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My first reaction to quarterback Peyton Manning's reported five-year, $96 million deal with the Denver Broncos: The bar has just been raised even higher for the New Orleans Saints' quarterback Drew Brees.
At $19 million per year, Manning's deal is the richest in NFL history, surpassing his five-year, $90 million deal with the Indianapolis Colts last year. Brees will get more than that, and he should.
My second reaction to Manning's deal: See how easy that was?
Manning and the Broncos worked out the finer points of that contract within 24 hours after he called them Monday morning to let them know they won the quarterback lottery.
Meanwhile, Brees and the Saints have been dragging out their contract standoff for months with no end in sight.
Brees' situation is different. Manning was an unrestricted free agent, free to sign anywhere he wanted, and Brees can't negotiate with any other teams since the Saints used the exclusive rights franchise tag on him. Still, it's the same general principle.
If Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis and Brees' agent Tom Condon, who also represents Manning, decided to lock themselves in a room and get this deal done by tomorrow, they could.
Instead, both have chosen to draw a line in the sand, with the divide reportedly falling somewhere between $18.5 million and $23 million per year.
I get that. They haven't faced any real deadlines yet, and both sides are trying to create leverage and make the best deal possible. That's what they get paid to do.
And I don't blame either side for their stance. I disagree with anyone calling the Saints "cheap," and I disagree with anyone calling Brees "greedy." Both of their stances make sense depending on your perspective.
Brees' leverage has improved this offseason with deals like Manning's and recent mega-contracts paid out to receiver Calvin Johnson and defensive end Mario Williams. And the Saints can use the franchise tag as leverage, since they can theoretically franchise Brees for three years at a total cost of roughly $21 million per year.
What I don't want to hear, however, is the explanations from either side that "it takes a long time to get a deal like this done" or "these things are complicated."
If anything, Manning's deal should have been even more complicated than Brees' deal because of the questions about his neck injury and the injury-protection clauses that had to be included.
It turns out those were minor details. The Broncos reportedly laid out the general parameters of their contract offer when they first visited with Manning earlier this month. When he then chose Denver, they quickly crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's.
That sort of thing happens all the time, whenever a free agent signs with a new team or a player gets traded and works out a new contract within a matter of hours.
It's all a matter of motivation. And the question that looms over the talks between Brees and the Saints is, "When will they finally be motivated to get this thing done?"
The first "soft" deadline facing the Saints is April 20, when Brees' salary cap number will climb by close to $2 million per year. For now, his franchise-tag salary is being counted as $14.4 million, but on April 20 it will jump to the average of the top five quarterback salary-cap numbers in the league. Manning's deal could increase that number, depending on what his 2012 cap figure is.
The next "soft" deadline will be mid-May, when the Saints begin organized team activities, followed by an early June minicamp. If Brees refuses to sign his franchise tender, he'll have to skip those on-field practice sessions.
The ultimate deadline is July 16. After that, franchised players are no longer allowed to sign long-term contracts with their team until after the season.
I predict that a long-term deal will get done before July 16. If I had to put a percentage on it, I would say somewhere between 99 percent and 99.99 percent.
I've repeatedly compared these negotiations to last year's NFL lockout, when the standoff between owners and players lingered until the last possible moment, even though both sides knew they were eventually going to meet in the middle.
Ultimately, Brees and the Saints will meet in the middle, too. They're just gonna take the scenic route.


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Evaluation of the indirect fluorescent antibody test for diagnosis of Babesia gibsoni infections in dogs
The extent of the serological cross-reactivity was determined in the indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) test for B. gibsoni, and the optimal cut-off titre for seropositivity. The lowest titre to B. gibsoni detected in a dog with naturally acquired clinical babesiosis was 1280 and 7 of 12 dogs had t...
Effects of antimicrobial treatment at the end of lactation on milk yield somatic cell count and incidence of clinical mastitis during the subsequent lactation in a dairy herd with a low prevalence of contagious mastitis
OBJECTIVE: To determine whether treating cows with antimicrobials at the end of lactation would lower the incidence of clinical mastitis, improve milk production, and decrease somatic cell count (SCC) in the subsequent lactation. DESIGN: Randomized blind field trial. ANIMALS: 233 Holstein cows fr...
Toxigenic type D Pasteurella multocida in New South Wales pig herds - prevalence and factors associated with infection
In studies between March and July 1987, toxigenic type D P. multocida was isolated from the nasal cavities of pigs in one (2%) of 50 randomly selected herds. Toxigenic isolates were also recovered from 2 (8%) of a separate group of 25 herds that had purchased pigs from a known infected piggery in So...
Exposure to Psoroptes sp. mites is common among bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) populations in California
Sera (n = 806) from 50 populations of bighorn sheep (O. canadensis) in California, USA, were evaluated for antibodies to Psoroptes sp. mites using a kinetic ELISA. Test values for each sample were determined to be either positive or negative at each of 2 ELISA cutoff values that provided either 100%...
Efficacy of intramammary antibiotic therapy for treatment of clinical mastitis caused by environmental pathogens
For 3 California, USA, dairy herds with bulk tank somatic cell counts <200 000/ml, twice daily milking and no mastitis vaccine, 254 quarters with mild clinical mastitis were randomly assigned to 3 groups. Group A (n = 74) was treated with 62.5 mg of intramammary amoxicillin every 12 h for 3 milkings...
Mortality, morbidity, case-fatality, and culling rates for California dairy cattle as evaluated by the national animal health monitoring system, 1986-87
During 1986 and 1987, mortality, morbidity, case-fatality, and culling rates were estimated for endemic disease conditions in 43 randomly selected California dairy farms. Data were collected mainly by farmer interview. Age-specific mortality rates were: calves 22.8 per 1000 calf-months at risk; youn...
In a field trial at a commercial piggery 22 pigs were vaccinated intraperitoneally, at 30 days and 60 days old, with formalin-killed M. pneumoniae plus adjuvant. Two other groups of the same size, one receiving a ration containing antibiotics, were not vaccinated. The mean ELISA ratio of the vaccina...
Comparison of the use of scapular ultrasonography, physical examination, and measurement of serum biomarkers of bone turnover versus scintigraphy for detection of bone fragility syndrome in horses.
Objective: To define scintigraphic, physical examination, and scapular ultrasonographic findings consistent with bone fragility syndrome (BFS) in horses; develop indices of BFS severity; and assess accuracy of physical examination, scapular ultrasonography, and serum biomarkers for BFS diagnosis. De...
Weaning, particularly the widespread practice of abrupt separation of the mare and foal, has been shown to be a stressful event for horses. Physiological changes in foals measured after weaning include increased blood cortisol concentrations and a subsequent decrease in cell-mediated immune response...
Passive transfer and rate of decay of maternal antibody against African horse sickness virus in South African Thoroughbred foals
REASONS FOR PERFORMING STUDY: African horse sickness is an insect-transmitted, noncontagious disease of equids caused by African horse sickness virus (AHSV). Mortality can exceed 90% in fully susceptible horse populations. A live-attenuated (modified live) cell-culture-adapted (MLV) polyvalent AHSV...
Diagnostic accuracy of a duplex real-time reverse transcription quantitative PCR assay for detection of African horse sickness virus.
Blood samples collected from 503 suspect cases of African horse sickness (AHS) and another 503 from uninfected, unvaccinated South African horses, as well as 98 samples from horses from an AHS free country, were tested with an AHS virus (AHSV) specific duplex real-time reverse transcription quantita...
Use of antibody titers measured via serum synergistic hemolysis inhibition testing to predict internal Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in horses
Objectives: To estimate likelihood ratios (LRs) of correctly identifying internal Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis infection in horses by measurement of antibody titers via serum synergistic hemolysis inhibition (SHI) testing. Design: Retrospective case-control study. Animals: 170 horses (171 reco...
Risk factors for subclinical intramammary infection in dairy goats in two longitudinal field studies evaluated by Bayesian logistic regression
Identification of risk factors for subclinical intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy goats should contribute to improved udder health. Intramammary infection may be diagnosed by bacteriological culture or by somatic cell count (SCC) of a milk sample. Both bacteriological culture and SCC are imperfe...
Prevalence of abnormal radiographic findings in 2-year-old Thoroughbreds at in-training sales and associations with racing performance
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of radiographic abnormalities (lesions) in Thoroughbred racehorses at 2-year-old in-training sales and determine whether these lesions and 1-furlong presale workout times were associated with subsequent racing performance. Design: Retrospective cohort study. Ani...
