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Hire A Coach Lou Then Step Aside
by Paul on 06/09/07 at 10:26 AM ET
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from Tom Gulitti of the Record,
Lamoriello has said several times over the last two years that MacLean, 42, will make an excellent head coach "someday". If that day is not now, then when?
What else does MacLean have to prove? Is there an NHL assistant coach or a minor league head coach more qualified to do the job?
The only other understandable choice would be rehiring Pat Burns. It is unknown, however, whether Burns, after two battles with cancer, is healthy enough to handle the demanding grind of coaching again.
After hiring MacLean, there's one other important move Lamoriello must make: Get out of the way. It must be clear that he won't be pulling the strings from behind the scenes—something he didn't do with Julien.
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Decisions Ahead For The Leafs
by Paul on 06/09/07 at 10:17 AM ET
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from the Toronto Sun,
Ferguson must make a decision on unrestricted forwards Jeff O'Neill, Travis Green and Michael Peca and restricted defenceman Carlo Colaiacovo. It's unlikely all three forwards will be back, with the 33-year-old Peca having to take a salary hit if he wants to stay and prove a broken leg hasn't affected his game. O'Neill's 20-goal ability was not enough to keep him from being a healthy scratch at the end of last season.
The most interesting call could be in goal, where coach Paul Maurice had indicated he would like the hot-and-cold Andrew Raycroft to play 65 to 70 games again, while Ferguson has spoken of bringing in a veteran to both spell off Raycroft and push him for the No. 1 job. Ferguson says that doesn't mean UFA Jean-Sebastien Aubin is through here, but it's likely the GM won't extend the $525,000 one-way deal he had last year.
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Sens Committed To Winning
by Paul on 06/09/07 at 10:11 AM ET
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fro Chris Stevenson of the Ottawa Sun,
After seeing his Senators come up just short in their bid for a first Stanley Cup, the Senators owner told Sun Media yesterday he will likely boost the club's payroll to the salary cap—whatever it turns out to be—to take another run at bringing the Cup home.
"My sense is the cap will go up. Everyone knows my commitment to continuing to build a championship team in Ottawa, so in that context, spending to the cap is always a necessary consideration," wrote Melnyk in an e-mail to the Sun yesterday.
"Having a long playoff run, like we did this year, always helps financially," wrote Melnyk. "The team will do well this year, but the final numbers are not in yet."
The Senators already have commitments on the books for next year to the tune of $40.5 million.
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Price Impressing Habs
by Paul on 06/09/07 at 01:01 AM ET
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from Darren Dreger at TSN,
Goaltender Carey Price has nothing left to prove in the American Hockey League.
Next stop: the Montreal Canadiens.
The 19-year-old Calder Cup MVP has Canadiens general manager Bob Gainey and everyone else associated with the organization giddy with anticipation.
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Hockey Is Alive In SoCal
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 09:05 PM ET
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from Terry Frei at ESPN,
But the Southern California media—perhaps self-conscious of all the prattle they are hearing from outsiders and feeling too insecure to question or challenge it, and even buying into it to try to justify decisions that give the Clippers more staffing on the road than the Kings or the Ducks—aren't into challenging the urban myths.
The Ducks now have had 34 straight sellouts. A bandwagon? Of course it is. But that's also a lot more consecutive sellouts than Detroit (factoring in the playoffs), Dallas and Colorado have had.
The Kings did some major league papering of the house last season, but come on, their official average of 16,859 was still over 90 percent of capacity, so it's absurd to portray them as a colossal box-office failure, especially since they were the second-worst team in the Western Conference.
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The Las Vegas Group
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 08:20 PM ET
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from the Financial Times,
David Bonderman, a founding partner of Texas Pacific Group; Jerry Bruckheimer, the producer behind the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise; and Harry Sloan, chairman and chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are behind the bid for the franchise.
Mr Bonderman's TPG is an investor in MGM and was recently part of the consortium that bought Harrah's Entertainment, the Las Vegas-based casino operator, for $17bn.
Mr Sloan, meanwhile, is leading the revival of MGM after a consortium of investors bought it from Kirk Kerkorian.
Anyone who thinks Vegas would have trouble selling tickets needs to know the major strip hotels would eat up those tickets in a hurry.- offering them to their guests and high rollers. Imagine the out of town visitors from Detroit, NYC, Toronto, etc. that would jump at the opportunity to get to Vegas, using this reasoning, "Had to go see my team play…"
added 6:50pm, from the Las Vegas Review-Journal,
An arena needs to arrive in Las Vegas before a team does, though, NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly said on Thursday.
"In order for the NHL to ever have a franchise in Las Vegas, they'd have to build a new state-of-the-art arena in Las Vegas. We're talking a couple years away, minimum," said Daly, who confirmed Bruckheimer and others have been in discussions with the league for the past six months.
"I think Las Vegas is a very attractive market," Daly said. "But there are issues, with respect to gaming, the National Hockey League would have to address. That's certainly something the board would have to consider, but this is all very premature, and that's not something to discuss with the board at this point."
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The Weekend
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 06:00 PM ET
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You will be getting a dose of KK Lite this weekend.
Time to re-charge the batteries and get some long put-off chores done.
Remember, KK members are encouraged to use the KK Forum to post anything of interest to hockey fans.
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Don't Make Another Mistake
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 03:14 PM ET
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from Dan Wetzel at Yahoo Sports,
Look, if the league wants to further strangle itself with expansion, why not Chicago? It hasn't had a team since Bill Wirtz disbanded the Blackhawks in the mid-1990s.
Only the NHL could even dream this stuff up. The league needs to contract, not expand. It needs to improve the product, not disperse the talent, dilute rivalries and provide another slap at the game's tradition.
No offense to Vegas and KC, but we've seen this act before. The few million in expansion fees isn't worth adding a couple more cities that aren't all that interested in hockey, save the core of 10-15,000 fans who will still be paying attention once the novelty wears off.
As for Commissioner Gary Bettman, well, he hasn't overseen many good ideas in his first 15 years on the job. At this point our only hope is that his various disasters in leadership were part of a secret 16-year plan and good things are about to happen.
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Possible Fernandez Destinations
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 02:31 PM ET
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from Adam Proteau of the Hockey News,
So, which teams are likely to inquire about Fernandez? Florida, Phoenix and Los Angeles have been mentioned often, but one player agent believes the Maple Leafs are interested in the Toronto native. And that makes sense, as incumbent Andrew Raycroft clearly needs to be challenged for the starter's job – and their two salaries (in terms of cap hit) combined would come in at $6.33 million next season.
added 12:42pm, from Russo's Rants,
The reality is it's not easy to trade a player when the team's in need of a goalie (Phoenix, Florida and possibly Boston, Detroit and LA) all think the Wild HAS to trade Fernandez.
Right now, Risebrough would be lucky to at least get a mid-round pick for Fernandez because everybody believes he's got to dump his $4.33 million cap hit. But Risebrough would love at least a first (Phoenix has two firsts), especially when he was able to trade Dwayne Roloson to Edmonton for a first-rounder in March 2006.
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Picture It
by Paul on 06/08/07 at 12:59 PM ET
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A great job putting together the SCF in pictures.
Check it out..
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Oct 17, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
Lian Li is preparing a brand new all-aluminum mini tower that has been tagged with the model number PC-V358. The case has official dimension of 324 (W) x 286 (H) x 390 (D) mm, it weighs 4.2 kg. The case will support micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards.
Oct 10, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
We got our first look at Lian Li's PC-D600 aluminum case back in June when Lian Li was showing it off at Computex. Well this massive case is now available in North America.
Sep 25, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
A new mid tower chassis has been released by the Lian Li Industrial Co. the chassis has been formed with brushed aluminum and offers a side mounted radiator support. There is a hinged bracket for the placement of the radiator on this new mid tower chassis which have been tagged as the PC-10N. This hinge supports radiators of 240 mm which can be placed in by do it yourselfers.
Aug 28, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
Lian Li has announced the release of their latest full tower case the PC-A79. This case supports HPTX, E-ATX, XL-ATX, ATX, and Micro-ATX motherboards and has a removable motherboard tray to make installation even easier. The case is fully made of Aluminum and is available in both black and silver versions.
Aug 21, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
A number of chassis from Lian Li were displayed at Computex 2013, but one of the chassis really stood out from the entire range and it is the upcoming PC-V360. What we have come know by having a look at the chassis that there is a mounting spot right in front of the motherboard, which will pack in the 240mm radiator.
Aug 08, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
Lian-Li Industrial Co. Ltd, just today announced a brand new brushed aluminum mid tower chassis with side mounted radiator support called the PC-10N. In addition to allowing for a 240 mm radiator to be placed on a hinged bracket, the PC-10N misses the traditional motherboard tray, and in its place put into service a railing mounts design for maximum thermal performance and improved cable management.
