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Pregnant Divorce
by Slacker And Steve
posted Feb 13 2013 4:38PM
Today's OPP…
I'm 6 months pregnant and my husband just told me that he's met someone else and wants a divorce. Beyond being heartbroken I'm really terrified that I won't be able to take care of the baby on my own. Although my mom lives in town she's got Alzheimer's so, obviously, she's not going to be a support system for me. I have lots of friends but how much of me leaning on them can they take? I'm terrified and feel completely alone and needed to share.
Both Slacker and Steve were flabbergasted by Erin's story and figured that when taking calls they should be more productive than simply bash the husband and instead, get this woman some sound advice in such a trying time.
What advice do you have for Erin?
Personally for me, there are no words when it comes to this situation… it's entirely unfathomable. I would say that she should certainly go through every legal action and get what she deserves regarding financial support and what not, but apart from that she needs to remember that in the end she will win. Not only because she turned out to be the better human being, but because she will have this child to love and care for and her ex-husband will forever live in regret. It hurts now, but single motherhood isn't impossible. My mom raised my sister and I as a single parent and I couldn't have asked for anything more in a parent.
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Open and upfront about support from friends
First, I have to say that I'm impressed by Erin's strength in even asking for help. Many people struggle to do that much. Second, I hope that Erin recognizes that she is allowed to feel everything she is feeling right now, regardless what it is or whether it makes sense to her or anyone around her. What she does with those feelings is obviously a much more complicated matter. Regardless, I think it would help for Erin to talk with each of her friends up front about her need for support and her fear of asking too much. She may be surprised at the amount of support they give. This would also give everyone an opportunity to say right away how much they think they can handle and how to communicate when they reach their limits or when they're genuinely able to give more. It might help to put this in writing because it's easy to forget you're not alone when things are rough and to be so overwhelmed that you can't remember what someone said. I wish Erin the best of luck.
Dear Erin
Erin, my heart goes out to you. I don't usually respond to these shows, I prefer to just listen, but I have been in a similar situation as yours, and I felt the need to write to you. Initially I did fight for the relationship, and I forgave him for being with someone else during the pregnancy ( easy to rationalize when your hurt and confused). After our daughter was born, we continued to struggle (cheated again). I had come to the realization that, I wanted the marriage to work, because I did not want to face the dissapointed, and my fears. What I am trying to say, is that we have these ideas of what our life will be like, as husband and wife, and as a family etc. and when that dream disappears, we struggle to see the light at the end of the tunnel, and focus on our dissapointment and fears, rather than our next step on this new journey. I promise that you will see the light at the end of the tunnel. Being a single parent was not as bad, as I had anticipated, there were a lot of unknowns. I loved every moment of it, and to this day, my daughter tells me she would not of had it any other way. You are in for some good days, and some bad days, just remember to take it day by day, step by step, and you will realize that you alone can provide a nuturing environment for you and your child.Through your difficult times, try to stay focused on your new goals and new dreams. Seek out your friends and family during your difficult time. I think you will be surprised of how much of a support they can be. You had mentioned your "pride", you have nothing to be ashamed of, he does. You are not to blame, for his actions, he is. I could go on and on, but I will end here. I wish you the best in your new journey, and I hope you find some comfort from the people who have reached out to you, during this difficult time. I will keep you in prayers, Cathy
You Won't be Alone
I too was a single mom, although situation was a bit different, the outcome will be similar. when you get over the shock, and although now it is hard to imagine life without your husband, the shock will give way to so many other emotions that will help you through those rough days. I am surprised by your reluctance to tell your "friends", since to me and my circle it means no matter what. Upon talking to them, you will find out who the "real" friends are - a cliche (yes) but it happens quickly. Embrace those people that embrace you!! Those that are really your friends will get to witness and be a part of your childs life and you couldn't ask for better 'family'. To this day (20 years later) my "family" has not only influenced my daughter's life (she is now 21 and about to graduate from college) she talks to them as often as she does me. They brought things into her life that I couldn't and they helped her become the wonderful women she is today. So if your current friends don't embrace this situation, hold on, because the ride you are about to take will expose you to individuals that impact not only your child, but yours. Now, for the reality you are about to face...it hurts and it will put you through the most demeaning and degrading part of human nature. I wanted my divorce, and it still was hard for me. I heard you say that you still love him...you will, but even if he decides that he wants to come back to you, in your heart you know you will never be able to trust someone with that little of a heart. It may take you a few months, but you will end up being in this situation again, just later. Maybe that is what it will take for you to gain the strength to cut "bait". Unfortunately, the odds are against people changing to that extent - I wish I was wrong. And this is only relivent if he decides to not participate in the childs life. Whole nother blog - ha Remember one thing - he is still the father and your child will eventually know what really happened, hatred only makes you look bad and makes the child feel like he/she did something wrong or weren't good enough. Your child will realize over time, who has always been there - so believe in yourself and love that child no matter what. In the end you will win - their heart and trust. Those are more important than money any day; I am not saying don't get what is equitable. So have your cry, it will does make you feel better and then remember, this life that you have within you is about to change your life more dramatically than a divorce. He/She will make you laugh hysterically - between the ages of 2-8; and angry beyond belief - between the ages of 8-12(boy) 12-16(girl). But the journey and the memories you will have will be with you a lifetime. I hope the best for you...My story ended wonderful and I have no doubt, you're stronger than you remember right now - yours will too!!!
