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Full-back Israel Dagg has warned New Zealand's rivals that Julian Savea will come back a better player after being dropped from the squad.
Savea was axed from the matchday 23 after a quiet opening Test against Wales, with Dagg coming into the XV and Ben Smith moving to wing.
Dagg is deserving of his recall to the side after playing some exceptional rugby for the Crusaders and he will hope to remain in the starting XV.
But when asked about the player he replaced, Savea, Dagg believes that the Hurricanes winger will bounce back after his initial disappointment.
"There's a rule in this team. You can sulk for a minute and then you've got to get over it," he told AAP ahead of Saturday's game in Wellington.
"I know, deep down, Julian will be hurting. I have felt it and it's not a nice thing, but it makes you hungrier and makes you stronger."


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Loaded B up in the stroller base and went to city hall to cast our ballots. That way, when he's older, maybe we can tell him he was there for the election. Probably a third to half of the registered voters in the town have already voted. I voted a friend for state Attorney General, just for the heck of it; in practice the incumbent is running unopposed.
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CEO Brad Wilson of Blue Cross Blue Shield
Blue Cross and Blue Shield, the state's largest health insurer, expects to report its second consecutive financial loss in the coming weeks, as the company contends with continuing cost overruns under the Affordable Care Act, CEO Brad Wilson said Wednesday.
Wilson warned that Blue Cross cannot continue sustaining financial losses indefinitely in North Carolina and may have to decide later this year whether to get out of the ACA market in 2017. Blue Cross raised rates by an average 32.5 percent this year in the state, but Wilson said that wasn't enough to stem losses.
"We can't offer something for sale in this marketplace that we know every time it's purchased we're losing money," Wilson said.
Wilson's comments, made in a meeting Wednesday with members of The News & Observer editorial board and editors, mark the Triangle insurance executive's strongest public expression of doubt about how the ACA is playing out here. Executives at other major insurers have also threatened to drop their ACA business if it continues losing money, but Blue Cross has consistently maintained its commitment to the federal health care law in North Carolina.
N.C. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin last week sent a letter to Sylvia Burwell, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, expressing his concern that all three health insurers offering subsidized policies in North Carolina under the ACA could abandon the market, leaving thousands of residents with no options for health insurance. For example, all three insurers have cut back on sales commissions to agents and brokers who sell ACA policies.
A move by Blue Cross to stop offering federally subsidized policies would force more than 300,000 North Carolina residents to try other insurers, if they still offer ACA coverage, or revert to being uninsured. A withdrawal by Blue Cross would be acutely felt, as it's the only insurer under the ACA that offers coverage in all 100 counties in the state.
Wilson said the size of the rate increase approved this fall by the N.C. Department of Insurance for next year would likely determine Blue Cross's ACA strategy. He said the company will have to assess whether the rate increase the agency approves "makes sense" for the company.
"If it does, then we'll move forward," Wilson said. "And if it doesn't, then we'll react accordingly."
Blue Cross will report its 2015 financials next month for the second full year of coverage under the ACA. The law requires most Americans to buy health insurance and prohibits insurers from rejecting applicants with cancer, heart problems and other costly pre-existing medical conditions.
Both Wilson and Goodwin said that the ACA would be more stable financially if Medicaid were expanded to accept more people and if North Carolina ran its own insurance exchange, options that the state's GOP-dominated legislature rejected.
Wilson also said the company has made progress resolving technology snafus that prevented thousands of people from enrolling in individual policies in January.
Blue Cross saw a drop in individual insurance enrollments from December to January – during the time it was experiencing enrollment and billing problems. It lost 46,495 customers over that period, according to an internal email from Blue Cross's enterprise analytics unit.
Blue Cross spokesman David Kochman said the drop off could have been partially caused by other reasons: the 32.5 percent rate increase this year, and health plan changes that restrict patients' access to doctors and hospitals.
Wilson said Blue Cross is still experiencing software problems, particularly in billing and invoicing, but the volume of calls from customers has subsided. He said the magnitude of the software problems was unforeseen.
"We wouldn't have deployed the software had we known what the ultimate results were going to be," Wilson said.
The Department of Insurance has logged more than 1,000 customer complaints to date, "so we continue to get phone calls," said agency spokeswoman Kerry Hall. The insurance department is intervening on behalf of people with urgent medical needs who can't wait to get insurance coverage.
Wilson said Blue Cross officials don't know why the software failed and noted that there may never be a satisfactory explanation.
"One of these days this will fade from peoples' memory," Wilson said. "But it has been unpleasant and unfortunate."
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Castleford Tigers star Luke Gale is back in pre-season training after his stint with the England squad and is raring to go for the new season.
Despite not getting the nod for any of the Tests against New Zealand or the warm-up against France Gale was pleased to have made the squad for the first time after his first season with the Tigers and is determined to stay in it next year and push for a starting place next time.
He said: "I was gutted not to pull on the shirt, but that was Steve McNamara's call and he chose not to pick me.
"That disappointment won't stop me from playing my best for the Tigers in 2016.
"After that I can then look to claiming that number seven jersey for the Four Nations.
"I've got to play consistency for Castleford in the league and then I can put my hand up and clinch a spot in that team."
After joining Castleford from Bradford for the 2015 season half-back Gale enjoyed a tremendous campaign in which he scored 11 tries and kicked 101 goals. He also won the prestigious Albert Goldthorpe Medal, club awards and was included in the Dream Team.
Gale, whose deal with Castleford runs until 2017, put his success down to the way head coach Daryl Powell was able to get the best out of him.
He said: "I think Daryl was the initially reason for signing with Castleford after the impression he made on me in our first meeting.
"He gets the best out of everyone and the coaching staff around him allow you to be the best player possible, they are all great. He's had a massive effect on me."
Gale is now targeting team success and believes that with the new recruits adding to the squad the Tigers can compete for the top four once again.
He added: "All the boys from last year have nothing but good things to say about the new lads. I've trained with Rocky (Ryan Hampshire) and he looks really sharp and a really tricky player.
"They all look really good out there. I've played against Joel Monaghan for a number of years and he brings with him a bunch of experience, which can only help us as a team. Greg Minikin is getting a lot of praise from the lads too, he's impressing everyone.
"I've only been back a few days, but there is a real buzz around the boys.
"Daryl is really happy with all of the lads and I think the team can go far this year. Our goal is to break into that top four."
Tickets for the 2016 Magic Weekend at Newcastle's St James' Park are now on sale from the Tigers Den.
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Fun Trend: Condiments for catsOctober 1, 2016
You've given your kitty cat treats before, but have you ever heard of cat condiments? This fun trend includes flavours like Catchup and Meowstard. Why get cat condiments for your pet? These products are designed to bring a new flavour profile to your cat's bowl in a fun new way! It's also a great new way to surprise your pet with something extra tasty.
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Don't forget to treat your pup! Petchup also offers four sauce flavours for dogs! The original product, Petchup, is a delicious beef flavour. Muttstard is a salmon flavoured treat, Bark B-Q is pork flavoured, and Mutt-N-Aise is turkey flavoured! Like the cat condiments, the products available for dogs are full of healthy vitamins and minerals, glucosamine and prebiotics. They're also gluten free, low calorie, and made without artificial colours or flavours.
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Kevin Meehan, E-3, Gr. 3 - Vice Chairman
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And oddly, picking out the worst feels a whole lot more difficult than picking out the best!
For one thing, the field is crowded. When you're doing a "best of" list, you're dealing with (sadly) only a handful of contenders, guaranteed. But when you're trying to decide what the worst is, you find yourself surveying a vast wasteland, especially when it comes to public art. True, a few well-known disasters (like the Irish Famine Memorial, at left), come immediately to mind;but then you find yourself thinking of another candidate, and another, and another . . .
For not only is there an enormous field of contenders for the prize in question, there are almost as many reasons why they're bad. Indeed, nothing shows up critical folly like pondering the dreck of the past - because it always passed through some committee's critical filter, and was often even on somebody's "best of" list at the time! (Not so long ago, it seems critics thought wind sculptures were a good idea, for instance.) So it's worth remembering that public art is so bad partly because art criticism has been so bad.
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I suppose it's worth pointing out that the only recent "public art" that has made a splash locally has been the graffiti of Shepard Fairey. I hate Fairey because his work is plagiarized from other (better) artists, and because his rock-your-world narcissism is essentially as sentimental as the Irish Famine Memorial. Indeed, Fairey's success only underlines the unspoken crisis in public art: some folks seem to feel the only "authentic" way for an artist to enter the public sphere is to attack it. Clearly that can't go on forever - and at any rate, Fairey merely replaces nostalgic kitsch with hip kitsch, or gnostic dopiness; I mean seriously, what is Andre the Giant doing up on those Boston tenements? Fairey's almost as stupid as that big, sad pear in Dorchester (below).
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Founder, Mim Berliner (left) with First Board President, Rosamond Vaule (right)
Anniversary Events
November 2015: Online party
January 3, 2015: Snowflake Festival, an afternoon filled with artwork, activities and a birthday cake to celebrate our 50th Anniversary!
February 6-April 10, 2015: GOLDEN, an exhibition juried by Julie Graham and Mags Harries.
June 18, 2015: Founders' Dinner honoring Mim and Barney Berliner and premiere of 50th Anniversary Video. In conjunction with our Founders' Dinner, Brookline Bank awarded a $10,000 matching grant to help support our Founders' Fund, which raised a total of over $26,000 in FY 15.
September-November 2015: 50th Anniversary culmination with "Artistic Migration".


