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Jazz musician are notorious musical nomads. Grammy nominated saxophonist/bassoonist/composer Ben Wendel has taken a career packed with collaborative efforts with artists from Gerald Clayton to Prince and releases a stunning work from an eclectic yet incredibly accessible foundation of an organic ambient quality few artists can match.
Frame is the end result of the creation of a suite from which three songs on this release originated. Having first become enthralled with Ben Wendel with his release ACT (Brooklyn Jazz Underground, 2009), the development of Wendel's talent is astonishing as Frame does not lend itself to any self imposed musical labels that most are all too familiar with.
Opening with the vibrant and harmonically driven "Chorale" there is a hypnotic use of syncopation which is the start of an incredibly organic pulse that drives not just this tune but the entire release. Gerald Clayton's appearance adds a nice musical depth of field especially with the duo arrangement of Dizzy Gillespie's "Con Alma." Three different pianists are used on Frame which highlights Wendel's love of musical textures while never losing sight of a very natural ebb and flow that is captivating. A somewhat personal tune finds "Leaving" as a wistful take on Wendel's move from Los Angeles to Brooklyn and the anticipation of what may be on the horizon. Closing with "Julia" there is an obvious appreciation for classical music forms, a mysterious yet beautifully expansive piece bordering on cinematic in melody.
There is a methodical precision to Wendel's playing. No notes are wasted but instead linger in an open ended sonic exploratory of melody and expression seldom heard from other players today. Ben Wendel is a musical sponge, an organic byproduct of his own creative nature.
Frame is a musical snapshot of a creative moment in time for a prolific composer, unique instrumentalist and jazz visionary. Conventional labels to Wendel's music do not apply here nor should they. Ben Wendel is the epitome of the evolving artist and the future for jazz saxophone.
5 stars!
Tracks: Chorale; Clayland; Con Alma; Backbou; Jean and Renata; Blocks; Frame; Leaving; Julia.
Personnel: Ben Wendel: saxophones, bassoon & melodica; Gerald Clayton: piano ( 1,2,3); Tigran Hamasyan: piano (4,6,7); Nir Felder: guitar; Adam Benjamin: piano ( 1,4,6,7), fender rhodes (8,9); Ben Street: bass; Nate Wood: drums.


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By Tiffany Tse
You wear jeans to work, to play and for everything in between, so they should be the most flattering items of clothing you own. Thanks to new stretch technology and specially constructed silhouettes, there are a variety of jeans that can conceal your trouble spots, while enhancing your best assets. On a mission to find the best jeans, Glo's staff tried on everything from baggy boyfriends to tapered skinnies. Read on for ten slenderizing pairs, guaranteed to help you survive the holiday season.
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"You know the dreaded feeling of slipping into a new pair of stiff jeans? These 7 For All Mankind skinnies aren't like that at all. This pair's made with 100 percent elasticity denim, which explains their comfortable, springy feel. (I felt like I could bend, stretch and jump on the spot, if I needed to.) The brand promises the jeans will make you feel at least one size smaller, but I swear I also looked a size smaller as well." —Tiffany Tse, style & beauty editor
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"Seraphine's maternity jeans felt great—there was a surprisingly soft full-belly band to accommodate my growing tummy. I could easily tuck them into boots or wear them with flats. The material had just the right amount of stretch—and even by the end of the day, they hadn't lost their shape. What I love about the dark wash is that they not only made my legs feel lean and long, they feel dressy enough to wear to work or out at night." —Andie Huber, living editor
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"I am not naturally 'leggy,' but in these Rich & Skinny jeans, I felt that way. They had a wider leg without being at all bell-bottom—instead, they fit more like a good pair of trousers, gradually tapering out. The dark wash and slightly higher waist (hitting just below my belly-button) also helped create a lean silhouette. Another major bonus? They had this smooth, crease-free way of laying flat against the body." —Shannan Rouss, executive editor
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"J Brand has perfected the trifecta for flattering denim in my book: an elongating, slim cut; stretchy yet substantial fabric that doesn't lose its shape; and a super-saturated dark wash. These Photo Ready jeans lengthen you out while sucking you in, creating the illusion of lost pounds, but are way more comfortable and cooler than any shapewear." —Anne Weintraub, editor-in-chief
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"I have officially found my new favorite pair of jeans. Not only were they incredibly soft and comfortable, but I was amazed at how much they flattered my usual problem areas (hips, especially). The solid blue hue made my legs look longer (which in turn, made my hips look slimmer) and the stretchy, high-waist cut easily concealed those love handles. All of the compliments I received while wearing them really sealed the deal." —Paige Brettingen, editor
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"I love this pair! DL1961 did a good job with the stretchiness and they slipped right on. No squirming at all. It also helped that these were boyfriend jeans. I prefer this style around the holidays because the bagginess hides problem areas, like my thighs, but they're more comfy than high-waist jeans or skinnies! I also liked that they were slightly distressed, which offers a distraction from my waistline." —Claire Shair-Ali, photo editor
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"I've always been a fan of the boot-cut jean, since they have a slimming, elongating effect on the body and look great with heels. Cult of Individuality's pair flatters my thighs the most, and there's something about the stretch material that's not too loose and not too tight, which I really like." —Maece Seirafi, designer
SHOP NOW: Cult of Individuality Bohemi Boot Motion Denim in Viper, $149, cultofindividuality.com
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"I rely on the same three denim brands, so I've been wanting to expand my jean portfolio and was stoked to try Calvin Rucker skinnies. This relatively new label was created by Caroline Calvin, the former senior vice president of global design at Levi's, and Joie Rucker, founder of Joie. Clearly, they know what they're doing when it comes to denim. The material is thick, which holds a nice shape and makes my butt look good." —Brithny Zhang, site producer
SHOP NOW: Calvin Rucker Heartbreaker Jeans, $245, calvinrucker.com
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"If you don't like your jeans super-stretchy, you might not love Level 99's cropped skinnies. But I do, which is why these were perfect for me. Made from a cotton-and-spandex blend, these jeans sucked in everything, trimming down the size of my thighs and calves by at least an inch. This cropped style looks great with pointy-toe heels too (a trick in case you want legs to look even longer)." —Tiffany Tse, style & beauty editor
SHOP NOW: Level 99 Janie Ultra Skinny Crop in Je Taime, $120, level99.com
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"These Black Orchid mid-rise jeggings contain your middle without giving you a muffin top. The material's great, making you feel thinner without squeezing you or feeling uncomfortable. There are no front pockets, which also helps your tummy look flatter. One tip? Buy your exact size. They may appear small at first, but will stretch nicely to fit." —Keila Lopez, photo editor
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Free Open Source Software (FOSS) is great – I have released code under the GPL, LGPL, and similar licenses. There are mountains of FOSS available right now for download from sites like SourceForge and others that save businesses millions of dollars. More importantly, open source software offers feature sets and mixes that often aren't available in commercial products because the market is too small, commercial companies don't understand it, or the problems aren't profitable enough to solve.
The great promise of open source is that you can have equal or more functionality than commercial software for free, and you have access to the source code if you have the desire, time, and skills to hack it into something new. This model was perfect when developers were writing tools for each other, like text editors such as VI and Linux. Most FOSS projects aren't under the stewardship of a commercial entity (although some of the most successful ones are, such as RedHat, Firefox, and OpenOffice), they are built by and for a handful of developers "scratching an itch," and they are not working with a Product Manager. Unfortunately, FOSS has become a victim of its own success, and today, open source developers are facing a problem that threatens to turn legions of users against the software they rely on.
Most FOSS projects are a meritocracy, meaning that the developers care about developing for themselves and their own problems. If non-contributing users problems' happen to be solved, great. If not, well – "you have access to the code, feel free to build that feature yourself!"