One day at a time...
Dear Erin, or whomever may read this, I was so upset when I heard your story on the air, I usually just listen to what advice everyone else has to say, however today the story was all to familiar. I was in an abusive relationship and tried to stick it out because I just knew it was going to get better...it didn't it got worse. I was 5 months pregnant and we had got in another huge fight, when I came back to the house after work, he had managed to clear out the house and our joint bank account. He took EVERYTHING, including the bed! I was devestated, I could only cry and cry and cry. I knew I had to move on. I was about to enter the single mother club, and I wasn't sure if I was strong enough. I know a lot of single mothers and used them as my inspiration. In fact, I felt some comfort in knowing that the President of the United States was raised by his single mother, that meant that my son had a chance to grow up to become whatever he wanted to be! I do not talk bad about about this guy in front of my child, because wheter I like it or not, my son shares his DNA, and if I put this guy down, then I am in a way putting my son down, and he doesn't deserve that. I do not get child support because it would in no way benefit my son to have this man in his life. I feel strongly that my son should be surrounded by people who love him and want to support him, not because they are court ordered, because they want to. I'm not saying it's going to be easy, because there will be a lot of tears, I'm saying it can be done. Take it one day at a time. My son is the best thing that could have ever happened, I had to overcome a lot, however I love him in a way I didn't know existed.
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – The Iowa State women's cross country team notched their fourth-consecutive top-15 finish at the NCAA Championships this afternoon. The Cyclones placed 13th overall behind All-America performances from sophomore Crystal Nelson and freshman Bethanie Brown.
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Nelson found herself among the top-10 early on in the race but fell with 1,500 meters remaining. Iowa State women's cross country head coach Andrea Grove-McDonough was very pleased with the Winchester, Va., native's drive to finish the race in the top-40.
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Team Results
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by Angie Tieling
Come and join us for the Haskell Vineyards/ Dombeya Wines
Open Day 2010, on Saturday July 31.
On show will be every Haskell wines we have in bottle, including the unreleased Haskell IV 2007 and the Haskell Aeon 2008 - along with a selection of Dombeya.
The day kicks off at 11am and everyone is welcome (there is no charge), so bring your friends and kids as well.
Hope to see you there!
by Angie Tieling
We caught up with social media guru Dave Brookes at his 1850's built house in the beautiful Eden Valley, Australia. This isn't the house- just the duck pen!
by Grant Dodd
The landscape of on-line communication seems to evolve so quickly that it is hard to keep up with where it is all heading. If like me, you thought not long ago that e-mail was hard-core, on the edge technical brilliance then you'll understand where I'm coming from.
But if you don't evolve you become extinct, and we've made a concerted effort to tap into the social media revolution that seems to be overtaking the world at present.
So if you are with program, and want to see what the Haskelland Dombeya team is up to on a day to day basis on our key Social Media vehicles, check out the following,
Drop by for a chat, there's usually someone around.
by Grant Dodd
A quick trip to the Barossa Valley this week (many thanks to Vintners Restaurantin Angaston too for listing Dombeya Boulder Road Shiraz 2007) and with a spare half hour or so I dropped in on Marco Cirillo.
The name probably won't be familiar, but the Cirillo family are owners of what are believed to be the oldest productive Grenache vines in the world. Planted in 1850, these 160 year old treasures sit proudly in a single vineyard adjacent to the Cirillo family home, and are tended to by hand at every step of the viticultural process by Marco, one of the most passionate winemakers in the Barossa Valley.
It is a phenomenal vineyard site, the vines standing like tree's despite the brittleness of age, giving up tiny volumes of concentrated Grenache fruit that Marco turns into wine nectar.
It really hasn't been widely publicized that the vineyard exists, but this treasure should be recognised and the uniqueness of it recorded. If you love wine then you love what this represents- for the record there are also 160 year old Semillon vines here too, the fruit vinified and sold as a $20 Barossa Semillon. History in a bottle for 20 bucks.
by Grant Dodd
The Haskell Vineyards/Dombeya Wines Open Day for 2010 will be held on July 31, so pencil ( preferably pen!) it into your diary, iphone, ipad or whatever passes for a reminder portal in the electronic age.
Last year was a great success, with a terrific turnout making their way up Annandale Rd to join us for a tasting of every vintage of Dombeya ever made.
Our intention is to change the theme subtly every year, and in keeping with that ideal, this year we will be opening all the Haskell wines we have in bottle ( along with a selection of Dombeya), including the unreleased Haskell IV 2007 and the new vintages of Haskell Aeon 2008 and Haskell Pillars 2008.
We'll also be showing barrel samples of some new wines in the Haskell pipeline, plus holding a 'Name the Grape' competition. Whoever can correctly identify the grape variety across five barrel samples from the 2010 vintage will win a three pack of Haskell wines for their sleuthing!
Cabernet Sauvignon/Bordeaux blend Masterclass- with Rianie Strydom
The day kicks off at 11am, but at 10am, for the first 15 people to register, a Cabernet Sauvignon/Bordeaux Blend Masterclass will be held by Rianie Strydom in the Haskell cellar.