Case-control study of high-speed exercise history of Thoroughbred and Quarter Horse racehorses that died related to a complete scapular fracture
Reasons for performing study: Identification of exercise history patterns that are related to catastrophic scapular fracture will facilitate prevention of racehorse fatalities. Objectives: To determine if exercise patterns are associated with scapular fracture in Thoroughbred (TB) and Quarter Hors...
Cost-effectiveness of diagnostic strategies to identify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis super-shedder cows in a large dairy herd using antibody enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction, and bacterial culture
Diagnostic strategies to detect Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) super-shedder cows in dairy herds have been minimally studied. The objective of the current study was to compare the cost-effectiveness of strategies for identification of MAP super-shedders on a California dairy herd ...
Detection of feline coronavirus in cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) feces by reverse transcription-nested polymerase chain reaction in cheetahs with variable frequency of viral shedding
Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus) are a highly threatened species because of habitat loss, human conflict, and high prevalence of disease in captivity. An epidemic of feline infectious peritonitis and concern for spread of infectious disease resulted in decreased movement of cheetahs between U.S. zoologic...
Prevalence, risk factors, and antimicrobial resistance profiles of Salmonella from commercial broiler farms in two important poultry-producing regions of Colombia
Salmonella is one of the most common foodborne pathogens associated with diarrheal disease in humans. Food animals, especially poultry, are important direct and indirect sources of human salmonellosis, and antimicrobial resistance is an emerging problem of public health concern. The use of antimicro...
Association between caudal fold tuberculin test responses and results of an ELISA for Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculosis and mycobacterial culture of feces in tuberculosis-free dairy herds
Objective--To evaluate associations between Mycobacterium avium subsp paratuberculo-sis (MAP) and caudal fold tuberculin (CFT) test results in cattle. Design--Longitudinal and cross-sectional evaluations. Animals--1 California (approx 3,600 cows) and 3 Colorado (approx 640, 1,190, and 1,480 cows) da...
Reliability of environmental sampling to quantify Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis on California free-stall dairies
Association between Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis infection and milk production in two California dairies
Comparison of macrostructural and microstructural bone features in Thoroughbred racehorses with and without midbody fracture of the proximal sesamoid bone
Objective: Sample Population: Procedures: Results: Conclusions and Clinical Relevance: To compare macrostructural and microstructural features of proximal sesamoid bones (PSBs) from horses with and without PSB midbody fracture to gain insight into the pathogenesis of PSB fracture.PSBs from 16 Thorou...
Evaluation of the fluorescence polarization assay for the detection of Brucella abortus antibodies in bison in a natural setting
Bison and elk in the greater Yellowstone area are the last-known reservoir of Brucella abortus in the United States. Diagnosis of brucellosis is challenging as there is no perfect reference test. The objectives of this study were to estimate the accuracy of the fluorescence polarization assay (FPA) ...
Bluetongue virus infection alters the impedance of monolayers of bovine endothelial cells as a result of cell death
Bluetongue virus (BTV) is the cause of bluetongue, an emerging, arthropod-transmitted disease of ungulates. Bluetongue is characterized by vascular injury with hemorrhage, tissue infarction and widespread edema, lesions that are consistent with those of the so-called viral hemorrhagic fevers. To fur...

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Daisy Brooch Crochet Pattern
This is the 3rd raffia yarn crochet project I did in a row, I really get crazy of it. But, after this, I am going back to my other crafts, like sewing, knitting etc… they were yelling at me for leaving them alone for too long. Guess that I have…more


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Overnight Police Chase Ends In Dangerous Crash
Updated: 10/09/2012 - A dangerous police chase ends with a violent crash just feet from a family's home.
Updated: 10/09/2012 - A dangerous police chase ends with a violent crash just feet from a family's home.
Updated: 10/01/2012 - Springs Police say there has been an unusual number of break-ins on the Northeast side of Colorado Springs. 11 News spoke to several people who had their car windows broken, vandalized and items stolen out of them. One man who lives in a neighborhood near Rangewood and Vickers told us a burglar broke his window, stole cash and hockey pucks that where in the console. The crooks didn't stop
Posted: 09/21/2012 - A Seattle couple is headed to prison after collecting welfare while living in a $1.2 Million waterfront home on Seattle's Lake Union.
Updated: 09/19/2012 - Springs police are looking for two suspects who stole a shotgun from the Walmart near Palmer Park and Powers overnight.
Posted: 09/18/2012 - The large number of auto thefts in Colorado Springs this summer is a growing concern for the city's police department. Now they are taking steps to address the problem.
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Updated: 08/07/2012 - Colorado Springs Police have arrested a 31-year-old man accused of starting a fire in the 3rd floor of an apartment complex near Fountain and Chelton.
Updated: 03/14/2013 - It's tough to imagine how you could create art from the destruction of the Waldo Canyon fire. One local artist who lives in Mountain Shadows is doing just that.
Updated: 07/11/2012 - Mechanics in the Phil Long Ford service department volunteered to be on call 24/7 to help get emergency vehicles back on the road to help fight the Waldo Canyon Fire.
Posted: 06/07/2012 - News signs are popping up along Pueblo's River Trail System.
Posted: 05/27/2012 - None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Saturday evening matched all six numbers drawn.
Posted: 05/27/2012 - Prosecutors plan to file a felony trespassing charge against a Colorado woman who was shot in the hip after police say she drunkenly wandered into a home.
Updated: 05/13/2012 - Pau Gasol had 23 points, 17 rebounds and six assists, Metta World Peace scored 15 points in his return from a seven-game suspension, and the Los Angeles Lakers outlasted the Denver Nuggets for a thrilling 96-87 victory in Game 7 on Saturday night to win their first-round series.
Posted: 05/12/2012 - Betty White says she usually keeps her political views private but in this presidential election strongly favors one candidate.
Updated: 05/12/2012 - A man burglarizing a home in broad daylight gets more than he bargained for when the homeowner catches him in the act.
Updated: 05/05/2012 - A coroner says a man who died after a boating accident at Clear Creek Reservoir was from Leadville.
Updated: 05/03/2012 - A funeral Mass has been held for a northwestern Indiana soldier killed by an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan.
Updated: 04/28/2012 - This is a statewide event and will provide an opportunity for the public to surrender pharmaceutical controlled substances and other medications to law enforcement for destruction.
Posted: 04/25/2012 - Police tell 11 News they got a helping hand from a security guard overnight. They managed to arrest a man they say was breaking into cars.
Updated: 04/25/2012 - Springs police are searching for a man they say carjacked a couple at gunpoint in their neighborhood overnight.
Posted: 04/24/2012 - If you plan on doing any driving around Denver today, State Patrol says be prepared for possible delays. That's because the president is visiting the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Posted: 04/13/2012 - Rocky Mountain Honda
Updated: 04/13/2012 - RMHD Troops Splash
Updated: 03/28/2012 - Fire crews from across the state of Colorado are regrouping at Conifer High School in Jefferson County. They are preparing to take on the wildfire again today.
Updated: 03/21/2012 - The Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America has released it's annual list of spring allergy hotspots and Colorado Springs makes the list.


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Glenn Holt Jr.
Position: WR
Height: 6-1 Weight: 195 lbs.
Born: July 31, 1984 in Miami, FL
High School: North Miami
College: Kentucky (school history) (Holt college stats)
Weighted Career AV (100-95-...): 2 (11632nd overall since 1950)
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In March of 2011, just after the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, I traveled through North Africa to be there during a vital moment of history, to show my support and to experience first hand the democracy movements sweeping the region. This is a book of the photographs I took on that brief but intense journey through Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Egypt. The text is taken from the emails I wrote home, an informal attempt to communicate what I saw and felt. I publish it here, in the hope that it captures some of the spirit of change and hope that swept the region during the Arab Spring. This version has been reformatted as an ebook. If you would like a print copy, please buy the other version.
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Arab Spring (print version) Publicado 30 de abril de 2011
Fire Publicado 22 de noviembre de 2010
In the Line of Fire Publicado 15 de mayo de 2010
Guatemala Publicado 30 de abril de 2010


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Mini Apple Pies with Cheddar
Here's a healthy—and adorable—twist on deep-dish apple pie. This mini apple pie recipe will give you just a bit of something sweet and the melted wedge of Cheddar on top is a nod to the New England tradition of serving cheese with apple pie.Yield: 12 servings
Active Time: 60
Total Time: 120
- 2/3 cup pecans
- 6 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 3/4 cups white whole-wheat flour (see Tip) or all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- 1 large egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tablespoon water
- 4 large crisp, sweet apples, such as Honeycrisp or Gala, unpeeled, diced
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 tablespoon white whole-wheat flour or all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 2 tablespoons white whole-wheat flour or all-purpose flour
- 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- Pinch of salt
- 12 small wedges Cheddar cheese (about 3 ounces)
- Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat 12 (1/2-cup) muffin cups with cooking spray.