Users understand that free software comes with limitations: there is typically only ad hoc support, updates are only as frequent as the developers care to make them, and bugs may go un-addressed forever. But users don't care because they are getting something for nothing, and were willing to put up with the lack of polish found in most FOSS. However, now free/open source software has become so widely distributed and used that the boundaries in user's minds between FOSS and commercial software has become blurred.
Open source developers have created products so good, that they are nearly indistinguishable to an end user from commercial software. This has changed the mindset and expectations of users to think that they are the persona that the developer is writing code for, but are they? Some applications, such as Firefox, have made the leap and are clearly developing for an end user. For an example of a FOSS project that hasn't, look no further than Pidgin.
Pidgin is a free and open source instant messaging (IM) client akin to MSN Messenger, Google Chat, or Trillian. Recently, in their 2.4 release, they changed the GUI action of the text field where the user types their IM from a manually re-sizable window, to a fixed size window that auto-re-sizes based on the amount of text typed. On the surface, this sounds like a minor change, but it triggered a massive user revolt! Why?
First, the Pidgin developers violated the Principle of Least Astonishment. You never take away functionality from the user when they upgrade. Second, the Pidgin developers let "Perfect become the enemy of Good." If you take the time to read through the entire discussion (I don't recommend this unless you have plenty of time), you see statements from the developers such as (paraphrased): "We want to find one solution that fits the needs of all users; we don't understand/don't agree with the use case that calls for a resizable input window." Third, the developers became more and more entrenched as the discussion progressed, rationalizing the feedback as a "vocal minority," and recommending that the users try to use other applications for their needs. Finally the thread devolves into the developers reminding everyone that they do this work on their own time, for their own enjoyment, and by the way they are closing the bug report and tagging it as "will not fix." Harrumph!
The most interesting reply on the bug report is from Dan Livingston:
I teach "Collaboration in an Open Source World" at a local college. I have been searching for, and in this ticket have found, a perfect example where communication between open source developers and users fails at multiple, fundamental levels.
Obviously, the motivations of open source developers are varied; some do it for technical enjoyment, others enjoy knowing they are contributing intellectual capital to a better world. The problem is when the motivations of open source developers conflict with the expectations of users.
Consider every wildly successful open source project: the users are enthralled with their ability to perform new activities in ways previously unimagined. Rabid dedication grows, and an evangelical fan base results. Pretty soon, it's obvious why users would not want to go with non-open source software alternatives.
What happens when those same newfound powers are taken away? What happens when the developers impose their personal dogmas upon the project? Even for as small an issue as chat window resizing, a minority (or majority) of users will emphatically express dissent.
It's easy to see why open source developers could develop dogmas. Some like to fantasize about the theoretical limits to which a design may become "pure", developing a vile repulsion to anything which steers away from purity. Others become obsessed with metrics such as maintenance effort per line of code, even though they often worry about features and lines of code which only contribute to 1% of the complexity of the application. Yet others develop fixation on "ultimate user simplicity", feeling that two options are better than five options which deliver more power. The most dangerous dogma is the one exhibited here: the God feature. "One technological solution can meet every possible user-desired variation of a feature."
The initial lure of open source software is that quality software should resoundingly meet the needs of users. As demonstrated up until Pidgin 2.4, the fan base has emphatically been extolling the virtues of Pidgin. But when developers take a feature away, presumably to implement a "better version", and that better version in fact is a step backwards from the functionality previously available, they had better have a damn good reason. Such a reason is lacking here.
"This is how IM should be used." "Our design is better." "We will only consider a 'pure' design in which we can accomplish the old functionality in a paradigm that also supports the new functionality." "An additional checkbox is too detrimental to the user interface." "Maintaining two branches of logic within the dialog sizing component will be untenable." "We have no interest in not pushing our shiny new object."
These are all statements, which if executed within a corporate arena, would get developers fired. Developers, make note: you are doing a disservice to the community you claim to represent, and are doing so with false illusions that you are "right" because you have convictions in your justifications.
It does not matter that you are open source developers with the autonomy to ignore your user base. It does not matter that a plugin "could" be developed to solve the problem. It does not matter that you feel your default solution is superior. It does not matter that you only want to consider solutions which can be implemented through the new solution framework. It does not matter that your users should abandon your product if they don't like it. It does not matter that someone could fork the code base. It does not matter if 11 thousand people download your source code per day, and only 270 complain about it. For each of these, there are very valid rebuttals
The fact is that typing letters into an IM window is THE most critical task of an IM program. Users have varying needs, needs which can not be addressed by your limited attempts to come up with "one solution for everything" that incorporates "shiny new logic" that demonstrates how smart you are. You are ignoring the fan base with a dedication to your convictions that is alarmingly evident to even the most unobservant of followers, and as such, you are demonstrating that you no longer deserve to be in the position of servicing the needs of your user base.
For the sake of everyone involved, I hope you find your path back to the light.
Predictably, the very next reply is:
Do you have a lecture about insulting hobbyist developers you've never met on their bug tracker?
Later, Professor Livingston dresses down the development team with some well-placed satire, tongue firmly in cheek:
From now on, the user base of Pidgin should just assume that the following fictitious letter was ghost written for the Pidgin development team:
"Dear Users:
You are most undoubtedly reading this page because you want to know how to manually resize the text input area in Pidgin. It is a feature that you have perhaps grown accustomed to and comfortable with, but please make note – this feature is no longer supported.
We have received many complaints from a very small minority of the user base who nonetheless persists in being very vocal about their displeasure. Please take comfort in the fact that they are only a very small percentage base of Pidgin users, and if ignored, will go away and bother some other open source project.
Nonetheless, we feel it very important to make the following proclamation regarding on our stance on this project: we will not "fix" it. In fact, please notice that the status of this "bug" is "wontfix". So would you please just get this idea through you head and go away now?
We are developers of this software, and we develop Pidgin so that it may fulfill our explicit needs and desires. If you want to join us for the ride, then fine. Just shut up, though. Please, if we've made a feature a certain way, it's because WE WANT IT THAT WAY. Is that so hard to understand? All day long our bosses tell us what to do. Our wives tell us what to do. Our government tell us what to do. YOU will NOT tell us what to do.
Some say that as the developers of the premier open source IM client, we have a "responsibility" to serve as wardens of our precious charge, nurturing it into a fine, outstanding, model citizen of the open source community. That's rubbish. The last time we checked, we didn't sign up for day care. We signed up to write software that WE want to use.
So please take your ideas and go elsewhere. If you want a development team that responds to the desires of their user base, hoping to release world-class, quality software to millions of people, then start your own open source project. It's not that hard. It's free. All you have to do is commit your time, just like we commit ours.
The development team would very much like to come up with a solution that meets the needs of ourselves and the general user base. However, we cannot understand your needs. You speak in a foreign gibberish, gobbledy gook language that none can understand. "I just like it that way!" That is not an answer! You must enumerate the metrics and aspects of your preferences and desires in ways that we can evaluate and then assimilate into our collective. We cannot currently assimilate any of your idiotic reasons for wanting a resizable text box. And by idiotic, we mean "any solution which does not fit into the scheme of our cleverly intelligent auto-resizing text field."
So, just to make it clear: we will not listen to your suggestions unless your suggestions make sense to us, and we like them. If you do not like it, there are plenty of other ways on the Internet in which you may occupy your time.
Regards, Pidgin development team"
Obviously, there is a huge gap between the expectations of the users and the developers. Who normally bridges that gap? Product Management.
If Pidgin had a Product Manager, they would have raised a flag on the change in functionality and would help the engineering team prioritize feature sets based on the needs of the target users. Unfortunately, most FOSS projects today don't have Product Managers, and don't have written personas or target users; they have developers working for themselves.