This is a rare opportunity to taste with one of South Africa's most lauded winemakers and to find out in person her philosophy regarding the growing, vinification and blending of the noble Bordeaux varieties.
As mentioned, places are limited so please book early if you are interested. There is no charge for the Masterclass or entry to the Open Day.
Hope to see you on July 31!
by Werner Els
The Food and Wine pairing of the Week: The Long Table Marinated Beef Strips and the Dombeya Samara 2006.
It has been a while since I had a dish so simple and so good.
The beef strips are marinated in Chef Corli's secret combination of herbs, spices and garlic, served with sour cream and potato rounds.
Paired with the Dombeya Samara 2006, a Bordeaux Blend consisting of 58% Cabernet Sauvignon, 35% Merlot and 7% Malbec. Oaked for 12 months in a combination of new and 2nd fill French oak, this wine is rich with dark berry flavours and spice. The wine has a full, smooth finish that lingers on the palate that went well with the creamy and savoury meat flavours of the beef strips.
The dish is excellent for those crave a light meaty lunch and pairs excellently with the Dombeya Samara 2006
Come and visit us at the Long Table Restaurant and Cafe.
Breakfast 08:00 until 11:00
Lunch 12:00 until 16:00
Tuesday to Sunday
Phone 021 881 3746
by Grant Dodd
Just a few of the friendly faces of the SSWC staff in Singapore during our July visit.
by Grant Dodd
There is something about Singapore that appeals to me. Maybe it's the order of the place- everything seems to run like clockwork, and despite the accusation of boringness sometimes leveled at it, doing business here is about as easy as it gets in SE Asia.
And there is a burgeoning interest in wine here. Not so long ago it was quite eurocentric in nature, but tastes are broadening and whilst Australia has been the chief beneficiary of this spirit of adventure up till now, South Africa is getting into the mix and for Haskell/Dombeya, this is one of our most promising export markets.
Market visits are all about meeting people, and building relationships. This is the core, the lifeblood of the wine business. First thing Monday was a tasting with Denise the Wine Store staff at HQ, then a bit of work with the wholesale team on understanding our range.
Later in the afternoon it was out to a big shopping centre near Sentosa Island for a consumer tasting, and it was amazing how much wine we sold just standing there pouring and talking. If you can put a name and a face to your product, and relay the message of what you are doing in a passionate way then you have some chance of succeeding in this business. There are no shortcuts, at least none that we've been able to find so far. If anyone has any ideas then we're all ears!
Only a quick visit this time around, but Dombeya will be back in October for the SSWC Wine Fiesta, an open air wine extravaganza held every year. Reports are that it goes off- another event to pack into our already crammed schedule for 2010.
by Grant Dodd
Funny where you find wine festivals. And passionate wine lovers, for that matter.
Last Sunday, Dombeya headed an hour and a half north of Brisbane to the Hyatt Regency Coolum for their Taste of Coolum wine event. It's a food and wine weekend that has been running for a number of years, and one that seems to get a little bigger with each passing year.
And this year was sold out, with the doors closing for ticket sales at 1pm on the day, which meant that there were over 1500 people in the two halls that were used.
It was a great crowd too. Most of them just out for a great afternoon with friends, tasting wines and eating good food, but a few with greater ambitions as well and as a result there was plenty of banter and questions floating around.
The banter changed a touch as the afternoon wore on, but this lovely couple pictured above were one of the highlights of the day. Not only did they bring me some terrific pork belly and oysters ( I was manning the fort single handed) but the gent in question showed me a new wine tasting technique the likes of which I had never seen.
Each sample poured spent no longer than half a second in his mouth. It was a tour de force of power tasting, a commitment to consumption of Herculean proportions. And he wasn't in the least bit snobbish about varieties either- Sauvignon, Chardonnay, Merlot, no problem, down the hatch!
They were a lot of fun, and one of the reasons why I reckon we'll head back again next year for a visit to reacquaint ourselves with the friends we made this year and to hopefully make some new ones as well.
by Werner Els
The Food and Wine pairing of the week will be the Long Table Beef Burger and the Dombeya Shiraz 2007.
The Boulder Road Shiraz has wonderful Rhone-style floral notes and elegant fruit but still full of red berry and cherry flavours. The combination of first, second and third fill french oak barrels give the wine a subtle smokiness. The wine pairs very well with the Long Table Beef Burger, made from hand chopped Sirloin with Bone Marrow, Wild Mushrooms and Onion confit with Proscuitto and Mustard Béarnaise.
The onion confit really brings out the smokiness from the Shiraz and the savory meaty flavours with the Béarnaise sauce creaminess pairs well with the elegant but firm fruit characteristics from the wine.
The Long Table Beef Burger is perfect for those who are coming for lunch hungry and pairs best with the Dombeya Shiraz 2007.
Come and visit us at the Long Table Restaurant and Cafe.
Breakfast 08:00 until 11:00
Lunch 12:00 until 16:00
Tuesday to Sunday
Phone 021 881 3746
by Werner Els
The Food and Wine pairing of the week will be the Crispy Chicken Salad and the Dombeya Chardonnay 2009.