- To prepare crust: Combine pecans, granulated sugar and salt in a food processor; pulse until the nuts are finely ground. Add 13/4 cups flour; pulse to combine. With the motor running, add butter a few pieces at a time until well incorporated. Then add egg and water and process until starting to clump together. Using about 1/4 cup each, press the dough into the bottom and all the way up the sides of each muffin cup to form a crust. Prick the bottom with a fork.
- Bake until the crusts are set and the edges are just beginning to brown, 6 to 8 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.
- Reduce oven temperature to 350°.
- To prepare filling: Combine apples, 1/3 cup brown sugar, lemon juice, 1 teaspoon cinnamon and nutmeg in a large saucepan. Place over medium-high heat and cook, stirring frequently, until the sugar melts, about 1 minute. Reduce the heat to medium, cover and cook, stirring occasionally, just until the apples start to soften, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in 1 tablespoon flour. Divide the filling among the crusts (about 2 tablespoons each).
- To prepare topping: Combine oats, 2 tablespoons each flour, brown sugar and oil, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and pinch of salt in a medium bowl. Press the topping onto each mini pie (about 1 tablespoon each).
- Bake until the topping is beginning to brown, 20 to 25 minutes. Remove from the oven and nestle a cheese wedge in the center of each pie. Return to the oven and bake until the cheese is melted, about 5 minutes more. Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving. Run a sharp knife around the edge of each mini pie to loosen it, then gently pry from the muffin tin with a butter knife. Serve warm.
Tips & Notes
- Make Ahead Tip: Prepare crust (Step 2) and topping (Step 6), cover and refrigerate separately for up to 3 days. Equipment: Muffin tin with 12 (1/2-cup) cups
- Bake with white whole-wheat flour, made from a special variety of white wheat, and whole-wheat pastry flour, milled from soft wheat and containing less gluten. Both provide the nutritional benefits of whole grains. Find them in large supermarkets, natural-foods stores and online at bobsredmill.com and kingarthurflour.com. Store in the freezer.
Nutrition Per Serving
|15 g (6 g sat, 6 g mono)
|38 mg
|43 g
|6 g
|5 g
|163 mg
|171 mg
Nutrition Bonus Iron (18% daily value)
Carbohydrate Serving 3
Exchanges 1 starch, 1/2 fruit, 1 other carbohydrate, 2 1/2 fat, 1/2 high-fat meat
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New York is like no other place in the world or galaxy, especially when it comes to nightlife, fine dining and events! Recently, URBO had a gigantic launch party to celebrate its opening in Times Square. Spike Lee's, 'Do The Right Thing' was the film of choice playing by the main floor bar. Upstairs, colorful mime's performed in the elevator while guests savored the tasty signature URBO sushi and light bites. The music was perfect and the dance floor was the place to be! For more information on this fantastic hot spot, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/urbonyc. Urbo is the perfect dining choice for locals and tourists alike.
The following night, Dos Caminos in Gramercy hosted a brand-new menu launch. The place was packed! Generous portions of homemade guacamole, along with a variety of salsas greeted the members of the press as they took their seats as well as a choice of margaritas: on the rocks, mango or strawberry. Colorful, traditional Mexican dancers performed some festive numbers throughout the night! Please visit: http://www.doscaminos.com to view the entire menu, hours and locations.
DuJour Magazine at NYY Steak hosted an all-star bash complete with fresh oysters, clams as well as other tasty shellfish was quite the shindig! Lots A-list, B-list and C-list celebrities made the rounds! Please visit: http://www.facebook.com/NYYSteak. Some of the most infamous NY Housewives were spotted along with some talented musicals including John Legend.
Lastly, Tous jewelry hosted a real girly girl party in Chelsea complete with cotton candy, pink cocktails and everything as well as anything foo foo for the media to cherish and say, "Ah, how cute!" Please visit: http://www.tous.com to learn more and view the Tous collection.
With summer winding down and as we begin August, please stay tuned for more on the nightlife front!


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Walks & Trails
There are a variety of free walks and trails throughout the City of Boston.
Walk the Freedom TrailThe Trail, marked by a red line, takes the visitor to 16 historical sites and covers two and a half centuries of America's most significant past. You can take a self-guided tour or one of the many tours available through the National Park Service.
Explore Boston Heritage Trails
Complimentary to the Freedom Trail, Boston Heritage Trails explore the rich cultures of different groups throughout Boston's history. Tours are self-guided or conducted by tour-guide, with maps available online.
Walk the JFK TrailVisit some historic sites frequented by the late President John F. Kennedy. The GPS tour can be downloaded to your GPS or other mobile devices.
Explore the Boston Sports TrailBoth die-hards and bandwagon jumpers alike can get their sports fix even on off-days by visiting stops along the Boston Sports Trail. The GPS tour can be download to your GPS or other mobile devices.
The Rose Kennedy Greenway Walking Tour
Discover the story of Boston's newest urban park that connects people and places once divided by an elevated highway. Learn the history of the neighborhoods that once occupied this space and the present day urban planning that is knitting Boston back together. Approx. 1.5 hours, $10 per person.
Climb Bunker Hill MonumentClimb the 294 steps to the top of the Monument for great views of Boston.
Hours: 9AM-5PM. Monument closes to climbing at 4:30PM.
Admission: Free
Discover Boston ParksFrom the Common and the Public Gardens to Franklin Park, there are plenty of green spaces to explore while in Boston.
Take a Walk to the SeaBoston's Walk to the Sea encompasses four centuries of Boston history. Mixing historical landmarks with Boston's skyscrapers, this walk is truly one worth taking. The Walk from summit to sea, spanning one mile and descending a hundred feet, brings that history to life.
Self-guided iPod ToursLet your iPod be your tour guide in these FREE audio tours of Boston.
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By Joan Alperin-Schwartz
There are so many things I want to say about this film and unfortunately, none of them are good.
'Winter's Tale' written and directed by Akiva Goldsman ('A Beautiful Mind') is based on a 800 page novel written by Mark Helprin that was published in 1983.
The book is brilliant...The film is NOT.
In fact, 'Winter's Tale' is a mess. This is Goldman's first attempt at directing and he really should stick to writing.
The movie stars Colin Farrell, who plays master thief, Peter Lake. We first meet him briefly in New York City in 2014.
We then flashback to 1895, where we find Baby Peter being put on a toy boat, called City of Justice, headed for New York Harbor, by his immigrant parents, who have to return to Europe due to illness.
Next, we flash forward twenty years later to 1918, where Peter is all grown up and on the run from his one time mentor, Pearly Soames (Russell Crowe).
Oh I should mention that Pearly is a DEMON. That's right folks, a full-fledged demon, who apparently is very hurt that Peter doesn't want to be part of his gang anymore.
I had no idea a demon could be so sensitive.
Anyway, Peter gets cornered by Pearcy, a magical white horse with wings appears and whisks him off to safety.
But instead of riding out of town, Peter decides to rob one more house.
The house he chooses, belongs to the beautiful Beverly Penn (Jessica Brown Findlay) who happens to be dying of consumption.
Instead of robbing her house, Peter winds up having tea with the lovely lady and this, being a love story, falls deeply in love with Miss Penn.
How deeply you ask? Well his love enables him to time travel, among other things.
What else can I say, except Will Smith plays Lucifer and has very pointy teeth.
I gave 'Winter's Tale' which opens in theatres on Valentine's Day, February 14, 2014, only two dry bagels out of 5. If John saw it, he would give it a half.
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'Someday', worldwide release confirmed for 8th April 2013
The single, 'Someday' by Julian Lennon and featuring Steven Tyler will be released for download exclusively via iTunes on 8th April 2013, which is Julian's birthday.
Julian says of the upcoming release '2013 highlights another year of inspiration for me, in regards to my music, photography and philanthropy work, and 'Someday' is a reflection of that'.
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Internet radio update
Also, there is some small good news on the Internet radio front. Basically, we now have two months to get Congress to overturn the royalty fee restructuring. There is already a bipartisan bill in the House that would do just that — HR 2060, the Internet Radio Equality Act. The SaveNetRadio Coalition has set up an excellent action alert giving step-by-step instructions on calling your representative to urge them to support HR 2060, and I strongly recommend that you do so. Working in DC for an advocacy group, I know exactly how important these kinds of phone calls are — they really do matter. So hop to it!
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Winter is very unfriendly to a vehicle. Find out more about caring for your car in the winter.
