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The first is the Farm Fresh Night in conjunction with Springdale Farms of Cherry Hill. The event will be held on Thursday, June 18th, 6:30 p.m. The guest speaker will be Springdale Farms co-owner John Ebert.
Local exotic mushroom empanada with queso cotija & epazote, black bean chile puree
Springdale-grown Boston lettuce, goat cheese, roasted Jersey beets, and toasted pine nuts with habanera strawberry vinaigrette
Seafood Teaser:
Pan-searned scallops with zucchini & yellow squash in a creamed squash blossom sauce with sauteed Jersey spinach
Carne Asada with grilled Jersey scallions with lime, sea salt & roasted baby carrots
Fresh Jersey strawberry & coconut bread pudding
The cost is $29.95 per person (plus tax & gratuity).
The second event is the semi-annual "Off the Hook," a celebration of New Jersey seafood, which will be held Monday, June 22nd - Thursday, June 25. This event will offer 4 delicious courses priced at $30.00 per person (plus tax & gratuity).
Special entree selections will include:
Red Chile Fettuccini with Jersey clams & chorizo
Mahi Mahi with white chocolate mole sauce
Grilled Atlantic salmon
Seafood Enchiladas with a creamy chipotle tomato sauce
Crab & Scallop Cake Ranchero
Tres Taco Plate
For more information about either event, or to make reservations, please call (856) 869-3345.
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Saturday, 28 May 2011
Pattern Archive
I came across some patterns I designed years ago* (these are the ones I'm least embarrassed about) they're so different to my current style! I must have been going through a 1940s influence with the bird and flower designs, maybe they'd work well on cotton lawn or a light weight dress fabric?
*Apologies for the poor image quality, they're a lot sharper on my computer!
3 comments:
- Jill Browning said...
Love the trees!
- 29 May 2011 at 05:06
- Alison - Belovedly said...
Love the trees and the bird ones especially.
- 29 May 2011 at 11:51
- Wee Cute Treasures said...
Oh this takes me back to my time in Art College when we had to do some textile designing. I still have some of my examples but compared to yours....well let's say they will never be published. I love your style. My favourite is probably the flowers on the turquoise background. Thank you so much for sharing. Carol :)
- 6 June 2011 at 12:52
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January 23, 2006, 10:22 AM
I was walking my dog last night, and had my pocketlite in my jacket pocket. I was holding it to keep the weight from flopping against my side. The trigger felt funny, and I found that it had no tension on it. It just flopped around. I stripped the gun, and it looks like there is some kind of pin that is missing. Is this common? I think I want to get it fixed, and then sell it if the gun is a pos. It has worked ok up until now.


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With already five brands under the company, Luxottica has completed the acquisition of Optifashion.
Speaking to Retailbiz, a spokesperson from Luxottica said the company has been looking to expand geographically.
"When we looked across all the states, we had a real opportunity to expand our store network and presence," the spokesperson said.
"Some of our stores will be rebranded to Budget Eyewear and others to OPSM and this will happen based on customer demographics and in separate stages."
The acquisition of the 61 Optifashion stores will bring Luxottica's retail footprint to almost 1000 stores.
Luxottica also saw it as an opportunity to expand the business they already have.
Several stores are already in the process of being rebranded with all stores expected to be completed by the end of first quarter of 2011.
The price for the acquisition has not been disclosed.
- Arrrr! Penny the Pirate sails in to OPSM for new kids eyesight campaign
- Luxottica opens largest Sunglass Hut store with interactive technology
- Luxottica sells BrightEyes to focus on one sun brand
- Retailers commended at 2012 ARA Australian Retail Awards
- Franchise stars honoured at FCA gala dinner


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Name 2 mylofilements found in the muscle fibres and briefly outline their function.
actin and myosin
why does the skeletal muscle apper striated or striped?
thin actin filaments and thick myosin filements overlap and produce a striped appearance
Why is creatine phosphate needed for muscle contration?
it insures atp supplies remain high by supplying a phosphate to ADP


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I think it is a sweet design, I would definitely wear that.
I like the eerie feel this gives off! very cool!
this design has a nice feel… :)
so cool
lvoted! 1
got my vote man!! :D
cool grungy feel!
really great stuff!
I might have chosen a different color besides yellow because yellow is usually associated with daytime rather than nighttime like you are describing in your title but the design is well done and looks good on the shirt! I feel like this would be a popular shirt if it gets printed +1
wow cool! the colours work well here!
incredibly cool on the shirt!
so sick! This definitely should print! Your grungy style works well!
fighter ni +1
great idea. I think a front and back print could be solid as well. Something to think about. Nice work.


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In article <firstname.lastname@example.com>, Uli Link
> None of them boot the AIX installation CD if the CD-ROM drives firmware
> isn't recognized by the ROS.
> You can boot from generic SCSI Tape or network. Bootable CD-ROM appeared
> with AIX 4.1 and the mystery says there may exist bootable 184.108.40.206 too.
I'll second that. I can't remember I ever saw a 3.2.5 CD.
At that time everything was on tape or you had to boot/install via network.
This was convenient, since IIRC the 3.2.5 installation loaded the whole
systen anyway.
But hey, this is an hp-ux newsgroup, not an AIX one :-:


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No American rock group ever started with as much daring or musical promise as
Blood, Sweat & Tears
, or realized their potential more fully -- and then blew it all as quickly. From their origins as a jazz-rock experiment that wowed critics and listeners, they went on -- in a somewhat more pop vein -- to sell almost six million records in three years, but ended up being dropped by their record label four years after that.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
started as an idea conceived by
Al Kooper
in July of 1967. An ex-member of
the Blues Project
had been toying with the notion, growing out of his admiration for jazz bandleader
Maynard Ferguson
, of forming an electric rock band that would include horns and use jazz as the basis for their work. He planned to pursue this in London, but a series of New York shows involving some big-name friends didn't raise enough money to get him there. He did, however, find three players who wanted to work with him: bassist
Jim Fielder
Blues Project
Steve Katz
, and drummer
Bobby Colomby
agreed, as long as he was in charge musically. The horn section featured
Fred Lipsius
(saxophone), with
Randy Brecker
Jerry Weiss
on trumpets and flügelhorns, and
Dick Halligan
playing trombone. The new group was signed to Columbia Records, and the name "
Blood, Sweat & Tears
" came to
after a jam at the Cafe au Go Go, where a cut on his hand left his organ keyboard covered in blood.
That first version of
Blood, Sweat & Tears
played music that roamed freely through realms of jazz, R&B, soul, and even psychedelia in ways that had scarcely been heard before in one band. The songs were bold and challenging, and the arrangements gave
, et. al room to solo, while
's organ and
's guitar swelled in pulsing, shimmering glory. Their debut,
Child Is Father to the Man
, was released in February 1968, and seemed to portend a great future. The only thing it didn't have was a hit single to get AM radio play and help drive sales.