The Dombeya Chardonnay 2009 has a fresh fruit flavour, reminiscent of fresh pear and apricots with a subtle lemon and mineral character with a hint of smokiness on the after taste. The fresh and zesty flavours pair well with the crunch of the crispy chicken and the sesame seeds lend to a bit of nut-like characteristic that compliments the wine perfectly. The avocado's creaminess also blend well with the fullness of the wine and the roasted vegetables combined Corli's Secret Sauce (which is a complex vinaigrette style sauce with herb undertones) matches the hint of green on the Chardonnay.
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Now, we are supposed to be living in a fairly temperate climate in Stellenbosch, but someone forgot to tell that to the weather gods this week.
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Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) - Thomas Vanek had two goals and three assists to
help the Buffalo Sabres open their season with a 5-2 win over the Philadelphia
Flyers on Sunday. Jason Pominville also had three assists, while Steve
Ott, Cody Hodgson and Tyler Myers all scored for the Sabres, who missed the
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Final Score: Pittsburgh 6, NY Rangers 3
New York, NY (Sports Network) - James Neal tallied two goals and Evgeni Malkin
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Tyler Kennedy, Matt Niskanen, Pascal Dupuis and Kris Letang each scored once,
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Vokoun started in place of Marc-Andre Fleury and made 31 saves in the victory.
Rick Nash recorded his first goal as a Ranger, while Taylor Pyatt and Ryan
Callahan also lit the lamp for New York, which fell to 0-2 on the season.
Henrik Lundqvist surrendered four goals on 18 shots before being removed in
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Final Score: Minnesota 1, Dallas 0
St. Paul, MN (Sports Network) - Zach Parise scored the lone goal of the
contest and Josh Harding stopped all 24 shots he faced as the Minnesota Wild
edged the Dallas Stars, 1-0, at Xcel Energy Center. Harding recorded his
seventh career shutout for the Wild, who were coming off a season-opening 4-2
win at Colorado on Saturday. It stole the spotlight from Christopher Nilstorp,
who made 31 saves in his first NHL game for the Stars, who won 4-3 in Phoenix
less than 24 hours prior.
Final Score: Edmonton 3, Vancouver 2 (SO)
Vancouver, BC (Sports Network) - Ales Hemsky netted the deciding goal in the
shootout, as the Edmonton Oilers rallied from a two-goal deficit to
overcome the Vancouver Canucks, 3-2, at Rogers Centre. Hemsky beat Canucks
netminder Roberto Luongo cleanly with a wrister to end the second round,
following up Sam Gagner's backhander on Edmonton's first try. Devan Dubnyk
stopped both Alex Edler and Alex Burrows to salt away the victory. Hemsky and
Jordan Eberle scored in regulation for the Oilers, who halted a four-game
slide to their division rivals in their season opener. Dubnyk ended up with
27 saves. Edler and Zack Kassian tallied for the Canucks, who put together
a better effort than Saturday's 7-3 loss to Anaheim but were lucky to come up
with one point. Luongo finished with 30 stops in his first start of the year.
Final Score: Chicago 6, Phoenix 4
Glendale, AZ (Sports Network) - Marian Hossa exacted his revenge against the
Phoenix Coyotes for ending his season early last year. Hossa, who had to be
taken off on a stretcher after a vicious check from Phoenix forward Raffi
Torres in Game 3 of their Western Conference quarterfinal, posted a pair of
goals in Sunday's rematch, as the Chicago Blackhawks bested the Coyotes, 6-4,
at Jobing.com Arena. Torres still has six games left on his 21-game
suspension, while Hossa bounced back admirably from the cheap shot,
registering two goals and an assist in Chicago's season-opening win over the
defending champion Los Angeles Kings. Dave Bolland added two goals and an
assist for the Blackhawks, who went on to lose their postseason matchup
against the Coyotes in six games. Shane Doan, playing in his 1,200th NHL game
-- all with Phoenix -- recorded a goal and an assist, while Mike Smith allowed
all six goals on 31 shots for the Coyotes, who lost their opener on Saturday,
falling 4-3 to the Dallas Stars.
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When Grinnell's English department brought Ralph Savarese to Iowa six years ago from Florida, he saw it as a chance to nourish a range of interests that -- to an outsider, at least -- looks not only exhaustive, but downright exhausting.
"I like writing poems, essays, short stories, memoir, translations, and good old-fashioned literary criticism," says Savarese, who has both a Ph.D. in English and an M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Florida. "We used to call people with this sort of highly varied output 'men (or women) of letters,' and I would submit that the liberal arts, as a philosophy of learning and of life, are indebted to, even embodied by, such people. I feel comfortable at a place that encourages multiple intellectual and artistic commitments."
As anyone who knows Savarese can attest, "multiple intellectual and artistic commitments" aptly describes the way he lives life. Bumping into him in the halls of Mears Cottage where he has his office is like meeting a man who's just stepped off a rocket sled, on his way to the starting line of a triathalon. In addition to publishing his poems in such journals asSewanee Review and The Beloit Poetry Journal and having an essay he published in New England Review designated "Notable" in Best American Essays, 2004, he has translated an anthology of Iraqi poetry with his English department colleague, Saadi Simawe, and keeps up an active schedule of scholarly publishing and presentation on subjects as diverse as Melville and the American literature of disaster. Savarese says Grinnell is a place where such a heterodox schedule is not only possible, but attracts collaborators.
