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Here's my review of Maiko's Kinari
The dry leaves are long, dark green needles. Not much dust as this is an asamushi. The leaves warming in the pot smell sweet & grassy.
1st steep, 160F, 90s, 1:1. The soup is a light yellow-green. Tastes sweet & earthy, very mellow. Some umami & fresh melon in the finish. The taste is very subtle.
2nd steep, 170F, 40s. The soup is slightly greener now, lots of fresh flavors, not much umami this time, instead there is a slight bitterness. The flavors are somewhat muddled and it is hard to discern the flavors.
3rd steep, 175F, 60s. Lime-green color, the flavors are fading fast. I am left with some sweet & toasted notes with some light grassy-ness.
This tea was decent, but I found it to be slightly boring. Maybe I need to mess with the brewing parameters a bit.


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Can "home cookin'" keep this going? We'll see...
Pitchers: Justin Masterson, #63 RHP 8-5, 3.68 ERA VS Gio Gonzalez, #47 LHP 3-3, 3.59 ERA
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Dear Sir,
I download the Gem and Ruby v 3.0 from www.ruby.org.
When I try to install using the command
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Dear Sir,
I download the Gem and Ruby v 3.0 from www.ruby.org.
When I try to install using the command
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I used the command "gem install rails".
I am using MAC OS X 10.6.x
The error is as follows:
Building native extensions. This could take a while...
ERROR: Error installing rails:
ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.
/System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/bin/ruby extconf.rb
mkmf.rb can't find header files for ruby at /System/Library/Frameworks/Ruby.framework/Versions/1.8/usr/lib/ruby/ruby.h
Gem files will remain installed in /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/json-1.7.5 for inspection.
Results logged to /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/json-1.7.5/ext/json/ext/generator/gem_make.out
Please install Devkit before you try installing Rails.
Please install Devkit before you try installing Rails.
thanks for this post ..
i want to install ruby in my LT for practicing the ruby, ruby on rails
MY LT has dual OS , MS XP and linux red hat
please suggest 1) which version i need 2) where i can get 3) how to install 4) required configuration of LT
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Au Gres tops Posen volleyball in five sets
By JAMES
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POSEN-The Au Gres volleyball team was just a little better than Posen on Thursday night.
The Wolverines rallied from a 2-1 deficit and defeated the Vikings 3-2 in five sets at Posen High School, 26-24, 8-25, 20-25, 25-17 and 15-11.
That was one of the (most fun) games we've ever played," Au Gres coach Jeri Christie said.
Cassidy Boensch had seven kills and seven blocks for the Wolverines, who rallied from a five-point deficit early in the final set. Posen started the set on a 6-1 run, but the two team soon found themselves fighting for every point.
Posen's Korynn Hincka led Posen in the final set with two blocks, two kills an ace, but the Wolverines countered with a strong defensive stand and capitalized on some mistakes by the Vikings. A kill and an ace from Hincka gave Posen a 10-9 lead, but Au Gres ended up winning the set and the match with a 6-1 run to end it.
Au Gres fell behind midway through the fourth set, but climbed back into it with a 7-0 stretch that gave the Wolverines a 12-8 lead. From there Au Gres mixed timely offensive plays with some points on Posen mistakes to stay comfortably ahead the rest of the way.
Boensch was Au Gres' most consistent offensive threat all night and found herself locked in battles with Hincka at the net in a matchup of two 6-footers.
"Every game I do believe we got down by six or seven points. We know we have the talent and I'm just trying to encourage them and trying to get them as far as they can take it," Christie said. "Posen did a great job."
Posen appeared to be on the verge of taking the match with stellar wins in the second and third sets. The Vikings had six aces in the second set and played their best set of the night, turning up the pressure on Au Gres offensively. A 7-0 run midway through the set included three aces from Austin Sharpe, a tip from Monica Bartz and a kill from Ashley Meyers.
A late 8-0 run helped the Vikings rally back in the fourth set and Posen ended the set on a 7-1 run to go up 2-1.
Au Gres came back from a six-point deficit in the opening set with a 7-1 run of it's own. Later on the two sides played to a 22-22 tie and then a 24-all tie. Au Gres finally pulled out the set when Posen hit the ball four times without clearing its side of the net.
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Ironmen split pair on ice
The Jamestown Ironmen split a pair of games this past weekend during a trip to play the Springfield Junior Blues in North American Hockey League action.
Jamestown (27-11-3) was rolling on all cylinders Friday, coasting to a 4-1 victory. The contest was tied 1-1 heading into the second period when the Ironmen took control, outscoring the opposition 3-0 the rest of the way.
Ryan Doucet led the Ironmen with a pair of goals on the evening while forward Joe Mottiqua accounted for a goal and two assists. Michael Mazzota netted a goal, Luc Gerdes had two assists and Huba Sekesi, Dylan Zink and Tyler Minx each added an assist in the win.
Blake Wojtala had a near perfect performance in goal for the Ironmen, making 31 saves.
On Saturday, the Ironmen found themselves on the losing end of a 3-2 final.
A goal by Brett Szajner assisted by Ryan Urso and Zink tied the game up, 1-1 with 3:20 left in the first period and the score remained that way until late in the third period. There, Springfield (19-22-3) notched a goal with just over two minutes remaining.
As a last ditch effort, the Ironmen pulled their goaltender and sent in an extra attacker. The move allowed the Junior Blues to score an empty net goal. Still, the Ironmen didn't quit and proceeded to take advantage of the extra attacker. Doucet took assists from Mottiqua and Gerdes and netted a goal with 15 seconds remaining, but Jamestown would settle for the 3-2 loss.
Jamestown now sits in third in the NAHL North Division, one point behind the Soo Eagles (27-10-4) and the Kalamazoo Jr. K-Wings (27-13-4), who are tied for first place.
Jamestown will host the Eagles at 11 a.m. Thursday as well as 7 p.m. Friday. On Saturday, the Port Huron Fighting Falcons visit Jamestown for a 5 p.m. faceoff.
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In the past, southern elephant seals were hunted for their blubber that was boiled down into oil. A typical male could produce about 350 liters of oil. Some aboriginal people also hunted them for food and skins. This activity has ceased and killing is now controlled by the Convention for the Conservation of Antarctic Seals. The only use of M. leonina to man today is for purely scientific purposes. ("Elephant Seal", 2002; "Elephant Seals", 1983; "Elephant Seals", 2002; Anderson, 2003; Nowak, 2003; Seal Conservation Society, 2001; Slip and Clippingdale, 2002)
Positive Impacts: body parts are source of valuable material; research and education


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Bachmann bows out
Rep. Michele Bachmann announced in a videotaped message to supporters on Wednesday that she would not seek re-election to her Sixth District congressional seat.
Her announcement doesnt't come as a surprise to political analysts and reporters, who had heard rumors ever since Bachmann's unsuccessful presidential run, and her narrow win (less than a two-point margin) against DFL opponent Jim Graves. With Graves announcing another challenge, and with a Congressional ethics panel and the FBI investigating alleged finance improprieties in her Iowa presidential campaign, Bachmann had been very quiet in recent months. Only the revelation that the IRS was targeting tea party and conservative non-profit organizations for special scrutiny brought her back before the microphones.
Bachmann will leave a strange legacy. She has always been known more for the things she said than the things she did in Congress. She did author a successful bill to replace the St. Croix River bridge in her district, but her claims to leadership on budget and policy issues are exaggerated. She is a favorite of the tea party crowd mainly for her willingness to criticize liberals in Congress, whose very Americanism she once challenged, and the Obama administration for this or that, from claiming "death panels" would decide what kind of care the elderly would receive under Obamacare to accusing the White House of excessively extravagant spending. She has also become the darling of media fact checking panels, who regularly find that her outrageous statements usually have little basis in fact.