Disagreements about repertory grew into doubts about
's ability as a lead singer, and soon split this band.
left in March of 1968, and
followed him out. That might've been the end of the story, except that
decided to salvage a band of their own band out of this debacle. The lineup was reshuffled and expanded, and for a lead singer they found a Canadian national named
David Clayton-Thomas
The new
Blood, Sweat & Tears
recorded their album in late 1968.
Blood, Sweat & Tears
, released in January 1969, was smoother and more traditionally melodic than its predecessor. Equally important, the singles from the album were edited, removing the featured spots for the jazz players. "You've Made Me So Very Happy" rose to number two and lofted the album to the top of the LP listings. "Spinning Wheel" b/w "More and More" and "And When I Die" followed, and when the smoke cleared, the album had yielded a career's worth of hits. The LP also won the Grammy as Album of the Year, selling three million copies in the bargain.
In the spring of 1970, however, the group lost a huge amount of momentum with its core audience, college students, when they undertook a tour of Eastern Europe on behalf of the U.S. State Department. The Vietnam War was still raging, and anything to do with the government was potentially poisonous on college campuses. It was on their return to America, amid this dubious career move -- which was done to overcome the problem of
' shaky immigration status -- that
Blood, Sweat & Tears 3
was released. It briefly topped the LP charts, and the single "Hi-De-Ho" reached number 14, but both sold only a fraction of what their earlier releases had done. Additionally, the group was now criticized in the rock press, which felt that
Blood, Sweat & Tears
were either a pretentious pop group that dabbled in horn riffs, or a jazz outfit trying to pass as a rock band. The group's decision to perform at a Las Vegas casino -- which even upset the head of Columbia Records,
Clive Davis
-- did nothing to defuse these doubts.
exited after the fourth album to pursue a solo career. Most of the group's original and second-generation players were gone by then as well, though the playing standard remained consistently high. The lineup became a revolving door -- even
Jaco Pastorius
passed through their ranks, briefly -- and the group's record sales imploded, squeezed as they were by
on the pop side of jazz-rock, and outfits such as
Weather Report
Return to Forever
on the more musically ambitious side of the spectrum.
returned in 1974, to what was billed officially as "
Blood, Sweat & Tears
David Clayton-Thomas
." They released
New City
(1975), which did well enough to justify an ambitious tour that yielded the double-LP
Live and Improvised
. Columbia Records dropped the group in 1976, and even
Bobby Colomby
, who had trademarked the group's name, gave up playing with them.
has kept the group name alive in the decades since, fronting various lineups.
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Hamilton is a college of opportunity. From the time of its founding two centuries ago to the matriculation of its most recent entering class, Hamilton has funded the difference between what a student's family can afford to pay and the total cost to attend the college on the hill. Never was that commitment demonstrated more dramatically when the trustees unanimously adopted a need-blind policy for admission.
Colleges that are need-blind in admission pledge to admit qualified students without considering their ability to pay. In its most fundamental sense, need-blind is about fairness and providing access. For a college founded 200 years ago as a school of opportunity and transformation, the decision to become need-blind aligns Hamilton's admission practice with its educational mission. In other words, we provide the opportunity of a Hamilton education to those students whose academic strengths and personal ambitions seem most suited to us, whatever their family circumstances. The challenges of the current economy, so hard on families and on educational institutions, are reasons not to move away from that historic mission, but to reaffirm it.
So overwhelming was their commitment to keeping a Hamilton education accessible that trustees spontaneously pledged over $3 million in bridge money to make need-blind a reality immediately — in the midst of one of the deepest recessions in decades. Bicentennial Initiatives will make this policy permanent. We seek new endowed funds, established specifically for scholarship aid, to make the promise of a Hamilton education possible for students who would otherwise be unable to afford it.
Need-blind is as bold a decision as it will be transformative for Hamilton and the talented students we are privileged to serve. It will make stronger Hamilton's well-deserved reputation as a college of opportunity and help ensure that we continue enrolling the most qualified students.
I'm impressed beyond words — and moved. I was a financial aid student who never could have afforded to go to Hamilton had it not been for the College's generosity, and those four years absolutely changed my life. You're now going to do the same for an unimaginable number of kids.


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What led to Amanda Bynes's surprising DUI arrest on Friday?
"This DUI was definitely just a serious lapse in judgment," a source tells PEOPLE of the former Nickelodeon star.
"She hit a wall personally and professionally [in 2008] ... I think she's been a little lost since then," the insider says of the actress, who dated Doug Reinhardt in 2009 and was linked to Liam Hemsworth shortly afterward.
But according to the 26-year-old's father, Rick Bynes, his daughter doesn't drink. He tells PEOPLE she was held in jail because "she was upset and very emotional."
And a source tells PEOPLE that Bynes "seemed fine to drive" when she left the Standard Hotel in West Hollywood – where she is a regular and had dinner Thursday night before her arrest. She had alcohol, but "never seemed drunk," the source says.
Bynes then went to Greystone Manor (where she's also a regular), and was arrested after leaving there. Adds the source: "Bynes tried to come back to party [at the Standard] only hours after she was released from her DUI arrest," but she is no longer welcome at the hotel.
Bynes was held overnight at the West Hollywood Sheriff's department's station following her arrest. Though authorities would not comment on her particular case, the sheriff's station website states, "If the offense is alcohol or drug related, the suspect will stay at the sheriff's station until he or she can safely care for himself or herself."
Another source, who calls Bynes "a very sweet girl," says, "[She] was raised in the industry and came up in the industry, so she has kind of a twisted head space in terms of social groups."
Her dad, however, says, "She just chooses not to work, and because of that people go after her."
In July 2010, Bynes reversed her Tweeted decision to retire from the entertainment business, telling PEOPLE a year later that she "just really needed some time off," adding, "I've been acting since I was 7."
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03 Nov 2009
So I'm really worried that Slaton will lose value going forward and my backup RBs are awful. I won't know until Wednesday morning whether I can get Moats off of waivers. I want to try to trade for an elite RB, possibly giving him up in the process.
Here's my team (non-PPR league):
QB: Roethlisberger, Hasselbeck
RB: Slaton, Jackson, Jerome Harrison, Jamaal Charles
WR: Vincent Jackson, Marques Colston, Anthony Gonzalez, Nate Burleson, Jeremy Maclin
TE: Brent Celek
DEF: Chicago
K: John Carney
Looking at the teams with three RBs in the top 24 (so almost certainly willing to trade), I see:
Thomas Jones, Ricky Williams, Joseph Addai, Ray Rice, Chris Johnson, Kevin Smith, Willis McGahee, Clinton Portis, Brandon Jacobs
Chris Johnson, despite playing for the Titans has an incredibly easy schedule going forward. I put in a trade offer of Slaton and Burleson for him. But assuming that's rejected, is it worth trading one of my elite receivers for Johnson? Assuming Anthony Gonzalez can come back fine from his injury, I should still have a good set of WRs.
