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1. What provisions should be made for auditing the activities of a partnership?
2. Can we use alternative dispute resolution procedures if we have a disagreement with a partner?3. How can we best keep Congressional members and staff informed of our partnership activities?
1. What provisions should be made for auditing the activities of a partnership? (top)
The form of the partnership agreement dictates the type and text of the audit provision that should be incorporated into the agreement. Audit provisions in grants and cooperative agreements must track applicable regulations and OMB guidance. The Solicitor's Office and an agency's contracting officers can assist in identifying appropriate audit provisions for grants and cooperative agreements.
Most other types of partnership agreement are not subject to specific audit requirements. Nevertheless, audit provisions should be incorporated into many agreements, as appropriate to the purpose of the partnership and the nature of the partnership. For example, in order to maintain donor confidence and to help attain mutual partnership goals, auditing provisions should be incorporated into agreements authorizing a partner to raise funds that will be used to benefit an agency. Such agreements are generally referred to as fundraising agreements. Also, auditing provision should be incorporated into partnership agreements authorizing partners to sell goods or services to promote an agency's mission. These agreement are often referred to as cooperating association agreements.
The usefulness of audit provision can be greatly enhanced if a partner takes reasonable steps to keep good financial records, to periodically self audit, and to provide financial reports to a partner agency. Examples of audit and related provision that agencies and their partners may incorporate into some partnership agreements follow:
a. The [organization] will maintain accounting books and records under a system of accounts and financial controls meeting accepted professional standards, and shall make those records available for audit by the [agency], its designee, or the Comptroller General of the United States.
b. The [organization] will furnish to the [agency] an annual financial report including financial statements audited by an independent licensed or certified public accountant. The annual financial report shall be in such detail that all interest, investment income, gross receipts and expenses incurred by, or accruing to, the [organization] in connection with activities under this Agreement will be apparent. The [organization] will permit the [agency] or its designee to verify and audit the financial report from the books, correspondence, memoranda and other records of the Association, during the period of this Agreement, and for such time thereafter as may be necessary to accomplish such verification.
2. Can we use alternative dispute resolution procedures if we have a disagreement with a partner? (top)
Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) refers to a number of processes, both binding and non-binding, which may be utilized to resolve disputes without resort to the courts. ADR generally employs a neutral party agreed to by the parties to serve as a facilitator or decision maker. The Department has ADR experts at the departmental level, in agencies, and in the Solicitor's Office.
Agencies may choose to negotiate the inclusion of ADR provisions in partnership agreements. The type of ADR and the way it will be utilized may be tailored to match the complexity of the partnership agreement.
While ADR is available and can be very helpful in resolving disputes, to date most partnership agreements entered into by Interior agencies do not include ADR provisions. This may be because not all parties and disagreements may be amenable to resolution through ADR, and locking the parties into an ADR process at the time of agreement execution may be considered premature by the parties. Parties can always discuss the option of using ADR if and when a problem arises. Regardless, the addition of ADR provisions to an agreement should be given serious consideration by the parties.
3. How can we best keep Congressional members and staff informed of our partnership activities? (top)
The best way to keep congressional members and staff informed of partnership activities is the same way we keep congressional members and staff informed of our other activities: by working through the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs and/or the agency's legislative affairs office.
Additionally, we note that care must be taken to ensure that communications with our partners do not encourage grass-roots lobbying, an activity that can violate several anti-lobbying statutes, some of which have criminal penalties.


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While we mourn that so little of the literature of the early days of our religion remains, the wonder is that we have so much, rather than so little. The persecutions of Decius and Diocletian--especially of the latter--were most unrelenting towards Christian books. 1 "The volumes which escaped from the perils of those days were like brands snatched from the fire." "A little dust--precious, indeed, as gold--in a few sepulchral urns, is all that now remains." And later, the burning of the Alexandrine library by the Arabs, the destructive persecutions of heretics, the ban of council, and the curse of pope and priest, in the church's long eclipse, destroyed innumerable volumes, so that there is ample reason to believe that, could we inspect all that Clement, Origen and others wrote, in the original Greek, untampered with, we should have pages where we now have sentences avowing Universalism. Occasionally an ancient volume is yet found, accidentally buried, as was the Philosophumena of Hippolytus, formerly attributed to Origen, discovered by a learned Greek in a monastery on Mount Athos, in the year 1842. Of the ten books contained in the volume, the second, the third, and the beginning of the fourth are gone.
Hippolytus (about A.D. 220) enumerates and comments on thirty-two heresies, but universal restoration is not named among them. 2 And yet, Clement of Alexandria, and Origen--then living--were everywhere regarded as the great teachers of the church, and their view of man's future destiny was generally prevalent, according to Augustine, Jerome and others. It could not then have been regarded as a "heresy" or Hippolytus would have named it. What a force there is in fact that not one of those who wrote against the heresies of their times ever named universal salvation as one of them! Hippolytus mentions thirty-two. Epiphanius wrote his Panarion and epitomizes it in his Anacephalæosis or Recapitulation, but not one of the heresy-hunters includes our faith in his maledictions. Can there be stronger evidence than this fact that the doctrine was not then heretical?
It is curious to notice how the mind of a theologian can be prejudiced. Dean Wordsworth in his translation of Hippolytus gives the language of that contemporary of Origen, to show that the former had no sympathy with the broad faith of the latter. He quotes Hippolytus thus: "The coming threat of the judgment of fire, and the dark and rayless aspect of tartarus, not radiated by the voice of the Word, and the surge of the everflowing lake, generating fire, and the eye of tartarean avenging angels ever fixed in calling down curses," etc. The Dean unwarrantably, because inaccurately, translates kolaston "avenging," a meaning it does not possess. It is rendered punish, chastise, correct, but never carries the sense of revenge. Furthermore, disregarding the fact that the acknowledged Universalist fathers denounce the sinner with words as intense as is the above language, which may be literally fulfilled and yet restoration ensue beyond it all, the Dean renders the very next paragraph thus: "You will have your body immortal and incorruptible, together with your soul" (life). Now had Hippolytus intended to teach the absolutely interminable duration of the "tartarean fire," would he not have used these stronger terms, aphtharton and athanaton, which are never employed in the New Testament to teach limited duration, and is not the fact that he used the weaker word to describe punishment, evidence that he did not in this passage in the "Philosophumena" intend to teach the sinner's endless torment?
Not less surprising is the language of Dean Wordsworth, and his misreading of the facts of history, when he comments on the harsh and bitter tone of Hippolytus, in his treatment of heretics, in the "Philosophumena." Contrasting the unpleasantly sharp temper of Hippolytus with the sweetness of Origen, Dean Wordsworth says:
"The opinion of Origen with regard to future punishments is well known. The same feelings which induced him to moderate the errors of heretics, beguiled him into exercising his ingenuity in tampering with the declarations of Scripture concerning the eternal duration of the future punishment of sin. Thus false charity betrayed him into heresy." 3
This is a sad reversal of cause and effect. Why not say that the sublime fact of God's goodness resulting in universal salvation, created in Origen's heart that generous charity and divine sweetness that caused him to look with pity rather than with anger on human error, in imitation of the God he worshipped?
Theophilus of Antioch, who wrote about A.D. 180, and was bishop of Antioch, speaks of aionian torments, and aionian fire, but he must have used the terms as did Origen and the other ancient Universalists, for he says: "For just as a vessel which, after it has been made, has some flaw, is remade or remolded, that it may become new and bright, so it comes to man by death. For in some way or other he is broken up, that he may come forth in the resurrection whole, I mean spotless, and righteous, and immortal."4
Tertullian (Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus) was born in Carthage, Africa, about A.D. 160, and died A.D. 220. He had a fine Pagan education in Roman law and rhetoric, but lived a heathen into mature manhood, and confesses that his life had been one of vice and licentiousness.5 Converted to Christianity he became in later years a elder. He lived a moral and religious life after his conversion, but the heathen doctrines he retained rendered his spirit harsh and bitter. About A.D. 202 he joined the Montanists, a schismatic, ascetic sect. Those who sympathized with him were known as Tertullianists as late as the Fifth Century. His abilities were great, but, as Schaff says, he was the opposite of the equally genial, less vigorous, but more learned and comprehensive Origen.