We have no doubt that Bachmann will continue to work for conservative issues and causes in the future.


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Common browser issues
Installation IssuesInstallations behind a firewall time out and fail.
By default, Google Update attempts to check for an update on install, and fails at the firewall.
You can skip this check by passing the parameter "NOGOOGLEUPDATEPING=1" as follows:
msiexec /i GoogleChromeStandaloneEnterprise.msi NOGOOGLEUPDATEPING=1 /l*v log.txt
If you left auto-updates on, it's possible that the version of the MSI you're trying to install is already outdated. If you already have the dev channel or beta channel installed, the MSI can't overwrite that because these channels will be on newer versions.
To see what the latest stable version of Chrome is for Windows, click here. You can download the latest version here.
If you left auto-updates on, your installations have probably auto-updated to a later version. This is causing the repair to fail because you're already on a later version than the MSI.
You can download the latest stable MSI and use that for the repair instead.
If you run the install with the /f flag (to run it as a minor upgrade), you'll get this error message:
There is a problem with the Windows installer package. A program required for this install to complete could not be run. Contact your support personnel or package vendor.
You need to instead run the install with the /i flag to run it as a major upgrade.
Version IssuesAre old or updated versions of the MSI available?
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We release a new "major" version to the stable channel about every six weeks. We also update the stable channel between major updates if we have important crash or security fixes.
If you're looking to repair an existing MSI installation, and you left auto-updates on, you can repair with the latest stable MSI.
There is only one version of Chrome on a machine at any given time. When the MSI notices that the consumer version of Chrome is already there, it will remove it and update the user's shortcuts. The next time the user launches Chrome, Chrome for business is used.
This should look seamless to the user, but sometimes behaves inconsistently. You may want to uninstall the consumer version of Chrome before pushing out the MSI.
You can append these registry keys together with an additional parameter, and execute them:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\UninstallString +
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Google\Update\ClientState\{8A69D345-D564-463c-AFF1-A69D9E530F96}\UninstallArguments + '--force-uninstall'
The command will end up looking something like this:
[Path to user's data directory]\setup.exe --uninstall --force-uninstall'
No. User data is kept separate from the Chrome installation.
However, if the user was using a more recent version of Chrome, their profile data might not work in an older version of Chrome and they'll see a warning when they try to run it. You may want to verify that you're pushing out the latest stable channel version of Chrome.
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If you require the most up-to-date version immediately, you may want to download the latest MSI and push it out manually.
Other IssuesI'm trying to set the default search provider, but it's not working.
The default search provider policy uses a different format for the search provider URL than the format you see when you open the options dialog. Using the options dialog format causes the policy to be ignored.
To denote the search keywords in the search URL, use {searchTerms} instead of %s. Using Google's search URL as an example:
Wrong: http://www.google.com/?q=%s
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Chrome user profiles are not backwards-compatible. If you try to use mismatched profiles and Chrome versions, you may experience crashes or data loss. This mismatch can often occur if a Chrome profile is synced to a roaming profile or network drive across multiple machines that have different versions of Chrome. We strongly encourage administrators and users to consider using Chrome Sync, which persists user settings across machines, instead of using roaming profiles at this time.
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Love the photos of Dai and Akiko, thanks for sharing!
Lol. One of TV Broadcast caught Happy Birthday congratulation to Daisuke after FS from fans: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOFUGEsbVko
Even in a low-definition video taken from far back, this guy is lightning.
Daisuke still hasn't announced his participation in PIW over the golden week. Someone downloaded vids from the last year's PIW, being eager to see the next round:
What an interesting interview. One of the great things about older skaters is that they can be articulate in a mature way about both skating and life, having known both victory and defeat. Akiko and Daisuke have both experienced the kind of adversity that could have ended a career, and they both came back at the top level. I'd be interested to hear what they had to say even if I were not a devoted fan of them both--and of course I am a fan.
How fascinating to hear Daisuke's take on his programs from these past two seasons. (Sweet that Akiko admitted that she didn't catch on at first....) And I love Dai's advice to Akiko. It's true. Even when you feel that all is lost, you keep trying so that the possibility of success remains. As they say, if you don't try, you have a guaranteed 100% chance of failure.
I didn't realize that Slutskaya was 27 in Torino. A pretty good outcome for a lady of advanced age! I do miss her; she was a splendid athlete and a lovely personality. What springy jumps she had! And a good long career, spent mostly at or near the top of the ladder.
Dai, Mao and a speed skater Kato are the best athletes of 2012-2013 season, JSF announced: http://sportsnavi.yahoo.co.jp/sports...00049-kyodo_sp
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Great translation Miyu, thank you so much! Very interesting interview. Dai does not mention injury just mental exhaustion. The man
was thinking to darn much. Glad there is no injury.
Of course Dai's hair is looking gorgeous!
As for Dai's hair, how many top athletes in the world do constantly show up in the beauty salon's blog entries, not blogs on physio care/training/conditioning, and every time s/he goes there for cut perm or hair dye??? I have to wonder.
It seems actually their 62th entry on Dai http://ameblo.jp/marienbethkyoryuchi...020974730.html
Q: Finally we will have the Olympic games in the next season. Are you feeling differently from how you felt before the previous two Olympics started?
D: As for Torino Olympics, I became eager to go to the Olympics after 2005 World Championships, so I started preparing for it after the Olympics season had already started. As for Vancouver Olympics, I sat out for a year due to the injury which I got a year before, so I also could prepare for it only within the year of the Olympics. But this time, it's pretty much different because I've been preparing for three years in my mind.
Q: Is the Olympics that special after all?
A: It's different at all. The atmosphere is different. Even though we have the same athletes and judges as usual, the atmosphere is totally different.
Q: How did you feel during Torino Olympics?
D: I had no idea what I was doing. I didn't feel much that I was burdened with something. I got excited with a joy to participate in the Olympics and then it was over.
Q: How about Vancouver Olympics?
D: It was just after I came back from the injury. I had to prepare for it in a dash and also thought I wanted to enjoy the olympics, because, to be honest, I was not sure if I could win a medal, I thought it difficult. But it will be more difficult this time, I think.
Q: As you got the medal without any successful quads in Vancouver, dont you have a good shot at winning something better with your current condition?
D: I couldn't land any quads during that season but at the same time no one did it. It was very different from the current situation, now doing three quads is no longer special.
Q: You answered in the interview in Canada "Probably the next year will be the last" with an uncertain nuance. There appeared a possibility not to retire?
D: Ive never declared clearly that the next year is the last. I just said I will work hard taking it as the last year. (laugh bitterly) I limit the time and I will work as much as I can admit Ive done enough until then. So, at the end of next year if I think I cant do anymore, I will quit. Probably I wont continue after next year, but anything could happen in life.
Q: I see, I actually expected a little. What kind of performance do you want to deliver in the Olympics?
D: If I can go, Id like to deliver a performance which moves my own self. A performance that I put every single piece of myself into. Its no matter whether I make a mistake or not. Id like to feel the atmosphere, its hard to say, something like the arena is uniting into one. The indescribable atmosphere that Im connecting (to the arena).
Q: What kind of experience will Sochi Olympics become for you?
D: Its not determined yet if I can participate or not, but the road to this coming Olympics is also the start for the next chapter of my life. It will all depend on the Olympics how I can start my next career after I retire. So I think, its the last, yet also the first. It will be a start for me in order to start doing what Im willing to do.