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Crazy, Stupid, Love.
The tears in the finale of "Crazy, Stupid, Love." aren't entirely unearned. The rest of this dramedy may make you rub your eyes, too. It can be that irritating.
I Love You Phillip Morris
A jokey, flirty pile of wink-wink to let the audience know these two heterosexual actors are pretending to be in love.


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I put a project with examples of running TachoCount and BTSend on Android at http://github.com/Shawn-in-Tokyo/leJOS-Droid
Honestly though it'd be easier to just use your pc/laptop. Android is a little complex to program for though...
Tested on Android 1.5-1.6 HTC Sapphire (i.e. ADP2 or Google Ion)
Have a look a the wiki.


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In 1995 I began life as an over the road truck driver.
I did so to de-shelf, reorganize, and reinvent my life, my self to find some solitude and time to reflect. I never imagined I would drive over a million miles and in doing so rediscover myself and my first passion - producing works of art.
Trucking isn't a typical choice for a Fine Art Photographer, but it's the inspiration for my North American Work.
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This moment of perceived or anticipated increase in visual acuity is what I attempt to capture through the right combination of exposure, fstop, and shutter speed. Having tuned my camera as a musician would her instrument to capture just the right visual note that most but not all would visually listen to and hopefully hear in the same visual tone as I had that night out on the Pacific
Crest Trail waiting for my breathing to settle
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I am a Fine Art Photographer and writer. I have created numerous books with the Blurb Book Service.
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In our quest to understand trading options for income, we often consider using strangles when the underlying has low IV (implied volatility). From prior articles, we understand that the higher the IV Rank (over 50 percent), the greater the probability of success; this simply reflects that IV tends to be mean reverting (i.e., it tends to quickly return to its average when overextended).
IV Rank is defined as follows: (Current IV - 52 Week Min IV) / (52 Week Max IV - 52 Week Min IV); and it is expressed as a percentage.
If high IV Rank leads to improved outcomes, why not simply trade underlyings that currently have high ranking?
Well, there are two problems: First, simply limiting your trades to only underlyings that currently have high IV Ranking would drastically reduce the number of annual trades available. And second, many underlyings with high IV Ranking typically have illiquid option chains, making them unsuitable for option trading.
A better approach would be to trade known underlyings with liquid option chains regardless of IV Rank, and simply adjust size (capital at risk) and/or POP (probability of profit) accordingly. That is, you can increase size or reduce POP (to bring in more premium) for high IV Rank periods, and vice versa for low IV Rank periods.
Tasty Trade has performed numerous tests using the Probability Model, and their results indicate that actual price distributions of underlyings (especially ETFs) tend to fall within a normal distribution more often than the model expresses. For example, at 1 SD (standard deviation) the POP of a strangle would be 68% (per the model); whereas, actual results indicate a slightly higher POP (of around 70 percent or better).
To determine if selling strangles in low IV Ranking underlyings is a viable strategy, Tasty Trade conducted a test over 5-years using the following ETFs with liquid options: SPY, GLD, EWW, TLT, and IWM.
The test was conducted as follows: enter a 1 SD strangle at the beginning of each month using option chains with 45 DTE (days till expiration) and IV Ranking under 50 percent. Determine if the IV Rank falls between 0 - 24 percent, or 25 - 49 percent. Manage the position in two ways: exit when 50 percent profit is achieved, or hold till expiration.
The results: across 5-years and 5 ETFs, there were 232 trades. This is around 9-10 trades annually for each ETF; or around 2-3 trades annually per ETF where the IV Rank exceeded 50 percent. The total P&L was: $2,919 @ 50% with 89% winners; $5,028 when held to expiration with 80% winners. Note: at 1 SD we would expect the percent winners at expiration to be around 68 percent; not 80%.
It is interesting to note that when viewing the trades by grouping (0-24 percent and 25-49 percent), the former had a negative P&L, the largest loss (-$2,655), and accounted for 135 out of 232 trades (or approximately 58 percent). This would indicate that changing the risk level from 1 SD to 1.5 or 2 SD would likely result in a positive P&L (considering the negative P&L is small). Since there is no breakout by risk level, or breakout by short Put and short Call, further research would be required to optimize the strangle strategy for IV Ranking below 25 percent.
In conclusion, this test indicates that low IV Ranking trades with liquid options is viable; however, there is more research needed to optimize this approach.
If you would like to learn more about options, and how to generate consistent weekly income trading options, go to Options Annex.


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(This article is dedicated to all races of people, who are believers in Christ Jesus)
Today, there is much controversy behind the question, "What Color is Jesus?" However, you cannot give an answer to the question, "What Color is Jesus?" without examining the answer to another question: What is Racism? According to John J. Macionis, Professor and Distinguished Scholar of "Introduction to Sociology," a powerful and harmful form of prejudice, racism is the belief that one racial category is innately superior or inferior to another. Racism has existed throughout world history. Despite their many achievements, the ancient Greeks, the peoples of India, and the Chinese all regarded people unlike themselves as inferior. Racism has also been widespread throughout the history of the United States, where ideas about racial superiority supported slavery. Today, overt racism in this country has decreased because more people believe in evaluating others, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, "not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." Even so, racism remains a serious social problem, as some people think that certain racial and ethnic categories are smarter than others. As the Seeing Sociology in Everyday Life box explains, however, racial differences in mental abilities result from environment rather than biology (Macionis, 326). Today many pastors, bishops, and apostles find it difficult to preach about racism, consequently, because the threads of racism is still prevalent even in our church clergy. Often times, the result of the sermon may seem to influence the media and church congregation in a negative way.
"Before Christ found me in the world I was lost, militant, racist, and rebellious. I was living with an ignorant mentality. I had no idea who I was. All I knew was how the world had defined me. In my eyes, (I saw everything in color) I saw everything as "black or white." Although there wasn't one prejudice bone in my parent's body; I allowed my environment and the world's view to infiltrate my mind. Now that Christ has delivered me from ignorance, I have learned to adjust my heart, and fix my mind on what the word of God says about people in general. As I study ministry I realize that there is a greater calling on my life, and I am held accountable to God. There is more required of me in the eyes of God."
And in the eyes of God, racism is a sin.
"Greater is He that is in me, than he that is in the world" (1 John 4:4).
God does not look on the outer appearance, but He looks on the heart of man." (1 Samuel 16:7). This is the mentality that God wants to see in all of His children; you are not perfect, but you strive toward perfection: Apostle Paul said, "Not that I have already obtained it or have already become perfect, but I press on so that I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by Christ Jesus. Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of it yet; but one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead" (Philippians 3:12-13). Jesus said, "Let this mind of Christ be in you that was also in Christ Jesus (Philippians 2:5).
Viewing religious movies
When you watch so-called, religious movies on your TV, at the movies, and you see that the movie has predominantly European actors and actresses, or Black/Hispanic/Latino, are you going to avoid watching the movie because you did not see any one who looked like you? Well, most of us do turn the channel, Why? Culturally and socially you understand each other's language. Consequently, there are blacks who grow up in predominantly white neighborhoods, and whites who grow up in black neighborhoods, Hispanics and Latinos in black neighborhoods. Learning to be more flexible in your moral judgments and treat all people as God sees them will build more tolerance of other ethnic groups.
What does that say about your mentality? Are you as a Christian still suffering from a racist mentality? Apparently, there must be a reason why most of the religious movies have predominantly European characters. Did it ever occur to you that the same white people who make the movies about Jesus are your brothers? (if saved). What about the message in the movie? Isn't it about Jesus? Apostle Paul draws on a great revelation when he said, "Whether preached with strife, envy, contention or love, the word of God is preached (Philippians 1:18-19). Therefore, if the movies we watch about Christ depict a racially biased image, pay attention to the message, not the image. If it aligns itself with the word of God, then God is pleased, and this could turn to the Salvation of others. God has made it perfectly clear to his children, that we are made in His image (Genesis 1:27). What does this mean? Christ is the image of God; and Christ dwells in the child of God; man's soul bears the image of God; man carry's God's nature; therefore, we are made in His likeness. It certainly does not mean outer appearance or skin color; it means we are spirit beings in a body with the nature and character of Christ Jesus. In other words, God placed His honor and nature upon all believers. So there is no reason for you to get upset when you see a European image of God, you should know that God is not of any skin color. God is infinitely spiritual. Man is finite and can only bear God's nature or character, when he accepts Jesus as Lord of his life.
Apostle James says, "Brothers and sisters do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor? (James 4:11-12).
Who Am I: Identity You are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are a people of God; once you had not received mercy; but now you have received mercy (1 Peter 2:9-10).
