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I saw a posting on a person's blog last year about planting carrots and onions together with carrots in a hill and onions in a valley. The thought has stuck with me. Now, I can't seem to find any information through a search engine on this "Hill and Valley" planting technique. Does anyone have any information on it, such as if it is a good idea, how deep to make the valleys for the onions or anything else that may be valuable? I would love to see any pictures if someone has done this in the past.
I may be better off just planting everything together, but like I said, this thought has stuck with me, and I think it would look neat and give the garden a little extra dimension and character. I do not know if it is not a good idea for the plants though... Thanks for your input |
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Orange Glazed Salmon
- Total Time:
- 1 hr 47 min
- Prep:
- 10 min
- Inactive:
- 1 hr 30 min
- Cook:
- 7 min
- Yield:
- 6 servings
- Level:
- Easy
- 1 1/2 pounds salmon fillet
- 1/3 cup orange marmalade
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 teaspoon ginger
- 2 teaspoons salt free citrus-herb seasoning
Rinse salmon fillet under cold water and pat dry with paper towels. Cut into 6 serving portions and place salmon fillets in a large zip-top bag; set aside.
In a small bowl stir together remaining ingredients. Pour into zip-top bag. Squeeze air from bag and seal. Marinate in refrigerator for 1 to 2 hours.
Remove salmon from refrigerator 30 minutes before cooking, and bring to room temperature.
Light broiler and line baking sheet or broiler pan with aluminum foil.
Remove salmon from marinade and place on baking sheet. Discard marinade. Broil salmon 6 to 8 inches from heat source for 6 to 8 minutes or until cooked through. Do not overcook.
Serve immediately.
Recipe courtesy Sandra Lee, 2007
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britt :)
used 1 teaspoon of minced ginger or minced garlic. I am asking a question before I try this recipe;therefore I can neither rate nor put a headline.
We did, however, grill ours since that's our favorite way to prepare salmon.
We used a sweet marmalade, so our marinade was not bitter at all. Next time, we will a little less ginger since are not fond of ginger.
This recipe is a keeper.
I was concerned after reading previous review comments.
However, it turned out moist and flavorful.
I did not have dijon mustard, so I used honey mustard. It was delicious. I will keep this recipe.
The quality of the marmalade and the thickness of the salmon will affect the taste and the cooking time.
Sandra, keep up the wonderfull work you do and your table scapes.
This was flavorful, a hint of sweet and the fresh ginger added great flavor.
Would I do anything different?
I would marinate it longer. Probably a couple of hours.


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Laplace, LA, United States
"everything you need to know"
If you read several of the listener ratings you will find that half love it and half hate it. This is not anything like LotR. This is bigger in every respect. The world is bigger, the characters are deeper and thjere are many, many, more of them. If you take on this series you need to be ready to focus. If you listen half heartedly you will be lost very quickly. I understand some of the points of the bad reviews. This series is detailed. You will always know what everyone is wearing and what every room looks like and some people will find it tiresome. I however really get a sense of being in the story and that is why I read/listen. If your thing is a movie type book, a few hours and everything is rapped up, then you are looking for something else. There are many great stand alone books on this site alone but if you are looking for a neck deep fantasy with as much intrigue as can be put on paper then look no further. Personally this and the Sword of Truth are my favorites. Be warned though that the author recently died and the 12th book (A Memory of Light) is now being written by Brandon Sanderson of Mistborn. The final installment is about 60% through the rough draft phase. I usually dont get books until the series is done because i cant stand waiting a year to see how it ends but just the fact that the last book is on its way has prompted me into a second go round on this series so I know exactly what is going on. WHether you get this one or not happy listening.
"The Far Kingdoms"
I never write bad reviews because I have enjoyed many books that had poor reviews overall. I also think comments on narrarators are very much tied to a particular listeners taste. However this audiobook requires a warning to all. The narrarator does a poor job. I could not put my finger on what was wrong for a while and then it hit me. This narrarator pauses in the middle of sentences where he shouldn't. I'm not talking about pauses for effect. I'm talking about wierd disconnects and it happens often. Things like "I turned *2 second pause* around to look, and saw it was not truely *3 second pause* there. I have over 400 titles in my library and am proud to say I have finished all but a handful. But this is the first book that I had to turn off, not because the content was bad, but because I couldn't take the narrarator any longer. The storyline is fine. It's not going to blow you away, but for listeners like me that are waiting for the next Wheel of Time or GRRM book and have exhausted every recommended title on audible it is ok. But the *3 second pause* narraration is stunted and unlistenable.
"Pleasently surprised"
This series stayed in my wish list for months while I picked other titles to listen to. After rereading the intro I decided to get it. I am a big Wheel of Time fan as well as George Martin and Terry Brooks. This one is different but still good. Different use of magic with a good mix of description and action. I felt I understood the surroundings but they werent over down. It is listed as kids fiction but I think adult listeners would enjoy this as well. Not a lot of gore except the description of dead flesh other than that good story... good listen...


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We abruptly turn down the radio as we cross back into Orleans Parish and make our way into the Lower Ninth Ward. Children should be coming back from school about now, but the streets are nearly empty. The only sounds are those of distant construction -- work continues on higher levees here and all over town -- and chained-up dogs barking. The roads here are the worst we've seen in the city. The Camaro's independent rear suspension and stiff structure take the bumps and divots in stride, but this is nevertheless no place for a convertible. The raison d'être for top-down cruising is to take in the sights and sounds of the outside world. Here, the sights and sounds overwhelmingly are those of abandonment and misery. Most of the homes remain as the water left them, with caved-in walls, blue tarp roofs, and rubble-filled yards. Next to each door, faded spray-paint Xs -- the rushed written language of rescue workers -- tell the human tragedy. No one found in this house, two bodies in another. Every other block or so, one finds a rebuilt house -- the population stands at about twenty percent of pre-Katrina levels and is slowly growing -- but these homes, usually fenced off and patrolled by one of those dogs, hardly have the feel of a happy homecoming. A woman leaning out of her window as we idle on her lonely street describes life in the Lower Ninth as "OK." "What could be better?" we ask her. "A whole lot could be better," she replies resignedly.
