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Recommended Brown Roses
I've been going through Roses Unlimited catalog as I prepare to put in a bigger than I need, order. I came across Brown Velvet, and in looking it up, it looks quite intriguing.
Wondering if others here have experience with it. And/or any other brown roses?
I just found an article by Kim: http://www.paulbardenroses.com/main11.10.00.html, that I've read through. I've looked through most of the roses mentioned, and am also quite smitten with Cafe (why does Roses Unlimited have to have EVERY rose I'm finding that I like?!) So, interested also if anyone is growing Cafe and has feedback?
I don't know much about Brown Velvet but I do know about Hot Cocoa. On Dr huey it was an ugly, spindly bush with thin droopy canes. A little better on own root in a 5 gal. pot. On fortuniana it is a fantastic bush and bloomer. It now gets afternoon shade and the blooms are always terra cotta and the foliage is beautiful from top to bottom of bush. A perminit fixture in my garden. Everybody that see's it loves it. I've looked up BV. I'd give it a try and give it a couple of years to see what it can do. I might get one and see what happens. If it does half way decent but needs a little "umph", I might see how it does on fortuniana.
Hi Ken - I have Hot Cocoa on Dr. Huey. First half of year 1 spindly bush with droopy canes. Second half of year 1 - awesome foliage, solid canes. Sproatic blooming thru the year. Hoping nest year to get the full picture. I also have cl. Chocolate Sundae. Flippin amazing for the first 8 months, then went downhill fast. My redundant story now - dug it up to find most of it's roots eaten by - hey - guess what. I caged it in September, and it's trying to pull itself together. I think it'll be a really nice climber with very unusual, small but beautiful dark chocolate blooms.
Hot Cocoa is a so-so rose for me but here it's usually more orange than brown. Only if the weather conditions are just right does it get that brown color. And don't ask me what those conditions are because I couldn't tell you. It doesn't happen often. It's winter hardy and fairly vigorous growing but a little stingy on the blooms and it does black spot badly.
Kim wrote an article about coffee roses which is archived in the HMF Ezine and includes some information about 'Brown Velvet'. I have put the link below.
Here is a link that might be useful: Kim's Article on Coffee Roses
I grow all the ones mentioned above, being a big fan of the odd colors and having found that "brown" roses in general LOVE my cool coastal climate, which really brings out the nifty color patterns. All of the browns are basically overlays of the other colors, usually with some orange and some lavender, in various combos where the "layers" of color fade and react to sunlight at different rates. Not too much sun is good for all of them.
I'm not sure where you are in NorCal, but if you can arrange for a good fog cover most mornings, the roses will be very colorful for you. Without the fog, the colors can become muck in a hurry.
Hot Cocoa grows like a banshee here, as does Brown Velvet and Koko Loco. Cafe has always been a disappointment for me, and I've tried several different plants of it.
Tom Brown and Pam's Choice are two other favs.
No idea how it is in CA but Brown Velvet in NYC is a dark, russet brown in cooler weather and more of a vermillion in warmer weather. It's nice either way because some of the orange roses turn to pink, so it's nice to have something orange even tho that's not why I got it. Decent, but not outstanding, disease resistance. Gets around 4 -5 feet all around for me, not overly large and interesting enough to keep.
Irish Creme was one of the most beautiful roses I had, but it was also one of three grafted roses and they've all since died. Crappy disease resistance. Foliage came in reddish and then it had those really nice blooms. In some weather they tended to be more pink/lavender but in either case they were nice.
Coffee Country is another - right now in Dec it's more lavender/pink/yellow - all quite beautiful of course, but it's best when it has the pinkish/tan coloring. Pretty blooms, no disease resistance at all.
I had a couple others but they didn't really work. Most seem to have no disease resistance and I'm not about to start spraying just to keep some plants around.
That's true -- I was assuming that you spray. None of these brownish roses, except perhaps Hot Cocoa, has much in the way of mildew resistance.
The same cool, damp weather conditions that contribute to the good colors are also favorable to most of the fungal diseases in most of these roses if you don't do the spraying part. I do spray, regularly.
Since these roses are uncommon colors (i.e. not pink), you can assume the selection process when the seedlings were chosen for introduction had more to do with nifty colors than nifty disease resistance. That's a trade off the introducer needs to make to get the unique colors.
I'm completely no-spray. Really, only because I "can" be - very very dry heat - west edge of San Juaquin Valley. Disappointed to hear about Cafe, the hmf photos are gorgeous. But I still may try Brown Velvet and put in only early morning sun. I know my Honey Dijon is one of my favorite roses - 100% disease resistant, unbelievably prolific bloomer. Now of course it's more a tanish color than brown. And I did buy Koko Loko this fall which I'm really looking forward to.
One of the roses that does very well in my high summer temps and often shows tan and kind of off-lavender colored blooms is Ralph Moore's 'Silver Cloud'. It may not be a true "coffee colored rose", but I don't think of it as a lavender roses because the tan shading shows up so often and holds for a long time.
I am gardening in poor soil that is gradually improving by years of mulching and found this year that SC does need to be fed. There was a nest of yellow-jackets behind the fence on the other side of the rose, and I couldn't get near it all this season, so all it got was good watering.
In the years when I could get near the plant to feed and mulch it properly for my high summer temps, I thought the rose was spectacular. I love the open bloom form.
As you can see from the photos on HMF, the color is variable, but I love it in all stages.
I almost never cut roses for the house, so I don't know how long it would last in a vase. If I had room, I would buy a couple of more Scs for this garden.