Ricky Williams also has an easy schedule, though with him splitting with Ronnie Brown, I'm having trouble figuring out what a good trade for him would be.
Anyone other buy low RBs I should target?
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It would help if one of those teams needed a QB so you could offer Hasselbeck in any deal. Given your situation, you should make a play at Johnson or Rice with Colston or Jackson, or better yet, see if you can pry Addai or Jacobs from someone for Burleson and or Maclin.
The last place player has both Julius Jones and Knowshon Moreno, both of whom have pretty good schedules for the rest of the season. I'm going to see if I can swap Burleson or Maclin straight up for one of them.


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Otters pull away for afternoon win over Niagara
The Erie Otters played without an injured Connor McDavid for the first time in the standout center's two-year OHL career.
The Otters defeated Niagara 5-3 in front of a Veterans Day crowd of 2,630 fans at Erie Insurance Arena. But they preferred having the face of the franchise in the lineup.
"We missed him out there, but I think the boys reacted well to it," said Dane Fox, who teamed with Connor Brown and new linemate Michael Curtis for three goals and three assists in a decisive four-goal third period and seven points overall. "Obviously, Connor (McDavid) is a huge part of our team's success every night. Having him out of the lineup hurts."
McDavid, who leads the league with 29 assists and ranks among the league leaders with 34 points, suffered an apparent hand injury after being struck by a stick in Saturday's home win against Sarnia.
Sherry Bassin, managing partner and general manager, said before the game that club officials simply were being overly cautious with him.
After the game, head coach Kris Knoblauch said he won't know the severity of the injury until today, which leaves McDavid questionable for this weekend's home games against Guelph and Sault Ste. Marie.
The Otters (16-3-1-0) lead the Western Conference by one point over the Storm and Greyhounds. They also are tied with Eastern Conference-leading Oshawa at a league-best 33 points.
"I don't think it's going to be very long. We've had reports that maybe he'll be on the ice (today) for practice, and maybe it will be a little longer," Knoblauch said. "We don't want Connor missing any more time than he needs to. We're not going to hurry him back if he's not ready to play."
McDavid, who missed five games as a rookie a season ago while playing at the World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, wasn't made available to the media after a victory that extended the Otters' overall winning streak to three games and their franchise-best home win streak to 10 games.
Fox credited Curtis for doing "a great job, though, stepping in and filling some very big boots."
Erie created plenty of scoring chances in the opening two periods. The Otters fired 30 shots on goal.
The Otters managed only Andre Burakovsky's power-play score -- his sixth goal in the past four games and 15th of the season -- 8 minutes, 52 seconds into the second. The IceDogs (6-11-1-2) tied the score at 1 with 57.2 seconds left in the period on Anthony DiFruscia's short-handed breakaway.
During the second intermission, Knoblauch told his players, "It's up to us to decide who takes it home," said Fox, who had his 20th goal of the season and two assists. Brown had two goals and an assist. Curtis had an assist.
Fox's goal 2:53 into the third sparked a three-goal run in the next 7 minutes to open a 4-1 lead. Brown scored at the 5:48 mark and again with 10:05 left.
"That's the character and experience in that dressing room," Fox said. "We came out on top."
Now the Otters hope for good news on McDavid, who recorded his 100th career point in his 82nd game Saturday.
"He's dying to get back in the lineup," Knoblauch said. "Him not playing (Monday), I think, really bothered him. He's just such a competitive guy. He wants to play every night. But certainly we're going to be looking out for what's best for him and our team."
- News and notes: Hayden Hodgson, who was a healthy scratch the previous two games, scored his first goal of the season. ... Stephen Harper had two assists. ... The Otters outshot Niagara 41-22.
VICTOR FERNANDES can be reached at 870-1716 or by e-mail. Follow him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/goeriehockey. Read the Shootout hockey blog at GoErie.com/blogs/shootout and post comments.


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The 85th Legislative session now belongs to the ages, and I think we can say it was a good one. The governor got a property tax cap, we'll have the first new state park in 30 years put on Lake Vermilion if all goes according to plan, and the first steps in health care reform were pushed through. The Central Corridor is on track, and there's more transportation funding on the way. Everyone compromised, and everyone pretty much got some of what they wanted. This is the way things are supposed to work in civics books, and a productive session like this was a good present for lawmakers to give the state on its 150th birthday.
On Sunday, the last day of the session, the Capitol was filled with people from all over the state who came to celebrate the Sesquicentennial and watch the fireworks burst over the marble dome later that night. It's an inspiring thing, in a way, that in a democracy the bosses - the people - wear sweatshirts and jeans and their employees - the lawmakers - wear suits.
Session came to a close right before midnight, but not before Rep. Mark Olson (IR-Sherburne) gave a windy speech on Real ID. Hey, it just wouldn't be right for the session to end any other way. After, retiring lawmakers in the House gave their parting speeches, and the mood changed to something akin to a high school graduation, relieved that it's over, but a little melancholic that this was the last time they would all be together in one room. Party divisions disappeared and lawmakers spoke to each other not as members of the majority or minority, but as colleagues, something you might wish they'd do more during the session.
Rep. Chris DeLaForest (R-Andover) and Rep. Neva Walker (DFL-Minneapolis) gave especially good ones, and I'd encourage you to watch them all here. The speeches begin at 1 hour and 20 minutes in. They, along with Reps. Brad Finstad (R-Comfrey) John Berns (R-Wayzata) Scott Kranz (DFL-Blaine) Frank Moe (DFL-Bemidji) Aaron Peterson (DFL-Appleton) Connie Ruth (R-Owatonna) Kathy Tingelstad (R-Andover) Erik Paulsen (R-Eden Prairie) and Bud Heidgerken (R-Freeport) won't be coming back for another session. But the best was from Rep. Dennis Ozment (R-Rosemount), a 24-year veteran at the Legislature respected across the aisle. I've taken a bit of the audio from his speech, and you can listen to it here. His are wise words for lawmakers, and if they're heeded, might produce fewer sessions that die in partisan acrimony as the clock runs out.