Even here one can find signs of rebuilding among the devastation. There's a whole division of environmentally sound, modern homes built with help from actor Brad Pitt and charitable organizations. At present, none of these homes would realistically sell for market value. The hope is that, eventually, they'll stimulate natural redevelopment, but when we pass through, there seem to be more people shooting photos and videos of the bizarre-looking houses than there are actual residents. On the north side, by the infamous levee, University of Colorado students have built a viewing platform looking out on the Bayou Bienvenue Wetland Triangle, the marsh that once afforded this area storm protection and perhaps will again if wetland-restoration efforts succeed. Sixty-three-year-old native John Taylor, lifelong resident of an address that technically no longer exists, stands vigil over the platform. He nearly chases us away, but once he's convinced we're not "hoodlums," he philosophizes on where his city went wrong. "We forgot what was most important -- each other."


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Help Please, Do you know of a source of this native plant? Either plant, rhizome or seed? Thanks, Rai |
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For plants, they are listed by Lazy S's Farm/link below/ and PrairieMoon.com Seed are usually available from PrairieMoon.com, but when I accessed their site, they are listed as out of stock. Might check back later with them for availibility. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Lazy S's Farm
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I bought mine at Tripple Brook Farm (mail order) in Western Massachusetts. They appear to be in stock, according to the website. - wd |
Here is a link that might be useful: Tripple Brook Farm
Thank you very much for the reply, I'll check it out right away. casper |
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No, you're not on my level get your brakes tweaked
from Jay Z – Takeover Lyrics on Genius
Jay means both literally (aka another short joke) as well as in the slang sense of the phrase, meaning "on par"
Brakes as in on a car, and "breaks" as in choose better breaks (the short section of a song, usually a drumbeat, that is sampled and repeated to create the backing track of a rap song) to make music for your songs, which are not very good.
This goes along with the car theme since he already said that he was gassed up. "So, Prodigy, get your brakes fixed because you need to stop"
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Acer Iconia B1-A71, The $150 Tablet
Don't get me wrong, I love my iPad, but it is quite an expensive device. The iPad Mini isn't that much cheaper, at about $150 less for the similarly-specced version. Then again, you could always get Acer's new Android tablet, which will set you back only $150 (USD).
It was initially thought that Acer's B1-A71 would cost less than $100, but $150 is still pretty cheap. That's the price of a pair of good sneakers, making it very affordable. The tablet has a 7-inch WSVGA (1024×600) display, which is powered by a Mediatek 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. It will ship running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, and has access to the hundreds of thousands of apps available from Google Play. It comes with 8GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM, and a microSD card slot. The front-facing camera is 0.3MP, which isn't great, but should suffice for video chats. Wireless connectivity is 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0, and there's no cellular data option, though.
Acer has announced that it the B1-A71 will be available at the end of January 2013.
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Here's another new Tablet that stands out — this week Ainol Electronics NOVO 7 VENUS launches for only $149 and available at a site called TabletSprint – Ainol Electronics is noted for winning Runner-Up for "Best Tablet of the Year" at CES 2012.
The Novo 7 Venus is a 7″ tablet that offers a QUAD CORE processor and stacks up against the Nexus 7 — offers a high resolution 1280×800 IPS Display– 16GB Memory, HDMI 1080p to play Games on HD TV and to stream movies to a big screen, MicroSD Card memory storage slot, Google Play installed and much more… TabletSprint also includes $25 in Bonus Apps – certainly worth checking out for this price.
Also available next week is the new Novo 10 Hero II – a full size
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The Omani tourism ministry has said that residential apartments should not be leased to tourists without obtaining the required approval, a decision that could affect thousands who normally cash in during khareef season, Times of Oman has reported. "Managing and operating tourism accommodation establishments requires licencing from the ministry and other government departments," the ministry said. This year, the khareef festival will begin from the second day of Eid Al Fitr and will run till September 6, under the theme "Love for Oman Brings Us Together." According to statistics, the number of visitors during the khareef season in 2013 grew by 23.5% to 433,639, compared with 351,195 visitors in 2012.
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2 They had journeyed from Rephidim, entered the wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness; Israel camped there in front of the mountain. | 2 After they set out from Rephidim, they entered the Desert of Sinai, and Israel camped there in the desert in front of the mountain. |
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Title: Motor Repair And Overhauling Volume 1
Publisher: George Newnes Ltd
Publication Date: 1000
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Good
undated, black boards with gilt titles front and spine, spine edges and corners rubbed and bumped, edgewear rubbing, inside front endpaper is a slit with some sort of car part template, includes pull out trouble tracing chart, pages clean and good condition, book weighs 1.1kg. Bookseller Inventory #
Book Description: George Newnes Ltd., 1111. Hardcover. Book Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. 640 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Endpapers tanned. Clean pages throughout with no annotations but yellowed. B&W photographs and illustrations. Some internal hinge cracking. Fold out chart tanned. Binding is firm. Moderate edge wear, scuffing and soiling present with mild creasing to spine. Bumped and creased corners. Slight forward lean. Bookseller Inventory # 1415261760RAE
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This is what happens the day after you turn 51.I would like to make this for my 86 dad for fathers day. He has a mini dash and i think he would get a big kick out of it. Filling it will candy will also help since he is 6 ft and only 124lbs. I went thru my books last mo but know I cant find it now that i'm looking for. It was in an older 70s or 80s work basket of crochet magazine. Great thanks to anyone who can help! |
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I looked in my workbaskets for 1976-79 and couldn't find it. I wish someone lived closer so I ould give them to them going to Goodwill (where I got them) |
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Thanks for looking. I love workbasket magazine. I use the iron on for so many crafts. It reminds me of my mom. I to wish we lived closer too. Who knows they could find there was to may Goodwill. |
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He was still smiling as he answered. I could have, but I didnt want to. I thought Id try something a little reckless.
But youre not the reckless type. I argued.
Perhaps not, but I wanted to try. Youre always being reckless with your safety. He said in his defense. I couldnt deny it, he made an excellent point. He stood up, towering over me as he usually did with his perfect marble body that was ice cold to the touch. So why cant I be reckless? he asked.
Theres nothing wrong with being reckless, its just
I let my voice trail off.
Just what?