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It was a shocking news to the Dark Generation that the Dark Mulberry City was destroyed overnight. The incident had spread across the Void Triangular Domain with the fastest speed. In fact, the domain was only half the size of any domain in the Divine Continent, except Western Domain. Thus, the amount of cities in this domain weren't that many. The destruction of a city was without a doubt an unprecedented event. Almost all of them were informed about this latest news in a very short period of time. The gate of Void Triangular Domain had only opened for a day. Now, the neighbouring cities of Dark Mulberry City could already feel the threat of the crisis. They started to ask for reinforcements from the King City. According to the witness, the dragonified human was so powerful that even a Seventh Grade Minor Saint died under his hands. The King City. It was irrefutably larger. It was the largest and the most luxurious city of the Dark Generation, a grand city. The reason? it was because the city was inhabited by the imperial kinsmen. They were the true ruler of Void Triangular Domain. At this moment, plenty of imperial experts had gathered in the main hall of King City. The destruction of Dark Mulberry City had shaken all of them. Now, not even the King of the Dark Generation could sit calmly. There was a middle-aged man with a black crown sitting in the hall. He had a physically strong body. His body exuded an aura of a powerful Qi. His cultivation was expectedly powerful - peak Ninth Grade Minor Saint. He didn't have a name. Everyone addressed him as the Dark King. The Dark King was the king of the Dark Generation. Anyone who took the position of a king of the Dark Generation would be addressed as Dark King. The imperial system here was similar to the emperor of Martial Saint Dynasty. The Dark Generation was like a country and the country was ruled by a single ruler - the Dark King. "This is despicable! That dragonman must be from either of the three worlds. The gateway has only been opened for a day. How could such an event take place in our domain? I suggest to close the gate immediately and cancel all of the trading event." A Ninth Grade Minor Saint said. Due to his imperial status, he had a prestigious ident.i.ty in the Dark Generation. As a matter of fact, any Ninth Grade Minor Saint would be treated as the highest beings in the hierarchy status. "No, we can't. Our resources would not be enough for another three years. Plus, we have already mined a huge amount of True Meta Stones for the trade. We can't cancel all the events because of this dragonman." Someone reb.u.t.ted. In fact, they were the ones who gained the most everytime a trade happened. So none of them could afford to cancel the trading events on a whim. "None of us know where the dragonman came from. It is very likely that he is from the demon race. The demon race of the Boundless and Black Yellow World isn't that powerful. The only possibility is that this dragonman came from the Demon Race of the Saint Origin World. The overall strength of the Demon Race could be compared to the seven families'." Someone guessed. "That may not be entirely true. All the eight families have their own private pa.s.sageway. Besides, there is still half a month left before the trading event. They won't arrive here that early. It would take at least a few more days for them to arrive here. There isn't a single movement that was detected in their private pa.s.sageway as of yet. We should remove the possibility of the involvement of the Demon Race." Someone said. "Dark King, in any case, the incident in Dark Mulberry City has never happened before in our history. Now, this would certainly leave a great insult in our history. This is obviously a challenge to our Dark Generation. We must find that dragonman by any means necessary." Someone said in a solemn tone. Dark King waved his hand, implying all of them to keep silent. "The trading event will not be cancelled because of the dragonman. I will not allow this tiny dragonman to cause a great turmoil in our soil. Pa.s.s the order to your subordinates, increase the security of all the cities and their awareness towards the dragonman. Also, send someone to Dark Mulberry City to find out any clues about this dragonman." Dark King ordered. It was logical to think that the dragonman would certainly conceal himself after destroying Dark Mulberry City, unless he wanted death for himself, given the tight security they had imposed in all the cities. The next thing that happened would send the entire Void Triangular Domain into turmoil. On the third day after the gate was opened, the dragonman reappeared after a day of silence. The vault of treasure in the prefecture of the two neighbouring cities of Dark Mulberry City had all been stolen. Besides that, there were a series of murder cases happening in these two cities. Every case involved a prince of a rich family. They were all princes with prestigious status and innate talents but was also extremely arrogant like Dark Liuyun. They also did some immoral activities with the females even during the day. Now, those cities had fallen into chaos. All the people of Dark Generation started to get anxious about this mysterious dragonman. Although the citizens didn't actually see the dragonman commit theft and murdered those princes, they were still sure that it was the dragonman because there wouldn't be anyone who was bold enough to commit such a crime. However, the result of the two cities were a lot better than the Dark Mulberry City. They only suffered losses in the vault and a few princes of some rich families. The cities were still in good condition. These two cities had approximately the same strength as the army of Dark Mulberry City. Hence, the extra security wouldn't do much help to prevent Jiang Chen from ma.s.sacring their people. The group of people which was affected the most was the princes of all the other cities. They started to worry for their safety. They weren't fools. They have already realised the killing patterns of the dragonman. The demon wasn't just after their fortune but also the lives of these princes. They had no clue why the dragonman would target them. They were involved in this crisis whether they liked it or not. Plus, the dragonman was untraceable and always hid himself in the dark. The empty vault could explain how powerful this dragonman's stealth ability was. No one could tell when that demon would strike them and take their lives. Note:
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Angry teenage Naruto fanboys unite! A new face-pummeling, body-kicking Naruto game is on the way exclusively for the PSP and it's due out spring, 2011. You can tell your friends to prep for the upcoming game with the "OMGZ!!! teh l33t game is coming!" messages, as the team-based fighter expands on the couple dozen already released Naruto games, offering more moves, fighters, environments and special attacks to master.
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Wednesday, April 12, 2017
By: Justin Dunk
Saskatchewan Roughriders assistant vice president, football operations and administration Jeremy O'Day is preparing to interview for the vacant Edmonton Eskimos general manager position, per sources.
After O'Day spent 14 seasons playing in the CFL, the final 12 with the Riders, the four-time CFL all-star offensive lineman moved into the front office with Saskatchewan in 2011. He spent four seasons as the assistant general manager. In August 2015 O'Day was named interim general manager for the final nine games of the season. Then he interviewed for the permanent job that off-season, which eventually went to Chris Jones who retained O'Day and added John Murphy as essentially assistant general managers.
O'Day interviewed for the Eskimos general manager job when the team hired Ed Hervey in December 2012.
He won Grey Cups as a player in 1997 with Toronto and 2007 while on the Riders and the 42-year-old earned a Grey Cup ring as a football executive with Saskatchewan in 2013.
The Eskimos unexpectedly fired Hervey last Friday after four seasons at the helm with president Len Rhodes citing philosophical differences.
With the window for CFL teams to interview front office personnel from other clubs closed, Edmonton would have needed permission from both the league and the Riders in order to speak to O'Day and will have to follow the same process should they wish to interview other candidates currently under contract.
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Well if you believe Hervey's firing had anything to do with butts in seats, ODay could well be their man.
- April 12, 2017
Canadian NHL teams 0-3 Wed night. After the Leafs and Flames lose Thursday, 0-5 Canada. But at least Ottawa is legalizing weed Thurs , so there's that.
- April 12, 2017
- John Knight said...
O'Day would be a good hire for EE but I would hate to see him go
- April 13, 2017
McManus is the one Edmonton is very interested in truthfully so ODay is 2nd as from what I am reading
- April 13, 2017
This will be a great opportunity for him, as the riders passed him by, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to leave riderville and it's new staff in the dust
- April 13, 2017
from what you are reading? Like as in the post above this story?
Gimme a break pal.
Who are the other candidates? How do you know ODay is 2nd?
- April 13, 2017
- Dave Stouse said...
Hi Rod: love your blog, keeps me up to date, when in Az. for months.
We went to a Vegas on Tuesday to see Celine Dion; it was absolutely amazing, if you like her, don't miss it. Was a wonderful evening at Caesars Palace.
- April 14, 2017
All the best in Edmonton Jeremy. Clean up Hervey's PR nightmare with the city there.
- April 14, 2017