I propose that Product Management should take a more active role in FOSS, not telling the developers what users need, but teamingwith developers to identify the target audience and prioritize the users needs. If developers can donate their time working on these projects there is no reason Product Managers can't do the same thing.
Another issue we can solve is one of expectations. Open source projects should adopt a clear tag, license, or some other marking indicating if the goal of that project is to "scratch an itch," or if the project has gained the maturity to really care about servicing a base of non-contributing users. Free software programmers work on donated time, and as such are never obligated to serve anyone but themselves, but indicating the goal of a project up front at download-time (for the user), and at code writing time (for the developer) would set expectations appropriately and sideline these kinds of conversations.
Even on a "serviced" project, users need clear guidelines about what is and isn't acceptable feedback. The discussion above started out as civil, but quickly turned into a shouting match, with each side digging in. At that point, no one could compromise without losing face. A FOSS Product Manager could have diffused the issue early, by involving users in the design (pre-code), and being a neutral party to explain the decision making process and trade offs.
Is anyone currently contributing Product Management to a Open Source project? Would you (as a PM) be willing to contribute Product Management expertise to a FOSS project? Are there any free software projects out there that would be willing to experiment with using a Product Manager (I am referring to FOSS projects that are not backed by for-profit corporations)? FOSS developers – would you be willing to work with a Product Manager on your project? Why/why not?
This story was also covered on Slashdot.
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Thursday, 26 June 2003
9:00 9:05 Welcome (B. Otto-Bliesner, NCAR, and L. Sloan, University of California at Santa Cruz)
- The Paleoclimate Working Group Meeting was organized into three sections. The first section focused on science and results from CSM and CCSM. Attendees also presented a one transparency slide of future work planned with CCSM. The second detailed the "nuts and bolts" of running the CCSM for past geographies. Finally, the group joined the Biogeochemistry and Climate Change Working Groups for talks on carbon cycle and aerosol modeling.
9:05 9:20 Eocene El Nino (M.Huber, Purdue)
- CSM1.4 was run for the Eocene (40-50Ma) with the motivation of understanding climate through modes of variability. Ocean heat transport and the depth and gradient of the thermocline are key areas of interest. Modeled ENSO events show a SST amplitude of +/-3oC and a period of up to 6 years. PowerPoint, PDF
9:20 9:35 Paleogene CO2 Sensitivity (L. Sloan and C. Shellito, University of California at Santa Cruz)
- Paleogene includes the past time periods of the Paleocene and Eocene. CSM1.4 simulations were performed to investigate two characteristics of this time period: the small pole to equator temperature gradient and the low seasonality of the interior continents. Three greenhouse gas forcing experiments were performed: 500ppm, 1000ppm, and 2000ppm. Model tropical temperatures are too warm compared to proxy data for all experiments, and the 2000ppm experiment proved to be the most tolerable environment for plants. Also mentioned was new research indicating that the proxy data may be too cold in the tropics, but this is still under investigation.
9:35 9:50 Multi-Millennium Simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum (G. Vettoretti, University of Toronto)
- CSM1.4 was run on the NEC SX6 at the University of Toronto for multi-millennium simulations, 2500 years for Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) conditions. Results show that average global SSTs decreased by 4.5oC (5-6oC in the tropical region), and decreased by 2oC in the deep ocean. Sea ice extended farther equatorward. ENSO events also increased in intensity.
9:50 10:05 Evolution of Earth's Greenhouse Effect (J. Kiehl, NCAR)
- The evolution of Earth's greenhouse effect was investigated by looking at CSM1.4 data spanning a large geological time period, 600Ma to present. Simulations used include Snowball Earth (600Ma), Cretaceous (80Ma), Eocene (55Ma), LGM (21Ka), Holocene (0-11Ka), and Present (1990). Two definitions of the greenhouse effect were used (see PowerPoint). The greenhouse effect is smallest for Snowball Earth, and large for the Cretaceous/Eocene. Extrapolation to the future (year 2100) indicates the greenhouse effect approaches Eocene levels. Comparisons of the greenhouse effect to neighboring planets were also made. PowerPoint PDF
10:05 10:20 Simulations of the Last Millennium (C. Ammann, NCAR, and F. Joos, University of Bern, Switzerland)
- Three simulations of the Last Millennium were performed using the CSM 1.4 in transient mode. These include a control (no forcings) and two forced simulations with forcing histories of solar irradiance, volcanic aerosol, greenhouse gases, and tropospheric sulfate aerosol. The solar irradiance was scaled to two different estimates of low-frequency changes of the solar activity for the forced simulations. Despite recent doubt on physical feasibility of long-term solar changes per se, the global and hemispheric surface temperatures in the simulations compare well to proxy-based climate reconstructions. Comparable solar fingerprints are present in simulations and reconstructions. The one experiment reaching year 2000 reproduces the 20th century well. PowerPoint PDF
10:20 10:50 Future Plans with CSM/CCSM (Attendees)
Note: Continued in the 11:35-12:00 time slot
- James Bradbury (University of Massachusetts): East Asia Monsoon
- Charles Jackson (University of Texas): Oxygen Isotope Records
- David Anderson (NCDC Paleo): Paleoclimate Database
- Elisabetta Pierazzo (Planetary Science Institute): Abrupt Climate Effects
10:50 11:10 Break
11:10 11:20 CCSM2 for Paleoclimate (E. Brady, NCAR)
- How to setup CCSM2 for past geographies was discussed. Example input and output datasets from a successful Cretaceous (80Ma) simulation were shown. Also discussed was the dependency of the model results to the initial state and deep ocean acceleration. A document that provides full details on how to setup the model is available. Contact C. Shields (firstname.lastname@example.com). PowerPoint PDF
11:20 11:35 eCubed (Entire Earth Editor for Tailoring Global Grids (J. Davis, LANL)
- A demo for the tool eCubed was given.. This tool is used to create and modify the ocean POP grid for CCSM2. To acquire this tool for use in building past geography grids for CCSM2, contact S. Yeager (email@example.com).
11:35 12:00 Future Plans with CSM/CCSM (Continued) (Attendees)
- Rodrigo Caballero (University of Chicago): How to Remove Model ENSO
- Masa Yoshimori (University of Bern, Switzerland): Climate of Last 500yrs
- Caspar Ammann (NCAR): Climate of Last Millennium PowerPoint PDF
12:00 12:15 Present and Planned Carbon Cycle Experiments in CSM and CCSM (I. Fung, U.C. Berkeley, and S. Doney, WHOI)
- Experiments include CSM1.4 with biogeochemistry, C4MIP (previously "Flying Leap"), historical experiments (1800-2000), and fossil fuel emission specification. Standardizing output for PCMDI was also mentioned.
12:15 12:30 A Coupled Carbon Cycle in PCM2: Transient Simulations for 1870-2100 (S. Thompson, LLNL)
- Transient simulations using PCM2 for 1870-2100 were shown. PCM2 is a version of the Parallel Climate Model with CCM3, POP, BIS-2 (Terrestrial Biosphere Model),and the Ocean Carbon Cycle Model (variant of the LLNL OCMIP Biotic protocols). Three simulations have been performed so far: control, standard emission, and capped CO2 fertilization with promising results.
12:30 12:45 Update on Aerosols in CAM/A Less Dusty Future (P. Rasch and N. Mahowald, NCAR)
- MATCH (offline model) provides sulfate and sea salt aerosols. Dust physical formulations borrowed from MATCH as well. Surface physics are provided by CLM. Multi-year simulations with radiation coupling were made. Plans for the future include aerosol feedbacks and past/future simulations.