There's a phrase they use around the Capitol, the "end-of-session depression." It's kind of strange, when you think about it. Lawmakers and staff go through a truly remarkable amount of stress during a session, beginning their day earlier than most people and working late into the night, sometimes until 3 or 4 a.m. for little pay and less public appreciation, and many are far away from their families for weeks at a time. To be sad to see that end might seem odd, but I think I know what they're talking about. There is something about the workings of government, smoothly churning or sometimes - okay, a lot of times - just clanking along, that becomes reassuring and even fun. The call of the roll, the suspense of a narrow vote, the heated banter - these things become welcome additions to our lives for a few months, and I for one can't wait for them to begin again next January.
We certainly had a lot to follow, with 1,703 House bills and 1,531 Senate bills introduced this session alone, and a record total of 4,256 in the House and 3,889 in the Senate for the biennium. I want to thank everyone who commented on the blog and participated in the MFL. You folks are the reason we brought the MFL back for a second year and will be the reason if we bring it back next year. It's been an honor to serve as your commissioner during the session.
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Thanks for all your hard work Commish!
Ultraliberal Elite
Posted by Aaron | May 20, 2008 6:15 PM
This was a blast. I have never spent this much attention to what the legislature is actually up to. Please do this again!
Thank you for the huge efforts; they are well appreciated.
Elizabeth T.
Posted by GopherMPH | May 20, 2008 9:47 PM
Thanks Commish! Wonder if you worked as hard as the legislators did.
Hey! The Coen Brothers are coming. Time to transition to my new career in film.
Posted by Nancy | May 23, 2008 10:50 PM
Hey -- the Gov is still signing or not signing bills -- shouldn't that alter curretn scoring?
Posted by Johnnie | May 27, 2008 9:10 AM
Hey Johnnie, you're right that the governor been signing - or vetoing - bills for the last week or so. I've been adding the points in for your lawmakers, so don't worry, you and your lawmakers will get credit.
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Red Sox reliever Daniel Bard was not discouraged yesterday by a spring training outing that saw him allow four earned runs on five hits in just 2/3 of an inning in a spring training outing against Tampa Bay.
The 24-year-old Bard, perhaps the most electric and exciting pitcher on the Red Sox staff these days, was quick to dismiss what happened in Port Charlotte Tuesday as nothing more than a very small, if existent at all, bump in the road.
"I had an infield hit, a broken-bat ground ball single and a ball off my glove," Bard said. "It's just bad luck even though the results look horrible."
Not that Bard is trying to make excuses. The right-hander is hardly prone to such things and in fact, has said before that he enjoys facing the best hitters in other teams lineups.
"I think if you had his harm, you'd want to too," manager Terry Francona said. "If you're tall, right handed, you throw downhill, you throw 98 with a pretty good curveball and an improved changeup, you have a lot of ways to get guys out."
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Despite that, Francona says that Bard will definitely be a candidate to pitch later in games in 2010, as he did at points in 2009.
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Knorr brand "vegetable" bouillon cubes on sale at the grocer but put them down after perusing ingredients... 3rd ingredient is MSG (which I don't mind myself so much, but yea), but many other unmentionables, including more caramel color than parsley... yuck ? (Salt, Palm Oil, Monosodium Glutamate, Autolyzed Yeast Extract, Sugar, Onion Powder, Corn Starch, Water, Dehydrated Cabbage, Dehydrated Carrots, Celery Seed, Caramel Color, Disodium Inosinate, Dehydrated Parsley, Spices, Garlic Powder, Citric Acid, Turmeric (for color), Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, TBHQ (used to protect quality).)
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I can relate to this. I knew a guy in 11th grade who was vegan, though he wasn't a jerk about it. He'd eat this one brand of fruit rollups for lunch everyday because they didn't have gelatin in them.One thing I remembered, though, comes from my freshman year of college. a friend of mine on the hall was vegan, and she was pretty much the first exposure I had to veganism. Luckily she wasnt vegangelical about it--she was clear that her opinion was eat whatever you want and dont be a dick about it--but whenever she talked about what she was eating, it was saturated with the feelings that come from the "health halo" surrounding vegan diets. So, subconsciously, that association started to leak into my brain.
LOL, i just remembered, this OTHER friend of mine went vegan later in college and became addicted to Trader Joe's chocolate covered raspberry sticks (which is unsurprising, because, well, they are super delicious). She would go through a tub of them within a week. Another friend of mine suggested maybe she should ease up on them. Her response? "But theyre VEGAN!!"
He was skinny as a rail. Not necessary due to the veganism, because my brother who is a total CW eater is the same way, but, on the other hand, I do feel there's a reason that's the cliche look for vegan males.
I remember once we tried a recipe for ham in cola. Now I've never liked cola at all, but this recipe assured us that it was delicious even if you didn't like cola, so we gave it a go.
Never again. It was just sticky and sickly sweet. And this was long before we'd ever heard of primal.
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'2010' BluRay reviewed plus some new ideas for the blog
Hey, guys... Happy New Year.
"My God... it's full of stars!"
Like many people, I look at the New Year as a chance to start things anew, to assess the way I've been doing things and look for ways to do things better. In particular, I want to post more here on the blog. A LOT MORE. And in order to do so, I can't approach each piece as a small novel, which has always been my habit. Harry Knowles used to joke and refer to me as "one of THOSE comic book artists," which stings but which also seems fairly accurate. I would imagine that if Greg Ellwood's hair begins to thin any time soon, part of it is because of all the times he's snatched it out waiting on me to finish something, hoping for more content.
One of the things I want to do this year is try to share thoughts on everything I watch. I've been asked over and over how many movies I actually watch during a year, and when, and how I manage to fit them all in. The truth is, I almost always have something playing. There are days where that's not true, and days where it feels like it's one right after another after another. Not everything deserves a full review. Some films have been written about endlessly, by myself or by others, and it seems like there's nothing worth saying about them, and other films aren't easily digested and I don't have something immediate to say. But that ends up being a cop-out sometimes because I never come back to them.
So this year, I'm instigating what we'll call the "QuickFix" here on the blog, where after I watch a movie... after I watch every single movie I watch... I'll offer up a short reaction or a take or a thought... just something that marks the passage. And I figured there was no better way to kickstart both the series and the year than by watching the Peter Hyams film "2010: The Year We Make Contact."
I started 2001 the same way, watching the classic Stanley Kubrick film for what must have been the tenth time, and I know it's hopelessly nerdy, but I don't care. My movie-loving OCD demands it, and so it shall be.
My first observation is that the film is crystal clear on BluRay, as I would expect, and that as a result, every single deficiency of the original materials is harshly exposed. So far, as studios have started releasing catalog titles on BluRay, I am struck by how wretched many of the '80s films have been in terms of picture quality. At first, I thought it was individual transfers getting hosed for one reason or another, but I'm starting to suspect that it's something about the era itself, about the film stocks that were used, about the way optical printers on FX films would degrade the image, and about the way movies were photographed at the time. There are some moments on the "2010" BluRay that are amazing, and some moments that look like they were shot through a snow filter.
