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PROVIDENCE — Don't tell Steven Morris' niece, but her macaroni and cheese had some serious competition at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Saturday.
Morris brought her four kids, Jamiel, 12; Jaylon, 11; Jamiere, 10; and Briston, 8, along with his grandson, London, 5, to the Feed 1000 Christmas party for Rhode Islanders in need.
While the event included a coat giveaway, free flu shots, pictures with Santa and toys for the kids, the centerpiece of the day was the food. Partygoers feasted on Chicken Supreme, ham, macaroni and cheese, roasted potatoes and potato tots, veggies, salad, bread and a selection of desserts.
The five boys with Morris agreed on the best dish of the day: the macaroni and cheese.
How did it compare with their mother's?
"Better!" they shouted as one.
Morris has been out on disability as a restaurant cook, but said he expects to go back part-time soon. The party helped close the financial gap during a tight holiday season.
"Prices are high all around. Times are, yeah, they're tough, but we're making it," he said. "We're very appreciative for the generosity and caring that they give."
This is the second time they attended the Feed 1000 party. "We came last year, and we had a really great time."
Morris gave his thumbs up for the food. "Delicious. Very good. That is my professional opinion, especially the chicken, in the Supreme Sauce."
More than 2,200 people jammed what could very well be the largest Christmas party in Rhode Island. The line to get into the main exhibition hall at the convention center snaked through an upper-floor lobby, down a two-story escalator and through the ground-floor lobby.
"We were overwhelmed with the number of people, and my volunteers just stepped up," said Richard Santilli, one of three partners at Priority Management Group, a medical-billing company in Pawtucket, who founded Feed 1000 two years ago.
"We did it on a whim," Santilli said. One October day, he wandered into the office of one of his partners, Robert Skeffington, and said, "For Christmastime, I wish we could do something big."
Santilli, Skeffington and Raymond Jorgensen started off "big" small, serving about 1,000 people that first year. It has grown every year since.
"I don't know if the word's getting out better or there's just more people in need," Santilli said. "Unfortunately, this event was wildly successful," adding he wished that no one needed to show up.
Santilli was already looking forward to 2014. "When you see the need for it, I don't know how we couldn't do it next year," he said. "It's very rewarding. The more you give, the more you get back."
Julia Delgado might disagree with that. She was easily the happiest person in the convention center on Saturday. Make that giddiest. No, ecstatic. Maybe delirious. Some sort of adjective that goes with sentences with lots of exclamation points in them.
Delgado, 45, of Providence, had been about to leave, but decided to stick around. That meant she got to meet her childhood crush, singer Donny Osmond, who was performing Saturday night next door at the Dunkin' Donuts Center with his sister, Marie Osmond.
Tears streamed down her face as she walked up to the stage in the exhibition hall and got hugs from Donny.
"Oh my God! I don't believe it!" Delgado said to no one in particular. "Oh my God! I'm going to pass out!"
She confided to those standing near her, "Donny's still good looking."
As the Osmonds prepared to leave the stage, Delgado yelled out, "Can we just have one song?"
The singers obliged, leading the crowd in a few bars of an audience-participation version of "I'm a Little Bit Country, I'm a Little Bit Rock 'n' Roll."
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Not entirely of course. But we've been talking to a senior person at Marsans today and he makes clear that a major motivation for this utterly unexpected piece of business was the desire to make Iberia look like a poor relative.I know it's only four A380s. However, this use of the A380 as a marketing tool is not a trivial matter. That was the reason that I always believed that BA would include A380s in their mix (apart from traffic volume).
It's the same for the 787 – you can discuss which is the more powerful marketing tool, but they each work in their way. The point about the A380 is that you definitely can't use the 747-8 in that role. Watch the delivery to Singapore Airlines in Toulouse on Monday to get a taste of what to expect over the next few years.
Marsans is a strange company which is little known outside Spain and South America but which has repeatedly defied sceptics who have derided its ambitions. Those ambitions are huge – Marsans has successfuly hustled its way into South America – a part of the world where Iberia's conduct actually managed to provoke street demonstrations.
Its new plans are pretty breathtaking – involving fielding A380s, A350s, A330s and 42 A320s across Aerolineas Argentinas, Air Comet and a clutch of smaller South American affiliates. But the Airbus agreement is only an MOU, and Marsans is telling its South American workforce that the aircraft will be coming only if they sign up to a long-term labour agreement.