"I'm particularly excited about an upcoming, interdisciplinary course that I will teach with (the music department's) John Rommereim, entitled Music and Text, which will bring together advanced composition and creative writing students," he says. "How many other schools would not only applaud such an endeavor, but also offer learning grants to its professors to bring it to fruition?"
Perhaps even more central for Savarese, though, is Grinnell's reputation as a place where working to right society's wrongs is given more than lip service. Social action is more than high-minded rhetoric for him; it's a walk he walks as well as a talk he talks.
"Grinnell's commitment to social justice is the other reason I took this job," he says. "I wanted to be at a place where I wouldn't have to explain, let alone defend, the essential connection between one's lived life and one's scholarly activities."
Perhaps the best Q.E.D. for Savarese's fusing of life and work is his new book, Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption, in which he details the struggle he and his wife, Emily, had in Florida when they tried to adopt D.J., an autistic boy who had been written off as profoundly retarded by the system that was supposed to be protecting and caring for him. Savarese and his wife persevered and committed themselves to helping the boy, now their son, to recover from severe institutional and parental abuse and neglect, and to make sure that, often against the resistance of prejudiced or poorly informed educators and bureaucrats, D.J. got what he needed not only to survive, but to thrive. Reasonable People gives D.J. the last word; now an honor roll student at Grinnell Middle School, he wrote the book's final chapter.
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1973: Stevie Wonder was seriously injured when the car he was riding in collided with a lumber truck in North Carolina. He spent four days in a coma.
1982: The movie "Pink Floyd — The Wall" had its U.S. premiere in New York.
1987: The Beastie Boys sued the city of Jacksonville for including the phrase "mature audience" on their concert tickets and ads.
1988: "Yo! MTV Raps" made its debut, hosted by Fab 5 Freddy.
1994: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley made their first public appearance as newlyweds, in Budapest.
Today's Birthdays: Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 77. Actress Louise Sorel ("Days of Our Lives") is 75. Actor Dorian Harewood is 65. Actress Catherine Hicks ("Seventh Heaven") is 64. Singer Pat MacDonald of Timbuk 3 is 63. Actress Stepfanie Kramer is 59. Actress Faith Prince is 58. Singer Randy DeBarge of DeBarge is 57. Actor Leland Orser ("ER") is 55. Actress Michelle Yeoh is 53. Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn of The Lynns are 51. Actor Jeremy Ratchford ("Cold Case") is 50. Actor Benito Martinez is 47. Country singer Lisa Stewart is 47. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan ("The Sixth Sense") is 45. Actress Merrin Dungey ("Summerland," "Alias") is 44. Singer Geri Halliwell (Spice Girls) is 43. Actor Jason O'Mara ("Life on Mars") is 43. Actress Vera Farmiga ("Up In The Air," "The Departed") is 42. Actress Soleil Moon Frye ("Sabrina The Teenage Witch," "Punky Brewster") is 39. Actress Melissa George ("Alias," "Grey's Anatomy") is 39. Singer Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes is 34. Bassist Eric Roberts of Gym Class Heroes is 31.


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Open Door Skidrow Ministry's 4th Year Anniversary
Evangelist Geraldine Hughes
Sunday, November 25, 2012 from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Open Door Skidrow Ministry, a sidewalk church in the heart of Skidrow, our nation's homeless capital, will be celebrating its 4th Year Annivesary. Three days a week we provide a sidewalk church for the homeless men, women, veterans & menatally ill that live on the streets of Skidrow. After every service we provide a hot homecooked meal which consists of fried chicken, chilli pie, spaghetti, cabbage, breakfast on Sundays which consists of grits, eggs, saugage, and on holidays we serve barbeque ribs, chicken, gumbo, etc.
Services are held every Monday & Friday @ 7:30 pm, and Sunday morning worship at 11am. Every service consists of praise & worship, a word from men and women of God called to the venue, and we do an alter call after every service. In the past 4 years we have seen over 3,000 homeless men and women saved, many have returned to their families, drug/alcohol rehab, many get jobs, housing, and are receiving the benefit of the spiritual food and weekly discipling.
We need your donations of coats, blankets, shoes & hygiene. We also need donations of turkeys for our Anniversary & Thanksgiving dinners. We always welcome pastors, ministers, evangelists, and special guests, as well as gospel singers, praise dancers, gospel rappers, choirs & musicians to come and bless the homeless community with your awesome gift from God.
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Open Door Skidrow Ministry
506 S San Pedro St
Los Angeles,
Sunday, November 25, 2012 from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM (PST)
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Evangelist Geraldine Hughes founded this awesome sidewalk church in Nov. 2008, after hosting Christians Night Out @ the Legendary Maverick's Flats, and after being a missionary in the projects of Watts ministering to the Children that lived in the federal housing projects. Geraldine Hughes is also an anointed gospel singer, praiser worshiper, gospel songwriter, and she uses her singing gift to pull in the lost souls on Skidrow.