I suspect that as studios get better and smarter about how they master movies for high-definition, my current issues will go away, but for now, caveat emptor when you're picking up an '80s film... you just don't know what you're going to get. It could be "The Terminator" (which actually looked sort of amazing) or it could be "Ghostbusters" (which I'd wipe my butt with if I didn't think the edges would cut me). "2010" is somewhere in the middle, the quality shifting from shot to shot. The lower the light in a particular moment, the greater the noise in the image.
Questions of picture quality aside, it was amazing to revisit this film. It's got to be terrifying to try to follow up Stanley Kubrick, and Peter Hyams was never what you'd call a critical darling. He's made fun mainstream films as well as some abysmal crap, and the truth is that I don't think he's got a great eye for material. But if given something worth shooting, he shoots it incredibly well, and "2010" is a really smart piece of material overall, a true "hard SF story," which is a rare thing for movies. Most of the time, SF films are actually action films or horror films or some other genre dressed up in SF clothing. Hard SF, stuff that's based on science and speculation and big ideas, is not something studios seem willing to gamble on very often. For nerds like me, watching a sequence like the airbraking scene in "2010" or the space walk by Lithgow... that's a dream come true. Gorgeously realized, grounded in reality, and yet rich with awe and wonder, "2010" would be considered a classic if it wasn't dwarfed by the shadow of what is arguably one of the very best movies ever made.
Set aside the heady genius of Kubrick's film, though, and what you've got is a smart, adult piece of SF that still manages to maintain a PG-rating. The Cold War stuff is fascinating because of what it says about the '80s, and because it seemed impossible then that we'd have put that behind us by this point. I have a real fondness for SF films that are set in "the future" from when they were made, but which now take place in our past, like with "Space: 1999". It's always interesting to see just how far off the creators were in how they imagined a certain year. Hyams' film is less concerned with tech than with the human personalities and how they react to an encounter with the unknown, and something like that doesn't date.
The cast is amazing, with Roy Scheider at his prickly best, along with Bob Balaban, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Kier Dullea, and Ilya Baskin among those who make a strong impression. You do need to know the first film to fully appreciate the fine points of this one, but it works better as a stand-alone than one would expect. And I am most impressed by the fact that Hyams scripted this one himself from the Arthur C. Clarke novel. Makes me wish his career had played out in a very different way, because I can't picture any studio ever letting him make a film this ambitious again.
Great way to start the year, and I look forward to sharing the journey of 2010 with you guys on a much more frequent basis.
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After the first of February, with 10 games remaining on the North Carolina Tar Heels' season schedule, they currently sit at 14-7 overall and 4-4 in the ACC. A .500 record places UNC right in the middle of a crowded conference standings.
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Back to top Tall Hiker ManMemberJoined: 23 Jun 2006Posts: 347 | TRs | PicsLocation: Cashmere Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:08 pm Great question - I got nothing, but I'm hoping others do. Back to top mthyerMemberJoined: 05 Aug 2009Posts: 76 | TRs | PicsLocation: Ellensburg, WA Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:28 pm We'd recommend the Rendezvous Huts in Methow Valley. Keep in mind that these are modest structures and that things can be "tight" and you'll have a great time. The trail system in this area is wonderful of you like to XC ski and there is back country opportunity as well with big powdery bowls. My wife and I were married in Mazama and have used this hut system on several occasions. Also, not in WA or OR, but if you're interested in travel you should look into Yellowstone Expeditions. We took our honeymoon here. Arden and Erica are awesome! If you like to ski get Kari to take you to Violet Hot Springs where you can soak away the trip in or The Washburn Range Ridge Run which is a personal favorite because its so cold and the views are so nice. Back to top LucMemberJoined: 05 Jul 2003Posts: 1477 | TRs | PicsLocation: accepting wise-cracks like no other Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:42 pm we used this site to find our fire lookout for last winter. they have lotsa options for other more kid-friendy stuff.. http://www.recreation.gov/--------------GNGSTR Back to top KatTurtle HikerJoined: 05 Oct 2003Posts: 2440 | TRs | Pics Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:59 pm Scottish Lakes High Camp! http://www.scottishlakes.com/Home.shtml Back to top JeffRamen ElitistJoined: 18 Aug 2008Posts: 2525 | TRs | PicsLocation: Someone get me out of Everett, WA Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:33 pm The Oregona coast is lined with state parks with yurts. It's not a backcountry experience, but it's nice in the winter. Back to top TokyoTessieMemberJoined: 27 Jan 2005Posts: 475 | TRs | PicsLocation: Back in the shadow of Tahoma again! Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:01 pm Tumalo Campground near Bend, OR. It has heated yurts and is open year-round. That is where we stay when we go skiing at Mt Bachelor. If the mountain is socked in, then at least we can goof off around a campfire. Lots of good breweries in Bend, too, if you are into beer. And in OR, you can get beer to go, so you can take a jug of microbrew to drink back at the campfire. Back to top RodFMemberJoined: 01 Sep 2007Posts: 2105 | TRs | PicsLocation: Sequim WA Thu Aug 27, 2009 8:24 pm Kalaloch Lodge beachfront cabins with fireplaces, Olympic NP Interrorem Cabin/Ranger Station, Duckabush River, Olympic NF Hamma Hamma Cabin, Olympic NF Yurts (no, platform tents with electricity) at Dosewallips SP, cabin at Deception Pass SP are recommended. State Park yurts and cabins. Fort Worden SP has lots for kids, but is way up$cale. These are all at sea level, so won't be snowed in & are open year-round. Back to top Land CruiserMemberJoined: 05 Jun 2009Posts: 179 | TRs | Pics Fri Aug 28, 2009 7:30 am Awesome! Thanks for all the responses! We booked a yurt at grayland beach for 3 nights over new years...gonna try and call cama beach today and see if i can get a reservation for the other nights. Still open to more ideas/areas if anyone has them! Back to top 509MemberJoined: 03 Oct 2007Posts: 994 | TRs | PicsLocation: 509 Sun Aug 30, 2009 3:39 pm allroad wrote: Awesome! Thanks for all the responses! We booked a yurt at grayland beach for 3 nights over new years...gonna try and call cama beach today and see if i can get a reservation for the other nights. Still open to more ideas/areas if anyone has them! Place is kid friendly, but not cheap. Pretty location. www.camasmeadowslodge.com Back to top HenchbotMemberJoined: 11 Aug 2008Posts: 250 | TRs | PicsLocation: Alki Tue Sep 01, 2009 11:54 am Scottish Lakes High Camp is KILLER if you can get in. We go every Spring and its always epic. Someone already linked up above....check it out. Back to top MeanderJ PrettymountainJoined: 15 Jul 2006Posts: 288 | TRs | PicsLocation: Seattle Tue Sep 01, 2009 1:18 pm Scottish Lakes cabins are great for kids and no hiking required to get there. I love it but it is kinda expensive. There are family weekends that might be fun if you have kids to join up with others. There's also Mt Tahoma trails cabins and yurt at Rainier. Much