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Does any one like instant coffee? I have an old perculator that makes less than adequate coffee. At work, it's a similarly bad tasting coffee. A place I worked at years ago hired a coffee service company that brought in the perculator, the coffee, and supplies and that was good stuff. Does any one know of a good perculator that ends all perculators to buy for home coffee? Also, what brand of coffee is best? At this point I'm really liking instant. I've been on a quest for good coffee for a long time, and I think I'd pay up to $200 for a good perculator, but again, if any one knows a really good machine I'm interested in any ideas |
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Instant coffee is nasty. I like drip coffee a lot better than perc coffee.....but I think the main reason I feel that way is that it's almost impossible to get a percolator really clean....and those old coffee oils really are nasty! Linda c |
We have an old Farberware percolator that makes good coffee and in about 10 minutes- that is FAST for a perc! Check out their web-site, and a lot of larger department stores carry Farberware. |
- Posted by BizzyLizzy (My Page) on Thu, Nov 7, 02 at 9:36
Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely check out the Farberware perc., I remember a while back seeing an ad somewhere for a coffee machine that supposedly makes coffee at the "perfect" temperature. I guess I agree with that, my own perc. doesn't make the coffee very hot to begin with. |
Lizzy, by percolator, do you mean coffee machine, between drip and the old fashion percolator, there is a difference. For $200 you should get a fabulous machine, check out the Capresso's at Williams & Sonoma. You could also get a very run of the mill coffee machine for less money and invest in a bean grinder, then get some fabulous italian beans from a specialty shop and get wonderful tasting coffee, IMO !!! With good quality beans and fresh grinding, the machine sometimes becomes irrelevant ! |
- Posted by New_Zealand (My Page) on Mon, Nov 25, 02 at 4:40
We use only 100% Columbian coffee in our drip coffee maker. We find other types of coffee to be to bitter. In New Zealand most of the folks use instant coffee, but I find it to be very weak. In the fancy resturants they use what they call a plung coffee, where coffee grounds are layed on top of hot water in the plung maker and when you are ready to drink it you push the plunger down forcing the coffee grounds through the hot water to the bottom of the maker, an you pour your freshly brewed coffee (nice, but a little to much work). |
- Posted by Scott55405 (My Page) on Sat, Nov 30, 02 at 10:51
Another vote for the Farbeware. Wild horses could not separate me from mine! |
Percolating coffee is, in general, not a good way to brew it. Why? Because the brewing coffee itself is heated to a high temperature onthe 'hot spot' just below the center tube, which makes steam that pushes water up the middle and over the grounds in the basket. This heating of the brewing coffee (and not just water) is not a good way to go. It breaks down the aromatic oils. Drip makers are a good way to go, BUT: you don't want to leave coffe in a carafe that's being kept warm/hot. Again, you're heating brewed coffee and it breaks down the flavor compounds. Best bet is to either brew just enough to drink immediately (small 1-2 cup dripmakers, or drip machines with cone-type filters that can brew smaller quantities easily), or to get a drip maker with an insulated carafe so it isn't heated by a hot plate. Or, you can shut off the machine when the coffee is done. Then, if you want some later just microwave it and it'll be hot and fresh. *Don't* leave it sitting on the heating pad! Also, be sure to keep drip makers clean. If you don't rinse out the carafe well before filling with water for the next batch, the dilute coffee in the reservoir will burn onto the hot spot (which works like a percolator, except the water just goes thru the grounds once instead of being recycled). Also, minerals in the water can accumulate on the hot spot as well, leading to bad 'machine' flavors. Running white vinegar thru the drip maker can help alleviate this. The 'plung' (???) method descried above is known as a french press. (freedom press? $^) It's one of the 2 methods I use. Although you are supposed to put the grounds in first, followed by almost-boiling coffee, and stirring well to extract the coffee flavor from the grounds. Then the plunger is depressed after a minute or 2, forcing the grounds to the bottom. This is a 'pure' way of making coffee because you are heating only water, and there's no hot spot to accumulate residue or deposits. Just clean hot water and grounds, as it should be. The presses aren't much work. I guess you have to turn off the kettle and pour manually, but you have to pour water into a drip maker anyway. And pressing the plunger is not a hassle. Starbucks even offers travel mugs that have a press built into the lid, so you can add grounds and water to the mug, stir, screw on the lid, and plunge a minute later. You can then drink right out of the mug and take it along. The other good method is also a drip method, using the inexpensive cone-shaped filters and holders. This drip method is also just clean hot water and grounds in a paper or mesh filter. This is the most versatile method, because a cone filter can make a full carafe as easily as a single mug with the same filter. Just change the amount of grounds and water as needed. You can also put the cone filter over a mug for one cup, or an insulated carafe, which keeps coffee hot for a while without burniong it and ruining the flavor. Just a few coffee options. But a perc-O-lator is probably the *worst* method for making coffee in terms of flavor quality. It is popular because the percolators are simple and work well in large quantities. |
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I really like my Krups coffee maker. It uses paper or metal filters and and insulated caraf, so it's never burnt, like so many times with the Mr. Coffee types. It helps that I got mine on Clearance! Norm |
Senseo makes wonderful coffee! Linda C |