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As the Conservative Political Action Committee wrapped up its annual conference in Washington, D.C. this weekend, Tea Party Republicans had reason to celebrate after forcing House Republican leaders to make deeper cuts in their budget proposals.
"A hundred billion means a hundred billion," Dean Clancy, legislative counsel for Freedom Works, said. "They knew when the fiscal year started. They knew when they were going to be sworn in, 100 billion means 100 billion, and we insist on it, and we're getting it."
Earlier in the week, House Republicans announced a plan to slash $35 billion from government spending this year.
But more than 80 freshmen Republicans rebuked the leaders' first offer and called for deeper cuts. House GOP leaders listened to the voice emanating from the Tea Party and tripled the proposal.
"We're going to cut more than $100 billion in discretionary spending on this year's account," Speaker John Boehner said Thursday in remarks at the CPAC Conference.
Tea Partiers were enthused by the freshmen's refusal of the initial proposal and the GOP leadership's willingness to heed their call which initially sparked the Tea Party movement -- cut spending.
"This whole movement is about the spending. That's what ignited the whole movement, the out-of-control spending," Tea Party Express chairwoman Amy Kremer said. "We're happy these new representatives and senators have come to Washington and are taking some of the first steps to trim some of the, you know, excess, spending out of the budget."
The Republican proposal would fund the government for the next seven months through the end of the fiscal year, but the proposed cuts are deeper and broader than some anticipated.
"Contrary to the view that they are smaller than people think, they are bigger than people think," said Bob Greenstein, executive director of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
The proposed cuts will sweep across multiple agencies from the Environmental Protection Agency to funding for cities and states. Funds for clean drinking water will be slashed in half in addition to making steep cuts in food safety programs.
"It's almost like we are checking a box. We said $100 billion. Here's $100 billion, and they are protected from the consequences of their own, I think, less than responsible actions," Greenstein said.
The Democratic controlled Senate and President Obama are not expected to go along with the proposals set for by the Republicans.
Obama today offered a peek into his budget set to be released Monday, likening it to the way families determine priorities when developing their own budgets.
"Families across this country understand what it takes to manage a budget," Obama said in his weekly address. "They understand what it takes to make ends meet without forgoing important investments like education.
"Well, it's time Washington acted as responsibly as our families do," he said. "And on Monday, I'm proposing a new budget that will help us live within our means while investing in our future."
Obama said he plans to freeze annual domestic spending over the next five years while committing to boost funding for education and "new economy" jobs.
Though Obama's budget may not embrace all the initiatives set forth in the Republican's proposal, Tea Party Republicans are pleased with GOP leadership's decision to delve deeper in cutting spending.
"This is the first fruits of the tea party rebellion, but this is not the end of it," Clancy said. "What this week showed is that the Tea Party is strong is effective, and it's relevant and it's not going away."


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Upgrades bring unease to the minds of lots of vAdmins and a major version upgrade can particularly cause trepidation. With the right planning, testing and implementation, it can be an uneventful experience – an upgrade from any older version of vSphere to 6.0 is no different. In this post, I'll run through planning the upgrade […]Read More →
Category: My VMware experiences
Unable to unclaim path. Some paths may be left in an unclaimed state. You will need to claim them manually using the appropriate commands or wait for periodic path claiming to reclaim them automatically.
In preparation for my vBrownbag presentation on preparing for the VCP 6: DCV, I needed to assign the SSD tag on one my virtual disks. I followed William Lam's post about how to trick ESXi into thinking a spinning disk was an SSD, you can read that here. Upon trying to apply the new claim […]Read More →
VCP VCAP VCIX discount voucher
As always around VMworld, there are 2 discount vouchers available for these tests. The vouchers entitle you to 25% off the tests. VCP discount voucher = VCPWDF25 VCAP5-DCA/DCD and VCIX:NV discount voucher = VCADWDF25 Catch? Exams must be scheduled by September 4, 2015 and taken by October 15, 2015.Read More →
IP pools – use their addresses in vApps
IP Pools? Who ever needs them? Static or authorized DHCP server assigned IP addresses work, right? VMware have this thing called IP Pools that only apply at the datacenter level. At their essence, they are a means to provide a network identity to vApps – quoting VMware in their kb article here. Basically the idea is: you create […]Read More →
Error loading /s.v00 Fatal error: 10 (Out of resources) ESXi 5.5
While creating new a host in my home lab this morning, I received the following error when attempting to install ESXi 5.5 on it. The error's quite obvious, it needs more grunt. Where though? Looked back at the VM's settings (this was a nested host) and realized I forgot to up the RAM on it […]Read More →
A VMware Log Insight 2.5 design and deployment project
I have recently had the good fortune of working on a large scale deployment of VMware's vRealize Log Insight 2.5. The project included the design, deployment and some administration of the product. I thought I'd blog about my experience given the paucity of blog posts pertaining to the design and deployment of Log Insight. For brevity, I'll […]Read More →
VMware SSO installation/upgrade error
While upgrading my lab environment from 5.5 to 6.0 I ran into the following error at the very outset. The user group "NT SERVICE\ALL SERVICES" does not have the "Log on as a service" user right. This precludes the ability to use the virtual accounts feature in Windows to permit grater security through increased isolation […]Read More →
SSO error: Unable to create a managed connection 'ldaps://" with 'GSSAPI'
While trying to add a vCenter Server to Log Insight, I encountered an error that just said "Incorrect username or password". Well I tried again, no go. Tried my own admin account (that has god mode), still the same. I tried to logon to the particular vCenter with the vSphere Client and got the "Incorrect […]Read More →