Jun 26, 2013 Ahmed Humayun All News, Hardware News 0
It's officially announced that Lian LI will be shipping its unique curved PC Q30 mini-ITX to UK by the end of July 2013. Not letting our expectations go down, constructed from brushed aluminum, PC-Q30 is certainly attention-grabbing device. It has a curved front and contains an acrylic window providing a top-down view of the rear-mounted motherboards and components.
Jun 06, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 1
It looks like Corsair is not the only one showing off box-type cases at Computex. Lian Li has two on display actually. They are the PC-D600 and PC-D7000. The PC-D600 is split right in the middle, while the PC-D7000 is not as boxy, but is not your ordinary case either. Did we mention both of these cases are massive?!
May 30, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
Lian Li has just announced the latest edition to their "TU" briefcase chassis series in the PC-TU100 mini-ITX chassis. This new case is even more compact than the PC-TU200. Just like the previous case the PC-TU100 features an all aluminum design and has a top-mounted handle for easy transportation. The case will be available in both black and silver versions.
May 14, 2013 Bob Buskirk All News, Hardware News 0
Lian Li has announced a pretty interesting case in their new PC-Q13 curved case. This case has a curved design that is meant to show off your system through the large acrylic window. I could totally see people using this at shows to show off custom systems. Of course the case is made of all aluminum.
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Seat Lock - Assistance required
Hi Folks,
I have a 2010 990R Adv & having issues with the seat lock. Yesterday after a long time decided to check the toolkit to make sure I had all the tools before I headed out on a long weekend trip.
Unfortunately I was unable to open the lock. The key was'nt going in all the way. I tried using penetrating oil, but had no luck. I'm gonna try again this evening & see if I could get lucky.
If you have any ideas or suggestions please let me know.
try turning the key over-
Make sure nothing under the seat is pushing upward and into the seat pan. Upward pressure creates a very stiff key turn. Try pushing down on the seat while turning the key.
(Disclaimer, this works on my SE that has a keyed seat latch, YMMV)
I had same prob. Did not get manual from PO.turn key one way locks glove box. Turn other unlocks seat.dang near ripped bike apart to figure this out.then put wolfmans on witth the buckle under the seat and wedged the lock. Try sitting on the seat and bouncing on it while turning key. Gently. Keys are 100 $ each and 4-6weeks out. Good luck
I had the exact same problem 2 weeks ago on my 2009 990R. My mechanic pal squirted in some graphite spray and put the key in and tapped it with a rubber mallet and eventually it cleared up and worked fine.
Thank you everybody for all the input.....Managed to go for my long weekend ride without having to open up my seat.
This week I will try my luck at opening the seat with all your suggestions & keep your'll posted.
Is it an aftermarket seat? I bought a used Corbin seat for mine and I'm still in the process of shimming the rear pin to the proper dimension so the key will turn easily; the amount that this pin go into the "locking" hole on the bike seems to be a critical factor in getting the key to turn easily.
Tried last evening still no luck. Gonna try something different this evening & see if it works. Keeping my fingers crossed. Will keep you folks posted on the out come.
Hey RiderVic.....Its the original seat with the orange dart.
Finally got the job done....
Folks I finally managed to get the seat lock opened after so many days :clapA big big thank you to "yawningfungus". The graphite spray & a rubber mallet did the job.
What a relief :freaky
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TV Review: 'Unhitched'
On the bright side, near simian-on-man violation pretty well throws down the gauntlet with as much audacity as his humanly possible.
But there's a problem, too. If you go to such an extreme in the first five minutes of your comedy series, viewers who actually respond positively to your gambit will be expecting that it isn't an isolated bit of risk-taking. One of the great disappointments of "Unhitched" is that it lacks the courage of its convictions and nothing in the rest of the pilot or the second episode sent to critics rises to that level of audacity.
Monkey rape and shrimp-shaped skin tags aside, "Unhitched" is really nothing more than another
Nothing in the way the main characters interact with each other speaks to any sort of believable or enduring friendship, much less equal footing within the show. Bierko and Jones are the obviously leads, with Sneed just playing a live-action version of
Bierko combines leading man looks with a smile that wreaks of insincerity and throughout his career the question has never been why he gets work -- he's both likeable and funny, plus he made a great Max Baer in "
FOX's difficulties launching live action comedies have been well documented and "Unhitched" is similar to "The Winner" in its attempts to mine an everything-but-the-drawings animated sensibility. Want to know the sad thing? "The Winner" was a funnier show. I still expect "Unhitched" to meet a similar fate -- a quick burn-off and a ripple-free disappearance.


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Steve Simoncic - vocals, lyrics
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WALKABOUT 2001: Cochin, Kerala, India
Namaste from the beautiful state of Kerala, in southwest India ("God's Own Country" according to Kerala Tourism Department brochures).
After a lazy week on the beach in Varkala, Stefan "The Bhang Lassi Walla" and I hit the famed Keralan Backwaters for a 6 hour cruise from Kollam (aka Quilon) to Alappuzha (aka Alleppey). (The language of Kerala is Malayalam and many places here are known by their anglicized and Malayalam names).
Some facts about Kerala for context: In 1957 Kerala had one of the world's first freely elected communist governments – if "commies" seem threatening to you, you should spend some time down here among the sweet, polite, gentle Keralans…Rocky IV-style propaganda would seem REALLY strange then) – the infant mortality rate here is the lowest in India, and Kerala's literacy rate of 90% is by far the highest in the country.
Add to these social factors a range of breathtaking physical environments (form the swampy backwaters to the tea-plantation-topped hills of the Western Ghats) and you've got the state I've enjoyed most on walkabout.
Kerala's religious and commercial histories are fascinating as well (particularly in the area I'm currently visiting - Cochin). Arabs and Jews started trading spices here in the 1st century AD (Cochin's unexpected Jewish community descended from settlers who fled Palestine 2000 years ago). The Portuguese hit the set early in the 16th century (interestingly, they found that Christianity had beat them here by about 1450 years, as "Doubting" St. Thomas moseyed in at about 50 AD…consequently, the town is filled with Christians and Catholics, and it's very interesting to see their native [Hindu] approaches to worship: garlands on statues of saints, incense in churches, bright flashing lights around pictures of JC, life-sized statues of Mother Theresa all around town, and pictures of JC and saints above all doors [these guys even outdo Mexicans and Italians re: displays of religious allegiance…my Nana's collection of pictures and statues, which always make trips to her house feel like trips to a museum or church, would be considered common - even humble - here]).
Cuisine continues to be a highlight of the trip: barracuda, white snapper, red snapper, kingfish, shark kabobs, pomphret, and tuna all straight outta the tandoori and pinched by garlic naan, or karimeen (rare backwater-dwelling fish) prepared "Moli"-style with onions, green mango sauce, and coconut…all good, all cheap, all over the place.
Animals loom large in the Indian (particularly South Indian) experience: goats running down the street on a rainy night, competing with you for a few feet of shelter under a porch, dogs singing you to sleep on chilly nights in the hill stations, crows swooping in from nowhere to snag that last piece of fried banana from you hand, dogs surrounding a quartet of cows - fully aware that they are gods, and can't be bothered by anything - barking in vain and instinctively trying to round them up as they stand perfectly still in the middle of a soccer field.
Last night I also had the pleasure of watching a Khatkakali performance (traditional Keralan dance). For the last 500 years or so, men have endured years of training, hours of make-up sessions daily, and a grueling program of eye-and-face-movement exercises to act out scenes from the Mahabharata without words. The performance is loud, gory, intense, beautiful, and LONG if you see the whole thing (6 hours). A true "must-see" if you get to Kerala.
Next stop, the little beach town of Gokaran in the state of Karnataka (after a 14 hour bus ride which I'm not looking forward to).
I made this for my 20th High School reunion (University High School, Tucson, AZ, Class of 1990)
Walkabout 2001: Some images of Gokarna, Karnataka, India
Last Wednesday morning I shared, with 3 relaxed cows and 2 barefoot women, a perfect hill overlooking a perfect beach.
Shiva had created a nice little seat for me out of lava, and I watched the cows stroll up the hill and towards me, ripping and chewing grass as the women collected fresh mushrooms and added them to the large baskets on their heads.
The only sounds I heard for about 3 hours were waves hitting a palm-covered, white-sand beach and grass being ripped out of the earth.
Then a huge eagle welcomed me (or told me to "get the hell out", I'm not sure which) with a sound that shook me from my semi-meditative state. It was leaning into the off-shore wind in such a way that it floated without motion, right above me, for about 10 minutes.
I was overlooking "Ohm Beach" (so-called because it looks like that Hindu symbol of the "sound of the universe" that can also be seen on temples, taxis, over house doors, and on the ankles of girls from Scarsdale).
