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Augason Farms Ultimate Survival Kit (1 year, 4 people)
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One year of easy to prepare, home-cooked style foods that taste so good, you'll want to try these recipes now rather than wait for the next emergency. Food storage pail included for you to access food on the go.
Limited Time Offer – Food, Water Storage, and 72-Hour Emergency Pail
- Feeds 4 people for a full year
- Over 1,377 calories average per day
- Over 20,729 servings used to create 4,380 meals
- 4 - 55 Gallon Water Barrel Storage System
- Plus a 72 Hour Grab 'n Go Emergency Food Storage Pail
The Augason Farms Ultimate Survival Kit includes the enough food for 4 people to last one year, plus four 55-gallon water storage kits. This family-style kit with over 60 different items ensures a broad selection of foods to choose from for your daily needs. With a shelf life of up to 30 years, it is ideal for long-term storage with plentiful amounts of the finest items for breakfasts, main dishes, desserts, entrées, bakery items and even snacks—enough to feed four people for one year. These products are so good and easy to prepare—you will want to break into your supply and use them everyday.
Also included is a 72-hour Emergency Grab 'n Go Food Storage Pail with your kit. Toss this kit in the trunk of your car truck or RV. It will always be there, just in case.
This kit includes four 55-gallon Water Barrel Storage Systems. The 55-gallon water barrel is a durable container designed for closed water storage. The siphon hose is easy to use and will transfer up to five gallons of liquid per minute. The included Aquamira liquid water treatment drops are ideal for water storage treatment (up to 30 gallons each), and are effective on bacteria, viruses and cysts. No unpleasant aftertaste and meets stringent EPA guidelines.
Family owned and operated since 1972, Augason Farms believes that great taste is a tradition worth preserving. Crafted with a focus on taste and nutrition, their products are manufactured to the highest standards. Let them provide you with delicious peace of mind.
- Up to a 20 year shelf life on the food
- 42 total servings of product
- 7,680 total calories
- 372 - #10 sized cans of food
- Feeds 4 people for 1 year
- Feeds 8 people for 6 months
- Feeds 16 people for 3 months
- An average of 1,377 calories per day
- Over 20,729 servings create 4,380 meals
- A shelf life of up to 30 years*
- Recipes on each label
- Quick and easy to prepare
- No refrigeration needed
- Re-sealable plastic lid on each can
- Quality long-term food storage products
- Great for everyday use
The Augason Farms Ultimate Survival Kit - 1 year - 4 people includes all the food nutrition for four people for a full year at approximately 1,377 calories per day. The kit consists of 372 institutional size (#10) cans, which include:
Grains, Oats, and Rice
- 30 - Hard White Wheat (51 servings per can)
- 6 - Creamy Wheat Cereal (36 servings per can)>
- 64 - Long Grain White Rice (47 servings per can)
- 4 - Elbow Macaroni (26 servings per can)
- 60 - Quick Rolled Oats (22 servings per can)
Soups and Gravy:
- 2 - Creamy Potato Soup Mix (33 servings per can
- 2 - Vegetable Stew Blend (40 servings per can)
- 1 – Chicken Gravy (38 servings per can)
- 2 - Hearty Vegetable Beef Soup Mix (21 servings per can)
- 2 - Hearty Vegetable Chicken Soup Mix (21 servings per can)
- 1 - Chicken Bouillon (921 servings per can
- 6 - Dehydrated Potato Flakes (30 servings per can)
- 2 - Dehydrated Potato Shreds (21 servings per can)
- 2 - Dehydrated Potato Slices (28 servings per can)
- 4 - Dehydrated Potato Dices (20 servings per can)
- 3 - Freeze Dried Sweet Corn (23 servings per can)
- 1 - Dehydrated Chopped Onions (217 servings per can)
- 2 - Freeze Dried Broccoli Florets & Stems (28 servings per can)
- 3 - Dehydrated Diced Carrots (29 servings per can)
- 3 - Dehydrated Cross Cut Celery (36 servings per can)
- 1 - Dehydrated Diced Red & Green Bell Peppers (113 servings per can)
- 1 – Dehydrated Spinach Flakes (45 servings per can)
- 1 - Honey Powder (340 servings per can)
- 2 - Honey Wheat Bread & Roll Mix (49 servings per can)
- 2 - Honey White Bread & Roll Mix (49 servings per can)
- 1 - Buttermilk Biscuit Mix (no leavening) (31 servings per can)
- 1 - Iodized Salt (1474 servings per can)
- 1 - Shortening Powder (178 servings per can)
- 2 - Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix (45 servings per can)
- 2 - Blueberry Muffin Mix (40 servings per can)
- 1 - Brown Sugar (529 servings per can)
- 2 - White Granulated Sugar (595 servings per can)
- 3 - Chocolate Fudge Brownie Mix (45 servings per can)
- 7 - Blueberry Pancake Mix (19 servings per can)
- 22 - Honey Coated Banana Slices (21 servings per can)
- 3 - Freeze Dried Sliced Strawberries (18 servings per can)
- 3 - Freeze Dried Whole Raspberries (22 servings per can)
- 8 - Country Fresh 100% Real Instant Nonfat Dry Milk (39 servings per can)
- 18 - Morning Moo's® Low Fat Milk Alternative (93 servings per can)
- 4 - Chocolate Morning Moo's® Low Fat Milk Alternative (57 servings per can)
- 1 - Cheese Blend Powder (43 servings per can)
- 1 - Butter Powder (204 servings per can)
- 8 - Dried Whole Eggs (71 servings per can)
- 8 - Beef Flavored Vegetarian Meat Substitute (40 servings per can)
- 8 - Bacon Flavored Bits Vegetarian Meat Substitute (192 servings per can)