Here is a link that might be useful: Silver Cloud on HMF


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The Qt Virtual Framebuffer
Qt comes with a handy tool that lives a rather anonymous life in the tools/qvfb directory. This tool does wonders when it comes to demoing, training users and creating documentation.
The QVFb, or Qt Virtual Framebuffer, is a tool that makes it possible to run Qt applications on a virtual system with a limited screen resolution, limited bit-depth, and with limited input abilities. All of this on your desktop (or laptop) PC, saving you the hazzles of cross-platform debugging, cross-compiling, transfering files to the target, etc.
The trick with the QVFb is not really how to use it, but rather, how to build it. It is interesting enough that I've actually given a number of speeches on it. The problem is not that it is difficult to build, rather, that you have to build Qt two times to get a working environment.
When building Qt, the result of the configure script is a binary: qmake. This binary processes *.pro files and builds target specific Makefiles. The qmake tool carries your configuration, so if you are targetting two systems with your Qt project, you will have to run "make distclean" followed by "qmake-target" to aim your project at a specific target (where "qmake-target" can be "qmake-x11", "qmake-osx", "qmake-arm-fb", etc).
With this knowledge, and some careful thought when configuring Qt (do not forget to use the -prefix option to avoid having three Qt installs in one directory), building QVFb is quite easy.
I usually build three instances of Qt when targeting an embedded system - all with roughly the same configuration. This is to make sure that what I test on my PC also works on my target. The Qt builds are:
- Qt for host/X11 - used to build the Qt tools for the host machine.
- Qt for target/fb - used to build the actual target files.
- Qt for host/qvfb - used to build binaries for QVFb.
Qt for host/X11 is simple, just build Qt as you usually do. However, when you have built it, cd into tools/qvfb and do "make && make install" for QVFb as well.
Qt for target/fb can be a completely different story. It's usually dead simple to build Qt for your target. However, as we all know, the devil lives in the details. This build can be tuned in so many ways that this is one of the things I do for a living.
Qt for host/qvfb is basically Qt for target/fb, but for the host machine. I also make sure to include graphics and input drivers for QVFb. This means adding -qt-gfx-qvfb, -qt-kbd-qvfb and -qt-mouse-qvfb to the configure command line.
Having built and installed all these versions of Qt (where Qt for target/fb is optional when experimenting), you can start QVFb, setup a screen size, bit depth and input limitations. You can also add a skin, e.g. if your hardware includes a frame with buttons on it. QVFb can translate mouse clicks on these off-screen buttons into keyboard events. Having setup QVFb, simply compile your application with Qt for host/qvfb and start it with the -qws switch as an argument. Now you're running your application inside the virtual framebuffer on your host machine.
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Recent election polls show an increasingly tight race between the White House contenders, but on the topic of leveraging technology to push a campaign platform, incumbent President Barack Obama has an edge over his challenger, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, experts say.
An Aug. 15 study by Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism of how both campaigns are using digital tools revealed the Obama camp posted nearly four times as much content as the Romney campaign and was active on nearly twice as many platforms. Obama's digital content also prompted more response from citizens, twice the number of shares, views and comments of his posts.
The report also concluded that neither candidate is using digital tools to their fullest potential. Both of them are using the websites, text messaging and social media more to simply broadcast messages than to truly engage with voters.
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"For the most part . . . the presidential candidates are using their direct messaging mainly as a way to push their messages out," according to the report. "Citizen content was only minimally present on Romney's digital channels. The Obama campaign made more substantial use of citizen voices - but only in one area: the 'news blog' on its website where that content could be completely controlled."
The greatest digital divide between the campaigns was found on Twitter. The Romney campaign on average tweeted once a day, while the Obama campaign averaged 29 tweets. Obama also had about twice as many blog posts on his campaign website as Romney, and more than twice as many YouTube videos.
Discrepancies also existed in how the campaigns are using direct messaging. For example, Romney's campaign was twice as likely to talk about Obama as the president was to talk about his challenger. However, both campaigns' direct messaging focused on the economy, even if they took different approaches to do so. Romney's discussions focused on jobs, while Obama took a more philosophical angle on the nation's fiscal conditions.
Neither campaign, however, embraced the social aspect of social media. Candidates rarely replied to, commented on or retweeted something from citizens. Three percent of the Obama campaign tweets studied in June were retweets of citizen posts. During the same period, Romney's campaign produced just a single retweet -- which happened to be something Romney's son, Josh, wrote.
The report found campaign websites remain the digital center for political messaging. A visitor to a campaign's Facebook page, for example, is likely to end up on the main website to donate money, join a community or read an article.
"A July redesign of the Obama page emphasized the centrality of the campaign website further," according to the report. "Rather than sending users to the campaign's YouTube channel, the video link now embeds the campaign videos directly into the website, where the only videos are the ones Obama wants you to see."
Mobile has been biggest emerging technology since 2008; the latest news is that the Obama campaign will soon the able to accept donations via text messaging, said Brad Frost, a mobile web strategist, designer and front-end developer at R/GA, who has analyzed and written about the campaigns' technology use.
"Both campaigns have taken steps to make their sites mobile friendly" but the Obama campaign is a few steps ahead, said Frost, who created the Mobile Web Best Practices, a resource site aimed at helping people create great mobile and responsive web experiences.
Knowing what to include on a mobile website has turned out to be one the biggest problems, he said. June 2012 estimates from Pew Internet say 31 percent of Americans – or 60 million -- now access the Internet primarily on their mobile devices. The trend means both candidates have the ability to reach more many more people than before with their websites. It also means having to decide what content to include or exclude, Frost said.