I'm a coffee master for Starbucks Coffee corp. I've completed numerous classes and passed the test, so I know a thing or two about coffee. I agree with just about everything that DRMOZE wrote above. Perc's are bad. Move to drip coffee or French Press if you want to really taste the coffee. Paper filters, while easy to use, do remove some of the esential oils that provide the taste of the coffee. To reference something that New_Zealand wrote above, the coffee that you find to be "bitter" has a higher acid content. You said other coffee's you tried were to weak. Coffee's grown in Latin America, see Starbucks Breakfast Blend and House Blend, are typically higher in acid content which can give a bitter flavor profile. It could also be how your brew. the biggest problem with people who come in saying their coffee is to bitter, is the grind. Imagine a bucket of sand, and a bucket of rocks. Water passes much faster through a bucket of rocks than it does the sand. So if your coffee is bitter, it's probably being over extracted. This is because the water is passing through the grinds to SLOWLY, thus pulling out more of the coffee. Use a coarser grind and I think it will solve your problem. If not, move to a bolder coffee from the African or Asian coffees. I recommend Sumatra (you can get this at any starbucks or grocery store for that matter. Kenya has great coffee as well as Yemen, suprisingly. Although yemen coffee can be a little unpredictable, as they don't have the growing and sorting standards most other countries do.) So, yeah, loose the perc, get a drip brewer or french press, and enjoy your coffee. I just realized that the last post on this site was over two years ago. Oh well. Hope someone reads this. Greg |
I vote for the Senseo for home use. But at the office I have a Melita plastic cone thing that sits on top of a coffee mug. You put a paper filter filled with coffee grinds in it and then pour the hot water through. Makes a great cup of coffee. Definitely worth the trouble of keeping a can of coffee and filters in my desk. I'd love to set up a Senseo at the office but I doubt that would go over too great with management. |
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[quote]I'm a coffee master for Starbucks Coffee corp[/quote] LOL I wanted to stop right there but I forced myself through the rest of the post. Starbucks makes the most ABSOLUTE nasty tasting coffee I have ever tasted. Sumatra is like the only words you guys know. The stuff is crap. Really though I would rather drink coffee from Hess Express ANYDAY than to touture myself with your foul tasting toilet water you call coffee. The only thing you got going for you is atmosphere. |
I think that the main criterion of good coffee is when there is not only strong aroma but also good taste. Instant coffee has enticing aroma but weak taste. I buy only coffee beans. Javaberry is my favorite, because it is savory, I can enjoy drinking not only smelling. |
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cold soak is the only way to go; the taste can not be beat |
- Posted by angelic_one2002 (My Page) on Tue, Oct 3, 06 at 17:36
I just bought my Farberware electric percolator, and I think it makes much better coffee than any drip coffeemaker I've owned. The temperature of the coffee is so much hotter. I can't stand coffee that isnt really hot. I will not go back to a drip coffeemaker..ever. |
We just purchased a Melita Java Percolator. It has made us the most wondeful coffee we have yet to experience. The only difference which I can discern is that it has an extra piece, perforated which sits on top of the coffee holder inside the machine, whicn serves to spray the water evenly over the entire capacity of the main coffee-holder, which could be the reason for it's wondeful and consistant excellent taste. Yes, it is hot , but I love my coffee hot, though not hot enough to burn, and this is wonderful. The stainless steel is excellent, easy to clean and the machine is removable from the base, the current ceasing when the carafe is picked up and then returning when it is replaced. I bought it to be different, and to try percolator again, and found it to be really quite wonderful. |
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Kroll Associates is the big name in the world of corporate investigations. But a former top gumshoe at Kroll has mud on his feet as a result of the firm's past involvement with accused Ponzi mastermind Allen Stanford.
In the late 1990s, Stanford hired Kroll's Miami office to help with a number of internal investigations. But more important, Stanford retained Kroll to help smooth the waters with a parade of federal investigators who were raising questions about Stanford's growing banking empire on the Caribbean island nation of Antigua.
And for a long time, Stanford's strategy of hiring Kroll to put some polish on his image appeared to work. Stanford was finally unmasked as a charlatan this year, when the Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors charged the former Texas billionaire with running a $7 billion Ponzi scheme.
This week's indictment of Stanford's former chief of security, Thomas Raffanello, may further muddy the waters over the dealings of Kroll — a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies — with Stanford.
Raffanello, accused in a federal indictment of obstructing justice by ordering the shredding of documents at one of Stanford's offices in Florida, is the former head of the Miami office of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
And Raffanello got his job at Stanford five years ago largely on the recommendation of Thomas Cash, a former Kroll executive managing director, who was a close confidant of the accused fraudster.
Lawyers, former federal investigators and former Stanford employees say that it was no secret that Cash, a former DEA agent himself, was instrumental in getting Raffanello the top security job at Stanford's firm.
Cash, for his part, was a forceful advocate for Stanford over the years. Even after the SEC accused Stanford of running a Ponzi scheme, Cash continued to defend him, even though Kroll hadn't done any work for the offshore banker for at least two years.
In August, however, Cash suddenly left Kroll, after running the firm's investigative team in Latin America and the Caribbean for nearly 15 years.
