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London: For someone so petite for a swimmer, 5 foot 8 inches Natalie Coughlin has made an enormous impact in the world of swimming. One of the most successful female swimmers ever with 12 medals won at three Olympics, Coughlin is Irish with one quarter Filipino descent. She is also a swimmer who has passed the test of endurance in her sport.
In Focus | Olympics London 2012
Coughlin at a crossroads in her career
One of most successful female swimmers ever undecided on future
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- Natalie Coughlin
Better known as someone who has found recent fame with her participation in season nine of Dancing With The Stars — Michael Phelps told the media yesterday that if he were invited then he would only dance with Coughlin — and the 2012 edition of Sports Illustrated's Swimsuit edition, Coughlin is a someone who finds herself at the crossroads of her Olympic and swimming career. A bronze medal in London can be inspiring as well as a reality check for the future for any ambitious athlete.
"I am trying to decide my future," she said during a chat on Tuesday evening. "I love swimming so perhaps it's going to be a 'no' to retirement. However, I would still love to train. I think I am going to consult my coach on what to do next."
Couglin has treated herself to a sneak preview of what life in retirement could mean. "I took a year off after Beijing and that was nice," she said. "But I feel I have another Olympics in me. I would like to look towards Brazil, but four years is a long time."
Should plans for another Olympic Games not materialise then ''I might help my husband — coach Ethan Hall — with his swim school and give something back to swimming. The sport has opened doors for me because of my Olympic success. There will never be any shortage of opportunities."
Consistency has been Coughlin's legacy. Twelve Olympic medals do not come easily. Apart from her success in the pool, she is also armed with a degree in psychology from University of California, Berkeley. She claims to be fascinated by the human brain, although she specialised in ''mental disorders'' for her degree. And yet the confusion of whether to walk away from it all, or take one last dive into the pool, remains uppermost in her mind. If she did continue swimming it would just be for the enjoyment of it all and if she could retain the ability to compete at a high level.
The standard of swimming according to Coughlin is in good shape. "We owe our success to other competing nations. The number of swimmers from other countries who come to the US has helped retain our status as a swimming power," she argued. "Every time you are pushed you get better. That,'' she said, "is a good problem to have."


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Something's Missing
Usually this scene panics me – I'm leaving for work on a Wednesday morning and notice my neighbors' empty, blue garbage cans sitting at the end of their driveways, while ours sits full and forgotten in the garage. I then spend the next week kicking myself every time I have to stuff another bag into the now overflowing can.
But this was no ordinary trash day. This time I intentionally left our garbage can in the garage. Why? Because it was only half full. Instead, it was our recycling and compost bins that were overflowing (so much so that we're actually starting a second compost container).
I know, not earth-shattering news or anything, but it made me realize that our efforts to be more earth-friendly are paying off in some form. Apparently we've been able to divert about half of our household waste away from the landfill. We're a long way from living off the grid, but at least it's a step in the right direction.
Have any of you guys experienced a noticable reduction in your household waste? Any other great tips for cutting down even more? Obviously buying things less often and buying in bulk when ya can really help (two things we're definitely into) but we're wondering if there are any less obvious trash reducing tips out there. Spill the beans.
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it's the same at our house. recycling comes every other week and the garbage every week. i wish it were reversed!
{ julie }
When we moved to an area with curbside recycling, we really put forth an effort to recycle everything possible. The city gives us one bin but we could fill up several of them.
However, now I am noticing a reduction in my recycling pile since I've been cooking with less processed items. I recently read an article that said usually the bigger the recycling pile, the less healthy you are probably eating. Interesting. I suppose the bigger your compost pile, the more healthy you are eating. :)
We create one bag of trash every two weeks. Everything else is recycling. I'm hoping when we start composting, the amount of trash goes down even more.
Isn't it nice not to drag that super bin out to the curb every week?
Thankfully, recycling and trash come each week here. And, I need a bigger recycling can and a smaller trash can. I'm so happy they finally started curbside recycling. I was already recycling paper (to our parish school) and cans (to my pocket), but now I can recycle some plastics.
I cannot tell you how glad I am you haven't gone off on a political tangent like every other house blogger who thinks they know everthing there is to know about politics. Thank you.
We have always recycled but it wasn't until we started composting that we really became aware of what and how much we sent off to the landfill. For a family of 4 we have gotten our trash down to 1-2 bags a week. Everyone should compost it's easy and you get rewarded with free mulch in no time at all. Thanks for the post John.
Garbage bin: never full.
Yard waste /compost bin: always full *especially* after all the jack o'lanterns melted.
Recycling bin: unfortunately, always brimming. We need to make a serious effort to cut back on our purchases that have unnecessary packaging. But part of the problem too, is that my husband has a serious addiction to Vitamin Water (50/50, Revive and Charge), and buys them like crazy. It drives ME crazy. At least those plastic bottles aren't going into the landfill, but still, it's just so bad in so many ways. -
Lately, my husband and I have been buying our milk from a local dairy. It's nice to support a local business, but they also use glass bottles that you pay a deposit on and return when you get your next gallon of milk. It's great because the milk is really fresh and we're not adding to the trash or recycling. We just give it a quick rinse and then they sanitize before they reuse them at the dairy.
I too have recently experienced the same thing!
When we lived in our townhouse where there was no recycling pick up or place to compost we were going thru bags of garbage each week. Now that we've bought our first home we recycle ALOT and it is SO easy since our city picks it up. I put a second can next to our trash for recycling and we fill it up faster than we fill up trash! Like you our trash is minimal compared to our recycling. Still not perfect bc that is still a lot of disposing of goods BUT at least they will be repurposed instead of filling a landfill.{ Lindsey }
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I am so happy when on trash day I notice how our blue bin(recycling) is FULL and our green bin(trash) is not full. Compared to our neighbors who sometimes have TWO full green bins and 1-2 items in the blue bin. Once I even pulled out something on top of their trash and put it in their blue bin. I mean, hello people, the city makes it so easy for us to recycle, we don't have to sort or anything!
One of my next projects is to start a compost bin. Now that our renos are complete I have no excuse!
we're in the same boat! we actually only take our trash cans to the road every other week when the recycling comes…unless there is something particularly stinky in the trash can and i can't bear it on the porch!
When our condo unit FINALLY got recycling bins, they are always full, and everyone;s trash has reduced. Yea! We are down to one trash bag every week and a half. As soon as we move out of the city, we will have compost bins; thanks to your efforts in sharing!
I really encourage you to check out the blog I posted this past Monday. I included a picture of what our box looked like after only seven days of gathering recycled goods. It's insane. We currently live with my future MIL because we are searching for a house, and I know the consuming of such things as the daily newspaper and magazines will not cease for her, but in the meantime while I'm living there I can at least begin to refocus my responsibility back to Earth and hopefully make a lasting impression on her so that when we move out she continues what I've started.