Tertullian was the first of the Africo-Latin writers who commanded the public ear, and there is strong ground for supposing that since Tertullian quotes the sacred writings perpetually and abundantly, the earliest of those many Latin versions noticed by Augustine and on which Jerome grounded his vulgate, were African. "Africa, not Rome, gave birth to Latin Christianity." A learned writer states: "His own authority is small, he was not a sound divine, became what was then considered unorthodox, and fell away into one of the heresies of his times." 6 The fountain of Paganism in the heart of Tertullian discharged its noxious waters into into the larger reservoir in the mighty brain of Augustine, and thence in the Sixth Century it submerged Christendom with a deluge that lasted for a thousand years,--now happily subsiding, to give place to those primal Christian truths that were in the hearts of Clement and Origen. Tertullian and Origen were as unlike as the churches they represent,--the Latin and the Greek. Narrow, Pagan, cruel, un-Christian, the dark path of the Tertullian-Augustine type of Christianity through the centuries is strewn with the wrecks of ignorance and sorrow. He retained his heathen notions and gave them a Christian label. He makes the Underworld, like the heathen, divided by an impassable gulf into two parts. The abode of the righteous is sinus Abrahae, that of the wicked ignis or inferi. Tertullian was probably the first of the fathers to assert that the torments of the lost will be of equal duration with the happiness of the saved. "God will recompense his worshipers with life eternal; and cast the profane into a fire equally perpetual and unintermitted." 7
In Tertullian's Apology are fifty arguments for the Christian religion, but not once does he state that endless punishment was one of the doctrines of the church. He seems to have been half-inclined to the truth, for he speaks of the sinner as being able, after death, to pay "the uttermost farthing."
Tertullian illustrates the effect of the doctrine he advocated in his almost infernal exultations over the future torments of the enemies of the church. "How I shall admire, how I shall laugh, how exult," he cries with fiendish glee, "to see the torments of the wicked." "I shall then have a better chance of hearing the actors of tragedy call louder in their own distress; of seeing the actors more lively in the dissolving flame; of beholding the charioteer glowing in his fiery chariot; of seeing their wrestlers tossing on fiery waves instead of in their gymnasium," etc.8 Referring to the "spectacles" he anticipates, he says: "Faith grants us to enjoy them even now, by lively anticipation; but what shall the reality be of those things which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive? They may well compensate, surely, the circus and both amphitheatres and all the spectacles the world can offer." No wonder DePressense says, "This joy in the anticipation of the doom of the enemies of Christ is altogether alien to the spirit of the Gospel; that mocking laugh, ringing across the abyss which opens to swallow up the persecutors," etc. But why "alien," if a God of love ordained, and the gentle Christ executes, the appalling doom? Was not Tertullian nearer the mood a Christian should cultivate than are those who are shocked by his description, if it is true? Max Muller calls attention to the fact that Tertullian and the Latin fathers were obliged to cripple the Greek Christian thought by being destitute of even words to express it. He has to use two words, verbum and ratio, to express Logos. "Not having Greek tools to work with," he says, "his verbal picture often becomes blurred."
Hase says that Tertullian was a "gloomy, fiery character, who conquered for Christianity, out of the Punic Latin, a literature in which ingenious rhetoric, a wild imagination, a gross, sensuous perception of the ideal, profound feeling, and a judical understanding struggled with each other."
Ambrose of Alexandria, A.D. 180-250, was of a noble and wealthy family. Meeting Origen he accepted Christianity as taught by the magister orientis, and urged and stimulated his great teacher to write his many books, and used his fortune to further them. Thus we owe generally, it is said, nearly all the exegetical works of Origen to Ambrose's influence and money; and especially his commentary on St. John. It was at his request also that Origen composed his greatest work, the answer to Celsus. He left no writings of his own except some letters, but his devotedness to Origen, and his agency in promoting the publication of his works, should convince us that Origen's views are substantially his own.9
The Manichæans, followers of Mani, were a considerable sect that had a following over a large part of Christendom from A.D. 277 to 500. Eusebius is very bitter in describing the sect and its founder. "He was a madman," and his "ism, patched up of many faults and impious heresies, long since extinct." Socrates calls it "a kind of heathenish Christianity," and says it is composed of a union of Christianity with the doctrines of Empedocles and Pythagoras. Lardner quotes the evident misrepresentations of Eusebius and Socrates and exposes their inaccuracies.
A large amount of literature was expended on some of their doctrines, but not on their denial of endless torment. In fact, Didymus the Blind, as well as Augustine, seems to have opposed their errors, though the "merciful doctor" gives them, as Lardner says, "no hard names," while the father of Calvinism treats them with characteristic severity, ignoring what he himself acknowledges elsewhere, that for eight or nine years he accepted their tenets. Referring to the vile practices and doctrines with which they are charged, Lardner says: "The thing is altogether incredible, especially when related of people who by profession were Christians; who believed that Jesus Christ was a perfect model of all virtues; who acknowledged the reasonableness and excellence of the precepts of the Gospel, and that the essence of religion lies in obeying them." The consensus of ancient authorities proves the Manichæans to have been an unpopular but reputable Christian sect.
Mani was a Persian, a scholar, and a Christian. Beginning his debate with Archelaus, he says: "I, brethren, am a disciple and an apostle of Jesus Christ;" and he and his followers everywhere claim to be disciples of our Lord. Among their dogmas, was one that denied endless existence to the devil, who was then considered to be almost the fourth person in the popular Godhead,--they repudiated the resurrection of the body and clearly taught universal restoration. Lardner quotes Mani in his dispute with Archelaus, as saying: "All sorts of souls will be saved, and the lost sheep will be brought back to the fold." And after quoting their adversaries as stating that the Manichæans taught the eternity of hell torments, Lardner says, quoting Beausobre: "All which means no more than a lack of happiness, or a labor and task, rather than a punishment. Indeed it is reasonable to think the Manichæans should allow but very few, if any, souls to be lost and perish forever. That could not be reckoned honorable to the Deity, considering how souls were sent into matter."10 Lardner is certainly within bounds when he says: "But it is doubtful whether they believed the eternity of hell torments."