- 8 - Chicken Flavored Vegetarian Meat Substitute (41 servings per can)
- 3 - Taco Flavored Vegetarian Meat Substitute (30 servings per can)
- 2 - Pinto Beans (52 servings per can)
- 2 - Lentils (48 servings per can)
- 6 - Black Turtle Beans (49 servings per can)
- 3 - Apple Delight Drink Mix (103 servings per can)
- 3 - Orange Delight Drink Mix (99 servings per can)
Special Entrees:
- 6 - Spaghetti Marinara with Freeze Dried Beef Entrée (20 servings per can)
- 6 - Freeze-Dried Chicken Fettuccine Alfredo Entrée (14 servings per can)
- 6 - Asian Style Teriyaki with Freeze Dried Beef Entrée (20 servings per can)
- 6 - Freeze Dried Beef Stroganoff Entrée (14 servings per can)
- 6 - Chili Macaroni with Freeze-Dried Beef Entrée (24 servings per can)
4 - 55 Gallon Water Barrel Storage Systems:
- 4 - 55 gal. Water barrel made from food-grade polyethylene and BPA free
- 4 - 6' siphon hose and hand pump
- 8 bottles of Aquamira water treatment drops (4 yr. shelf life)
- 4 bucket/barrel lid opener
- Each barrel has two fittings: 1 - 2" BTR and 1 - 2" NPS
72 Hour Grab n Go Pail includes:
- 5 different food items:
- Chicken with Rice
- Creamy Potato Soup Mix
- Honey Coated Bananas
- Dehydrated Apple Slices
- Maple Brown Sugar Oatmeal
- Included survival items:
- FireOn Fuel Disks-5
- Portable Folding Stove
- Waterproof Matches
- 2qt Kettle with lid
- Kettle Clamp handle
- Water Bottle with Filter
- 6 in 1 Multi-function camping tool
- Plastic measuring cup
- 7 in 1 survival whistle
- First aid Kit
Augason Farms products contain oxygen absorbers to help maintain product safety, freshness, and extend shelf life by removing excess oxygen from the package.
Best when stored in a cool, dry place at temperatures between 55-70°F (ideal humidity of 15%).
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Frequently Asked Questions for Augason Farms Food Storage Products:
Q: How do I compare "servings per can or pail" to product weight and calories?
A: The truth is you cannot. Our serving sizes and number of servings per can are set with respect to government guidelines on food nutrition and recipe requirements for each product. You will find some recipe creations may require multiple servings of specific products to create the recipe. When reviewing food storage kits, a good comparison is based upon number of persons, calories per day, length of time and calculating the total number of meals possible. For example: 1-Person, 1-Year (3 meals per day, 365 days = 1,095 total meals), 1,700 calories per day. Your decision should be based upon average calories per day per person and not the total serving count.
Q: Once I open the product, how long do I have to use the product?
A: Shelf life varies by product and is affected by temperature and moisture. Once the can/pail is opened, the storage life for most products is approximately one year
- Beans, Freeze Dried Fruits & Vegetables: 30 years
- Grains: 30 years (Exception – Brown Rice: 7 years)
- Bakery Staples: 30 years (Exception – Shortening Powder, Flour, Vital Wheat Gluten, Dough Enhancer: 10 years)
- Dehydrated Fruits & Vegetables: 25 years (Exception – Banana Slices, Potato Gems: 10 years)
- Freeze Dried Meats & Entrées: 25 years sealed - 1 month opened
- Delight Drinks: 15 years
- Vegetarian Meat Substitutes, Cereals, Bakery Mixes, Eggs & Dairy: 10 years (Exception – Morning Moo's: 25 years, Chocolate Morning Moo's: 15 years)
- Soups & Sauces: 10 years (Exception – Vegetable Stew Blend, Hearty Vegetable Chicken or Beef Soup Mix: 25 years)
Q: How will my product be shipped?
A: Most items are shipped by small parcel carriers like FedEx. The larger kits will arrive in multiple boxes from a single carrier.
Q: What do the numbers mean that are marked on my Food Storage Kit Boxes?
A: To facilitate fulfillment of your order, all kit boxes are pre-assembled with specific products, then pulled from inventory to assemble your order. Numbers on the boxes may not be in sequential order. Pail items will be shipped in separate cases.
Q: Why when I open the cans/pails, are some only partially filled?
A: With some products, settling occurs and is expected. Cans/pails are sold by weight and not by volume for that reason.
Q: Where should I store my product?
A: Product is best when stored in a cool, dry place at temperatures between 55˚F and 70˚F (ideal humidity 15%). Heat shortens the storage life of any food – the cooler the storage, the longer the storage life. Once product is open, please ensure the lid is secure when storing and use within the guidelines.
Q: If a can gets dented, does it affect the quality of the product?
A: Small dents may occur in cans from shipping, and this is normal. They do not pose a problem, provided the seal has not been broken at top or bottom of the can. If the seal has been broken at the top or bottom of the can, please contact Sam's Club Customer Service to resolve the issue: 1.888.746.7726.
Dents should not occur from shipping in pails. You may however, see indentations in the pail from air pressure changes in shipping. This will not harm the product inside and should straighten out over a short period of time.
Q: Are the cans/pails marked with "use by" dates?
A: Cans/pails are marked with a production date called a Julian date. For example, 15022 means the can was produced in 2015 on the 22nd day (January 22). Each can is also marked with the expected storage life.
