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Recipe from about.com Submitted by LEIGON2 Carbs: 6.2g | Fat: 0.1g | Fiber: 1.1g | Protein: 0.9g | Calories: 27.6
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I've been trying to eat semi vegitarian and this was just something I threw together to use up what I had in the house. Modify it to your tastes and what you have available! :) Submitted by LEIGON2 Carbs: 50.2g | Fat: 0.8g | Fiber: 7.1g | Protein: 8.4g | Calories: 231.6
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All ingredients are appx. my mom used to make this when we were kids with whatever leftovers we had on hand. it's been YEARS since I've made it so if my recipe is off.... I made this the other night and fell in love all over again. Submitted by LEIGON2 Carbs: 73.1g | Fat: 15.6g | Fiber: 30.3g | Protein: 36.2g | Calories: 548.9
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Good fiber, protein & iron content--& delicious too! Can also be made with mung beans or lentils, or a combination. Adjust spiciness to your preference. Submitted by RUTHXG Carbs: 16.9g | Fat: 3.1g | Fiber: 6.8g | Protein: 6.3g | Calories: 116.7
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Totally yum! Rich creamy lasagne with touches that are great for you, and reasonable calories, sodium, etc Carbs: 17.5g | Fat: 11.6g | Fiber: 2.7g | Protein: 13.2g | Calories: 218.9
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Submitted by UMMBNB Carbs: 13.4g | Fat: 10.8g | Fiber: 4g | Protein: 9.1g | Calories: 176
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A delicious bean dip that makes a great lunch Submitted by KRISNFAITH Carbs: 30.5g | Fat: 5.8g | Fiber: 6.7g | Protein: 10.3g | Calories: 209.3
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Zippy taste, with lower fat & sodium than regular hummus. If using canned chickpeas, remember to add in the additional sodium Submitted by KAT.COURTNEY Carbs: 9.8g | Fat: 4.2g | Fiber: 2.4g | Protein: 4.2g | Calories: 86.7


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Tiger women sit in 12th in Oklahoma tourney
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TAHLEQUAH, Okla. -- The Fort Hays State University women's golf team wrapped up its first day of tournament play Monday at the Northeastern State Golf Classic.
The FHSU women were 12th after the first round. The Tigers shot 348 as a team -- 50 strokes back of tournament leader Northeastern State.
Senior Carmen Thompson led the Tigers with a first-round score of 78, tying for 13th. Sophomore Samantha Hobson shot 81 and is tied for 33rd.
Freshman Natalie Bethel, Kaycee Beilman and Megan DeWerff shot 94, 95 and 98, respectively.The tournament concludes today.

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Between the end of July and the beginning of August this year, I traveled around Spain, from Barcelona to Gibraltar, then up to Toledo and again down to Zaragoza. With photos fresh from the lab, I'll show you the wonderful architecture of the City of The Arts and Sciences of Valencia in this article. Take a look after the jump! -
Black and White Marina Barrage
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Charming CHIJMES in Black & White
CHIJMES is a famous tourist landmark in Singapore. It used to be a Catholic convent known as the Convent of the Holy Infant Jesus (CHIJ) and the convent quarters are known as Caldwell House. Historical buildings always evoke a different feel when shot in black and white. Read on after the jump to see CHIJMES in black and white! -
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Hongdae: Center for Young Art in Seoul
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Ewha: A Great Place for Youngsters in Seoul, South Korea
The area of Ewha is well-known for being a great place to get the latest trendy fashions for the younger generation. It is located near the Ewha Womans University campus. For this trip, I brought along my Olympus XA2, which is loaded with expired DNP Centuria 200 and Eximus UWS which is then loaded with expired Fujichrome Provia 100F. -
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i am new to home gardening and i have five heirloom tomato plants growing...one is a beefsteak tomato plant that has basically taken over the garden..the others are caspian pink and two other heirloom reds(i forgot the names of them) regardless on the beefsteak and the larger of heirloom red tomatoes i have noticed over the past few weeks alot of discoloration in the leaves and some of the stems seems to be cracking...this all started after i had recaged the already humongous over growth of the beefsteak plant...all plants are producing tomatoes and some are begining to ripen...i would like to save what i can of the plant...i have pictures that i can email if they dont upload here...any help from anyone would be greatly appreciated |
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Piano Teacher at Your House
Sunnyvale, CA
I have a doctoral level education, 40 years in performance, and 30 years in teaching. I teach all ages. I travel to your home in the South Bay area. A piano in your home is a must! I offer the following:Private 1/2 hr., 45 min, or 1hr. piano lessons in your home.My background in music includes the following:1992-1994 - Doctoral Work in Piano Performance at University of Oklahoma1993 - The Bordeaux Scholarship: Channing Classics, Edmond, Oklahoma1992 - Master of Music in Piano Performance, Texas A & M University1990 - Bachelor of Music in Piano Performance, Texas A & M University1990 - Elected member of Alpha Chi Honor Society1990 - Deans List, College of Arts and Sciences, Texas A & M1989 President's Scholars1988 - Winner, the University Orchestra Competition, Texas A & M1977 - $12,000 four-year scholarship the Eastman School of MusicFirst Place winner in the San Bernadino Symphony Orchestra CompetitionFirst Place winner in the Brentwood Symphony CompetitionFirst Place winner in the International Recording Competition sponsored by the National Guild of Piano TeachersI also compose and record my own piano compositions (view my website betsygrantmusic.com) and enjoy helping students who like to experiment with composition. Testimonials:"Betsy has turned two very different young kids into great piano enthusiasts and budding musicians! We tried a couple of other teachers before her, and really appreciate Betsy's experience, style and approach. She is flexible and fun, as well as a pro, and figures out how to engage at an individual level." - Gretchen"Betsy has been teaching our two girls for over 5 years now. We couldn't be happier! She really understands each child and what works for them as individuals. She allows them to aim for their potential with encouragement and enthusiasm. Betsy knows how to get the most of her students without the hardcore pressure some teachers are known to exhibit. She is so pleasant to be around and my girls really enjoy their time learning! She is extremely qualified and we consider ourselves lucky to have her! " - Karen"We have had Ms. Grant for a few years now. We are extremely happy with her. She is very methodical in her teaching.She encourages her students in a positive way to practice.Help them with reading ,writing & listening to music. she really enhances students efforts who like to create their own pieces. Overall excellent." - KrithikaType Betsy Grant in your search engine to find me.