The astonishing way in which, as Wendell Phillips once said, "what passes for history," is written, may be seen in Professor William G. T. Shedd's "History of Christian Doctrine." He says: "The punishment inflicted upon the lost was regarded by the fathers of the ancient church, with very few exceptions, as endless. The only exception to the belief in the eternity of future punishment in the ancient church appears in the Alexandrine school. Their denial of the doctrine sprang logically out of their anthropology. Clement of Alexandria, and Origen, we have seen, asserted with great earnestness the tenet of a complete and inalienable power in the human will to overcome sin. The destiny of the soul is thus placed in the soul itself. The power of free will cannot be lost, and if not exerted in this world, it still can be in the next; and under the full light of the eternal world; and under the stimulus of suffering there experienced, nothing is more probable than that it will be exerted. The views of Origen were almost wholly confined to this school. Faint traces of a belief in the remission of punishments in the future world are visible in the writings of Didymus of Alexandria, and in Gregory of Nyssa. With these exceptions, the ancient church held that the everlasting destiny of the human soul is decided in this earthly state."11 The reader who will turn to the sketches of Didymus and Gregory will discover what Prof. Shedd denominates "faint traces," and in the multitudes of quotations from others of the fathers who were not of the Alexandrine school, he will see how utterly inaccurate is this religious historian. Numerous quotations flatly contradict his assertion. The verbal resemblance of Dr. Shedd's language to that of Hagenbach, cannot be wholly due to accident.12 Prof. Shedd, however, contradicts what Schaff and Hagenbach declare to be the truth of history. He says that the Alexandrine school was the only exception to a universal belief in endless punishment, except the faint traces in Gregory of Nyssa; while Hagenbach insists that Gregory is more explicit, and Neander affirms that the school of Antioch as well as that of Alexandria, were Universalistic. Furthermore, Prof. Shedd does not seem to have remembered the words he had written with his own pen in his translation of Guerike's Church History: 13 "It is noticeable that the exegetico- grammatical school of Antioch, as well as the allegorizing Alexandrian, adopted and maintained the doctrine of restoration." Says Hagenbach, "Some faint traces of a belief in the final remission of punishments in the world to come are to be found in those writings of Didymus of Alexandria, which are yet extant. Gregory of Nyssa speaks more distinctly upon this point, pointing out the corrective design of the punishments inflicted upon the wicked." Hagenbach expressly places Gregory and Didymus as differing, while Shedd makes them agree. But Neander declares: "From two theological schools there went forth an opposition to the doctrine of everlasting punishment, which had its ground in a deeper Christian interest; inasmuch as the doctrine of a universal restoration was closely connected with the entire dogmatic systems of both these schools, namely, that of Origen, and the school of Antioch." 141 Wordsworth's St. Hippolytus and the Church of Rome, p. 144.
Chapter 14--Minor Authorities - Contents
Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology - Introductory Note - New Stuff
Chapter 14--Minor Authorities - Contents
Spirit of the Word - Covenant Eschatology
Chapter 1 - The Earliest Creeds
Chapter 2 - Early Christianity-A Cheerful Religion
Chapter 3 - Origin of Endless Punishment
Chapter 4 - Doctrines of Mitigation and Reserve
Chapter 5 - Two Kindred Topics
Chapter 6 - The Apostles' Immediate Successors
Chapter 7 - The Gnostic Sects
Chapter 8 - The Sibylline Oracles
Chapter 9 - Pantaenus and Clement
Chapter 10 - Origen
Chapter 11 - Origen-Continued
Chapter 12 - The Eulogists of Origen
Chapter 13 - A Third Century Group
Chapter 14 - Minor Authorities
Chapter 15 - Gregory Nazianzen
Chapter 16 - Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Nestorians
Chapter 17 - A Notable Family
Chapter 18 - Additional Authorities
Chapter 19 - The Deterioration of Christian Thought
Chapter 20 - Augustine--Deterioration Continued
Chapter 21 - Unsuccessful Attempts to Suppress Universalism
Chapter 22 - The Eclipse of Universalism
Chapter 23 - Summary of Conclusions

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My Most Favorite Script Font
Script fonts can be tough. There are so many different kinds and they usually only serve a single purpose. For example, "Boulevard" may be a great font for a wedding invite header, but it just wouldn't work for a product brochure. It's very decorative and can be difficult to read. So I wouldn't use it too often.
Unless your business is called "Bob's Big Boy," it is best to stay away from "Brush Script." "Marker Felt" is another one to remove from your system. They are the most difficult to read out of all the script fonts. Don't even get me started on "Comic Sans!" If you are not writing a comic book, just stay away. Even then, put some effort into writing the captions by hand. All of the good comic authors still do it!
I attended a lecture by famous designer, Massimo Vignelli at the University of Cincinnati one year. He spent a good 15 minutes on how "Helvetica" is the perfect font for everything. While I agree that it is very versatile, I disagree about it being the only font you should use in any situation. I mean… what about the typeface you created Massimo? You know… "Our Bodoni!" There is a time and place for almost any font. Especially in a hipster nation populated by "Wood Block" and other decorative, retro fonts!
Anyway, back to the subject at hand. You may disagree with me, but it is my opinion that "House Script" by House Industries is my favorite of the script fonts. I could just be partial to this font because it is the most like my own cursive handwriting, but I love it! It is best of the scripts! We are in a time where cursive is barely being taught in schools and most people have forgotten what at least 2 of the cursive capitals look like. I know how to write a cursive "S" and hardly ever use it! I don't even use cursive capitals in my own signature! With "House Script," all of the cursive capitals are gone. It's a true reflection of modern times.
"House Script," like all script fonts, should only be used as a header to a paragraph. The paragraph itself should be a nice and super readable sans serif font (Like Helvetica, Massimo!). "House Script" is retro, modern, readable and decorative. It is by far my favorite of the script fonts!
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All of us will get osteoporosis if we live long enough. Since none of us have a crystal
ball to predict our life expectancy, we should all do our best to ensure
good strong bones and prevent falls no matter how long we live.
Osteoporosis is extremely common. It is estimated that 25% of
all women by age 50 have osteoporosis and that this risk doubles to 50%
by age 70. Another fact about osteoporosis is that if a woman lives to age 80
she has a 15% risk of developing a hip fracture. This risk will double in her
remaining life. In men, we are only beginning to appreciate the significance
of osteoporosis. Men typically have a higher peak bone mass, so it takes longer
for bone loss to reach a level where the bones fracture. Nevertheless, as men
increasingly live past age 80, osteoporosis is going to become a more common
problem for men.
Research has identified a number of risks that make it more likely for one
individual over another to get osteoporosis.
If several of these risk factors apply to you, you may want to check with
your doctor about how to prevent osteoporosis.
Risk factors for osteoporosis we cannot change:
Lifestyle risk factors for osteoporosis we can change:
Medical conditions and diseases that increase risk of osteoporosis:
Medical conditions in women:
Medical conditions in men:
If you find that a number of these risks apply to you, you may want to think about
making some simple changes in lifestyle, doing a test for osteoporosis, or even
starting medications that are available.
The risk factors of family history, female sex, and advancing age are powerful predictors
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If you have these risks, then a bone density test can more
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might be reason enough to proceed to a bone density test.
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CLEVELAND — If you are driving along East 55th Street and Lexington Avenue in Cleveland, you might notice a new natural gas filling station being built.
Devo Bavishi is the president of Ace Taxi and said there's a big demand for natural gas filling stations because so many vehicles are converting to natural gas.
He recently partnered with a company called Clean Energy to have the unique station built on his property.
Bavishi, of Cleveland, said, "We started this opportunity with Clean Energy. There's a federal grant available and they needed an east side location to open up a natural gas fueling station, and we had the property available and it was an easy fit for our fleet to convert vehicles."
And some drivers agree.
Jaime Camacho recently started driving for Ace and he said it's important to go green.
"I think it's really a good idea. It's good for the environment, (reducing) pollution, I think everybody should go clean energy," Camacho told Fox 8 News.
Not only is natural gas good for the environment, it's also good for your car.
Plus it will only cost you $2.39 a gallon.
Bavishi believes by the end of the month, his taxi service will have 25 cars on the road using natural gas, and plans to have 50 by the end of the year.
Ace Taxi currently uses propane, which is also good for the environment.
There is also another natural gas station by Clean Energy currently being built by the airport and both stations should be open within the next few months.
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Season finale review: 'The Office' - 'Free Family Portrait Studio': Same as the old boss
A review of "The Office" season finale coming up just as soon as the coconut is pretty subtle...
I last reviewed "The Office" in the middle of the Tallahassee story arc, and I either made it only a few minutes into the last 3 or 4 episodes before the finale or simply deleted them unwatched from the DVR to clear hard drive space. While there have been isolated moments here and there — including several jokes in the finale (the energy drink, the velcro suit, the return of Mose and — in what's been the one part of the show that's remained consistently good — the pre-credits sequence) — overall the show has felt lifeless, airless and joyless.