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Neoliberalism, Democracy and Global Development
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This module explores dimensions of neoliberalism, imperialism, democracy and development as global phenomena and from a cross-disciplinary approach. It is not adequate to approach neoliberalism as merely a turn in economic theory, nor is it accurate to conceptualise imperialism as a thing of the past. Because of its dominance and spread, neoliberalism is no longer is an esoteric and arcane policy framework. It affects everyday life in locales far away from the world's financial and political capitals, and has meant that the West has had to defend neoliberal policies with military force, directly intervening in countries of either strategic importance or that are rich in resources, or fighting proxy wars to secure access to these resources. But what consequences has this had for democracy and the spread of democracy? And how have neoliberalism and imperialism been resisted, particularly since 9/11 and the War on Terror? Some of the main themes highlighted in the module include: that neoliberalism has been both a specific project and a general condition of the world over the past three decades; that imperialism – in a sense the 'armed wing' of neoliberalism – has been integral to the neoliberal project; and that a vacuous form of democracy has become the typical form of management of social relations under neoliberalism. These issues are examined both historically and conceptually, in order to inform a critical analysis of the global political economy. Although the module focuses on the period post-2001, there will be ample opportunity for examination of the preceding decades. Please note that students will be expected to read extensively in order to contribute to this module.
Objectives and learning outcomes of the module
On successful completion of the module, a student should be able to demonstrate the ability to:
- Engage with the major theoretical debates related to neoliberalism, including the process of neoliberal ascendancy and its effects in the domains of culture, society, economy and polity, and its efforts to separate these domains.
- Engage with the major debates related to imperialism, including new forms of imperialism and its consequences, and inter-imperial rivalry.
- Engage with the major debates related to democracy, including the erosion of democratic political forms under neoliberalism.
- Systematically analyse the power and limits of neoliberalism, imperialism and contemporary forms of democracy, and the interaction between these phenomena.
- Critically assess the success or otherwise of neoliberal and imperial policies and approaches, including an understanding of the various forms of resistance against neoliberalism and imperialism around the world.
- Critically assess the strengths and limitations of democracy under neoliberalism, and a critical understanding of the alternative forms of political regulation of social conflict in contemporary (neoliberal) societies.
One two-hour lecture and one one-hour tutorial per week.
Method of assessment
100% coursework, consisting of: one essay of no more than 1000 words, worth 20% each; two essays of no more than 2000 words, worth 40% each.


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New Gear: Jamo Announces 360 Series Speaker Systems
Danish manufacturer Jamo's been making a splash with the spherical speakers we saw back at the 2012 CES, and this week they've announced a pair of 5.0 setups in the appropriately named 360 Series, based around their unique architecture: the S 25 HCS ($649.99), including five of the company's S 25 speakers, and the S 35 HCS ($999.99), which groups four of the larger S 35 units with a C 35 center channel.
The S 25 units feature a 2 and 1/2-inch woofer and a 3/4-inch tweeter, and handle up to 100 watts of power; the larger S 35s up the driver sizes and power handling, with a 3 and 1/2 inch woofer and 1-inch tweeter and a 125 watt limit. The C 35 center channel serves up a pair of the 3 and 1/2 woofers and a single 1-inch tweeter.
All of the Jamo speakers are sealed enclosures, with the tweeter positioned above the woofer baffle in a configuration said to "disperse sound equally in all directions to allow for limitless positioning options." To that end, you can set the units on stands, or wall- or ceiling-mount them using the same threaded posts and bases, which also conceal the binding posts.
The systems are available this month; visit jamo.com for more information.


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Faculty Training Workshop
Intermediate WebAccess
Mon Mar 04, 2013
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In this workshop, Instructional Designer, Alexis Alexander, will be presenting a beginning WebAccess workshop for instructors who are new to the software.
This workshop will cover:
- Adding text to WebAccess
- Uploading documents
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Entertainment Briefs: Smithsonian adds Miss Piggy
WASHINGTON — Miss Piggy is finally joining her love, Kermit the Frog, in the Smithsonian Institution's collection of Jim Henson's Muppets, and Bert and Ernie will have a place in history, too.
Henson's daughter, Cheryl Henson, donated more than 20 puppets and props Tuesday to the National Museum of American History.
The donation included Miss Piggy and some of her co-stars from "The Muppet Show" including Fozzie Bear, Scooter and the Swedish Chef. Henson also donated a number of puppets from "Sesame Street" including Bert and Ernie, Elmo, Cookie Monster, Grover, and Count Von Count.
Coming soon: 'Sausage Party'
NEW YORK — Sony Pictures will make a raunchy, R-rated animated film written by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg titled "Sausage Party."
The project was announced Tuesday by Sony, which is co-financing the film with Annapurna Pictures. Writing partners Rogen and Goldberg penned the script along with Kyle Hunter and Ariel Shaffir.
"Sausage Party" is described as "one sausage's quest to discover the truth about his existence." After falling out of a shopping cart, the sausage journeys through a supermarket.
"Sausage Party" is planned for release in 2015.
Bruno Mars to open venue
LAS VEGAS — The Las Vegas Strip's newest concert space will open its doors just before the new year with a performance by pop star Bruno Mars.
Mars will play shows on Dec. 29 and 31 at a new Eastern European glass factory-themed venue at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, and then return six more times during 2014, casino management announced on Tuesday. The 3,000-capacity theater is called the Chelsea.
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For the National Day of Listening: listen to stories of friends and loved ones, and record them too.
Rachel Naomi Remen's lifelong struggle with chronic illness has shaped her philosophy and practice of medicine. She speaks about the art of listening to patients and other physicians, the difference between curing and healing, and how our losses help us to live.
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In this essay, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen calls on physicians to examine how they give meaning to their daily practice and reclaim that meaning in their working lives.
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I ask my landscape design clients for a mission statement. Two sentences of what they want from & for their garden.
Rachel Naomi Remen's words, "Coherent, elegant, mysterious, aesthetic" are a complete mission statement for a fabulous landscape.
And a life.
Proving, again, the more we go inward the more we outwardly connect.
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The collective wisdom on issues of faith, healing and spirituality as it relates to finding peace in my days has been a process of many gifted writers and medical professionals including the "Speaking of Faith" broadcast series.
The SOF broadcast makes it possible to hear their stories and their "voice" which brings more depth and breadth to these important truths.
I have the honor of having worked as an RN for over 20 years in intensive care and clinical settings. I have also had the privilege of having Rabbi Harold Kushner as a friend and colleague for the past ten years through my very small company, White Light Events, that was created after my cancer diagnosis. White Light Events serves to connect non profits and business's with critical thinkers and authors in the areas of ethics, spirituality and humanitarianism.
After hearing Dr. Rachel Remen's story of the "Birthday of the World" and the light in all of us it made my heart skip a beat!
Finding the courage and hope needed to live a life that has been touched by unspeakable pain with a sense that all the events of our lives create a wholeness not otherwise realized except when as Dr. Remen so beautifully put it "Living on the edge of life."
Thank you for making me feel like I am of one of many on this journey of finding peace in all that comes my way and that I am not alone!
This is the wisdom gifted me from Rabbi Kushner over the past ten years! He is what has brought me hope that it is only through our human stories and connections that we are able to truly live life with meaning and purpose, no matter how many days we have to live, is the acceptance and love of each other.
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I listened to the Listening
I listened to the Listening Generously podcast for the first time today on my morning walk and was fascinated by Dr. Remen's stories and wisdom and even the calm in her voice.... When I got home I logged online to review the transcript and I read your comment. I wanted to reach out and wish you a wonderful day.