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So what do we do? Let's start by building healthy and respectful relationships.
- Relationships are not perfect – Feeling angry, hurt or upset at times is normal. But feeling scared, humiliated, pressured or controlled is not the way a relationship should make you feel. Instead, you should feel loved, respected and free to be yourself.
Action Step: Support your significant other through the language you use and the actions you take. Respect your partner and your partner's decisions, including those involving sex. Never force someone to engage in sexual activity. This is sexual assault, whether you are dating, married, living together as a couple or are just friends.
- Talk with each other – communication is essential in health relationships. Couples should take time to talk with each other – respect each other's opinions and feel comfortable asking each other questions even about sex.
Action Step: Take time to talk and listen to your boyfriend, girlfriend or spouse. Express your thoughts and feelings clearly and directly, without intentionally hurting or disrespecting each other. Even if you disagree, never pressure your significant other.
- Family matters – Families are an important part of everyone's lives. Family members help shape beliefs, provide support, and can serve as role models. But sometimes families can reinforce violent behavior. Actions with intent to abuse, humiliate, harass or degrade another lead to unhealthy relationships. Children learn what they see and hear. Without healthy relationships from which to learn, children can grow up to act out and be in sexually abusive relationships (American Psychological Association, 1996).
Action Step: Simples changes in the way you act in front of your children can prevent sexual violence. For instance, speak up when you see your son or daughter mistreat others physically or emotionally. Talk with your children about what it means to be in a healthy relationship where couples do not hurt each other physically, sexually or emotionally (American Psychological Association, 1996).
- Friends count – Friends are an important source of support and advice. Friends play a powerful role in shaping attitudes, beliefs and behaviors about rape and sexual violence. Friends should speak up when they know or see a friend insist on sex. Talk with each other about what it means to give and receive respect.
Action Step: Friends should not accept excuses for violent acts committed by people they love. Confront the abuser – only if you can do it safely. Let the abuser know you don't approve of the behavior; and discuss changes that can be made to have more productive, healthy relationships (Golding, Wilsnack and Cooper, 2002).
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Citing "insider close to the situation", Techgage web-site on Monday reported that VoodooPC notified at least certain staff members regarding the forthcoming layoffs and also started to return products to its suppliers. It is unlikely that boutique personal computer supplier was unprofitable and even if it is, it is hard to believe that its losses are significant for HP.
The founder of Voodoo – which HP acquired about two years ago – was rather quick to comment on the rumour, but did not deny information regarding closure of the division.
"HP is working on a plan to better leverage its existing resources to bring Voodoo products to market faster and make them more accessible to consumers. I can assure you that Voodoo employees and champions of the brand will continue to work on the conceptualization, design and development of Voodoo products," said Rahul Sood in an interview with Gizmodo web-site.
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When "The Church and the Fiction Writer" appeared in America in March 30, 1957, Georgia-born Flannery O'Connor had just turned 32. By then her novel, Wise Blood (1952), and her short stories, some of which had appeared in Harper's Bazaar, The Kenyon Review, The Sewanee Review and Shenandoah (eventually published in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories [1955]), had gathered national acclaim, though not all critics could locate her genius with any precision. Granville Hicks, for example, wrote in The New Leader of A Good Man Is Hard to Find that "Miss O'Connor regards human life as mean and brutish and that she makes this judgment from an orthodox Christian point of view. But one does not have to believe in original sin to be affected by the stories."
It is not surprising that after one of her priest-friends, James McCown, S.J., recommended her to Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., the literary editor of America, O'Connor submitted an essay clarifying her views about the relationship of a professedly Catholic fiction writer to the tenets of the Catholic Church. Her taut prose, sensitive both to the mystery of God's presence in the world and obligations of a writer to his or her task, argues that the faith of a writer does not needlessly limit a writer but provides an "added dimension" to a creative work, which must be judged "by the truthfulness and wholeness of the natural events presented." In her essay, O'Connor measured her argument and her prose carefully, and it is understandable that she was upset that Father Gardiner had altered one of her paragraphs, which we have inserted into the text below in brackets. We publish this original paragraph with our belated apologies.
Patrick H. Samway
The question as to what effect Catholic dogma has on the fiction writer who is a Catholic cannot always be answered by pointing to the presence of Graham Greene among us. One has to think not only of gifts that have ended in rut or near it, but of gifts gone astray and of those never developed. Some time ago, the editors of Four Quarters, a quarterly magazine published by the faculty of La Salle College in Philadelphia, printed a symposium on the subject of the death of Catholic writers among the graduates of Catholic colleges. In response, letters appeared from writers and critics, Catholic and non-Catholic.
This correspondence ranged from the statement of Philip Wylie that "a Catholic, if he is devout, i.e., sold on the authority of his Church, is also brain-washed, whether he realizes it or not" (and consequently does not have the freedom necessary to be a first-rate creative writer) to the often repeated explanation that the Catholic in this country suffers from a parochial esthetic and a cultural insularity. A few held the situation no worse among Catholics than among other groups, creative minds being always hard to find; a few held the times responsible.
The faculty of a college must consider this as an educational problem; the writer who is a Catholic will consider it a personal one. Whether he is a graduate of a Catholic college or not, if he takes the Church for what she takes herself to be, the writer must decide what she demands of him and whether she restricts his freedom. The material and method of fiction being what they are, the problem may seem greater for the fiction writer than for any other.