I came back for the finale mainly to see where Paul Lieberstein left things before moving on to the planned Dwight spin-off, which should turn up at mid-season next year. "The Office" hasn't technically been renewed at the time I'm writing this, but NBC yesterday reportedly closed deals to have Ed Helms, John Krasinski and Jenna Fischer to return (while allowing them time off to do movies), so I imagine the renewal will come sometime later today. As dire as "The Office" has become creatively, it's still NBC's highest-rated comedy, and they need it for at least a half season (if not more) to lead into "Dwight's Beet Farm," or whatever it winds up being called.
We don't know yet who will be taking over as showrunner, and the new boss could decide to undo some of the developments of the finale. Or maybe I'm just hoping s/he will. Andy as regional manager never really worked, and kept putting the character into too many watered-down Michael Scott scenarios, up to and including last night's idiotic play-acting so his return to power could seem as dramatic as possible. And what I've seen of Catherine Tate as Nellie doesn't have me eager to watch more of her as a kind of chaos agent within Dunder-Mifflin. And not that Robert California (or Bob Kazamakis, or whatever name he chooses to go by while "mentoring" uneducated Eastern European gymnasts) really worked out as an amusing antagonist, but bringing back David Wallace as a relatively sane(*) guy who (for now) fully supports Andy removes any non-Nellie tension away from the job. The staff likes him (as we were reminded over and over again in the early part of the season), the new CEO supports him, etc.
(*) Turns out he was entirely right to believe in the power of the Suck It! vacuum.
I'm going to watch an episode or two in the fall just to see what, if anything, the new showrunner can do about steering this very old, inflexible battleship in an interesting new direction. But I'm curious how those of you who stuck it out through the end of this season feel. Are you glad to have Andy back in charge? Are you invested at all in Darryl and Val? In the rekindled Dwight/Angela/HRG/Oscar quadrangle? If we assume next year really will be the end, is there anything the show hasn't ever done that you want to see happen before it's all over?
What did everybody else think?


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Jimminy Cricketts...what the heck is going on down on the plains? Coaches bolting like crazy, coaches being dismissed, coaches not being able to fing gigs, players getting suspended, 7-6 record after the chicken bowl? All this after a national championship year? Ohhhh the unrealistic expectations brought about by Cam. Oh, by the way, did Julio's team win yesterday?
I'm sure Winston can be bought too! Why does the Auburn fan base give up on Frazier so quickly...wasn't he supposed to be the second coming of Cam? Bad new Auburn fans, there will never be another Cam! Quit acting desperate and go recruit like your Big Brother! Winston has committed to FSU, but will probably sign a lucrative baseball contract...so give it up!
Recruit, recruit, recruit...that is why Bama is rolling!
Blame it on experience, Blame it on Chiznik, Blame it on Malzahn, Blame it on Room, Blame it on Grimes, Blame it on Taylor, Blame it on...Wait, how about blame it on Cam Newton! He is the reason for your pain. He gave every one of you who are blaming anyone you can blame the motivation to blame. Had he not come along, Auburn would have been 7-5 last year also. But instead, he puts the Auburn nation on his back and makes everyone think that the program is an elite program with a great coaching staff! It's Cam's fault people!
The curse of Cam...the whole coaching staff should send Newton a chunk of their pay since they got raises riding on the tail of Superman's cape!! I'm sorry Auburn fans, but it's time you admit that you really don't have the coaching staff you thought you had and that your NC was the result of having a freak play one year!
Hold on...let me finish laughing at your comment :) :)...You truly are one of those "all in" family members to write what you just wrote. Wake up dude, Cam is gone...one and done! Now it's back to reality...7-5 and lucky to have that record!
There will always be a highlight with the that trick play high school offense Gus runs!
They should have a great student turnout for the basketball games...the football team isn't playing for a national championship like the students thought they would each year with that great coaching staff!
Maybe they should just drop the football program if they can't win the national championship every year....I mean isn't that what the Auburn fans expect now? Maybe they will wake up one day and realize they are just a mediocre team with a mediocre coaching staff.
I agree bamalaw54...Cam was good, but it was that great coaching staff that lead Auburn to the national championship right? Yes, yes, they have been dealing with youth and immaturity this year so they must be given a break. So all you Auburn fans who are calling for the coaches to be fired, shame on you! They gave you an SEC championship and a BCS national championship and you turn on them so quickly. Ohhhh the unrealistic expectations brought on by Cameron and Nick!
Instead of Chiznik saying the Georgia loss is unacceptable, why can't he simply man up and say his team got it handed to them by a more talented team? Someone needs to wake Chiznik up and let him know his magical year is over and now Auburn is back to playing the way they normally play...Ohhhh the unrealistic expectations brought on by Cameron!
The Panthers aren't winning this year because Cam is playing against the big boys who are gettting paid a whole lot more than he did last year. But you are right about the "O" line...I'm sure if Clint Moseley had that talented, experienced offensive line he would have lead Auburn to a national championship too! For you to say Cam wasn't responsible for the crystal shows your ignorance about football!
Sorry to inform you, but your team would have been a joke last year also if not for Superman on offense, and Superman on defense...I've said it multiple times, Cam gave Auburn fans unrealistic expectations.
There are some people on here who actually saw the game for what it was...a huge blunder by Saban and his coaching staff! Terrible play calling for one. I've never seen a coach shy away from a back who just ran for 10 to 12 yards...yet Bama calls trick plays right after Richardson burst up the middle for positive yards. There are also a few people on here who knew that Bama's kicking game would haunt them in this game and it did! Granted, Saban put them in a tight spot asking them to kick long range field goals, but they could have made at least one. What Saban should have done is pin Lsu deep in their own territory and let the defense do their work! McCarron needs to work on his mechanics and quit hopping around also...Does anyone else hate it when he does that little jump move before he hands the ball off? All it does is waste time. Oh well, that is my rant!
You must be blind...every person who saw it on instant replay saw that he did not have possession.
You are wrong. It was an interception. The ball was clearly not in his possession when before he hit the ground. Bama did not outplay Lsu either. Nick Saban outplayed himself. He should have pinned Lsu deep in their own territory the 3 times he tried long range field goals. I knew Bama's kicking game would cost them and it did. The play calling by Bama was also bad. Why do you revert to trick plays immediatel following Trent Richardson gaining huge chunks of yardage. McCarron played a part too by not making the throws he needed too. Bama clearly did not outplay Lsu!
This game was lost by Nick Saban! He should have pinned LSU deep the 3 times he tried for long range field goals with a terrible kicker! That and trying to run trick plays immediately following Trent Richardson gaining huge chunks of yardage. I hope he is man enough to take the blame...and the play calling in overtime was horrible!
I've been saying all along that Bama's kicker, because he cannot kick the ball past deeper than the 5 yard line, will cost them the game
MeanGreenMachine is right!
For all of you idiots on here making stupid, thoughtless comments after a person has lost their life, think of this...perhaps she was pronounced dead so quickly because she had already died and that's what caused her to veer off the road. No report has been issued stating that she died because she wasn't wearing a seat belt, or because she was talking on a cell phone. Until any of you who are passing judgement know the truth, keep your moronic thoughts to yourself.
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Posted: Jun 3, 2008 10:48am ETMy right knee is throbbing, my shins are swollen and both feet are sore. Why? I joined a few friends on Sunday and played soccer for a couple of hours. It's been about a year since I'd played, and much, much longer since I played regularly. Let's just say it's a little harder now than when I was in my mid 20s playing a few times a week.
I blame it on field conditions. In my youth, I distinctly remember that all soccer fields were mowed very, very short. I was able to run for hours without getting tired, could cut on a dime (OK, maybe a quarter) and I never experienced any type of pain whatsoever, except for those times when you had to make a defensive wall and would inevitably absorb a kick in some place where you didn't want to be kicked. But the field that I played on must have certainly had long, long grass, because I couldn't move very fast, and I was nearly instantly exhausted from the merest amount of play.
Yeah. Must have been the long grass.