The Romney campaign has created a separate website that caters specifically to mobile-device users. But that mobile-optimized website is limited in content and contains only particular subsets of information from the desktop version. Romney's mobile website, for example, doesn't include the candidate's biographical information, Frost pointed out.
"That's the main problem with creating a mobile site; people say, 'this is important or this isn't important to include,' and what you end up doing is depriving people of useful information," he said.
Obama's campaign has taken a newer approach to website creation, with implementing responsive web design. it's one of the technologies the Digital Government Strategy urges federal agencies to use to deliver better digital services to citizens. This type of web development works to design content so it works as well on a laptop as a smart phone or tablet, automatically adjusting to fit the screen.
"Having just one website that scales across the devices is becoming more important," Frost said. One example of a responsive website is AIDS.gov, which was redesigned and launched June 2012. A responsive website "ensures that a site's content is equally accessible via all devices without adding the extra cost of designing and maintaining separate 'standard' and 'mobile' sites," Miguel Gomez, director, of AIDS.gov, wrote on the agency's blog.
However, a responsive website has its own challenges, because "it's all very young," Frost noted. A website with several moving parts or functionalities– such as reader comments – may seem overwhelming to some and they choose to "hide" those features.
"The Obama campaign does a pretty good job of not hiding those things," he said. "But the problem is, it's very much a desktop site that's sort of after-the-fact crammed down into smaller screens."
The Obama website also seems to be lacking focus. For example, the desktop version serves up myriad of content, from images to blog posts, on the same page. The mobile view, however, presents "this really long, sort of sloppy, disparate experience that makes it hard to know what you're looking at," Frost said.
"There's definitely room for improvement for both [campaigns]," he added.
But despite the use of social media, apps and text messaging to engage with citizens, the technology used by both campaigns "isn't very sophisticated," particularly when it comes to mobile apps, said Tom Suder, founder and president of Mobilegov.
He agreed with Frost that the Obama campaign is somewhat ahead in its technology use because its apps link to the main website. However, overall these campaign apps aren't typically cutting edge and are often available on just one platform. Additionally, there are no apps for tablets, either, he said.
"I'm not impressed, no," Suder simply summed it up.
But if unsophisticated and underused technology weren't enough, hiccups along the way can mar the campaigns' digital efforts. When Romney campaign officials announced the vice president pick, the breaking news was supposed to come not in the form of traditional media but in the way of a mobile app. But although the app promised users they would be "the first to know" – ahead of the rest of the world and even reporters – the app alert came hours after some news organizations had already reported on the selection of the Republican running mate.
"The app struck me as pretty bizarre," Frost said. "It was available only for iOS and Android devices. Romney was also bypassing the most ubiquitous publishing platform in the world – the web! It just seemed like a really bizarre reason to create an app."
A similar tech fiasco occurred in 2008, when the Obama campaign used text messaging and email to announce Joe Biden as the VP pick. However, some reporters got wind of the news well before the official announcement. Some speculated the botched attempt to deliver the breaking news digitally cost $1 million.
But overall, with the advent of the tablet both campaigns missed an opportunity to take advantage of the "gorgeous, immersive" technology that exists for tablet devices, Suder noted. "People just haven't caught up on it," he said.
However, embracing digital tools and using them more actively doesn't always mean more votes for either campaign. But being tech savvy and social media conscientious certainly has an edge.
"While more digital activity does not necessarily translate into more votes, historically candidates who are first to exploit changing technology have an advantage," Tom Rosenstiel, PEJ director, said in commenting on the Aug. 15 study. "From Roosevelt to Reagan, presidential candidates have used the way they communicate to suggest that they understand how the country is changing."
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I found this an interesting article. I'm an older female and the last thing I want is 29 tweets from 1 group in 1 day! Just because more tweets, posts, blogs, or website information is available doesn't make it relevant. I want a leader as my president not a friend, so I'd rather see material that relates to our country than requests for money or frivolous tweets.
i think the obama site having flotus first thing then fundraising next is off message. most people going to web sites want info on the candidate i would assume.
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Captivating bedtime meditations to bring peace, joy, and calm to the end of the day. There are three segments in this audio, each approximately 18 minutes in length. Choose from: By the Sea, An Adventure in Space, and Snowflake. May be used any time for general relaxation as well as bedtime.
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Ever since he became a Christian at the age of forty, it has been Poirot actor David Suchet's dream to make an audio recording of the whole Bible. In between filming the final episodes of Poirot, David Suchet spent over 200 hours in the recording studio to create the very first full-length audio version of the NIV Bible spoken by a single British actor. Volume 1 of the NIV Audio Bible includes the Law, Histories and Poetry, covering the books of Genesis to Song of Songs.
"So where are the Book Markers!!????"
Life is the ultimate game of hide and seek... and the good news is that you're it! With the combination of playful irreverence and penetrating insight that made him a legend in Western philosophy, Alan Watts investigates the surprisingly liberating concept of "the universe as play" found at the heart of Hinduism, Zen, and other wisdom traditions.
"Best philosophy book"
Created specifically to address the questions and needs of first-time students, here is Buddhism's vast spiritual legacy, presented by one of America's leading meditation teachers.
"The best audiobook I have bought so far"
Chgyam Trungpa offers us a vision of moving beyond fear to discover the innate bravery, trust, and delight in life that lies at the core of our being. Drawing on the Shambhala Buddhist teachings, he explains how we can each become a spiritual warrior: a person who faces each moment of life with openness and fearlessness. "The ultimate definition of bravery is not being afraid of who you are," writes Chgyam Trungpa. In this audiobook, he offers the insights and strategies to claim victory over fear.