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Marjorie H. Kelly has been a long time supporter and dear friend to Edison State College. It all began in 1997 when the Foundation received a random phone call to asking her to meet Mrs. Kelly at a watch repair shop in downtown Fort Myers. Marjorie introduced herself and said she wanted to help support education in the community she loved so much and presented a check for $25,000.
Marj Kelly lived a very quiet life in Clewiston, Florida. Born in Concord, Georgia on September 17, 1908, she completed her schooling and moved to West Palm Beach, Florida, where she met her future husband, E.E. (Pop) Kelly. She and Pop lived in Clewiston where they owned the Clewiston Motor Company, now Kelly Tractor Company.
After Pop passed away in 1956, the Kelly family established the Kelly Foundation to provide scholarships for undergraduate students in Southwest Florida and to provide grant money for other charitable organizations. She was a member of the Clewiston Garden Club, the B.P.W. and a member of the First Baptist Church. In 2000, Marj was the recipient of the "Women of Accomplishment" award at Palm Beach Community College.
Marjorie Kelly passed away in March of 2007 leaving more that $400,000 to Edison College for scholarship assistance. "Marjorie supported her causes without any expectations of receiving anything in return. She was as elegant and gracious as they come. She simply wanted to support the community that meant so much to her", said Tracey Galloway, District Director of the Edison State College Foundation. Edison College is truly blessed to be the benefactor of the Mrs. Kelly's philanthropy.


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This Bust is Made of Bronze and Pure Evil
Is there a bust more badass than this? The original Darth Vader looks like he's part Predator:
The 8-inch, 10 lb. bronze bust is made by Gentle Giant Studios to commemorate the original version of the Sith for all seasons, as drawn by Star Wars concept artist Ralph McQuarrie. He looks even more ominous here:
It's limited to only 100 pieces, so if you want one, use Force Break Bank and grab one at the Star Wars Shop for $1,500 (USD).
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Six Best Practices for Complex Collaborations
The Nimble Collaboration: Fine-Tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success
Six Best Practices
1. Enlist a highly visible spokesperson
2. Modify partner agencies' mission statements
3. Eliminate meeting overlap
4. Retreat and reflect
5. Conduct mutual evaluations
6. Use a community-driven process to distribute funds
Epilogue: Unusual Practices for Unusual Results
From Vince Hyman, former Publishing Director, Fieldstone Alliance:
SOME OF THE MOST interesting forms of collaboration are those that set out to resolve complex social issues such as teen pregnancy, long-term economic problems, or homelessness.
Typically, such problems require a large number of partners. They also require a long time frame, because the ultimate goal is often to change deeply ingrained norms. Some of these collaborations may even anticipate several generations of work before true change is made.
Back when I wrote and edited materials on chemical abuse prevention—before collaboration had evolved into the powerful tool it is today—we referred to some of these approaches as "multiple impact strategies." It was the same idea: many different parts of a system have to be altered to get the comprehensive change sought.
Karen Ray, co-author of the Collaboration Handbook documents such collaborations in chapter five of her own work, The Nimble Collaboration: Fine-Tuning Your Collaboration for Lasting Success. Karen consults with collaboratives across the country, and has developed a specialty in these larger collaboratives. They are often regional efforts, involving unusual alliances, since deep social problems invariably cross disciplines. Karen has documented six practices that help such collaborations succeed. Note: These practices assume the collaboration has already put in place the basic twenty factors collaborations need to succeed. For a list of those factors, click here.
Six Best Practices
Karen notes that many comprehensive collaboratives are relatively new, having emerged in the past decade. In her work with them, she has observed the following practices that seem to improve success.
1. Enlist a highly visible spokesperson
When seeking to change the culture of a community, influential leaders are a must. A well-known champion—whether a celebrity, a political leader, a beloved congregational or business leader—willing to put a public face (as well as his or her own reputation) on an issue can help turn the vast undecided middle.