Hey guys – that's great that you were able to do this on your own! We are super lucky because where we live, the city has a "green box" recycling program – that's right – they provide compost containers and collect it weekly!!! It's awesome – I live in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (woohoo, yeah Canada) which is near Toronto. With 2 adults we usually only have 1 bag of garbage every 2 weeks but our recycling (blue and green) are always chock-full and get collected every week. It would be amazing if every city adopted this! Love your site!
We recently moved to England and where we live actually limits how many trash bags you can put out each week, five, and leaves two medium sized black bags in exchange for next time.(only black bags for garbage, white for recycling, brown for organic waste.)
Needless to say, we learned to take advantage of their more or less mandatory recycling program. With two adults, two cats and an eight year old we were a bit concerned about being able to meet the seemly strict five bag limit but to our surprise it was actually pretty easy once we started separating the recycleables.
When you have two medium sized bags of trash a week opposed to the numerous bags you used to lug out, you really see the difference. What is particularly shocking is when you take bag after bag of recycleable's out for pickup and realize how many things you used to send to the landfill that you didn't have too.
I know this was put up 5 years ago but hey! I wanna a share :D
I've just moved to New Zealand, from Australia (originally from Scottyland) and I finally have a garden with a veggie garden in progress, a massive compost heap and a fireplace.
I have to pay to get my rubbish picked up by the bag or take it to the skip at a fee because the house doesn't have a wheelie bin. I think you can apply for a bin but I find it good motivation to burn the paper and cardboard, compost everything compostable and the rest recycle and bin as usual.
I'm down to a bag a month or so. I feel a bit smug but then I feel like I get to. Although in this day and age it's hard not to recycle.
Yippee to reducing landfill!!
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October 21 – November 24, 2012 Exhibitions E-Static Shadows - Unsichtbares sichtbar machen und Soft Technologies Fraunhofer-Forum "Hightech in Textilien", Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München, Germany Hightech in Textilien Video about Soft Technologies / Soft Interfaces project Textildesign und Elektronik -------------------------------------- October 2012 Work featured in Warp & Weft - Woven Textiles in Fashion, Art and Interiors Jessica Hemmings, Bloomsbury, 2012 Warp & Weft (English) -------------------------------------- September 2012 Co-Editor of a wide ranging survey on how designers and design can respond to today's challenges of interactive technologies. THE DIGITAL TURN - Design in the Era of Interactive Technologies Edited by Barbara Junge, Zane Berzina, Walter Scheiffele, Wim Westerveld, and Carola Zwick Park Books, 2012 THE DIGITAL TURN (English) -------------------------------------- April - July 2012 Research Project @ eLab Soft Interfaces A collaboration between Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Fraunhofer IZM, Berlin and Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, München Projekt Soft Interfaces Textildesign und Elektronik Video about the Soft Interfaces project -------------------------------------- December 2011 Intelligent Textiles Open Lecture "Intelligent Textiles" at Design Research Lab University of the Arts Berlin (UdK), Germany -------------------------------------- July 21 - August 21, 2011
E-Static Shadows at TransLife: Media Art China 2011
International Media Art Exhibition NAMOC, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing TransLife
January, 2011
Works "Touch Me" and "E-Static Shadows" published in
Material Revolution: Sustainable Multi-Purpose Materials for Design and Architecture
Sascha Peters, Birkhäuser Verlag (Basel/Berlin), 2011
Material Revolution (English)
Materialrevolution (German)
-------------------------------------- November 2010 BIO.Logics BIO.Logics - Sustainable Design and Technology Concepts Inspired by Nature Talk & Workshop Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK -------------------------------------- September 22 – 23, 2010
Key-note speaker at conference Social Street The 7th Urban and Landscape Days Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia Paper: 'Making the Invisible Visible: A Case Study of the E-Static Shadows Research Project' Social Street
Summer, 2010
Work "E-Static Shadows" published in
Made Of... New Materials Sourcebook for Architecture and Design
Christiane Sauer, Gestalten (Berlin), 2010
Made Of... (English)
Made Of... (German)
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Artist Talks: Transbiotics - Materialities of Textures Jens Hauser (DE/FR), Zane Berzina (LV/DE/UK), Paul Vanouse (USA) kim? / RIXC / VKN galleries at Spikeri, Riga, Latvia kim? / RIXC / VKN galleries at Spikeri, Riga, Latvia -------------------------------------- June 14 - 20, 2010
Exhibition Transbiotics: Temporal Stability Points kim? / RIXC / VKN galleries at Spikeri, Riga, Latvia
kim? / RIXC / VKN galleries at Spikeri, Riga, Latvia -------------------------------------- June 10 - September 26, 2010
Exhibition SKIN Wellcome Collection, Wellcome Trust, London Wellcome Collection
Spring, 2010
Functional Aesthetics: Visions in Fashion and Technology
Sabine Seymour, SpringerWienNewYork, 2010
Functional Aesthetics (English)
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Paper at Smart Fabric Conference in Miami E-Static Shadows represented by Jackson Tan, IN SQUARE LAB Smart Fabric Conference More information here. -------------------------------------- February 25 – 26, 2010
Paper at conference Potenziale für HighTech-Textilien TITV Annual Conference, Germany
Paper: 'Is This Textiles? - An Overview Of Some Non-Conventional Smart Textile Development Strategies'
More information in German here. -------------------------------------- January 7, 2010 – January 24, 2010
Exhibition Visual Voltage Amplified
Nordische Botschaften, Berlin, Germany
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Exhibition Narrative Sequences
The Center for Book Arts, NY, USA
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Exhibition Sk-interfaces
Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, Luxembourg
May, 2009 Mirrow of Shadow 'Mirrow of Shadow - Artist and Designer Zane Bērziņa' Article by Iliana Veinberga, Art Critic in 'Studija'
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Dating in Miami: Six Things You're Doing All Wrong, According to Local Expert Nikki Novo
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Nikki Novo -- Miami native and author of the blog the Art of You & Me and an in-the-works advice book -- believes the answer to women's bad luck in love in Miami is never about the city itself. It's an inside job.
"Yes, you're going to meet the same type of guy over and over again, like that guy who has lots of money and finds the need to show it off all the time, or even the starving artist," Novo says. "But as long as you are you and in line with yourself, you're going to be able to spot who's the fake and who's not."
Novo is the founder of the Love Club, a group life-coaching course for singles seeking real love in the rough-and-tumble world of dating. Held at the Standard Spa in Miami Beach, the three-part dating workshop helps locals navigate the ever-finicky mating scene in Miami, answering burning questions like "Do I really have to wear a tight dress to score a dude in Miami?" and "Do I have to leave this city to find love?"
Tonight, Novo's first workshop focuses on the person who's really sabotaging your love life, the one person who's keeping you from finding and maintaining that perfect, healthy relationship. (News flash: It's you.) "The classes are to see the fun in dating and make dating more durable and more fit for your lifestyle so that it works for you," Novo says.