Cash's departure came not long after the National Electrical Contractor's Association sued Kroll, contending that the firm misled the not-for-profit foundation when it retained Kroll to run a due diligence report on Stanford.
The electrical association bought $2.5 million of Stanford's now worthless CDs, after Kroll came back and gave a "clean bill of health" to the offshore bank. It was Cash who in April 2007 signed Kroll's contract with the electrical association to perform the due diligence search on Kroll's former client.
But the electrical association alleges Kroll never disclosed that Cash and the firm's Latin American group had previously represented Stanford for nearly a decade. "Kroll was grossly negligent … by failing to disclose Mr. Cash's relationship and prior employment with Mr. Stanford," the association's lawsuit charges.
A Kroll spokesman would only say that "Tom Cash is no longer with the company." As for Cash, he could not be reached for comment.
Now there's no suggestion here that either Cash or Kroll had knowledge of the alleged document destruction ordered by Raffanello. And there's no evidence that either Cash or Kroll did anything improper when they worked for Stanford.
As for Raffanello, he's claiming he's done nothing wrong. My Reuters colleague Jim Loney reports that a defense lawyer for Raffanello, appearing in federal court today, insisted his client was "only taking out the garbage."
But this episode raises questions about the internal checks and balances at Kroll and whether its investigators are serving too many masters.
It should also serve as a warning sign to investors that the next time they hire an investigative firm to perform a due diligence check, it may be necessary to also run a background check on the investigators.
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As I understand it, when the document destruction began Stanford was already on the front pages of every newspaper as an alledged master swindler on a monstrously large scale. Anyone involved in destroying his records from that point on had better begin getting their own affairs in order.
Presumably these are 'off-the-record' due diligences – isn't that illegal without the aquiree's consent ? Isn't there legislation for record retention periods ?
Tom Cash never investigated anything in his career. He is a fraud and a BS artist
I concur with Bonner's assessment. Having experience with both the ilk of Cash and Raffanello, I must agree that the accusations against them could not fit better than a Hong Kong suit maker could conjure up.
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Former New York Jets Defensive Lineman Marcus Dixon signs a one year deal with the Kansas City Chiefs, according to his agent Howard Shatsky. Read all the JetsTwit coverage of Marcus Dixon while he was a Jet here.
HowardShatsky Five NFL teams have expressed interest in my client DL @MarcusDixon94 MD will be back in the NFL soon! 2/2/13 3:06 PM |
HowardShatsky Congratulations to PFM client DL Marcus Dixon @MarcusDixon94 on signing a one year contract with the Kansas City Chiefs! 2/9/13 11:54 AM |
In addition to Dixon, the Chiefs also signed Marty Gilyard, a journeyman who got some minimal playing time with the Jets in the 2012 season.
MarcusDixon94 "@Swilk15: @MarcusDixon94 Welcome to Chiefs Nation. Glad to have you in KC!" I'm glad to be aboard 2/9/13 3:03 PM |
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3 tablespoons paprika
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon dry mustard
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1 cup yellow or brown mustard
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1 teaspoon cayenne
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Hello. I'm planning to get started with beekeeping this coming year. I have taken a course on the topic, and have several books - so, I'm not totally ignorant. However I have found little on the following topic: How do you prepare the ground at the site of the hive? I don't want to mow grass next to the hive, potentially upsetting the occupants. I want the area underneath the hive 'clean' enough that I will notice pests and such. So far, my ideas are: Create a sort of raised bed with landscaping cloth underneath and marble chips on top, bounded by landscape timbers. This way, I will have a high visibility surface (white marble) that will not require weed control/mowing. Do you think this is a good plan? What do you do to address this issue? Thanks for any ideas/suggestions you may have! |
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Not sure about marble...just thinking, eventually filling with dirt and more upkeep, not flat. I have mine on flat alum. sandwich panel for roofing about 6 inches thick,..got some for free, it's used in commercial buildings. A sheet of pressure treated plywood works also, you can just lay it down, drive over with the mover to cut all the grass right up to. A pallet or bricks on top where the hive sits on, simple is better, don't go too high, making it harder for getting off heavy boxes for inspection and honey super. You need something easy to walk around, plywood is also nice to keep clean and lay down your boxes when working the hives, make sure the plywood slops a bit away from the hive. |
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Guess it depends how much room you have or want to waste, I would think put two hives onto one sheet of plywood. |
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Adventist pioneer Joseph Bates was fascinated by his observation of what appeared to him to be a "gap" in the constellation of Orion. He first observed the phenomena while sailing on a ship in the southern hemisphere in the 1820s. He later wrote about it in his tract "The Opening Heavens" which was published in late 1845. In his autobiography he describes the Orion gap:
"But the most remarkable of all the cloudy stars, he says, 'is that in the middle of Orion's sword, where seven stars (three of which are very close together) seem to shine through a cloud. It looks like a gap in the sky, through which one may see as it were a part of a much brighter region. Although most of these spaces are but a few minutes of a degree in breadth, yet since they are among the fixed stars they must be spaces larger than what is occupied by our solar system; and in which there seems to be a perpetual, uninterrupted day among numberless worlds which no human art can ever discover.' This gap or place in the sky is undoubtedly the same that is spoken of in the Scriptures. See John i,51; Rev.xix,11."1
After the Whites linked up with Joseph Bates in the mid 1840s, Mrs. White acquired a sudden interest in Astronomy. During this time she had her infamous solar system vision. Adventist historian J.N. Loughborough describes how during that vision Mrs. White...