For the writer of fiction everything has its testing point in the eye, an organ which eventually involves the whole personality and as much of the world as can be got into it. Msgr. Romano Guardini has written that the roots of the eye are in the heart. In any case, for the Catholic those roots stretch far into those depths of mystery about which the modern world is divided--one part of it trying to eliminate mystery, while another part tries to rediscover it in disciplines less personally demanding than religion.
What Mr. Wylie contends is that the Catholic writer, because he believes in certain defined mysteries, cannot, by the nature of things, see straight; and this contention, in effect, is not very different from that made by Catholics who declare that whatever the Catholic writer can see, there are certain things that he should not see, straight or otherwise. These are the Catholics who are victims of the parochial esthetic and the cultural insularity and it is interesting to find them sharing, even for a split second, the intellectual bed of Mr.Wylie.
It is generally supposed, and not least by Catholics, that the Catholic who writes fiction is out to use fiction to prove the truth of his faith or, at the least, to prove the existence of the supernatural. He may be. No one can be sure of his motives except as they suggest themselves in his finished work, but when the finished work suggests that pertinent actions have been fraudulently manipulated or overlooked or smothered, whatever purposes the writer started out with have already been defeated. What the fiction writer will discover, if he discovers anything at all, is that he himself cannot move or mold reality in the interests of abstract truth. The writer learns, perhaps more quickly than the reader, to be humble in the face of what is. What is is all he has to do with; the concrete is his medium; and he will realize eventually that fiction can transcend its limitations only by staying within them.
The Life of Mystery
Henry James said that the morality of a piece of fiction depended on the amount of "felt life" that was in it. The Catholic writer, in so far as he has the mind of the Church, will feel life from the standpoint of the central Christian mystery; that it has, for all its horror, been found by God to be worth dying for.
To the modem mind, as represented by Mr. Wylie, this is warped vision which "bears little or no relation to the truth as it is known today." The Catholic who does not write for a limited circle of fellow Catholics will in all probability consider that since this is his vision, he is writing for a hostile audience, and he will be more than ever concerned to have his work stand on its own feet and be complete and self-sufficient and impregnable in its own right. When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.
The limitations that any writer imposes on his work will grow out of the necessities that lie in the material itself, and these will generally be more rigorous than any that religion could impose. Part of the complexity of the problem for the Catholic fiction-writer will be the presence of grace as it appears in nature, and what matters for him here is that his faith not become detached from his dramatic sense and from his vision of what is. No one in these days, however, would seem more anxious to have it become detached than those Catholics who demand that the writer limit, on the natural level, what he allows himself to see.
Nature and Grace in Fiction
If the average Catholic reader could be tracked down through the swamps of letters-to-the-editor and other places where he momentarily reveals himself, he would be found to be something of a Manichean. By separating nature and grace as much as possible, he has reduced his conception of the supernatural to pious cliche and has become able to recognize nature in literature in only two forms, the sentimental and the obscene. He would seem to prefer the former, while being more of an authority on the latter, but the similarity between the two generally escapes him. He forgets that sentimentality is an excess, a distortion of sentiment, usually in the direction of an overemphasis on innocence; and that innocence, whenever it is overemphasized in the ordinary human condition, tends by some natural law to become its opposite.
We lost our innocence in the fall of our first parents, and our return to it is through the redemption which was brought about by Christ's death and by our slow participation in it. Sentimentality is a skipping of this process in its concrete reality and an early arrival at a mock state of innocence, which strongly suggests its opposite. Pornography, on the other hand, is essentially sentimental, for it leaves out the connection of sex with its hard purposes, disconnects it from its meaning in life and makes it simply an experience for its own sake.
Many well-grounded complaints have been made about religious literature on the score that it tends to minimize the importance and dignity of life here and now in favor of life in the next world or in favor of miraculous manifestations of grace. When fiction is made according to its nature, it should reinforce our sense of the supernatural by grounding it in concrete observable reality. If the writer uses his eyes in the real security of his faith, he will be obliged to use them honestly and his sense of mystery and his acceptance of it will be increased. To look at the worst will be for him no more than an act of trust in God; but what is one thing for the writer may be another for the reader. What leads the writer to his salvation may lead the reader into sin, and the Catholic writer who looks at this possibility directly looks the Medusa in the face and is turned to stone.
By now anyone who has faced the problem is equipped with Mauriac's advice: "purify the source." And along with it he has become aware that while he is attempting to do that, he has to keep on writing. He becomes aware, too, of sources that, relatively speaking, seem amply pure but from which may come works that scandalize. He may feel that it is as sinful to scandalize the learned as the ignorant. In the end, he will either have to stop writing or limit himself to the concerns proper to what he is creating. It is the person who can follow neither of these courses who becomes the victim, not of the Church's dogmas, but of a false conception of their demands.
[The business of protecting souls from dangerous literature belongs properly to the church. All fiction, even when it satisfies the requirements of art, will not turn out to be suitable for everyone's consumption, and if in some instance, the church sees fit to forbid the faithful to read a work without permission, the author, if he is a Catholic, will be thankful that the church is willing to perform this service for him. It means that he can limit himself to the demands of art.]
The author must, of course, realize that it is his function, no less than it is the function of the Church, to protect souls from dangerous literature. But in striving to live up to the legitimate requirements of his rut, he will know that not all fiction will turn out to be suitable for everyone's consumption. If in some instances the Church sees fit to forbid the faithful to read a work without permission, the Catholic author will be thankful that he has been recalled to a sense of responsibility.