2. Modify partner agencies' mission statements
When collaborative partners have a good history and are deeply committed to the long-term goals of the collaborative, partners are actually modifying their organizations' missions to align with the goals of the collaboration. This may seem a radical move, but it has several impacts. First, it shows the depth of the partner agencies' commitment. Second, it ensures that the work of the collaboration continues beyond the tenure of the individual agency representatives. In one county-wide collaboration seeking to end violence, domestic abuse shelters, teen clubs, and law enforcement agencies all agreed to add a phrase to their mission or philosophy statements that emphasizes the commitment to reducing violence.
3. Eliminate meeting overlap
One of the issues complex collaboratives face is brought about through their own evolution. Often the collaboration starts small, working on a single issue, and over time partners start to recognize that they are all participating in a range of collaborations that attract the same organizations. They are encountering the complexity of social problems from the bottom up, and as they work toward more global causes, they begin to run into each other in collaborations that once seemed unrelated. As this recognition dawns, they can take the simple first step of trying to reduce the overlapping meetings. As they do so, the more complex collaboration emerges organically.
4. Retreat and reflect
The practice of stopping the collaboration from doing and shifting it to reflection is especially important in large collaborations. Further, the whole body needs to assemble, so that participants can view the complexity writ large. During retreat and reflection, direct service staff (who may see only a fraction of the elephant) can hear from leaders about the status of the entire beast. The sheer numbers of people who show up to such retreats can provide an enormous emotional boost to direct service staff and to collaborative representatives, who are most likely to experience burnout and exhaustion.
5. Conduct mutual evaluations
This practice may sound scary, but when the organizations involved in a collaboration step back and ask of each other "How is each agency changing internally to help the whole system improve" they free themselves to get both the good and bad out on the table. They help each other become more accountable to solving the problem the collaboration convened to address.
6. Use a community-driven process to distribute funds
As large collaboratives gain success in impacting complex social issues, they often attract new funds and other community resources. The challenge is that the partners must then figure out how to distribute funds fairly. To be blunt, they've got to avoid the mad dash to the feeding trough. One of the best ways to circumvent the problem is a four-step process.
Four steps to distributing funds fairly
In step 1, the community sets priorities. At least one communitywide meeting should be held, hosted by a recognized leader, to get input for the tangible results the collaboration should accomplish. This can eventually become a menu of needs that the community can help prioritize.In step 2, the collaboration partners create a budget, predicting the costs associated with each of the community-driven priorities.
In step 3, the individual agencies actually make bids. They first show the work they are already doing to address the prioritized problems, along with the associated costs. This helps build trust among the agencies as they show just how much resources they are already investing.
Then, the agencies make bids against the new funds that are available. The bid shows which results the agency will achieve, the work it will do to get those results, and the costs of the work.
When bids overlap, the agencies that overlap handle the situation—not some outside group that "awards" funds. This causes the agencies that would normally be in competition to develop complementary bids that eliminate duplication—and they resubmit their bids as dovetailed applications, or one agency submits a bid with an agreement to subcontract with the other.
The result of this process is that funding applications are complete, are sensible, avoid duplications, respond to expressed community needs, and are perceived as fair.
In step 4, the organizations that do the work allocate the funds. The bidding process is open, avoiding secretive proposals, and every member agency reads all the bids. Each knows what the others are expected to do, for what amount of money. If the funding is coming from elected officials or a foundation, the agents in charge sign off on the entire package. Resources, whether cash or in-kind, are expected of every partner and are distributed to the partners who do the work.
Epilogue: Unusual Practices for Unusual Results
Deeply embedded problems affect almost everyone in some way: they hurt local economies, waste resources, make vulnerable groups pawns in political in-fights, damage social networks, and on and on across all neighborhoods and social strata.
For our most complex social challenges, collaboration is probably the very best tool we have—and a great gift from the nonprofit sector to the rest of society.
Complex collaborations, by their very nature, bring together the unusual suspects. It is no wonder, then, that some of the practices that emerge from them are a bit unusual.
Vince Hyman
Publishing Director
Fieldstone Alliance
September 12, 2006
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How To Art Journal
How To Art Journal–Art Journaling is one of my favorite ways to relax, express my thoughts and find inspiration.
I am definitely not an artist, but I enjoy combining words, photos and various art media to express my thoughts and feelings. I have found that art journaling on a regular basis not only de-stresses me, it also increases my creativity and my productivity.
You can watch my How To Do Art Journaling video here to see the materials I use, as well as a few pages from my journal.
A recent entry encouraging me to embrace the unexpected and live a little.
These pages were completed at a time when I was trying to discover my passion in life.
A few thoughts on true beauty.
On this day I focused on ways to take care of myself so that I can take better care of my family.
This entry is made up of encouraging words and phrases when I was going through a difficult time.
It doesn't matter what your journal looks like–just enjoy the process. You may be surprised at what you discover!
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Tart, fragrant gooseberries come in red, green, or Cape varieties (a gold berry in a papery husk). Red and green are most common–look for them at farmers' markets. If you can't find them, use raspberries instead.