"began a description of the 'opening heavens,' with its glory, calling it an opening into a region more enlightened. Elder Bates said that her description far surpassed any account of the opening heavens he had ever read from any author."2Apparently Mrs. White had subscribed to Bates' theory that the open space in Orion was a special, heavenly place. Thus, she put the prophetic stamp-of-approval on his conjectures about Orion.
A couple of years later, on December 16, 1848, Mrs. White took the Orion theory one step further. She had another vision in which she saw the functioning of the Orion stargate:
"Dark, heavy clouds came up and clashed against each other. The atmosphere parted and rolled back; then we could look up through the open space in Orion, whence came the voice of God. The Holy City will come down through that open space."3From these visions we can learn three things:
Orion figured prominently in the ancient pagan religions such as that of the Egyptians. New Age author Barry Martin describes the importance of Orion:
"It is through the gateway in Orion that we receive the higher light...we will understand why the ancient Egyptian texts refer to Ihm-'sk and why the Great Pyramid was aligned with Mintaka (delta), Alnilam (epsilon), and Alnitak (zeta) in Tak-Orion (Orionis). These are the central threshold controls for the region of 'positive programming' used by the Elohim Lords of Light to connect the many galaxies to our Father Universe. Within our galactic quadrant, these threshold controls are necessary in coordinating celestial navigation between universes. Through the energies of Orion, the Central Threshold Control, the higher beings of Light moved across the waters of the deep."4Notice the following from the above quote:
"In The Orion Mystery we presented graphic as well as written evidence showing how important the Egyptians considered the constellation of Orion to be. We published an illustration based on a drawing from the ceiling of the tomb of Senmut, companion and vizier to Queen Hatshepsut. In this picture Sahu/Orion is shown standing in a small boat with three prominent stars representing Orion's belt) over his head. This figure carries in his left hand a staff of office, while in his right he holds an ankh—the Egyptian hieroglyph usually translated as "life." Behind him, following in her own boat, is a goddess identifiable as representing the star Sothis or Sirius. Another diagram showed part of the ceiling painting from the mausoleum of Seti I, one of the greatest of the New Kingdom pharaohs and father of Ramses II. In this drawing Orion is again shown in his boat with the staff in one hand and an ankh in the other, above which is a five-pointed star. A third illustration of Orion came from the Cairo Museum, custodian of the pyramidion that once capped the pyramid of Amenemhet III at Dashur. Being from the Middle Kingdom, this pyramidion is older than the ceilings of the tombs of Senmut and Seti but it carries a very similar representation of Orion. Again he is shown as a walking man holding a staff in one hand, but this time he is cupping a star with the other."...The positioning of a star above the outstretched hand of Orion has another important meaning that would not have been lost on the Egyptians. The hieroglyph of a five-pointed star is transliterated as s'ba, literally meaning "star." However, s'ba has a secondary meaning, which is "door." It is used in this way in Wallis Budge's monumental edition of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, where he translates a particular sentence as "I open the door in heaven." The hieroglyphs for "door," which he transliterates as s'ba, are a five-pointed star with an Egyptian vulture symbol next to it. Thus the star held out in the hand of the Sahu figure on the benben stone of Amenemhet III conveys in shorthand the exact meaning of "stargate." ... We can see from this that the placing of a star in the hand of Orion was entirely appropriate. It indicated that the point where the Milky Way intersected with the ecliptic above the hand of Orion was the location of one of the gates of heaven."5
The idea that God has a stargate in Orion is found nowhere in the Bible. It appears to have originated in ancient heathen religions and was later adopted by New Agers. What is to be made of Mrs. White's Orion Stargate vision? What makes this all the more unusual is that Mrs. White consistently opposed paganism and the occult in her writings.6 Where then did this vision come from? Did God show her the same truth He revealed to the ancient heathen Eqyptians? Does He really have a stargate in Orion? Or did she fabricate the Orion stargate vision to win the approval of Captain Bates, a prominent leader in the early church? Or was she simply hallucinating? You decide.
1. James White, editor, The Early Life And Later Experience And Labors Of Elder Joseph Bates, chapter 12, (Steam Press of The Seventh-Day Adventist Publishing Association, Battle Creek, Mich. 1877). Emphasis in the original.