And she's no Patti Stanger. (Bandage dresses and full hair and makeup to impress a guy? Get real.) Novo supports dressing for yourself and not for the guy, an idea that would leave the explosive star of Millionaire Matchmaker fuming through her nose and ears faster than she can say, "Show some more cleavage." Novo's simple approach to dating is refreshing in that it all starts with you, because hey, guess what, girl? You're also the one to blame for why you're still single and unlucky in love.
If your love life (or lack thereof) has you at the point of collecting cats off the street, leave your checklist at the door and, please, stay in those jeans and T-shirt. Novo gave us the lowdown on all the things women might be doing wrong in their approach to dating.
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Modernism Week in Palm Springs: Danielle and I Wonder Why We Don't Live in the Desert.
Monday, March 11th, 2013Last month Danielle and I spent a few days at The Parker in Palm Springs during Modernism Week. If you're a fan of mid-century modern this is an event that's not to be missed. While having our 10 month old daughter in tow disqualified us from touring the inside of some of the homes, we did a lot of self guided tours of architectural landmarks like this Wexler designed steel house from 1961. Due to the sharp rise in steel prices only 7 of these homes were built.
Driving around through all of the architecturally significant neighborhoods had me wishing I'd brought along some Sinatra to elevate the experience. Incidentally you can rent out Sinatra's Twin Palms Estate, complete with piano shaped pool where Sinatra lived with his first wife Nancy Barbato for a paltry $2600/night plus service fees and taxes. It sleeps up to eight people, so you can assemble your own Rat Pack on a budget.
The Palm Springs Visitors Center is housed in a former Gas Station designed by Swiss architect Albert Frey in 1965. Frey worked for Le Corbusier in 1928 and 1929 before immigrating to the US. The people at the desk are very helpful and will shower you with information and tour bus tickets, but the best way to see everything is at your own speed in your own car.
After long days of sightseeing and teak shopping we realized that the best part of Palm Springs is leaving the stress of the city behind and just napping in the dry desert air.
Until next time...
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Ray Comfort | |
October 2010 | |
Born | Ray Comfort[1] December 5, 1949 New Zealand |
Ethnicity | Jewish (mother)[2] |
Occupation | Christian Evangelist, author, television host |
Known for | The Way of the Master, Living Waters Publications, Christian Evangelism |
Religion | Evangelical Christianity |
Spouse(s) | Sue Comfort (1972-present) |
Children | Rachel, Jacob, Daniel[3] |
Website | |
Living Waters |
Ray Comfort | |
October 2010 | |
Born | Ray Comfort[1] December 5, 1949 New Zealand |
Ethnicity | Jewish (mother)[2] |
Occupation | Christian Evangelist, author, television host |
Known for | The Way of the Master, Living Waters Publications, Christian Evangelism |
Religion | Evangelical Christianity |
Spouse(s) | Sue Comfort (1972-present) |
Children | Rachel, Jacob, Daniel[3] |
Website | |
Living Waters |
Ray Comfort (born December 5, 1949) is a New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist. Comfort started Living Waters Publications and The Way of the Master in Bellflower, California and has written a number of books.
Comfort was born December 5, 1949 in New Zealand[3] to a Jewish mother and a father whom he has described as "a Gentile [who] was open to the things of God". According to Comfort's autobiography, his parents put "Methodist" on his birth certificate because his mother feared the possibility of "another Hitler", but he was given no religious instruction as a child.[3][4] Comfort identifies himself as Jewish.[2] According to Comfort, he was in the top class of his high school in Christchurch, where he attained a School Certificate (equivalent to a high school diploma in the US). He did not pursue higher education.[5]
Comfort worked in a bank after finishing high school, and later started a business at age 20. Ray Comfort converted to Christianity on 25 April 1972, when he was 22. He then began seven years training at a local church, after which he was ordained as a full-time pastor. Comfort then spent three and a half years as a pastor in Christchurch, New Zealand, and 12 years preaching open-air in the city's Speaker's Corner. He has no formal training nor theological degree. In his mid-20s, he began receiving invitations to speak internationally. In 1989, he accepted an invitation to join the pastoral staff at the non-denominational Calvary Chapel in Southern California.[5]
In the mid-1990s Comfort persuaded Kirk Cameron, star of the cancelled hit sitcom Growing Pains, to become an evangelist. The pair formed an organization called The Way of the Master, with the intention of teaching the church to more effectively preach the message of evangelical Christianity.[6]
Comfort says that evangelism is the main reason the Christian Church exists and that many of the evangelistic methods used over the last century have produced false conversions to Christianity. Comfort often uses the Ten Commandments to speak about sin before presenting the gospel of Jesus. In the mid-1980s he formulated two sermons entitled "Hell's Best Kept Secret"[7] and "True and False Conversions."[8]
Comfort speaks professionally at churches and evangelism seminars, and preaches in Huntington Beach, California. As well as co-hosting the former The Way of the Master Radio with Kirk Cameron, he is co-host of The Way of the Master Television Show.
On 13 April 2001, Comfort appeared at the 27th National Convention of American Atheists in Orlando, Florida, where he debated Ron Barrier, the National Spokesperson for American Atheists.[9] Comfort later stated that "they laughed at my humor, and although there was unified mockery at some of the things that I said, I was able to go through the Ten Commandments, the fact of Judgment Day, the reality of Hell, the Cross, and the necessity of repentance, and no one stopped me."[9]
On 5 May 2007, Comfort and Cameron participated in a televised debate with Brian Sapient and Kelly O'Connor of the Rational Response Squad, at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan. The debate focused on the existence of God, which Comfort claimed he could prove scientifically without relying on faith or the Bible. Nightline correspondent Martin Bashir moderated the event.[10] During the debate, Cameron and Comfort repeatedly referenced the Ten Commandments and denied the theory of evolution.[10]
In February 2009, Comfort challenged Richard Dawkins to a debate, offering to donate $10,000 to him.[11] Dawkins, who had previously stated a general policy not to debate with creationists,[11] said he would agree to do it if Comfort made a $100,000 donation to the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science non-profit organization. Comfort raised his offer to $20,000, which according to PZ Myers was "not enough."[12]
According to Comfort, he has designed dozens of gospel tracts since the 1970s, and sells millions of Living Waters tracts each year.[13] Some of his tracts are designed to resemble paper money, including fake $100, $1000 and $1 million bills. Others employ novelties intended to amuse, such as a "ticket to heaven" that invites the reader to tear it if they do not need it; the ticket is printed on a polymer substrate, making it extremely durable.[14] The tracts typically attempt to persuade the reader that on judgment day, they will certainly be found guilty of breaking one or more of the Ten Commandments, and therefore will be sent to hell, unless they say a prayer to acknowledge Christ's substitutionary atonement.
