cyclical payments for all of the farm bill commodity programs will begin Oct. 1, according to an earlier USDA announcement.
Peanut quota holders on record in their local Farm Service Agency (FSA) office will soon be notified by letter of their potential quota buyout eligibility.
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Seven years ago Brandi Tysinger Temple's husband bought her a sewing machine, and she started selling clothing made from leftover material on eBay. Thursday, the founder of AOL will announce a $20 million investment in her company.
Seven years ago Brandi Tysinger Temple's husband bought her a sewing machine, and she started selling clothing made from leftover material on eBay. Thursday, the founder of AOL will announce a $20 million investment in her company.
Temple's online children's clothing company, Lolly Wolly Doodle, based in Lexington, has received the investment from the Revolution Growth Fund. The fund was established by Steve Case, who is the founder of AOL, and former AOL executives Ted Leonsis and Donn Davis. According to its mission statement, the Revolution Growth Fund invests in companies to build innovative businesses that offer consumers more choice, convenience and control in their lives.
Case and Temple were scheduled to be on a conference call Thursday morning to officially announce the investment.
"This is absolutely a dream come true," Temple said. "I never thought something like this would happen. It's been amazing, but it's not anything I've done alone."
Back in September, Temple was in Chapel Hill attending an event promoting entrepreneurship in the United States where Case was the guest speaker. She struck up a conversation with him about her company.
"There just happened to be an empty seat beside me, and he (Case) asked me about my business. We talked for a while, and he was intrigued by our story," Temple said. "He followed up with me, made some trips to Lexington, and they offered to make an investment."
In a statement from its webpage, the Revolution Growth Fund refers to itself as a throwback to the early days of venture capital. The investment is a reflection of the Revolution Growth Fund's commitment to making a majority of its investments outside of Silicon Valley and reinforcing Case's belief in the development of "Rise of the Rest" entrepreneurial ecosystems across the United States.
"We are not just investors, but former CEOs and business builders who have the expertise and passion to be actively involved with the companies we back. By making only a few investments each year, we will have the time to really help the entrepreneurs with whom we partner," the webpage states.
Temple said, "We see eye to eye and have the same goals and aspirations for the company."
Revolution Growth Fund and Case also will help Lolly Wolly Doodle by providing extensive expertise in technology and helping the company make business contacts.
"They are there to back us up," she said. "They have reached out to help with their design and technology background. The webpage may look simple, but it takes a lot of technology on the backside. It is such an asset to have their expertise. At the end of the day they are just helping us to grow."
The investment into Lolly Wolly Doodle will allow the company to increase its operation, recruit additional executive talent, broaden its product offering and expand its market presence both online and offline.
"We are going to develop our executive team because we have been wearing multiple hats for so long," Temple said. "We are going to expand our platform by selling more online properties and expand our manufacturing."
The company is located on Piedmont Drive in Lexington and has been in the process of purchasing a new warehouse facility.
"This came at an opportune time. Hopefully, we can move the warehouse and customer support to a new building," she said. "At the end of the day it's all about promoting job growth in the area."
The company has 150 jobs at its Lexington location and has a marketing and technical support staff in New York.
In 2006, Temple began selling the dresses just to make some extra money, but due to an economic downturn in her husband's heavy equipment business, her extra income became more instrumental in their financial security.
The business does not have a retail store but sells garments through its website and social media. Temple said the company grew from eight employees to almost 90 in a two-year time frame. The business that started in the garage of her house moved to its first facility on Leonard Road before outgrowing the building. In August 2012, the company moved to its location on Piedmont Drive.
The business went from modest sales to creating over 30,000 garments monthly and drawing the attention of high-profile investors such as Andrew Fine, director at Michael Kors. The company was even featured on "CBS This Morning" in November 2012.
In April, Temple was one of 14 women recognized for their success, leadership and other outstanding achievements at the 2013 Women in Business awards given by the Triad Business Journal.
And as for that sewing machine that started this whole thing? Temple says she still has it.
"My husband reminds me all the time about how he was the one who bought it, but that's OK with me," she said.
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For some reason, I have not bonded with this cast as much as last season.... Hopefully they will grow on me!! Do like Kylie, she makes me laugh.