Rachel Naomi Remen: Kitchen Wisdom I just read the interview with Rachel Naomi Remen and what she is saying, I want to say, about the "sparks" is quite true. I studied Jewish mysticism, or Kabalah, as this is most popularly called, and I took a course because I honestly believed at the time that this was medieval and bore no relevance to our lives today. For me, this course made a profound difference in my life, including a mystic experience shared with a colleague and friend who had attended with me. When we left one night, and stood alone outside, realizing it had rained, we saw the entire street was covered with the Hebrew letters shaped from the water and they shone in the moonlight. This was so intense an experience, we were then, afraid, and did not return. I do deeply believe it's all correct, and as strange as this might seem to a modern, "scientific" world, the ancient stories of how the world was shaped, how we are each sparks of divinity, well, they are beautiful, however perceived. I do see divinity within us all, and a most cosmic dance, and within that dance, as light is a word also referring to laughter, call it the comic within cosmic, I think God is also laughing. Life is hard. Life is filled with sorrow, and I so totally agree with Naomi that through this suffering a kind of individual alchemy is forged, involving, deeply the opportunity to help each other, to heal, called tikkun olam, the bringing together of those sparks. I was sparked by this article, enough to write, again. And I can say, truly, that Ruth follows Naomi!
I listen to your show every Sunday morning on Nebraska Public Radio as I prepare to go to church. The show this week where you interviewed and visited with Rachel Naomi Remen was exceptional. She spoke of experiences like the kind I myself have witnessed. To establish my credibility, I am a Professor of Biology at Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska and I am the Lay Minister at Trinity Lutheran Church (a small rural congregation) in Winside, Nebraska. I have been a college professor for 21 years and parish minister for 10 years and I tend to find myself somewhere between the issues of life science and God the Creator.
Ms. Remen's interview helped to reveal for me some of the difficulties I have had being a professor where my colleagues are Biologists trapped by the dogma of science and discovery. I tend to struggle with that same dogma because it is wholly insufficient to explain how life truly works as alluded to by Ms. Remen. Her comments were liberating to be sure. Her description of the person that had terminal cancer who was miraculously cured of that cancer at the befuddlement of science was priceless. As a lay pastor, I too have witnessed miraculous recoveries and personal transformations that my colleagues in science would scoff at or at the very least laugh at if they were told of them. As a result of my unique placement between science and spirit I have had to develop a course in Biomedical Ethics that serves to uncover the biases and inabilities of science in relation to a God many scientists refuse to accept. I was particularly intrigued by Ms Remen's comment that "objectivity is bias." This is so true in science, but it is also ignored to large degree in scientific discovery. I'm a firm believer that most of life on earth and in the universe is a mystery and will remain so until such a point that God the Creator wants us to know about it, which may be never.
I must interject that when it comes to helping other human beings with the Holy Spirit that a trust develops that can not be understood by science. The afflicted may not be able to verbalize with you but one can tell what they are saying by simply looking into their eyes. Also, when working with animals, one can see the pain in their eyes that they too experience, and one can see the gratitude that they have in those same eyes after we help them. It may only be a pat on the head or a rub of the ears, but there is something there that objective science will not see. I believe God is in all things and that is why Ms. Remen's interview was so important. Thank you for the interview, as it does change the direction my teachings will take. I would welcome any questions you might have on this post.
Glenn E. Kietzmann
As Brother Confessor [an unsought office] we often experienced "generous listening"- for we are the one who gave it.
We do not recommend it.
A tedious litany of "Me,me,me."
It but sickens.
We turn our back upon Heaven- it is but Idiot.
So is its Crown of Creation.
We found far better medicine in Hell.
Physician heal thyself.
After listening to Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen's words, I realized why I've followed a medical specialist of mine to three cities: He (in the limited time per visit imposed on him by the medical system) has always attempted, and succeeded, in making a connection with me. I see him once a year and yet he remembers details about me other than those of a medical nature. I would be truly devastated if he transferred to yet another system even farther away.
Additionally, I've begun an introspection as to the questions Dr. Remen poses her students about their own losses and how they deal with them. When listening to the podcast, I tried to immediately think of my own losses. While I've been much more fortunate than others regarding loss, I found myself struggling to find a voice for my experiences. Her assertion of "the way we protect ourselves from loss may be the way in which we distance ourselves from life…" are definitely something more for me to examine.
It seems like my mother provided me love by "listening generously" like Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen spoke of. She passed on 5 months ago, and her loss is still felt. When I was kicked out of Phillips Exeter Summer School over the fact that my girlfriend had become suicidal and she'd spoken some untruths about me, it shattered my life. Fortunately, I was given a second chance at another prep school, that coming Fall.
It wasn't until I was leading a group of cross country backpackers up a mountain, in Yellowstone around Xmas time, that it really hit me like a ton of bricks. I had to stop and unload with some of the fellow skiers I was leading. I cried like a baby. That moment of unloading was when my fellow skiers acted to "listen generously" to the pain I'd felt about that earlier expulsion. That was quite a relief to finally be able to share what had happened the year before, that I hadn't ever told anyone about.
My mother had listened generously to me most of my life. Because I didn't grow up with a father during much of it, it meant a lot to have that kind of unconditional love, when she could be there for me. My mother's recent loss is teaching me to live in ways I hadn't before. Dr. Remen's stating that "fixing is to small a strategy to deal with loss" is accurate in dealing with large losses in our lives.
I am just trying to move on after my mother's loss. It really "can't be fixed", (in Dr Remen's words), but must be felt, dealt with, experienced in the future moments without her and learned from. I live with the knowledge that each day I wake up, it is another chance to try again to set things right in my world and in other people's worlds.
Sending love and light to you
Sending love and light to you Adam. Five months is a very short time in the life of grief - short but acutely painful. You've done well getting into another school & continuing with hiking in our beautiful Country. There's a lot of beauty & comfort outside in the big skies with wildlife and small flowers upon the path. In quiet presence you can depend on finding a peaceful spot to dream and create your future. Namaste from the heart of NYC.
I was a partner with my husband during the 8 years of his Alzheimer's and I noticed that there was a sense of discomfort when the medical profession worked with him......almost a sadness in their eyes. This was not true of the many professionals who got to know both of us over the years. We were living a rich, full life and the Alzheimer's added spice, depth and challenge. The adult day care center staff and eventually the nursing home staff grew to love both of us and smiled as we danced together and held hands. Yes, there were the sad times and the angry times but generous listening as Rachel describes would have helped the medical staff learn about this full vibrant relationship and their pity would have melted. Living on the edges of our culture does allow us to see more of the truth and intimacy that exists.
Thank you so much for rebroadcasting the interview with Ms. Remen. I listened to the program off your podcast service the day after I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. I am fortunate to live in a time when this is in no way considered a fatal disease. But listening to Ms. Remen's comments on what people look for in their doctor and what they need to heal resonated with me deeply. My worst moments leading up to my diagnosis were spent at hospitals when I was vomiting and writhing in pain. What I lacked more than anything was information and the knowledge that people were listening to me. It's not an ego thing. It's just being scared and not knowing why you're in pain. Even though it is not fatal, I have asked myself while waiting at hospitals "Why me?" I really love Ms. Remen's understanding that medical science intersects with issues of faith and love. I know my recent treatments gave me a stronger awareness of my faith. Thanks for broadc asting this.
Dear Krista,
I'm going to do my best, but I feel I hardly have the words to express to you how inspired and emotionally stirred I was by your show: "Listening Generously" with Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen. The entire program exuded a sacred softness, a gentle and loving view of our lives at this moment in time, and everything that is possible for the human race to become.