According to Hindu belief, Ravana (the "demon king of Lanka") fancied the lingam (phallic symbol) - which stood on the beach - that Rudha had turned himself into after sneaking to the newly created earth to get a peek and do some beach meditation (Rudha presumably arrived by slipping through the ear of the earth - hence "Gokarn," which means "ear of the cow" - and his meditation was so deep that he shape-shifted into the lingam). The gods knew that if they couldn't get Ravana to drop the lingam (which he had stolen to help him fight them), they would lose it (and possibly Rudha) forever…so they sent Ganesh down, who offered to hold the lingam for Ravana while he prayed. Raven got duped, Ganesha saved the day, and a liberated Rudha decided to return to the beach to live inside the lingam, making Gokarna a must-visit for the Hindu pilgrim.
There are 4 different beaches, each about an hour's walk from the other, surrounding Gokarna, and they all rarely see tourist-types (other than the 'sell-it-all-and-just-go-live-there hippies' who have been 'smoked out' of Goa by more mainstream tourists and the 'my-buddy-just-sold-you-some-herb-and-told-me-about-it-so-now-you-pay-me-Rs.50,000-or-go-to-jail' cops who are working to change Goa's reputation, hoping to attract European package tourism).
So I walked, walked, and walked. Each beach was exquisite, deserted, and just begging to be stared at, from atop a volcanic hill, for extended periods of time.
And as the sun made it's way through the clear sky, offering different lighting for each of the 'I'm-staring-at-absolute-beauty-and-happy-to-be-alive' sessions, I was caught-up in the Yin of "check out these views smells sounds," and paid no attention to the Yang of "the sun is going down."
It darkens at bit, but there's a good 20 minutes of light left, and I'm at the 1st beach (only about 15 minutes walk from town [where my gear sits warmly and cozily in a hotel that's already paid]).
I'm walking close to the crashing waves with brush-covered lava cliff-faces to my right, and I realize that if I'm going to get back to my hotel room, I'd better take the most direct route, which is over hills, and not along the beach.
Steep, zigzagging cow-trails bring me close to the top of the hill, but large lava rocks and thorny bushes force me to re-assess my strategy.
"Ed, you best get back to that main trail."
–darker still–
Then Mother Nature, who had been sharing her sights sounds feels and smells so selflessly with me all day long, decided to finish the show with a nice big electrical storm…which would have been AMAZING if I had been on the balcony of my hotel room with a cool Kingfisher in hand, but was actually cause for 'I-can't-see-shite-and-am-going-to-have-to-sleep-on-wet-lava-rocks-tonight'-style panic.
Luckily, I was able to get over to Ohm Beach (using mostly peripheral vision [for some reason, I could kinda make out the trail's outline when I looked slightly away from it, and not right at it], slow walking, and almost as much hand-to-earth as feet-to-earth contact).
There I was very lucky to come across a cement-floored hut, furnished with a thin straw mat and a variety of cockroaches, lizards (newts? geckos?) and a single flea-and-scab-covered dog curled-up in the corner. With my beach towel for a pillow, sheet, and bug-shield, I was happy that I'd be able to sleep in the shelter of this entomological lab which, under normal circumstances, I would hesitate even entering.
The motley crew of dread-locked Brits who had a beach-fire going (and were also staying in these huts, but who had hammocks…the lucky bastards!) rounded out the experience nicely.
Some of the more memorable details from the evening:
- The doors to the huts could not only not be locked…they couldn't even be CLOSED from the inside (i.e., there was no hardware on the inside of the door). I wished I could have gotten in touch with my mechanical engineer cousin David, to work out a door closure strategy that would AT LEAST keep the flea-covered, aggressive beach dogs out (I wound up using a few pieces of wood, which, to my surprise, worked).
- Don't even think about electricity (I tell ya…laying there, hearing the bugs flying and crawling…it was TOUGH to blow out that candle)
- Whenever a bead of sweat rolled across my forehead (often), it felt like a bug crawling across my face, and I wound-up virtually slapping myself on account of this several times.
- The story from a bloke named Matt about catching "some kinda bug in Varanasi" which made him deaf for a week, wreaked havoc on his GI tract, and ultimately landed him in a local hospital (of course, Matt told me this AFTER repeatedly passing me the, uh, water bottle).
My big idea was to pour the remainder of my Skin So Soft insecticide around my straw mat, making a big toxic-rectangle, and then smearing the stuff into the floor around me for continuous protection from (at least the crawling) critters.
I woke up (at daybreak, for the first time in my life) with fewer bug bites than I got in Jaipur.
After Gokarna, I headed to Goa, in part because (as Matt-the-bug-passer would say) "it's easier to check it out than to have to explain to everyone why you didn't."
Gokarna and Varkala had turned me on to deserted beaches so much that I decided on the remote Palolem Beach (near Canacona) instead of the "Full-Moon Party"-boasting northern beaches.
With mellow travelers, 40-cent beers (which are actually COLD - a first for me in India), and a world-class, virtually deserted beach…Palolem offers the "Goa experience" just fine.
Here are some of the characters who helped me along on those crawl-back-to-your-hut nights:
Dave: The full-on Cali face-man (from Santa Monica) who hangs with his good friend Leo DiCaprio on location when he's not hooking up with girls 15 years his junior throughout India.
Nick: Dread-locked-deadhead son of an American diplomat and a famous Australian romance novelist (last name "Morrissey" or something) who went to high school in Delhi, speaks wicked Hindi, and is finishing his PhD in "Buddhist architecture" at UCLA.
Jean-Vieve (sp?): The French-Canadian death-nectar who told Dave, trying to leverage his tried-and-true open-field step, that she had to "go meditate."
Plus 3 other guitar-carrying-types and a crew of drunken Irishmen who always hazed our bonfire jams.
The food: Vindaloo! Goans are quite proud of this Portuguese-inspired meat/fish preparation. You would be too if you could eat it, like them, without losing vast quantities of fluids from your eyes and nose. It's like they took my chicken, sent it to Mexico for a jalapeño and habanero infusion, then over to Ethiopia, where cooks committed their own spice-violence, and finally to Goa, where enough red chili is added to make your ears bleed.
I write this from a cyber cafe in Mumbai, a city which looks very, very different to me the second time around (looks clean, calm, and orderly now that I've done my figure-8 around the sub-continent).
My travels have been so rich with experience that I wouldn't dare throw together a conclusion here…I will say that it has added priceless, priceless footage to the movie…
I meet southeast Asia in 18 hours. Feelin' pretty good about that.
Walkabout 2001: Thailand
I write this from Kho Tao, a 21-sq-km island in the Gulf of Thailand. Water so clear you can read the thoughts of fish from the beach, rented Honda CR250Rs for dirt roads that have been turned into supercross tracks by monsoon showers, abundant snorkeling and scuba.
Life doesn't suck.
Last week my buddies Nick ("Butlah!") Butler and Aaron ("Dav") Davenport rolled into Bangkok to save me from my cash-burning self. After a night of formaldehyde-laden Singa's by the case – which landed us in a bar on Pat pong Road where girls were smoking cigarettes without using their mouths and throwing darts at balloons without using their hands (I'm not proud of supporting such behavior…can't see how anyone would be turned on by it) – we were met by Rob ("Fat Bloke") Rowan, who invited us to his suite at the Royal Meridian to remind us what it was like when we were livin' high on the corporate hog.
We traded some travel stories (India, Zimbabwe, Beijing) surveyed the modern, comfy city that surrounded us, and then decided to pick up tickets to Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Burma). We fly on 10/22.
As I understand it, while Myanmar is a Buddhist country, it is also run by a totalitarian government who has outlawed everything from the Internet to locals discussing politics with foreigners.
So that's the plan; a cheeky Aussie, a cheeky Brit, and 2 cheeky Yanks in Myanmar for 10 days.
Pray for us.
Most of our shenanigans in Bangkok are the kinds of things you might do in NYC (eating well, guzzling, touring interesting neighborhoods), but a few experiences merit description…
We took a boat tour through the canals of Bangkok the other day. Very interesting to see the suburbs by boat. The water was REALLY dodgy (reminded me of India for the first time), but kids were swimming in it nevertheless. In fact, at one point, the cute little old lady who was driving the boat (complete with standard pointed-top, wide-brimmed hat which I'm guessing is added for the tourist's sake) told us to pull-in the tires used to pad contact with docks because the kids are keen to swim out to the motorized [!] boats and try to climb aboard by grabbing them.
The boat tour ended with a trip to Chinatown, which looks very much like NYC's Chinatown (except with fewer actual Chinese).
Later that night, we visited a bar called "Ad Makers" (because of the print-ad-laden walls) which featured a band with a brilliant 300-lb pony-tailed guitarist with tasty, tasty chops.