The fact would seem to be that for many writers it is easier to assume universal responsibility for souls than it is to produce a work of art, and it is considered better to save the world than to save the work. This view probably owes as much to romanticism as to piety, but the writer will not be liable to entertain it unless it has been foisted on him by a sorry education or unless writing is not his vocation in the first place. That it is foisted on him by the general atmosphere of Catholic piety in this country is hard to deny, and even if this atmosphere cannot be held responsible for every talent killed along the way, it is at least general enough to give an air of credibility to Mr. Wylie's conception of what a belief in dogma does to the creative mind.
The Added Dimension
A belief in fixed dogma cannot fix what goes on in life or blind the believer to it. It will, of course, add to the writer's observation a dimension which many cannot, in conscience, acknowledge; but as long as what they can acknowledge is present in the work, they cannot claim that any freedom has been denied the artist. A dimension taken away is one thing; a dimension added is another, and what the Catholic writer and reader will have to remember is that the reality of the added dimension will be judged in a work of fiction by the truthfulness and wholeness of the literal level of the natural events presented. If the Catholic writer hopes to reveal mysteries, he will have to do it by describing truthfully what he sees from where he is. A purely affirmative vision cannot be demanded of him without limiting his freedom to observe what man has done with the things of God.
If we intend to encourage Catholic fiction writers, we must convince those coming along that the Church does not restrict their freedom to be artists but ensures it (the restrictions of art are another matter). To convince them of this requires, perhaps more than anything else, a body of Catholic readers who are equipped to recognize something in fiction besides passages that they consider obscene.
Insight Required
It is popular to suppose that anyone who can read the telephone book can read a short story or a novel, and it is more than usual to find the attitude among Catholics that since we possess the truth in the Church, we can use this truth directly as an instrument of judgment on any discipline at any time without regard for the nature of that discipline itself. Catholic readers are constantly being offended and scandalized by novels they don't have the fundamental equipment to read in the first place, and often these are works that are permeated with a Christian spirit.
It is when the individual's faith is weak, not when it is strong, that he will be afraid of an honest fictional representation of life, and when there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the sense of the supernatural is apt gradually to be lost. Fiction, made according to its own laws, is an antidote to such a tendency, for it renews our knowledge that we live in the mystery from which we draw our abstractions. The Catholic fiction writer, as fiction writer, will look for the will of God first in the laws and limitations of his art and will hope that if be obeys those, other blessings will be added to his work. The happiest of these (and the one he may presently least expect?) will be the satisfied Catholic reader.
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Could you please remove the altered version of the altered paragraph to a footnote or something? Its current placement disrupts the flow of the essay in an unpleasant way.
From the standpoint of defending one's own fiction or creative ideas: a truly universal philosophy that possesses insight into the terms of reality -- which are increasingly bizarre -- hinges as the article appears to say on the power of faith. But what can be the manifest evidence of faith these days insofar as that faith exists applied in interpretation of fictional reality? It is the same as always. Non judgmentalism of the person. This forms a double task for the interpreter. To judge the character as a representation of the author, be it his or her plea for action, help, or what have you -- a kind of rhetoric; or as a life separate, and delimited by an opening and closing paragraph that are not possible per se in terms of strict realism, but that like electrons are tightly bound to the nucleus and without which there is no visible trace of energy in the chemistry of reader and writer interaction. For the writer who will not dismiss or judge a thought, and who seeks to weave his apparently random ideas into his work, his faith is tested at the "quantum" level. Not by the task of weaving, which any competent writer can do, but rather of navigating the dangerous waters between the narrowest of straights, where current and storm threaten to separate him from even the most threadbare reception on the near shore of what he must himself by his Faith hold to be charity.
The Library of America version is O'Connor's own words. The paragraph immediately following the brackets is the version revised by Father Gardiner as originally printed.
It makes sense that she would have been upset by his edits. Her original version suggests that it is sometimes the author's work to produce art that is not for the general Catholic faithful's consumption. According to her, the Catholic author answers to the demands of art, rather than the demands of Church censors, who have a job that is no less necessary to perform. Father Gardiner's revision puts the weight of writing "responsibly" back upon the author, which negates several of O'Connor's points elsewhere within the essay. Many thanks to America for republishing the original.


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Peggy Gyulai's work explores the connections between music and the expressive possibilities of paint on canvas. She approaches music as a subject, object, and inspiration, and, like Richard Diebenkorn, invokes the dynamic tension between abstraction and representation in order to create substance from the most ephemeral phenomena.
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Buzard out at ENMU
March 15, 2006
PORTALES — Dan Buzard's contract as women's basketball coach at Eastern New Mexico University will not be renewed, university officials announced on Tuesday.
ENMU Athletic Director Mike Maguire said the move is an attempt to kick-start the program.
"We looked at our program's record over the past few seasons," Maguire said, "and we think it's time to go another direction."
Maguire said Buzard's contract is set to expire at the end of the school year.
Buzard compiled a 47-63 record in four years as ENMU head coach. He was also an assistant for 13 years at Eastern under former Zias coach Wayne Moore.
Buzard missed most of the 2004-05 season after having surgery for a cancerous brain tumor. Even though the surgery and chemotherapy have been successful, the tumor altered his eyesight and Buzard has said it may never return to 100 percent.
Maguire said the decision to let Buzard go was not about his health.
"As far as I know, he was fine to coach. It's just time to go in a different direction," Maguire said.
Buzard said he did not want to talk specifically about how he and ENMU parted ways.
"I'm going to go with whatever (university officials) said," Buzard said. "I'm just going to leave it at that."
Buzard said he wanted to be careful not to leave the university on a sour note.