Is it important what other people think of you, or is it important who God says you are? Do you recognize yourself as a "child of God," or as a "white man, black man, Chinese man, Hispanic man? Who does God say you are? Is it really up to Hollywood to define you, or have you accepted who God says you are? If you don't like how Hollywood defines "black folk," then perhaps you need to speak to some of the "black Network owners about making a movie about "black Jesus, "Hispanic, Latinos or "sons, of God, playing the roll as Jesus." But then, will that satisfy you or God? The Bible says, "If you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? "Therefore you are to be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:47-48). What did God mean when he said, "be perfect?"
It is God's desire to overcome evil with good, and to entertain strangers, to love those who hate, to love the unthankful. Therefore, God wants you to be like Him. He wants you to love your enemies, and do good to those who despitefully use you (Matthew 5:44). God has done great things for you and expects more from you than from them. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more (Luke 12:48).
Jesus had a private conversation with His disciples: Who do you say I am? (Matthew 16:13). There were various opinions, but one disciple, Apostle Peter told the truth as he was taught by Christ Himself, "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." Peter summed up the whole matter. The disciples were taught by Christ, the truth. Therefore, they should have known better than others. Are you not a disciple of Christ? Who does God say you are? God never defined you as a "black man," white man, Hispanic man," these are all stereotypical names and generalizations and outer appearances made up for you, or how the world views you. As the Pharisees and Scribes would have rather viewed Christ as an "old prophet," simply because they did not want to acknowledge the truth that Christ was and is the "Son of the Living God," you too, are not acknowledged as a "son of God," a "child of the most High God," rather a "slave," or black man, or negro?" "Hispanic," ":Latino," or "white man." But you know better, just as apostle Peter did. You know the "Truth," you know that you are a "son of God," an "ambassador of God, a "friend of God's," a child of the Most High God," indeed.
God was so well pleased with Peter knowing the truth, that he called Peter, "the rock," in which He would build His church. You are blessed and highly favored of the Lord, you are "the church," "the rock," Jesus said, "Upon this rock I will build my church.(Matthew 16:18).
Apostle Paul said, "Be not conformed to the things of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12:1-2). The Bible says, "There is neither male nor female, Greek nor Jew, slave nor free, we are all one in Christ Jesus" (Galatians 3:28). As a Christian man or woman, have you forgotten what the word of God says? Sometimes you get so wrapped up into how the world sees you, instead of remembering how God defines you. Remember, 1 Peter 2:9, you are a chosen generation; or you are ambassadors of God, sons of God, are these names not higher than the outer appearance of a man? Does God not define you by your hearts, or by who He is? Did you forget what He said? Aren't you satisfied with whom Jesus made you to be, or would you rather continue your inner quarrel with man? "What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don't they come from your desires that battle within you? (James 4:1).
- What Does the Bible say about dealing with racism? God does not speak directly about racism, but God has His own "value system," it is called, "the Beatitudes." Jesus preached a "sermon on the Mount," about the beatitudes in the book of Matthew chapter 5. The Beatitudes are the character of Christ, the mindset and/or the heart of Christ. Christ directs you with precise rules and regulations for living; to understand what you are to do; you are the salt of the earth, and the light of the world; Do not murder your brother, retaliate against your brother, but have brotherly love, and overcome good with evil, by loving your enemies. Love is the cure for racism. Love is God and God is Love.
B. The 8 Beatitudes:
(1) Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven
(2) Blessed are them that mourn for they shall be comforted
(3) Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth
(4) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled
(5) Blessed are the merciful for they shall be shown mercy
(6) Blessed are the pure in heart for they will see God
(7) Blessed are the peace makers for they shall be called the sons of God
(8) Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
- Why do most religious movies have mainly European actors/actress? Although there is a lot of talk about equal opportunity and freedom in the United States, we are a culture that suffers from judging one another by race, gender, ethnicity and social class. Macionis declares although we like to describe ourselves as a nation of equals there is little doubt that some of us are "more equal," than others (Macionis, 61).
- How Does the Media influence racial biases? Macionis concedes since television first captured the public imagination in the 1950's, white males have held center stage; racial and ethnic minorities were all but absent from television until the early 1970s, (white) men generally played the brilliant detectives, fearless explorers and skilled surgeons (298).
- What causes racism? Macionis concedes that prejudice is caused by focusing on frustration, personality and culture. The word racism is not in the Bible, but God admonishes his children to love one another, to love those who hate you. However, in the beginning we had a culture of the Kingdom of God, we knew nothing of frustration and worldly culture, which all came about as a result of sin. The entire universe and its culture was birthed as a result of sin. We were born in sin and shaped in iniquity. Therefore, sin is the cause of racism.
- Is racism a sin, and when did it began? Yes, racism is a sin, and it began when Lucifer (Devil) thought he was greater than God. The same is when a person thinks he is more superior than another person. Lucifer and his bad angels were kicked out of heaven, and that spirit of pride and superiority had fallen upon sinful man (Ezekiel 28:1-26).
- How does God see people? God Does not look on the outer appearance, He looks on the heart. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:28).
Racism not only exists in the United States, but in countries outside of the U.S. such as, Iran, where there are Muslim Extremists, who persecute Christians, and those who simply convert to Christianity are imprisoned. Those who travel outside of the United States to evangelize, missionaries and Script writers, movie makers to spread the good news of the gospel should be commended, no matter what ethnic group they belong to. The message is more important than the image. God has given them a crown in heaven for winning lost souls to Christ. There are terrorists who are burning crosses today, and it doesn't matter to them what color the Jesus on the cross is, they are against the very idea that Jesus is God, or that Jesus is the Son of the Living God. Since God is the one who setup the powers that be, has it ever occurred to you that just maybe the environment or mainstream America is not ready for a black Jesus, Hispanic Jesus or any other color? What do I mean by environment not ready? God not only prepares his children for himself, but He also prepares them for the environment in which He places them. The word, "environment," is not limited to your space, but society as a whole. Racism will exist as long as we see the world in color, by denomination, or religion, or cult, and it is a biblical principle that poor people will always be with us, whether black, white, Hispanic, European, Islamic, Catholic, Protestant or other. The question is, what is your personal world view, or whose eyes are you seeing the world through? Jesus Christ or your own?
The Good news (Salvation) is for all people. Since the early Christian church there has been a struggle with identity. The Jewish Christians struggled with defining themselves by the law or faith in Christ. According to Apostle Paul, the Jewish Christians were constrained to following the law, yet their new found faith in Christ invited them to be holy and liberated, free in Christ Jesus. Today, there is still a struggle with Christians understanding the "freedom in Christ," and that they are no longer imprisoned to sin, enslaved to their past, racism, or choked by their sinful desires. Christ has made you FREE! Again, Salvation is for all people, Jews, Gentiles, black, white, Hispanic, and Latinos, there is no patent on Christ, He is the God of the whole universe. Salvation is by God's grace through faith in Christ Jesus and that is it!
It's not about making black or white movies, Why? To prove that you are superior to the white race or the black race? Are you not promoting racism? The only superior person is Jesus Christ, and spreading the good news (Salvation) of the gospel. God was using Christ to restore his relationship with humanity. He didn't hold people's faults against them, and he has given us this message of restored relationships to tell others (2 Corinthians 5:19). Therefore you are held accountable to God. Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you"(John 20:21-22) "For if you forgive others for their transgressions, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive others, then your Father will not forgive your transgressions"(Matthew 6:14-15).
What color is Jesus? Jesus is not of any color. Jesus is a Jew, but being a Jew does not paint Jesus white, black, Hispanic or Latino or any other race. Jesus is God, and God is a Spirit with no body. "He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. For as high as the heavens are above the earth, So great is His lovingkindness toward those who fear Him. As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us" (Psalm 103:10-12).


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I need to show that these generated $\sigma$-algebras are the same:
$F_1 = \sigma(\{[a,b) : -\infty<a<b<\infty \}) $
$F_2 = \sigma(\{(-\infty , x] :x \in \mathbb{R} \})$
I am not sure, but my idea thus far:
- Show that every interval $[a,b)$ is an element of $\{(-\infty , x) :x \in \mathbb{R} \}$.
- Show that every interval $(-\infty , x]$ is an element of $\{[a,b) : -\infty<a<b<\infty \}$.
If my idea is right (please tell me if I'm wrong), I am having trouble trying to express some things. For example, I want to show that I can choose an $a$ and a $b$ such that I get the open interval $(x,\infty)$, a complement of an element expressed in $\{(-\infty , x) :x \in \mathbb{R} \}$. Does it make sense to say something like $a=x+\epsilon : \epsilon \rightarrow 0$ and $lim_{n\rightarrow{}\infty}b_n = \infty$? I am not sure if I am expressing that $a$ approaches a number $x$, and that $b$ approaches $\infty$!