When they pulled out "More than Words" by Extreme, though, we knew it was time to go.
So I dragged Butlah! and Dav to a place I had visited earlier in the week called "The Metal Zone." This place is amazing; huge skull-and-crossbones facade, mic stands made out of chains, a drum kit that makes Lars Ulrich's look like the little drummer boy's, a drummer's platform complete with large spikes around the edges, a variety of skeletal remains hanging from the walls a la Pirates of the Caribbean at Disneyland, and "Ecstasy," our band for the evening (I mean that literally…there were 2 other people in the bar, who left a few minutes after we got there) who played Deep Purple, UFO, Steppenwolf [??!], and Black Sabbath covers at a volume that only a hard-of-hearing Indian could appreciate (which didn't keep Butlah! from falling fast asleep in the middle of the bar).
(The band that played the first night I went to The Metal Zone featured a little guitarist who absolutely ripped my head off. He had chops for days. Ridiculous chops. More chops than Paul Bunyan and The Iron Chef put together. His fret board must have been made from graphite [since it didn't burst into flames]. He played Yngwie Malmsteen and Racer X tunes with such precision that Yngwie and Marty themselves would have said "How the HELL did he do that!?" had they been there.)
[Yes, I realize that only 4 of the 152 people who receive this e-mail will appreciate that last flurry…but MAN Chung, Artivan, Anthony, and Chris…I wish you had been there with me to enjoy {and to crawl back to my hotel room, stare at my $10 guitar from New Delhi, and consider Pete Townsending it}]
Another highlight of Bangkok, a MUST for any gear head, is Pantip Plaza. 8 floors - nuthin' but pirated software and other goodies that people who like pirated software would be into. While $5 is 220 Baht in Thailand, it's about $4000 in software at Pantip (not that I actually bought any, though).
On the cuisine front, as much as I love Thai food, I must admit that I miss the tandoori. It's more of a bread issue than anything; I was passing on the rice in favor of 2-4 buttered and garliked naans per meal in India, but in Thailand rice is king (be it in noodle or standard form). On the upside, I might actually lose weight on this leg of the trip (this, from a guy who just threw down a bowl of Tom Kha Kai, 2 orders of Pad Thai, and a large Beer Chang for lunch).
I would, however, like to formally thank the Portuguese for introducing red chilies to Thailand (and India). While my doctor friends will heckle me for this (and please don't…this psychosomaticism is working quite well for me) it seems that my constant intake of red chili is keeping my tummy in great shape (though I'm not sure EVERY part of my body would back me on this). From the fiery vindaloo of Goa to street-vendor pad thais and pad se ews with truckloads of red chili flakes, I have managed to avoid the stomach bugs everyone warned me about before the trip.
Hope they do red chili in Myanmar.
I also hope to get you another report before I head to Yangon. If I don't, the next one will be in a few weeks (as, again, the Internet is outlawed in Myanmar).
Hope everyone is well.
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Ed Castillo - lead guitar
Steve Makos - bass
Luis Bravo de Rueda - drums
Beautiful Burma. Walkabout 2001…
Burma is a gem! I can't recommend it - as a travel destination - any more enthusiastically. What a treat to see it before it sprouts a tourism infrastructure.
I arrived in Yangon expecting to witness extreme oppression; a military state in a time capsule, replete with forced labor, poverty, shackled minds and cultural quarantine. I knew that the junta had banned the use of the Internet, international travel, chatting with tourists about Burmese affairs, and any other means of cultural and/or political perspective… So I wasn't expecting the TV in my hotel room.
[And I DEFINITELY wasn't expecting to see Jon Bon Jovi looking back at me, in a Mitsubishi Motors ad on MTV, when I turned it on.]
It also had CNBC.
Television access in hotels, it seems, is one of the ways the government of Myanmar is attempting to encourage tourism. Another is large signs near monuments, written in Burmese and English, proclaiming "Assist foreign visitors in any way possible."
Big brother can be found all over the place in Myanmar; from the $200 in "foreign exchange certificates" (FEC's) ALL tourists must buy (presumably to subsidize the military-government using hard US currency, regardless of the tourists' country of origin), to the "People's Desire," a collection of cold-war-era-USSR-esque tenets [see below] found on billboards around Yangon and Mandalay and on all government publications (like the The New Light of Myanmar, the major Burmese newspaper [which conspicuously failed to mention the War in Afghanistan while I was in Burma]):
People's Desire (excerpt):
"The initiative to shape the national economy must be kept in the hands of the State and the national peoples."
Add to this US, Australian, and British embassies surrounded by barbed-wire, armed soldiers, and cement barricades, and you've got an unlikely back-drop for a country that's very comfortable for travelers, and which is populated by warm, open people.
(I'm trying hard not to believe that they were being warm because I had hundreds of dollars worth of FEC's burning a hole in my pocket and/or big brother told them to!)
Our tour through Myanmar included Yangon (formerly "Rangoon"), Mandalay, and Bagan. Yangon, the capital, and by far the largest city in Myanmar, looks a lot like a South Indian city (down to the men-in-lungis [the Burmese call them "longees"]), with the 2 obvious differences (if you can believe that the following conditions can co-exist):
1) The Burmese chew and spit MUCH, MUCH more paan (betel nut and lyme wrapped in betel leaves) than Indians, and,
2) Burma is much cleaner than India.
I mean WAY cleaner (I don't recall seeing a single piece of trash outside of Yangon).
(Again, I can't help but think that the dudes with guns running the place, and the forced labor, have something [everything] to do with that)
I could never exaggerate the amount of betel-nut paan
chewed in Myanmar. As it is for the hill tribesmen of
northern Thailand, betel-darkened teeth MUST be a sign of masculine beauty for the Burmese (as it seemed that no self-respecting, rural Burmese man would DREAM of having white teeth).
Like in India, you can expect to be stared at constantly in Myanmar, but Burmese stare feels different than the Indian stare. In India, people seem to stare just because others are staring. In Myanmar, people stare 'with a what-the-hell-are-YOU' expression that isn't as aggressive as it is inquisitive and/or startled.
When the "fat blokes on tour" (me [6'5", 230lbs], Butlah! [6'2", 200lbs], and Fat Bloke Rowan [6'3", at LEAST 220lbs.]) rolled-through a fish market in Yangon, fish hit the floor, little kids cried for their mommies, and fishermen in longies with purple teeth stuck their arms out at their sides, puffed out their little bellies, and mocked us while their beautiful wives laughed.
Speaking of which…Burmese women, who draw their genes from Indian, Chinese, and Thai currents, are unforgettably beautiful. In addition to their graceful movement, perpetual smiles, long, beautiful hair (it is not uncommon for Burmese women to wear their hair to knees-length), and elegant dress, all Burmese women (and some men) put a mixture of ground tree-bark, herbs and water on their faces (called "thanaka") which acts as a mild astringent, moisturizer, and powerful sun-screen. Thanaka, a yellowish paste, is worn daily from birth until about age 60 (as far as I could tell).
The crimson-clayed, sweet-smelling, rolling-hilled Burmese countryside is rich with Buddhist pagodas (inverted-conical red brick structures that house Buddha statues and other relics). In the World Heritage listed valley surrounding Bagan (in th Irrawaddy River Valley of central Myanmar) 2,800 of these things make for magical vistas in all directions. Larger pagodas, such as the 2,500 year old, 350 foot tall Shwedagon Pagoda are said to house relics of extreme importance to the Theraveda Buddhist. The legend of the Shwedagon tells of two merchant brothers meeting the Buddha, who gave them eight strands of His hair. With the help of a number of "celestial beings," the brothers and the king at the time discovered the hill where the relics of the previous Buddhas had been enshrined. The strands of the Buddha's hair were then placed, together with the relics of the preceding Buddhas, in a golden relics chamber, topped by a golden pagoda. Over this a silver pagoda was built, then a tin pagoda, a copper pagoda, a lead pagoda, a marble pagoda and finally an iron brick pagoda (which is covered in $90,000,000 worth of gold leafing).
Burmese cuisine (not what you'd get at a "Burmese restaurant" outside of Burma, but what was actually served at the wooden, low-stooled roadside restaurants of Myanmar) consists, as far as I can tell, of 4 basic dishes: pork curry, chicken curry, beef curry, and fish curry. The meats are served cold, in small portions, and come with 10-15 other little dishes (along with pickled vegetables, dried fish parts, beans, etc.) in a presentation not unlike Korean cuisine.
It was delicious!
At about 20 cents a bottle, beer flowed liberally at lunch and dinner time (what would you expect for the "fat blokes on tour"?). This may have had something to do with the lack of (food) sickness, and definitely had something to do with it tasting soooo good.