- Mineral aerosols are "natural," but sensitive to climate. Six simulations with CSM1.4 were performed to test sensitivity to source (dust) natural/cultivated changes. Results indicate that although it is hard to distinguish between natural and anthropogenic causes, a future of 20-60% less dust is possible. "Natural" aerosols are indeed sensitive in model simulations and will change with climate change. PowerPoint PDF
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In this SevenPoint2 review, you will learn more about SevenPoint2 which is a network marketing company that launched on October 1 2011 by Jason Boreyko, Sam Adams and Howard Cohn. Jason Boreyko used to be the CEO and co-founder of New Vision International and is a well-known name in the field of direct selling. As a second generation network marketer and years of experience in the field (he was still a young adolescent when he got started) he definitely knows what a network marketing distributor needs to do to be successful. The company has its head offices in Newport Beach, California.
SevenPoint2 introduced the "90 Day Alkaline Weight Loss Challenge". In a world where our internal pH is so out of balance SevenPoint2 is trying to provide people with category leading products that change people's body in a positive way. The company distributes a range of products created to help people achieve what they call an alkaline lifestyle.
SevenPoint2 Review, Products
- 7.2 Shake: this Vegan based shake is free of allergens, soy free, gluten free and whey free. The shake helps your body to burn fat and at the same time to become alkaline.
- 7.2 Greens: these Delicious Organic Greens are a revitalizing essential supplement, created to gently detoxify the body and help people achieve an alkaline lifestyle.
- 7.2 Alkaline Booster: after having an acidic meal and beverage(s) this turns your acidic pH levels into alkaline..
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- 7.2 Coffee Tabs: helps neutralize highly acidic beverages and makes them alkaline.
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SevenPoint2 designed a Unilevel Compensation Plan. Thanks to the "Nothing Beats Free Program" people who sign up 3 Preferred Customers who are on an autoship for 3 months can get their the product for next month for free. There's an Elite Car bonus for Gold Team leaders and above.
The SevenPoint2 compensation plan offers 8 different ways to earn income:
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- Fast Track Cash: to qualify for this bonus a distributor must hit the rank within 6 months after signing up and maintain the rank for 3 months. If all ranks are achieved up to and including Black Diamond, the Bonus amount would total $34,000. This is a one time bonus. There's also a 50% Matching Fast Track Cash Bonus for the enroller.
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- Achiever Qualifications: when you achieve the Rank of Silver in the enrollment month or the second month, you will earn Double the Points on the Leader Enrollment Bonus Pool for life.
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When you want to get started with SevenPoint2 you need to pay a membership fee of $39.95, plus the cost of the product that you purchased. Starting associates need to maintain $100 PQV in personal purchases or $250 PQV in retail sales in order to be qualified for commissions.
While reading this SevenPoint2 review, you should already realize that the company is active in a highly competitive industry, namely the health industry. However, SevenPoint2 has raised the standard thanks to being one of the first companies that offer organic, vegan and gluten-free products. The next step is learning how to market these products and how to stand out from the competition.
SevenPoint2 Review, How To Market Your SevenPoint2 Business Online
SevenPoint2 distributors receive their own personal SevenPoint2 website that they can use to share with potential business associates. It could be that your sponsor teaches you how to call friends and family in order to sign them up for your SevenPoint2 business. Obviously… if you think that it's going to be this easy to recruit people for your business opportunity, you're terribly wrong.
You will need to learn how to advertise your SevenPoint2 business online and how to generate an endless stream of leads. Thank you for reading this SevenPoint2 review, to your success!


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Brown Was the Color of the Day
I decided to finally fish a "new to me" stream today. I have been planning and thinking about it for a long time. This particular stream is home to some big browns. Unfortunately, none of the really big ones made it onto my fly.
I hooked and lost a few shortly after I started, but I fished for an hour before I landed my first fish.
This guy nailed my dropper, I set the hook and he came off. I casted in again and he inhaled the dry, I got him that time.
Fishing on with a lot of strikes, hook ups, catching shiners and chubs, finally I picked up this small brown.
As I made it further upstream, the water was turning a little more "rainbowish". I picked up two before deciding to call it a day. The big one refused to have his picture taken, but he really was a pretty nice fish.
All and all, a decent day. I fished a dry/dropper all day, most catches and strikes were on the dry. I doubt I will fish this stream again, but at least I can scratch it off my list.
nice fish...is that a size 14 adams wulff?
I use alot of different wulff like patterns in various colors. The calf tail wings are easier for me to pick up on the water. The 14 adams wulff was working for me up around grandfather.
That's all I use, white body and gray body. I can see them well. The only time I use anything else is if I'm fishing a BH green weenie dropper, I use a hi vis foam body caddis, as the weight of the BH weenie tends to sink the wolf.
I use the grays, reds, oranges, yellows and neon greens, depending on the time of year. I find that these patterns work day in and day out. I like to keep it simple. I carry some other flies that I have tied myself, and sometimes they actually work!! Then again, most of the time they don't!!!
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On Wednesday, 15 December 2010 hundreds of spectators were taking their seats in the Mire Awale Stadium (in Garowe, the capital city of Puntland, Somalia) to witness the launching ceremony of the Somalia's football completion. The last match was held before twenty-three years which was in 1987. fifteen regions out of the eighteen regions in the country participated in the competition.
The stadium which is so huge was filled with spectators who were waving the Puntland state's flag as well as the Somali republic's flag.
By the time it reached 2:00 PM in the horn of Africa hour, the festival started by letting each one of the fifteen regions participating in the competition to enter the stadium waving the Somali flag and the specific symbol that each region is prominent.
Puntland president Dr. Abdirahman Mohamed Faroole was leading the High ranking Puntland government officials whom were present in the stadium, also representatives from the Transitional Federal Government of Somalia were also present.
The art team of the Puntland stars sang national songs while the drumlines never stopped beating their drums and also singing the Somali national anthem.
Mr. Faroole stated that holding this cup was meant to bring the Somali community closer and to work on the development and restoration of the Somali nation. The president indicated that this was a remarkable day for all Somalis wherever they are.
After the welcoming speech, Puntland President Dr. Faroole headed to the stadium Mire Awale where the ball was placed and kicked it while announcing that the tournament had officially commenced.
Sa'id Mugabe – coordinator of the Somali football committee also presented a short speech, expressing his gratitude and pleasure for the great work done by the Puntland government and its community.
While football teams from the south and central Somali are celebrating with their counterparts in Puntland state and the match is going on, heavy shells are still hitting the houses and public community spaces in Mogadishu and its surrounding cities.
The main question is once the match is over and the football players from the south and central Somali go back to their homes will they be safe out there?!0Send Me Love
Dear Ruun Abdi,
This is so amazing,after 23 years! Oh you people have lost a lot,just imagine Africa cup of Nations, we want to see you in these competitions.Here we cant live without football.We calebrate all the time in our stadiums across the country.And our president love it his people are involved in sport.But the day was colourful and beautiful with the people.
Why? what held you from playing this sport?
I wish you and your country men all the best as you take your rightful position in football after 23 yrs.May boys and men carry on their lagacy.
Thanks for Sharing Ruun
All the best
"success will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time " And when confronted conquer with love
Dearest Warona,
Thanks alot for the great comment and been the first to read and comment ma post. Actually we do held football competitions but within the state which covers 212510 square killometers (roughly one-third of Somali'as geographical area) and hosts a population estimated to be 3.9 million....
Because of the lack of the central government it wasnt so easy to host such events and take care of everyone's safety... upto now everyone was kinda of not so sure wether Puntland can host such event and can really secure all the enterences and it really turned to be reall and we/everyone was so happy after all those years now people got the opportunity to meet and play together.
fifteen out of the eighteen regions in the country are partaking the competition and everything is going smoothly, its really a dream came true!!!
Warmest regards.