Its just that youre usually so cautious with my safety. Im still so breakable, so fragile and weak. Why havent you changed me yet? I demanded. I wanted an answer, and I wanted it now. I wasnt going to have any excuses, I wanted him to explain himself, give me good reasoning as to why I was still soft and warm.
Im not sure if Im ready yet. I know you are, but Im not sure about myself. I just dont want to lose you, Im afraid I might kill you.
So Id tell you to stop when I felt it had been enough. And then you just lock me in one of the rooms for three days, and then teach me to hunt after animals instead of humans. I said, wanting him to listen to me. And I was pleased that he was genuinely listening to me, taking in every word I said. This made me the happiest Id been that day.
I dont mind that idea. But somehow the idea of locking you in a room for three days terrifies me. Now come on, why dont we have some fun? Victoria is dead and never coming after you again, the Volturi wont harm you because they wont be able to find us. Swim with me.
Alright. I finally agreed.
He smiled and kissed my cheek. He backed away a little bit, turned, and dove into the nice cool water. I followed him for a few steps, scooping water up in my hands and letting the water run down my arms. I looked around me, expecting him to pop up somewhere to try and take me by surprise. Then I heard a small splash of water behind me, I turned and there he stood, glistening and smiling at me with those beautiful golden eyes.
I thought you were going to come under. He said in that beautiful and sultry voice of his.
Im preparing myself.
Come on, have some fun. He scooped me up in his strong arms and ran further out into the lake like the water didnt exist, the water that would push back and normal person. But I guessed that being a vampire, water didnt have quite the same effect on him. Take a breath. He instructed. I did as he said and the second I did he dove underwater with me still in his arms.
When I opened my eyes I was being pushed against cold hard chest from the speed and the force of the water. I could tell that he was enjoying the rush because his muscles tensed; he looked down at me and put his lips to mine. My lungs had been replenished with new air, and all I could taste was mint. We sped past fish and other life that existed in the depths of the lake. It was beautiful. I had never seen anything like this, not even in an aquarium where you were surrounded by tanks with all the sea life in them. This was about a thousand times better than that. It was like a dream, a dream that I wouldnt want to end. But it wasnt a dream, no, it was much better, this was reality, and only reality that seems like a dream can truly overcome the power of a pleasant dream.
And being with Edward made it even better. My vampire and me, our happiness, this magical experience that he was giving me while I was still human. It was wonderful; I never wanted it to end. But more than likely, it was going to end at some point; hed have to take me back above water to let me breathe normally. He put his lips to mine again to replenish my lungs. I seemed to be getting over the dizzying effect of his lips, but they still made any moment more magical than what it actually was, or needed to be.
He didnt open his mouth, clearly not wanting water to flow into him, for that would surely have an effect even on a vampire. The next thing I knew we burst out of the water in the middle of the lake, our heads just floating above the water.
Now tell me, what did you think of that? he asked, hoping that I had enjoyed it.
Different. But a good different. I certainly enjoyed it.
Thats good. Because I only want you to enjoy the time that we have alone together. He put his lips to mine in a kiss, holding me tight, but not too tightly as he didnt want to hurt me. As he kissed me one thought ran through my mind, please turn me into a vampire. I wanted to spend eternity with him, was that so wrong to ask for?
I said when he pulled away to see my smiling face. I love you.
And I love you Bella. Now I have another question for you.
Do you want me to start the transformation tonight?
My heart caught in my throat, I couldnt speak. I didnt know what to say. Instead of speaking, I merely nodded my head yes.


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Johnstown Castle, Wexford |
Story of Ferguson Tractors - models |
Butter Press and small churn |
Beet Sugar |
Bob Scotney featured Inverness Castle as his I Castle yesterday
Photos from County Wexford website and
from the Irish Agricultural Museum's website
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Johnstown Castle, Wexford |
Story of Ferguson Tractors - models |
Butter Press and small churn |
Beet Sugar |
I would love to spend some time in the UK doing nothing but traveling from castle to castle. That would be a dream come true!
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Hi Bob - I know I struggled with J - and wanted something interesting - hence the J for jump to Ireland!
@ Juliet - I know there are few around, not necessarily tied in with a Castle though - but the Irish agricultural connection sounds fascinating. OK - perhaps we'll see you over here .. sometime?
@ Yvonne - I went through Wexford to the mountains and then back to Cork .. so I remember beautiful scenery - but never got the coast.
@ Nick - Ireland is stunningly beautiful .. I've been twice .. once to the west as 'a kid' .. and then a brief stop in Dublin. I was rather taken with the Agricultural Museum - so glad you are too .. I like the way they've categorised the displays ..
@ Old Kitty - aren't the words great - they evoke names from the Channel Islands .. and I was rather taken with Ashlar too ...
@ Karen - there's so much to see isn't there .. sadly we can't do it all ..
@ Jo - well I did need to stretch a little - but it is interesting and that's what counts ..
@ Helen - hallo again to you too - so good to see you. Lots of castles to look at .. glad you enjoyed it ..
@ Manzanita - they certainly all had turreted battlements somewhere along the line, but the Wars of the Roses were in the north of England ...
There are places to stay in some castles - and it would be exciting wouldn't it .. those grounds would be glorious to wake up to ..
@ Lucy - welcome, good to meet you .. sorry about the virtual tour - still one day perhaps you'll get to visit?
@ Clarissa - I'd like to do that too - and the Beet Sugar exhibition I thought would be fun ..
@ Bish - ah! galumphing hefferlumps - a few children will be doing that I'm sure ..
@ Laura - actually so would I - without a care in the world .. just touring and visiting .. eating locally .. just a wonderful thought ..
@ Teresa - there've been a few museums attached ... but I just liked the agricultural emphasis of this one ..
Cheers everyone - lovely to have your comments .. thanks so much for visiting .. Hilary
I want to visit there right now!
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I hopped over from Stephen Tremps blog since I'm a fan of castles. We lived in a village about fifteen miles from Central London for six+ years...moved back to the states in 2009. My girls were teenagers during our expat years and loved the experience too. They called some outings 'the 3 C's...castles, cathedrals, and churches. We've seen many!
Windsor is my favorite but I lived nearby and was there often. I'm going back to read your post on Dover because that's another one I loved. Great topic for the A-Z!