"I am not going to say anything that reflects how I really feel," he said. "I'm going to miss the players, the coaches and the chance to build a program. I'm just going to let it go with that."
ENMU President Steven Gamble said he had no comment about the decision to let Buzard go.
"I will say he is a very fine person and had a good impact on the program," Gamble said.
Moore, who was with ENMU for 22 years and still lives in Portales, said working with Buzard was easy.
"As an assistant he was loyal, hard-working, and just did a phenomenal job," Moore said. "Especially in my last four or five years, he took a lot of pressure off me."
In the 2005-06 campaign, the Zias finished 11-17, losing five players to season-ending injuries.
"I thought he did an especially good job this year," Moore said.
Buzard's best season was 2003-04, when the Zias finished 16-12 and Buzard was named Lone Star Conference South coach of the year.
The team fell to 13-14 after Buzard's surgery.
In a press release, Maguire said the university will begin a nationwide search to fill the position.
"No timetable has been set for hiring a new coach," Maguire said. "But we would like to have someone on board by the end of the spring semester.
"We appreciate Dan's longtime service to Eastern. He worked hard and made many valuable contributions to the program. We wish him the best in his future endeavors."
Gamble said university officials will be looking for more than a good coach when they interview for Buzard's successor.
"We want someone who will not only continue Eastern's tradition of success on the court, but also in the classroom," Gamble said.
Moore said coaching the Zias is a challenge because players from cities often do not like the idea of moving to a small town.
"It's a good job, but it's a tough job," he said. "It's a tough recruiting job, and that's what it's all about. It's hard to get city players because there isn't much to do in the community."


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Engle with his sons, Kevin, 16, and Brett, 18. Photo by Tamara Lackey
Another irony is that Engle's distance running and adventure-racing obsession—and ability to exert a positive, motivating influence on others—was borne of his severe addiction to drugs and alcohol. That period began at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he enrolled in 1980 as a 17-year-old freshman.
By the time he was a 20-year-old junior, he had flunked out. Engle says he got hooked partying with his fraternity brothers. In the 1980s cocaine was the ubiquitous campus drug, and he started dealing so he could snort as much as he wanted. Engle quickly developed a classic addict's pattern that would haunt him for 10 years.
"I had what's known in addiction as a series of 'geographicals,' which means I moved frequently," he says. "If I moved, I would leave all my problems behind." He moved to, among other cities, Seattle; Carmel, California; Atlanta; Greensboro; and Monterey, California. Engle had married Pam in 1987 (they would divorce in 2002), and lived a double life.
"I would move, get a job, even become the best at my job," he says. "I would make money, do all the right things, then I would fuck it up completely. Of course, it was always somebody else's fault. As a committed addict I always found a way to blame somebody else for my problems." He often worked in sales, including for Bally Total Fitness and for Toyota, where he became the top salesman in the country.
In the late 1980s, he began his hailstorm car-repair career. "It was the perfect business for an addict," he says. "I traveled all the time, made good money and had complete freedom."
Even through regular multi-day binges, Engle says, running remained in his life. "When I would get sick and tired enough of myself and my destructive behavior, I would put on the running shoes again. Running would take the place of my drug addiction."
Being a competent natural runner, Engle was able to clean up for two or three months, when he would run and lift and obsess on training. "I am blessed with enough of an ego that goes along with my addiction to every once in a while look in a mirror and say, 'Holy shit, you look terrible.'" In 1989, at 27, Engle ran the Napa Valley Marathon, where he qualified for Boston, running it 30 days later. A week later, he ran the Big Sur Marathon.
"The problem was that I was so spiritually and emotionally empty as a human being that, for example, when I finished Big Sur, I felt nothing, no joy, no satisfaction," says Engle. "Two days later I was back out on a weeklong binge. No matter what I was doing, all my behavior was as an addict. Everything was all out, all the time, 100 percent. I couldn't do anything in a healthy way."
And Engle's binges were epic. He talks openly, candidly, about them, spilling out stories like a stuck-open faucet. "My kids know all the stories," he says. "You're only as sick as your secrets. When I talk about mine, they lose their power. And it can make other people realize their own stuff is not so bad."
One jaw-dropping episode, in particular, illustrates the depths of Engle's addiction.
In October 1990, one of the biggest hailstorms in modern history swept through Denver, hammering more than 100,000 cars. "The little frozen golf balls were dollars from heaven for me," says Engle. "So after two weeks in Denver, I had a pocket full of money and a demon in my brain telling me I deserved a little bit of fun. Despite all evidence to the contrary, I convinced myself that this time things would be different, this time I could handle it, this time I would quit after a few hours, this time I would be at work on time the next day, this time I would be safe, this time I wouldn't die."
Although Engle lacked a drug connection in Denver, he had become adept at sussing them out. While he was putting out feelers at a bar in downtown Denver, a bartender told him, whatever he did, to avoid seedy Colfax Avenue, "because that's where all the bad shit goes down." Engle drove straight to Colfax.
"I finally spotted what I felt like was an acceptable risk, a young woman dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. By acceptable, I mean to say that it looked like she had showered sometime in the recent past and didn't appear to be carrying a gun," he says. "I pulled over and said I was looking for cocaine and somebody to share it with."
Hopping in Engle's car, the woman directed him through some poor areas and eventually to pull over behind a dumpster, where a very large man appeared, waving a handgun in Engle's direction. Once the pair, who turned out to be siblings, interrogated Engle enough to become convinced he was not a cop, Engle purchased an "8-ball" for $250. Engle and his passenger, whom he says "loved to smoke crack," raged. "Once I started getting high, I was only interested in getting higher," he says.