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Explanatory Guide of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing now available in Spanish
19 March 2013 | News story
IUCN has launched the Explanatory Guide of the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-Sharing, in Havana, Cuba, during the workshop of the ABS LAC Regional Project. The guide was presented by the IUCN Environmental Law Centre and IUCN Global Policy Unit.
Sonia Peña, Senior Policy Officer at IUCN in Geneva and co-author of the Guide, added that the guide is meant as a "simple, neutral and objective explanation of each article, seeking to resolve the ambiguities that exist in the Protocol and to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations." The electronic version can be downloaded here.
In this publication, IUCN's Environmental Law Centre and Global Policy Unit present the results of a year and a half of cooperation and consultation with experts on access and benefit-sharing of genetic resources (ABS) from different regions and international institutions.
The ABS guide is the fourth in a series of IUCN guides to promote a greater understanding of various international environmental agreements. The IUCN hopes that this will constitute an adaptive tool for capacity-building and awareness-raising on ABS, as well as an important reference for countries in their efforts to implement the Nagoya Protocol. It is intended to provide a deeper understanding about the legal frameworks of participating countries, as well as feedback on what elements and concepts that should be included within ABS contracts.
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Raleigh, N.C. - Senior safety Earl Wolff was named first-team All-ACC today by the conference, while offensive guard R.J. Mattes and cornerback David Amersonwere named to the second-team.
Wolff currently leads the Pack with 136 tackles on the season, and his current career total of 391 is fifth all-time at NC State. Wolff had a career-best 19 tackles at Clemson, and has four games of at least 17 tackles this season. Wolff has also recorded a pair of interceptions this season, and has five for his career.
Mattes has seen action at both guard and tackle this season on the offensive line, he leads the Pack with 868 snaps on the season.
Amerson finished the season with five interceptions, and his career total of 18 is third-best in ACC history. In Saturday's win over Boston College, Amerson returned his INT for his third career score. The Pack is 5-0 this season when he picked off a pass.
NC State also had four players earn honorable mention honors: safety Brandan Bishop, defensive end Darryl Cato-Bishop, quarterback Mike Glennon, and center Camden Wentz.
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text: Anyone going to hunt or is hunting in Zone A this year. Archery opened Saturday and Rifle season is going to open in August. I'm tempted to go if I can locate a decent place close by, if not will probly just get a second D14 tag. Hmmm, what to do.....Let see some of those archery bucks if anyone filled their tag(s).


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That's a pretty funky idea! I know i tend to use moss for my forests, but that's a cool direction to take it.
Now you got me wanting to look through my closet for interesting textures.. whee!
weird idea for a forest texture. I was scanning a convex old photo for a customer, and I removed the scanner lid and threw my overcoat on top to cut out the light without bending the photo and noticed something. Though the fake lamb's wool liner was cotton colored, it looked a lot like a forest texture. So after I finished scanning the photo, I scanned just the liner, applied a greenish tint and exported as a JPG. I also added a smaple of it in use. What do you think? It is useful?
Edit: I see I need to tweak the main texture itself, some white is showing through, I will fix and upload later.
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That's a pretty funky idea! I know i tend to use moss for my forests, but that's a cool direction to take it.
Now you got me wanting to look through my closet for interesting textures.. whee!
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Nice thought on a start, but it looks like you may need to get a cleaning scan. There are what appear to be hairs in the image. Here is my own real quick play with your original image.
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Could someone potentially create a script that creates random "blobs", like bubbles? Think of a thin sheet of soap bubbles... I think that could work. Hard to photograph, I can do the general math for it on paper using set theory but the specifics of converting it into code is far beyond me.
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yeah its a pretty cool idea and does look pretty good! Indeed some big furry animal hanging around in those woods losing his hair My 1st association was cracked mud so maybe if you give it a sandcolor and scale it down it could work for that too. Jugg, the math behind that would be very interesting, been a long time though i coded graphics so cant promise i'd step in ... cheers
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I would think that a distance function applied to random points with a Poisson distribution for your desired radius followed by a few tweaks like thresholding, exponent, uniform noise, and erosion would generate a result fairly close to this. The Poisson distributed point set (a jittered grid is a simple to compute approximation) gives you the centers of cells that are roughly the same size, the distance function gives you a smooth distance between points with nice cellular boundaries between blobs, the threshold ensures the cellular boundaries become clear, the exponent to make the blobs a little less linear, noise and erosion to add the fine-scale stochastic element. I'll see what I can do this evening about synthesizing this sort of thing.
Any spectral sythesis fractal generator that has a cellular basis function should be able to give similar results, especially if the cellular result can be applied only to the first octave or so (think crocodile skin or cracked mud shaders).
I think it looks terrific, GP. Get out your lint roller and do it again!
And I'd also love to see the results of an algorithm if someone has the inclination to write the code.
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I tend to think that this may also make a nice texture for mountain peaks, used selectively. I think I would combine this with a second, smaller texture to create an even more realistic resource, but you're right, this would work great!
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But only the Zumwalt can survive and fight the growing access-denial threats. It is stealthier than the Arleigh Burke class in radar cross-section, infrared, and acoustic signatures; it is a bigger hull, with volume and displacement margins to accommodate future weapons; it has five times the electrical-generating capacity, critical for very high-powered radars and in the transition to high-energy weapons and railguns.