@ Glynis .. there are plenty - I think it would take many months, years perhaps .. I hope there are few here from my list or Bob's list that might entice a visit ..
@ Dawn - delighted to meet you .. and that will be wonderful if you can visit .. in the meantime enjoy the pictorial history ..
@ Sarah - so do I!! Just a quick flight out ..
@ Lynn - and all so interesting ..
@ Julie - I share your thoughts - I'd really like to see the agricultural museum, sometime I hope I will!
@ Lynn - Ireland is lovely .. but historically this looks fascinating ..
@ Theresa .. I guess it was 'rescued' in Victorian times - and yes there are plenty of ruins around - it does look gorgeous doesn't it ..
@ Joyce - good to meet you .. and Windsor is a magnificent castle - we lived near there as kids ..
.. I bet your children have happy memories - even if traipsing around "yet another" C, C or C .. castle, cathedral or church - wasn't so much fun for them!!
I hope you enjoyed the Dover post - I'd love to visit now they've refurbished it ..
@ Friko - Ireland/Eire is very pretty - while this castle-museum looks extremely historically interesting ...
@ Rosaria - glad you're enjoying my selections!
@ Chuck - this is quite a long way south .. unless she was visiting Waterford Crystal (glass factory) at the same time ..
@ Heather - thanks for commenting - and glad this was the one Irish castle I've used - as you're Irish. See you anon -I hope.
@ Donna - good to meet you .. and glad you're enjoying the challenge ..
Thanks everyone - wonderful to have your comments and input - cheers Hilary
Hi Hilary! Found your post for the letter J very interesting. I also found it interesting that an agricultural institute was established there. It's nice to know that they still have the ornamental gardens.
Hi Susanne .. the family must have been and are quite forward thinking, and were/are determined to preserve their history and the unique history of Ireland.
Many estates are going back to their original roots and restoring their gardens .... which is just great.
Good to see you - thank so much for coming by .. Hilary


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The Geometry Standard, Benchmark 2: Measurement and Estimation. The student uses appropriate vocabulary to compare the measurment of the animal he/she is drawing
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1. Launching the Lesson
body a little longer than your foot, and in the shape of an ellipse (oval) a head that is larger than a magnetic vowel letter and any shape you want (refer to shape chart and teach children about drawing profile of the head) Legs shorter than their thumbs A tail longer than their crayon. (It can be curved or straight) and wider than a pencil A mouth shorter than a stapler eyes that are smaller than dimes ears that are shorter than a key a nose that is any size they want (ask them to describe some noses and write down their descriptions )
Students will share their animals by reading what they wrote, and showing their pictures (I will paper clip what they wrote to the back of their pictures, so they will show the pictures as they read)
Elaboration: I will type out writing pieces and put them in a book with each child's animal picture.


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Pie Dough: Measure flour into mixing bowl and mix salt through it. Cut in the shortening with a pastry blender or fork until it becomes the size of medium pebbles or peas. Gently blend in the water and heavy whipping cream until the flour has been moistened. Gather together the dough, pulling it from the sides of the bowl, forming it into a ball. Divide the dough equally into two pieces, slightly flatten, wrap in saran wrap and refrigerate until use.
Tips: Don't over-mix. Pie dough will become tough and less flaky when overworked. Adding heavy whipping cream provides a flakier crust.
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13 When they had finished, James stood and said, "Brothers, listen to me. | 13 When they finished, James spoke up: "Brothers, listen to me. |
14 Peter has told you about the time God first visited the Gentiles to take from them a people for himself. | 14 Simon has described to us how God at first showed his concern by taking from the Gentiles a people for himself. |
15 And this conversion of Gentiles agrees with what the prophets predicted. For instance, it is written: | 15 The words of the prophets are in agreement with this, as it is written: |
16 'Afterward I will return, and I will restore the fallen kingdom of David. From the ruins I will rebuild it, and I will restore it, | 16 " 'After this I will return and rebuild David's fallen tent. Its ruins I will rebuild, and I will restore it, |
17 so that the rest of humanity might find the Lord, including the Gentiles -- all those I have called to be mine. This is what the Lord says, | 17 that the remnant of men may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who bear my name, says the Lord, who does these things' |
18 he who made these things known long ago.' | 18 that have been known for ages. |
19 And so my judgment is that we should stop troubling the Gentiles who turn to God, | 19 "It is my judgment, therefore, that we should not make it difficult for the Gentiles who are turning to God. |
20 except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals. | 20 Instead we should write to them, telling them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals and from blood. |
21 For these laws of Moses have been preached in Jewish synagogues in every city on every Sabbath for many generations." | 21 For Moses has been preached in every city from the earliest times and is read in the synagogues on every Sabbath." |
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Fr. Euresti, a priest at Cristo Rey Catholic Church in east Austin, was last heard from on early Tuesday morning when he called his sister to tell her he was close to the border. Later on Tuesday, the priest's Nuevo Laredo neighbors called police after finding the priest's garage door wide open.
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After a dominating first game by Corona del Sol, it took some final-game heroics to seal the victory Wednesday night against Mountain View, with the Aztecs defeating the Toros, 25-6, 25-27, 25-20, in volleyball.
The Aztecs' quick start came following a straight-set loss Tuesday to Phoenix Xavier, a defeat Corona coach Janna Corbett attributes to her team not trusting each other in their first real-time action in nearly two weeks.
Senior Kellie Phillips and junior Shaylen Walters served the visiting Aztecs (1-1) to the early first-game lead. The two combined for 11 points on the serve and Walters had four consecutive aces midway through the game.
"Walters has a wicked serve and Phillips' float-jump serve is just so impressive," Corbett said. "It looks like it is going out and then it stays in."
Mountain View (1-1) was led by senior co-captain Calli Mechem in the second game. The likely replacement for last year's state and threetime East Region Player of the Year Chelsea Goodman, who is playing at Brigham Young this year, Mechem is expected to be the team's go-to player.
"Our first game, we were definitely nervous," Mountain View coach Katie Roberson said. "Athletes at Mountain View are competitive and they had to get over it. . . . and we came out the next game trying to beat somebody."