In June 2006, agents of the US Secret Service confiscated thousands of Ray Comfort's "Million Dollar Bill" gospel tracts from Darrel Rundus, president of Great News Network. A federal district court judge ruled that the tracts, which were marked as "not legal tender", did not violate federal law and ordered their return.[15]
In October 2010, The New Zealand Herald reported that elderly people received "appointment cards" by Comfort's California-based publishing company, Living Waters, asking them to fill out information regarding the date and time of their deaths, and advising them to contact evangelists in order to avoid hell. Recipients of these cards expressed anger and horror over receiving them, and contacted police over the matter, with one of them commenting, "It's disgusting. It was quite spooky. I just couldn't comprehend why anyone would ask you to predict the date of your death." The New Zealand Herald summarized a statement from Living Waters spokesperson Lisa Law as saying that "the cards were a way of raising awareness of human mortality in order to spark discussion about Jesus", and that Law "did not know who sent [the tracts]".[16]
Ray Comfort has authored or compiled more than 70 books and tracts.[17][18] His 2009 book You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think, ranked #1 in Amazon.com's atheism and apologetics categories when it debuted in February 2009.[19][20][21]
In November 2009, Comfort released an edited and abridged version of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, with a 50-page foreword detailing creationist arguments against the theory of evolution.[22] Stan Guffey, a biologist at the University of Tennessee, has alleged that most of Comfort's section on Darwin's life was plagiarised from his work.[23][24] The book was given away for free at selected schools around the United States.[25]
According to Comfort's website, "nothing has been removed from Darwin's original work",[26] but Eugenie C. Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, noted that Comfort deleted four chapters by Darwin that described the evidence for evolution, adding that two of the omitted chapters, Chapters 11 and 12, showcased biogeography, some of Darwin's strongest evidence for evolution.[27] She wrote that Comfort's foreword is "a hopeless mess of long-ago-refuted creationist arguments, teeming with misinformation about the science of evolution, populated by legions of strawmen, and exhibiting what can be charitably described as muddled thinking".
On his website, Comfort said that the four chapters were chosen at random to be omitted in order to make the book small enough to be affordable as a giveaway, with the absent chapters available for download, and that the missing chapters were included in the second edition, which had a smaller text size that made printing the entire book as a giveaway affordable. The second edition still lacks Darwin's preface and glossary of terms.[28][29] The National Center for Science Education arranged a campaign at colleges across the US to distribute an analysis of the Comfort introduction, a one page flier,[22] and "the NCSE Safety Bookmark" in the shape of a banana, a reference to Comfort's presentation of the banana as an argument for the existence of God.[30][31]
In 2011, Comfort wrote and produced a 33-minute documentary film called 180: Changing the Heart of a Nation. The film was criticized by The Huffington Post for its comparison of abortion to the Holocaust.[39]
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"My friends, I will never forget that man," McCain recounts during a town-hall meeting with voters, his voice choked with emotion. "I will never forget that moment. And I will never forget the fact that no matter where you are, no matter how difficult things are, there's always going to be someone of your faith and your belief and your devotion to your fellow man who will pick you up and help you out and bring you through."
It was, he said later, the most transcendent and uplifting experience of his imprisonment.
Faith and hate
Faith is a theme that runs through many of McCain's writings – and to him it means more than religion. In his first book, a family memoir called "Faith of My Fathers," McCain writes that his senior officers stressed "the three essential keys to resistance" during captivity – faith in God, faith in country, and faith in one's fellow prisoners. Of those three, the final one – keeping the faith in one another, the intense desire not to fail one's friends – was "our final defense," he writes. "This is the truth of war, of honor and courage, that my father and grandfather had passed on to me."
The warrior legacy of McCain's father and grandfather – both also named John Sidney McCain, both four-star Navy admirals – is ingrained in the senator's being. But it isn't until his fourth book, "Character Is Destiny," published in 2005, that he reveals another ingredient that he says was essential to his resistance as a POW: hatred.
"You come to hate your enemies, and not in the abstract because you believe they serve some hateful purpose, but in reality, and individually," he writes.


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Bond . . . Peter Bond, deal maker and energy tycoon
PUBLISHED: 01 Feb 2013 19:40:00 | UPDATED: 03 Feb 2013 10:44:21PUBLISHED: 02 Feb 2013 PRINT EDITION: 02 Feb 2013Linc Energy founder Peter Bond has faith in underground coal gasification as promising energy supply technology. Photo: Glenn Hunt
Angela Macdonald-Smith
Peter Bond zips around Australia in his corporate jet, pops over to his island in the Great Barrier Reef, toys with his Spitfire and Aston Martin, and is off in a couple of weeks to catch up with Roman Abramovich, the Russian business tycoon.
The self-made millionaire and chief executive of Queensland's Linc Energy has come a long way from his days as a trainee metallurgist down at BHP Steel's coke ovens in the Illawarra, in NSW.
"I've done OK, I can't complain," Bond says of his journey to riches.
When Linc hit the headlines last month with news of a potential 230 billion barrel shale oil resource in South Australia, the media went into overdrive: "Trillions of dollars worth of oil found in Australian outback," said one London broadsheet, holding up South Australia as "a new Saudi Arabia".
Bond, who owns 39 per cent of Linc, has firmly distanced himself from estimates in media reports including in the Adelaide Advertiser newspaper of a "$20 trillion" oil find, fully acknowledging the early stage of investigation of the shale resource in the remote Arckaringa Basin in the area around Coober Pedy.
But he is adamant his announcement of the oil potential within Linc's permits was justified and that he would have been remiss not to make the estimates public.
"Two independent reports after drilling and seismic and three years of geology come back and say, you've got an upside of 230 billion barrels, [if that] is not material then someone's on the wrong planet."
Linc shares spiked as much as 50 per cent on the news, to $2.99, adding more than $500 million in market value in less than three days. Bond's own holding shot up to $604.5 million. The share price has since slid back to $2.15, just 7.8 per cent higher than before the shale resource estimate.
Bond says that even using the lowest valuation of the shale resource, of 3.5 billion barrels at $1 a barrel, the increase in valuation for Linc is more than $6 or $7 per share. Valuing the Arckaringa permits on an acreage basis, as is more typical for uncoventional oil and gas, gives the same result.
"No matter how you cut it, this thing it's still worth a lot of money and it's still worth a re-rating for the stock," he says. "It's a multi-dollar revaluation [a share]."
But some saw it as another example of the junior perhaps having more talk than substance.
Linc's yet-to-be commercially proven core business of underground coal gasification (UCG), the wide mix of its portfolio that also spans Queensland coal exploration and Alaskan oil production, and its history of a purported coal asset sale that never eventuated means some investors remain unconvinced by the story.
"Obviously the Arckaringa has great promise. But whilst the shales are potentially very good, it is very, very early days.," one Queensland energy market expert cautions.
"Peter's a genuine entrepreneur. He's very smart in promoting Linc: so top marks to him. We'd just like to know more about time lines, costs."
"They are full of surprises," says a hedge fund investor, warning the stock is a dangerous one to short in the current environment.