2. J.N. Loughborough, Great Second Advent Movement, p. 258.
3. Arthur White quoting Ellen White in Ellen G. White: The Early Years, Vol. 1 - 1827-1862, p. 154. Same quote is also found in Early Writings, p. 41; The Present Truth, August 1, 1849, "Dear Brethren and Sisters"; The Present Truth, January 31, 1849, "To Those who are receiving the seal of the living God".
4. Barry Martin, The Time Spiral, http://www.spiritwheels.com/writers/kiara/barrymartin.html.
5. Adrian Gilber, Orion's Mystical Origins From Pre-History, http://www.btinternet.com/~orionmoon/ORION.htm. Photo from web site. Extracts from: Signs in the Sky (Three Rivers Press: 1972. ISBN 0-609-80793-5).
6. Mrs. White consistently and frequently opposed pagan and occult philosophies in her writings. She did make two references to occult symbology in her writings. In all likelihood, these were benign references, with no harm intended, but they do illustrate the fact that Mrs. White's books were not authored by the "Holy Ghost" as she claimed in Selected Messages, Vol. 3, p. 30. Here are the references to mother earth in her writings:
The trees, shrubs, and flowers, will soon be attractive to the eye, inviting all who delight in the beauties of nature to enjoy life out of doors. The flowers and green foliage have not appeared, but mother earth has thrown from her bosom her white mantle, and she even now bears a cheerful aspect in the bright sunshine and shadows. (The Health Reformer, March 1, 1871)Mother Earth is a pagan concept. According to Wikipedia:May has come, with all her beauties of the sunshine, clothing nature with a glorious dress. Mother earth has laid off her brown mantle, and wears her cheerful robes of green. (The Health Reformer, May 1, 1871)
"In many Neo-Pagan and Wiccan traditions, Mother Earth is seen as the Goddess, with the Horned God as her consort (and sometimes son). The idea of the Earth as a deity was and is also prominent in many pagan religions." (http://en.wikipedia.org)For further study: Why is there an Egyptian obelisk on the White's burial site?


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I've been staring at my home page - Line.com - for days and something just isn't right, but unfortunately I can't figure out what it is. Any critique would be hugely appreciated. Feel free to be as harsh as you want. I won't cry, I promise.
Pretend you landed on the site after searching for "free sports betting." Would you bounce or would you explore? If you'd bounce, why? If you'd continue on to a secondary page, how do you feel about that page?
The site offers five main "services" and the goal is to get the user to pick one of those services via the little images. Is five too many to choose from? Should I narrow it down to the most common 3-4?
P.S. - This is NOT a gambling website. It's a hangout for people who like to predict the outcome of games.
For one, the text on the right and bottom looks too much like ads. (which is not attractive to me)
I'd probably bounce. If I search for free sports betting (which seems illogical and slightly stupid on behalf of the searcher), then I want to make money, right? How do you bet (money) for free?
Try to make it clear what the purpose of what your website is. I'm not a gambler (and therefore don't know what a 'handicapper' is, or any of the other lingo that you use, for that matter), so to me it seems like an online community to discuss and pick the best bets...right? If so, try to make it more community-oriented.
Then again, you're trying to sell me something (imo, this website thing seems really expensive. 1100 dollars per year?). Maybe split up the site and have a discussion site (i. e. forum) be a sister site of your commercial site?
Overall it seems well made.
One thing that can be improved is the option to contact you. You hide it under help, instead of on the first page and also it's just your email instead of a contact form, this give it a bit of an amateurish feel.
The testimonial also sounds "too good to be true", I would make it a bit less enthusiastic and more believable.
The fact you had to mention it's not a gambling site in your post is something that isn't clearly obvious to the visitor, with a quick glance it looks like a gambling site. You'll loose many people who won't look for gambling sites and then others who do when they realize this isn't one.
To stress what TehYoyo said, "free sports betting" is a very strange thing to look for. I wouldn't make this combination my main search engine target.
Again, the design and execution is well made and overall it's obvious you know what you are doing.
Good luck with it.
From top to bottom:
The dark grey toolbar on the very top gives the feeling of the site being iframed by different site, I would remove it as you already have the Sign up in the main body and keep the Login form for ie. right under the main navigation.
The main menu: try to use more specific or often used titles for menu items. HELP is often placed on bottom of pages, instead leave "CONTACT" title. also the SITES could be replaced too. Stick to titles users are used to.
Widening the blue navigation bar would increase the aesthetics. Now it is too stuffed I think.
The "SITE" page looks has more attractive look than the homepage
The "Choose an Option Above ~ or ~ ..."´s font is almost as large as the LOGO´s and it is not the main information to make it such large. Put emphasis on the WHAT factor of your site. So the viewer will know what he/she is dealing with. As you said "You have exactly 3 seconds to gain your visitors' attention. " Make the viewer read the important part in those 3 secs.