Some argue that the ship is limited by the types of missiles she can accommodate in her vertical launch cells. This is absurd, but has not been seriously challenged. Similarly, the contention that the dual-band—and higher-frequency—hull-mounted sonar limits her antisubmarine warfare capability is specious, since she has a sophisticated towed-array system and superior aviation-support facilities for ASW helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles. The Zumwalt also features a stern-launch capability for unmanned surface vehicles.
She is quieter than the Burke , and her automated systems and peripheral vertical launchers make her far more survivable. Automation in the damage-control systems and the integrated computer networks permit a crew of fewer than 150 sailors, as opposed to 275 in the Burke .
One notable shortcoming is her limited area antiair capability and a combat system that will not support ballistic missile defense. Restoring her dual-band radar would redress one deficiency, and the prime contractor for the Zumwalt 's Total Ship's Computational Environment estimated at less than $600 million the nonrecurring cost to modify the radar suite, develop the computer code to support BMD, and modify missile-launcher systems to support the SM-3 missile. Apparently the Navy was not impressed by the offer to undertake this work in a fixed-price contract.
However, a cost-conscious Congress will note that the Navy is planning a major upgrade to the Burke design, Flight III. This will probably be a "plugged" or "stretched" DDG-51, with a larger hull and superstructure to accommodate an improved radar suite, the Advanced Missile Defense Radar, greater electrical-power generation, and more cooling to service the radar suite. She will feature more automation and possibly a hybrid propulsion system. Indeed, she will incorporate many of the improvements—but not the stealth—already in the Zumwalt . Every drawing will have to be revised, every system redesigned. Thousands of systems and components will have to be contracted anew at fixed pricing.
This attempt to pass what will be a new ship class as an "upgrade" may pertain to avoiding the scrutiny and delays of new-start programs. It certainly has to do with artfully managing costs. BMD upgrades to the Aegis fleet were not entirely paid from the Navy budget; the $4 billion-plus came from the Missile Defense Agency or its predecessor.
When the Flight III design is completed, we will see nonrecurring costs in the billions of dollars, and sail-away costs approaching those of an improved Zumwalt . These issues have gained visibility, and the GAO will soon publish an independent estimate of the costs of the DDG-51 restart program.
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Blacks creek g11 good or bad pack?
Blacks creek g11 good or bad pack?
What are you going to be using it for?
packing gear and elk out of the mountains? Are they comfortable and how are the zippers are my main concerns?
Just for packing gear and elk in and out of the mountains. My main concerns are they comfortable and how are the zippers?
They make an ok product for the price range. They are still a pack made in mass production. What is the price range you looking to stay in?
I guess the price range does not really matter. I just seen u can pick them up for 300 bucks. I plan on using it once a year for elk hunting so it wnt get a whole lot of usage. Last year i killed a bull 8 miles from the truck and was using my buddies old cabelas brand and i ll never do that again!! just looking for something a little more comfortable. Thanks for the help!
If price doesn't matter, look at Mystery Ranch or Kifaru. I know you say it's just for one week but if money is plentiful you won't regret it. Great, durable, comfortable packs built for packing a load heavier than you or I can handle.
I believe that is the pack I looked at. I thought it was way to complicated and had tomany zippers. You may want to look into an external frame pack for packing out elk as they are generally designed for heavier loads. Eastmans did a pack review a year or so ago that would prob be helpfull to you if you havent seen it already.
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Geithnerism In Its Fulsome Evil Glory
I don't imagine Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner ever expected to end up as the philosophical poster-child of The New American Left. The Left is famous for raising taxes. Geithner may or may not even bother to pay his in any given year. Yet it happened during a light moment he experienced while testifying up on Capitol Hill. His statement to Congressman Ryan could accurately describe | Read More »


text: Meet Bruce Mau. He wants to redesign the world Bruce Mau 09 December 09 by Warren Berger This article was taken from the January issue of Wired UK magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing onlineBruce Mau sat on a stage in the ballroom of New York's Grand Hyatt hotel, accompanied by Marc Mathieu, a senior vice-president of Coca-Cola. The event was a design industry trade show, and this session focused on Coca-Cola's attempt to redesign its business to be more sustainable. Usually when corporate executives talk about sustainability, the challenge for listeners is to sustain interest. But Mau livened up his presentation with dramatic gestures (at one point he held up his drinking glass and asked the audience, "What happens after this breaks?"), along with compelling images on an overhead screen. One of these showed a sea of plastic bottles - as if thousands of them had been dumped into the water. Then the view pulled back and it was more like hundreds of thousands. It pulled back again and it was more like millions.This trade conference wasn't the first time he'd shown the image; Mau had employed it very effectively in one of his early business meetings with executives at Coca-Cola. He'd wanted to give the company a jolt of "future shock", so he presented the digitally doctored images backed up with real-world numbers that he'd projected for the next 50 years. "We showed those two million bottles," Mau recalls, "and then I said to them, 'What you're seeing here? That's nothing. Over the next 50 years, you will leave 2.2 trillion discarded bottles in the environment.'" And all those empty Coke bottles piling up all around, he said, would become a kind of anti-advertising for the brand.Mau is at the forefront of a loose movement embracing a new way of thinking about design. It includes individual designers and larger companies like IDEO, as well as several prominent design schools, where new theories about "design thinking" are being developed: what it is, how it works, what it can