"They have pulled off one amazing deal," he adds, referring to Linc's 2010 deal to sell a Galilee Basin coal tenement to India's Adani for $500 million plus a royalty of $2 a tonne that could earn it another $2.5 billion over 20 years.
But he also points to Linc's high cash burn, with its $44.2 million net cash outflow in the December quarter despite over 6000 barrels a day of oil production in the US.
On the question of UCG – where coal is burnt underground to produce synthetic gas, for conversion into diesel – and strategy, Bond admits things haven't always run to plan.
The Queensland government's heavy-handed regulation of UCG, the global financial crisis which upset the Emerald coal asset sale and other deals, and the need for short-term cash flow have all come into play.
"I understand the criticism. But unfortunately we were pushed that way due to circumstances, and at the end of the day we have a very large collection of very good assets on our books."
Bond says he has more faith than ever in the potential of UCG, a technology that has also caught the imagination of Russian investor Roman Abramovich, who owns shares in Linc and flew to Australia for dinner with the chief executive in Brisbane a couple of months ago before touring the UCG operation in Chinchilla in Queensland.
"Roman is one of a handful of very large investors that have been talking to Linc and doing business with Linc," he says. "He's fascinated by the UCG business and the value-add that UCG brings."
Bond admits that Australia, with its cheap coal, "maybe is not the best location for UCG". But he says a technology that can produce synthetic gas at "$2-plus" a gigajoule, has a bright future in Europe, Africa and Asia, which are "held to ransom" on gas supplies by giant producers such as Gazprom or by LNG imports.
"It will find its place in the energy world, that I am certain. It may not be Queensland but certainly it will be somewhere in the world."
Bond's critics concede he has put in the hard yards to develop Linc.
"He's been able to do things because he's gone out and drilled holes, then talked about them very successfully," says one.
From the outset, Bond has been driven to go places. Leaving BHP before completing his traineeship, Bond drove trucks for his father's business before sealing his first coal trade, for $17,000.
"I was a very hungry young man trying to make a few bucks."
More coal trades following, providing the means to build and buy equipment and then a coalmine a few years later. Selling his amassed NSW coal assets in 2002, including one for $50 million, Bond, at 39, had made enough to retire.
"For a country boy that grew up in Cobbitty, thinking a HR Holden Ute was probably the greatest car you could own, a few million bucks is a lot of money," he says.
But 18 months later, deciding he was "too young, smart and good looking to sit on a beach", he went back into business, turning around the Hillgrove goldmine for a sale to Straits Resources before snapping up then-bankrupt Linc for $1 million in late 2004.
Along the way to building up Linc to its current $1.1 billion value, Bond has picked up Dunk Island, a Citation jet, and his personal flying favourites, a 1944 Spitfire and a 1943 Harvard trainer. "Oh well, boys and their toys," he chuckles.
Bond says he got the Citation "cheap, after the GFC" and the same for Dunk – for $8 million-odd after it was ravaged by Cyclone Yasi.
But he won't be retiring again until he's "put some full stops, put some definition" to Linc's businesses and got them standing on their own two feet, with the aim of separate spin-offs. The oil and gas unit is already at that point, he says, while coal and UCG are about a year away, and shale two or three years off.
The motivation isn't to answer his critics, however: "I don't really give a rat's what most people think," he says. "I'm self-educated. I've grown my wealth from nothing to something across a number of fronts. And I've done it pretty much on my own. You sit around a table and have to believe in your own abilities rather than the critics."
The Australian Financial Review
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Companies | Linc Energy Ltd, Straits Res Ltd |
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Some BTs Lose It, Some FFBs Never Had It
Posted on | November 13, 2012 | By Guest Contributor | 3 Comments
Rabbi Menachem Zupnik
From Mishpacha Magazine BT Symposium – September 13, 2012
THE PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED here are very real and serious, and the answers are very personal and complex, and can't be properly addressed in a short forum. I am also uncomfortable that perhaps classifying these courageous Jews and their problems separately in this way is shallow and disrespectful. I try to be understanding of each individual, weighing his strengths and limitations as we talk. I experience each one as just an Orthodox Jew trying his best to juggle the stress and difficulty of fidelity to Hashem and His Torah in today's day and age.
I have been privileged to be inspired by many Jews who demonstrate incredible dedication and modesty in the face of great nisayon; but I have also encountered Jews who unfortunately do not seem concerned enough about compromising their Yiddishkeit. There is a spectrum of connection to Hashem and His Torah that exists equally among both the frum from birth and the baalei teshuvah. Indeed, some FFB people demonstrate weaknesses requiring compromises that dwarf any I have ever made for a person due to his secular past. In my experience, it is not a person's upbringing that defines who he is; his past is something for consideration, but no more.
You wonder how to deal with a baal teshuvah's "buyer's remorse." In response, I query: Is their problem of disenchantment essentially any different from that which so many of our young FFB adults are feeling, and is the answer to "their problem" any different from the answer to "ours"?
Regarding the sheer difficulty and expense of being frum, I again suggest that the problem is no different for the FFB individual. What would you say to a good, well-meaning Jew who, following his rebbeim, struggled to raise daughters who wish to marry only bnei Torah? His wonderful success in raising six exemplary daughters is greeted with the harsh reality that the really serious bnei Torah "cost" more than he can afford. His daughters, he is told, must settle for boys who are not such big learners but can support themselves. He regrets having thoughtlessly followed the course of our community, he is disil-lusioned by the system, and angry that it does not value his precious daughters and give them the chance they so very much deserve. How does one respond to his remorse and anger? The problem is not essentially any different from the one described here as a baal teshuvah problem. Indeed, in my experience, the latter problem arises more often than the former.
The issue of full integration into the community is also a personal question that depends on the individual and the community. I cannot overemphasize the importance of making the effort to belong to and be part of the larger Orthodox Jewish community. This is especially important for their children's sake, since they are lacking the added support of an extended frum family.
But once again, this is not only an issue for baalei teshuvah. They are not the only ones who want to retain their own identity and are hesitant to conform entirely. This is a larger problem with frum behavior in general; we may eat similar foods and wear similar clothes, but we are far from conformists. Just listen to the attitudes expressed among FFBs: This rav is too stringent and that rav is too lenient, that rosh yeshivah is too rigid and the other one does not give the boys a clear direction. Tragically, this occurs regarding gedolei Yisrael as well, with too many FFBs assessing their wisdom and deciding at a whim whether to heed their guidance.
The sad reality is that most frum Jews are in actuality very — perhaps too — independent. People resist committing themselves to any one shul, or rav, or any particular derech. This is not spiritually healthy for the FFB any more than it is for the baal teshuvah. So, before we start pondering whether an intelligent, well-educated baal teshuvah has to give up his or her independence and perspective to join our derech, perhaps we should address our own deficiencies in this regard, and ask ourselves: Do I have a rav and a derech? Have I given up my ideas and issues in order to conform to a kehillah?