It is everywhere around us. Even worse, it gets inside us - sapping our energy, undermining our health, and making us more vulnerable to anxiety, depression, and disease. Now, based on Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn's renowned mindfulness-based stress-reduction program, this groundbreaking audiobook shows you how to use natural, medically proven methods to soothe and heal your body, mind, and spirit.
"Clear, useful and well read"
Eat, Pray, Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment, and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression, and heartbreak. It's 3 a.m., and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her 30s, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing....
"Every Woman's Guide to ......... Life!"
In The Art of Presence, Eckhart guides you through seven hours of transformational insights that allow "presence to naturally arise" in you. With his one-of-a-kind instruction, you will learn how to ground yourself in the vibrancy of your "inner body" while simultaneously breaking free from the illusion of separation from the outside world.
"A spiritual writer well worth listening to !"
Looking for a practical guide to the fulfillment of your dreams? Based on natural laws which govern all of creation, this audio shatters the myth that success is the result of hard work, exacting plans, or driving ambition. In The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, Deepak Chopra distills the essence of his teachings into 7 simple, yet powerful principles that can easily be applied to create success in all areas of your life.
"This book is Amazing!"
In this thought-provoking new book, the Dalai Lama argues that religion is not a necessity for pursuing a spiritual life. Rather, focusing on tolerance and understanding between religions, as well as tolerance and understanding between believers (of any faith) and non-believers is the way forward. The way to achieve such an approach, he proposes, is through a system of secular ethics grounded in a deep appreciation of our common humanity.
A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day.
No witch is just born into being. Becoming a witch is much more than just the initial interest one has due to a movie or book that has been watched or read. Being a witch involves much learning, much reading, and a strong desire. There is no how to guide that will lead you down the path to being a witch of any sort.
A detailed, yet simplified and modern rendering of the specific reasons why mankind is fallen, corrupt, condemned, and incapable of saving themselves.
This is Christian inspiration at its finest. Maria Alvarez reflects on the meaning of Easter via poetry and prose. Miss Alvarez is different from many other Christian writers who write about Easter in that she focuses on the importance of the suffering and death of Christ rather than dwelling primarily on the resurrection.
Though Joan described herself as "a poor girl who knew neither how to ride nor lead in war," she did know how to obey God. That simple skill changed the course of both her life and that of the entire nation. Twenty-five years after her execution, Saint Joan was pronounced innocent, and declared a martyr. Joan stood up for her belief and against all odds fought for her people. She was a true hero, and remains an inspiration to this day.
Experience some of the most beautiful praises spoken to our God and benefit from the greatest collection of wisdom ever known. This special audio presentation presents the books of Psalms and Proverbs from the Bible. It features dramatic recordings and original orchestral scoring - all designed to make devotional or quiet time more memorable.
The Christian radio talk show host asked the well-known women's ministry leader the question, "So what do you think about the statement that men in the church have been feminized?" Her immediate response was, "I totally disagree. Men in America have not been feminized at all.... They have been emasculated. Men don't feel a need to be more like women.... They just have lost their identity as men."
Anyone who serves God will discover sooner or later that the great hindrances he has in the Lord's work is not others but himself. He will discover that his outward man (soul) is not in harmony with his inward man (spirit). Both tend to go toward two opposite directions from each other. He will also sense the inability of his outward man to submit to the inner control of his regenerated spirit. His greatest difficulty lies in his outward man, which hinders him from using his spirit.
The purpose of this book is to chronicle the journey and experiences of two people who came to be known as missionaries. They were ordinary people from ordinary places, and they followed the most extraordinary God. May those who listen to this program be inspired to listen to and act upon the call of this same God, the Father of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, in their own lives. To God be the glory.
Our God Is an Awesome God is a story about how the prophets Elijah and Elisha spread the word about God and his wonderful miracles. This little Bible story shows how God takes care of all of his followers. He told Elijah to go and warn King Ahab about the horrible drought that was coming to his lands for him worshiping false gods. Then he spoke to Elijah, and God led him to a wonderful stream that did not go dry for several years, and he fed Elijah with a friendly raven.
Christ knew that the splendor of heaven is too great for us to bear just now, and so he used parables as clues to the mystery of paradise. In them are hints of heaven, and they offer profound spiritual advice meant to guide us on the road to eternal glory.
The purpose of this series of texts is very simple. We have striven to compile the best of the better known and the least known of the ancient sacred texts from religions throughout the world and throughout time. It is our hope that this series of volumes makes it possible for a lay listener to truly access some of the most important world literature in religion. Encyclopedia of Ancient Sacred Texts.
Madame Blavatsky was the face of the Theosophical movement, and probably its most prolific writer. In this particular piece, published in 1889, she writes somewhat philosophically about the dawning of a new age of writers and religious thinkers. She feels that she is witnessing an equalization of sorts, within society, which she refers to as the Awakening Spirit of Humanity. She urges the listener to participate, rather than just sit idly by and observe.
In a cliché-free zone, Twenty Four suggests practical ways that we can discover a more 24/7 approach to discipleship. It is real, stimulating, and designed to make you think about the stuff that makes up the daily diet called life. Taking a day in the life of an ordinary person, it is designed for Christians everywhere to gain an exciting new perspective on all parts of their lives and shows how every aspect can be part of worship.
Wicca is also known as Witchcraft and The Craft. It is a religion that emphasizes nature, peaceful living, and spirituality. As such, it is vastly different than Satanism with which it is sometimes confused or unfairly compared to. Another singular feature of Wicca is its belief in magic. Wiccans practice a vast array of Wiccan spells and rituals such as Wiccan spells for love and Wiccan healing spells
The Church is simply a group of saved sinners, and because of this we face a variety of issues. How do we deal with them? Focusing on the letter of 1 Corinthians, Pastor Skip Heitzig discusses Church divisions, sexual impurity, marriage difficulties, personal liberties, and other problems in the body of Christ and looks at what God's word says about resolving them.