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1. Place 1 1/2 cups gooseberries in a mortar or other small bowl; gently crush with a pestle or fork.
2. Combine crushed gooseberries, granulated sugar, and 1/4 cup water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Cook until sugar dissolves, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; cool completely. Strain through a sieve over a bowl; discard solids. Stir in lime juice; chill.
3. Combine gooseberry mixture, tequila, soda, and Grand Marnier in a large pitcher; stir gently.
4. Combine sparkling sugar, salt, and red pepper in a saucer. Rub the rims of 8 glasses with 1 lime wedge; spin rim of each glass in salt mixture to coat. Fill each prepared glass with ice. Divide margarita mixture evenly among glasses. Garnish with remaining gooseberries and lime wedges.
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Have you ever wondered about what exactly it means to "have your cake and eat it too?" Without giving it much thought, I always thought it had something to do with Marie Antoinette, to whom another well-known cake related saying is (incorrectly) attributed.
I was way wrong, of course. The first known instance of the phrase in print dates back to 1546, when a delightfully old-timey version appeared in the Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs. A more recognizable version popped up in 1611: "A man cannot eat his cake and haue it stil."
So the phrase, it turns out, isn't "have your cake and eat it too" but rather, "eat your cake and have it too." This makes sense, because while you can eat a cake that you have, you can't have a cake that you've eaten.
What does this have to do with crime, you ask? Well, one person that does know the correct way to say this proverb is Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, who mailed out a series of homemade bombs that killed three and injured 23 others. In section 185 of his dense and lengthy manifesto, Kaczynski wrote: "As for the negative consequences of eliminating industrial society — well, you can't eat your cake and have it too. To gain one thing you have to sacrifice another." A letter written by Kaczynski was found in the home of his mother, who taught Ted and his brother David the correct form of the proverb. That letter, too, used to correct eat/have order. Poring over the manifesto and Kaczynski's writings with David's help, FBI agents helped identify the Unabomber based on this and other unusual turns of phrase.


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Opening a shooting range isn't as easy as setting up a few targets and letting the bullets fly. For one thing, ranges take up a lot of space. Larry Kramer, director of field operations for Colorado State Parks, says the state is looking for sites with a minimum of 1,000 acres -- and those locations aren't easy to come by. And second, shooting ranges are noisy, unwelcome neighbors. While state law grants them the aforementioned special noise-related exemptions -- meaning, for example, that a homeowner who knowingly moves next door to an existing range can't sue for noise violations -- the law does not protect new ranges that move into developed areas. "If you come to the nuisance, it's not a nuisance," Fabian explains.
"Certainly, the key is being sensitive to location, location, location," Laverty adds. "You want to do your siting in a location that is safe and that minimizes impacts on surrounding uses. You don't want someone having to camp next to one of these ranges. They don't want to hear the pop, pop, pop all day long."
In January, the Larimer County Board of Commissioners abandoned a plan to build a public range in the Cherokee State Wildlife Area after residents of nearby Livermore rallied against it. The Friends of Cherokee Park had argued the range would lower property values, disrupt wildlife and increase traffic.
"We know that shooting ranges are valid and necessary," says Marilee Louis Posavec, a leader of the Million Mom March's Littleton chapter. "But it just seems like there are a lot of questions that need to be answered for the public before they start showing up on more public lands and in parks. Who's going to profit from them? How secure will they be? Gun ranges have a problem with lead. What's the environmental impact going to be? Who's going to be liable in the event of an accident?
"It's kind of like a really quick promise, like a campaign promise, without any deep thought given to it," she adds. "With everything going on in the state right now, with our schools and our economy and everything else, I think we need to ask ourselves, ŒIs this a priority?'"
There are very few restrictions on who can shoot what at shooting ranges -- and practically none at all at the Cherry Creek Shooting Center. An adult 21 or over who appears lucid and is capable of filling out a short registration form may bring his own firearm or rent one on site: The rate is $11 a day to rent a gun ($10 if you pay cash) and $10 to shoot it. One-on-one instruction ranges from $50 to $75 an hour; Cherry Creek shooters can get certified by the NRA or earn the credential required to apply for a concealed-weapon permit. Children may shoot if supervised by a parent or guardian.
Over the past decade, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson recalls just one incident at the shooting range -- and the culprit in that case was lightning, which struck a man in the parking lot on his way to his car.
That spotless record got a big blot last month, however. On Tuesday, September 23, a 25-year-old woman rented a .22-caliber handgun, bought two boxes of ammo from Peggy Duckworth, and went through a routine safety check with a range officer. The woman spent about an hour firing rounds into paper targets, then went for two more boxes of bullets. When she returned to her spot on the firing line, she turned the .22 on herself.
"There was absolutely nothing to indicate what this woman had on her mind," says Peggy Duckworth. "She was friendly and fairly talkative, and she had a Frequent Shooter Card," a punch card given to repeat customers by the Cherry Creek Shooting Center. "We had three rangers working on a Tuesday; it wasn't busy. One range officer wasn't twenty feet away from her. He'd been talking to her before she did it. There was nothing that we could have done differently to stop her."