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Good practice transfer in Lake Balaton Region
Lake Balaton Development Coordination Agency has targeted to change the bad habit of elderly generation in the field of active and healthy lifestyle. According to this purpose the chosen good practice for transferring is the Senior Games good practice presented by Euro Baltic Region from Poland. The idea was that the Agency will use an existing sport event series - called "Move Balaton" - as a base of the transfer. "Move Balaton" programme contains many beach sport competitions but the event is attractive mainly for youth. Move Balaton programme is located in 32 different beaches around Lake Balaton and this is a whole summer event. On the closing event all the 32 locations are represented by sport teams.
In the summer of 2014 this sport event series were extended with a few sport disciplines for elderly people. These disciplines were penalty kicking, throwing basketball penalty and table tennis. We tried to involve the older generations into the programme with this not too physical sport disciplines. The results of this pilot action were more impressive than it was expected. More than 10% of the participants were +45, it means almost 3000 people. More then 30% of the locations were represented by elderly sport teams on the closing event.
We hope that these numbers will be raised on the next summers and we will be able to offer active rest for the elderly people on the beaches.


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Well, it's been six months to the day since SURVIVAL COLONY 9 hit the shelves, and I'm happy to report that the reality has exceeded my expectations.
No, I don't mean the book's become an international bestseller or scored a six-figure movie deal. Sales are fine but not breathtaking. The things I expected to happen have happened, but not in any spectacular way; I didn't pack Madison Square Garden for a public reading.
What I mean is that many little things have happened that I couldn't have imagined before the book came out. Though there have been many such small delights--fan emails, speaking requests, invitations to blurb other people's books--here are five particular highlights:
1. At my launch party in Pittsburgh, I had two surprise guests: a close friend from high school who lives in California, and a beloved cousin who lives in Massachusetts. I was blown away when one of them walked through the door. I was speechless when the other did. (That's my cousin on the right.)
2. A couple of my ARCs went out on "tour" to members of the writers' groups to which I belong. Both of them came back with signatures and nice comments. One of them came back with original artwork inspired by the story.
3. Many friends (and some complete strangers) have sent me pictures of my book on bookstore or library shelves, or in their own hands or the hands of their children. But I didn't think people would actually go out and make SURVIVAL COLONY 9 T-shirts!
4. Thanks to my publicist and my own contacts, I spoke at a number of schools and libraries. Many of them had good-sized crowds; one of the schools had the entire eighth grade class, about 150 students, reading my book. At this same school, one of the students handed me a picture she'd drawn for me. I felt almost as good as I used to feel when my own children were little and gave me one of their special drawings.
5. Out of the blue, I received an email from a friend I haven't seen since high school (that's over thirty years, if anyone's counting). She attended a private all-girls high school, while I went to one of the public schools; she invited me to her prom, and we went as friends. In her email, she said she'd read my book and wanted to tell me how much she enjoyed it. It was a mind-boggling experience, and it reminded me how amazing it is to be an author.
Madison Square Garden would be nice. But it's the little things that are the very best.


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East New York Multi Building Concept
Brooklyn, NY
A study for a group of affordable buildings in a run-down area of the City. The sites are adjacent to the elevated train and the architecture needed to be as "loud" visually as the train is "loud" audibly. Each building is designed to fit with the other new buildings and contextually connect to the city. The result is a vibrant patterned design that creates a campus like effect through the similarity of each building's details and massing.