cheaper!!! You have to hike/ski in with your gear and food unlike Scottish Lakes and the Rendevouz cabins in Methow, but the Copper Creek hut isn't far in. I went there last winter with two three year olds pulled in a ski sled. Downside is that it is really hard to get a spot on the weekend in winter (check spring though) and you may have to share with others you don't know if you don't have enough people to fill it up because I don't think they let you take the extra spaces. ? Good to know about the heated yurts at Tumalo. That is a great spot! Back to top ButtercupButtercupJoined: 14 Sep 2007Posts: 58 | TRs | PicsLocation: Seattle Tue Sep 01, 2009 2:41 pm Northwest Cheaplseeps: http://www.nwcheapsleeps.org and search for "cabin" or "yurt." Winter is a great time to be considering this b/c yurts and cabins on public lands get so booked out in the summer. Back to top wamtngalMemberJoined: 13 Jun 2004Posts: 2345 | TRs | PicsLocation: Seattle, WA Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:23 am allroad wrote: We booked a yurt at grayland beach for 3 nights over new years... My folks camp at Grayland for every major holiday in the summer, so I've been there plenty of times. The yurts are nice, nothing fancy, but they get the job done and they have heaters. Not sure if you're familiar with Grayland, but the yurts are located out in the newer "sand dune" (you'll see what I mean) loop at the park, so you're even closer to the beach...the new loop also has the newer bathroom, which is much fancier (individual shower rooms) than the older loops bathroom. Have fun! I've thought about heading there when there's a nice storm moving in... Back to top Land CruiserMemberJoined: 05 Jun 2009Posts: 179 | TRs | Pics Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:15 am wamtngal wrote: allroad wrote: We booked a yurt at grayland beach for 3 nights over new years... Have fun! I've thought about heading there when there's a nice storm moving in... Thats my plan..a nice adult beverage, a warm down coat, and a view of the storms coming in over the pacific! 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The Hated Author of the Spoonbender (or Anderson Cooper, or Lou Dobbs, or Analogcabin, or any of a thousand other monikers he goes by) is currently somewhere over the Great Sea en route to sunny climes, where he will relax on tropical beaches, surrounded by smiling natives and witch doctors, whose dulcet voices will lull him gently to sleep with songs of kidnapped American floozies and outsourced tech jobs. He plans to remain in those happy climes until July 15th, or until he is nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court, whichever comes first.
In the interim, I, Ian, or "Ian," as this site's proprietor likes to call me, will be the Master of Ceremonies in the Hated Author's stead. You may know me from my own moderately entertaining website, Wrapped Up Like a Douche, which has somehow managed to avoid being nominated for every major website ass-kissing award for a third straight year, despite bearing the prestigious title of "Home of the Sausage McMuffin with Bacon."
Now, having been a frequent visitor to this site in the past, I feel I have a good idea what you, the loyal readers, have come to expect; and I would imagine that right now you're feeling a mixture of horror, dismay, disgust, and the urge to commence litigation. I don't blame you. I'm not the Spoonbender, and it would be impossible for me to fill his large, fungicide-reeking shoes.
But if I am to even attempt such shoe-fillery, I know I will have to "turn it up a notch"--I must sharpen the razor of my wit until it cuts the very stone it is hewn upon. I must disregard the feelings of those less fortunate or educated or good-looking. I must suppress my compassion for the culturally-challenged. I must bury my empathy beneath layer upon layer of not-give-a-crapness. I must do this, as the Spoonbender has done before me, for the greater good of humanity, or at least that part of humanity which doesn't make me want to vomit.
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The Prince John was a member of the British Royal Family, the youngest son of King George V and Queen Mary. The Prince had epilepsy and consequently was largely hidden from the public eye.
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The Prince was baptised on 3 August 1905 at St Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham; his godparents were the King of Portugal; the Duke and Duchess of Sparta (his cousins); the Prince Carl of Denmark (his cousin); Princess Alexander of Teck (his cousin); Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (his eponymous great-granduncle); and the Duke of Fife (his uncle). … Read More
1911 5 Years Old Prince John had his first epileptic seizure at age four. He did not attend his father's coronation on 22 June 1911. … Read More
1916 10 Years Old In later years Winifred recalled John's excitement at seeing First World War zeppelins passing over Sandringham in 1916, his pleasure on meeting 'a real, live soldier' – her father Sergeant Frederick Thomas, who visited that same year – and a bicycle race between Prince John and his cousin Crown Prince Olav of Norway (later King Olav V of Norway). … Read More
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After Prince John's burial on 21 January 1919 at Sandringham Church (the Church of St Mary Magdalene) the Queen wrote: … Read More
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You recognize your responsibility to advance the competency and maturity of your IT organization through technology (See: "Seek Innovation and Optimization in 2010 at the Intersection of Business and Technology"). The role of IT and leadership by the CIO have become more difficult as the complexity and abundance of technology have grown dramatically in the last decade; this decade will make current systems obsolete faster than ever before. But IT systems have to be more than cheaper and faster, becoming better and smarter in their ability to deliver value to the organization. Part of doing this is knowing what business needs from applications and tools, and that includes understanding how and what they are actually using – that is not always what IT thinks they are using, particularly now that renting applications via software as a service (SaaS) is growing, not to mention the custom applications and spreadsheets that dominate business use of technology. IT needs to examine these issues and make strategic decisions on buying and using software tools by looking at approaches beyond on-premises, such as open source and cloud computing through SaaS. Simultaneously it has to better understand business adoption of mobile technologies such as Apple iPhone and others that make business computing more accessible and simple regardless of support from IT.
The CIO and IT staff need to manage their portfolio of technology as a business asset, not a collection of systems vendors' technologies and people who manage them. To get to this point we advise applying performance management to the IT function and establishing portfolio management and planning processes that use systems designed to support the complex needs of managing assets, projects, resources and tools. At the same time they have to better coordinate applications and tools for managing IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) still need as extend them to finance and operations. To do this requires a portfolio of information-related tools and applications that can help do everything from information monitoring, security and search to eliminating the dependence on inefficient and risky spreadsheets and e-mail. Simultaneously IT needs to address its own sustainability efforts and treat it as an opportunity to reduce the cost and burden of technology for the business and our environment.