"I think one of the reasons that we've seen so few incidents like this out there is that the place is very well managed," Sheriff Robinson says. "Sometimes you get a person who has made up their mind that they're going to do something like this, and there's very little that can be done to prevent it. You just have to look at it as an isolated incident."
The Cherry Creek suicide was not the first such incident on a Colorado firing range. In 1998, the owner of the Firing Line, an indoor pistol range in Aurora, stopped renting guns after a 28-year-old man shot himself in the head with a rented gun. It was the third such occurrence at that range in two years. Nationally, recent suicides at shooting ranges in Seattle, Los Angeles and Delray Beach, Florida, have prompted debates over implementing mandatory waiting periods or background checks for gun rentals.
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Sep 25th 2009 7:24PM Ok, really don't mind reading these Posts. I really don't. But I feel like you trivialize things when you talk about the fact that you are "mommas" ALL THE TIME! I get it, you think it is witty and cute, but to be honest, we get it, you two are parents who like to play WoW. But that doesn't mean you know the answer to guild drama questions!
I am not saying the advice is bad, actually I happen to think it is usually great advice. But instead of calling yourself"Drama Mamma Lisa" Just say Lisa! It would make the whole column seem a lot more proffesional.
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ORLANDO -- At the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, Tiger Woods began working with Sean Foley, a then 35-year-old Toronto native with the mind of a physicist. Tiger had been without a swing instructor since that May when Hank Haney resigned after six years from the most visible job in golf instruction. Since coming back at the 2010 Masters after a five-month hiatus from the game related to his extramarital affairs, the 14-time major winner had yearned for a new golf swing. So much had changed in Woods' life and the most fundamental thing to his identity was his golf swing, which would have to change, too. That was about the only thing that he could change.
Woods is a perfectionist. Shortly after winning the 1997 Masters by 12 shots, Butch Harmon helped him build a new swing that would yield one of the greatest stretches of golf in history. But through those stellar years, he battled knee problems. Haney's one-plane golf swing would help take some of the pressure off that left knee.
By 2009, after Tiger had reconstructive knee surgery following his miraculous win at the '08 U.S. Open with a torn ACL and multiple stress fractures, he said his knee was pain-free for the first time in 10 years and that he could hit shots without making compensations in his swing. That year with Haney as his instructor, Tiger would have seven worldwide wins.
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But then Tiger's personal life unraveled on that fateful 2009 Thanksgiving night outside his home in Windermere, Fla. When he returned to golf, there was pressure to win and much of the blame for his inability to close out tournaments fell on Haney, who no longer could communicate with his once-prized pupil.
Now Foley was the guy charged with resurrecting Tiger's swing.
"Sometimes, if you look at my career, I've definitely taken pretty major steps backward in order to go forward," Tiger said at Whistling Straits. "When I worked with Butch when we tore down the swing in '97, I won one tournament in two years before I came right, but then I had a nice little run after that.
"So it's a matter of believing in what I'm doing is right and then honing it."
His 20 months with Foley speak to these comments that he made almost two years ago at the PGA. The Bay Hill win was their first official title together.
"This is our progression; we are heading in the same direction," Tiger said on Sunday afternoon of his relationship with Foley.
Yet Foley is Tiger's third teacher in his 16 years as a pro. The 72-time PGA Tour winner is now on his third caddie. Those numbers might not sound alarming for a sport in which players routinely dispense with the trainers, swing instructors and mental coaches as soon as they start missing cuts, but so far, most of Tiger's relationships with his teacher's and caddies haven't ended well.
This week, Rick Smith made a point of telling me that despite Phil Mickelson firing him as his coach at '06 U.S. Open at Winged Foot, they are still the closest of friends. Tiger has had very public spats with former caddie Steve Williams and Haney, whose tell-all book about their relationship comes out Tuesday.
My hope is that Tiger and Foley can have a long and fruitful relationship, because Tiger's history has shown that for good or bad, his fortunes change with his swing instructor. How long will he stay committed to Foley's approach? It's hard to say at this point. Early on when Foley took the job, I asked him if he could he work for Tiger if he didn't like him. He reaffirmed his fondness for his boss on Saturday. "He's a really good guy," he told me.
Foley and Tiger haven't been through a truly difficult patch that could test their working relationship. But from what I can tell, they are bonded by their shared love of the golf swing. They also are very close in age Tiger is 36, Foley is 38 -- which gives them a natural familiarity with each other.
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Yet you know you're living in the age of self-help books and gurus of every kind when a swing instructor can become as nearly famous as his student. On Saturday, I walked a part of the front nine at Bay Hill with Foley. On one hole, a dozen fans must have stopped him to ask for photographs.
Even the most diehard golf fan probably couldn't tell you who taught Jack Nicklaus, the man that Tiger chases for the career major wins record.
In the end, Tiger likes where Foley is taking his game. Sure, he'll win with any teacher who is committed to his all-business attitude and wonkiness. On Sunday night, Tiger continued to discuss his delight at being able to again hit the ball as far as the longest hitters on tour. He loves his traj -- his shorthand for trajectory -- on his irons. He's healthy enough to practice and he has all the shots. Still, he struggled during the week in spots with his distance control and ability to hit fades into right pins.