Mechem led all players with 11 kills, thanks in part to a constant diet of balls fed to her from all directions. However, her gaudy numbers were worrisome for Roberson, who wants to see her other players in position to score.
"She is our captain and a great leader," Roberson said. "But I would have liked to see our middles score more."
The third game saw the best combined effort from both squads, with neither team pulling away.
After jumping to an early 4-1 lead, the Aztecs eventually tied it up and took the lead 8-6.
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The 2008 Shelby GT 500 KR is a celebration of the original 1968 Shelby GT 500 KR. It starts as a Mustang GT 500 that has been worked by SVT group and then the rolling chassis is shipped to the Shelby facility in Las Vegas, Nevada. This is where many of the specific KR are items are installed.
They include items such as the KR's forged wheels, stickier tires and a ride height that has been lowered in the front and rear. The KR's hood was far too complex to be made of steel. It is made of Carbon Fiber and is ducted and vented to funnel air to the engine compartment.
It also has a more aggressive spark which requires premium fuel. It also has probably the best sounding exhaust ever installed on a Shelby. You must hear this for yourself. These changes amount to 40 HP and additional 30 lbs. of torque. It has a shorter 3:73 gear which makes a huge difference in the throttle response and it has a short-throw shifter which feels very nice. The suspension was also reworked by SVT to make it handle better than the GT 500. All of these items make the KR quite a package over the GT 500 and makes this car very exciting to drive.
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Peak oil fails to register with Gordon Campbell and Carole James
The two main provincial political parties, the B.C. Liberals and the B.C. NDP, don't like talking about peak oil. They both seem to think it's good public policy to build a new multibillion-dollar bridge across the Fraser River.
Today, I've been reading Jeff Rubin's startling new book, Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and The End of Globalization (Random House Canada, $29.95). And I've got to say, it's pretty depressing to think that the two people with a shot at becoming premier both seem completely oblivious about international oil markets.
Rubin is not some left-wing flake who can easily be dismissed by B.C. Liberal Leader Gordon Campbell and NDP Leader Carole James. He's the former chief economist at CIBC World Markets, and he presents a compelling case that the future is not going to be a continuation of the past.
Sky-high oil prices caused the global recession. And as soon as the economy starts to recover, it will likely be hobbled again by rapidly rising oil prices.
This requires some innovative thinking on the part of our provincial leaders. The Greens seem to be the only ones with a clue about the whole nature of peak oil—which suggests that once global oil production peaks (or has peaked), it will result in an inevitable decline in supplies. The mismatch between demand and supply will cause wild price gyrations, crippling economies around the world.
Rubin's analysis of demand for oil in oil-producing countries is particularly riveting. He notes that demand has declined in areas where it was traditionally the strongest—i.e. North America and Western Europe.
However, demand for oil has risen sharply in oil-producing countries, such as Venezuela, Iran, and Saudi Arabia. That's because governments in those countries have suppressed the price of oil for their own citizens.
"So great is the popular demand for fuel subsidies that in many OPEC countries higher world oil prices actually raise oil consumption, in total defiance of conventional economic logic," Rubin writes. "Subsidies turn what otherwise is rational economic behaviour on its head."
So as supplies decline, overall demand can continue increasing, benefiting OPEC producers. "If you are Hugo Chavez, the oil market is a virtuous cycle where self-indulgence leads to self-enrichment," Rubin writes.
It's too bad that Campbell and James are too busy to read Rubin's book. Because if they did, they would both overhaul their platforms, kill the Gateway Program, and place a lot more emphasis on generating alternative energy.
The above link will help people understand what peak oil farming will be all about, as food security will be the major challenge in the next decade. Consider that the food on our dinner tables has travelled an average of 5000km by means of cheap oil. This supply line will not last much longer.
According to Carolyn Baker, Ph.D., each mouth will need over half a hectare (or about 1.3 acres) of farmable land to feed it, to provide enough calories over the year, which means land with sufficient levels of essential growing elements like phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen, which is to say not just any old plot of land. We'll need to take the soil to a lab to be sure it can produce food. And lots and lots of humans, not gas powered tractors, will need to work the land.
The Vancouver Lower Mainland is a 4.2 million hectare region, be it paved, residential, commercial, industrial, farm, park or whatever. With 2 million people, that means roughly 2 hectare's per person, while population density on the downtown peninsula is 121 people per hectare. The reality is that there just isn't enough land in the area capable of being farmed, even if every hand were working it.
There's hope. Some insightful few were able to create the Agricultural Land Reserve in 1974, today including 4,716,516 hectares in all of BC, a province of over 4 million people. We'll need to relocate mass amounts of population to make it work, and the government will somehow need to make the ALR available for meaningful production, and soon.
A few of the challenges are that the ALR isn't all class 1 agricultural land, it isn't all within a reasonable distance of the population, and it's currently being farmed with conventional methods, meaning intensive oil-based farming practices, if it's being farmed at all.
What we'll need is traditional farming, breaking the ground with hand and hoe, if we're to expect it to provide more than a season of meaningful production, as the essential growing elements will deplete without oil-based fertilizers and other enrichment materials being trucked in from hundreds of kilometres away. We'll need train lines to bring the food in from the far away BC fields into the cities. We'll need wind, geothermal, tidal and solar in a major way.
A wind turbine, for example, can provide a neighbourhood of 500 homes with meaningful, yet intermittent, power. A big rebuilt model with a 25-year life span costs a bit less than $1million, about $20,000/yr to service, and could pay itself off with energy savings in just a few years.
We don't need two hundred turbines in some far away location, we need one in every neighbourhood, solar panels on homes, solar water heating on roofs, geothermal grants to make it affordable. Private individuals need to be able to produce their own power, civic governments need to produce their own power, and BC Hydro needs to be given free reign to build up new public power generation facilities again, whereas the Liberals have stopped this.
A government in denial could cost many of us our lives, and this is why voting green and supporting STV is so important - the two lead parties just don't get it, or they don't care, because today's votes are the end all for them, rather than our future security.
I'm going to be working hard at this issue beyond the election, because it's obvious a first-past-the-post election is not going to produce anything but politics as usual. Change will need to come from the people governing the government.
Please contact me if you need some guidance, or if you have some ideas.
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Global crude oil production peaked in 2008 and oil production is now declining terminally.