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Friday, September 25, 2009
Feel the Tug of the Heavens in Your Hands
Last Saturday on Marina Green in San Francisco, the community celebrated Family Kite Day. Hundreds of people of all ages and styles stood on the field by the bay holding strings and gazing skyward as their kites of all designs fluttered in the breeze. Some flyers guided their kites through intricate swoops and soars, dancing their kites to the music blasting from speakers positioned along the sidelines. Others simply felt the tug of the heavens from their place on earth. The sight was joyous and freeing. How great it is when we can feel the heavens tugging in our hands as we stand on the solid earth.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Freedom Beyond the Grid
Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn't make any sense.
- Rumi
We spend so much energy and attention constructing our grids of right and wrong, me and world, that we forget there is something more. We forget that beyond the lines of self-created divisions and fragments there is the fullness of just being. When, by some chance of fate, our grid of ideas breaks open and we enter that field of freedom, it only lasts a moment. Then the mind has a spasm of rear and and snaps the thought grid back over our eyes.
Wanting to have our cake and eat it, we look for ways to have our grid of ideas and also live in the field beyond ideas. So we search for a grid that ties the world together rather than dividing it up. We look for networks, webs, and matrixes that connect the dots and reveal the hidden picture that makes sense out of the chaos. Yet, these types of grids is that offer visions of truth actually conceal it. Ultimately, every matrix that explains the world reaches a point where it encounters information and experience that it cannot explain. It encounters the messy life that is actually happening while we are busy weaving our neat and clean grid of explanation.
When we discover the limits of our grid and it starts to crumble, most of us rush to mend the grid. We scurry about trying to force the field beyond ideas back into the box of ideas. Then life breaks the boxes open again and the cycle of reconstructing the grid goes for another round.
Rumi sees our struggle with life and invites us to meet him in the field waiting just beyond the lines. He points to the abundant picnic waiting there. It's only a step beyond an intersection of lines. After feasting in that field, we can return to our beloved matrix of beliefs and explore the delights of making connections. Instead of drawing lines that divide up the world, our grids can become windows that point beyond themselves toward that rich field of freedom.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Freeing Earth From Thought Grids
This is Earth on your thoughts. Each of us uses a grid of beliefs to navigate the terrain of life. With this thought grid, we categorize ourselves, society, nature and anything else that that passes through our minds. It defines if we stand on the political left or right; the work we consider high and low; the people we push away and those we pull close. Our thought grid outlines our network of community and our links to ecological web.
Everything we encounter is immediately filtered through our thought grid. Is the face passing on the street beautiful or ugly? Is the food on the plate tasty or bland? Is that fragrance on the breeze sweet of putrid? From the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the moment we close them at night we take the vastness of the world and squeeze it between the lines of our belief grid.
On the one hand, a grid of categories is essential. The body separates digestible grains from indigestible pebbles. It divides warm, dry habitable rooms from cold, damp inhabitable boxes. It's helpful to agree that red light mean stop and green lights mean go. On the other hand, most of the categories in our belief grids are merely preferences. Salad is not really better or worse that soup. Red is not closer to the truth than blue. Gold is not really more valuable than lead.
Clashing thought grids result in wars, arguments, oppression, persecution and all manner of conflicts. Thought grids that attempt to harness and control the ecosystem cause pollution, fragmentation and the loss of plant and animal species.
Thought grids are as essential to being human as breathing. Our brains are grid making machines. By their very nature they distinguish light from dark, gain from loss, earth from sky, self from other. The problem is that we attempt to make them solid and fixed rather than allowing them to be transparent and fluid. When we can see through a flexible grid, we can maintain healthy boundaries while being responsive the changes circumstances. There is much more to say about this. But, for now, perceive the grid of beliefs shaping your thoughts and imagine it as a shifting gauze rather than unmoving steel.
Monday, September 21, 2009
View From the Threshold of Death
On Saturday, I went to an exhibit called The Way of the Samurai. It described the principle of bushido, which includes living each moment as if looking back from the moment of death. Rather than being morbid or scary, this viewpoint opened my mind and senses to the richness of the here and now with a power I hadn't quit experienced before. The world became both more vivid and dreamlike, more intimate and universal, more engaging and freeing. What I do with my days mattered more, but without the pressure of grasping each grain of time. Facing death openly sparked the life forces within me.
Later I asked, "What dies?" Some would say the body and not the soul. Some would say nothing dies; they only change form. I couldn't honestly answer the question. I realized that wanting to pin life down would be like wanting to pin down the wind or the ocean. And that would really be death. Instead, I just perched on the threshold of life and peered into the dreamlike reality of living each moment.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Freeing The Dark Heart
"A bit touchy feelly don't you think?" A man with dull eyes confronted me with this question as I walked off the stage to wild applause following a lecture at the Graham Foundation in Chicago. Why is touching and feeling something so frightening? "Who do you think you are, Joseph Campbell?" a "friend" asked after reading three sample chapters from my first book, The Temple in the House. How can self expression be so threatening? Mocking laughter was my father's response when I told him I wanted to be an architect. Why would a man would want to crush the dream of his progeny? Imagine you have encounters with spirit killing comments almost daily.
The grip of these types of comments loosened when I realized they were expressions of fear. At the same time, I realized their cumulative effect is devastating. This is because, more than spreading fear, they promote the withholding of life energy. Bit by bit, this withholding turns the heart dark. Bit by bit, the cold lightless heart becomes a place where brutality is born.
I realized other possibilities at the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence in southern France. This luminous space was designed and decorated by Matisse. In the playful colors and delicate forms I saw the courage in tenderness. Our action heros are hard and loud. But in this little chapel I encountered a great power in softness and silence. The darkness in my heart found a place where the life energy it had withheld could be released and be free.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
The Wildness of Carrots
At a farmers' market this weekend, these carrots jumped out at me. Certainly, I've looked at carrots, chopped them, grated them, eaten them. In the vegetable stall that day, I encountered their wildness.
Imagine how they come into being. Sinking into the soil's darkness, they twist toward the core of the earth. At the same time, they're reaching for the sun. The green tops pull down the solar radiance and pour it into the root. Underground, the color of sunset glows, waiting for it wild sweetness to be discovered.
Monday, September 7, 2009
The Power of Roadside Shrines
Beside the footpath along Corte Madera Creek near my house sits this shrine. It's too far from the closest street to mark the spot of a traffic fatality. Nothing suggests it honors the memory of a fallen celebrity. Instead, Buddha and his pal just hang out in their ring of stones radiating peace. I'm not sure how they got there. I assume the person who lives behind the gate on the opposite side of the footpath placed them and maintains this unassuming shrine. Some days Buddha cups a tangerine in his hands. Other days it's flowers, beads, or some other object. Every time I pass this way, I thank them for their silent gift to the community. I appreciate the simplicity and the lack of "Hey, look at the wonderful gift I have given you!!!"
In other countries, these kinds of shrines are common. As I suggested earlier, they are not intended to mark auto accident sites, but to honor some elusive quality of dwelling on earth. In densely populated cities, I've happened across shrines reminding passersby that amidst the clammer of the marketplace there is stillness, tenderness and artfulness. On isolated mountain trails, at the points where uphill climbs cause the body to scream for rest, someone has often placed a bench. In these places, support and spaciousness form the shrine. In Nepal, trekking northeast from Kathmandu, I found a series of stone benches carved with Tibetan deities. Dotting Paris, fountains where the three muses dance offer water. If you've traveled, I'm sure you've passed shrines such as these. Along the road, these little gems inspire the journey.
Friday, September 4, 2009
Nature's Design Studio
Meet my neighbor. She drops by at unexpected times to remind me that my species isn't the center of the world. I think of her when people talk about green building. They focus on structures that are energy efficiency, photovoltaics and renewable resources. Nothing wrong with that. But, are those the concerns of my neighbor?
Much of green design is approached from the problem-solving, left brain attitude that slices the world into defined pieces and then wonders why the eco-system is breaking into bits. This is like appreciating a bird's ability to fly, dissecting the bird, studying its anatomy, putting it on the window sill and wondering why it doesn't fly away. That's what we do on a global scale. We take the immense power of our brains, focus it on finding logical solutions to the problems of building in the garden of the world, and don't see that our fragmented viewpoint only creates more fragments.
One way to get out of this mess may be to look beyond our human-centeredness and look into the eyes of the ecosystem we inhabit. What shapes do you see in the land, plants and animals that share your neighborhood in the city of planet earth? What colors are specific to that place? How do the patterns of light and shadow move through out the day? Where do the birds hang out during the day? Notice that patterns of food gathering for all the species that share your natural neighborhood. How can you participate in the multi-dimensional life of this community life?
What you will find, I don't know. That's the point; to move beyond what we think we know and learn from our neighbors. They have worked in nature's design studio for millions of years, researching how to live sustainably. The architecture they've developed is elegant, beautiful and functional in ways we can only hope to achieve.
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
When Your Road Forks
This road sign signals one of the new roundabouts the city of Santa Rosa, California installed to mange the flow of traffic. I love its energy and wild spirit. It's so different from STOP, YIELD, DEAD END. Instead, this sign invites movement and choice. It leaves behind mechanical ONE WAY highways and suggests roads of organic possibilities. It screams, "Yeah, Baby. Let's crank up the tunes and drive." But this is not about a petal to the metal kind of road trip. This is about moving the way water moves, surrendering to the pull of gravity and finding its shape in relation to the objects and events it encounters. Where most road signs demand that we stay in the box, this one points the ways out of the box. There's music in it. Maybe, whoever designed this sign understood what others only laughed at. Maybe he or she understood what that great American sage Yogi Berra meant when he said, "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
The World in the Mirror
They say that outer reflects inner, that Earth mirrors Heaven. Some say the world is a reflection of our consciousness. Others say our consciousness is a reflection of the world. Whatever is happening, I sometimes stop and peer into the reflection. Sometimes I see through the shimmering image to the spaciousness hovering there. In those moments, the reflection appears to be a vivid dream dreaming itself. What I call "Me" is a shimmering imaging in this dream dreaming itself.
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We clung to this Isuzu Impulse longer than usual--about 1,000 miles and two weeks longer than usual--so the car would not be infected by our bad case of sport coupe blurs and burnout.
Face it. It's an orgy of rambunctious, three-door hatchbacks out there. It's also a million-vehicle market segment that contains more variables than independence for the Baltic States.
The Nissan 240SX is a crisp, handsome handler and the prettiest of the litter. Ford's Probe was born to be stylistically free of its Mazda MX-6 sibling yet both offer turbocharged horsepower. Mazda adds four-wheel-drive.
The Eagle Talon is the Mitsubishi Eclipse, which also is the Plymouth Laser, and identical triplets from two manufacturers must constitute a new high in consumer gullibility. Then there's the Acura Integra sport coupe being chased down by the Volkswagen Corrado, which wriggles for identity alongside the Toyota Celica with domestic competition from the Dodge Daytona and . . . .
And now Isuzu's Impulse XS--with the Geo Storm GSi marketed by Chevrolet as its domestic progeny--joins the confusion.
Both inherit the multivalve, four-cylinder, 130-horsepower engine from the British-built and incredibly snappy Lotus Elan. The Storm is chunkier and looks more the slugger from Detroit than the rounded, obviously Euro-styled Impulse.
There are no differences in performance, price and dimensions. Both cars peer down the road of life through half-shrouded headlights suggesting a fun yet heavy-lidded menace somewhere between Jack Nicholson and Garfield.
Then, with most things being equal, why buy Impulse over Geo Storm?
Because Isuzu's little screecher comes with discreet green badges on sides and rear that announce "Handling by Lotus."
This rearrangement of struts and shocks is the next best thing to moving up in price and class to a Nissan 300ZX. By strengthening chassis cross members and by grading the resilience of suspension bushings until changes in rear-wheel geometry during cornering actually assist the steering function, Isuzu via Lotus produces the superior handling usually associated with helmets and roll bars.
The ride is stiff, a little choppy and will transmit the brrrrrrmp even if you're the 97th car over a flat squirrel. But then one simply can't get outstanding handling without using one's derriere as a fifth shock absorber.
Power steering is firm, informative and certainly not over-assisted. A little rigidity in the wheel is another small cost of life in the quick and precise lane--except for those who wear a Size 9 shoe but enjoy slopping around in Size 12 sneakers.
The engine is no long-legged thing that purrs, but a high-revving chain saw. Gear ratios may be uncomfortably close for lazier drivers and the rasping fifth gear will find fingers fidgeting with the shift to make sure there isn't another cog hiding someplace.
The car is small, light, a little slow off the mark but very, very nimble when it comes to quiet roads full of twisty bits and fast exits. All of which clearly establishes the Impulse as the sportiest of today's sport coupes.
Unfortunately, there aren't too many Ventura and Sunset boulevardiers who fall into the category of advanced driver.
And to enjoy the Impulse is to keep it busy. To exercise its best performance range, and to run smoothly is to push the car firmly. That's best done alone. Or at least with someone who isn't always stepping on the brakes from the passenger side.
The truth of the car is this: Its comfort levels, ride and handling certainly won't detour commuters to van pools. But to appreciate the car thoroughly will require a driver who knows more about tuned suspensions than tuning the sound system.
Apart from those half-closed headlights there isn't too much that separates Impulse styling from others in the class. The subtle spoiler is common to Corrado and Laser. The air dam gives the same mako shark smirk to the Impulse as it does to the Eagle Talon.
Isuzu (maybe as a concession to its partnership with General Motors) has gone to vertical handles recessed behind the trailing edge of the doors. Untraditional, certainly. Inconvenient, definitely. And absolutely unnecessary.
The hatch back also needs rebalancing until it can be flipped more like a lid and humped less like a door. Until then, prepare for heavy opening and clumsy closing that doesn't always get everything latched the first time.
You'll notice the miss when the hatch floats open at the first stop light.
The interior is quite generic and that means kidney-hugging seats, a long and compartmentalized center console (bless the stylist who included a slot for Ray-Bans), an open pod for instruments and everything to do with seating and positioning is cozy and snug.
But nobody will like the turn indicator stalk.
It does not carry a knob and feels for all the world like a curved acrylic fingernail.
Talking of fingernails, expect to split and lose a few while attaching and releasing the seat belts. The belt housings are too short and buried too deeply beside the seats.
In balance, however, the price of the car is less than the best of the competition. The Impulse also offers four-wheel disc brakes as standard, a driver's side air bag as a $750 option and value as high as other sport coupes.
This is the second generation of Impulse and a vast improvement. That suggests a third generation will be a substantial advance on the second, with smoother performance creating a broader appeal and polishing a contender into a champion.
It's only a small step.
For as an incitement to action arising from a state of mind or some external stimulus, the car already lives up to the best definition of impulse.
1990 Isuzu Impulse XS
COST: Base $11,999. As tested $14,298 (options included driver's side air bag, cruise control, power windows, aluminum wheels.)
ENGINE: 16 valves, 4 cylinders, 1.6-liters, 130 horsepower.
TYPE: Front-wheel drive, two-door sport coupe with seating for two adults and two quiet children.
PERFORMANCE: 0-60 m.p.h. (as tested) 9.1 seconds. Top speed 120 m.p.h. Fuel economy (city-highway) 26 to 34 m.p.g.
CURB WEIGHT: 2,411 pounds.
THE GOOD: Flat, firm, race-track suspension by Lotus. Spirited performance for knowing handlers. Low price, high value.
THE BAD: Short gearing and buzzy, hyperactive engine. Buried, vertical door handles. Lack of rear-hatch counterbalance.
THE UGLY: Cheap and nasty turn-signal lever.