But as Tiger warns, he's a work in progress: a mantra that he will probably always hold as long as he plays pro golf. Yet Haney and Williams, most notably, have been casualties of that tireless mindset for perfection and personal changes in his life. But Tiger was very successful with them, and he'll be great with Foley and Joe LaCava as his caddie. With Augusta on his mind, Tiger has as good a team as he's ever had.
Change is good. But for now Tiger should find a way to comb his restlessness about perfection and enjoy this growth with this new teacher, who might not ever take him to some of his past glories, but he could give him the assurance in his game to conquer whatever lies ahead.
Farrell Evans covers golf for ESPN and can be contacted at email@example.com.
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I have a new Goodman GMVM96 heater installed using my original thermostat. I am interested in adding a communicating thermostat in make use of the modulating gas valve and humidity control. This is my dealers first 96% installation, has it working fine, and feels that it is a waste of money.
The White Rogers web site says that they supply this equipment to Goodman (and Rheem). There is a WR retro kit, # 1F98EZ-1421 available for $220 that includes both the wall unit and a board to be installed in the heater. The WR pictures and specs look identical to the Goodman components. Is my logic correct ?? Thank you. |
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The new WR thermostat should communicate with the excising board in the heater and I would just keep the 2nd heater board as a spare.... |
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DEATH VALLEY, Calif. -- In the middle of this vast desert is a castle built on a foundation of lies. Scotty's Castle is proof that dishonesty can pay.
Perhaps no place in America is as infamous as Death Valley. Since its discovery by western settlers, it's been typecast as a scorched, rattlesnake-infested expanse of worthless desert. Truth being, it's not such a bad place -- especially if you've got a nice castle over your head.
Walter "Scotty" Scott was a good-natured character who specialized in white lies and good times. With a line of bull that would land most folks in jail, Scotty talked his way into a $1.5 million mansion in the center of a parched patch of American neverneverland. Author Hank Johnson, in his book "Death Valley Scotty," called him "the fastest con in the West."
Scotty left his home in Kentucky in 1883 at age 11 to work as a cowboy. He worked many jobs, including one in Death Valley. In 1890 he joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, staying 12 years.
After that, he started bragging of a rich gold mine he supposedly owned in Death Valley. He asked one wealthy man after another to invest, promising he'd split the rewards.
Albert Mussey Johnson, a strait-laced millionaire insurance man in Chicago, bought into Scotty's promise and poured in money. Scotty used it to live the good life.
In 1904, Johnson came West for the first time. Scotty showed his backer all around Death Valley, but never a gold mine. Johnson figured out Scotty's scheme, but he was having such a good time and felt so good from the exercise, clean air, and from laughing at Scotty's jokes that he went home happy. He kept sending money.
Eleven years later, Johnson began acquiring 1,200 spring-fed acres of property in Grapevine Canyon. In 1922 he started construction of Death Valley Ranch (now called Scotty's Castle) so he could move to the desert for good. Construction continued until shortly after the stock market crash of 1929, when Johnson's disposable income nose-dived.
Although Scotty didn't build the castle, finance it, or even live in it except as a guest, it eventually became known as Scotty's Castle, probably because Scotty kept bragging it was his -- built from profits from his "hidden mine." Johnson didn't seem to care. "He repays me in laughs," Johnson once said about Scotty.
Johnson died in 1948 and Scotty in 1954. The castle remains preserved in Death Valley National Monument. About 100,000 people tour it each year.
On the 40-minute guided tour, rangers explain how the castle was built (material was hauled from the railroad 20 miles away), how electricity was generated (by a Pelton Wheel, which is still used today), and famous people who visited the castle (Will Rogers, Betty Grable and Norman Rockwell).
But the most interesting story is of Scotty and his relationship with Johnson and his wife Bessie. The men's friendship is documented throughout the house. While there are no pictures of Johnson and Bessie together, there are plenty of Johnson and Scotty. The dinnerware is even embossed with the letters J and S -- Johnson and Scott. Although Scotty lived in a cabin a few miles away, there was a guest room for him in the castle.
Death Valley Scotty is buried on the hill overlooking the castle. These words are on his grave marker: "I got few things to live by: Don't say nothing that will hurt anybody. Don't give advice -- nobody will take it anyway. Don't complain. Don't explain."
Scotty's Castle is open year round. There's also a gift shop, gas station and snack bar. A National Park campground is a few miles away. Non campers can hole up in motel rooms at the Death Valley oasises of Furnace Creek or Stovepipe Wells.
(Chuck Woodbury is the editor and publisher of Out West, "America's on-the-road" newspaper. Woodbury travels the West by motorhome writing about the people and places he encounters along the way. A one-year subscription to the quarterly newspaper is $12.95 from 9792 Edmonds Way, #265-A, Edmonds, WA 98020 or by calling 800-274-9378. An abbreviated version is on the World Wide Web at http://www.outwestnewspaper.com).
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This gigantic LEGO BlackBerry was created by LEGO sculptor Nathan Sawaya for the BlackBerry Developer Conference. The five-foot tall smartphone is based on the BlackBerry Tour 9360, and not only incorporates thousands of LEGO blocks, but also has a flat-screen LCD television built into the middle of it.