The afternoon of soccer in what seemed like oppressive heat was a big reminder that I'm getting older. I'm not as good at sports as I was as a younger man. I am, however, considerably better at post sport celebration.
After the game, my buddies and I crawled off to Mark's house for much needed refreshment. "You really polished off that beer quickly," Mark marveled. "I think I was dehydrated," I said. Beer is mostly water, right?
Not long after the beer, it was time for a cigar. I chose a Montecristo Petit Edmundo, which never seems to disappoint. The robusto-sized smoke was rich, loaded with coffee bean notes and fairly full bodied—just what the doctor ordered. (I think Olympic soccer players recover from stressful games using the same beer-cigar method that I employed, but I could be mistaken.)
So I'm resigned to the fact that I'm older, slower and far less able to run around without causing my body considerable pain. But at least I'm now proficient in how to relax.
A "New" Smoke From Pepin
Posted: May 20, 2008 12:42pm ETSo I thought I knew all of Jose "Pepin" Garcia's smokes. I was wrong. I had lunch the other day with John Gonzales, national sales manager for El Rey de Los Habanos, Pepin's company in Miami. John and I were talking about cigars when he mentioned Vegas Cubanas, a brand I'd never heard of. When I professed my ignorance, John handed me a few robusto-sized smoked called Invictos.
John told me that Vegas Cubanas is one of the milder brands made by Pepin. He gave me a little document listing Pepin's house brands. Pepin makes quite a few smokes. Some, like Tatuaje, are for other companies. The brands his company owns include various versions of the Don Pepin line, but also include El Rey de Los Habanos (the mildest cigar he makes) and Vegas Cubanas, which is described as being "mild to medium bodied."
The cigar is made in Miami, on Calle Ocho. Like the bulk of what Pepin makes, it's made solely from Nicaraguan tobacco. It looked pretty tasty, so I took the cigars back to the office. Yesterday, I fired a couple of them up. Here's me puffing away in this video.
No shocker here—it's a very good cigar. It's nicely made (I don't think I've ever smoked a poorly made smoke that's come from one of Pepin's factories), it's woody, a tad earthy and a bit dry in character. It's not very sweet, but it's tasty, with a touch of coffee bean flavor.
Pepin makes some pretty gutsy smokes, and while this isn't the strongest of his line I wouldn't call it mild to medium bodied. I think it's more medium-bodied.
I called Janny Garcia, Pepin's daughter, for some more info on the cigar. She told me Vegas Cubanas is one of Pepin's original brands. "We've made it since the beginning," she said, making it four years old.
Here's the best part—the brand is also a steal—about $5.30 a cigar for the robusto-sized Invictos, which is five inches long by 50 ring gauge. Not bad.
Smoke For Derby Day
Posted: May 12, 2008 4:16pm ETThere's just something special about firing up a great cigar (or two) on Derby Day. This year, my wife and I celebrated in style with a great group at the home of our friends Tammy and Jay Harris, who treat the annual Run for the Roses as if it were a national holiday.
Tammy and Jay created the ideal setup for a springtime party—a band playing Dixie music, a generous spread of fried chicken with all the sides, including Tammy's homemade (and ridiculously addictive) biscuits with salty Southern ham, plus a bartender with a heavy hand and a deft touch at making Mint Juleps.
We were in fine spirits, arriving at the appointed hour dressed in our Derby attire. Jay was wearing a festive tie, my wife, Manuela, and virtually all the women wore hats worthy of any Southern belle, and I even dusted off the old Panama hat, which usually sits in my closet. My buddy Russ, who broke out the seersucker for the event, handed me a Cohiba Siglo I early into the party.
The little Cohiba is one of my all-time favorite small cigars. Every time I smoke one I think back to my first, which I smoked in Pinar del Río back in 1996. This one was as great as that first--slightly spicy, just rich enough, and full of great flavor belying its tiny size. I've always enjoyed them.
Cigars were welcome at the party, and about half the men in attendance chose to light up at some point. I, naturally, chose to light up a few times, following the Siglo with a Fuente Fuente OpusX PerfecXion No. 2. This is our current No. 2 cigar of the year, and it performed admirably. It was big, bold and leathery, with the right amount of sweetness needed to balance out the hefty power of the Opus. I was two-for-two with the cigars on Derby Day.
It was a great party, and went on long after the race had concluded. With the combination of good friends, great food, free-flowing cigars and fine spirits, it was impossible not to have a good time.
Better With Age
Posted: Apr 30, 2008 4:42pm ETJames Suckling was in town this week, so Monday night we headed out to an early dinner in midtown. We ate at Benoit, a new brasserie from Alain Ducasse that just opened. (It was so new, in fact, that they didn't have a liquor license, something we didn't know until after we sat down. A quick trip to a local liquor store remedied that. James will be blogging about that experience soon at winespectator.com.)
Naturally we wanted a smoke after dinner, so we walked the few blocks over to the Grand Havana Room after finishing our meals. We sat down in one of the lounge's comfy chairs, I ordered an Abelour Abundah single-malt Scotch and reached into my briefcase.
When I smoke with Sucking, he usually provides the cigars, but this time we smoked some of mine. I had Padrón 1964 Anniversary Series Imperials, last year's No. 3 cigar of the year, and they had a full year of age on them.
I'm a big believer in aging cigars, and so is Suckling. We rate aged cigars in every issue of Cigar Aficionado, in our Connoisseur's Corner. Most of the cigars that make it to that page are 90 pointers or above, sometimes way above.
Now Padróns are great right out of the box, but like most great cigars, they get even better with age. These were amazing—rich, bold, elegant and harmonious smokes that had just a little more finesse than they did in early 2007, when I first got them. I'm sure in a few years they will be better still.
Aging cigars takes patience and self-discipline. How many times have you set aside cigars, hoping to let them rest, but found yourself taking a few here or there. Next thing you know, the box is empty!
Not everyone agrees that cigars get better with age, including the man who made the cigar that we smoked, Jorge Padrón.
What do you think? Do cigars get better with age? And do you have the patience to age your smokes?
Loving Your Work
Posted: Apr 22, 2008 10:20am ETI had lunch the other day with Litto Gomez, who makes La Flor Dominicana cigars. We ate at Otto, part of the Mario Batali/Joe Bastianich Italian food empire. Litto is as slim as a spear, but you'd never know it if you watched him tuck into a table set with great Italian food. The guy can eat about as much as I can, and that tells you something.
It was a great lunch, with delicious, casual food, some good wine and easy conversation. Between bites of house-made salumi and a plate of spaghetti carbonara that Litto dubbed better than any he'd had in Italy, we got to talking about business.
Like half of New York, I commute to work on a train every day. Litto is also a commuter, but his is a longer, tougher ride—most Mondays he leaves Florida for the Miami International Airport and hops onto a plane to Santiago, Dominican Republic. On Fridays he heads home. It's a two-hour flight.
Even if you love to fly, that routine can get to be a grind. But it doesn't bother Litto, because he simply loves what he does. He took a vacation recently, and one night he woke up in the middle of the morning, grabbed the laptop computer and began typing, waking his wife. "I had too many ideas in my head," he said.
This is a guy who loves making cigars. He's been doing it since 1994. When he started making smokes (he was previously a jeweler), he was dizzy, unsure of what to do, a newcomer in a strange new world. Today he's a master of his craft, the man behind some of the world's best cigars.
I asked him how long it took for him to fall in love with the cigar business. "Two months," he said with an easy smile. "Now, I'm raring to go on Monday morning."
Litto isn't alone. Most of the guys I know in this business bleed cigars, and love everything about the process of making them. Remember—it hasn't always been such a lucrative career. Many of the men I write about who make cigars got into this business when cigar sales were slumping, not growing, as they are now. Many of them chose this career path when the future for cigars looked very, very uncertain.