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Today's guest is Jeremy Kagan, author of the spiritual book, My Death: A Personal Guidebook. What I find so darn interesting about this author is that he had a NDE. For those who don't know what a NDE is, it's a near death experience. I love reading about these because we all really don't know what happens after we die until we actually do it, then there's no way of telling anyone about it because we're...uh...dead. Jeremy is here to talk about his book and his life as a writer and director.
Thank you for this interview, Jeremy. Can you tell us a little about yourself and how long you've been writing?
I am an optimistic enthusiast. I like the new. New people, new places, new foods, new experiences. I like the old too. Like 13th century stained glass windows and illuminated tests. I like Art and spiritual books and graphic novels. I am also a playful workaholic. I like to laugh and I can get real serious too. My mind is in constant motion and meditation is a challenge. The interior chattering stops when I play music or use Kabbalistic word patterns. I am a clarinetist in some jazz groups. Gypsy jazz. I also am an image maker. I have drawing since I was a kid which led to my becoming a filmmaker which is my profession having directing 9 feature films and 15 television movies and lots of TV series for which I have an Emmy. I also am a tenured professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC where I teach directing to the graduate students and run The Change Making Media Lab that specializes in advocacy films for NGOs. And all along I have been a writer doing screenplays and books on filmmaking.
Can you tell us briefly what your book is about?
Life and death. My life and death. I had what is called a near-death experience and this is the retelling of that experience. I was totally unprepared for it. I'd never heard of a NDE, and up to then was little concerned with the idea of my own dying. This book, set in the context of my own personal story, is meant to be a launching pad for the readers' reflection on their own lives and inevitable deaths. This book is about learning to be with death, learning to appreciate the miracle of living, and hopefully being a preparatory document for the journey that we all are taking.
Why did you choose your particular genre?
After I had my experience, I immediately wrote it down. I didn't want to forget. In fact a couple days later I remembered other parts of the experience I had forgotten. Then I left it alone and went on an expedition to meet people who had either similar experiences or understood something about the whole process of encountering other worlds while in this world. I considered ways that I might be able to impart what happened so that others could benefit from my experience. It took me a year to write it up as a nonfiction work, but I knew it hadn't really found the appropriate form to make this a visceral encounter for the reader. So I let it alone for a number of years, but was constantly aware of what it happened to me, and finally I began the process of rewriting. After a number of years I thought maybe I should turn this into a third person fictional story and I attempted that as well. It didn't work. I realized this really was a personal narrative, a memoir, and it needed to be told in that genre. A couple of years ago I began to do some drawings, and found that this was really the form for me. As I am a caricaturist, and very visually oriented, this combination of illustrations with text was the genre that was most reflective of who I am and the best way I could tell this tale.
What was your greatest challenge writing this book?
I suspect that like many others who write, the greatest challenge was just doing it, and then reading it and rereading it and rewriting and recognizing what parts advanced the story for the reader and which parts were a diversion and even an indulgence. You get close to your work and you don't have a good perspective on it. I needed the years to allow me to see what was of value and what could be discarded.
Are you published by a traditional house, small press or are you self-published?
As I am a professor I have many students who have been helpful to me. One in particular was an assiduous editor, and she took a very fierce look at the manuscript. She also did some research for me about e-publishing, as I realized that with 150 color illustrations, and wanting this book to be affordable, I needed to look into alternative publishing methodologies. She found Balboa Press, part of Hays House, which specializes in philosophical and self-help books. After initial vetting, they worked with me for a fee to prepare the book for a variety of online distribution venues.
Was it the right choice for you?
So far Balboa has been the right choice, they also offer publicity help, for a price. And I see that professional publicity can get really expensive. We'll see how well a little of this does in getting the word out about the ebook in the next number of months.
How are you promoting your book thus far?
We've created a Facebook page for the book as well as a twitter account, so this has been the initial social media effort. On my own I have sent out emails to friends and acquaintances to have them spread the word as well. I thought by putting up an image from the book every other day, this might excite some interest.
How is that going for you?
The challenge for promoting my book is time. It's time to do this interview, which I also like with any writing have been rewriting, and it takes time to keep up with social media. But I like reflecting on the process, and seeing what might generate interest from readers, people who may in fact be reading this very blog. So ask me in a few months will see how it is really going for me and the book.
Can you tell us one thing you have done that actually resulted in one or more sales?
I think the Facebook page has actually sold some books. People have responded to some of the images that they've seen and said that they were intrigued about the book. I also created a website called www.theneardeathandlifeofJeremyKagan.com
that has a five minute video with some of the illustrations that was part of a TEDx type talk I gave and people who have seen this have also been buyers of the book.
Do you have another job besides writing?
As I mentioned, I have two other jobs besides writing: I am a professional film and television director, writer and producer and have been doing that kind of work for the last four decades and as a tenured professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California I've also edited two books about the subject called DIRECTORS CLOSE UP and as founder of The Change Making Media Lab, I have been making dramas and documentaries about environmental and social justice issues where we are learning that facts may inform but stories transform.
If you could give one book promotion tip to new authors, what would that be?
Tell everyone you know and meet about your book and ask them to buy it. No shame.
What's next for you?
I am about to direct a film called SHOT about what happens to an innocent bystander who gets shot and the kid who unintentionally shoots him.
Thank you for this interview, Jeremy. Can you tell us where we can find you on the web?
And thanks for taking the time to allow me to share information about my book My Death: A Personal Guidebook.


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Dave Doeren must get bored in the offseason.
Last season with Northern Illinois, the school started a series called "Doeren Discovers" where the coach went around the Chicago area doing random things like singing at Wrigley Field and skydiving and documenting it for Northern Illinois.
Well, this year, Doeren, the new N.C. State coach, is doing something similar in Raleigh with "Dare Coach D." In the first episode of this web series, the softball team "dares" Doeren to come out to practice with them.
He takes some batting practice, swings and misses a lot, and then finally hits what we're all led to think is a homerun. We don't actually see it go over the fence. And really, Doeren, a grown man in decent shape, shouldn't exactly be celebrating a homerun in a park that's 200 feet to any fence. That's just weak sauce.
I like the idea of "Dare Coach D" because it opens up a world of possibilities. I dare Coach D to TP Roy Williams' house. Or how about daring Coach D to go to a strip club with Coach K? Or how about just daring him to post three consecutive winning seasons and not get fired? That's a tough one in Raleigh, just ask Tom O'Brien.
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I got an email today from Robert May of Business Pundit. He is creating a new site that is called TheBusinessExperiment.com. As you might expect, it is an experiment. Here's how he describes it: The Business Experiment is a site meant to explore three concepts: wisdom of crowds, open-source business, and the distributed nature of work. The goal is to have the registered users of this site collectively start and run a real business. Interesting huh? Now for something a little differentâ... Continue Reading
Andy Wibbels at Easy Bake Weblogs invited me to participate in one of his regularly scheduled "Blog Conversations" calls. The audio and call notes are here. I had a great time and got to wax philosophic on some of the things I'm most passionate about. Thanks for the opportunity Andy!
I've been meaning to talk about James' new site BlogSavvy. I've been keeping up with James for a while through his site Incorporated Subversion (IncSub) and we've corresponded a few times. James recently played both sides of the"comments or not" argument in two different posts: Arguments for getting rid of comments Arguments for keeping comments Go James!