A funny story about food in Myanmar…Butlah!, Dav and I roll into a roadside restaurant, order, and decide to send our chicken back (and eat somewhere else) because the bird, which hit our table milliseconds after we ordered it, was room temperature at best, and had been sitting out with the flies just waiting to be snapped up (when we left Thailand, we had decided to switch our clean-food-vigilance to India-levels).
Later that night, after asking at our guesthouse for a recommendation on a "place to get real Burmese food," we found ourselves at the same restaurant!
Turns out Burmese food is served like that everywhere (while the local cuisine was, indeed, good stuff, this fact made the food pendulum swing from Burmese to Chinese more than a few times, I must admit).
In addition to betel nut and lukewarm meats, the Burmese love their smoke. Instead of wimpy western cigarettes, though, men in Myanmar smoke cigar-sized "charoots" (unlike Bill, they actually inhale). Older Burmese women in the countryside, not to be outdone, smoke cornhusk cigars that are about 8 inches long and 5 inches around.
Another unexpected experience (like the Bon Jovi spotting) was had by all at a hotel called "Asia Plaza" in Yangon. At the cab-driver's recommendation (this shoulda tipped us off), we rolled into its dark lounge filled with big leather couches and BAM!, 10-15 beautiful little, way-too-young girls flocked to the fat blokes a level of enthusiasm that Wilt Chamberlin rarely saw. They grabbed us by the arms, sat us on the couches, and with a girl each to wipe the sweat from our brows, we had 2 others to massage our necks and shoulders, and 2 more still to hold our hands and whisper incomprehensible sweet nothings into our ears.
I really, really felt like a pro basketball player as I looked over at the other 2 tall [and fat] blokes who shared my big, comfy leather couch, with hip-hop pumping in the background and 5 girls hanging on us, treating us like stars.
Then "Mamasan" showed up.
"You take 2 girl, and go to sleep."
(smiling) "I could get arrested for that in my
(not amused) "OK, you just take 1 girl. Go to sleep."
(blushing) "They are too young…"
A couple quick words in Burmese and BAM!, just as quickly as they'd jocked us, the little cuties disappeared.
As interesting as the tour was, I should mention the 2 things that complicate any walkabout in Burma: The currency situation, and intercity travel. After exchanging US dollars for FEC's, you can go to a bank and change them for Kyats, the local currency (pronounced "chats"), at 6 kyats to the dollar (official government exchange rate) OR you can unload them on the black market at 500 to 650 kyats to the dollar! It's not as menacing as it sounds; you take 2 steps out of your guest house, and 3 guys approach you asking if you'd like to change money. If you are changing hard currency (USD only), you can expect 600 to 700 kyats per dollar depending on the city (upper end of the range in Yangon, lower end of the range up in Mandalay [Burmese merchants, in fact, make periodic trips to Yangon to make money on the spread]).
You do need to have Kyats, as many Burmese (e.g., taxi drivers) have never even seen FECs (which really, really look like Monopoly money).
In addition to the variable rate of exchange on a black-market-based currency, there is ABSOLUTELY no way to get cash advances in Burma (in FECs, kyats, USD, or any other currency) with the unfortunate
exception of one dude's living room in Mandalay (he makes it look like a credit card purchase, and charges a 25% fee).
(no, it wasn't just me getting get a classic south-east-Asian screwing…he was known from Yangon to Bagan!)
Seriously. No ATMs, no debit cards, no changing of travelers checks, no NUTHIN'!
Add to this the fact that interior flights cost twice as much if you use your credit card as if you use cash, and you DO want to take interior flights (which brings up the next issue)…
Many people warned me about the "tedious," "uncomfortable," and "difficult" bus and rail situation that I'd encounter in India. These people haven't been to Myanmar…a country whose roads make India's seem autobahn-like.
The scenario: Single-lane, dirt roads connecting major cities, buses that must pull-over and stop whenever a large enough vehicle approaches from the other direction, flooded and heavily eroded roadways, single roads connecting many cities, requiring a series of vectors that the crow would never dream of following.
The upshot: Bagan to Yangon - A mere 600 kilometers - 17 HOURS by bus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
As you might imagine, my moving-vehicle-yoga skills are now world class! I've got the best downward-facing-doze going! (In fact, at the end ofthe 17 hour trip, I was twisted into a pretzel-like shape, and when Butlah! nudged me I responded with an "I'm only moving if we're already there…there's NO WAY I'll ever be able to get back into this position.")
While we had flown from Yangon to Mandalay (1 hour, 15 minutes), and from Mandalay to Bagan (45 minutes), we were forced to bus the final leg down to Yangon because of the no-cash-advance situation (we had just enough hard currency to get down to Yangon and out of the country!).
Lack of currency did have it's upside, though…like our heavy patronage of The Strand Hotel in Yangon; a 5-star masterpiece that 1) has a gorgeous bar, 2) offers free billiards, 3) pours delicious cocktails @ $2.50/each during happy hour, 4) serves free hors d'oeuvres, and (most importantly, given the circumstances) 5) accepts Visa.
My fresh-squeezed lime, papaya, cane sugar, and Meyers Rum concoction of choice was called, ironically, "Stranded in Paradise."
While Yangon turned out to be quite the happening town, Mandalay and Bagan become ghost towns after about 20:00. This made for an experience that only my video footage can properly relate…looking for something – ANYTHING - to do in Bagan one night, we remembered that we had heard karaoke wafting from what looked like a bar near our guesthouse (we heard a Burmese version of "High Enough" by the Damn Yankees, to be exact).
After some searching, we found a little wooden structure, dense with beer posters outside, filled with 5-6 young Burmese passing the mic. Sooooo, we walked in, sat down, looked around and smiled as we were met by the kind of looks known previously by Hernan Cortes only…
Turns out it was someone's HOUSE!
No worries, though…they put on the only song they had with English lyrics (some N'Sync rip-off [if you can believe it!] called "Breakin' My Heart"), and we did our best to kill it.
You see, none of us had ever heard the song before.
P.S. While the Burmese has banned the use of the internet proper, citizens of Myanmar can send e-mail…it costs USD$150 to set up an account, $150 a year in fees, and $1 a kilobyte per message (!!!!).
This message, then, would have cost you $620 to receive in Burma.
Here's that private home in Mandalay, Burma we thought was a bar…they made us all sing the only song they had in English (we'd never heard it before).
See Walkabout Travelogue: Weeks 14-16 for more…
Steve Simoncic – vocals, lyrics
Ed Castillo – guitars
Joao Ferriera – bass, organ, production
Bill Connell – drums
Took a quick trip to Indonesia, Thailand, and Cambodia in 2006…
Steve Simoncic – vocals, lyrics, rhythm guitar
Joao Ferriera – bass
Ed Castillo – lead guitar
Bill Connell – drums
Some photos I took while in Mamallapuram (மாமல்லபுரம்), Tamil Nadu, India early in 2001.
Inspiration: Koh Tao
Guitars: Ed Castillo
Bass: Ed Castillo
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Cashew Chicken
This is a traditional chinese recipe I love to prepare
- Prep Time : 20 min
- Cook Time : 20 min
- Ready Time : 40 min
- 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into cubes
- 1 teaspoon Baking soda
- 1 teaspoon corn starch
- 1/2 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon mushroom soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon soy sauce
- 3 tablespoons Water
- 3 dashes white pepper
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon rice vinegar
- 1/4 Teaspoon sesame oil
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 cup cashew nuts
- 1 green bell pepper - cut into squares
- 1 can water chestnuts, diced
- 5 slices ginger
- 1 onion, cut into squares
1 Marinate the chicken with baking soda for 15-20 minutes, then rinse chicken thoroughly.
2 Pat the chicken dry with paper towels and then marinate in corn starch and rice vinegar for 15 minutes.
3 Mix the sauce ingredients together, mushroom soy sauce through salt. Set aside.
4 Heat a wok with 1 tablespoon oil and stir fry the chicken until browned and mostly cooked. Set aside.
5 Add in the peppers, onion, ginger, and water chestnuts. Stir fry a few minutes, then add the meat back in and then add the cashew nuts. Stir.
6 Add in the sauce and stir until the all coated. Serve with rice.
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This is a traditional chinese recipe I love to prepare
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5 Responses to Cashew Chicken
What is mushroom soy sauce and where can it be purchased?
Five stars for this recipe! I love Chinese food but haven't used my wok in eons. I altered this recipe slightly, leaving out the pepper. The next time I make it, I will make a couple of other changes: I will not dice the water chestnuts because you can hardly taste them when they are so small; I will probably cut the onion a little smaller than I did, with pieces that were about 1 inch square; I will add more cashews!
One thing will say is that I also made fried rice to go with this, and I would say that all together, I was standing in the kitchen for somewhere between 2-3 hours, not 40 minutes, AND had taken out all the ingredients the night before. So I think 40 minutes is not enough time to allow for this dish. But it came out fabulous!! Tasted very authentic but better, lighter (more delicate) than restaurant fare.