A Strong Smoke From Alec Bradley
Posted: Apr 16, 2008 10:30am ETIt's Night to Remember week here in New York, which means just about the entire cigar industry is coming to town. It's been a busy week.
I started the week off right with Alan Rubin, owner of Alec Bradley cigars. He came by the office Monday morning to give me a sample of his newest brand, Alec Bradley Tempus, which goes on sale next week. He handed me a dark lancero, which I quickly clipped and lit.
Alan told me he built the cigar around the outer leaf, which is grown in Honduras near the border of Nicaragua. "It all started because of the wrapper," he said. The wrapper is nice and dark, with a dryish texture to it, not seeping with oils but promising big flavor. You can't always judge a cigar by its wrapper, but this one delivered as promised—from the first puff, it was gutsy and strong. Here's Alan in my office talking about the brand.
The cigar had a red meat flavor, lots of minerals, roasted nuts, and good old-fashioned strength. I lit it up around noon, before lunch. I'd recommend waiting until after a meal to fully enjoy it.
The cigar is from the small Raisas Cubanas in Danlí, Honduras, and it's excellent. Rubin originally wanted this blend to be his Maxx cigar a couple of years ago, but at the time he was concerned with getting a consistent product from that factory. He's confident it can be done now.
I'm a big fan of lanceros, and more and more cigarmakers are making them. This is Alec Bradley's first. Alan originally wanted to make it the classic lancero ring gauge of 38, but at that thickness the cigar was too powerful. "The wrapper has a lot to it," he said. "We needed to put one more leaf [of filler into the blend.] We were concerned with being over the top strong."
Adding that one more leaf meant no more 38 ring gauge. The end results is a 7 1/2 inch long, 41 ring gauge lancero that is strong, but has a good amount of balance to it. That's just one of the little quirks about making handmade cigars.
The Dangers of Blogging?
Posted: Apr 11, 2008 10:40am ETSo I walk to the driveway and pick up my newspaper the other day, and there it is right on page one—blogging kills. Apparently there have been a couple of deaths by blogging, where stressed out writers have succumbed to the pressures of the job and died.
Who knew our jobs were so dangerous to merit a page one story in The New York Times? Sure, I've bit my nails down to the quick on a Cubana Airlines flight, and those close encounters with tarantulas in Honduras and erupting volcanoes in Ecuador have given me a bit of agita, but I never knew that the roughest part of my work was what I'm doing now, sitting in front of a Mac and typing away about my thoughts.
Maybe it isn't blogging per se, but the type of blogging that poses the risk. I'd like to think that the Cigar Aficionado blogger is a more relaxed blogger than your typical web log journalist. Ours is a lifestyle magazine, so our blogs reflect that. We typically write about the best part of our days, that time when we sit back with a great smoke and savor it in all its glory.
So just in case you were worried about all of us after reading that story, rest assured. We're gonna be OK.
New Cigars From TAA
Posted: Apr 3, 2008 1:47pm ETI'm on my way back from the annual Tobacconist Association of America conference, which was held in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. The TAA, as it's known, is a small group of American cigar shop owners and many cigarmakers. They gather annually to discuss important issues facing the cigar industry and to do a little business. I look upon it as a much smaller, more social version of what used to be called the RTDA show.
Traditionally cigarmakers release their new wares at the summer trade show, but many are uncorking new items now. Four years ago, the TAA would have been a lousy place to do that, because there just weren't that many retailers at the show. That's changed. This year's show was busy and vibrant, and at the mini-trade show that took place Wednesday one cigarmaker said with a smile "this is the first time this show has had more retailers than manufacturers." That's a good thing. A once sleepy show has turned into a serious gathering.
I tried two of the new cigars at dinners. The first I smoked after dinner in downtown Puerto Vallarta at Café des Artistes, an ultra-fancy restaurant with wonderful food. I ate with the folks from Altadis U.S.A. Inc., and we did a version of a tasting menu. The standout dishes for me were the sea scallops in a seafood broth, and the local sea bass done with some hollandaise. We're right on the Pacific Ocean here, so I've taken advantage of the fresh fish.
Café des Artistes has a posh, small smoking room, replete with leather chairs and a selection of Cognac that would make Jack Bettridge drool. The room is operated by Gerald Cohen, who runs the local La Casa del Habano, so it was full of legit Cuban cigars. We took a look, but the restaurant owners bent their rules and let us light up right at the table.
Jim Colucci handed me a dark robusto, and asked my opinion. It was great—verging on a full body, with lots of wood, smoky meat and earthy notes. As we talked, I found myself going back to it often. It's a cigar that will come out at RTDA (I have a hard time calling it by its new name, ICCPR). He said it would be called Cuevo y Sobrinos, and it has a wrapper grown from Cuban seed in Ecuador. Real nice stuff.
Smoking in Paradise—St. Barth's
Posted: Mar 26, 2008 12:16pm ETI spent last week on the island of Saint Barth's, which is also known as Saint Bart's and officially called Saint Barthélemy. Whatever name you use, it's a gorgeous, hilly eight-square mile island in the French West Indies with superb beaches, wonderful cuisine, balmy weather and Cuban cigars.
My wife, Manuela, and I went on the trip with two other couples, great friends of ours from home. Within an hour of landing at the tiny airport, we drove into the town of St. Jean for lunch at the Eden Rock Hotel. After filling our bellies with fresh seafood and quenching our thirst with two magnums of Rosé, the girls headed back to the villa for some pool time while the guys went for a quick dip in the ocean before walking down the street to the Casa del Habano to load up on smokes.
It's a well-stocked shop, with just about every Cohiba and Montecristo in stock (even the rare Monte No. 4 Reserva), Vegas Robaina, Romeo y Julieta and many more. I shot a little video to give you an idea of the selection—take a look.
The Diplomaticos looked gorgeous, but there were only a few left in the box. I knew we would be smoking quite a bit, so I asked Sandrine, who runs the shop, if she had anything with a little age on it. She smiled and reached for a full box of H. Upmann No. 2s from August 2006. Perfect.
I grabbed the Upmanns, took out my cutter, and me and my buddies lit up. We walked out into the sun and enjoyed the leathery pyramids, which were medium to full bodied with a touch of black pepper, wood and a nice blast of cedar. The wrappers weren't as exquisite as you tend to see on the finest Monte 2s, but the cigars made up for their looks with tons of taste. I'll take flavor over appearance any day.
The Upmanns were great company on the trip. We spent our days sleeping in (did I mention we all left our kids at home?) then sat down to breakfasts of fresh bread and pastries, rich cheese and strong coffee. Then it was time to bask on the deck, take a few dips in the pool, play a little cards or read a book, then we would head to a restaurant for lunch, always paired with magnums of rose. (We soon jokingly dubbed 750 ml bottles half bottles.) Then it was time to hit one of the island's great beaches.
DR Cigar Fest--The Wrapup
Posted: Mar 11, 2008 11:31am ETThe first ProCigar Festival is in the books, and it went pretty well. About 120 people had a chance to spend time with cigarmakers in their factories and fields, they smoked up a storm and they got a nice taste of Dominican culture. A few even did the extended stay and spent this weekend in La Romana, home to Tabacalera de Garcia, and played in a golf tournament. I wish I could have joined them, but I had to return home.
There were cigars passed out at all of the dinners and lunches, at the factory and field tours and at most of the activities, plus there was an attractive sampler box that everyone got when they arrived. I have mine right here, and I thought I'd give you a little look inside.
The festival has been a long time coming, and I'm happy that it finally happened. Hopefully it will become an annual event, just like the Habanos Festival held in Cuba.
The Habanos festival is much larger than the ProCigar Festival. I believe more than 1,000 people attended the gala dinner completing the Habanos Festival, while the ProCigar Festival had little more than 100 in attendance. But Cuba has been doing this for a decade. Give the Dominicans time to get themselves up to speed on throwing this type of party, and—with a little more promotion—the ProCigar Festival will only get bigger. I'm told Santiago will have another hotel in a few months, which will add needed tourist space to the city. Right now, they really couldn't handle 1,000 guests.