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Yay! It's Friday and the new DOTA 2 Beta update (20/10/11) update is available via auto-update. It adds 3 new heroes in DOTA 2 namely Skeleton King, Broodmother and Queen of Pain along with in-game pause support from player-side.
Patch Notes of October 20, 2011:
DOTA 2 Gameplay Changes:
– Added 3 new heroes:
– Broodmother
– Skeleton King
– Queen Of Pain
DOTA 2 UI Changes:
– Added player pause support.
– Fixed Weaver sometimes coming out of his invisibility for Geminate Attack.
– Added dropdown in lobby setup for selecting which team goes first in Captain's Mode.
– The lobby password field has an apply button and lock icon lights up when the password is set.
– Fixed losing key input when you search the shop with the chat up.
– Fixed a recent bug that caused the Ice Blast trail debuff to not get applied to heroes.


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Outrage Party
249, Eldridge ST
New York, NY
Thank You for your interest in my new party, Outrage!
I am thrilled to collaborate with such a distinguished batch of artists, and I can't wait to see where it goes. The response so far has been overwhelming. The club itself seems full with 125 people, and so far I've received nearly that many messages from artists and other creative people, like yourself, interested in being part of this experiment.
Let's face it. NYC and it's night life, in general, hasn't been exactly memorable these past few years. My hope is to make Outrage one of those exihilarating, must-attend weekly parties that will have people talking twenty years from now about this being "the good old days."
In order to achieve this, we are looking for people to fill the following positions:
1: Party Host: You're cool and eclectic art-type person who knows people who know people who know people. Invite people to the party.
2:Dj's: Keoki has been booking the music, right now we're using Dj's Grave and Whillyem. But we're looking for opening guest Dj's, it's always good to add a little different taste to the food. So if you think that's you, let us know!
3: Performers, Go-Go Dancers, etc: This is the butch the brought you The Pee Drinker, Woody, The Dancing Amputee and Ida, The Texan Drag Queen who pulled a string of lit Christmas light from her ass, so lip-syncing to Whitney Houston ins't going to get you any brownie points at Outrage. Come correct, don't bother.
4: Event Promoters: Like party hosts, but bringing in a more specific event, like friend's birthday, a party celebrating the opening of a local clothing store, and art exhibition, etc.
5: Artists, painters, photographers, etc; For solo or group exhibitions.
If you think you fit in any of these positions and wants to be part of our family, please feel free to leave us a message.