The post at the bottom of the homepage: Place the author info, time posted, number of comments under the posts´s title. This way it looks like google ads
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I soooooo understand your excitement!!! I had Kelvin Floodlight last year for the first time and was in awe at its size and beauty - sadly, it did not survive the winter in my basement. But many others did, including tubers which were started from seed, and didn't bloom last year, so this year I have some lovely surprises!! I also give them some unique names, such as Salsa, Shimmer and Burgundy Silk. Seeing your pictures and reading your comments, I very much could relate, and it made me smile. Good job and keep sharing! -Anna |
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While cable news and the Web are "ideologically embedded," Ignatius concedes that "traditional journalists" aren't "free of implicit, unexamined biases." But I'd quibble a bit with his assessment that, "In the name of non-ideological reporting," mainstream journalism tends to converge toward the center, ignoring "what's on the wings, right and left."
Ignatius seems keen to critique himself this way.
In the name of open debate, we sometimes have the effect of narrowing it. My own implicit bias for the center is sometimes painfully obvious in my columns. It skews my judgment.
He knows best about that. But, more broadly, I don't think that the wings are getting ignored. Rather, I think traditional journalism often over-covers them, but somehow tries to paint events on the edges of the political spectrum as cultural curiosities, making it easier to at least appear to leave one's own politics aside.
Ignatius knows that this genie can't entirely get put back in the bottle, and points to the traditional media's embrace of blogs as a way to build that kind of insider connection with readers that, taken too far, becomes the kind of ideological embedding he laments.
One of The Post's fresh young voices, blogger Ezra Klein, clearly has a point of view on the policy debates he covers. If he made a fetish of neutrality, he would be less interesting. But I wouldn't want a news diet of all Ezra Kleins, all the time.
What does he prescribe for all the non-Ezras out there?
We need to restore the white flag; we need to reassure people everywhere that we have checked our baggage — national, ideological, cultural, political and religious — at the door when we become journalists.
That might sound like a tall order. Or an old-fashioned idea. But that kind of just-the-facts approach is a big advantage, especially for the kind of in-depth reporting and tough investigations that aren't the usual domain of the niche media.
Big Chief Audit Dean Starkman asked former Dow Jones director Jim Ottaway about this a while back:
TA: The idea of an unbiased news source is laughed off these days. We have to ask if unbiased or objective reporting is not itself an anachronism.I dunno about that Roman Empire stuff. But I think Ignatius is right. It's sure worth trying. The inside story isn't enough.
JO: Philosophically, you can argue that it's an impossibility. But in practice and in a modern democracy and in an information society, where success in business, investments, and politics eventually depends on some common understanding of reality—what is real, what actually happened or didn't happen, or was said or not said —you can't run a business, you can't run an economy, you can't run a nation if it doesn't have some discourse and public debate based on some commonly accepted facts. I think that this is what's the danger. It's what defeated the Roman Empire. You can find all kind of historical parallels of what happens when a society has reduced all news to propaganda. You can't a run republican democracy that way.


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Posted 08 August 2011 - 07:32 AM
English are the only professors you cannot contact? I am curious where you got that info? I was planning to contact a few English profs from potential schools and never heard this "mysterious" rule, so thank you for head up
I've got this info from The Grad Cafe Last year when I was applying I read lots of old threads here. There were threads about contacting professors and several people confirmed that you don't normally contact professors if your field is English. May be it works for some other humanities as well - but they talked only about English. You can search for these threads on this board and if you don't find them, I believe you can start another thread dedicated to this issue. May be some current English students will answer your questions better.
Good luck!
Posted 14 September 2011 - 11:33 PM
Accepted: Tufts, BU, UMD
Posted 18 September 2011 - 03:42 PM
Contacting professors/research interests/publications: do they apply to terminal Masters programs or just PhD programs?
I think it is less common to contact professors if you are applying to a Masters program - but you can definitely try. It cannot hurt you and who knows - if your interests will match perfectly those of some faculty member, it can help a lot!
Posted 18 September 2011 - 08:46 PM
I also doubt that the people in Offically Grads would necessarily know much better *just* because they themselves got into grad school. They were able to get into grad school because they applied to the right schools at the right time. They did their homework on where they would be a good fit, and basically everything else that Strangefox said in his original post. But they are not on any admissions committees, just like any of us current applicants. All they really would be basing their information on would be their own numbers, and those that they have heard about. I think that they just did what was in the end best for them, using many sources of information, including other people at this site.
Precisely how do you know that comparing numbers is "obviously" more helpful?didn't think this one through, did ya?
finding out the stats of students accepted into the programs you are interested in is obviously more helpful in estimating your own chances compared to discussing imaginary cutoff stats with other current applicants - people who are potentially just as clueless as yourself. that's just a waste of time.
Do successful applicants get in primarily because of their numbers? Are other factors--including academic pedigree, LoRs, the SoP, interviews, correspondence, and behind-the-curtain discussions--that display an applicant's potential, punctuation, and personality are less important? What about the departmental politics and economic calculations that factor into the deliberation?