Practical Guides for Prosperity, Book 4 is an anointed manual for those searching for means to prosperity and good life. Containing 20 action plans as elucidated by Pastor E. A. Adeboye in his inspired teachings, the book offers practical and time tested guides to fulfilling God's destiny for your life.
Different branches of the same religion are the exception more than the rule, and they have had a profound impact upon history. The schism between the Orthodox and Catholic Churches influenced relationships between nations across Europe, and religious intolerance based on different Christian faiths led to persecution and outright violence across the continent for centuries.
Brother Harvey examines the symbolism of the worshipful master's gavel. He also explains what differentiates it from the setting Maul used in the master mason degree of the blue lodge and the one used in the mark master degree of the York Rite.
The Book of Shadows acts a little like a Wiccan's guide book, holding a varied amount of knowledge from rituals and spells to beliefs and traditions. Written by Gerald Gardiner in the late 1940s to early 1950s for his coven of Brickett Wood, it was written to guide beginning Wiccans. They used information from this book, adding and leaving out information to suit their own books.
If you want to find inner peace and wisdom, you don't need to move to an ashram or monastery. Your life, just as it is, is the perfect place to be. Jack Kornfield, one of America's most respected Buddhist teachers, shares this and other key lessons gleaned from more than 40 years of committed study and practice.
God Is Disappointed in You is for people who would like to read the Bible...if it would just cut to the chase. Stripped of its arcane language and interminable passages, every book of the Bible is condensed down to its core message, in no more than a few pages each. Written by Mark Russell with cartoons by New Yorker cartoonist Shannon Wheeler, God Is Disappointed in You is a frequently hilarious, often shocking, but always accurate retelling of the Bible, including the parts selectively left out by Sunday School teachers.
"lighthearted but informative, a great listen."
The 59 provocative slogans presented here - each with a commentary by the Tibetan meditation master Chgyam Trungpa - have been used by Tibetan Buddhists for eight centuries to help meditation students remember and focus on important principles and practices of mind training. They emphasize meeting the ordinary situations of life with intelligence and compassion under all circumstances. Slogans include, "Don't be swayed by external circumstances," "Be grateful to everyone," and "Always maintain only a joyful mind."
Believe what you've heard about meditation: it'll focus your mind, open your heart, and sometimes surprise you with insight. And it's not complicated to learn. In fact, everything you need to get started is contained in this audiobook. Lodro Rinzler begins by challenging you to ask yourself why you want to meditate in the first place. (Good news: there's no wrong answer!)
According to the Buddha, no one can attain basic sanity or enlightenment without practicing meditation. The teachings given here on the outlook and technique of meditation provide the foundation that every practitioner needs to awaken as the Buddha did. Trungpa teaches us to let go of the urge to make meditation serve our ambition; thus we can relax into openness.
"Great book"
Living and dying with bravery and honor is at the heart of Hagakure, a series of texts written by an 18th-century samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo. It is a window into the samurai mind, illuminating the concept of bushido (the Way of the Warrior), which dictated how samurai were expected to behave, conduct themselves, live, and die.
ChgyamTrungpa's unique ability to express the essence of Buddhist teachings in the language and imagery of modern American culture makes his books among the most accessible works of Buddhist philosophy. Here Trungpa explores the true meaning of freedom, showing us how our preconceptions, attitudes, and even our spiritual practices can become chains that bind us to repetitive patterns of frustration and despair.
Ryokan (1758-1831) is, along with Dogen and Hakuin, one of the three giants of Zen in Japan. But unlike his two renowned colleagues, Ryokan was a societal dropout, living mostly as a hermit and a beggar. He was never head of a monastery or temple. He liked playing with children. He had no dharma heir. Even so, people recognized the depth of his realization, and he was sought out by people of all walks of life for the teaching to be experienced in just being around him.
This treasury of essential Buddhist writings draws from the most popular Indian, Tibetan, Chinese, and Japanese sources. Among the selections are some of the earliest recorded sayings of the Buddha on the practice of freedom, passages from later Indian scriptures on the perfection of wisdom, verses from Tibetan masters on the enlightened mind, and songs in praise of meditation by Zen teachers.
When the Buddha set in motion the wheel of Dharma, he knew that the teaching he gave was inexhaustible - that every future generation would find its own skillful ways to convey it to the hearts and minds of those ready to hear. The Buddha Is Still Teaching is testimony to the fulfillment of that promise today. The selections it contains, from today's most highly regarded contemporary Buddhist teachers, bring the Dharma eloquently to life for us in our own time, place, and culture.
This user's guide to Buddhist basics takes the most commonly asked questions - beginning with "What is the essence of the Buddha's teachings?" - and provides simple answers in plain English. Thubten Chodron's responses to the questions that always seem to arise among people approaching Buddhism make this an exceptionally complete and accessible introduction - as well as a manual for living a more peaceful, mindful, and satisfying Life.
AnamThubten, in remarkably easy-to-understand language, provides teachings for doing exactly that, based on the wisdom of the Buddhist traditions. He illuminates the path of going beyond the misconceptions of the ego to experience the reality of our true nature, which is already enlightened. He communicates with clarity, humor, and refreshing honesty, lighting the way to a life full of love, compassion, and true satisfaction.