This week Matt and Kylie missed a clue, if I'm not mistaken (the one telling them about the detours), but didn't receive a penalty for it. Is this normal? I though you needed to collect all the clues to check-in or face a penalty at the pit stop?
No download links for CR at all? I don't like watching on my computer, and youtube quality was not the best on the first episode ;(
Oops, my mistake, I thought Matt and Kylie had missed the clue but I was wrong. But since Sun Bin and Fei Er missed a clue shouldn't they receive a penalty? Or did they just not bother because Jackie and A Lai were so far behind?
I still don't like that Mary & Cecilia and Sun Bin & Hao Fei'er might have gotten away with taking private vehicles in episode 1.Mary & Cecilia's words didn't match their actions in episode 2. They knew they were second leaving the Roadblock. If they were so concerned about being perceived as a threat, then they shouldn't have let their taxi driver take a shortcut or they could've feigned leg cramps once they got out of their taxi, and let Elena & Tameka overtake them, instead of barreling their way to the mat.
Now we can be sure that no penality of using private vehicles in CR...everyone use it in leg3last place out because they care about the safety of 8th place? U-turn after Yield...
Quote from: weihen on August 21, 2011, 02:25:38 AMNow we can be sure that no penality of using private vehicles in CR...everyone use it in leg3last place out because they care about the safety of 8th place? U-turn after Yield...Are you watching leg 3 now?
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It was just about a month ago that Pratt Wiley, a 36-year-old lawyer with a glittering résumé, was brought in to serve as interim CEO of the Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center. His job: Figure out how to salvage the temporarily closed clinic, a neighborhood landmark.
Wiley worked doggedly to rebuild morale among a battered staff, and to accommodate skeptical federal and state regulators, in hopes of getting the center back on track.
But Friday morning he found out just how tenuous everything — even his own status — was. He was fired, along with the entire staff (who had been told the week before they were "furloughed"). RoxComp, he was told, had surrendered all its licenses to operate. A primary caregiver for as many as 10,000 residents was no more.
True to form, the board permanently closed the center with no public notice.
Although Wiley was there only a short time, it was enough for him to see the heroics of the staff, and just what the neighborhood was losing.
On Wiley's second day on the job he laid off 10 percent of the staff. He told the remaining employees that more layoffs were likely, and that the odds of reopening were even at best. He was stunned by what he saw the next workday. "Everyone, without fail, was there because they had work to do for their patients. The staff here was phenomenal, and I'm proud to have been associated with them."
A week ago, a hastily arranged plan was announced for RoxComp's reopening to be overseen by Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center. By midweek, for a variety of technical reasons, it had become clear that the quasi-merger of the two institutions could not be executed overnight, and the plan died. Even so, when I talked to Wiley on Thursday, he was working on a turnaround plan, unaware that his bosses had other ideas.
When businesses fail, the public tends to quickly lose interest. But a bankrupt nonprofit that provides vital services is not an ordinary business, and there is an urgent public interest in knowing how the cherished 45 year-old institution died.
There are investigations underway, and they must continue. RoxComp was mostly funded by its patients, along with federal and state grants. At some point, while money was still flowing in, the center essentially stopped paying its bills, which raises a basic question: Where did the money go?
"I have no idea," Wiley told me. "It's a fair question."
Much attention has rightly been focused on the role of former chief executive Anita Crawford, who was forced out last month after years of complaints from staff and hard questions from regulators. Certainly she has a lot of questions to answer, under subpoena if need be.
But the board is a mystery as well. Headed by medical researcher Dr. Keith Crawford (no relation to Anita), it clearly failed at every aspect of oversight. For years, it did not even have the required nine members. Its past and present members, some prominent, need to explain their failure, too. Where were they?
Keith Crawford insisted last week that government agencies and insurance companies owe RoxComp a lot of money — $900,000 by one estimate. Wiley says RoxComp can, at best, collect half that, barely enough to pay former employees back pay and vacation, which is absolutely imperative. The only plausible bailout plan may be to sell the center's headquarters, which was appraised a couple of years ago at $6 million. But trusting the board to make that sale seems foolish.
Fortunately, there is a way out. Attorney General Martha Coakley oversees nonprofits and their boards. She is said to be watching the RoxComp debacle closely.