Dear Ruun, Though it's after long gap finally people did enjoy seeing football match. It really matters for all to get together and to make good change in country too . My wishes always.
keep sharing .
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Dear Usha,
Thanks for taking time to read ma post and leaving such a great comment yeah its really amazing isn't it???. Although sport competition between the regions within the state used to hold but it has never happened to participate the whole country its really wonderful to gather teenagers who never had the opportunity to see eachother let alone to play together.
Thanks for the powerful writing and lovely pictures, my dear. Salutations to the players, organizers, supporters and all others involved.
Continue the wonderful work!
Love, Pushpa
Dear Pushpa,
Thank you so much for the great and inspiring comment.
Peace and love.


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76. Keep a gummi stone in your pocket.
77. Try telemarking.
(Eventually, catch air on teles and land it.)
78. Ski something that scares the holy bejesus out of you.
79. Wear sunscreen.
80. Fart in a crowded gondola and blame it on your friend.
81. Bobsled at Lake Placid; ski jump at Park City.
82. Ski the Sierra High Route from Mount Whitney to Sequoia Park.
83. Drag a snowboarder on the flats while skiing.
84. Go on a winter-camping ski trip.
85. Know how to make killer chili.
On a cold snowy night, after a hard day on the mountain, we skiers need more than bits of raw fish eaten with little sticks. What we need, and what you need to know how to make, is a stick-to-yer-ribs bowl of chili. And a spoon.Here's how: Heat oil in a skillet and sauté 1 1/2 cups diced onion, 1 cup green bell peppers, and 2 garlic cloves (minced). Add 1 pound of ground beef; cook until brown. Add 3 tablespoons flour and mix. Add salt, pepper, an 8-ounce can of tomato sauce, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon chili powder, and 2 teaspoons cumin. Stir in 1 pound of canned kidney beans and let simmer for a couple hours. Top with shredded cheddar and serve with cold beer.--Helen Olsson
86. Do the Haute Route in the Alps.
87. Do a slalom shot at NYC's Ski Bar.
88. Ski a vintage trail: a narrow, windy, Eastern run cut in the '30s.
89. Learn how to avoid dying in an avalanche by taking a backcountry safety course.
90. Ski in denim...and rip.
91. Help a stranger find a lost ski in deep powder.
92. Take a really good lesson.
93. Ski south of the Mason-Dixon line.
94. Ski north of the Arctic Circle.
95. Find a copy of Ski Party. Buy it. Read it. Live it.
96. Remain standing while watching eight hours of the 24 Hours of Aspen downhill race.
97. Transport your skis via public transportation—subway, bus, train.
(Bonus points for doing it during rush hour.)
98. Take the Mad River Glen: Ski It If You Can sticker off the car of someone you know has never skied there.
99. Buy a patch from the ski area you grew up skiing. Sew it on your jacket. Be proud.
100. Be grateful, everyday, for snow, mountains, gravity, and skiing.


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Country Music Star to Stump For Hoffman? Not Likely
One half of the country music duo 'Big & Rich' may make a north country appearance for Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman.
The Watertown City School Board was approached Tuesday night by Hoffman representatives, who said they were considering using the district's facilities for a John Rich appearance.
The representatives had looked at both Case Middle School and Watertown High School as possible sites.
The board is required to allow such activities, but passed a resolution saying they aren't taking a position on Hoffman's candidacy.
The show would be Friday night, Hoffman representatives told the board.
However, a person connected to the Hoffman campaign told said the show is not likely to happen, because of scheduling problems and difficulty finding an adaquate venue.
The campaign has looked at a range of halls in the district, not limited to Watertown.
Rich is the latest in a series of conservative stars to back Hoffman and originally supported former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson in the 2008 election and ended up backing Senator John McCain, according to Wikipedia.
Joe Rich (no relation) from the Disabled Persons Action Organization (DPAO) told 7 News the DPAO was approached for advice by the Hoffman camp about a week ago.
Rich, who said his group is not involved in the planning of the potential show, said it was his understanding that the Rich appearance would be less than a full-fledged show and more of a 'meet and greet' with fans.
A Hoffman campaign spokesman said he was not aware of the plan, but was checking.
A 'John Rich' who identified himself as a self employed country music entertainer was listed as a contributor to Hoffman's campaign, along with his wife. They gave a total of $5000.
John Rich joins Thompson, who is best known as an actor on the Law & Order tv series and Sarah Palin, the former Vice-Presidential candidate and conservative icon.
'Big & Rich' is responsible for three best-selling albums and 10 'Top Ten' country music singles, according to Wikipedia.
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John C. Collins, Genesis 1-4: A Linguistic, Literary, And Theological Commentary 318 pp., ISBN: 0875526195, 2006, P & R Publishing, Paperback, (List $17.99, CBD $ 14.99).
"I was privileged to read this book in manuscript form. In this commentary, Collins follows up on his intriguing insights developed briefly in his previous book, Science and Faith: Friends of Foes? For anyone searching for a thoughtful, informed, orthodox, and persuasive explanation of the first four chapters of the Bible, this book is simply the best there is." –Jay W. Richards
"Collins has produced a truly scholarly and masterful exegesis of the opening chapters of Genesis. With careful attention to the language and conventions of the text, and with an eye towards historic Reformed theology, he argues that the narrative is an "exalted prose narrative" that is at once historically grounded in and analogical to the ordinary human experiences of the text's original readers. This is a useful corrective to those who insist, for example,that the "days" of creation are "ordinary" days, as well as to those who hold that the text is merely mytho-poetic. He does this while addressing other views critically but respectfully. Whatever position you hold on the meaning of the Biblical creation narrative, you should admire Collins' work for both its substance and spirit."–David W. Opderbeck.
C. John Collins (Ph.D., University of Liverpool) is professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary. He is the author of The God of Miracles and Science and Faith.


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Last week, the European Geophysical Union held its annual general assembly, with thousands of geophysicists converging on the city of Vienna, Austria. It was time to take the pulse of the geophysical community.
A day when Hell was frozen
I was honoured to be invited to the annual regional conference for Norwegian journalists, taking place annually in a small town called 'Hell' (Try Earth Google 'Hell, Norway'). During this conference, I was asked to participate in a panel debate about the theme: 'Climate – how should we [the media] deal with world's most pressing issue?' (my translation from Norwegian; by the way 'Gods expedition' means 'Cargo shipment' in 'old' Norwegian dialect).
Spanish perspectives
The main theme of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) annual meeting was high impact weather. This includes extreme weather and the predictability of these.
The majority of the presentations focused on the science, but aspects such as the utility and the benefit of meteorology and climatology were also discussed. A media session also provided some thoughts about outreach and presented some examples of how weather is presented on TV. While gender and educational issues were discussed, the underrepresentation of other minorities was neglected.
Why global climate models do not give a realistic description of the local climate
Global climate
Global climate statistics, such as the global mean temperature, provide good indicators as to how our global climate varies (e.g. see here). However, most people are not directly affected by global climate statistics. They care about the local climate; the temperature, rainfall and wind where they are. When you look at the impacts of a climate change or specific adaptations to a climate change, you often need to know how a global warming will affect the local climate.
Yet, whereas the global climate models (GCMs) tend to describe the global climate statistics reasonably well, they do not provide a representative description of the local climate. Regional climate models (RCMs) do a better job at representing climate on a smaller scale, but their spatial resolution is still fairly coarse compared to how the local climate may vary spatially in regions with complex terrain. This fact is not a general flaw of climate models, but just the climate models' limitation. I will try to explain why this is below.