IT has been effective in advancing the art and science of information management and the use of data warehousing and business intelligence for the rest of the organization. But IT has not done a great job of using it in its own area of focus. Yet there are an array of useful types of tools to help in this process. It's time to use analytics and metrics on IT data more efficiently in this role and responsibility. IT now has realized that investments into data governance and dedicated technology to support it, including data integration, data quality and master data management, are essential for managing data and content-related assets effectively. Being smart about the management of data requires deciding if the most intelligent processing and storage of data can come from dedicated appliances to reduce time and resources. The specialization of analytic databases also can help to operate specific aspects of the business. Harmonizing the management and integration of content and data assets into a full life cycle and an overall information demand-and-supply chain is mandatory. This foundation is important to provide trusted information from analytics and business intelligence along with applications for performance management. IT will need to understand that business has created a portfolio of quasi-applications using spreadsheets that in most organizations are the data skeletons in the closet yet to be found. To further innovate and advance, the IT organization will have to look at these and other improved approaches to enable business to be more responsive and able to keep up with the pace of business through the use of events in what we call Operational Intelligence. In addition the business demands geographic context with information and analytics – Location Intelligence, where new types of content and data from maps to competitive data can be stored and provided to these tools and applications.
Thus IT also has to look at technologies and approaches that go beyond its comfort zone or current methods of computing. Internally this includes streamlining through unified communications, which can optimize the use of voice and data over the Internet to enable simpler collaboration and interactions. Operating on top of this technology are new types of information applications that enable interaction and collaboration and directly support particular business activities and processes. IT also needs to think about how these new technologies work across the organization in terms of the competency and generational comfort with the use of technology.
This is a long list, but IT has a tremendous opportunity to have a positive influence on business by introducing new options and education that empower areas of the organization to drive forward.
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6 Famous Television Gags We'll Never See Again
#3. Hare Krishnas in Airports
Hare Krishna is a sect of a movement of a branch of Hinduism. Most notably, it's one of the few branches that encourage preaching and spreading Krishna consciousness, and the Krishnas of the 1960s and 1970s took that to fucking heart. Street corners, bus stations, and airports all had Hare Krishnas in their distinctive robes and shaved heads, chanting and singing and generally just getting up in everyone's grill about Krishna.
This is most famously depicted in the classic comedy Airplane, in which the gag is turned on its head when two Hare Krishnas are approached by Christian missionaries and brush them off with rolled eyes. It's also more hilariously depicted in the same film when the superbly named Rex Kramer is approached by a variety of airport missionaries and politely declines their advances:
We're unlikely to see this joke too much (although here it is mentioned in House M.D.) because Krishnas have been banned from airports for years now. Also, the movement itself has massively toned down its public proselytizing. They sing and chant and quietly do their own thing and there's no point referencing them because no one's seen them in 20 years and holy shit what if they're turning invisible!?
You know something, I've changed my mind. We must keep making Hare Krishna jokes, if only to raise awareness of this terrifying possibility. Carry on, hacks.
#2. Cartoon Characters Committing Suicide
Suicide is one of those things that sound funny on paper, but in ... wait a second. No it doesn't. Suicide never sounds funny. It's an awful, gut-wrenching tragedy, the terrible conclusion to what must have been a series of smaller awful, gut-wrenching tragedies. It's one of the least funny things ever, and you'd have to be a complete maniac to find humor in it.
Maniacs, it turns out, easily found employment in the 1940s as cartoon writers. Warner Bros. cartoons in particular featured tons of characters killing themselves as the punchline to various bits. And not just bit characters. Have you heard of a guy called Daffy Duck? Yeah, he's dead now.
Here's Pepe Le Pew, the famous sexual predator (another hilarious character type that hasn't aged well), threatening suicide to get a girl to love him.
One of the most insane forms of this gag had a character (typically a bystander to the action) see something really zany. A dancing frog or something like that.
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Or that specifically.
And then this character turns to the camera and says, "Well, now I've seen everything." And then, having nothing left to live for, he puts a gun to his head and, holy shit, kills himself.
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Holy shit.
I can't pretend that watching this kind of cartoon violence ruins a person. I watched Warner Bros. cartoons featuring gags like this all the time growing up, and I've managed to survive to this day. (Although I had one close call due to a mix-up between rabbit season and duck season.) But, you know, I think we can live with a lack of suicide jokes in our entertainment options. I think that's something we can safely tuck away in our past.
#1. Flashing "12:00"
For anyone who wasn't alive to know what one is, a VCR was basically a tape-based DVD player. Which was itself a kind of disk-based Netflix device that required you to first drive to a Blockbuster. Which was itself a kind of horse-powered ... you know what, forget it. A VCR was a magic box that granted wishes.
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But only if those wishes were for the chance to see grainy recorded episodes of Murphy Brown.
A recurring gag in film and television from this era was how hard VCRs were to program, in particular the clocks on them. A flashing "12:00" became the universal sign that someone found their VCR too difficult to program. There have probably been billions of jokes made about how difficult it was to set the clock on a VCR, with the implication being that the butt of the joke was a helpless simpleton.
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"So this VCR box somehow steals the soul of these actors and forces them to react to these scenes for eternity? Super!"
The thing that always pissed me off about this joke, aside from the fact that I heard it a billion times, is how it was utter nonsense. VCRs were not hard to program. They were annoying to program. More importantly, there was no need to program them -- we all had better, more usable clocks everywhere else in the household, and resetting the clock on the VCR every time the power went out was pointless. That's why these clocks stayed blinking. Because people couldn't rightfully be bothered.
The intent of these jokes -- making fun of old people -- is fine and admirable. We, as a society, need to mock the elderly more. But if someone didn't set the time on their VCR, that wasn't a sign of stupidity. It was a sign of someone who had set their priorities perfectly.
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"Ehhh. I'll just ask my kids to do it. I've been looking for a way to instill in them a false sense of superiority."
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Recorded in his own words, gospel preacher, singer and award-winning song writer, Bishop Carroll McGruder (UPC): "Oh, I can't hardly wait 'till I hear the call of the trumpet saying, 'Come on up higher my people.'"
He adds: "I'm ready, I'm watching, I'm waiting. Why, I wanna tell you something, you could slip daylight past a rooster easier than you can get the rapture past a believer."
The word rapture, not found in the KJV Bible, means: ecstasy, delight, joy, bliss, seventh heaven and cloud nine. To the born again, sanctified, Holy Spirit-sainted Christian believer, all above meanings apply! Amen! (John 3:16). The word joy totally describes it. "The joy of the Lord is your strength." "Enter in to the joy of the Lord." "It is joy unspeakable and full of glory."
More properly described is the catching away of the glorious Church, Bride of Christ. This happens "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye." 1st Corinthians 15:51-52: "Behold I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed."