Within a year or two, oil prices will skyrocket as supply falls below demand. OPEC cuts could exacerbate the gap between supply and demand and drive prices even higher.
Independent studies indicate that global crude oil production is now declining from 74 million barrels per day to 60 million barrels per day by 2015. During the same time, demand will increase. Oil supplies will be even tighter for the U.S. As oil producing nations consume more and more oil domestically they will export less and less. Because demand is high in China, India, the Middle East, and other oil producing nations, once global oil production begins to decline, demand will always be higher than supply. And since the U.S. represents one fourth of global oil demand, whatever oil we conserve will be consumed elsewhere. Thus, conservation in the U.S. will not slow oil depletion rates significantly.
Alternatives will not even begin to fill the gap. There is no plan nor capital for a so-called electric economy. And most alternatives yield electric power, but we need liquid fuels for tractors/combines, 18 wheel trucks, trains, ships, and mining equipment. The independent scientists of the Energy Watch Group conclude in a 2007 report titled: "Peak Oil Could Trigger Meltdown of Society:"
"By 2020, and even more by 2030, global oil supply will be dramatically lower. This will create a supply gap which can hardly be closed by growing contributions from other fossil, nuclear or alternative energy sources in this time frame."
With increasing costs for gasoline and diesel, along with declining taxes and declining gasoline tax revenues, states and local governments will eventually have to cut staff and curtail highway maintenance. Eventually, gasoline stations will close, and state and local highway workers won't be able to get to work. We are facing the collapse of the highways that depend on diesel and gasoline powered trucks for bridge maintenance, culvert cleaning to avoid road washouts, snow plowing, and roadbed and surface repair. When the highways fail, so will the power grid, as highways carry the parts, large transformers, steel for pylons, and high tension cables from great distances. With the highways out, there will be no food coming from far away, and without the power grid virtually nothing modern works, including home heating, pumping of gasoline and diesel, airports, communications, water supply, waste water treatment, and automated building systems.
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Within a very short time, everyone is going to be driving electric cars with electricity derived from power plants which are at least twice as efficient as internal combustion engines in cars. You have your head in the sand and expect everyone to take transit because it suits you. Transit does not suit me and many other independent individuals who want the freedom to do as we please in our own vehicle.
Suggested reading are my article and comment on April 23, 2009 "Cut emissions with new electric cars, not buses" in the Georgia Straight. By the way, I voted Green already in the advance polling, even though I don't agree completely with Stephen's (Green candidate) views or your views.
Your kind is despised in the US after your leader Ralph Nader elected George Bush and sent the greatest Green politician the world has known Al Gore to the sidelines. Your odious participation in that election gave us a million dead Iraqis', a fatal 10 year hiatus in the global warming war and the worst global recession in 80 years. Listen to progressive leaders like Thom Hartmann, Rachel Maddow, and Dennis Kucinich describing their disgust for the now thankfully decimated American Green party.
You elected Gordon Campbell last time, Stephen Harper twice and put BC and Canada back years in the battle against global warning. You have caused enormous damage to my county, my province and my planet.
You are the spoiled little boy who because the other neighborhood kids wouldn't play by your rules, took your ball away and went home so nobody could play. Lots of Green politicians are running for the NDP and have made enormous progress in turning that party towards sustainable policies. Yes much more needs to be done. If you weren't such a bunch a silly destructive children you could have signed up Green supporters by the thousands to NDP memberships, taking over entire constituency associations, sending green delegates to policy conventions, nominating green candidates and making sure the party went in your direction. Stephen Harper even showed you how to do it with his Christian fundamentalist takeover of the Progressive Conservative party. In fact in the last several days Carole James has been inviting you to do just that.
Unfortunately instead of coming up with a policies and campaigns to save the world, Canadian progressives first have to spend our energy eliminating your odious presence from the Canadian electoral scene just as the Americans have eliminated you from theirs.
On this same page you have an opinion from Stephen Kronstein who seems to have studied photojournalism at Kwantlen. Yet he talks about things like hoeing fields, locating wind mills in suburbs, solar power on roofs. Not a clue does he have about baseload power, what happens when the wind hits 50 mph and the grid saturates, what happens when there is no wind for weeks on end, when the wind varies up and down thirty mph every thirty seconds, what happens at nighttime in the winter and early morning, late afternoon when there is no solar energy and the enormous cost of such a silly scheme. Has he ever had to spend days out in the field hoeing. I very much doubt it. And yet Charlie you call those thoughtful comments???
Why is it none of the parties have addressed the obvious telecommuting and 3 day work week methods which alone would eliminate half the vehicle traffic from our road. Why is it none of the parties have asked why so many of our goods travel by truck when far cheaper barge and rail transportation is already available.
Global warming is a serious issue and requires serious treatment not the nonsense that the Green party, the cons (80% who don't believe in global warming) , and yes the NDP have come with. It's much too late for pirate power, hydro dams, carbon Taxes/ Cap n'Trade. windmills, solar and geothermal power. As James Lovelock has shown only a massive mass produced nuclear power construction effort has any chance of getting us ahead of the curve and the cost of that process is far less than the solar/wind scenario.
I would agree with the Kevin Washbrook's proposal for a climate change citizens assembly as the only likely method of getting the resources necessary to attack the impending end of civilization.
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As for Stephen Kronstein's political endorsement of the "insightful few", meaning the BCNDP's ALR where he said,
"There's hope. Some insightful few were able to create the Agricultural Land Reserve in 1974, today including 4,716,516 hectares in all of BC, a province of over 4 million people.
How convenient for him to try and ride the coat tails of one of the most forward thinking policies of its time, the BCNDP's Agricultural Land Reserve truly shows that they were Green and sustainable before it was even considered stylish back in 1974. Back then the Greens didn't even exist. Now, they pretend they are the only party that ever thought a green thought just because they go by that same name. With such disingenuous commentary from a Green candidate, I would question their true motives and ability.
The BCNDP are the only party that can stop 8 years of Gordon Campbell's total neglect. Why else would environmentalists like Alexandra Morton, GreenPeace and others switch from the greens publicly to the New Democratic Party of British Columbia
I was not aware of the NDP's agricultural land reserve, and I hadn't considered the fact that the North American Greens were inspired by the Europeans, yet they have proportional representation and we do not.