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Obama Not the Most Polarizing
Posted by: Walt Cummins
A month or so ago, Edward Morrisey, writing in The Week, not generally recognized for journalistic excellence, but great for guys like me with ADHD, denies The Washington Post's claim that Barak Obama is the nation's most divisive ever, a claim which he terms, "rather preposterous" and "not even close" to being accurate, but "certainly provocative".
Like Morrisey perhaps, I get really peeved when people make broad based, generic statements of "truth" without the slightest fragment of empirical evidence to back up their claims. "This nation has never been so divided!" Damn, if you were awake during the 1960s, you know for sure that's not true.
No one remembers Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army? Either read some history or get out from under your rock. William Sloan Coffin? Draft card burning? The SDS. Robert McNamara. Eugene McCarthy. Bombing Cambodia. Kent State. My Lai? Tet offensive. Ramsey Clark, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez.
1971 Poll: "Do you think America made a mistake in engaging in war in Vietnam?" Seventy-nine percent (79%!) agreed with that statement.
Anyone recall Nixon, Haldeman, Erlichman, John Mitchell, E. Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy, Ron Ziegler, Judge Sirica, the Watergate hearings, Senator Sam Ervin, Eliot Richardson, Archibald Cox, 18 ½ minutes of missing tape, Nixon resignation and Ford's pardon. November 17, 1973, Nixon: "I'm not a crook."
Race riots? How 'bout Harlem, Watts, Hough. Newark, Camden, Detroit?
Remember Schwerner, Chaney and Goodman. (Dam shame, as they said in Mississippi.) SNCC, CORE, SCLC? Selma.
The Edmund Pettis Bridge
The problem with debating polarization is not so much myopia as it is a touch of amnesia cum Alzheimer's, actually probably a chemical phenomenon in the brain. The images and arguments that are the most recent are the most powerful. This phenomenon is called "adaptive memory" and behavioral psychologists and anthropologists describe it as a feature of memory that allows us to focus on the most recent events . . . sometimes overly focus.
Selective memory and the relative importance of recent events is a is a survival technique, that is "Darwinian". The most recent memories are those that are the most important to the survival decisions we have to make today. Theoretically, there is not enough memory space - or vivid memory space anyway - so that the mind is forced to – or opts to - to organize, retrieve and prioritize what we have learned and what we know in a somewhat chronological fashion. To accomplish that task, old stuff fades and new stuff is bright, present and important. Memory mechanisms are designed to help us prosper and survive and one way they do this is to accentuate the nearer term images and de-accentuate the past. Near term learnings are consider – by the brain anyway – as the most important to lasting as an individual and as a species.
The Democratic National Convention Chicago, 1968
Apparently, Barack Obama does have the dubious honor of having the highest differential between the approval ratings of his own party and those of the opposition party . . . for a third year in a row. If that is your definition of "the society has never been so polarized", then so be it. But surely, it leaves a lot of room for argument. And Morrisey points out that the Post's claim of "most polarizing" fails to match other data from the Post itself. There is a strong case to be made for the prior administration, that of George W. Bush, as the "most polarizing" based on approval / disapproval poll spreads.
Morrisey refers to the "most polarizing" moniker being laid on Obama as downright "silly", and says that "any such claim is rubbish on its face." He goes on the cite the most obvious example: The American Civil War or War of War of Northern Aggression, if you prefer, (though we have noted before that Gettysburg is in Pennsylvania, north of the Mason-Dixon line). Morrisey also refers to the impeachment of Bill Clinton as an event that would hardly be considered uniting.
"In August of 1955, a 14-year-old Chicago youth was lynched while vacationing in Mississippi--just one of more than 3,000 free blacks killed by a mob since the abolition of slavery. But unlike the great majority of these victims, Emmett Till did not die in obscurity. Less than a year and a half after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation in public schools and threatened the rigid Southern color line, his death underscored for many the ruthless extremes to which some whites would go to preserve segregation. Till's lynching therefore spurred efforts to promote civil rights for people of color throughout the United States."
- "Who Was Emmett Till? Answers.com
If you want to learn about polarization, take a few minutes to read about the Draft Riots of 1863 in New York City. Those who could afford to hire a substitute or pay the government three hundred dollars could avoid service in the Yankee army. The logical conclusion among lower class whites, particularly the Irish, was that the federal government had entered into a "nigger war", as they called it, and they compared their worth of $300 (the price to gain exemption from the military) to that going price for a Negro slave of $1,000. (It's got to be tough for anyone when one puts a literal price on your existence, but if you get such, you probably want a high number just for self-esteem.)
In 1863, white rioters attacked the occupants and managers of the Colored Orphan Asylum at Fifty Avenue and Forty Third, with clubs and bricks, bricks and burned it to the ground. Through a week of riots, white harassed, attacked and killed black people and white "amalgamationists"" and "abolitionists", as well as Negro porters, laborers, cartmen and dockworkers, wherever they could find them.