Andy Wibbels of Easy Bake Weblogs has asked me to participate in a call in his series of "blog conversations". We'll be talking about how the weblog world listens, partially based on this post. The call happens tomorrow (Tuesday) night - sorry for the late notice. Here is the information as posted on EasyBakeWeblogs.com: This time we are talking to Lee LeFever from Common Craft - a blog about social design for the web. We'll be talking about: How the Weblog World Listens What enables a blogger... Continue Reading
It was one year ago that I won my first contest as a writer. The challenge was to create the "perfect corporate weblog elevator pitch". It was put on by the folks at Weblogs Inc. via the Social Software Weblog and Judith Meskill. At the very least, I hope the little contest preserves a look at what people thought was an accurate summary of how blogs could be used inside a corporation. One day, people may say "that was sooo 2004". For now though, I still stand beind the pitch 100%. Here it... Continue Reading
Murdoch tells editors to embrace the bloggers - Times Online The intro of the article says it all: Rupert Murdoch has told US newspaper editors that they will have to ditch their "God-like" attitude to their readers and create an open and more democratic relationship with bloggers and other web users if they want to survive and prosper in the digital age. This was aimed at newspapers, but his reach is much more broad. His company, News Corporation, owns these organizations: 20th Century Fox,... Continue Reading
A while back I linked to a "blog" by Boeing VP Randy Beseler. The blog world gave them a lot of hell because it wasn't a "real blog". That point is debatable in my eyes and I thought it was a move in the right direction, at least. What Randy's blog lacked was the ability to become a part of what I hear people call "the conversation". It lacked a few features that enable him to really participate in the blog world. Namely, those features were permalinks and RSS feeds. Without these, it... Continue Reading
My friends a few miles north in Vancouver Canada have been approved as vendors of weblog services for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. This means they can bid on contracts that could enable them to build blogs for the teams, coaches, fans, etc. Very cool- and nice to know the Olympics folks are thinking ahead. Congrats to... Boris, Kris, Roland, and all the folks at BryghtWill Pate and Good BasicDarren Barefoot and Capulet Communications ... and all their partners... Of course, Kris already has a... Continue Reading
I'm looking for your help again, dear reader. I have a presentation on Wednesday and I plan to tell some stories. I'm introducing weblogs to about 25 people in 30 minutes, some of which know blogs, others, not so much. I'm looking for inspiring stories of how an individual used a weblog and the weblog community to create real change in some way. Large or small stories, personal or second hand, I'll take all comers. My point will be that weblogs and related tools are giving individuals... Continue Reading
I've noticed interesting words coming out of my mouth lately. Mostly the words are something like: "I think the world of business communication is changing right now�? "I can feel a big wave coming�? "Something is happening right now that is really going to change the business landscape�? Often, this type of talk is prompted by "What do you do Lee?�? or "What's up with all the blog stuff I'm hearing?�? I've been trying to figure out what makes me feel so strongly... Continue Reading


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Regal Princess Floats Out with a Little Help from Cruise Critic
March 28, 2013 | By Cruise Critic | 7 Comments
7 Responses to "Regal Princess Floats Out with a Little Help from Cruise Critic"
March 28th, 2013 @ 1:46 pm
Congratulations, Carolyn! I could tell from the video clips the depth of your feeling of being honored to have participated in this occassion. How great for you and for Cruise Critic.
Carolyn Spencer Brown
March 28th, 2013 @ 3:06 pm
Brian, thanks for your note! It was amazing….
Ross Condon
March 28th, 2013 @ 9:34 pm
Wow, that was very cool! Princess could not have picked a better person to represent those of us who have a passion for cruising. Congratulations!
David Wishart
March 29th, 2013 @ 4:16 pm
Nicely said, Carolyn.
Michelle Leverick
April 3rd, 2013 @ 12:03 pm
Fabulous, looks amazing!
Can't believe how many passengers still don't know about Cruise Critic, but I do my best to tell everyone and share the odd posting.
Keep up the great work Carolyn :)
Frank Galloway
March 12th, 2014 @ 3:50 pm
Must have been a wonderful occasion to remember. We were to have had our first Maiden Voyage on a "Princess" but had our dreams shattered when the launch date was moved to May instead of June 2014. We had booked in July 2013 immediately after we were sent the cruise brochure which included the Regal Princess Maiden Voyage. As it is our Golden Wedding on 6th June 2014 – when our port of call was to be Rome – we booked a mini suite for the first time for the 17 days Western Mediterranean & Aegean. The "welcome back" to Princess from the CEO Alan Buckelew was a real thrill as we had cruised with Princess nine times but had a break for a few years. Imagine our disappointment when the 20th May 2014 became the new Maiden Voyage & although offered a move to the new date this was not possible in our case. Obviously the "extra income" was too good to pass up irrespective of individuals like us. We are now spending our Golden Wedding on the Emerald Princess & will be in sunny Lanzarote on the 6th June instead of by the Trevi Fountain. Incidentally the photograph on the CEO Welcome has been replaced by Jan Swartz the President!!
Bon Voyage Regal Princess
Faye & Frank Galloway from Scotland
Denis Robinson
May 11th, 2014 @ 12:19 am
I am cruising on Regal Princess 19 June from Venice, recently joined Cruise Critic and have just now viewed the video of your part in the floating out ceremony of this magnificent ship. Congratulations Carolyn,
Best wishes
Denis Robinson
South Australia
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Novice Rowers Finish Fourth At The Green Monster
Nov. 4, 2013
The UMass rowing program competed in the Green Monster Regatta on Saturday against boats from Dartmouth, Boston College, Northeastern, MIT and Vermont. Three Minutewomen boats participated in the Novice 8+ race on the Connecticut River.
The UMass A entry took fourth place overall at the novice regatta with a time of 16:42. The boat consisted of Sam Wonderlin, Meghan Rubbo, Caroline Turnbull, Natalie Boisvert, Hadley Irvin, Catherine Murphy, Teagan Rolf von den Baumen and Abigail Raichek.
The Massachusetts B boat finished 11th and completed the course in 18:23, only nine seconds behind tenth place Vermont A. The C boat took 13th with a time of 19:39, which was one second ahead of the MIT Lightweight B entry.
The Minutewomen will return to action next spring as they host Coast Guard in Hadley, Mass. on March 22, 2014.
Green Monster Lineups (Finish - Time)
Novice 8+ Entry A (4th - 16:42)
Novice 8+ Entry B (11th - 18:23)
Allison Fleming, Anna Steele, Bridget Burke, Elaina Falcone, Kathryn Wheeler, Molly McCabe, Alisha Weinstein, Mia Bornstein & Ellen Chow
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Ed Rosenthal didn't mince words when he told members of the press about his rescue after spending six days in the Mojave Desert without food or water.
"It was a miracle," he said. "I'm much more religious now than I was."
The 64-year-old recreational hiker took off on a two-hour hike in Joshua Tree National Park on Sept. 24 but lost his way on a trail he'd done several times before. When he was found alive and relatively healthy by a sheriff's helicopter on Sept. 30, his story quickly made national and international news.
On Oct. 5, after being rehydrated and checked over in the hospital, Rosenthal addressed a downtown Los Angeles press conference. Sitting at a table covered in microphones, he told his harrowing story, almost without emotion. His deep, Brooklyn-accented voice is perfectly suited to deadpanning, and he cracked a few jokes that morning, including one about making friends with a horsefly.
Rosenthal dropped his "miracle" comment in toward the end of his remarks, and more than one reporter in the room laughed. (You can hear it on an audio recording made by KPCC.) But Rosenthal wasn't kidding about his spiritual reaction to this experience.
"Seriously," Rosenthal told them, "I prayed for rain, and it rained."
Every Chanukah, Jews celebrate miracles that happened thousands of miles away, thousands of years ago. Ed Rosenthal's miracle happened only a few hundred miles away, only a few months back. This is his story.
'Hard Rock Canyon'
by Poet-broker Ed Rosenthal
When the sky was a torch
She doesn't ask you: "Would
When the sky torches you
Behind you. Or was she
That brings tears to my eyes.
Rosenthal describes himself as a "poet-broker," as in the unlikely mixing of poetry and real estate. Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Queens, Rosenthal has been writing poetry since the sixth grade. Over the last few decades, living in Culver City, he has also brokered sales of many historic buildings in downtown Los Angeles.
He'd gone to Joshua Tree to celebrate the completion of his latest deal. Rosenthal regularly hiked alone, and he was familiar with the route from Black Rock Campground to Warren Peak, having done it five or six times before without incident.
"You can see the Mojave, Palm Springs, and San Gorgonio and San Jacinto," Rosenthal said, describing the view. "It was beautiful. I was relaxed, I had a nice lunch, and I felt great. I had just done two deals downtown, and I was going to go back to the hotel and relax, like I always do," he said.
"Then I lost the trail."
Rosenthal has no idea why, but he ended up going down through a chute and into a series of canyons. "Each canyon was more difficult to get into," he said. "Each level had a bigger and bigger drop." He often found himself holding onto trees and rocks to keep from falling. He kept going until he reached a drop that he could not descend. "There was no turning around," he said, so he climbed up and over a hill. On maps, the hill is labeled Burnt Hill, and Rosenthal remembers it being bleak, dusty and brown — completely befitting its name.
He didn't have a map or a watch. "I had a compass, but when you don't know your point of origin, it doesn't matter," he said. So he climbed the hill. "The first day I wanted to get back to something. I kept looking for signs, and I kept seeing mirages of signs that weren't there."