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Photos of the day: 125th Street in Harlem (slide show)
Photographers Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel captured the vibrant thoroughfare during a four-year project. Here's a sample of their work.
Wed Oct 16 2013
Photograph: Diggs & Hillel
"Michael Jackson Memorial Wall"
Collaborative photographers Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel spent the last four years documenting Harlem's ever-evolving 125th Street. The results of their visual chronology, titled 125th: Time in Harlem, will be published in a book out December 2013. Starting next week, they'll also have a show at Claire Oliver Fine Art. Click through the photos above for preview of the exhibition, which runs October 24 through November 23. If you're interested, you can watch an interview with the artists on Vimeo.
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Gas prices started falling, and I was happy about it. So were most people around me. We'd have to spend less to travel and go about our daily business. We'd all have more expendable income, whether for ourselves or the community. The lower gas prices would have ripple effects that could only be good.
Or not.
I then saw a couple of my friends from the coastline who posted about the ill effects of those gas prices. Their friends and families were losing their jobs. There were ripple effects throughout the community, but they weren't good.
My perspective changed. I could pay an extra couple dimes per gallon in order to help another. I could quit assuming my good deal was a good deal for everyone.
I hope not to purposefully take a selfish perspective. Sometimes, I simply need someone to share another perspective to pull back the curtain on my selfishness.
We all do.
Let's consider others' perspectives. We may not agree with everyone, but we can learn, grow, and replace our self-centeredness with humility and compassion.


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text: Friend and publisher Rolf Zetterson had breakfast with me a few months ago, and told me about a great new book called Unsaid by Neil Abramson. What a captivating story and beautifully written debut novel. It's been a favorite pick of independent booksellers and received praise from many publications and authors. All of Neil's biographical information is important when you read the book. Neil is an attorney in Manhattan who is married to a veterinarian. Not only does he own 29 animals, but he works on behalf of animals. He has served as a board member of the Animal Legal Defense Fund and was a founding member of the New York City Bar Association Committee on Legal Issues relating to Animals.


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Whether you buy or sell on eBay, sometimes you need to know your buying history. For example, you might want to look up all the items you bought in the past, to ensure that no one accessed your account. Sellers who are interested in what buyers previously bought, also have the option of viewing a person's bidding history. To find total buying history on eBay, you must check both your eBay account and Paypal account.
Log-in to your eBay account and select the Advanced Search feature from the top of the screen. A regular search lets you only look at currently listed items and completed auctions, but the Advanced Search lets you look up information relating to a buyer or seller.
Enter the user ID in the search box and select information for completed auctions. The search also lets you look at all completed auctions, including auctions the user bid on, but didn't win. Press "Enter" and you will see a separate page with the information entered.
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"Visit the "My eBay" page if you need your buying history and select the "Won" option under "Buy." Then select your information using the drop-down menu. EBay only lets you look at your bidding history from the last 60 days, but it also lets you search by the last week, current month or last month.
Check Paypal if you want information about purchases made longer than 60 days ago. Paypal keeps a permanent record of all transactions relating to your account and lets you search for a specific period of time and limit your search to only purchases made.
Select History from the Paypal menu, opt for payments sent and enter your information. Choose the dates you want, but if you want a total buying history, leave the starting date open ended. This shows you all purchases you made through eBay using Paypal and your total buying history.


text: Jewish Genealogical Society of Pittsburgh Jewish Genealogical Society of Philadelphia, (JGSP) The Rauh Jewish Archives - Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania 1212 Smallman Street Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Telephone: 412.454.6406 FAX: 412.454.6028 The Western Pennsylvania Jewish Cemetery Project is a project of the Rauh Jewish Archives. Burial Information for approximately 80 regional Jewish cemeteries has been collected. Data for many of them has been transferred to JOWBR. Data is also available by contacting Susan Melnick. SYNAGOGUES OF PENNSYLVANIA: [May 2006] Funeral Homes: [2000]


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1 skein of handspun, 100% Shetland sheep wool, and is a natural black color. It isn't solid black, but has some white in it as well. I spun this wool on my Kromski Sonata spinning wheel.
This is a 3-ply yarn, worsted weight, 157 yards (4.2 ounces).
This Shetland wool has a little "tooth" to it, and is very sturdy. This yarn would be great for a cowl, scarf, shawl, hat, mittens, or blanket. I made a large shawl out of Shetland wool, and it is so very warm and comfortable!
This is 100% Shetland, and eligible for SE2SE - please add a note for me to include your sticker if you are participating!
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If you follow along on the Braebrook Kennels Facebook Page than you probably know that Ryan recently finished her championship making her New Ch Braebrook's Revolution. She finished brilliantly by winning the breed over multiple specials and going on to a second in the working group. Ryan is sired by BISS Am Ch Gallant's First and Foremost v Ciden WAC ROM and out of our Australian import Ch Modadobe Sunset Dreaming.
Ryan is a beautifully balanced, extremely correct and very typey bitch. She is busy, quite intense and definitely needs a job to do. While I love her I do think the best thing for her would be living in a home where her intensity is put to good use. I think she would make a performance star. She is very fast and agile (agility anyone?), very focused on food and her handler (obedience?) and if she is anything like her half sister Pelly would excel in tracking or nose work as well. I am offering Ryan for sale to the right home on a co ownership where I am able to breed her. If you are interested in Ryan and would like to talk more about her you can email me at firstname.lastname@example.com
Ryan is a vWD carrier and she does carry dilution. You can view her pedigree here. It's actually a link to her brother Lennon's pedigree (who finished his championship on the same weekend she did!) but of course is the same.