The mobs went on to beat, burn, stone and lynch blacks, and mutilate their genitals, dumping some bodies into the East River. As blacks gained - albeit only slightly - socially and economically in the north, one writer says, "Unemployed and poor white workers sought to remedy their upside-down world through mob violence." After the New York race riots, the black population of New York City plummeted to its lowest since 1820. This was not only a polarized city and state, it was a polarized nation, more than any ever before or since. And Lincoln was inarguably the most polarizing figure – President – of any time.
I don't remember the polarization of America during the Depression or the great debates about whether to enter World War I. Yeah, I remember a bit of Goldwater's ignominious defeat by Lyndon Johnson, a pretty polarized time. And I remember almost nothing of the American Revolution, but from what I read, it was likely to have been a lot more polarized time than today. A shooting war against one's fellow countryman ought to be considered polarizing. After all, an entire government was overthrown by a bunch of rabble rousers.
Who knows? Maybe that'll happen again.
Thomas Paine had a few ideas, some of which I will share with you here:
THESE are the times that try men's souls. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as FREEDOM should not be highly
'Tis surprising to see how rapidly a panic will sometimes run through a country. All nations and ages have been subject to them. Britain has trembled like an ague at the report of a French fleet of flat-bottomed boats; and in the fifteenth century the whole English army, after ravaging the kingdom of France, was driven back like men petrified with fear; and this brave exploit was performed by a few broken forces collected and headed by a woman, Joan of Arc. Would that heaven might inspire some Jersey maid to spirit up her countrymen, and save her fair fellow sufferers from ravage and ravishment! Yet panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them, and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is that they are the touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might otherwise have lain forever undiscovered. In fact, they have the same effect on secret traitors, which an imaginary apparition would have upon a private murderer. They sift out the hidden thoughts of man, and hold them up in public to the world. Many a disguised Tory has lately shown his head, that shall penitentially solemnize with curses the day on which Howe arrived upon the Delaware.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Not all the treasures of the world, so far as I believe, could have induced me to support an offensive war, for I think it murder; but if a thief breaks into my house, burns and destroys my property, and kills or threatens to kill me, or those that are in it, and to "bind me in all cases whatsoever" to his absolute will, am I to suffer it? What signifies it to me, whether he who does it is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman; whether it be done by an individual villain, or an army of them?
Let them call me rebel and welcome, I feel no concern from it; but I should suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul by swearing allegiance to one whose character is that of a sottish, stupid, stubborn, worthless, brutish man.
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A gerontologist by training, Adams made her reputation among Grateful Dead fanciers when she assigned students to go on tour with the Dead for three weeks in order to gather information for papers on Deadhead subculture. "That got a lot of publicity," Adams recalls. "Jerry offered to read the papers after the class, and he met with me right after the class was over. That kind of made me famous."
At present, Adams, who's not Jewish, is involved in researching a book tentatively called Deadheads: Community, Spirituality and Friendship. She's corresponded with Gertner about his ideas and sees both virtues and weaknesses in them.
"I've explained the predominance of Jews among Deadheads in terms of cultural compatibility rather than rebellion against Jewish culture, which is part of Doug's theoretical explanation," she says. "I see the Deadhead culture as a comfortable place for Jewish people to be. The commonalities are that they are both ritualistic, they're both spiritual and they're both very analytical and intellectual--and that's an area where other religions don't necessarily have the same commonality. Deadheads tried to analyze the structure of the shows so they could predict what would happen next. And they've been so supportive of my research. It's like I've got a thousand research assistants, because Deadheads are very analytical about their own lives. And that's a characteristic of Judaism--to study itself."
Leora Lawton is certainly an example of this characteristic. A New Jersey-based sociologist and demographer who describes herself as "an Orthodox Jewish Deadhead," she at one time proposed a full-blown study of the Deadhead universe but couldn't secure funding to complete it. Lawton, who's also been in contact with Gertner, is more critical of his views than Adams is.
"I told him that I don't agree with his assimilation hypothesis," Lawton says. "There may be something about the Dead that attracts Jews, but he never presented much evidence to me. Are Jews more proportionally attracted to the Dead than non-Jews? I don't know." In her opinion, Gertner's notions "sounded more like interesting journalism to me, which is fine. In terms of it being scientific, I just haven't seen the data. But I think Deadheads definitely represent a subculture that may be generalizable to other subcultures in terms of understanding their attractions."
The Gertner talk has proved attractive as well; representatives at the Jewish Community Center are surprised at the interest it's generated thus far. Gertner, meanwhile, plans to give those who wish to listen extra value for their time: Hal Aqua, a friend of Gertner's, is scheduled to sing "Ripple," a track from the Dead album American Beauty.
"There's an old type of Jewish music called a niggun," Gertner remarks. "It's a wordless melody that's used to invoke emotion and calls us to God's presence. And 'Ripple' ends with a 'la-dee-dee-dee-die' section that we're really going to draw out in order to emphasize that that song could be considered a niggun. Also, we may have a drum circle. It'll be a little Jewish Deadhead hootenanny.
"I don't want anyone to think that I'm deadly serious about this. I just want to say to people, 'What do you think of this?'" But, he adds, "I am consulting my rabbi.


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