The temperature hit 93 degrees in Joshua Tree on Sept. 24. Rosenthal kept walking, eventually finding a trail that led him into another set of canyons. Park rangers would later show Rosenthal a map of where he had walked on that first day. "It turns out these were unexplored canyons," Rosenthal said. "They told me that I walked, like, 20 miles, which is just unheard of," he added. "I never walked that far in my life."
As he went, Rosenthal named the canyons, perhaps the first names they had ever had. The one he remembers most vividly is the canyon he passed through near the end of that first day, Friday, just before reaching the Mojave Desert.
"This Hard Rock Canyon, which I went through, was this gorgeous purple canyon that came up out of nowhere," Rosenthal said, "and you didn't have a choice of whether you went through it or not ... there was no turnoff."
Its walls rose to a height the equivalent of about seven stories above his head. "I remember the whole thing," he said. "The slate shooting up, the different-colored slate, had all kinds of random angles. It was brown and purple, a little pinkish."
When he thinks back on his ordeal, Rosenthal feels a great deal of affinity for a number of the spaces he walked through, including Burnt Hill, and especially Hard Rock Canyon. "It was majestic; it was just gorgeous," he said.
Nevertheless, there was danger in the beauty. "It was really a gateway to hell, because after I went through it, I soon saw within a few miles, everything was turning browner, the walls of the canyons were drying out, all the plants on the hillside were brown; there was no longer a mixture of green and brown. So, really, it was a gateway to hell. But somehow I was so attracted to it.
"And I was thinking," Rosenthal said, "that's where I would die. It wouldn't be bad to die in this Hard Rock Canyon. I wouldn't care. I only cared about my wife and daughter. As a 64-year-old, I felt, 'What do I care if I drop dead? I'm already a poet-broker. I've sold all these historic buildings. I have a wonderful family. So what if I drop dead?' And that's where I would've wanted it to happen."
Nevertheless, Rosenthal's survival instinct kicked in, if only for the sake of his wife, Nicole Kaplan, and his 21-year-old daughter, Hilary. "If every Jewish holiday, you know, for the rest of their lives, they remember — because it was Sept. 24 when I was lost — they'd remember, 'This is when my father dropped dead in the desert,' or, 'This is when my husband was never found, out somewhere lying in the desert,' " Rosenthal said, his voice unwavering. "I wanted to avoid that."
Rosenthal left Hard Rock Canyon as night fell on Friday. "I saw I was going into the Mojave, so I turned around, and I found a little place I was comfortable to sleep for the night."
He called it Baby Canyon.
By the next day, Rosenthal was out of water.
"It was stupid," he said of his preparations; he knew it wasn't safe to go out with so little water, even for the short hike he'd expected to take. "I was in a rush, knowing that it was going to be hot, and I didn't bring the water. That's the main thing. It still would've run out, but I could've dragged it out. This way, by Saturday morning, I had no water." And although he had some snacks — dates and Clif Bars — he couldn't eat. "I tried to eat one, on Saturday," Rosenthal said, but, without water, "it got stuck on the roof of my mouth. You can't swallow or anything."
He knew he was in trouble, he admits. "I just ended up on a hill, and I found a tree, and I stayed under it all day."
Back home, nobody realized Rosenthal was missing until Saturday, and the search only started on Sunday. "I saw helicopters every day, from the beginning," he remembers. "There were helicopters around, but they weren't looking for me." He tried signaling with his emergency blanket, his headlamp, his high-powered emergency whistle. He built fires and even tried making shadows on the hillside. But, he said, "I never got a response."
On Monday, he came closest to despair, and that was when he started writing on his hat: "Dear Nicole and Hilary," he scratched onto the fabric. "I love you. I'm not sure I'll get out of this alive. I want you to know what to do."
Rosenthal started by outlining his finances, telling his wife which of his friends she could trust to advise her on money matters. "That was one of the first things. Then I told her to use the insurance to pay off the house," he said. "Very Jewish, right?"
Rosenthal added notes about what kind of funeral he wanted to have, who the pallbearers should be, which charities his wife and daughter should give money to.
After his rescue, his hat became a big part of the story: "People seem so fascinated by that hat," he said, genuinely baffled by the intense interest. "I just used it because I didn't have paper. I had a pen. A writer should have a pen, but I didn't have any paper."
Rosenthal kept writing on the floppy white material up until he was found. "As the days went on, I put more stuff on the hat," he said. "It pretty much got filled up on the front and back."
While he was in the desert, Rosenthal didn't hear any sounds or see many animals, but he didn't let the feeling that he had been abandoned take over.
"I think the sky helped me a lot, the unfolding, because it stayed constant," he said. Rosenthal is a member of Makom Ohr Shalom, a Jewish Renewal synagogue in West Hills, though he did not consider himself very religious. Still, with little else to sustain him, he kept coming back to Jewish liturgy — like the evening prayer: "That's about God bringing on day and night, and it's a constant process," he said. "By Monday night, I was extremely reassured when I saw the giant Orion [constellation] come up in the morning, because I knew the morning was coming and the night was over. So I was reassured by the larger universe and the larger things around me. That helped me a lot."
Starting Monday night and until he was rescued on Wednesday, Rosenthal said the Shema prayer, and not just at night. "I did it throughout," he said, adding that he sometimes felt he was close to death. "I saw that [white] tunnel, and then I heard that rabbi from downtown say, 'Are you ready for this?' " The rabbi, Rosenthal explained, was Rabbi Moshe Greenwald, who runs the Chabad of Historic Core, in downtown Los Angeles. "And I said 'no,' and I just snapped out of that. I can't be sure about that experience, if that was really a projection, because I've heard about these things," he said, "but it seemed real."
One miracle Rosenthal is sure of, though, came when, on Wednesday, he prayed for rain. "You know, all of them start out the same: 'Baruch ata Adonai eloheinu melech ha'olam,' " he said, quickly rattling off the standard beginning to most Hebrew blessings. "And you get to the end, and I didn't know what words to say, so, for some reason, I kept saying ha'adamah, which, I don't know — that relates to earth somehow?"
Ha'adamah means "the earth" in Hebrew, and it is the last word in the blessing that is traditionally recited before eating vegetables that grow in the ground. Alone in the desert, Rosenthal attached the blessing's preamble to that one word — ha'adamah — at the end. "I kept repeating it," Rosenthal said, "and I remembered at that time the word for heaven — ha'shamayim."
"So I tied together what I thought were the two words, and I repeated it. It was all in Hebrew," Rosenthal said.
Ten seconds later, it began to rain.
"That was, like, oh my God," Rosenthal said. "What an incredible thing."
San Bernardino County Sheriff's helicopter found Rosenthal on Wednesday, Sept. 30. The hiker remembers his rescuer calling out, "Hey, are you that Rosenthal guy?"
He was lying in the small canyon, as he had been since Sunday. Even before he was found, he thought of the place as Salvation Canyon because some part of it was in the shade at every point during the day. Rosenthal used his walking stick to push himself across from one side to the other. "Every now and again, I would get up and go sit against the rock in the shade," Rosenthal said.
"Then I saw, by Wednesday, I could not sit up against a rock," Rosenthal said, enunciating each syllable. "I didn't have the strength to sit up. I just had to stay laid down."
"They found me probably half a day before I was dead," he said.
The trauma of the experience has led him to write more poetry, and he's still coming to grips with what he went through. "After the incident," he said, "when I came back, I would think about that canyon and start crying. I would not cry about surviving, or my wife and daughter, what they went through, or what I went through. … I got wasted away. I lost 15 pounds, I watched my legs shrink, and by the end of it, I couldn't even stand up. But none of that made me cry. It's only that canyon, because it was so beautiful. And it's strange. …Why should I be so enamored with this canyon? ... That's a mystery to me, this beautiful canyon that I'm so attracted to. I don't really understand what it's about."
Rosenthal sees his entire experience as miraculous — the prayer for rain, finding Salvation Canyon, making it over Burnt Hill, the helicopter's just-in-time arrival. He still has a lot of questions he can't answer, though. Those six days in the Mojave deepened Rosenthal's faith in God and miracles, but they did not add much to his understanding of God, or of why he was saved.
"Why should 50 million people die in World War II, including 6 million Jews, if God is interested in Ed Rosenthal? There's no way," he said.
"But I know I was saved."
The litany of tragedies offered up in The New York Times every day don't make it easier for Rosenthal to understand his own experience. "Look, just in today's paper, there were 60 more people who died from the volcano in Indonesia," he said. "The Iraqis blew up a few more, right? So what is that about? And the answer is: I have no idea. I have no idea, and I don't care. I have no understanding, and I don't care about the understanding. But I have faith."
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