The comparisons between the festivals seemed to be partisan. One Dominican I spoke to said the ProCigar Festival was much better organized and far superior to the Habanos Festival. I asked the same question to a Cuban who had attended both, and she said the Habanos Festival was head and shoulders above the ProCigar Festival.


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a different biology in women, she is interested in differences in susceptibility
as well as survival. She is interested in advocacy for those affected
by lung cancer. She sees screening patients who are at high risk, educating
young men and women about the harmful effects of tobacco smoke to ensure
a population that is not addicted, and providing support for those who
are trying to quit smoking all functions of her role as a thoracic oncologist.
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Get in the mood for love and valentines with oodles of Stampin' Up! Spring Catalog sneak peeks today. Here's a handy wish list form to help you keep track of your favorites. The Stampin' Up! Spring Catalog products are available starting Jan. 3.
This week's Mojo Monday Sketch Challenge (MOJO274) was the foundation for my 5 1/4" square card!
- NEW! Can you find four patterns from More Amore Specialty Designer Series Paper on this valentine card and envelope? Don't miss the tiny heart banner on the sentiment!
- It's quick and easy to make envelopes using the Stampin' Up! Simply Scored Scoring Tool and Simply Scored Diagonal Plate. See my Simply Scored Diagonal Plate Envelope Measurement Chart and look for the instructions on making an envelope for a 5 1/4" square card!
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- NEW! The Real Red Core'dinations Card Stock looks divine embossed with the Honeycomb Textured Impressions Embossing Folder. LOVE all those little hexagons and they really pop when sanded. This piece measures 4 1/8" x 3 1/4".
- NEW! Hearts A Flutter Framelits Dies cropped the Real Red Heart. It looks exquisite after a touch of paper piercing using the NEW Occasions Paper Piercing Pack. So many piercing possibilities and coordinating shapes in this new pack!
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Coconut milk lovers, anyone?
As a vegan, I'm trying to incorporate more fats into my diet for satiety (avocado isn't doing it for me). So now I'm loving coconut milk, especially cooked as burbur cha cha (a Malay sweet soup). I know coconut is high in fat, but oh, I'm so addicted to it now. Any cookoo cookoo for coco lovers out there? :)
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|Son of Gaea and Tartarus
Bane of Ares
|Tartarus (father)
Gaea (mother)
Porphyrion, Polybotes, Alcyoneus, Enceladus, Clytius, Otis, Thoon, Mimas, Orion, and Ephialtes (brothers)
Periboia (niece)
Iapetus (Half-brother)
|Eye color
|Annabeth Chase
Percy Jackson
|The House of Hades
The Blood of Olympus (mentioned)
|Father, you wished for a more worthy opponent? I am one of the Giants you are so proud of. You wished me to be more warlike? Perhaps I will start by destroying you!
–Damasen to Tartarus, in The House of Hades
The First Gigantomachy and Banishment
Damasen was born to oppose Ares /Mars, the god of war. Being Ares' nemesis, Damasen was peaceful and helpful, and spent his life in the mortal world living as a farmer.
One day, a drakon appeared in the mortal world and killed one of Damasen's farmer friends. In rage, Damasen tracked down the drakon and killed it. He was condemned to Tartarus for slaying the drakon, which was ravaging the mortal world. In Tartarus Damasen was constantly attacked by the drakon he destroyed in the mortal world. Every "day", the drakon regenerated and attacked again. Eventually he built himself a hut out of the drakon's bones and skin.
The Heroes of Olympus
The House of Hades
Damasen is introduced to Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase by Bob after the Titan led them to his home in a swamp in Tartarus. He heals their wounds and provides them with food to continue their quest. Annabeth, realizing that they need Damasen's help in order to finish their quest, asks Damasen to join them, but he refuses since he believes he cannot escape his curse.
Later when the trio reach the Doors of Death, Tartarus appears and nearly destroyed them when Damasen arrived riding his arch enemy the drakon. Damasen battles his father allowing Annabeth and Percy their chance to escape.
Gaea wanted Damasen to oppose Ares and was the anti-Ares. But unlike his brethren, Damasen was born with a very peaceful and gentle personality, as opposed to Ares's warlike, bloodthirsty nature. Shunning Gaea's orders, Damasen chose to live a quiet life in Turkey, tending sheep and befriending mortals. Damasen can, however be very violent, though not without a valid reason. He avenged the death of one of his friends by slaying the Maeonian Drakon by forcing a tree down its neck.
After being imprisoned in Tartarus for several centuries, Damasen was overcome with hopelessness, believing that his curse has overtaken him. This does not affect his original personality and hospitality, as shown when he welcomes Percy, Annabeth and Bob to his hut. Towards the end of The House of Hades, Damasen arrives at the Doors of Death, and is willing to sacrifice his life to help Percy and Annabeth escape Tartarus.
Damasen is a 20-feet tall Giant, though still of average height for a Gigantes. From the top he is humanoid, with cherry-red skin, beard and hair the color of iron rust, bushy eyebrows, and multiple scars on his face from battling the Maeonian Drakon endless times. His dreadlocks are decorated with tufts of grass, leaves, and swamp flowers. From the bottom, his dragon legs are red and he has claws on his feet. Being a peaceful Giant, Damasen does not wear bronze armor, but rather, a shirt stitched together from sheep hides and green-spotted leather. He initially unsettled Annabeth, as he radiated "sorrow and bitterness."
Not much is known about the true extent of Damasen's power:
- As the opposite of Ares /Mars, he is very powerful.
- Prowess in Battle: Even though he was peaceful and did not participate in the first Gigantomachy, Damasen's has enhanced strength, as he battled and defeated a Drakon numerous times without much effort, and later rips huge chunks of Drakon meat of the carcass with his bare hands. In The House of Hades, he even fended off Tartarus together with Bob and the Maeonian drakon, though only for a while. His weapon of choice is a Drakon Bone Lance.
- Healing: Damasen's ability as a healer was legendary, and even cured Percy from drinking Gorgon blood in a matter of minutes.
- Giant Invincibility: As a Gigantes, Damasen can only be killed by a god and demigod working together, and when he is harmed by anybody else, he heals at an accelerated rate.
- Because Ares was a god of war, when Damasen was born during the Gigantomachy, he became the only peaceful Gigante.
- Interestingly, Damasen was not actually one of the Gigantes who participated in the Gigantomachy in historical Greek mythology. In the mythology, he was still a giant son of Gaea who fought a drakon, but he was not one of the Gigantes who fought the Olympians.


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Adventure North Wales are a subsidiary of Cinnamon active who have been organising activity adventure breaks and events in North Wales since 1996.
Our activities and accommodation has been selected to offer clients an exciting programme of short breaks and events, a real taste of adventure.
All activities and accommodation have been personally visited by us to ensure the suitability and so we can give first hand information to clients.We hold Public Liability of £5 Million and check that all our activity providers are qualified and undertake assessments on the activities featured.
Our activities include specialist clothing, equipment and qualified instruction. We provide a comprehensive Travel Pack with maps, directions, itinerary and list of recommended clothing to all clients. So all you need to do is book and turn up!
In 2001 we received recognition from Visit Wales as Highly Recommended Partner and again in 2003 and then in 2005 we were awarded Team Wales Partner of the Year.
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We operate a small experienced team from our offices who know and understand the activity adventure market and how a weekend or event works best.
We recycle paper and all print cartridges as part of our social responsibility.
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Measure and predict the impact of public programs.
The Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance (GBI)—an initiative of USAID implemented by NetHope—was established to reduce the digital divide in developing countries, especially in rural areas, and demonstrate the value of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as a driver of socioeconomic development outcomes. GBI had begun investing in a wide range of demonstration projects and needed a way to demonstrate results and aggregate them across its portfolio of activities to show the broader impact of its investments. In addition, GBI needed a way to make the case to key USAID stakeholders that expanding broadband and mobile networks and investing in innovative applications could contribute to its broader development goals.