Voters, the NDP is a left party. Stop buying the BS put out there by Campbell, stop dividing the left. Unite, vote intelligently, prevent CampHarperbell from staying in power and selling even more of the province to corporations who will do much more harm than anything saved by the misled carbon tax, which targets consumers rather than producers, effectively leaving any change to the market, which will take years. The NDP will put in place a Cap n Trade system, targetting producers rather than consumers, and will save the province from being sold off. What the hell more could you want, realistically?
No mainstream politicians will place high priority on Peak Oil until awareness becomes as common as Climate Change has become. Put your energy into spreading awareness, the politicians will follow. In the meantime, resist voting Green and pray that STV passes.
The NDP and Carole James are against electoral reform and STV. It makes your entire argument and impassioned post about how all Green Party supporters are the selfish ones a bunch of nonsense. You don't want to reach out and work with others, you instead want to crush others and force them to support you.
You're like the school yard bully - you punch someone in the face, and then order them to do as you say. Carole James had the opportunity to reach out, to mend fences, to build a coalition to defeat the Liberal Party, but she decided a while ago to move the party to become Liberal light, and lost direction in the process. But of course, I'm supposed to do like a lemming and rally behind someone that has demonstrated to me that she doesn't share my values and is utterly incompetent in the process.
Federally, it's been the NDP that's allowed Stephen Harper to form government by denying the Liberals votes. What irony. I suppose you're too much of a hypocrite to apply the "spoiled kid" metaphor to your own party. How about following your own advice and "sign up NDP supporters by the thousands to Liberal memberships, take over entire constituency associations, send NDP delegates to policy conventions, nominate NDP candidates and make sure the party goes in your direction". Basically, why don't you take a dose of your own medicine before you start prescribing it for others. What's the point of a federal NDP party when all they do is try and save their own hides, even if it means forming an alliance with Stephen Harper to block an election. And you have the audacity to finger point me and tell me all the things I'm responsible for?
Additionally, any economist that has paid even the slightest bit of attention knows that it is the financial crisis and the fallout in the credit markets that have caused the recession. Not peak oil. I'm not ignorant enough to declare that high oil prices had no impact but they certainly weren't the major factor.
Additionally, as many have said, the bridge has nothing to do with peak oil. A new Port Mann is about reducing absolutely horrendous traffic, and thousands of cars idling for hours the vast majority of the day. Have any "environmentalists" out there stopped to consider that a replacement Port Mann may actually reduce CO2 emissions by reducing traffic, and idling? The delays caused by the current bridge are so obscene that for certainly the current term, and most likely the mid, the new bridge will likely reduce CO2 emissions, and fuel consumption.
Use you heads! Think!! Don't pay attention to the rhetoric.
There are economists who's primary interest is environmental preservation. Until you've learned what they've learned, and studied what they've studied, don't presume that you're smarter than them.
People that call themselves environmentalists, and left wingers that do nothing but pay attention to the rhetoric are no better than those on the right that blindly follow Harpie into the abyss.
.. For those that care, and are still reading, I did take economics at university, and specialized in the economics of the environment. Additionally, despite what I consider to be unfounded opposition to the Port Mann expansion I did vote Green. I also voted for STV because it's just common sense. I agree with 99% of the Green party platform and consider myself to be quite progressive. But, if we push blindly ahead with vitriol and left wing stupidity without using facts and logic we're no better than the idiots on the right following Harper and the Cons like they were an NHL team..
Last I looked the polls about 10% for the Greens and mid 40's for the Liberals and NDP. Do you think Joe Clark welcomed the Harpo religious fundamentalist takeover? The party was vunerable and he just did it. If you cared a wit for the environment, you can get your supporters together and do a Stephen Harper on the NDP. Carole James would last as long as Joe Clark if you did.
Last federal election, the NDP/ Liberals were reasonably close in popular support and if you were awake then you'll remember they actually did form a European style coalition.
Fact is Greenies really are in love with their silly ideas and their right to destroy much more than they love their country or the environment.
As for peak oil, don't let the power-down doomers get you depressed. I've been following this story for a couple of years now, and even within that time frame, I've seen huge strides in the electrification of ground transport and alternate energy generation. When there's a will, there's a way. Those that want us to return to some "idyllic" 17th century agrarian existence are going to be disappointed. Some day we'll think of our current "brown pall of automobile fumes" city air the same way we think of the coal smogs of London in Dickensian times. Don't buy another car unless it has a plug.
- to Eric Chris: Everyone is not going to be driving electric cars in a very short amount of time. According to an industry estimate from a few years ago, it would take about 13 years to change over the North American fleet to green-tech vehicles, and that's if we stopped producing Hummers today, and we haven't. So if peak oil is on our doorstep as the geologists are predicting, electric cars on their own are definitely too little too late.
- to seth: You, like your party of choice, turn to personal attacks and degrading comments probably because ideas stand on merit and due diligence. Merit is hard to achieve when due diligence has been ignored, and thus you're grounding is fundamentally flawed.
Union donations and votes are what ultimately drive NDP policy, not ecocentric foresight, therefore your party cannot honestly claim to represent the values of the environmental movement. Environmentalism is not a right/left issue, not private vs. union, whereas the NDP's non-negotiable unioncentric position unfortunately is. It's therefore impossible for greens to flood into the NDP. If there's to be a flooding, it necessarily must flow from NDP to green.
Perhaps most greens - 60 per cent - are left-ecocentric, full heartedly supporting the union's right to bargain, and some are right-ecocentric, full heartedly supporting local private enterprise, but most are both. The NDP cannot possibly represent our views, which is why many people who are on the fence are undecided between the Liberals and the greens.
Seth, the NDP does not own green votes, and they certainly haven't earned mine. If there wasn't a green in my riding, I wouldn't vote, because the Liberals and NDP are so polarized they haven't any idea how to represent my values.
To put it right back at you, "your kind is despised" for not supporting the carbon tax, the most useful policy tool the environmental movement has at its disposal, which was originally introduced to BC politics years ago by the greens. The carbon tax is the only policy on the table that will effectively rid us of our oil dependency, which is why we're in trouble if the NDP takes power.