Since the beginning of my life, my archetypal "storyteller" has been active, fully engaged and (thank God) employed most of the time. But more than ever before, I see clearly how the theme of "story" continues running through me. Whether mine or someone else's, it is the same. To tell our own stories, we are both giving and recieving. To listen generously, we are both giving and recieving. It's the ultimate ying yang-middle ground experience when it comes to relationship, community, compassion, world peace.
The analogy is just coming to me now as I write this, that a story is like a jewelry box: an encasement that carries and cushions something as valuable as the wisdom held within each narrative.
Or, if I'm going to be less superficial with my metaphor: stories are shells holding life... holding truth. And they keep SAVING my life. Again and again and again. When the shell is tapped and opened, I recognize that truth of human experience, and am comforted that I am not alone. I think that "sharing our stories" is the act of reminding ourselves of our own wholeness, our own "okay-ness", our own perfection right now.
But back to you. I love Speaking of Faith, and I think you are so very good at what you do. Please forgive my redundancy, but this particular show, "Listening Generously" was crystaline in its wholeness. Of course, listening to Dr. Remen slowed and then stopped my mind, and for 51 minutes and 9 seconds, I was just sitting, feeling my heart, and listening to the words and stories, and the gaps between those words and stories. I could feel your profound presence during the conversation, your own joy in the experience. Each movement of music, every production value, and such an authentic human connection came together to create one heartbreakingly divine moment in radio.
Thanks for giving what you give, and thanks for listening generously,
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-Mark Twain
Wonderfull interview! it reminded me of the book "Momo" from Michael Ende, one of my old time favorite stories.
Listening to Rachel Naomi Remen's account of how medical training cannot help but change you, I heard the echoes of my own experience in medical school and training. We often described it as "being in the trenches". It was the time of "us vs. them" mentality when denying our bodily and spiritual needs was indeed a status symbol. Lately I have been reflecting a lot on the fact that science is not the only thing in the therapeutic relationship. This post is inspired by what I have been thinking, thanks in part to your program!
An excellent program, as usual. I am forwarding it to my granddaughter who is in her last year of residency....thanks
This episode moved me deeply.
This episode moved me deeply. I need to listen to it a few more times, and I'm happy to find that there is an unedited version. If only all doctors were as caring as Rachel Naomi Remen!
On Being sustains and
On Being sustains and inspires me, week after week. Thank you.
In 2013 I was the equivalent
In 2013 I was the equivalent of a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of Canadian Quakers, and titled my Sunderland P. Gardmer
lecture (named for a renowned 19th C traveling minister), "The I Don't Know Place: Holy Spirit with me Always." Today I have been delighted to hear Rachel Naomi Remen not only affirm that questions are excellent "traveling companions" (what'a great phrase!), but also to hear an excerpt from her book where she names her frequent answer to questions her patients bring her, "I don't know.". It is a very satisfying complementary conversation -- I only wish I had "met" her earlier! Thank you for another deeply good program!
I listened to the episode
I listened to the episode called Listening Generously with Rachel Naomi Remen. She spent many of her years after being diagnosed with chromes disease, talking, and learning the stories of her many different patients. She talks very graciously about all the different people she spoke with and heard stories from. Just from the way she talks you can tell she took a lot away from these people she talked with. Remen says that "that is the only way we can make sense out of life, through the stories." At this point she is talking about 9/11. Everyone who was alive when it happened has a story about where they were, what they were doing, etc. Remen talks about how stories make us feel safe and secure with who we are and where we are in our lives.
Remen spent most her later career working with cancer patients. She had her own private practice. When she did open the practice, people were drawn to it. She did more than just treat patients, she listened and socialized with them. Instead of always feeling sympathy, or sorry for them she listened and understood what they were going to through. She liked to use the stories to understand how people work and survive crisis'


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Well, it's Tuesday again, and you know what that means... IBM Announcements!
This month, I am celebrating my six-year "blogoversary". I started blogging September 1, 2006 to celebrate [the 50th anniversary of disk system innovations].
This month, I am pleased to announce the new [IBM STG Executive Briefing Center] website, representing a huge improvement over the previous website we had been using over the past two years. STG refers to IBM's Systems and Technology Group, the division that focuses on servers, storage, switches and the system software that makes them run. This new website is for the dozen STG EBCs that span the globe. The new website reminds me of this famous quote:
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away"
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Let's take a quick look at what makes it so much better.
- Self-service Portal
The previous website required registration. At every briefing, those of us who work in the EBCs had to pass around a sign-up sheet for email addresses from each attendee so that we could send them an invitation to register for the site. We would have a hard time reading people's handwriting, resulting in some emails coming back rejected.
Inspired by self-service gas stations, automated teller machines, and the many self-service portals of Cloud Computing, the new website has everything up-front, without registration. IBM Business Partners and sales representatives can easily request a briefing at any of the dozen briefing centers represented!
- IBM-managed and IBM-hosted
We had a difficult time explaining to our attendees why our previous website was hosted on a lone machine and maintained by a third party. Think about it, IBM manages the data centers of over 400 clients. IBM has provided web hosting to the most mission critical workloads, with high levels of availability and reliability, and is recognized as one of the "Big 5" Cloud companies. I have done web design myself in my career, and we were terribly disappointed with the third party chosen to create and maintain our previous website, constantly having to point out errors in their HTML and CSS.
For the new website, IBM took back control. Staff from each EBC, myself included, came up with a simple page to bring the essence of each location to life. Special thanks to my colleage Hal Jennings, from the Austin EBC, for bringing this altogether!
- Simplified Navigation
Despite two years of manually registering attendees to use the previous website, Google Analytics showed that few people visited, and the few that did spent little time exploring the vast repository of content.
The new website is vastly simpler. The front page points to all twelve EBCs, and a single mouse click gets you to the location you are interested in, with all the details you need to make a decision to book a briefing, and the contact information to make it happen.
- Elimination of Wasted and Duplicate Effort
In the previous website, we spent as much as 15 hours just to create, voice over, edit and produce a single 15-minute recorded presentation. Less than six percent of the previous website visitors watched more than five minutes of these videos, making us feel that most of our effort was wasted.
The EBC staff kept wasting their time, month after month, thanks to all-stick, no-carrot tactics that mandated minimums for contributions for more and more content that nobody was ever looking at. Even more disappointing was that much of our work duplicated the formal responsibilities of our IBM Marketing team. They weren't happy about this either, causing confusion between the roles of our two teams.
Finally, we said enough was enough! The new STG EBC website is a marvel in minimalism. If you want to see presentations, videos, expert profiles, or partake in on-going conversations, I welcome you to visit the [IBM Expert Network], the [IBM Storage YouTube Channel], and the [Storage Community] where they belong.
I invite you all to check out the new [IBM STG Executive Briefing Center] website. Let me know what you think in the comments below!
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20 March 2011
William Kendall Mystery
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Hi Jill,ReplyDelete
I found your blog via Geneabloggers and wanted to day welcome to the blogsphere! I'm active with the NCGenWeb project and added your blog to our NC Genealogy 2.0 page at http://www.ncgenweb.us/nc-genealogy-2-0. Please don't hesitate to let me know if we can help you in any way.
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Thank you so much for your connection and offer of support.
I look forward to chatting with you and learning more about the NCGenWeb project.
Take care,
There is a Wm C. Kendall born 2 Nov 1900 in Shelyville Indiana, listed on the passenger list of SS President McKinley out of Shanghai & arriving in Seattle in 1927.ReplyDelete
Hope this helps.
Theresa (Tangled Trees)
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Thank you so much for the information. I'll check into this and see if it helps me to put anymore puzzle pieces together.
That information would definitely make sense if he was, indeed, a U.S. Marine. I'm still working on trying to locate some military records.
Thank you for the helpful information!