"Truly Inspiring"
In this valuable introduction, Michael Carrithers guides us through the complex and sometimes conflicting information that Buddhist texts give us about the life and teaching of the Buddha. He discusses the social and political background of India in the Buddha's time and traces the development of his thought. He also assesses the rapid and widespread assimilation of Buddhism and its contemporary relevance.
A provocative manifesto for an interpretation of Islam that synthesizes liberal ideas and respect for the Islamic tradition. Persuasive and inspiring, Islam Without Extremes offers a desperately needed intellectual basis for the reconcilability of Islam and religious, political, economic, and social freedoms.
Beginning students in Japanese martial arts, such as karate, judo, aikido, iaido, kyudo, and kendo, learn that when they are in the dojo (the practice space), they must don their practice garb with ritual precision, address their teacher and senior students in a specific way, and follow certain unwritten but deeply held codes of behavior. But very soon they begin to wonder about the meaning behind the traditions, gear, and relationships in the dojo.
"Absolutely fascinating"
The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500 CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andrew Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China.
"Excellent in every way."
A practical approach to creating wealth-based on the established principles of ancient Jewish wisdom-made accessible to people of all backgrounds. The ups and downs of the economy prove Rabbi Daniel Lapin's famous principle that the more things change, the more we need to depend upon the things that never change. There's no better source for both practical and spiritual financial wisdom than the time-tested knowledge found in the ancient Jewish faith and its culture.
John L. Esposito is one of America's leading authorities on Islam. Now, in this brilliant portrait of Islam today - and tomorrow - he draws on a lifetime of thought and research to sweep away the negative stereotypes and provide an accurate, richly nuanced, and revelatory account of the fastest-growing religion in the world. Here Esposito explores the major questions and issues that face Islam in the 21st century and how that will deeply affect global politics.


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The Royal Institute of British Architects has presented its 2009 White Rose Gold Award to a new medical centre funded by SMBCE.
The new Queen's Centre for Oncology and Haematology at Castle Hill Hospital in Hull, also received three further RIBA awards, namely, the National Award for Architecture, the White Rose High Commendation for Landscaping, and the White Rose Best Client Award.
RIBA was founded in 1834 and its awards are considered the most prestigious design awards a building can receive in the United Kingdom. The institute's mission is to advance architecture by demonstrating benefit to society and promoting excellence in the profession.
The centre is part of the larger Hull Hospital and constitutes a hub of excellence for the treatment of patients with cancer and blood disorders.
It features five wards, containing 116 in-patient beds, out-patient care, a drop-in centre providing psychological and emotional support, a chemotherapy day hospital, six radiotherapy treatment rooms, as well as pathology, pharmacy and medical physics facilities.
The environment has been designed by a team of architects, patients and staff to promote well-being and recovery, and provide a clean and safe hospital for patients and their families.
The centre offers stunning views of the rolling Hull landscape, which patients can enjoy through ample, bright communal rooms fitted with floor-to-ceiling windows.
It takes as its design reference from the typical villages found in the East Riding of Yorkshire, which enables it to blend into its surroundings. While the entrance has been designed to echo a village hall in appearance and scale, wards and outpatient areas are similar in form to residential cottages.
The courtyards were designed for the benefit of patients and provide the type of tranquil, natural environment that has been proven to help physical and psychological recovery.
The centre serves a wide catchment area of 1.2 million people, from Scarborough in the north to Lincoln in the south.
SMBCE staff recently visited the site to recognise the final completion of construction and the official opening.
The centre was built for a total construction cost of Ł44.5m, opened to patients in August 2008 and was officially inaugurated by the Queen Elizabeth II in March 2009.
The partners of the Hull Oncology and Haematology Centre project were the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust and an ABN AMRO PPP Investments-led consortium, including ABN AMRO, Shepherd Construction, HLM Architects, and Operon.
The facility is a 19,902 square metre oncology and haematology unit and is located adjacent to the existing Castle Hill Hospital in Hull. It is 100% new build.
RIBA awards are given for buildings that have high architectural standards and make a substantial contribution to the local environment. The awards are annual, and have been running continuously since 1966.


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Toll charges start on DFW Connector in Grapevine
Free rides are over on the DFW Connector's TEXpress lanes on the 4-mile stretch of Texas 114 that goes through Grapevine.
The Texas Transportation Department started charging tolls Monday. The toll lanes start just west of Texas 26 and continue to east of International Parkway.
Grapevine police, who patrol that segment, reported no problems, Sgt. Robert Eberling said.
Tony Hartzel of the Transportation Department said the first day was smooth, in part because of the test period beginning in April when the toll lanes were used at no charge.
"We're really pleased with the performance so far. The whole goal is to keep traffic moving," he said. "Having the trial period with zero cost to drivers really helped, let them understand how to get in and out of the lanes."
Managed tolling on TEXpress lanes, which run parallel to main freeway lanes and frontage roads, is designed to keep toll lane traffic flowing at a minimum of 50 mph by raising or lowering the toll according to traffic load. So at peak periods, tolls go up, which discourages use of the toll lanes and keeps traffic flowing through them.
The tolls will vary from 67 cents at slower times to $1 during peak periods for the 4-mile stretch during a six-month review period for motorists using a TollTag from the North Texas Tollway Authority, a TxTAG from TxDOT or an EZ-Pass from the Harris County Toll Road Authority.
High-occupancy vehicle users pay 50 cents, but drivers who don't have an electronic tag or use the HOV lanes will pay an additional 50 percent surcharge at first — so those drivers currently pay $1.50. Hartzel said that after three months the surcharge could go up to 75 percent and as high as 90 percent.
"The whole concept is to encourage people to get a toll tag," he said.