This Week
There are a few minor items this week worthy of mention:
1. The CO2 rise. Who dunnit?
Here at RealClimate, we have been (naively, apparently) operating under the assumption that climate change contrarians had long ago moved on from the untenable position that humans are not even responsible for the observed increase in CO2 concentrations over the past two centuries. The dubious paper by Ernst Beck we commented on the other day indicates that there is indeed still a rear guard attack being waged. As if to drive the point home further, pundit Alexander Cockburn, known generally for his progressive views, has perplexingly disputed the existence of any link between CO2 emissions and rising CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere in a screed he penned this week for the online journal "Counterpunch" (also printed in The Nation). It's hard to know where to start, since his piece is so over the top and gets just about everything so thoroughly wrong, it's almost comical. So we'll just hit the low points: (a) Cockburn claims that there is zero empirical evidence that anthropogenic production of CO2 is making any measurable contribution to the world's present warming trend, despite the fact that not even such strident climate change contrarians as Pat Michaels dispute that there is a measurable influence of anthropogenic greenhouse gases on global temperature. Plus there's all the empirical evidence of course (see the new IPCC report). (b) Going further, Cockburn brazenly opines that 'it is impossible to assert that the increase in atmospheric CO2 stems from human burning of fossil fuels' despite the fact that there is an isotopic smoking gun for this connection. He then (c) fails to understand that water vapor is a feedback not a forcing, and citing 'expert' Dr. Martin Hertzberg, quite remarkably states that 'It is the warming of the earth that is causing the increase of carbon dioxide and not the reverse.' Never mind that isotopic evidence proves otherwise. Upon what evidence does he base this assertion?
Since no anti-global warming op-ed these days is complete without it, Cockburn (d) resorts to the usual misrepresentation of lag/lead relationships between CO2 and temperatures during glacial/interglacial cycles as if they disprove the causal relationship between greenhouse gas concentrations and surface temperatures (see our most recent debunking of this favorite contrarian talking point here). Oh dear.
2. The other (Glenn) Beck–Even Worse!
CNN gave their resident shock-jock Glenn Beck a forum for spreading more disinformation on global warming in an hour-long segment entitled Exposed: The Climate of Fear (see also this discussion by "Media Matters"). We could pick apart his (rather thin) arguments, which constitute the usual cocktail of long debunked contrarian talking points. Suffice it to say, however, that the moment a rhetorician invokes Hitler, Nazi Germany, and Eugenics, it is the moment they are no longer worthy of being listened to (cf Godwin's Law of usenet debates). We don't seem to be alone in our opinion here. Beck's performance earned him the dubious title of "worst person in the world" from analyst Keith Olbermann.
However, there was one amusing moment: Beck asked Christopher 'Incorrect' Horner what the key thing to google was that would show that Al Gore was wrong. Horner suggested the lag between CO2 and temperature in the ice cores. Of course, if you do Google that, the first hit is the RealClimate debunking of the issue. Thanks!
3. Nature's new blog
Nature has started a new blog called "Climate Feedback", which says of itself 'Climate Feedback is a blog hosted by Nature Reports: Climate Change to facilitate lively and informative discussion on the science and wider implications of global warming. The blog aims to be an informal forum for debate and commentary on climate science in our journals and others, in the news, and in the world at large.'
We wish it well, remembering their welcome for RealClimate, though early reviews based on the first few posts are decidedly mixed.


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Comparing the so recent, but so forever gone era of film-based photography with the current digital photography, one may come to a varying opinion: from "nothing changed really" to "everything is now different". Beyond doubt, digital technologies brought the long-sought-for speed of processing the image and getting the result, but still they made it no easier to become a good photographer or a professional in this field! The photographer used to know a bit of chemistry, but now he/she has to have certain designing skills and know something about computers and digital image processing.
Digital media replacing film freed us from many problems, but, as usual, raised new ones, peculiar to digital technologies. This review is not about those problems, though. I am going to talk about the media: the choice of film/paper used to be widely discussed in the photographer community. Nowadays, however, the choice of the memory card has come to the fore. Although this choice doesn't affect the quality of snapshots directly, many aspects of photographing do depend on it.
But what and how and to what extent depends on the choice of the memory card? What to choose – a fast and more expensive card or a slow and cheaper one? Can you be sure that you'll get exactly the same performance as measured by various benchmarks? Do memory cards of the so-called "professional series" have a higher performance? These are the questions I'll be trying to answer in this review.
Why Might You Want to Pay More?
Communicating with photographers, I found that many of them purchased a "fast" memory card without knowing exactly why it was better at everyday work. Their reasoning was usually trivial, "It is just faster!" Running a little ahead, I should say that in most cases – and I will try to prove my point – the performance of the flash card is not the main factor, contributing to the speed of a particular digital camera. Moreover, even a professional camera may not feel any difference between a slow and fast card – and that's not necessarily bad!
So why, then, does it make sense to purchase the highest-performance flash media? It may be reasonable in those rare cases when the fast card does give you certain advantages or – something else. For example, a high-capacity memory card is usually a considerable money investment, which you may want to secure somehow. Being limited-life devices (and due to some other reasons), flash cards fail sometimes. It is in this case that you realize that "professional" media series, although cost more, come usually with a long-term – sometimes lifetime – warranty. Of course, such a flash card is going to be the most secure investment of your money.
Anyway, many reviews and tests of flash cards limit themselves with the performance issues only. That's understandable – one and the same memory card model may vary greatly in price and warranty terms in different world regions, so this information cannot be taken as a comparison basis. But we find ourselves on an insecure ground here: benchmarking the performance of a flash card is no trivial task, with numerous pitfalls.


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FM Preview: East Fife v Dumbarton 26 Dec 2011
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Updated Sunday, 25th December 2011
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This week FootyMad's match preview focuses on the game between East Fife and Dumbarton at 15:00 on 26th December 2011 in the Scottish Division Two.
History of the East Fife v Dumbarton fixture
Dumbarton face a trip to East Fife at Bayview Stadium on Monday afternoon, needing to turn around their fortunes at the ground. The Sons will be hoping to improve upon a record which has seen them lose 41 and win only 15 of the 67 games.
The most recent encounter between these two sides was earlier this season, where Dumbarton annihilated the Sons 0-6 in a Scottish Division Two match.
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"I offer no sacrifice save to the One true God."
~ Maximus, martyr, saint, about A.D. 250, in answer to the demand of the civil authorities for sacrifice to the pagan gods; a test in common use as belief in a single Godhead was known to be definitive in the early Christian community; thus any Christian might be called on to seal with his blood his faith in the One God. (See: The Blessed Trinity)


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Our 24-inch work wreaths measure 24 inches wide, from tip to tip, with the tinsel tips extended. The metal frame actually measures 15 inches in diameter. This wreath frame will make a finished wreath of about 24" wide, give or take a few inches, depending on how much mesh or other products you tie into it.
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Here's a new twist on an old used car scam.
Scam artists have been rolling back odometers for years, but now it may be even easy to do it with the introduction of digital odometers. All you need is a laptop and a simple Google search to find software that could roll back your odometer in seconds. The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates about 450,000 cars have the odometers rolled back every year. It's possible to take up to 35,000 to 40,000 miles off of each odometer which artificially inflates the value, and in addition anyone who buys these cars may have costly repairs sooner than expected.
Here are a few simple tips to help you avoid being a victim:
- Makes sure the wear and tear on the inside and outside of the car match the mileage reading on the odometer.
- Get a CARFAX vehicle history report and follow the mileage history.
- Finally get the car inspected by a mechanic before you buy it.
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July 5, 2012 - July 8, 2012
July 5, 2012
Attached you will find the finalized individual & relay entries for our RIO swimmers for the Age Group Regionals, June 6-8 at the Southwest Valley Family YMCA in Goodyear. Individual entries are in a PDF format in alphabetical order girls followed by boys. The relays are listed in a separate PDF attachment. Please make note if you are scheduled to swim relays or if you are a relay alternate. The first 4 swimmers listed are on the relay and any additional swimmers listed are alternates. In some cases there are no alternates available. I have also attached a copy of the meet flyer for your use.