We began by reviewing current research and interviewing a wide range of stakeholders to identify the specific features of broadband and mobile networks and ICT applications that could lead to socioeconomic improvements in people's lives in developing countries.
In regards to broadband and mobile networks, we identified three primary indicators that were crucial to closing the digital divide: access (accelerating and expanding broadband and mobile infrastructure in rural areas), affordability (service fees that are proportional to targeted users' incomes) and reliability (consistent and high quality services that will support a wide range of users' activities on those networks).
On the ICT applications question, we identified three valuable features of these beneficial applications: improving the efficiency of the delivery of socio-economic services; expanding the reach of those services (especially the per beneficiary cost and the ease of accessing those services on the user's side); and increasing beneficiaries' level of engagement with the content or service offered through the application.
Our team assessed the contribution each GBI demonstration project would make toward these common indicators and how those activities led to changed behaviors, greater economic opportunities and improved quality of life among target beneficiaries. The resulting data would allow GBI to benchmark different models against each other and prioritize the models that yielded the greatest impact.
GBI is currently using the framework developed by Mission Measurement to identify the highest-value models for future investment.
The GBI team gained specific learnings from the engagement, including: how to rate the effectiveness of demonstration projects at producing high-value development results; how to make tactical changes based on data especially when replicating the model in another context; and how to market results to attract potential future partners.


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February 28, 2013
Save The Date - Exclusive ASI Radio Interview with Ben Stein
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"Bueller? Bueller?"
If you know that line and who uttered it repetitiously in the famous 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, then you know the deadpan humor of Ben Stein. The actor — who's also an economist, best-selling author, attorney and professor — will be giving an exclusive ASI Radio interview on Tuesday, March 5 at 10:30 am EST.
Ben, who will also be the keynote speaker at the ASI Show Long Beach in March, will be discussing everything from small-business challenges to political predictions, and everything in between. So if you're up for a lot of good business advice and a little humor to boot, then you don't want to miss this show!
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Pregnant Kate Middleton Celebrates Second Wedding Anniversary at Children's Hospice
If you were royalty, how would you celebrate your wedding anniversary? If you're Kate Middleton, you celebrate by visiting sick kids!
The Duchess of Cambridge is known for her charity work, and today was no different! Kate celebrated her and William's second anniversary by visiting Naomi House, a children's hospice in Winchester, visiting with hospice staff, ailing children, and their families.
The Royal Baby Bump is growing faster than ever, showing clearly under a pink dress.
The Duchess is the royal patron of East Anglia Children's Hospices, and kicked off Children's Hospice Week with a message on behalf of the UK's Together for Short Lives campaign.
"I have been fortunate to see first hand the remarkable work that they do for children and young people with life-limiting conditions, and their families," Kate said in the video, "Children's Hospice Week Is a time to recognize celebrate and support the inspirational work of those hospices, and the people who provide palliative care to these children and families. Children's Hospices provide lifelines to families in a time of unimaginable pain."
She called the hospices' work "simply transformational," adding, "It does not bear thinking about what these families would do without this."
Wow, Kate! You never slow down with your incredible charity work, even over six months pregnant — and on your second wedding anniversary, no less!
Click here to see more pictures of Kate's visit to Naomi House!


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Frona Lynn Hall, 36, of Teaberry, died Monday, Dec. 10, 2012, at her residence.
She was born Sept. 7, 1976, to Anna Hall, of Roxanna, and the late Earl Hall. She was a homemaker.
She is survived by a son, Reggie Lee Hall, of Beaver; two brothers, Archie Hall and Earl Dean Hall, both of Hi Hat; and three sisters, Ansil Osborne, of Beaver, Wilma Howell, of Teaberry, and Martha Collins, of Roxanna.
Funeral services were held Thursday, Dec. 13, at Samaria Old Regular Baptist Church, at Teaberry. Burial followed the service at Buckingham Cemetery, at Bevinsville.
Nelson Frazier Funeral Home, of Martin, was in charge of arrangements.


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Comptroller, Albany County
Monthly Archive for December, 2010
County Budget negotiations continue
The 2011 Albany County Budget negotiations between the County Legislature and the County Executive continues racing toward the Charter deadlines. December 12, 2010 is the deadline for any vetoes by the Executive on items added to the Executive's Budget Proposal. The Executive may not add back any items removed by the Legislature. This balance of […] [Read More]
Could an intelligent energy policy cut the trade deficit in half?
Below is another thought provoking Clusterstock chart from Business Insider that makes the argument better than my previous rants about why a sustainable, renewable, locally generated energy policy would benefit our country and economy. Previously I've focused on dictators benefiting from our idiotic energy policies that rewards the foes of freedom and punishes the American […] [Read More]
Another warning to get off the couch
The Empire Center for Public Policy sponsored a forum at the Crowne Plaza Hotel yesterday that was shocking, provoking and one more call to get off our arses and into the streets. New York's Exploding Pension Costs was a wonk's delight, loaded with facts, studies, charts and graphs about just how bad the future pension […] [Read More]


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Application Penetration Testing – Security Pen Testing Experts
7Safe specialises in web application penetration testing security, finding weaknesses by undertaking application security penetration tests . The field has become complex and our people believe that applications present the greatest risks to organisations as a whole.
The techniques, tools and methodology used by 7Safe's application penetration testing team are constantly updated to ensure that application security is assessed both for the conventional (SQL Injection, Cross Site Scripting and other OWASP "Top Ten") as well as the latest cutting edge security vulnerabilities. Web application testing tends to therefore do away with tools and instead focus on years of experience in web application security often using nothing more than a browser and strong intuition.
Web Application Penetration Testing Security Experience
Over the years 7safe has built up significant experience in a variety of application penetration testing scenarios including:
- Online Banking
- Gambling & Gaming
- HR & Payroll systems
- Customer Relationship Management
- Content Management Systems
- Social Networking Sites
- Overall Web 2.0 applications & content
- Binary Applications
Application Penetration Testing: Technologies
7Safe's application pen testing team has assessed applications written in many different technologies. The applications are assessed and tested against conventional security issues such as;
- Cross-Site Scripting,
- SQL Injection,
- Cross-Site Request Forgery,
- File Include,
- Direct Object Reference etc.
… as well as business logic bypass issues to assess any risk to unauthorised access to information (i.e. rather than testing from the front door, what can be seen laterally within an application with genuine but possibly stolen credentials?).
Application Penetration Testing: The Importance of Careful Scoping
Prior to penetration testing applications, 7Safe consultants spend time in understanding the application's functionality in depth to identify different features offered by the application such as;
- Functionality,
- Roles,
- User privileges,
- Nature of information processed by the application etc.
Identifying all such aspects of the application during the web application testing process helps 7Safe's application penetration testing testing team to;
- assess associated risks linked to the application &
- determine what level of access would be required to identify attack vectors which could result in such risks.
This information is then submitted to our client and the relevant levels of access obtained for carrying out the application security testing.
Clarity of Application Penetration Testing Reports
The results of application penetration testing are documented in the form of a full technical report. Each issue identified within the application penetration test is then explained with all technical details along with steps/guidelines on how this issue can be recreated by our client. Along with each issue identified during the web application security penetration testing process, 7Safe's team provides recommendations on how an issue can be properly addressed.
The application pen test report also has an 'executive summary' section containing management-level information, written in plain English. We also present an overview of the overall level of web application security and our major concerns (along with the steps which should be taken to further improve security).
7safe's application penetration testing team prides itself in undertaking constant research to identify new/emerging threats within the areas of web application security and our team members are subsequently invited to speak at leading IT security conferences around the globe.
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