Kind Regards,
Place of birth matches and the date of birth matches the other record so Hopefully this has put on a good track! TheresaReplyDelete
Hi Theresa,ReplyDelete
That record has helped me to add another piece to the puzzle (and thanks again for being kind enough to share it with me!). Every bit of information certainly helps, especially since it's been so challenging for me to find any official records for him.
I'll be sure to keep posting updates!
Take Care,


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New gun range will help sharpen Spokane police officers' skills
SPOKANE, Wash. - The North Hollywood Shootout, a violent bank robbery in California 15 years ago, is still changing the way police officers are trained and equipped here in Spokane.
Two men, Larry Phillips, Jr. and Emil M?t?s?reanu, packing fully automatic weapons and wearing body armor, were able to shoot and wound 18 people -- including nine police officers -- at a North Hollywood Bank of America branch before police were able stop them. The 1997 incident showed that police armed with just handguns were no match for modern criminals.
The North Hollywood Shootout sent shock waves throughout the law enforcement community. Officers were stunned when they saw their handgun rounds bouncing off the suspects' ballistic vests.Spokane gun range expansion
"They were outgunned and out equipped compared to the bad guys on scene," Spokane Police range master Sergeant Matt Cowles said.
Since the 1997 shootout, a number of law enforcement agencies nationwide have gone to a program where patrol officers have rifles available to them.
The Spokane Police Department's gun range has been in use since at least the 1950s, back when six-shot revolvers were an officer's primary duty weapon. Today officers carry AR-15 rifles in their patrol cars. That way, if necessary, they don't have to wait for the SWAT team to have extra firepower,
"If the situation calls for it, the long rifle is an excellent tool for us because it is so accurate, because you don't need as many rounds, and ultimately it's going to keep the scene much safer," Spokane Police Officer Jennifer DeRuwe said.
However the police department has found itself coming up short when it comes to its patrol rifle training. With that in mind the department is now building a hundred yard range so if there ever is a shooting situation the first officers responding to the scene will have both the right skills and equipment.
"So that when you have individuals out there with very dangerous weapons, able to inflict a lot of harm on people we're able to come in, arrive on scene and take care of business," Sgt. Cowles said.
Currently, the department has a 50-yard gun range, but thanks to a $300,000 in federal grants, the department will be extending the range out to the hundred yard line so that patrol officers will not only be better armed but also be better trained and prepared for an active shooter scenario.
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Organic Karou Matcha from O-Cha. My first Matcha.
.... It is gooooooooood!
Pictures will follow.
Chip wrote:If the screen holes are too big, this can let too much leaf into the cup for many drinkers ... But I am thinking your Banko does not have holes that are too big.
Maneki Neko wrote:Together with my Banko I also ordered fukamushi Yame Sencha, my next tea to try.
Maneki Neko wrote:Organic Uji Gyokuro from Yuuki-Cha.
I've experimented a bit with brewing temperatures and like the way they affect the taste and strength of the brew. I've brewed at 55 degrees which makes a very mild, pleasant brew; last weekend and today the first steep was at 65 and 62 degrees respectively. Yuuki-Cha recommends 65 degrees for this particular tea. It was more bold
Together with my Banko I also ordered fukamushi Yame Sencha, my next tea to try. Dan told me I have to be careful with pouring if I brew it in the Banko. Should have done more research! I haven't opened the sencha yet so don't know how small the leaf bits are. Any thoughts/experiences with brewing fukamushi in a ball-filter Banko?
Zach wrote:Ssangkye roasting sejak. A bit nutty and creamy, my favorite green tea from the Ssangkye tea company.


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Police: Drunk driver goes wrong direction on Beltline Highway
Spike strips used to stop SUV
MADISON, Wis. - Spike strips were needed to stop an intoxicated driver going the wrong way on the Beltline Highway Thursday morning, according to Madison police.
Witnesses first alerted police to the sport utility vehicle at about 2 a.m. when it was spotted going eastbound in the westbound lanes near the Highway 12 intersection with University Avenue.
The first officer to locate the SUV said he flashed a spotlight back and forth trying to get the driver to stop, but the driver went past. The officer said he pursued the SUV, which slowed down but didn't stop.
A second officer was able to use spike sticks to deflate the vehicle's tires, bringing the car to a stop near Seminole Highway ,according to police.
Officers said numerous motorists had to make evasive maneuvers to avoid a collision.
Dalivanh Detthongthip, 34, of Cross Plaines was arrested on suspicion of second degree reckless endangerment, third degree operating a vehicle while under the influence, driving the wrong way on a divided highway, failure to obey an officer's signal and reckless driving.
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A key piece in the deal that sent Roy Halladay to Philadelphia in 2009, MLB.com's No. 25 prospect went 3-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to 10 games in Las Vegas' 8-7 win in Reno on Monday evening.
It was the 23-year-old's second three-hit game in the past three days and his third multi-hit outing of his last five. Since April 18, the California native has lifted his batting average 100 points to a season-high .282.
"I think at the beginning of the season I was overswinging and trying to do too much," d'Arnaud said. "I wasn't staying within myself or playing my own game.
"I was in a new place and seeing new faces and I was trying to impress everyone instead of playing hard and letting things come to me as the game goes on. It took me a while to discover the problem, but once I did, I was able to attack it."
The 2007 first-round Draft pick got off to a slow start in the Pacific Coast League, recording just one hit in his first four games and batting as low as .182 through the first two weeks of the season.
Since then, the right-hander -- who hit .311 with 21 homers and 78 RBIs a year ago with Double-A New Hampshire -- has adjusted his gameplan and focused more on putting the ball in play rather than swinging for the fences.
"In my pregame routine, I've been slowing everything down and not trying to do too much," the 6-foot-2 backstop said. "I hit some balls off a tee and take some flips. During batting practice, I'm not trying to have a home run derby, I'm more focused and relaxed.
"I was too erratic and all over the place and I wasn't relaxed like I was last year. I was tensing up because I wanted to hit it so far instead of hitting it on the dough. Sometimes my swing just got too long because I was thinking about a home run."
On Monday, d'Arnaud continued his singles-first mentality. He thinks that if he consistently puts good swings on the ball, the singles will eventually turn into doubles and the doubles, in turn, will start leaving the park.
He singled in the first, fourth and fifth innings before grounding out in his final two at-bats. A defensive catcher by trade, d'Arnaud hopes that if his offense gets him to the Majors, his strengths behind the dish will keep him there.
"The catching and calling of the game, it's just a catcher pride thing," he said. "Everyone loves calling shutouts and it's my dream to call a perfect game. It's a game within a game. Another question you might ask is whether I would have a play at the plate in the last inning or a game-winning hit. I'd rather be the guy who saved the run."
On Monday, shortstop Adeiny Hechavarria was 2-for-4 with a grand slam out of the leadoff spot and Yan Gomes went 3-for-5 with a solo blast. Right-hander Bobby Korecky (1-0) retired all five batters he faced to earn the win and Ryota Igarashi struck out two batters over a perfect ninth for his first save of 2012.
Starter Tim Redding allowed seven runs on eight hits and two walks over 4 1/3 innings and did not factor in the decision.
Reno center fielder Adam Eaton collected three hits, including his first homer of the year, and Ryan Wheeler and Konrad Schmidt both went 2-for-4.
Sam Demel (0-2) yielded one run in the seventh inning to take the loss. Reno starter Tom Layne surrendered eight hits and four walks over four innings. He yielded seven runs and struck out two.