Meet Information
Meet: AZ Age Group SC Region One & Two LC Championships
Date: Friday, Saturday and Sunday, July 6, 7, 8, 2012
Host Club: Westside Silver Fins
Location: Southwest Valley YMCA , 2919 N. Litchfield Rd, Goodyear, AZ
(Corner of N. Litchfield & Thomas Roads)
Sessions: Please be at the pool 15 minutes prior to the start of warm-ups
Session I - Friday, July 6, 2012 (Distance Events - 10&Un 400, 11-12 800 & 13-14 1500)
Warm-up: 3:00 PM, Meet Starts: 4:00 PM
Session II - Friday, July 6, 2012
Warm-up: Immediately following Session I (approx 5:00 PM), Meet Starts: 1 hour after warm-up begins
Session III - Saturday, July 7, 2012
Warm-up: 7:30 AM, Meet Starts: 8:30 AM
Session IV - Sunday, July 8, 2012
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After completing our book, Keyvan and I decided to combine our efforts again, and write a quick reference about ASP.NET MVC. And today this quick reference is available from DZone, in the RefCardz section of the site. The refcard doesn't try to explain what the library is (would have not been possible in just 6 pages) but instead focuses on giving a quick reference of the conventions used by the framework, of the API available and of all the aspect of developing with ASP.NET MVC. More details are available on Keyvan's post. Get it here: Getting Started...
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I am on a journey and I invite all seekers of truth to join me as I investigate the historical realities and influence of occult practices and belief in American history. I must warn you, it is not only my understanding of history that has been altered by my research, but increasingly my understanding of reality itself.
March 4, 2013
The period I am interested here, the late 17th and early 18th century, while widely regarded as the very threshold of Modernity, is in fact a vast repository of antiquity. The mental furniture as it were of the people of this era was in fact hundreds, if not thousands, of years old.
The pioneering work of social historians, historians of ideas and historical anthropologists in the last few decades has acted like an X-ray of a familiar painting, revealing layer after layer of unseen and forgotten images beneath the surface we think we know. (As you will see, I will provide suggestions for further reading if you are interested in this topic.)
Beneath a familiar surface image of warring Christian faiths and a nascent Enlightenment rationalism and the rise of Science, lies a much more complicated world of atavistic belief and practice; a great subterranean river of ideas and images that were neither Christian nor Rational, but almost entirely magical. A vast substrata of belief whose roots stretch back through the Middle Ages both to the indigenous Pagan religions of Europe, as well as the Classical paganism of Ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the Hermetic and Gnostic beliefs of the ancient Near East.
This most significant moment in history
Pre-Colonial America was literally filled with Magic. A world that lacked our modern word and concept of accident, where instead every occurrence, especially every bad occurrence, was the signature of invisible hands, whether divine or demonic, beneficent or malefic. Everyone in this world, from the Settlers to the Indians, from the sailors to the Dutch peddlers, from the servant in her quarters to the President of Harvard in his mansion traffics with magic in everything from medicine to farming, from attracting a lover to seeking a fortune.
Only here in the craggy coastal ports and dark wood shrouded farms of early America it was not only the ancient beliefs of Europe and Antiquity which permeated everyone's consciousness, but also the beliefs and practices of the indigenous peoples, as well as the South American and African slaves forciblyimported into the country. In a way unprecedented in human history, the coasts and forests of Early America were the violent meeting place of every kind of magical belief and practice. My research of the last 25 years confirms to me that these beliefs are not merely of antiquarian interest but may well hold the keys to the lost and secret history of the nation, if not clues to the hidden nature of reality itself.
February 24, 2013
Over the next months, with support of a Fulbright Grant to travel to London, Oxford and Cambridge, I shall undertake an archeology of knowledge, an entirely new examination of the thoughts and deeds of these early American savants to uncover what they actually believed and did, and the ways in which their own minds and understandings became a kind of crossroads for all the currents of thought and belief and practice of the time — how the alchemy of their thought and experience created an entirely new culture, mixing elements from every period and place of history, with the newly encountered realities (human, natural — and supernatural) of hitherto unknown peoples.
By focusing in particular on the vastly misunderstood figure of Cotton Mather, and tracing his proto-scientific investigations, I hope to present an entirely new image of the man who perhaps more than any other may be called the First American Thinker. The man who most of us remember if at all as The Last Puritan or The Last Witch hunter — was really the first Scientist, the first Psychologist, first Linguist, Anthropologist, even Microbiologist of our world.
And rather than being seen largely in a circle of the elder Puritans from whom he emerged (like the
My next stop will be in the archives of the Royal Society in London, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, where I hope to examine the Mather papers that repose there — many unread, even unopened, in the last 300 years.
February 3, 2013
This journey is just the beginning, and it is my hope that by the time we reach the end our entire vision of American history, and of the men and women who built this country will be irreversibly altered and in the process our understanding of our past, our present, our future, even of ourselves and reality itself will be equally altered. I welcome all open-minded seekers of truth to follow me on this journey and to add whatever comments or discoveries they may be inspired to make along the way.
But before we can even embark on this strange journey through the archives and archeological sites that hold the secrets of our national history, let's begin with a simple thought experiment:
Wherever you are, look around at the furniture and objects which surround you.
I type these words on January 5, 2013. Within my own view, rather little that surrounds me is actually from the year in which I write. The furniture, books, objects d'art, even the technology on my desk ranges from hundreds of years old, to a few years old. Only various pieces of paper and other ephemera actually date from the year in which I write. What we call 'the present' is constructed of course entirely of the past. We live literally surrounded by the
What is true for the furniture of our rooms is doubly so for the furniture of our minds. Our ideas, beliefs and opinions, though they may appear to be the products of the moment in which we live and breathe, are really for the most part holdovers from the past — in some cases, even the ancient past.
So whatever period we choose to examine we must be aware that the mental world, the sum total of beliefs and practices that make up the consensus reality in which people live and act is in fact a product of earlier periods. The present, even the present of non-material beliefs, is, like the geological present, actually a sedimentary layer cake of past beliefs and practices.
January 2, 2013
In this and future posts I begin an investigation into the historical realities and influence of occult practices and belief in American history.
My long researches into the mental world of Early Americans has already led me to some startling conclusions. But I must warn you, it is not only my understanding of history that has been altered by my research, but increasingly my understanding of reality itself.
So much of what I have uncovered as the Magical worldview of our ancestors has come to seem oddly prescient, if not prophetic, of the scientific and psychological discoveries of the centuries that followed.
Simply put, my whole understanding of the battle between Magic and Science, between Superstition and Reason, has been irrevocably altered. It is increasingly clear to me that almost everything we mean by the word 'Magic' was in fact an earlier human approach, not to what we now call 'Religion,' but to what we now call 'Science' and 'Technology' – i.e. a method of thinking and acting in the world that uses an advanced understanding of the invisible nature of reality to actually do things in reality.
The vast majority of techniques and beliefs
December 30, 2012
My name is Hans Hoffenkamp and I'm a professor of history at the University of Massachusetts.
My New Year's resolution, if you will, is to make progress on researching my third book, on witchcraft and magic in pre-Colonial America.
My first two books–"All That Glitters: Alchemy, Coining and Treasure Seeking in Early America (Arkham, 1997) and "The Jaguar and The Lion in Eden: South American and African Slaves in The New World" (Oxford, 2005) — didn't deal with witchcraft directly, but the world of the occult never seemed far away in the course of my studies and travels.
But more on that later.