Four times in the next 24 hours, Engle would return to purchase drugs from the big man. Still at it four days later, Engle was almost out of money, and his female companion took his last $100 and car keys, promising to return with one more delivery. Five hours later the woman had not returned and, Engle figured, would not.
He could not pay his $15-per-day motel bill, and found himself out on the street, without even a jacket, in a snowstorm. He had consumed gallons of alcohol but had not eaten in five days. Delirious and starving, he wandered into a Wendy's and filled up someone's used plate at the salad bar, but was booted by the manager before he could take a bite.
"That moment was powerfully humiliating for me," says Engle. "Even after all of my drugs and bad behavior, I was embarrassed to be a vagrant, a loiterer, a crackhead."
Despondent, crying, frozen, Engle stumbled down the street, and "thought about just falling over in the deep snow and letting my body freeze. I would be well preserved, and at least I wouldn't stink."
Then, amazingly, he spotted what looked like his Toyota 4Runner a couple of blocks off Colfax in a decrepit neighborhood. Drawing closer, he could see exhaust smoke—the vehicle was running!—and his North Carolina license plates. With his heart racing, he jumped in and took off, tires squealing, in his rearview mirror spotting a woman screaming in the yard.
As he turned away from Colfax onto a highway, Engle heard a cry, "like a meowing kitten," in the back seat. Turning around, he looked into the wide eyes of a young boy of, he guessed, 18 months. Engle's vehicle had probably been "rented out," a common practice with stolen cars in downtrodden areas. His brain spinning worst-case scenarios, he decided to find his way back to that neighborhood, where the apparent mother stood yelling in the middle of the street. As he pulled up, the woman simply reached in, pulled out the child and hurried back to the house.
As heinous as that binge was, though, says Engle in addiction speak, "I still had not hit my bottom." It's not that he didn't want to quit. "Quitting is easy—I've done it 100 times," he says with a laugh. Engle thought the simple act of his first son's birth, in May 1992, would be enough to make him quit.
His bottom would come two months later on July 23, 1992, on a curb on the notoriously crime-ridden Broadway Avenue in Wichita, Kansas. On the tail end of a six-day bender that ended with drug dealers shooting holes in his car—with him in it—and stealing the last of his money, Engle said a prayer for the first time in his life, asking for the suffering and craving to be taken away. "It seemed like a good time to quit," he says. "It was that simple."
That day, with "no one watching" (for him a key point, he says), Engle attended an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting (not his first)—in fact, three of them. The next day he went for his first run, a mile, of what he hoped would be a new life, "almost dying after having smoked crack for six days in a row." He would attend daily AA meetings for a year. Still sober 18 years later, he continues to attend them.
"Twelve-step recovery groups provide the backbone to the desire to stop being an addict," he says. "AA taught me how to start managing my life, not how to quit drugs."
During his first three years of sobriety, Engle channeled his addictive tendencies into running, clocking 30 marathons. "The spirituality of running and recovery from drug addiction go hand in hand," he says. "The fear and frustration that I felt with drug addiction needed that outlet. I was finally able to get many of the same euphoric feelings that I got from drugs."
Near the end of that marathon spree, Engle experienced trail and ultrarunning for the first time—the latter quite unintentionally. That first foray into ultrarunning came while he was "working" a massive hailstorm in Brisbane, Australia, in 1996. On a whim, he had signed up for a "10K," but was shocked at the start line when two locals struck up a conversation and asked, "So, have you ever done a 100K before?" Not ever having run more than 26.2 miles, Engle wanted to sneak to his car and escape, but pride, and the fact that his keys sat in his gym bag near the announcer/race director's feet, wouldn't allow it.
Completing the first of the race's three laps, Engle, not surprisingly, felt reasonably strong, but lap two of the hilly course had him suffering, wondering if he could survive another. Yet he did—and won the race. Engle says, "I had finally found a sport so obscure that I was good at it." It was in fall of that year that Engle watched the Discovery Channel Eco-Challenge show, and his life of endurance began.
Outside the visible lights of race finishes and Hollywood films, though, Engle's most enduring legacy may be the least known. Among those in attendance that Saturday night in Greensboro before his sentencing is Lester Pace, 52, of Burlington, North Carolina, a fraternity brother of Engle's at Chapel Hill, where he says they were always "going 110 miles an hour." Pace was at Engle's side during some of his darkest addiction days, and Engle subsequently influenced Pace to pursue sobriety as well. "Charlie spoke at my one-year [sobriety] anniversary, and again at my nine-year anniversary," says Pace. "I give him a lot of credit for how my life turned out.
"There is a serenity and comfort in being of use to others, and that is the motivation for the charitable things Charlie has done. All his [post-sobriety] endeavors have had an altruistic bent."
At dinner at a restaurant across the street before Engle's Saturday-evening talk, Liz Lindsay of Greensboro, who operates Janes on the Run women's running schools, says Engle has inspired many area runners to get into ultras. "He has spoken many times to my running classes," she says. "He often runs with my groups, too, which are typically out-of-shape, middle-aged women."
Not present at Engle's gathering is Norma Bastidas, 43, now of Vancouver, Canada, an accomplished ultrarunner, and Engle's recent ex-fiancée. She had just undergone a third surgery on her hand, badly broken while trail running. She appeared, though, via a video message.