The term ben Torah, although part of our lexicon, lacks a clear definition. I use the term to describe a particular type of Jew who may not have ever even stepped into a yeshivah, but understands that being frum entails striving to be a better Jew and constantly growing in avodas Hashem. In general, the life of a ben Torah is less secular and more intensely Jewish. One might therefore expect that he would have the hardest time in accepting newcomers to Judaism, with their "strange and different ways."
Yet, I have observed over many years that the very opposite is true. It is these very intensely Jewish individuals who have the least problem accepting the newcomers. And that is simply because they have the most in common with them; they both are seekers of the truth. They value substance over style, and appreciate each other's mesirus nefesh to try and do what is correct. Others who accept mediocrity and stagnation in their Jewish lives do not share this common bond with the baal teshuvah. And, although their more liberal form of Jewish living and familiarity with secular culture might seem closer to the baal teshuvah's own experience, in reality they find little in common with the baal teshuvah's sincerity and quest for meaning in life.
There are many baalei teshuvah who, after a while, lose their initial vitality, and there are many FFBs who never had it. Yet we find in both of these groups dedicated Jews who maintain their enthusiasm for everything Jewish throughout their observant lives. This is the only meaningful distinction that exists within our community in an effort to deal with its problems; it is a mistake to continue grouping Jews by irrelevant superficialities.
The best thing we can do for our newly observant members is to continue to strive and grow to become better Jews. Most baalei te-shuvah will feel accepted and comfortable among such Jews. The worst thing we can do for them is to lose our own vitality and become more involved with style than substance. That is a tragedy for us as well as for them.
Rav Menachem Zupnik is the rav of Bais Torah U'tefillah in Passaic, New Jersey, a yeshivah community that is also a magnet for baalei teshuvah. His kehillah is noted for its ability to make the yeshivah worldview and experience accessible to newcomers.
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November 13th, 2012 @ 1:31 am"Others who accept mediocrity and stagnation in their Jewish lives do not share this common bond with the baal teshuvah. And, although their more liberal form of Jewish living and familiarity with secular culture might seem closer to the baal teshuvah's own experience, in reality they find little in common with the baal teshuvah's sincerity and quest for meaning in life…"
Rabbi Zupnik's point is true about BT(as well as many FFB) eschewing stagnation. There is also another side of the coin, in terms of some degree of "familiarity with secular culture", as mentioned a while ago on this site("Interview with Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein", 3/3/08):
"For a variety of reasons, there is a strong push in some circles (for reasons that have much validity in those circles) for greater and greater insularity. Baalei Teshuva – not all, but certainly significant numbers – are negatively impacted by this. Many of them had and continue to have important ties to the larger world. Part of what made Torah attractive to them was the promise they were given that Torah has something to say about each and every issue that Man faces. These baalei teshuva were starting to see that many of the people around them not only had nothing to say about these issues, but they were completely unaware of them, and when informed about them did not deal with them with any great insight – Torah or otherwise. I believe that it is important to show such people that there are people in the Torah community (closet Hirschians, lots of RWMO and LW haredim, and iconoclastic bnei Torah of all stripes and descriptions) who do share and live by the vision that enticed them to join the ranks of the Torah committed in the first place…"
November 13th, 2012 @ 8:06 pmTo the author,
My post may digress from your main topic, but it does involve an element of what you mentioned; particularly hashkafic difficulties that arise and may cause turmoil for some (which can lead to spiritual crises). I am curious of your answer.
Your passage….."His daughters, he is told, must settle for boys who are not such big learners but can support themselves. He regrets having thoughtlessly followed the course of our community, he is disillusioned by the system, and angry that it does not value his precious daughters and give them the chance they so very much deserve."…..
I find this somewhat disheartening. Correct me if I am wrong, but presumably the father in this passage is a member of a community that sees full time learning as priority over working? If so, what troubles me is that work is seen less desirable and less honorable than learning full time. Because of that, the father comes to a spiritual (or societal, which is really connected to the spiritual in my opinion) dilemma. This is bothersome to me because many great rabbis of our past have praised people who work and for partaking in the creation of the world. After all, HaShem worked by creating the universe and continually maintains it. Rabbenu Yonah said in his sefer Derasot U-Ferushey:
"You see man busily engaged in his work"-King Solomon saw the great necessity to learn a trade in order to live, and he therefore urged, "prepare your work outside." Our sages say that work is great because it is ennobling. Many of the sages were great artisans. They praise work profusely, pointing out that God ascribed [work] to himself at the beginning of the Torah… and that even one who occupies himself with the Torah-which exceeds all else in sublimity-will founder unless he also works or finds some other livelihood.
From my personal studies (I am a BT btw), it seems working and learning has always been priority in frum society. Learning full time was meant for an exceptional few. Could it be that an individual or community's spiritual problems stem from a digression of a traditional outlook? Might the father in this story not have his "dilemma" if it was equally honorable to partake in the the creation of the world by working and studying Torah? What is your opinion of hashkafic misrepresentation? I try to tell myself from time to time that my hashkafa isn't based on selective reading. Maybe one day I will have good enough hebrew to read the VaYoel Moshe, even if I may not like it.
Steve Brizel
November 27th, 2012 @ 11:23 pmFor those interested, see how a BT functions as a star on one of the hottest comedies on Televisionhttp://www.yuobserver.org/2012/11/torah-umadda-a-conversation-with-mayim-bialik/


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Summer Jefferson SymposiumJefferson in Another Light: Revealing the Man through Family LettersWhat was Jefferson – father, grandfather, and friend – like in the last years of his life? What did a day in the life of Jefferson in retirement look like? During this period, Jefferson's love of the written word was evidenced in an extensive correspondence with his own family. While he remained characteristically reserved in his own letters, even about some of the most tumultuous events of these years, his family's correspondence is full of the details that reveal a far more vivid portrait of the man. |
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Shanta Driver arrives at the Supreme Court in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2013. Driver is the National Chair of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality by Any Means Necessary. Driver argued her side of an affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, Tuesday after affirmative action opponents persuaded Michigan voters to outlaw any consideration of race after the Supreme Court ruled a decade ago that race could be a factor in college admissions. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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I had to wear a back brace after I fell off the roof of my house. Most people probably adapt well to them, but since I have ultra sensitive skin, I developed an itchy rash under mine.
I did as I was told and wore a cotton shirt underneath it. However, anything that holds sweat against my body for hours will make me break out.
My doctor told me to try using baby powder on my skin after my shower and before I put the shirt and brace back on. I used the unscented kind, and it really helped. I kept a large supply of it on hand during this time!


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Honours in the School of Geosciences
The School of Geosciences offers Honours in Geography, Geology and Geophysics. Honours in these disciplines requires an original research project to be undertaken under the guidance of a supervisor (and sometimes a co-supervisor), and the presentation of this in the form of a thesis with a maximum of 20,000 words. The thesis accounts for 75% of the Honours grade.