Prof. Hans Hoffenkamp


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It's the off-season which is one of the best times to visit Orlando. Why? For one thing hotel prices are near their absolute lowest. Theme parks are also much less crowded. The other day I visited Disney-MGM Studios and line for Rock 'n Roller Coaster was less than 15 minutes long in the middle of the afternoon, which is a huge improvement over the usual 70 minute line it would have on a busy day. The weather is getting a lot cooler as well, signifying the end of summer. It's a good time to take advantage of some of the great offers on this website, as well as the nice weather and low crowds at the theme parks.


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KALONA, Iowa (AP) -- The Kalona City Council hopes to raise money for sidewalks by auctioning off naming rights to a local creek.
The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that council members say they are open to just about any name for the creek, known simply as the West Drainage Ditch. The council says the name must be appropriate and that the name will be subject to government approval.
The naming rights will be posted on eBay. Funds from the bids will go toward replacing sidewalks as part of the city's Safe Route to Schools project, which is administered by the Iowa Department of Transportation.
City Administrator Ryan Schlabaugh says local officials hope the online auction will help the city reach its goal of doing $200,000 in improvements to area sidewalks.


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Here Are the Artists Working on Kanye West's Next Album So Far
Kanye West is in album mode. For the past few days, artists have been tweeting (then quickly deleting) their excitement about working with 'Ye in Paris. Reportedly, the G.O.O.D. Music leader is staying overseas and bringing a wide variety of artists to join him in his Paris digs. With the album's title still under wraps, 'Ye has gathered some A-list talent for the project. Check out who he has called on to get in the studio.
Travi$ Scott
"Paris is wilay right now," he tweeted on March 30.
Chop says he was about to go to Paris, too. We're assuming he squashed the beef with 'Ye over his "I Don't Like" beat. Good call.
Chief Keef
"On my way! To paris Wit @KanyeWest #Squad," Keef recently tweeted. So 'Ye does drill?
King L
According to Fake Shore Drive, King L has made the trip over to Paris to work with 'Ye at some capacity.
Pusha T
Says Pusha's Instagram caption: "LAX to Paris… #JustKnow #MNIMN" You can predict 'Ye's cutting some tracks for himself, too.
"I did some music with Kanye and from what I know, it's actually going to be the first song on his new album," Skrillex told the Daily Beast in August 2012.
Daft Punk
"So I guess I no longer have to keep the secret of the robots producing Ye? Those songs are insane," DJ A-Trak confirms. We can't wait to hear them. "Stronger Pt.2″?


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I'm guessing you pulled this info off your FICO report? Look on the Accounts page. There is a symbol to the left of each account that indicates what type of account FICO sees it as. It should have the same icon as other loans, which should be a money bag, if I recall correctly. The only reason I can think of that would cause FICO to see it as a revolving is if this were a LOC.
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Yes I pulled off of fico report. It does have a money bag next to it. TU is including it in my util while EQ is not. Anyone know which is correct?
They are both correct. TU chooses to report it one way, EQ chooses to report it differently. Does that make them accurate? That's subject to debate! That doesn't make one of them incorrect, just makes them different. Also, keep in mind that the TU report here is the TU98 model, an older model that few lenders use, more frequently replaced by TU04 and to a lesser extent, TU08. Do a search on TU04 here and you can find threads for sources of the TU04 model.
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Yes I pulled off of fico report. It does have a money bag next to it. TU is including it in my util while EQ is not. Anyone know which is correct?
Good. What does it say under "Account Type" [within the TL]?
Does the util match exactly when you calculate it on your own? It would go off the balance and high balance if it is factored into util.
It's possible that it is included. I have an installment account that also lists as "open" (as in open-ended). EQ does not factor it into util but my TU does. In essence, when I first opened it it was viewed as being maxed out. I talked to my creditor a couple of times and they said that's how they report to TU and there's nothing I could do. Over time, I paid it down and it greatly helped my FICO whenever I carried a balance on my other CCs, but initially it hurt quite a bit.
You wouldn't dispute TU because it's the creditor that's reporting that way. It would be something to take up with the OC.
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An Indiana County man is facing charges after police say he stole money from his employer, Domino's Pizza along Grant Street. Police say the theft was reported on Tuesday, when employees told police that someone had taken $95 from the store's safe. The money went missing sometime over the weekend.
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He was arraigned in front of District Magistrate Guy Haberl and then taken to the Indiana County Jail on $10,000 straight cash bond.
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I see that many of you keep saying, "It looks like he has enough." The point is that since he doesn't know how to use them correctly, he won't be able to get over the wall. He couldn't just "build an insanely tall ladder" because he doesn't know that's how they're used. However, if he had infinite resources, he would definitely be able to continue piling the ladders upon each other until he was over.
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Right. If he had known how to use a ladder, he'd have only needed one or two to get over and it would be much easier. The point of the picture is still there, but I think it might just need to be worded differently. Maybe without the "infinite resources" since the picture seems to say that the man cannot get over because he has these resources but does not know how to use them.


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A few years ago one of my classes requested a sample for the Annotation assignment, and this is what I came up with to show you how you can move from picture to research questions to finding sources to writing a paragraph.
I started with this image of a kindle (Amazon's device for downloading and reading electronic books):
Some of the questions students came up with included the following:
- how much does it cost?
- how does it work?
- how will it affect the environment?
- how many books does it hold?
- how big is it?
- how many have been sold?
- can it help with high textbook prices?
- will book "piracy" start to become a problem like music piracy?
- will books become obsolete?
- how is the reading experience on screen different from on paper?
- how does it compare to the new ipad?
- will it help with too-heavy backpacks for young kids?
(plus many more).
Notice that some of these questions have simple one-word or one-sentence answers, while others seem to ask for more complex answers. For some of the simple questions, you may be able to group several questions together to make a more general question. Your aim is to come up with ten or twelve good, meaty questions (that would generate paragraph-answers). This list is only a start. The annotation assignment calls for between five and seven paragraphs, and you may have difficulty finding good info on one or more of your questions. Also, during your research, you may discover additional, interesting info or approaches that you had not thought of at the beginning. Feel free to let your list of questions evolve throughout the research process!
Here's the question I settled on for my sample paragraph:
How does the Kindle affect the environment (in particular, is it more environmentally friendly than books)?
For my Kindle question, here are the three sources I found that I may want to use in my environmental impact paragraph:
- Martin LaMonica's "Study Paints Kindle E-Reader a Darker Shade of Green"
- Alex Salkever's "Are Kindles Really So Green?"
- Joe Hutsko's "Are E-Readers Greener Than Books?"
For this example, I used the quick-and-dirty method of copying and pasting. Here is the file I made, with copied and pasted info from the three sources above (note that I've included authors' last names so that I can tell what info comes from what source).
Now that I've collected up the research info that I need for my paragraph, I need to think about what it all adds up to (the main idea of my paragraph), what details I'll use to flesh out the paragraph, and how I can best order or organize those details. In other words, I'm thinking about the unity, development, and coherence of my paragraph.
First, I try to come up with a topic sentence that sums up the main point of my paragraph, in this case something like
Many factors must be considered in trying to evaluate whether the Kindle represents an environmental advance over the book.
Now, I'm not thrilled with this sentence, but it's a place to start; once I see what I end up saying in the paragraph I can go back and work on it more. I don't want to spend any more time tinkering at this point, so I move on…
Next, I go through the notes I've copied from my sources and list the main points I'll want to use in my paragraph. By bullet-pointing them I can more easily see what I've got in and come up with an order that makes sense. So I have something like this:
Here's the paragraph I came up with… (Be sure to read annotations in the margins as well.)
You may notice that I did some adjusting of my bullet-point "outline" while this was in progress, deciding that the connections between ideas worked more smoothly if I put CO2 questionable issues right after CO2 stats rather than saving all questionable issues for later in paragraph.