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Ballroom Teacher
By Kimberly Parody
For BaltimoreStories.com
Step in carefully to one of Karen Trimble's ballroom dance classes. Trimble has a reputation of being called the "dragon lady" by some of her students, and according to student William Laboon, she is proud of it.
"I have taken several classes with others, but Karen is a little scarier," said Laboon. "She makes sure you are doing them [steps] right and makes sure you are 100 percent."
Despite her reputation, Trimble is a popular ballroom dance instructor in the Baltimore and Washington area, continuously pushing her students to improve. Having a foundation and relationship between instructors and students is important for them both to grow.
"I take great pride in my students and their ongoing successes," said Trimble. "They redefine me at every level."
Trimble has been teaching ballroom dancing for 30 years. She is now self-employed, teaching throughout the week at the Promenade Dancesport Facility, the University of Maryland College Park and the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
Trimble has taught numerous dancers, including Laboon, who has taken group and private classes with her since June of last year.
"Being a good dancer does not make you a good teacher," said Laboon. "She has an aura of confidence."
According to Laboon, Trimble will always help when you are having trouble and give individual attention, even in a group setting. He says that she always knows why you are doing something wrong, and that may be due to her experience.
"It helps to be able to talk and be comfortable with your teacher," said Laboon. "If I have a problem, I feel like I can go to her after class."
Gabriel Cabellon is a dancer in Trimble's intermediate classes and has taken lessons with Trimble for over a year. He agrees with Laboon, saying some think Trimble's teaching style is a little on the strict side, but it is not personal. That is what makes her classes so beneficial and makes her a good coach.
"With her experience, she has seen a lot of the bad and the good," said Cabellon. "Karen is very serious about her craft and wants to convey that to her students."
Trimble has worked her way up the ballroom ladder, with hard work and rewards along the way. Trimble grew up in western Pennsylvania, which, she said was an poor area with little chance of becoming a ballroom dance teacher. As an art student at Temple University, the disco and hustle era was booming.
"Everyone went disco dancing, seniors to children," said Trimble. "Nothing compares to that craze now."
Trimble says in those days, ballroom teachers were needed desperately. She had previous dance experience with ballet and modern, but not ballroom.
"I had a natural aptitude," said Trimble. "I was one of many asked to become a teacher."
From 1977 to 1983, Trimble worked at a Fred Astaire studio in Philadelphia before meeting a professional partner and moving to Maryland.
Trimble participated in many competitions, roughly eight to 10 each year, until stopping in 1996. Even with all her years of dancing, the longest she has ever kept the same dance partner is three years.
"I never had a successful professional partner," said Trimble. "They are hard to come by."
Along with partners being hard to find, Trimble says that making a good living in ballroom is also hard. She says the studio was her second home. Ballroom dancing has been her way to make a living, not to socialize.
"Ballroom is a business, it is not an allocation or a hobby," said Trimble. "As long as I live and pay bills."
According to Trimble, there are lots of perks to this business, but the glamorous profession aspect of dressing up and dancing is not all that it is cracked up to be. She says she has been in some movies and television commercials as a background dancer, but it takes a lot of hard work.
"I am still teaching and learning new things with every lesson," said Trimble. "I have not achieved my biggest accomplishment as yet."
Her drive for success is given to her students when she teaches them. She teaches beginner, intermediate and competitive dance in both American and International styles.
Cabellon hopes to compete in American style ballroom dancing some day. He says, "I would focus on having Karen teach me."
"Teachers tend to be passive in comments," Cabellon said of other instructors. "When it comes to dance, you need to know what areas to improve in."
Preparation for competitions or just to improve your own personal dancing can be a long road. It can help to have an instructor that makes you work hard and cares about her students.
According to Trimble, there is only one way to get to Carnegie Hall: "practice, practice, practice."
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Application and Admission Process
Application and Admission Requirements
In general, admission to the Sociology graduate program follows the general rules for admission to graduate study at the university. Details about the university application process and admissions requirements can be found at:
As part of the application for graduate study with us, we require undergraduate and graduate transcripts, a personal statement, official GRE general test scores, and three letters of recommendation. In addition to the materials just described, international students must submit the results of the TOEFL and TSE exams. There is a university minimum score of 600 for the TOEFL exam. All applicants must pay the application fee. The university does not waive this fee nor does the department.
Each part of the application helps the Graduate Committee choose the entering class of about 12 - 15 students. Every application is considered by the committee--there are no "minimums" that we impose in terms of scores or grades. However, admission is quite competitive. Each year we turn away at least as many qualified students as we have in the entering class because we do not have space for them.
To be considered for a graduate assistantship or fellowship, the deadline for receipt of applications is January 15. The deadline for application without funding is May 1. However, we admit very few unfunded students into the program. Notification of applicants begins in early March. We comply with the Council of Graduate Schools guideline and their April 15th response deadline.
More details on graduate studies at SUNY Albany can be found here:
FAQ about Admissions:
- What part of my application counts the most? The Graduate committee looks carefully at all the material submitted by each candidate. There is no specific "weighting" of the parts of the application, but special attention is paid to how well the student's research interests fit with those of the faculty. In addition, the committee seeks to have a broad array of interests represented in the entering cohort rather than to have all students interested in the same disciplinary sub-field.
- Are writing samples required? Yes. The writing sample should demonstrate some form of sociological analysis. Writing samples should not be papers unrelated to sociology. We use these to judge applicants' writing skills.
- Must I apply for the M.A. if I don't already have one? Are my chances of admission better if I apply for the M.A. rather than the Ph.D.? No (to both questions). We offer an M.A. degree but it is not a separate program from the Ph.D. program. We do not require that you earn an M.A. before you can obtain a Ph.D. Since applicants are often unsure of which program they should apply for or change their mind after they arrive here, we evaluate all the applications together using the same criteria. We encourage students to apply for the Ph.D. if they think there is any chance that they would like to study for that degree. When we are choosing the final members of the class, we would take the Ph.D. student over the M.A. student, all else being equal.
- What if I get a better financial offer from another university but I prefer Albany? Unfortunately, we are no longer in a position to match offers that prospective students receive from other universities.
- What if another university offers me more years of funding than Albany? University regulations limit the number of years of departmental funding that we can provide to four for students studying for the Ph.D. As a result, we cannot officially "match" offers of funding beyond four years. However, students in areas where there is a lot of research money are often employed on grants once their departmental funding runs out. Advanced students are also hired to teach undergraduate courses. Students studying for the M.A. have a maximum of two years of funding. We do not "match" offers for M.A. students.
- If I do not get funding upon admission, how likely am I to get it in my second year? Unfunded students who are part of the program are invited to apply for departmental funding each spring. They are considered along with the new applicants to the program. Often the Graduate Group prefers to use the money to recruit new students rather than fund those already here, but occasionally second year students are picked up for departmental funding. More common is the situation where the student is hired to work on a research grant. Positions on grants are very similar to departmental funding though the years of funding is at the discretion of the researcher and the length of the grant.
- Is it easier to get accepted in January? The department does not encourage students to start the program in January as the course sequences assume a September starting date. There is no pool of money for funding students beginning in January.
- Can I obtain my Ph.D. going part-time? The vast majority of graduate students in the Sociology program are full-time students and the university has a two-semester full-time residence requirement once you have accumulated 30 credits. Most courses are offered during the day and some of the required courses are only offered during the day. Students occasionally go through the program part-time but unless they are local and have flexibility in their work hours, it can be hard for them to get the courses they need.
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Consider a TeX document
circle.tex with
the following contents:
\input eval4tex % defines the \eval macro The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is \eval{
;following prints pi, because cos(pi) = -1 (display (acos -1))
}. \bye
We have chosen a plain TeX document for our example, but the same approach works for LaTeX documents too.
circle.tex first inputs the TeX macro
eval4tex.tex, which is available in the
eval4tex distribution, and which defines
a TeX macro
\eval. This
\eval macro is used in the body of
circle.tex and its argument is some Scheme code
enclosed in braces.
Now run TeX on
tex circle
circle.tex were a LaTeX file, you would use
latex circle here.) This creates an
auxiliary file called
that extracts the
\eval-embedded Scheme code from
Now evaluate the Scheme file
circle.eval4tex. For example, with
Racket, you could do
racket -f circle.eval4tex
This produces an auxiliary TeX file
containing an appropriate TeX replacement for the
\eval'd Scheme code in
circle.tex. In general,
you will get an aux TeX file
for each
\eval in
the source document, and if the source document is
circle.tex, the aux files are named
circle‑Z‑E‑n.tex, where
n = 1, 2,
Re-running TeX on
circle.tex will now insert the
aux file
circle‑Z‑E‑1.tex at the point of
\eval, so the final DVI output,
circle.dvi, looks like:
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter is 3.141592653589793.
To summarize, we did
tex circle; racket -f circle.eval4tex; tex circle
The first call to
tex wrote out an aux file; the
call to
eval4tex processed this aux file to produce
one or more other aux files; and the final call to
tex slurped these latter aux files into the
This strategy is quite common in the TeX world. The popular TeX-support programs BibTeX and MakeIndex, which generate bibliographies and indices respectively, both operate this way.
You can also run the program TeX2page [5] on
circle.tex to get an HTML
version of the document with the same content. As TeX2page is written in
Scheme, it will automatically convert the
\evals in
without requiring you to call Scheme separately.
tex2page circle
N.B. TeX documents intended to be processed by TeX2page typically load the
macro file
tex2page.tex. Please see the TeX2page documentation for
more details.