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[843 acres] Thanksgiving News Catch-Up
Here are a few highlights of things missed over the Thanksgiving weekend:
- What issues should the Christian care about? Recent college grads expanding Christian concerns – beyond abortion or First Amendment rights – to immigration [New York Times, On Religion – Evangelical, and Young, and Active in New Area]. "[The Lord] executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing. Love the sojourner, therefore, for you were sojourners in the land of Egypt." (Exodus 10:17-18, ESV).
- Will we ever have a president of hope? We've replaced one President of disappointment with another and we're disappointed: "The most disappointed people I meet are under thirty, the generation who made the Obama campaign a movement in its early primary months. They spent their entire adult lives under the worst president of our lifetime, they loved Obama because he was new and inspiring, and they felt that replacing the former with the latter would be a national deliverance." [The New Yorker, Obama's Troubles: Interesting Times]. When we make God our leader and the focus of our moral compass, we place our hope in the one thing that does not disappoint. "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might." (Deuteronomy 6:4-5, ESV).
- Are the times a-changin? Bob Dylan – born again Christian convert from Judaism in the 1970s – has a new Christmas album out and the proceeds benefit hunger-relief and homeless organizations [New York Times, Arts, Briefly – Dylan on the Record About Christmas]. The Lord condemns those who do not care for the poor: "For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they sell the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes – they that trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and turn aside the way of the afflicted." (Amos 2:6, ESV).
[Morning Walk] Seeking What Is Not Lost: 1 Chronicles 28
Today's Readings: 1 Chronicles 28, 2 Peter 2
Do you seek for things that are not lost? In a few weeks, I'll arrive to my parents' home in Florida and, upon seeing my mom's car in the driveway, I'll walk in the door and call out, "Mom, where are you?" Although I haven't lost her, I want to see her face and hug her.
Similarly, although God is not lost, the Chronicler promises us:
If you seek [the Lord], he will be found by you. v. 9, NIV.
Seeking the Lord means seeking his presence, to see his face. In a sense, we're always in the presence of the Lord since he's omnipresent and has covenanted with his people. In another sense, however, we're not always in the presence of the Lord, which is why the Bible continually calls us to seek his presence always (see Psalm 105:4).
We are called to do so because there are seasons in which we give no thought to the Lord – when we do not put our trust in him or recognize his beautiful and incomparable value. Since we are always at risk of falling into this mindset, we must continue to set our minds and hearts to seek the Lord (see 1 Chronicles 22:19).
How do we do this? We seek him through the things around us (see Psalm 19). The heavens declare of the glory of God. He reveals himself through his word. We see him in the evidences of grace in other people. At The Park Forum, one of the ways by which we seek the Lord is through the news – considering how God is working all over the world through a biblical lens.
As the Chronicler promises us, when we see him, we find him. And he is our greatest reward. When we have him, we have everything.
[Morning Walk] Hospitality in NYC? 1 Peter 4
Today's Readings: 1 Chronicles 23, 1 Peter 4
Every Thanksgiving, I travel to Connecticut to be with my family in the Northeast. They're not my real family, but they're my friend Kate's family. Since my family lives in Florida, Kate's family takes me in year after year and welcomes me at their dinner table. Therefore, although I am physically far away from my childhood home, my heart is full of child-like joy as I consider my thankfulness for having this family.
Her family truly practices the command we read today:
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling. v. 9, NIV.
As I think about how to obey this command myself, however, I stumble. For it's easier for someone in Connecticut to offer hospitality than it is for a New Yorker – with a matchbox apartment. Right?
I don't think so.
When I return to my home in New York City, I'll walk into my tiny one bedroom apartment. When I arrive, it will be empty because my new roommate – who sleeps on an air mattress in our one bedroom as she looks for a job – will still be with her family in Miami. On Tuesday, however, our apartment will be filled with our urban family, i.e., our small group Bible study that meets in our home. Twelve of us will pack inside the den/kitchen/dining room, as we sit on wooden folding chairs and consider the Word of God.
Practicing hospitality is one of the most joyful things that we do. I don't say this to brag, but rather to offer hope and creativity. I often hear New Yorkers say that they would offer hospitality if they had more space or a dining room table (etc.), but the words of Peter don't give caveats for excuses not to practice hospitality.
Rather he offers motivation. For the practicing of hospitality is actually an example of how to carry out the verse just prior to this command, which reads:
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. v. 8, NIV.
To practice hospitality without grumbling, therefore, is to love one another deeply. And we should care about loving one another deeply because it covers over a multitude of our sins.
How can you practice hospitality and, thereby, cover over a multitude of sins?
[Morning Walk] Thankful for Promises Kept: 1 Chronicles 22
Today's Readings: 1 Chronicles 22, 1 Peter 3
When someone makes a promise and then delays in keeping it, sometimes it's hard to continue believing that they will. I think of engaged friends who delay in setting the date – they wonder whether they will actually get married. I think of my promises to my mom that I would clean my room "by Friday" and then, on Thursday, I had touched nothing – she questioned whether I would keep my promise and then nag me until I did.
God made a promise to King David – that his son would build a house for the Lord and that his kingdom would reign forever. In Chronicles 22, David tells his son Solomon of this promise (see 2 Samuel 7):
My son, I had it in my heart to build a house for the name of the Lord my God. But the word of the Lord came to me, saying: "Behold, a son shall be born to you … He shall build a house for my name. He shall be my son, and I will be his father, and I will establish his royal throne in Israel forever." ESV.
Yet, Solomon died and his throne was not forever. Did God not keep His promise to David?
Almost one thousand years later, an angel named Gabriel visited a virgin named Mary. He said to her:
Behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son and you shall call his name Jesus. He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end. Luke 1:31-33, ESV.
God keeps His promises. And we should be slow to indict Him before He does. For Peter writes:
But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness …" 2 Peter 3:8-9a, ESV.
What promises are you thankful for today? For what promises do you await? Trust the Lord that He has a plan – even if it may seem a long way off to you – and it is better than anything you could ever ask for or imagine.


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Hi Cameron, a pleasure to meet you. Lots of great info here for sure, on just about every photography process under the sun. I enjoy hanging out at this place when I get the chance. Pretty area up there where you're at. I was raised in SouthEast Alaska, on Wrangell Island to be exact, and we took the ferry to Prince Rupert, BC and then drove down through your way quite a bit.
Have a great weekend!


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Obama Exhorts Kids to Pay Attention in School
Posted: 09/07/2009 - In a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it, President Barack Obama will tell the nation's schoolchildren he "expects great things from each of you."
Posted: 09/07/2009 - In a speech that drew fire even before he delivered it, President Barack Obama will tell the nation's schoolchildren he "expects great things from each of you."
Posted: 09/07/2009 - It wasn't under the moonlight, and it wasn't quite the funk of 40,000 years. But 900 zombies, aliens and Star Wars Stormtroopers boogeying to Michael Jackson's "Thriller" might be a sight that almost stops your heart.
Posted: 09/07/2009 - Prisoners were being treated under guard at a hospital after a private prisoner van crashed in southern Mississippi, killing the driver and injuring several others.
Updated: 09/06/2009 - President Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday.
Updated: 09/06/2009 - The flow of water from a burst water main that forced people out of their homes and flooded the famous Ventura Boulevard has been stopped, authorities said Sunday.
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Posted: 09/05/2009 - Police say a drunken driver sped through a stop sign and hit an earthen mound before going airborne and smashing his Jeep into the second floor of a New York home.
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Posted: 09/05/2009 - Annie Leibovitz's artsy, provocative portraits of celebrities regularly grace the covers of Vanity Fair and Vogue, images that have made her as famous as her subjects and earned her millions.
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Posted: 09/05/2009 - The Group of 20 rich and developing countries have pledged to carry on with measures to boost the global economy, despite signs of a fledging recovery.
Posted: 09/04/2009 - Early estimates put the cost of Sarah Palin's midterm resignation as Alaska governor at a minimum of $40,000, not including a special legislative session partly linked to her departure.
Updated: 09/04/2009 - The White House is dismissing the furor over President Barack Obama's plan for a televised back-to-school speech to the nation's students.
Posted: 09/02/2009 - Police say a 61-year-old man annoyed with a crying 2-year-old girl at a Walmart slapped the child several times after warning the toddler's mother to keep her quiet.
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Posted: 09/02/2009 - A white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum has appeared in court. It's the first time he has been seen publicly since the June shooting.