accomplish. But this "glimmer movement" (the "glimmer" being when a life-changing idea crystallises in the mind) also includes people from outside the design profession - basement tinkerers, technologists, do-it-yourselfers, "crafties", social activists, environmentalists, video-gamers and business entrepreneurs. What links them is their belief that everything today is ripe for reinvention and "smart recombination". And what makes them all designers is that they don't just think this, they act on it.As the design conference wound down, the panel took questions from the audience; one questioner, a young man with an earnest manner, seemed poised to spring as he took the mike. He pointed out that Coca-Cola really isn't very good for people; that it doesn't contribute much to the health and wellbeing of the planet. Therefore, he wanted to know: "Why not just stop making Coke? Why not start purifying water instead?" The Coke executive, Mathieu, seemed taken aback. But Mau was eager to answer because he felt the questioner was getting at something central to the whole discussion of business, consumption and sustainability. "I hear what you're saying," he said to the questioner, "but I don't think 'no' is the answer to these challenges. Denial - just telling people you can't do this or that - will not get us to where we want to be. We have to redesign the things we love so we can keep enjoying them." Then, after a beat: "And I happen to love Coke."Mau observed later that, although the questioner might have seemed a tad eco and hippie for a business conference, he was also representative of what Coke and every other company is up against these days: a public that is more aware of, and concerned about, what firms are doing - and one that also has more ability to question and challenge business than ever before. Companies such as Coke are realising that they must adapt and adjust their behaviour to survive this new level of scrutiny.This is where Mau's principle, "Design what you do", comes into play. It sounds simple, but it's actually a radical use of the term "design". Businesses are used to designing what they make (the products); they may also be used to designing what they say to the outside world (advertising and communications). But it's more unusual to think of applying design principles and approaches to the full spectrum of a company's behaviour - encompassing everything the company does, including what it does behind closed doors. Mau's position is that there really is no "inside" the factory any more. Changing conditions are calling into question the long-held assumption in business that there are two separate realities: the one that is shared with the outside world (in the form of product offering, advertising, communications) and the one that is considered private (the way a company actually makes things, operates, treats its employees, disposes of its waste and generally conducts itself ). The internet has brought about an unprecedented level of transparency that allows the outside world to see - and to comment on - the way that a company performs and behaves.Early in his career, Mau began to consider the idea that everything a business does matters; that every action communicates a message to the world and also has consequences on some level. "One day I saw a truck driver with a big rig," he says, "and I had this moment of clarity where I thought, 'That driver doesn't know what's in the truck.' And we allow him to remain ignorant and to say, 'My problem is getting whatever is in this truck to the right address. Whether it's a dirty bomb or an order of hamburgers is not consequential to me.'"Mau saw this kind of compartmentalised thinking as standard practice in business, and felt that it allowed industry to wreak havoc on the world. "It led companies to say, 'We are only going to express our values when we're communicating - but when we're manufacturing and doing all these other things, we don't have to worry about it, because those things aren't visible.'" Although many businesses tend to compartmentalise, Mau, as a designer, tended to look for the connections between things. This was a particularly resonant idea with him because he'd grappled with the concept of "incorporation" which was the subject of one of his 90s Zone books. He designed each book to create a richer, more immersive experience, "so that the experience correlated to the subject," as he explains. So a book all about cities was designed not just to illustrate the qualities of urban environments, but to model those qualities, "to behave as a city does - with friction, congestion, things moving in opposite directions". "The truth is that every object is not a separate thing but is incorporated into larger flows," Mau says. Everything is connected. This "incorporation" concept was much on his mind while researching his ground-breaking 2004 design exhibition, Massive Change, which started in Canada and moved to the US. He laid down some ground rules with the Vancouver Art Gallery, which commissioned it, namely: this was not going to be an art show. "I said, 'I'll do a show about the future of design, but only if we agree to take aesthetics off the table,'" he recalls. So he focused on design's potential to solve problems and change lives. Or, as he puts it, "Instead of being about the world of design, it would be about the design of the world." Design was no longer a subset of business, culture and nature. Instead, because of new technological advancements, increased sharing of knowledge and good old human ingenuity, it was now possible to design everything from a better corporate structure to better human body parts or a better breed of dog. 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Ultimate Worship For KidsVarious Artists, Word Distribution
Kids will love singing along with these twelve worship hits, made popular by some of Christian music's biggest artists! Sung for kids, by kids, Ultimate Worship for Kids is a fun collection of songs that praise our Lord through heartfelt lyrics and wonderful music. You'll be... Read More
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I Could Sing of Your Love Forever
Made to Worship
Come Now is the Time to Worship
You Never Let Go
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Patent Reform or Patent Ripoff?
A groundswell of grassroots conservative activists and Tea Party members are alerting members of Congress to the dangers of patent legislation which will soon come to a vote in the House. Even highly respected scholars of the Hoover Institution have weighed in heavily against the bill and the negative impact it will have on the freedom and prosperity of the American people. No matter how | Read More »