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For those who spent their formative years in Palm Beach County, chances are the South Florida Science Museum has been checked off the childhood educational bucket list. A staple of the school fieldtrip and summer camp circuit for more than a half-century, little had changed at an otherwise unremarkable building on the southern edge of West Palm Beach's Dreher Park. But recently, the museum underwent a transformation that is set to be unveiled June 7 with a ceremonial ribbon cutting, which the public is invited to attend and experience the new center free of charge from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
What started as a response to Sputnik in 1959, the South Florida Science Museum has blossomed into the newly minted and expanded South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, marking a new beginning for a West Palm Beach landmark.
The yearlong construction project and expansion—50 years in the making—was more akin to a metamorphosis: In went the South Florida Science Museum, a 20,000 square-foot science center, and out came the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium, complete with an additional 6,500 square feet of new space and 6,500 square feet of renovated space. The new and rehabilitated science center includes a 6,000-square-foot traveling exhibit hall, the 3,000 square-foot Florida Exhibit Gallery (which incorporates the 8,000-gallon Aquariums of the Atlantic) and the room-sized globe in Science on a Sphere. This equates to more than $1.3 million in museum exhibits alone, which was part of a $5 million capital campaign and the first meaningful change to the organization's facility since 1969.
"We wanted to do a number of things," says Lewis "Lew" Crampton, president and CEO of the newly minted South Florida Science Center and Aquarium. "First, we wanted to refresh our whole public offering."
This is an understatement. Essentially, half the museum is new or renovated—and with that, new exhibits. The goal behind the expansion and renovation, as Crampton puts it, "is to be one of the top, best-in-class, community-based science center in the country." And that started with the name. The switch from South Florida Science Museum, a brand 50 years in the making, was not an easy decision, but the new name aligns with the vision of the center, according to Crampton.
"We see ourselves as a place where people come to do science as opposed to come and look at science," he says. "We're high-tech and high-touch."
While maintaining the original mission of "opening every mind to science," SFSCA pairs the exhibits everyone has come to know and love with new hands-on, interactive stations and learning opportunities.
"For many years, we lived in a museum that had very little curb appeal," Crampton says. "It didn't look all that attractive—like it didn't have much going for it on the outside, but on the inside, it was a different story. People love this place; they deserve a great science center, and we aim to bring that."
Enter Anew
The museum's exterior received a full facelift with a large steel architectural structure that towers over the new entrance and speaks to Crampton's want for curb appeal. On the interior, changes are much more drastic. The entrance has shifted east. Gone are the days of the narrow, dark hallway and subway-esque ticket windows; in is a dynamic new lobby, complete with an updated circular welcome desk, a full-fledged gift shop, a glinting saltwater aquarium and a viewing area overlooking the new Traveling Exhibit Gallery.
The new gallery, the bridge between the existing west wing of the center and the new east wing, is a huge boon for the area. This space, about 6,000 square feet, allows the center to bring in the top major traveling exhibits in the country, something that was simply out of the question in this part of the state until now. Exhibits like Titanic (expected in the fall), Bodies and Savage Ancient Seas—currently on display—now have a home in Palm Beach County, expanding the center's appeal.
"We are moving out of a nice place to take the family and kids and broadening our audience to include adults—still the kids, but adults, too, because of the quality of our exhibits," Crampton says.
Immediately off the traveling gallery space sits the unique Science on a Sphere. Designed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the suspended six-foot globe dominates a darkened alcove where four high-resolution projectors cast Earth, the sun, Jupiter, videos and more in an interactive, highly interpretive display. Tapping into NOAA and NASA satellites and datasets, more than 520 programs have been developed, depicting real-time weather, historical weather events like the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, the migration patterns of monarch butterflies, views of our planetary neighbors and even educational videos and documentaries about the deep sea or deep space. Just 94 of these exhibits exist worldwide, with only three in Florida—making SFSCA's, which was backed by the Quantum Foundation of West Palm Beach, a unique learning experience.
With more than 500 programs stemming from NOAA and NASA satellites and datasets, Science on a Sphere is the ultimate planetary and extra-planetary learning device.
"The sphere slices and dices science so it's accessible to people," Crampton says as he calls up the daily flight paths of planes from airports around the world for a group of students on a field trip. As the animation turns, depicting sunrise and sunset, red streaks representing flight paths crossing the globe begin appearing. The children stare in rapt attention; the exhibit clicks for these kids—no older than 8. The interest was genuine, an example of the center's mission in action.
The Florida Exhibit Gallery
Immediately off Science on a Sphere sits the coup de grâce of the expansion, the Florida Exhibit Gallery. All encompassing, the Florida gallery shines the spotlight on the natural wonder of the state as well as some of the burgeoning scientists in the community. The Student Science Showcase is dedicated to presenting the best and brightest by featuring some of the Florida's most outstanding school science projects, while the Conservation Research Station puts the guests to work at an adapted learning laboratory, focusing on conservation efforts and aspects in Florida.
Connected to this lies the Hidden World of the Everglades, a two-part interactive Everglades exhibit with an indoor diorama and interpretive kiosk. Soon to come is an outdoor exhibit with the flora and fauna native to the River of Grass, water quality testing experiments and examples of conservation efforts. The emphasis with the Hidden World of the Everglades is to give visitors an idea of the historical changes the Everglades have undergone, from before colonial times to today, where the great wetlands have been marginalized and segmented. In the end, the kiosk looks into the future with a depiction of what the Everglades should look like in 20 years after the Central Everglades Restoration Project process is completed.
The River of Grass exhibit features the history and future of the Everglades, from its importance as an ecosystem and watershed, to the creatures that call it home.
"We have a very strong sense of environmental issues here and have been working closely with the Marshall Foundation and others to ensure the quality of the exhibit is precise," says Crampton, who was once associate administrator with the EPA before beginning his second career in the nonprofit world. Tying directly to the Everglades exhibit is a live account of some of the aquatic species found in the River of Grass in the newly formed aquariums.
The Aquariums of the Atlantic is an eye-opener. Quadrupling in size to 3,000 square feet—"the size of a regulation NBA basketball court," Crampton points out—the 8,000-gallon aquarium is the largest and most comprehensive fresh and saltwater complex between Orlando and Miami. More than 90 species will be on display in 14 different tanks, each representing a distinct underwater region in our immediate area—"from depths off our coast to our local canal system and into the Everglades," Crampton says.
Created by Living Color Enterprises—the same folks on Nat Geo Wild's Fish Tank Kings and the creators of the Marlins Park tanks, the aquariums at MacArthur Beach State Park and the River Center in Jupiter, among many more—the SFSCA tanks target the immediate area, each depicting a different aspect of the marine ecosystems.
Going from 800 to 3,000 square feet, the Aquariums of the Atlantic includes more than 90 different species "from depths off our coast to our local canal system and into the Everglades," Crampton says.
"There is plenty of eye candy here," Crampton boasts, including two 7-foot-tall cylindrical tanks: One is home to a school of silvery saltwater lookdown fish, while the other hosts a freshwater ecosystem. The coral reef tank dubbed the Rainforest of the Seas—Our Coral Reef gives visitors a unique perspective with a 360-degree pop-up view port underneath and "inside" the tank. To access, kids and adults have to climb below the tank, where a secret compartments leads to a viewing port.
For a real hands-on experience, the Marine-Life Touch Aquarium allows visitors to handle some of South Florida's most interesting sea creatures. Mimicking the shallows around and about mangroves and seagrass meadows, the tanks highlight the individual ecosystems and their interconnectivity, their importance and the threats constantly hacking away at these rooty and grassy worlds. There is even a tank designed to raise awareness about the growing threat of invasive species that are rapidly impacting the waters, like lionfish, scorpion fish, snakehead fish and pacu. The largest and most dynamic tank is dedicated to artificial reefs. The 40-foot-long Shipwreck Cove houses nurse sharks, barracuda, eels, grouper and other reef fish and runs nearly the length of the aquarium exhibit.