Do successful applicants get a debriefing that tells them why they were admitted and others were not? Or are they left to read the tea leaves and make guesses that, no matter how well founded and educated, are still guesses?
In the effort to create an "instant history" with which we could live and prosper, our early historians intentionally placed our early national heroes and leaders beyond the pale of criticism. . . . And this distorted image of them has not only created a gross historical fallacy, but it has also rendered it utterly impossible to deal with our past in terms of the realities that existed at that time. To put it another way, our romanticizing about the history of the late eighteenth century has prevented our recognizing the fact that the founding fathers made serious mistakes that have greatly affected the course of our national history from that time to the present.
John Hope Franklin, ISBN-0807115479, p. 154.
Taking critics seriously, and responding to them thoughtfully, is a sign of respect.
William G. Bowen, ISBN-9780691149622, p. 53.
Posted 28 September 2011 - 08:36 AM
Contacting professors/research interests/publications: do they apply to terminal Masters programs or just PhD programs?
I'm applying to terminal master in biological sciences and all the schools I'm interested in stated that I should contact professors whose research interests appeal to me.Moreover I should mention my research interests in my SOP.
Posted 20 January 2013 - 07:01 PM
This is such a great thread. It totally made me feel better about my chances at schools because I concentrated so much on fit. Who knows what will happen, but my current nerves are somewhat calmed.
- Karen
Applied to: Indiana University - Bloomington (REEI MA/MLS); University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (REEEC MA); University of PIttsburgh (MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures).
Waitlisted: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (REEEC MA); University of Pittsburgh (MA in Slavic Languages and Literatures)
Accepted: Indiana University - Bloomington MLS, Indiana University - Bloomington (REEI MA)
Attending: Indiana University - Bloomington (REEI MA/MLS)
Posted 30 January 2013 - 10:08 PM
The GRE is often the crux of this matter. May I say:
the only thing worse than "My GRE scores are V145 & Q147. What are my chances at Stanford?"
is "I got V170 & Q168. Should I retake??"
Posted 23 February 2013 - 11:50 PM
The GRE is often the crux of this matter. May I say:
the only thing worse than "My GRE scores are V145 & Q147. What are my chances at Stanford?"
is "I got V170 & Q168. Should I retake??"
Those threads are cancerous. As an EE Ph.D. applicant, I found my Q162 to be abysmally low and these kinds of threads only made me feel worse. Somehow, I found the strength to not retake, and now that I'm getting acceptances from top programs, I'm glad I didn't waste another $200+ on that test. I really think it's only used to weed out applicants initially at schools with a large pool.
Attending: Princeton!!!!
Posted 24 February 2013 - 01:28 AM
The GRE is often the crux of this matter. May I say:
the only thing worse than "My GRE scores are V145 & Q147. What are my chances at Stanford?"
is "I got V170 & Q168. Should I retake??"
uromastyx, I wish I could accuse you of hyperbole, but I'm afraid you're not far off from the reality of Grad Cafe.
And clearly the answers to those questions are EXCELLENT and YES.
Posted 01 April 2013 - 09:30 AM
I really think it's only used to weed out applicants initially at schools with a large pool.
Does someone have confirmation from inside admissions offices that this is true?
Posted 13 September 2013 - 01:05 AM
It's an "art" school. That doesn't require the GRE and yet I somehow found an old reference to it buried away in layers of web pages about admissions.
So I use that as my mental baseline for "test/retest"
Posted 13 May 2014 - 08:36 PM
Thank you so much for this advice, but i have a question, how to approach exactly the professors and make them want you? there are hundreds of applicants who have the same GRE, TOEFL, GPA as yourself? Please i would really appreciate it especially i am thinking about applying to PhD program.
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Carrington College, Portland OR July 2012 - page 2
Anyone else going to Carrington's LPN Program in Portland, Oregon? I have been accepted and am starting July 2, 2012. I'd love to meet some fellow classmates or here from some who have already gone... Read More
0May 25, '12 by patty89Quote from Brianna829Hopefully they call us soon )The Oregon board of nursing approved then in February, they are however still waiting on approval from Oregon Degree Association but last I heard they did get approved and are in final process of getting information out I prospective students.
0Apr 4, '13 by LeaCorbinI am am wondering if somebody could help me out with a few questions about fhe LPN program at Carrington. I have been a CNA since 1992 and would like to take the lpn program. Do I have to have perquisites of any kind to get in. And also, I'm not finished with my GED will they allow me to start although I'm still worki g on it? Thank you :-D
0Apr 11, '13 by lpnstudent2013You will have to finish your GED first. You don't need any pre requisites though. Those are all part of the program. However, you can do them at a CC for cheaper and then transfer those credits to Carrington and skip those classes. It would save you money too. They start 3 new cohorts a year: March, July, and October. The program is 16 months long. I currently attend and am graduating this fall so let me know if you have any more questions.