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Steamed Artichokes Verde
10 Nov 2010
|For artichokes
|8 Large
|Lemon juice
|4 Tablespoon
|White onion
|1 Small, finely chopped
|1 Clove (5 gm), crushed
|Celery stalks
|Bay leaf
|For sauce
|Sour cream
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1 Cup (16 tbs)
|1 Clove (5 gm)
|Parsley sprigs
|3 (Stem And Leaves)
|1 , juiced
|Canned anchovies
|2 Ounce (1 Can)
|Whole green onions
|4 (Tops And All)
The Artichokes:
Rinse artichokes. Cut off stems and remove bottom row of tough leaves. With kitchen scissors, trim the tops of remaining leaves. Brush trimmed areas with lemon juice to avoid discoloration.
Fill a large pot with water to a depth of 2 inches. Add the onion, garlic, celery, bay leaf, and 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice. Place artichokes, top side down, in water and steam covered for 40-45 minutes. Drain and place individual artichokes on serving plates.
The Sauce:
Place all ingredients in a blender or food processor and puree. Chill.
Serve in a small bowl beside each artichoke. Garnish each bowl with a thin slice of lemon.
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Steamed Artichokes Verde Recipe


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Record: 50-32, Finished 3rd in NBA Pacific Division (Schedule and Results)
Coach: Maurice Cheeks (50-32)
PTS/G: 95.2 (15th of 29) ▪ Opp PTS/G: 92.5 (11th of 29)
SRS: 2.97 (6th of 29) ▪ Pace: 89.4 (22nd of 29)
Off Rtg: 105.5 (8th of 29) ▪ Def Rtg: 102.6 (13th of 29)
Expected W-L: 49-33 (7th of 29)
Arena: Rose Garden Arena ▪ Attendance: 796,258 (6th of 29)
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Signed Jeff McInnis as a free agent.
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Tark..u are out of your mind saying Golovken is better than Tzysu…Kostya unifed the JR Welter divivsion…Kostya will go down as one of the best Jr Welters of all time..if not the greatest..At his peak Kostya beats them all…Kostya remains one the most under rated fighters of all time..He smashed his opposition..All the hype seems to dissapear when people talk about Tsyzu..But He would have beaten Pac..PBF..and a whole host of other greats..Posted October 8, 2012 9:11 pm
Cotto is overhyped, but Trout is a bum. Easy win for cotto.Posted October 7, 2012 11:53 pm
trout never been in a war and never faced a fighter that put him under pressure all night. Cotto will KO him.Posted October 7, 2012 3:47 pm
Julio Rocher
Pedro lo va a traer como una navaja, especialmente con esas 3 semanas en las alturas de big bear, CA. Despues es el caneilto en mayo.Posted October 7, 2012 3:30 pm
Herron… I'm not making Golovkin an ATG. That's up to him and fate. Remember he's coming up late and needs breaks. I'm saying he's potentially better than Tszyu …. Better jab, better hook, better defense, better feet, tougher chin..Posted October 7, 2012 2:57 am
Ruslan Pateev
Oscar De la Hoya is promising Cotto a potential superfight wih Canelo Alvarez,next year during Cinco de Mayo, if Cotto can get by the tricky southpaw Trout. If Trout doesn`t give away any early rounds like he did against Rodriguez it`s possible that he could pull off a upset.Posted October 6, 2012 11:06 pm
Shadow Brawler, Cotto is too old, and yes he has the experience advantage, but the pressure of Trout's first big fight is real. he's never been on that stage, so it's a real factor. If he can handle it, you will see Cotto take a beating. Trout is faster, and a good all around boxer that is a natural Junior Middleweight. Cotto isn't a natural Junior Middleweight, and his punches won't bother trout much, you'll see. I'm taking Trout to beat and retire Cotto. Let's see what happens, but I'm sure I'll be right.Posted October 6, 2012 10:45 pm
Joseph Herron
DT, he does a lot of things well. Gennady is always so relaxed in the ring and is always in position to crack with power. His footwork is very underrated and is the foundation of his offensive attack.
3G is the real deal. I would love to see Gennady in the ring with any of the top fighters at 154, 160, and 168,Posted October 6, 2012 10:25 pm
Nicholas Torres
Cotto is in a different caliber compared to trout.. not taking anything away from Trout but I don't see this fight going any other way. Cotto is taking the belt.Posted October 6, 2012 9:36 pm
Shadow Brawler
Hecdog I like how you give yourself an out by saying the only way Trout loses if he can't handle the pressure.. Its the excuse you will use after the fight because you're blinded by physical stats and movements… All that is irrelevant and will be negated with timing and ring general ship. Cotto is superior in that department. Trout and you will understand this after he hands over his title.Posted October 6, 2012 9:30 pm
Shadow Brawler
Hecdog I like how you give yourself an out by saying the only way Trout loses if he can't handle the pressure.. Its the excuse you will use after the fight because you're blinded by physical stats and movements… All that is irrelevant and will be negated with timing and ring general ship. Cotto is superior in that department and Trout will understand this after he hands over his title.Posted October 6, 2012 9:29 pm
Joseph Herron
Wow, Tark…you're already putting Triple G in Canastota, eh?Posted October 6, 2012 8:24 pm
Some of you better study your boxing more. Trout has the height, reach, youth and boxing skills to beat Cotto, which he will. Cotto gets hit too much, and is very flat footed. He likes to engage because he trust his power, but against a young big southpaw that has ability, Cotto is going to have a lot of problems. Sure Trout didn't look good in his last bout, but Cotto is much shorter, and has the straight forward style that will feed right into Trout's style. Movement and speed give Cotto problems, and that's what he's going to get. The only wayTtrout loses this is if he can't handle the big fight pressure and folds under it. if he can, he's going to pick Cotto apart, and may even stop him late. This is Trout's one opportunity, and he will win it right in Cotto's home away from home.Posted October 6, 2012 8:19 pm
3G is better than Kostya ever was… He's coming up late, but he's good.Posted October 6, 2012 8:12 pm
Joseph Herron
Gennady reminds me of a Middleweight version of Kostya Tszyu…both guys have a mean streak in the ring and are ultra intense.
Both have thunder in their right hands.
Awesome!!Posted October 6, 2012 8:05 pm
Joseph Herron
Big time, DT…Gennady is one bad dude…but, he is the nicest guy you will ever meet. He seems like he couldn't hurt a fly.
But my goodness, he gets in the ring and turns into a stone cold killer!!Posted October 6, 2012 8:01 pm
Probably either Vanes Martirosyan or Erislandy Lara… They're trying to get Mayweather, but may have to wait until after he beats Pacquiao next year.Posted October 6, 2012 7:53 pm
Trout will look good the first few rounds then Cotto takes him into the deep.Posted October 6, 2012 7:26 pm
As long as it's a legit challenger, I'm happy. Mosley and Lopez were a waste of time.Posted October 6, 2012 6:12 pm
Joseph Herron
Thanks for playing, brother…will put something out probably on Monday or Tuesday.Posted October 6, 2012 6:10 pm
Yay.Posted October 6, 2012 6:04 pm
Joseph Herron
PJD…did you say Gabriel Rosado?
Possibly. Maybe.Posted October 6, 2012 5:56 pm
Joseph Herron
I need to go. But the last clue I will give you is that this fighter, a lot like Molina, started fighting at a late age and has been learning on the job since turning pro.
I will check in later, brother!!Posted October 6, 2012 5:54 pm
ROSADO.Posted October 6, 2012 5:54 pm
Joseph Herron
Good guess, but not there yet. I feel bad for Carlos Molina…no one at 154 is willing to face the Chi town fighter.
Almost there, brother.Posted October 6, 2012 5:50 pm
'Almost there' makes me think it's Molina.Posted October 6, 2012 5:45 pm
Joseph Herron
James Kirkland is currently in the middle of a lawsuit with GBP and his former manager. From what I hear, James is currently walking around at almost 200 pounds…no where near fighting shape.
So it's not him.
This is the first legitimate 154 pound fighter he will face since Ryan Rhoades last year.
Almost there, brother.Posted October 6, 2012 5:40 pm
Whoops, forgot that.
If James Kirkland is healthy – I don't know his current status – then him.
Martinez is injured, and I can't think of anyone else who would present an actual challenge.Posted October 6, 2012 5:36 pm
Joseph Herron
I really want to see Canelo vs. Martinez also…I think that fight is lights-out.
But that's not it…guess again.Posted October 6, 2012 5:28 pm
Joseph Herron
No, brother…K9 is fighting Andre Berto on November 24th.