Additionally, Honours students in Geography, Geology and Geophysics are required to give a final oral presentation of their thesis results (worth 5%) and complete an approved coursework program for the remaining 20%. Coursework requirements vary between different disciplines and students.
Entry into the Honours program generally requires completion of a Credit average in Senior Units of Study in either the Geography or Geology & Geophysics majors, and a Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of at least 65. In some years when the number of applicants exceeds resources (availability of supervisors, laboratory space, etc.) offers will be made according to academic merit. The general process for enrolling in Honours is as follows:
- Each September, the University holds an Honours Information Week. During this week, the School of Geosciences holds an Honours information session. Intending Honours students should seek to attend this session.
- During the final semester of undergraduate studies, intending Honours students should informally discuss their potential candidature with academics who may feasibly act as their supervisor.
- Before the University deadline (30 November for currently enrolled students), apply for Honours through the Faculty which administers your degree.
- Students are officially notified in January of their formal acceptance into the Honours program.
Note that it is possible to commence Honours mid-year. In these cases, the same process described above needs to be followed, however with different closing dates (check the relevant Faculty websites).
Students enrolled in degrees administered by the Faculty of Science should visit the Faculty's Honours information site for more information about the Honours year, including how to apply, various scholarships that are on offer and other useful material.
Students enrolled in degrees administered by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences need to apply through the FASS Honours information site
Honours Handbook 2014
View the Honours Handbook 2014 for more information about Honours in Geosciences.
Honours topics in Geography
The common practice in Geography, and especially Human Geography, is for students to develop their own topic, in conjunction with their supervisor. Oftentimes this is connected to an existing research project on which the supervisor is working, however it is also possible for supervisors and students to agree on 'blue sky' projects, reflecting the individual student interests. Students should familiarise themselves with supervisors research interests prior to discussing potential thesis topics. (This information is available through following the 'People' and 'Research' links on the School of Geosciences website.)
Honours research in Geography usually involves a field research component, which can be local (in Sydney), in another part of Australia, or overseas. In general, the further distant the research site, the greater the need for forward planning and financial resources. Students contemplating projects involving overseas fieldwork are strongly encouraged to discuss this as early as possible with potential supervisors.
Honours topics in Geology and Geophysics
The common practice in Geology and Geophysics is for students to participate in specified projects that are coordinated by academics.
2015 Honours Projects
Here is a list of 2015 Honours Projects offered by academics and research groups at the School of Geosciences.
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2014 Honours Projects:
EarthByte Group
Natural Hazards Research Group
Dr Jody Webster
Honours Coursework Options
Honours in the subject areas offered by the School of Geosciences comprises coursework requirements which account for 25% of the final grade. If you are enrolling in Geography Honours, information about coursework will be made available early in 2015. If you are enrolled in Geology or Geophysics Honours, you need to discuss coursework options with your supervisor and with Derek Wyman, the Deputy Honours coordinator. Mostly, Honours coursework options for Geology and Geophysics students comprise offerings from SUCOGG (Sydney Universities Consortium of Geology & Geophysics). Click here for further information.
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At an early morning tailgate or after a long night of holiday cheer, this cold, caffeinated beverage can get you in a jolly mood fast. Simply steep some coffee grounds in cold water the night before, then strain. Next morning, spike the cold brew with some amaretto and Pernod, and you've got a slightly buzzy, biscotti-flavored iced coffee that inspires cheer.
What to buy: Pernod is a bright yellow anise-flavored liqueur that adds a distinct licorice flavor to this drink. It can be found in most liquor stores or online.
Game plan: The coffee needs to steep for at least 12 hours, so plan accordingly.
You can brew the coffee in a 32-ounce French press if you prefer. Place the ground coffee and water in the pitcher, place the plunger lid on top, but don't press the plunger down. After the coffee grounds have steeped, gently press down on the plunger until the grounds reach the bottom of the pitcher. Then proceed with step 2 of the recipe.
This recipe was featured as part of our tailgating breakfast recipes.
- 1Place the coffee grounds in a 2-quart pitcher, add the water, and stir to combine. Cover with plastic wrap and let steep at room temperature for at least 12 hours and up to 1 day.
- 2Line a fine-mesh strainer with a standard coffee filter and fit it over a medium bowl. Working in batches, slowly pour the coffee into the filter until all of the liquid has passed through the strainer (the coffee will pass through in a slow stream; don't force it through); stop when you reach the solids at the bottom of the pitcher (don't pour them in). Discard the grounds and the contents of the strainer.
- 3Wash and dry the pitcher. Transfer the strained coffee into the pitcher. Cover and refrigerate until completely chilled, at least 2 hours or up to 5 days.
For the cocktails:
- 1When ready to serve, add the water, amaretto, and Pernod to the strained coffee and stir to combine. Serve over ice, passing milk on the side.


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Tonight has been wonderful. I wasn't running around with ten things to do and worry about, nor was I ignoring everything I love to do.
I painted. I made mixed CDs. I thought about cute girls. I had a hamburger with my mom. I went to Ojai with her to the humane society. [I'm working backwards].
No kittens at the humane society. We'll look by where my dad lives. And there's always Petsmart. While we were up there, we ate at a place called the Jolly Kone. Great burgers.
I've decided not to take any college classes this semester. It's been hard getting in to one I want, and the class sucks, and the other one sucks and blahhhh. So I'm dropping. The end. Thank god.
My art has been failing. I'm out of ideas and my concentration for AP is coming up. All next semester, 12 projects. All my ideas. Christ. But tonight I painted. I have an arm full of square cardboard and I used masking tape and splattered a little, all that. Maybe I'll take a picture and make it my icon. I kinda like it.
Cute girls have been popping up everywhere. Even ones that weren't cute before. There's one that is hilarious and has a huge personality, and I think that's what makes her cute. Plus she has the best hands in the world [hands are thing with me]. I've known her for over a year and she hasn't been cute until recently. But anyway...
Seriously, I've had a bit to look at recently. I think I got kinda sorta hit on at the college last night. Saw a really hot girl today at my school. I don't know, my eyes have been pleased.
Now I'm talking to the 13 year old online. She's cute too. But young. I sound creepy
OMG did you say Ojai, ojai as in near Ventura in Thousand Oaks???I USE TO LIVE THERE!THATS MY HOMETOWN! if that is where your talking arbout you have to check out Barts Books, it is the most amazing oldest bookstore in the town and its all outside!
Come Josephine in my flying machine
Going up she goes up she goes
Balance yourself like a bird on a beam
In the air she goes there she goes
Up, up, a little bit higher
Oh, my, the moon is on fire
Doooood. hangs are my thing too. But in a creepy fetishish way, though. It's weird. I saw a girl today who had the most perfectesst hands. It was so cool.
And good luck with the art thing....
And there are a lot of cute girls around. But not that many cute, queer girls.