In the context of 1st Corinthians Chapter 15, we find a translation of our redeemed souls by Christ's blood, and human terrestrial bodies to that of celestial body transformation (see 1st John 3:2). Matthew 24:26-27: "Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers, believe it not. For as lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be."
The description of lightning is mentioned in scripture numerous times in regards to the manifested glory of Jehovah God. "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight. And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as he went up, behold, two men stood by them in white apparel; Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven. This same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven" (Acts 1:9-11).
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ" (Titus 2:13). 1st Thessalonians 4:13-18: "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words."
1st Thessalonians 5:1-3: "But of the times and the seasons, brethren ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not
Isaiah prophecies of a virgin conceiving and bringing forth Immanuel, meaning God is with us. Mary travailed and brought forth her first born son Jesus, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes in a manger. As we wait Jesus Christ's second return in the clouds, we also travail in body mind and spirit (see Romans 8:21-23).
In type and shadow of a glorious rapture or catching away, we see Enoch, the seventh from Adam: "And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (365) And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." He was caught up without seeing natural death) (Genesis 5:23). "By faith Enoch, was translated that he should not see death and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation (to heaven), he had this testimony that he pleased' God" (Hebrews 11:5).
Jude's epistle recalls Enoch in verse 14: "And Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints." There is an ancient volume of books called "Book of Enoch," which has the complete transcendental prophetic time line for Almighty Jehovah God's plan for mankind.
Enoch and Elijah did not experience a natural death. They are the two witnesses and olive trees in Revelation. They will then experience natural death and resurrect after witnessing 1,260 days. "It is appointed for men once to die, after this the judgment." Much speculation abounds today, concerning the second coming of Christ. Will His catching away of the Church be pre-tribulation, mid-tribulation or post tribulation? Personally, I hold steadfast to a pre-tribulation, pre-millennial second coming.
Song of Solomon portrays Christ and His Bride in allegory as an elopement. Chapter 2 verse 9: "Behold he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice." In verses 10-13 he is calling: "Arise up my love, my fair one and come away."
Christ purchased the church with his own blood. As his church/bride we are to be without spot, wrinkle or blemish. God's fierce wrath will be upon the whole Earth to those who receive the mark of the beast.
Christ's elect will not experience these judgments and tribulation. The Lord will safely secure us in his heavenly bridal chamber. "For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation by our Lord Jesus Christ, Who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him," (1st Thessalonians 5:9-10)). Isaiah prophecies in chapter 26:19-11: "Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in the dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast out the dead.
"Come, my people (His elect), enter thou into the chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment (seven years on earth of great tribulation), until the indignation be over past. For behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity: The earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain." The anti-Christ, that wicked possessed by Satan himself, cannot not be revealed to deceive the world as long as the Holy Spirit and Bride remain on Earth.
2nd Thessalonians 2: 3-12: "Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first (Or catching away, rapture. Many now cease to attend church by falling away); and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. (We are close.) For the mystery of iniquity (all unrighteousness) doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. (The Holy Spirit's presence within the Church, is presently restraining the Man of Sin's personal emergence.)
"And then shall that wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming. Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, in them that perish, because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
Revelation 1:7: "Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." (see Zechariah 13:6). Post-rapture eternal joy for Christ's elect include a marriage supper, the judgment seat of Christ and returning to Earth on white horses, for a thousand-year reign where every eye shall see Jesus. (Revelation 19:11-21. "And the Spirit and bride say, Come."


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WS-Addressing and stateful webservice
By sujit on Mar 03, 2009
WS-addressing and its use
- Provides transport-neutral mechanisms to address Web services and messages.
- Stateful webservice, Web services are usually stateless, , however it is possible to enable webservice to be stateful i.e. to share multiple instances of service endpoints between subsequent invocation.
- Simple and complex Message Exchange Patterns
- Used for other WS-\* specification like reliable Messaging, WS-MetadataExchange, WS-Security
WS-Addressing and stateful webservice
We will dive in details how stateful sebservice is created? how a client can access the same? and how metro/jax-ws maintain the state in between subsequent invocation?, We will make use of the examples which comes with metro/jax-ws RI
Server (Book.java and BookStore.java)
@Stateful @WebService @Addressing
public class Book {
private final String id;
private volatile List<String> reviews = new ArrayList<String>();
public Book(String id) {
this.id = id;
public String getId() {
return id;
public synchronized void postReview(String review) {
List<String> l = new ArrayList<String>(reviews);
reviews = l;
public List<String> getReviews() {
return reviews;
public boolean equals(Object that) {
if (that == null || this.getClass() != that.getClass()) return false;
return this.id.equals(((Book)that).id);
public int hashCode() {
return id.hashCode();
public static StatefulWebServiceManager<Book> manager;
public class BookStore {
public W3CEndpointReference getProduct(String id) {
return Book.manager.export(new Book(id));
See the Book.java which is stateful webservice, this is done by declaring Stateful annotation on a Book.java class. Note the class also have a public static method/field that takes StatefulWebServiceManager. Once the service is deployed the jax-ws does the resource injection on the field or the method. A stateful web service (Book.java) does not need to have a default constructor. Most of the time user would to define a constructor that takes some arguments, so that each instance carries certain state. Each instance of a stateful web service( Book.java) is identified by an unique EndpointReference. BookStore.java creates an instance of a class, JAX-WS RI assign a unique EPR for the instance as follows Book.manager.export(new Book(id))
BookStore bookstore = new BookStoreService().getBookStorePort();
BookService service = new BookService();
1. Book book1 = service.getPort(bookstore.getProduct("abc001"), Book.class);
2. book1.getId();
3. book1.postReview("This book is great!");
4. book1.getReviews();
similar code for book2....
Once the client runtime receives the EPR info , it uses the EPR info in the subsequent call, i.e When client send messages to this EPR, the JAX-WS RI makes sure that the particular exported instance associated with that EPR will receive a service invocation. We will see shortly how this is achieved
Digging Deeper
We will trace the soap request response for the client code (line 1, 2, and 3). This will give an clear idea how an Endpoint can associate the request with an exported instance of an EPR, and how the exported instance is identified using an unique Identifier.
1. Invoke BookStore service( bookstore.getProduct("abc001")) , Note the soap request-response, The response contain the EPR details which contains the address and the unique <jaxws:objectid>, note this objectid is used in subsequent call to the BookService, and this how the jaxws RI find out which instance of the EPR will get the invocation
2. book1.getId(); note the soap request, here the jax-ws inserts the required addressing headers and the <jaxws:objectid>,
3. book1.postReview("This book is great!"); note the soap request, here also the jax-ws inserts the required addressing headers and the <jaxws:objectid>,
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