Michael Rey of the North Texas Tollway Authority said the amount of toll collected Monday, or on any given day, was not immediately available.
Tolls could change after the six-month period, a news release from the department said.
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*lunch is served
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Room: Don Bautista or Santa Cruz
*lunch is served
We will be having a welcome lunch for new and returning club members on January 6th in the ICC room from 11:30 AM to 1 PM. The ICC room is in the lower level of the campus center. Click this post for maps of the campus center location.
We begin the section on justification in Romans today (3:21 – 5:11).
Here is a related hymn:
We are starting the Bible study this quarter with the book of Romans:
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The HAL Airport Road traffic police find themselves facing an inquiry in connection with the alleged bashing up of disc jockey Sasha Sambi.
The DJ was reportedly roughed up by a group of traffic police personnel on HAL Airport Road during a drunk driving check early Sunday when he and his wife were driving home.
Though the police claimed Mr. Sambi kicked a constable on duty, provoking his colleagues to gang up and beat him, the police did not file a case against the DJ after a senior politician's relative intervened.
The police were under the impression that the matter had been amicably settled after both parties shook hands and decided to drop charges against each other.
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However, matters took a different turn with Mr. Sambi writing about his ordeal on Facebook, uploading pictures of what he said were bruises he suffered due to police brutality. His post evoked a massive response, with hundreds castigating police highhandedness.
"We trusted him and his friends, who intervened on his behalf, and decided not to press any charges against the couple. We did not expect him to take a U-turn and launch a campaign against us," said a senior police officer who was part of the mediation efforts.
To add to their woes, the police have neither recorded the alcometer test results nor have they taped Sunday's unpleasantness. "Now we are left no option but to file a case against them for assaulting a police constable on duty."
Refuting the police claim, Mr. Sambi said it was unlikely the police would not have let him off had he kicked the constable. "Neither of us was drunk," he told The Hindu.
He and his wife were heading back home after partying at a club around 12.30 a.m. when a traffic constable stopped them. "My wife was driving and I was in the passenger's seat and neither of us had consumed any alcohol," he claimed. "The constable extended the alcometer at my wife without any intimation and rudely said, 'Blow into this,' repeatedly even when the reading did not show any alcohol content."
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Things turned ugly when he got down from the vehicle to talk to the constable but was pushed and kicked, Mr. Sambi claimed. "A group of seven or eight other constables then joined in to bash me up with slaps, kicks and lathis."
On Wednesday, the DJ met Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) T. Sunil Kumar who asked him file a complaint against the erring policemen. Additional Commissioner of Police (Traffic) M.A. Saleem said he has ordered an enquiry and has asked senior officials to submit a report for further action.
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Nicki Minaj Is In A Fun House In New Video For "I Am Your Leader"
"When I fly, it's one letter and one number / You whack h**s could get hot for one summer / After that the queen will still reign here / I'm Santa Clause to these h**s without a reindeer"
In this new video for Nicki Minaj's single "I Am Your Leader," featuring Rick Ross and Cam'ron, she's in true Nicki form as a loony character with multiple personalities rapping inside a wacky funhouse. The song is about — what else — how she's the best rapper in the game, how she has the most money, and how she's more successful than anybody else. While the subject matter isn't very fresh, the video is really fun to watch and Nicki, Cam'ron, and Rick Ross all have some great verses in the song.
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NZXT Cryo LX Aluminum Notebook Cooler ReviewNZXT offers the "World's largest full aluminium cooler" with the Cryo LX. Let's see if bigger means better!
With more and more laptop coolers passing through our doors, I have seen enough to get a basic feel for the market. Some coolers look like space ships with bulky plastic and rubber pieces and get surrounded by LEDs; some with and some without lighting control. If I was a teenager again, these things would all appeal to me, and at that point I know noise wasn't as much of an issue for me back then, but with lots of other things going on in the world around a PC, I like to see performance without making my ears bleed in the process.
While I was receiving coolers from Antec and Cooler Master, I asked NZXT for the Cryo LX to see what they have in store for the notebook cooling market. I mean we have just seen their LED kits, the Bunker, and those very nice looking wiring adapters, I figured they had to take some of that creativity into other products they produce, and NZXT seems more than happy to oblige me with my desire to want to see it.
Today we will be taking a close look at the Cryo LX, the "largest full aluminum notebook cooler". Not only does this notebook cooler offer an extruded aluminum construction, it also offers plenty of air flow. Even at first glance on the site or looking at the coolers packaging, it isn't hard to tell that NZXT is offering a classy looking addition to your desktop as well. I say we get to the specifics and key features of the Cryo LX, disassemble it a bit, and get to the testing to see if the "largest" cooler means the "best" notebook cooler.
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Changqian Yu received his B.S. in chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China in 2009 and then started his Ph.D. study with Steve Granick at the University of Illinois. He uses single-molecule fluorescence methods to study polymer dynamics at interfaces and under confinement.
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"More Rat, Please"
Jim DiGriz is a suave man-about-town kind of thief...a high-class crook who gets caught ends up working for the law, not against it. DiGriz isn't a noble lawman or dedicated to fighting crime...he just realizes he's caught in the web of the Special Corps. Then he pursues a temptress named Angelina, who is a quite ruthless criminal. His hunt for the lovely Angelina becomes the focus of his life (and the story).
Somehow, I see Jim DiGriz as a cross between The Thin Man and Han Solo. This isn't high literature or something with a deep message...it's light, fun, entertaining and a bit campy. I did think the story bogged down a little towards the end, but not terribly so.