Guess again.Posted October 6, 2012 5:27 pm
Bundrage is fighting Berto so he is out of the race.Posted October 6, 2012 5:27 pm
Bundrage. 100 percent.Posted October 6, 2012 5:25 pm
This will be cotto vs quintana 2 only at 154 cotto body attack will be in full affect mixed with the stiff jab trout doesnt have killer instinct the way cotto has.Posted October 6, 2012 5:24 pm
Im guessing Martinez is the next best thing for Canelo…yet another Sergio W.Posted October 6, 2012 5:22 pm
Joseph Herron
Only in a perfect world, PJD…you're ice cold. I can tell you that he's finally going to fight a legitimate 154 pound fighter this time.Posted October 6, 2012 5:22 pm
Trout is in for his biggest step up in class.Not only is he lacking in the special attributes department but he has also shown a tendency to get sloppy as the fight progresses.Unable to put away C class fighters and looking average in his last 3 sub par performances. Not sold on this fish.Posted October 6, 2012 5:19 pm
Fine I'll play nice.
I think it's Floyd. I might be suffering from wish-thinking though.
Or Roy Jones Jr.Posted October 6, 2012 5:19 pm
Joseph Herron
C'mon, man…that's no fun. I'm being serious. If you can guess who it's going to be, I'll do my best to confirm.
Not showing off, just trying to let you guys know that the deal if very close to being finalized.
obviously, I can't say anything until I get the word that the deal has been finalized.
It's exciting!!Posted October 6, 2012 5:11 pm
So essentially there was no point in declaring you know who Canelo is fighting , Joseph. Aside from being a show-off.
Joseph Herron
That's the funny thing about boxing, you won't know how valid my point is until the fight actually unfolds…lol!!
I'm envious, Shadow Brawler. I wish I were covering that fight but unfortunately I usually don't cover fights on the East coast.
Have a great time at the Garden, brother!!Posted October 6, 2012 4:57 pm
Shadow Brawler
Joseph you would have a valid point if Trout were to have a resume filled with top opposition but he doesn't. Where as Cotto has pretty much beat up everybody put in front of him including his losses. There's no escaping it and contrary to the belief of some, he's still in his prime. I'm picking up tickets 'cause the Garden gets electric when that boy fights!Posted October 6, 2012 4:50 pm
I would like to see a competitive fight between Cotto and Trout but I think it's going to be another one-sided beating in Cotto's favor. Trout is not a pressure fighter so I think once he starts getting hit, he'll begin to fold.Posted October 6, 2012 4:41 pm
Joseph Herron
Because I can't, PJD…that's how it works…but, no one can fault me if you guys can guess who it is.
Take a guess.Posted October 6, 2012 4:39 pm
Sorry Trout, but I disagree. You're actually the BEST matchup for Cotto at 154. Cotto has made a living out of seeking and destroying fleet footed counterpunches. The guys that have given Cotto trouble have been able to back him up. If you can't do that, you're probably toast.Posted October 6, 2012 3:44 pm
Joseph, what's the point of declaring you know Canelo's next opponent if you won't say who it is?Posted October 6, 2012 3:27 pm
Joseph Herron
Shadow Brawler, it's hard to imagine seeing anyone hurt Trout…it has yet to happen while he's been a professional.
I can count on one hand how many rounds Austin has lost throughout his entire professional career.
But, this is boxing and anything can happen…especially at the top level.Posted October 6, 2012 3:09 pm
Shadow Brawler
Palease!! Cotto is going to hurt Trout! Not even Mayweather's jab was good enough to avoid Miguel's traps.. Reach is nothing. Timing is everything. Trout will hold his own but this will be another systematic breakdown of a Cotto opponent. Miguel collects another title at the Garden.. Deuces!Posted October 6, 2012 2:55 pm
Joseph Herron
Right on the money, Tark!! The best should be fighting the best!!
With the promotional wars and the networks now getting involved, I think we're going to be seeing more great match-ups like we've enjoyed lately!!Posted October 6, 2012 2:48 pm
Joseph Herron
By the way…I know who Canelo is fighting on December 15th!!
But I've been sworn to secrecy.Posted October 6, 2012 2:46 pm
Cotto didn't mess up… If he can't beat Trout he doesn't deserve to be Super Welterweight Champion. He being honest by taking this fight.Posted October 6, 2012 2:43 pm
This is a tough fight to call… Trout has to fight similar to Nishioka's win vs Marquez—his height and reach advantages are better but his experience is well shy of Nish's. Cotto has faced relatively few southpaws and he's vulnerable to the right hook and left uppercut when he does. Trout has to be ready to rip those shots in hard, fast, and clean when opportunities come. I know Trout is great at taking away the jab but Cotto has one of the best jabs in Boxing so he'll eat a few. He'll also absorb the left hook that mashed up Pacquiao's right ear. Cotto has one of the slickest left hooks in Boxing. I'll give Trout a 40% chance to score an upset—only because I expect "even" rounds to go to Cotto.Posted October 6, 2012 2:40 pm
Joseph Herron
In the words of Austin Trout: "He messed up!"Posted October 6, 2012 2:34 pm
Joseph Herron
As a fight fan, Miguel has been one of my favorite fighters since he was a 140 pounder, but I have to agree with Austin concerning this fight.
This has to be one of the worst style mactch-ups he could have made at 154 pounds. This fight is going to ruin an eventual showdown between Canelo and Cotto, or Martinez and Cotto.Posted October 6, 2012 2:33 pm
Joseph ur dead right Pac dropped him with it Judah rocked him with it Floyd buckled him with the lead left uppercut and Margo hurt him with it sumthing to look out for.Posted October 6, 2012 2:07 pm
Joseph Herron
Against southpaws, Cotto has been susceptible to catching the left uppercut right on the chin as he's trying to close the distance…one of Austin's best punches.
In my opinion, that single punch will decide the outcome of the fight.
Austin is so fleet footed and always puts himself at an awkward position for his opponents to hit cleanly.
I have a feeling that Austin will make believers out of everyone on December 1st.Posted October 6, 2012 1:48 pm
Marquis of Queensdingleberry
trout could be talking truth or just the usual prefight splashing in the shallow water. for cotto it's an important date, whether he is an old wounded lion or truly an elite boxer. he should strive for rematches with packy and mayflower, who are both showing signs of age, as he is himself. as for trout, miguel fry him.Posted October 6, 2012 1:35 pm
Haven't had the opportunity to scout Trout but he better be a truly elite boxer if he's gonna beat an A level boxer like Cotto.Posted October 6, 2012 1:11 pm
There's a big difference between a very good fighter in Rodriguez and an elite level guy like Cotto. This is a huge step up for Trout whether he knows it or not. Cotto's jab is one of the best in the business and I really expect him to close the distance fairly quickly. Cotto also has very good defense as well..Mayweather was only able to land 26% of his shots. So, I do expect Cotto to win this one.Posted October 6, 2012 1:11 pm
Joseph Herron
It's definitely hard to imagine anyone but the elite getting the better of Miguel Cotto, isn't it?
But, is it only a matter of time before the boxing world recognizes Austin Trout as a pound for pound fighter?
Hmmmmm?Posted October 6, 2012 12:59 pm
it seems Trout is trying to convince himself he can win. Sorry Trout , not convinced.Posted October 6, 2012 12:46 pm


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In 1980, when she was only 10 years old, Joyce Siegel, who lived on a farm near Randall, did not understand why President Jimmy Carter was unable to get the American hostages back from Iran. They weren't released until the moment Carter's successor, Ronald Reagan, was sworn in. Those were the fi...Read More
Minnesota's 8th District race between incumbent DFL Rep. Rick Nolan and Republican challenger Stewart Mills has been targeted by national political groups. Most readers have already seen the effect of that targeting with the barrage of negative TV ads that have been airing. We urge readers to disc...Read More
Politics is the process we use to come up with solutions for those issues on which we don't have consensus. It's always messy, never easy, and often hard to understand. Nevertheless, there have been times in this state when we elected people who disagreed on issues, but still respected one anoth...Read More
A new year is upon us and it's time to get out the trusty crystal ball. The visions in the ball are crystal clear, but are still hard to read through the duct tape and Elmer's glue that hold everything together. Nonetheless, here are a dozen things to expect in 2014: 1. On the local [...]...Read More
With the calendar turning over to a new year, it presents all of us with the opportunity to set new goals, to re-make ourselves, our families and our communities into something better. It is our habit to set priorities for Morrison County to help establish a focus for the coming year. What should be...Read More
Christmas is upon us once again, and families, no matter how far flung, will be gathering around hearth and home. It is said to give us a warm, comfy feeling and visions of sugar plums. Some of us even find our way to church, although for many it is a duty done only to maintain [...]...Read More
With the holiday season in full swing and the weather dipping below zero, like most of you I have been eating too much and exercising too little. Suddenly, meat and cheese platters have been showing up at work, and when I get home, an array of baked goods has arrived. Most of the time, I [...]...Read More
Many of you have experienced sibling rivalry. So have I. As the youngest of three children, I was always the "little brother" even though I ended up as the tallest (although my brother still disputes that). He was nine years older, however, so he was out of college by the time we could have ha...Read More