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PUMPKIN WALK: Enjoy a nice walk along the Sorosis Park Trail while viewing and judging competing carved pumpkins in the Carv' Me Crazy Pumpkin Walk. Kids' pumpkin painting by the fireplace and some festive carved creations are planned. Those who want to enter the contest can do so in three categories: scariest, funniest and best artistic work. T-shirts will be awarded to first, second and third place in each category. All contestants must have their pumpkin carved and at the event no later than 6 p.m. The event is Saturday, Oct. 26, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Sorosis Park Shelter.
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HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Sherman County Scholarship Association's Annual Holiday Bazaar is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 7, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Sherman Junior-Senior High School. Events include a basketball tournament, soup lunch and raffle. To reserve a table ($20) contact Linda von Borstel at 541-333-2454 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
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KIWANIS PROGRAMS: The Dalles Kiwanis Club meets every Thursday noon at Spooky's. Visitors are welcome. October programs include: Oct. 24, is Trish Neal from LegalShield on how to protect your child and family from identity theft.
Oct. 31 is Tai Rogers, who took part in the Hugh O'Brian Youth program, a seminar that teaches leadership, service, and innovation. For more information go to www.thedalleskiwa
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TACO CRUNCH: The Dalles Wahtonka High School Band presents Taco Crunch, tacos with all the trimmings at the Wahtonka campus cafeteria, 5 to 6:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25, at the Hood River vs. The Dalles football game. Individual tickets are $10, family tickets are $40 (up to 5). Proceeds go to TDW High School Band Disneyland trip. Tickets are available from any The Dalles High School Band member. Tickets will also be available at the door.
POLITICAL DINNER: The Gathering of Patriots dinner and auction will be Friday, Oct. 25, at 6 p.m. at the Portage Grill with guest speaker Oregon Republican Vice Chair Bill Currier, who is also the mayor of Adair, Ore.
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SHAKESPEARE PLAY: The Theatre Company of The Dalles presents William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors," Nov. 1-2, 8-9, 15-16 at 7:30 p.m., and a special matinee Nov. 10 at 2 p.m. Ticket price is $12 per adult, $6 for seniors, students and children at Columbia Gorge Community College Building 2, Floor 3 theater.
Nov. 1 and 2 performances will feature a food drive for Wasco County Food Bank. Adult tickets are half price with every three cans or boxes of food.
The Nov. 10 matinee is military appreciation day and all military veterans receive an adult ticket at half price.
Nov. 15 and 16 performances include Arts Appreciation Night with $2 off adult tickets with a The Dalles Wahtonka High School Ticket Stub.
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BOOK SALE: The Dalles Friends of Library Book Sale Blow Out will be Saturday, Nov. 2, from 9 a.m. to noon.
at 722 Court Street at the Book Barn behind the library.
Get books by the bagful. From 9 to 10 a.m. is $3 per bag, 10 to 11 a.m. is $2 per bag, 11 a.m. to noon is $1 per bag.
Proceeds aid the library and their community programs. Help support literacy. Call 541-298-2330 for more information.
HISTORY MEETING: The Wasco County Historical Society Annual Meeting will be Saturday, Nov. 2, at the Mid-Columbia Senior Center. Registration opens at 11:30 a.m. Noon luncheon will be $15. There will be a short business meeting. Marilyn Urness will present the program. She has been researching Chinese history in The Dalles and her topic will be "Laundry Wars in The Dalles."
The meeting is open to the public. Membership is not required; however guests are encouraged to join. Membership in the Historical Society is $15 for an individual or $25 for a family.
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WORKSHOP COURSES: Columbia Gorge Community College and Oregon Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) offers a Pesticide Recertification/Worker Protection Standard course on Nov. 5, at the Hood River Indian Creek Campus, from 1 to 5 p.m. and Nov. 6, at The Dalles Campus from 8 a.m. to noon. Jensi Smith 541-506-6034 email@example.com. The class provides four core credit hours toward recertification of Oregon certified pesticide applicator licenses.