I find you quite amusing, and I'm sure you love me too, But sadly I am Lesbian, Though I'll pretend for you


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The HollyWooWoo Report June 9, 2014 Actor and comedian Tracy Morgan was seriously injured in a car accident over the weekend. He was traveling in a Mercedes bus when it was rear ended on the NJ Turnpike by an 18 wheeler!!! 1 person in the Merceds was killed. Tracy was seriously injured. He is still recovering in a NJ hospital. Melanie Griffith has filed for DIVORCE from her husband of 20 + years ... Antonio Banderas. It was her 3rd marriage, his 2nd. Rumor has it they have been having marital issues for YEARS! On the papers she filed Irreconcilable Differences. Kongrats to the Kardashians! The family everyone loves to hate is adding another baby to the mix ... oldest sister Kourtney confirmed she is pregnant with her 3rd. She already has 2 kids with her BF Scott Disick. The rumor was confirmed during an airing of the new season promo - KK says it 'wasn't a planned pregnancy' ... well, you do know how babies are made right? Mazel Tov!
JLO is single once again! The girl from the block has kicked her backup dancer BF out of the LA Mansion they shared for 2.5 years!! Casper Smart was busted last week having innapropriate relationships with 2 women he met on Instagram. While he doesn't get any cash from the split, he does get 2 motorcycles, a Jeep and a Dodge Ram. Not bad.


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WASHINGTON, D.C. – A government panel studying the effects of stigmatization in the children's plaything industry will publish their conclusions in a white paper to be released today, according to sources familiar with the document. The report is expected to recommend that residents of the Island of Misfit Toys, a residence home for toys with special qualities that fall outside long-held standards for what society identifies as "normal," be henceforth and forevermore referred to as differently-abled.
"At last, we're going to be treated with the same dignity and respect that all toys have had since their manufacturers brought them into this world," said a Jack-In-The-Box that cries, a long-term island resident who provided crucial closed-door testimony to investigators.
The report is also expected to call for the assimilation of differently-abled toys into children's toy boxes and playpens as soon as this Christmas, a move advocates of mainstreaming for the play-defective have long supported.


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Now we all watch TV on our personal video recorder, or iPlayer, or iPod, or retractable 3-D plasma wall (I made the last one up) those ad types have got to be really, really clever to make us sit all the way through a commercial. I mean, man, some of these things are, like, a minute long. I got stuff to Twitter, statuses to update - get a move on! Just occasionally one comes along that is almost as entertaining as the programme you are watching - sometimes, even more so. And this is one such ad - a Stella Artois viral that spoofed 24 in the style of Jean-Luc Godard? Got that? Good. Pint of London Pride, please. Enjoy alcohol responsibly this Christmas.
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AmerisourceBergen Corp. has agreed to sell AndersonBrecon, its contract packaging business, to affiliates of an investor group led by Frazier Healthcare VI, LP for $308 million.
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VALLEY FORGE, Pa. – AmerisourceBergen Corp. has agreed to sell AndersonBrecon, its contract packaging business, to affiliates of an investor group led by Frazier Healthcare VI, LP for $308 million.
The transaction is expected to close by July.
"We are pleased that AndersonBrecon will join well-established firms heavily invested in the health care services market, including the pharmaceutical contract packaging sector," said AmerisourceBergen president and chief executive officer Steve Collis.
"This transaction will help ensure that AndersonBrecon will continue to thrive in the years ahead, and allows AmerisourceBergen to focus on its distribution, specialty and manufacturer services businesses," he added.
Last June Frazier Healthcare acquired the U.S. commercial contract pharmaceutical packaging operation of Catalent Pharma Solutions, which it operates as Packaging Coordinators Inc. (PCI). AndersonBrecon will be combined with PCI.
"We are pleased to merge two stellar players within the pharmaceutical and biotech packaging business, and believe that the combined company will deliver industry-leading quality and service to our customers and a world-class environment for our employees," commented Frazier Healthcare general partner and PCI board member Nathan Every.
The agreement to sell AndersonBrecon marked the second divestiture by AmerisourceBergen within less than a week. Days before, in late March, the pharmaceutical distributor unveiled a deal to sell AmerisourceBergen Canada Corp. (ABCC), its Canadian pharmaceutical distribution business, to Canadian distributor Kohl & Frisch Ltd. The ABCC deal, too, came just over a week after AmerisourceBergen entered a long-term strategic partnership with Walgreen Co. and Alliance Boots.


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Cash Dome's Whiteboy on His Miami Pawn Shop Reality Show: It's No "Overweight Bald Guy In Vegas"
Cash Dome pawnshop on US1 and Caribbean Boulevard is about to show America all about tattoos, guns, gold teeth, and how to make a buck.via TruTV Josh Roth, Mickey Gallander, and Whiteboy.
For the past 25 years, shop founder Mickey Gallander has wheeled and dealed Miami through one of the oldest and toughest businesses in the world.
Now his sons Whiteboy and Josh are taking over, with TruTV there to document and broadcast it all. We caught up with Whiteboy about the new show, which premieres this Tuesday, August 13. Here's what he has to say about Cutler Ridge, a co-sign from Pitbull, and a dog named Kush.
New Times: Wassup man, how's it goin'?
Whiteboy: Great, man, I'm just leaving Circle House now, I was cutting some voice-overs there with Abebe. I just got in the car. I can't wait to get home, roll a blunt, get on my bike, and run my dog. I'm still that same nigga from years ago.
What kind of dog do you have?
I have this American Bulldog named Kush. Everyday I ride the bike and he runs with me. He's the baddest American Bulldog you'll ever see.
Is he gonna be on the show?
He does get in there a little, somewhat.
Awesome. So go ahead and tell us about the Cash Dome.
First and foremost, we ultimately respect the other pawn stores with shows in Las Vegas, Detroit, North Carolina, and New Orleans...nothing but utmost respect, they really helped viewers understand the business somewhat. Basically, my father has been a pawn broker over 25 years, and Cash Dome has been family owned and operated ever since. I was bred for this.
We wanted to create our own niche and let Miami and Florida show and stand up with our own pawn shop show. It's the only real, true to life docu-series you're gonna see, and we're proud to be on TruTV.
What's the difference to the other shows?
People don't get into screaming arguments with a security guard. It doesn't happen. We show what really happens. There's no civil war coins, there's no 1912 pickup truck. We show what really gets bought and sold: Electronics and tools.
The fat guys in Vegas ... I respect and love 'em, but the overweight bald guy ain't doin' what I do.
That old slickback white man in Detroit with the gold chain and the leather jacket, lookin' like he from the '80s -- he ain't doin' what I do.
That show in North Carolina, that show in New Orleans, they ain't doin' what I do.
I'm 31 years old, from Miami. My brother, he know every delinquent down here, and every trick in the book and this 'bout to be it. I'm not gonna let you down. You gonna love to cosign this show. You gonna watch it and you gonna be a believer. That's the difference.
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