The freshwater tanks are as equally interesting. Tanks with turtles and baby alligators are sure to need a daily account of Windex as children press their faces to the acrylic and peer in at the ancient reptiles. As part of the center's ongoing mission to be more hands-on, the Undersea Learning Laboratory takes classes on a more detailed understanding of the sea life in the tanks. Adjacent to the pump and filtration room for the aquariums, the laboratory will have acclimation tanks and tanks open for species from the ponds and canals immediately outside the center's facility in Dreher Park. This allows instructors to show the immediacy of nature and how the slightest of actions can affect the ecosystem.
All of this adds to the existing facility, a wing filled with brainteasers, hands-on activities and learning stations, the Dekelboum Planetarium and the only public observatory in Palm Beach County. Before the unveiling of the expansion, SFSM was the second-busiest science center in the nation for its size, hosting more than 125,000 visitors annually, not including the more than 40,000 school children who visit on field trips.
"Attendance was already strong, so just imagine what will happen when we open this new wing," Crampton says.
The SFSCA is chock-full of hands-on science centers and brainteasers.
The hope is to increase attendance and continue with the capital campaign in order to finish the center's vision: to fully update and renovate the facility and install a state-of-the-art science trail outside. These initiatives will allow the center to tap directly into the nature to help explain the science behind it and the key to conservation and preservation.
"We want to get people excited about science," Crampton says. "The kids are really open, the school district is excellent, coordinated and a great partner, and this is just the beginning. We hope everyone will come and join us here, to have fun and be part of the solution.
"The mission is education first and foremost, but mixing in entertainment is a great way of getting the message across. And with this new face for the new place, we have the capacity of being very prosperous."


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Ok, yes, yes, I know it's owned by Bigelow. But something within me is simply intrigued over the thought of an American tea, http://www.bigelowtea.com/act/
I seem to recall trying the tea many years ago, but in bags. I don't have any particular impressions. They now have loose tea too. Has anyone tried this tea? What did you think?


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (243 votes).
In short: Disorganisation but decent courseIn full: My main gripe with this race was the start which I thought was a complete disorganised shambles. I waited in the baggage drop off queue for 15 minutes before I was able to drop off my bag, and by the time I got through the crowd waiting at the doors, the race had started! My watch may have been wrong but it was before 9am - I know there were others in the same boat! Despite this shambles a tough, muddy, wet, but reasonably enjoyable course. Good support along the way. However, for me the race was ruined at the start - never known such a disorganised pre race, and I have never known the start happen before the scheduled time! The course is nice though (for December), but I won't be rushing to recommend this race. Sorry! Date of review: December 27, 2013
In short: fantastic marathonIn full: There is no moans here great run for What I paid to enter was a bargain. 4th marathon and will return next year to do it all over again. I turned up 1hr before and was quiet no que and was prepared for the run. This was a experience you won't get in a city marathon can't please everyone I guess. Great charity and well maned water stations along the way .Top work on a great marathonDate of review: December 26, 2013
In short: Enjoyably challenging pre-Christmas runIn full: Overall really enjoyed this marathon. The route on You Tube was a very smart touch I think. I enjoyed the route - yes it was muddy but it had been raining very heavily so what did some people expect?? The few bottlenecks were okay with me, didn't cause too much delay. Great water stations with good and plentiful selection of goodies, (loved those jaffa cakes!) Only real negative for me was all the unnecessary litter dropped by runners - total arrogance considering the large colourful bins at each stop. Will be back next year! Date of review: December 24, 2013
In short: Excellent coastal route, great marathon to end the year.In full: A flat coastal route, predominately off-road, (about 65% give or take a bit)can get very muddy in places. Friendly participants, encouraging marshalls, and helpful medics. It's not a PB course but it's a fun one. Whether you're a seasoned long distance runner or a newbie I highly recommend it. Goodie bag had a big box of cereal along with few treats. Mulled wine at drinks station gives you an idea of the 'fun' aspect! :-)Date of review: December 24, 2013
In short: Special because of the course and time of yearIn full: I love this course - flat but with character.Better organised than last year. Still work to be done.Needs better bag drop - as has been suggested same bag and race number could save much time.No 'real' changing facilities - the 50p for a shower in the Pyramid centre is very useful, however.Toilets, toilets, toilets required - anyone in the 'know' used public ones in the vicinity.Good, free on-road parking within easy walking distance.Goodie bag a nice surprise.Date of review: December 24, 2013
In short: Friendly race, but needs a few tweaks now it's grownIn full: My second time at this race, (2012/2013) and was just using it as a long, social run - with a chance to enjoy the drinks on the second half.As such - I didn't mind the bottlenecks, or missing the start but can imagine that this would annoy a lot of people, especially those gunning for a time.As others have said - it's December, in England, on the South Coast... Expect the weather to be bad! I got diverted at the end and ended up running around the streets of Portsmouth - apparently we got lost and did a bit extra but I must admit I didn't notice.The bag drop needs improving - maybe put the baggage label in the runners pack, (and make it the same number as the race number - giving out little raffle tickets with a random number on is a recipe for disaster, where are we supposed to put it - and keep it dry?)Oh - and yes, more loos please... The portaloos at halfway were unusable and caused many people to have to divert into the bushes on the return leg!Other than that - I thought the marshals were fab, the aid stations well stocked and friendly and an excellent goodie bag. Worth the trip down, thanks PortsmouthDate of review: December 24, 2013
In short: Great first time experienceIn full: I thought the event was well organised with the exception of the bag drop off being a bit chaotic but this was understandable with the weather. With this being my first marathon I found the multi terrain challenging - but that just added to the experienceDate of review: December 24, 2013
In short: 2nd time I've done this event and it's great which is why I chose it for my 100th. Very friendly and relaxed atmosphere Date of review: December 23, 2013
In short: Excellent, Challenging and funIn full: A very good multi-terrain race. Well stocked water stops and everso friendly marshalls. Will do it again next year and have already entered. The only thing i would change is to hand out the medals as most are tired and thats all they want and direct people to the soup van as was unsure on which van was giving it outDate of review: December 23, 2013
In short: Lovely end of year jauntIn full: I enjoyed this race, but the pre and post race organising needs improving. There were no signs to direct people to the baggage area or loos. No announcement that the race was about to start while I was trying to drop my bag off. With the number of runners inside I was amazed the race was off before 9am. The route was varied and interesting, the water stations very well stocked and all the marshals were friendly and encouraging. I enjoyed the dip in the sea, it got my trainers clean! And the last two miles in the wind were very tough, but no one ever said marathon running was easy! The goody bag was ace, but I too like to be handed my medal.All in all a nice race with a friendly atmosphere and a few tweaks with organisation would help.Date of review: December 23, 2013
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As SSS eluded to already, but didn't want to hijack the hindsight draft thread.
Yes, he went to Michigan. Yes, he's a pretty boy, and yes, he does wear chick boots. But damn, this doc was as good as any of the 30:30 that the network has ran (it was part of The Year of the QB series).
Had respect for him (my fantasy QB in a keeper league after the dumbass dropped him after his ACL tear), but much more now. Still upset about where and how he was drafted 11 years later, not in a HOF MJ speech way, but in an "I still tear up over it" way. Listening to the Kipers, Mariuccis and Billicks of the world explain themselves 11 years later, some still stick by their scouting reports.
One thing I did learn was that Spergon Wynn did not have the shortest career of the QBs in that draft. Ouch.
If you didn't see it, watch it on demand. Very good doc all the way around.