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FLAGGING COURSE: Columbia Gorge Community College is offering Flagger Training Tuesday, Nov. 5, at CGCC's Hood River Indian Creek campus. This course covers the fundamental principles of traffic control. It meets the requirement of the Oregon Department of Transportation construction specifications with reciprocity with Washington, Montana and Idaho.
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November 6
LECTURE SERIES: Sense of Place Lecture Series features Rick McClure discussing the significance of the 1933 Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the gorge Nov. 6, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Columbia Center for the Arts.
The mobilization of a national CCC following President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation shaped much of the landscape and architecture of public lands in the Pacific Northwest. CCC companies recruited from Chicago were among the first in the Columbia River Gorge. The new agency would eventually put more than a million and a half people to work during the remaining years of the Great Depression. Online: http://gorgeowned.org/programs/sense-of-place/
SWIM LESSONS: Registration is currently underway for Hood River Aquatic Center's beginner through advanced fall swim lessons. The second fall session starts Nov. 5, and runs for three weeks on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Fees include options for swimming for a child and one parent before or after swim lessons.
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November 17
VOLUNTEERS SOUGHT: The Dalles HOPE Warming Place located in the St. Vincent de Paul ministry building at 315 W. Third Place, needs volunteers to join teams staffing the overnight accommodations for the homeless.
The TD HOPE Warming Place is schedule to open on cold nights beginning Nov. 17. Volunteers receive training and are asked to volunteer for one night of the week as needed.
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November 23
HOLIDAY BAZAAR: St. Peter's Holiday Bazaar is now taking reservations for table rentals for their Nov. 23 bazaar. Rentals are $30.
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December 7
CHOIR REHEARSALS: The Cascade Singers will prepare works this fall by two great composers whose 200th birthdays are celebrated in 2013: Ciuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner. "Verdi, Wagner, et al" is the theme for the community choir's holiday concert Dec. 7 and 8.
Singers meet under the direction of Lloyd Walworth Mondays form 7 to 9 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, 10th and Union streets, in The Dalles. A one-hour work session takes place Thursdays at 7 p.m. Rehearsals are open to all interested singers, who will then audition with the director. The choir often appears at community events with formal concerts at Christmas, St. Patrick's Day and late spring.
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CHRISTMAS CONCERT: "Verdi, Wagner & Holiday Favorites" is the title of the Cascade Singers' 2013 Christmas concert. Performances are Saturday, Dec. 7, at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 8, at 3 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church, 10th and Union Streets, The Dalles.
The community choir and children's choir will present romantic era music by Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner whose 200th birthdays were observed in 2013, and a variety of pieces, classical to pops, sacred and secular, for the holidays. Admission is by donation at the door.
COAT GIVEAWAY: The Salvation Army is offering coats all winter long for people in need during business hours, Monday through Sunday, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at their office or thrift store at 623 E. Third St. in The Dalles.
Coats will be given to low-income individuals and families in need of warm coats for the winter.
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TAKING ORDERS: The Dalles Wahtonka High School senior class is taking orders for Pepsi products. Each case is a 24-pack of 20-ounce bottles for $24.
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Proceeds will pay for the 2014 graduation ceremony and class projects throughout the school year.
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AlexPKeaton wrote:We don't need Parise, we need Weber.
QFT. There is no doubt we need a guy that has his exact skills. Big, physical, bomb of a shot. Locks up the other teams talent.
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AlexPKeaton wrote:We don't need Parise, we need Weber.
pens2005 wrote:Pens15 wrote:Yeah I'm a little leery myself of giving franchise type of money to Parise. Nice player but I've never been that blown away watching him play.
I have been. He's insanely good.
bhaw wrote:This year I wouldn't mind RS tossing out something for Parise's rights if there's interest there. That way we have a week to find out if he will sign. If not, you go after Semin on July 1.
AlexPKeaton wrote:All I know is, if they grab Parise, they must keep Malkin with Sid on the #1 PP at least until they lock up Malkin after this season.
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Here at NHL Draft hearing Suter is going to sign with Detroit and Parise will go to Penguins #Flyers
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Apparently Crosby sat with Parise's family in a suite for multiple games during Stanley Cup Final #Flyers
This is coming from the Flyers beat writer about 20 mins ago.