There are a lot of Stainless Steel Rat novels but only a couple on Audible...hopefully, more Rat is coming.
Phil Gigante's narration is very well done...just right for this campy spoof.
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Paul Ryan and the brown bag lie
The question my students most often ask me is, "Why do you give so much work?"
The second most often-asked question is, "Got any food?"
Before this last weekend I had never thought to sit and quantify the questions my students ask me. But Paul Ryan made me do it.
Wisconsin GOP Congressman Ryan spoke Thursday at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, an annual meeting of conservative activists that serves as a pilgrimage for any professional conservative with a book or a campaign to sell. You have probably heard that a key anecdote from Ryan's speech turned out to be plagiarized, not by Ryan, but by Ryan's source – Eloise Anderson, Secretary of Wisconsin's Department of Children and Families, an appointee of Gov. Scott Walker.
Here's what Ryan said Thursday, according to the Washington Post's "Fact Checker" Glenn Kessler:
(Anderson) once met a young boy from a very poor family, and every day at school, he would get a free lunch from a government program. He told Eloise he didn't want a free lunch. He wanted his own lunch, one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids. He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him.
Ryan told the story to suggest that "the left," in his words, wanted to offer hungry children not a full stomach but "an empty soul." A free lunch at school, Ryan argued, robs children of the love, acceptance and comfort that only a family, via a home-packed lunch, can provide.
I started thinking about my students' questions of me because I read Kessler's column Friday morning before I left for school, and literally within a few minutes of the start of school that morning, one of my kids did in fact ask me if I had any food. The question came back repeatedly throughout the day.
Some of this I'm sure is standard adolescent rapaciousness; I was fed well in my middle-class home when I was an teenager, but I was very good at sniffing out food from teachers and classmates or sneaking some of those little blueberry muffin things when I worked my shifts at Burger King.
But my school also has a near 90 percent free and reduced lunch rate, meaning the vast majority of kids walking the halls are from families with incomes below, at, or just above the poverty line – and many of the kids are, in fact, hungry when they're asking me for food.
But back to Paul Ryan. As it turns out, the story Anderson told Ryan (during testimony before Congress!) was lifted from a book by Laura Schroff, and the boy who wanted a brown bag was named Maurice Mazyck. Anderson's spokesperson gave Kessler a statement claiming the secretary "misspoke" in her testimony, but Kessler couldn't verify the supposedly corrected version of Anderson's story, either.
More importantly, I think, is that Schroff and Mazyck are busy living the exact opposite of what Ryan was trying to say by appropriating their anecdote. The two are, according to a news release Kessler links to, working with No Kid Hungry to provide healthy meals to hungry children. Indeed, a key part of No Kid Hungry's mission is making sure that families can access food stamps, free school lunches and other soul-sucking methods of getting food to hungry kids.
Ryan's schtick at CPAC, claiming that government help for those in need crushes spirits and steals souls, is a pretty common trope among those on the right eager to curb government spending primarily by cutting programs for the poor. I think that conservatives want to say they care – they just care about your existential well-being much more than they care about whether you go to bed hungry or, for that matter, have a bed or even a home.
"I want you to have love and self respect more than I want you to have a mock chicken leg," they say. You can hear the "It hurts me as much as it hurts you" lurking just under the surface there, and it's no more a consolation from someone like Ryan than it was from your dad before he delivered a spanking.
I think Ryan's schtick would seem more genuine if there were actual solutions behind his rhetoric. In the CPAC speech, Ryan said – rightly, I think – that a growing economy is good for poor families. The trouble is his ideas, like like cutting Medicare or food stamps or Head Start or other programs that primarily help the poor, do the opposite of grow the economy.
It's bad enough that Ryan's recent report on 50 years of America's "War on Poverty" abuses the data; it also misrepresents the reality of social mobility in America and the effects of government programs. Food stamps, for example, have ( nearly double) the benefits to the wider economy than their cost. Recent research suggests that the best anti-poverty program may well be just giving people money, no strings attached. The Earned Income Tax Credit does exactly that to great success for America's poor – and that is a program Ryan has a history of trying to slash.
Ryan said at CPAC that "the left just doesn't understand" the value of knowing someone cares about them, with his purloined tale of the brown bag. "People don't just want a life of comfort," Ryan said, "they want a life of dignity – of self-determination."
When my students ask if I have any chips or candy or, sometimes, fruit, they're not asking for a life of comfort. They're not handing me their dignity in exchange for Cheetos, their self-determination for an apple. They don't want a speech. They want a meal. They're hungry.
Paul Ryan and his party would rather they stay that way. For their "soul."
UnionYes | March 11, 2014 at 11:53 p.m. (report)
The point is that he both plagiarized and lied. Hunger trumps dignity any day. It's good to recognize a lie and even better to hold people accountable for their lies. Please stay on topic with your replies. Political grandstanding is just disgusting. Lyin' Ryan - It's not just a nickname, it's a career.
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AndrewJ | March 11, 2014 at 8:51 a.m. (report)
This is just riveting stuff. Sigh.
The President of the United States of America has been getting up in front of the people of this nation for 5 consecutive years and lying to their face regarding his plan for health care, what it will mean for them, and who, ultimately, will benefit from the legislation. But instead of focusing on the big guy, the one actually in charge, you goofs are chasing down anecdotal quotes from stump speeches at conferences. Earlier this week you had Dan Bice over at the Journal playing keystone cop and tracking down people who appeared in stock online imagery used in a Republican TV ad. Is this really what you've come to? Because your ideas and philosophy have been put on full display as an unmitigated failure, you're going to try and disprove the other side by chasing ghosts? OK. Good luck with that.
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