A carbon tax needs to be pursued across industry rather than just at the pump, and the cap-and-trade system will take the better part of a decade to implement, as negotiations will delay the plan until the point of irrelevancy in terms of peak oil.
You, seth and the NDP, "elected Gordon Campbell last time, Stephen Harper twice and put BC and Canada back years in the battle against global warning," as jlavoie did well to point out.
If the NDP could pull away from its polarized stance and support ecocentric and economic sanity, I'd enthusiastically support it. But it hasn't. What's a green to do? Answer me that.
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43 years ago today, Rachael Ray was born in Glen Falls, NY. While she's probably not ringing in the year with another skydiving trip, the 30 Minute Meals and talk show star is doubtless just as campy as ever. The words she's introduced to the English language, like "yum-o" and "EVOO," may have you rolling your eyes, but American kitchens (and vocabularies) certainly wouldn't be the same without her. Happy 43st, Rachael — here's a salute to your corniest recipe titles.
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I'm not a fan of her show (she's too manic, it stresses me out!), but I actually love her magazine. It's FULL of recipes, and they are things I would actually want to make! I'm actually thinking about subscribing.
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Oh Rachel Ray, she's a little much at times but I still love her and her shows. I've been watching 30 minute meals from its debut, she's awesome.
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I think American kitchens would pretty much be the same.
I think you can usually make meals in 30 minutes already. And I don't really feel that she's inspired that many people to take up cooking often/daily by pointing that fact out.
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Just an FYI...it's Glens Falls, not Glen Falls...I know, I'm from that area too...
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I'm with Florida Snow and Snarkypants. I have a hard time watching her show, too. She's too manic for me.
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i was reading those names and hearing her annoying voice saying them. arg. now i have a headache.
not really, but i cannot stand her voice or the way she tries to be all cutsey.
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cheesy names, yes, but its damn good food. though sometimes I watch the show on mute :)
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So this is not the first time this week I have seen these groups of black bugs traveling up the branch of my crepe myrtle. Any clues to what they are?? In the second picture you can see the one group and then another group coming up at the base of the trunk. |
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I know exactly what they are, having seen them several times in Hilton Head/Beaufort,SC. I think it might have been on Rose Hill Plantation (you're familiar, probably) that I first saw them...and on a Crape myrtle! Pretty weird, huh? They are winged and non-winged versions of the Giant Bark Aphid, an insect that I am pretty sure is pretty rare, at least in my experience. It is considered the largest of all the aphids. |
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Cool. They are almost never a problem because they have a tendency to maintain themselves and not over-populate. I recommend leaving them alone. Maybe even try an experiment: communicate with nature and ask for praying mantises and parasitic wasps. Then keep your eyes open and see what happens. I am a firm believer that these things come in answer to our prayers. Have fun! |
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The Houston city council has loudly heard opposition from conservative Christians about the proposed non-discrimination ordinance (NDO) to be voted on today (May 28). As a supporter of LGBT rights, I'd like to share why I as a local Houston clergy support the NDO and urge our council to pass this ordinance. At a point […]
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That which we believe, and trust, and hope comes to life only when it rubs shoulders with what we're living, feeling, and thinking. We must time and again be oriented to Gospel, to the beautiful new world God is creating in the midst of the old, and to the worth-ness of God above all else. "Holding fast" may most powerfully take the form of allowing the gospel to "read" us, rather than us reading it. Indeed, for me, faith grows when the gospel is teacher and my life the curriculum; formation rather than information. And no preacher or devotional book can do that hard work for us.
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There is a god, and it's not you. This is as cute as it is true. But biblically speaking, it's more accurate to say there is a god, and it's not Uncle Sam. From Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar to Herod and Domitian, Biblical authors use rulers to frame faith as allegiance to either God or the […]
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Sarah and Sudaman wanted their wedding to reflect both their cultures, English and Nepali. The reception was held at Buckinghamshire Railway Centre in Quainton. They took the space and added their own personal style to it which that meant lots of colour! Sarah wore a dress made for her in Nepal and Sudaman wore a traditional Nepalese attire also made for him in Lalitpur, Nepal.
"I moved to Nepal three years ago to teach English", began the bride. "On my first day I was introduced to Sudaman and was advised that he was the man to go to for a party, a wild night out or help learning guitar. I called upon him for all of the above and our relationship blossomed!"
"This was actually our third wedding ceremony, a blessing really", she continued. "Our first two (!) 'real' weddings were a year ago in Nepal, one a typically Hindu, Nepali affair and the other a simple, Christian gathering. Nepal is our home and therefore part of who we are; we wanted to share some of the country's rich culture with family and friends in the UK whilst also embracing some quintessentially British traditions."
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"Blue Note" means there's a certain sound to a record, a style that is tight and sharp and funky but also adventurous. If jazz is music to shout about, Blue Note records may be the most shout-worthy of all time.
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Individuals renewing policies are seeing a 20 percent increase in premiums, according to a national survey.
Even as the nation was debating whether to overhaul the health insurance market, people who were buying coverage on their own were experiencing sharp increases in the cost of their policies, according to a survey released Monday.
Those surveyed said they were faced with premium increases averaging 20 percent when they last sought to renew their coverage, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health policy research group that conducted the survey in March and early April.
While some switched to less expensive plans that offer less generous coverage, and others negotiated lower prices than their insurers initially requested, the people surveyed still reported an average increase of 13 percent on their health insurance costs.
Just how steep the increases have been in the market for individual insurance has been an open question since earlier this year, when Anthem Blue Cross tried to raise its rates by as much as 39 percent in California. The proposed increases were met with outrage from federal and state officials, but there was little information about how widespread such increases were in other parts of the country. Anthem, which is owned by WellPoint, one of the nation's largest insurers, later withdrew its request to raise rates.
"The survey shows that the steep increases we have been reading about over the last several months are not just extreme cases," said Drew Altman, the Kaiser foundation's president and chief executive. He said the increases far outpace those in the market for large employers buying coverage for their workers.
The findings also underscore challenges that people in the individual market will still face until changes under the new health care law go into effect in 2014, Altman said. About 14 million people younger than 65 buy their coverage in the individual market, according to Kaiser.
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