DontToewsMeBro wrote:Also I think Parise might have a little bit of LeBron syndrome. He literally just lost in the Cup finals and he might want to win now. Can DET, MIN offer that now, or in the near future? Either way this plays out I don't see him signing with a non-contender.
lemieuxReturns wrote:bob m from tsn saying pens more interested in suter than parise
"I assumed when PIT made big moves to clear cap space, it was for a run at UFA Parise but it seems UFA Suter is more likely primary target."
I really hope shero knows what he is doing. i can see suter completely blowing us off for a team in the west like the wings, and hopefully that does not put us an hour too late to get parise come july 1st.
ace1 wrote:Yeah, it was great .... unitl Crosby came back. He and Malkin need to somehow, someway ... figure out how to work together. The three shorthanders against philly were awful.
DelPen wrote:Parise and Suter are exclusive of each other. The cap space is there to sign both regardless of Martin. They won't miss out on signing one of them by waiting for the other to agree to a deal.
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Choden Rinpoche of Seraje Monastery, one of the highest lamas of the Tibetan Buddhist Traditon was virtually unknown outside Tibet until 1985. He did not escape from his country after the Chinese takeover in 1959 nor was he imprisoned. Instead, he lived in a house in Lhasa, never once leaving his small, dark room for nineteen years, even to go to the toilet, and never cutting his hair and beard.
Ven. Tseten Gelek, Rinpoche's attendant, a Sera je monk tells us, "He spent all his time on that bed, meditating. They had to change the bedding once a month because it got smelly from sweat. He used a bedpan for a toilet, as he was pretending to be an invalid. Until 1980 he did not talk to anyone, only the person who brought food into his room".
Choden Rinpoche himself told MANDALA during a two-month visit to Vajrapani Institute in California, "The main thing I wanted to do was to practice Dharma sincerely, no matter what external factors were arising. This was my motivation, to be completely against the eight worldly concerns."
Rinpoche lived in his cousin's house in Lhasa from 1965 to 1985, without coming out. He acted like an invalid. His room had no window, only a small space for ventilation above the door. Rinpoche stayed in one room for eight years, and in another room for the remaining eleven years. His attendant says, "I saw the second room and it was dark, really dark. When you walk in you can't see anything, but slowly as your eyes adjust you can make some things out. Even now at Sera when I come to open the shades in Rinpoche's room, he says no, no. I think only for my benefit he lets me open the shades. He didn't take even one step out of those rooms for nineteen years.
To do retreat, normally, you need texts, a tangka, drum, bell, vajra, all these things, but Rinpoche had only a mala. There was no altar, no text, nothing. He had already finished all the memorization of all the texts and prayers during his years of study at Sera, so he didn't need these things. The Chinese were always checking what he was doing; they would come to the house several times a day, and if they found any religious object they would have taken him away. So Rinpoche did all the retreats using just his mind; everything was in his mind. But he would never say this himself; he just says he was sleeping, thinking a little about the Dharma.
Rinpoche says, "At that time you could have absolutely no holy objects, no statues or scriptures. If they saw any scriptural texts, you would be in big trouble. Even if you moved your lips without making a sound, you would get into trouble, because they would think you were saying prayers. I had some prayer beads but they had to be kept hidden. I had a small one and when people came to investigate me, I would hide it in one of two hidden pockets in my clothes, just over my knees.
Because I stayed inside like this without ever going out, people said I was doing retreat. But it wasn't proper retreat, with the offerings, ritual things, and so forth. During this time I would think about the various stages of the path to enlightenment, as well as Guhyasamaja, Heruka, Yamantaka, all the generation stage yogas. And when I had time, I would complete the mantra quotas of each deity.
In any case, you don't need external things to do Dharma practice. It's all in your heart, your mind. As for realizations: you do not experience the realizations of the three principal aspects of the path, but you do have a little renunciation, and because of that you are able to stay like that."
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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Wow he memorised a lot of the liturgies inspiring and carried on practicing despite much austerities. Maybe thats why my lama always encouraged us to memorize the prayers and all. We can never tell what can happen to us we can even become blond what then?
We can descend from a perfect human rebirth to a not so perfect one in an instant.
We can descend from a perfect human rebirth to a not so perfect one in an instant.
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