Bastidas, who met Engle through her close friend and trainer Ray Zahab (Engle's Running the Sahara cohort), says the stress of the court case became too much. "I am a single parent and do events to raise awareness to find a cure for blindness, since I have a son who is losing his sight," says Bastidas. "I have my two kids full time and a responsibility to the charities I represent, so I had to unfortunately choose between my sons and seeing Charlie. He understands that I am first a mother and that my son deserves a cure.
"Charlie is the most unselfish person I have ever met. He is a world-class athlete but in less than five minutes you forget that and he makes you feel like you are talking to an old friend. He takes the time to listen to everyone's problems, whether about divorce, addiction, death, anything. He leads by example, and gives people hope that anything can be done."
Another "ex" (Engle jokes that he may not be the best husband or boyfriend, "but I make a great ex!") attending the evening event is Lisa Trexler, 39, of Greensboro, who dated Engle for about five years, including during the Sahara adventure.
"I've seen firsthand how much he has inspired others, whether his sons, his mother, his friends or a stranger in the airport. People seem to feel an immediate connection with him and a comfort that can't be explained," says Trexler.
Chris Roman, 41, a radiologist and ultrarunner from Jacksonville, Florida, had traveled to Greensboro for the event as well. In September 2010, in just over six days, Roman had run the 363-mile length of the Erie Canal to raise money for Lance Armstrong's LIVESTRONG organization and, in January 2011, he would run Brazil's 530-kilometer Caminho da Fe, or Path of Faith (see Making Tracks, page 14) to benefit the Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF).
As one of Engle's nearly 5000 Facebook friends, Roman (who would be seen at the 10-miler on Sunday pushing a running stroller cradling a disabled youth) contacted Engle last year out of the blue, asking him to come to Florida to speak at a CAF fundraising event. "Charlie's life is all about overcoming adversity," he explains. On his own dime, Engle made the trip.
"The best thing about Charlie is that he just commits. He'll be on board with you till the end," says Roman. "He is not the guy who needs to be taken out of society. He adds to everyone around him."
Up on stage, Engle gives props to Elaine Daniels, 50, of Greensboro, who frequently dropped off meals during the trial and its aftermath. Daniels had met him when, as a board member of the Greensboro running club, she booked him to speak at a 2002 gathering.
"Charlie is such a motivator, and one of the most candid, open, honest, compassionate people I know," says Daniels, a two-time breast-cancer survivor. After her second diagnosis, she signed up to run a marathon but lacked motivation. "He can be brutally honest and cut to the chase," she continues. "He said, 'Why don't you just quit running then?' He had the instinct to know how to inspire me." Daniels finished the marathon.
Tonight, Engle stresses that his primary motivation for the gathering is to garner support for his two boys. "I want you all to know and look out for my children," he says, and, smiling, "and make their lives hell."
Says Brett, a lanky, friendly teenager with a buzz cut, "I'm proud of the way he's handled [the conviction]. And he is the most supportive father I could wish for. I've screwed up and he's always there and loves me unconditionally."
Asked what is Engle's greatest attribute, Ray Zahab says unhesitantly, "Dad. He has two amazing boys and is such a great father. I hope my children grow up as capable and happy as Charlie's kids."
Engle's downsides? Zahab says, "He spreads himself so thin to accommodate his friends. He really wants to be there for everyone."


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Cisco Should Pick Off Alcatel-Lucent
When it was announced Monday that Oracle (ORCL) had acquired Acme Packet (APKT) for $2.1 billion, I immediately began canvassing the sector for the next possible candidate.
The first name I came up with was Alcatel-Lucent (ALU) . Although this company had more than its share of challenges in 2012, there are now signs ALU can be an excellent turnaround story.
Granted, this is not the first time I've made this claim. However, the stock has gained 85% since a low of 91 cents per share on Oct. 11 and that means the Street is starting to believe that a recovery is possible.
Despite ALU's recent performance, the stock is still trading at an incredibly low P/E of 3, which is 23 points lower than Adtran (ADTN) .
This means ALU is still trading at cheap valuation, making it an attractive candidate for a company such as Cisco (CSCO) .
Granted, ALU is expected to lose money this year - that's not a surprise. However, with a recent financing pact worth $2.1 billion , ALU has been given time to get its house in order.
This new financing now gives the company some flexibility and latitude to extend maturities accordingly. With liquidity no longer a concern, ALU can begin focusing on execution to enhance shareholder value. With some recent upgrades under its belt, there are now a few more catalysts making the shares more appealing.
With ALU trading considerably below its true potential, Cisco should follow Oracle's lead and make the call.
For instance, many underestimate ALU's IP and optics business, which is trending higher. Plus, the company's newest routing platform already competes well against similar models from Cisco; in some cases ALU's model is better.
Likewise, ALU has an impressive CloudBand strategy that rivals of some of the more prominent names in the industry, even Cisco's. For this reason, I question how long it will take before Cisco realizes it needs ALU.
Cisco's recent acquisitions, which includes paying $141 million in cash for Cariden and another $1.2 billion for Meraki suggests the company will leave no stones unturned to produce growth.
The cloud market expected to grow to $177 billion over the next three years so it would be foolish for Cisco to not consider acquiring Alcatel-Lucent at a time when ALU shares can be had for pennies on the dollar. For that same reason, it would also be foolish for investors not to consider ALU.
Although carrier spending has yet to fully recover, industry experts believe an increase in demand is imminent, although to what extent remains to be seen. But 2013 can't possibly be worse. This was precisely what Oracle was thinking.


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Disappointing defeat for Tech men
BIG RAPIDS – The Michigan Tech men's basketball team has succeeded this season by maintaining a balanced, efficient offense centered around Ali Haidar.
According to head coach Kevin Luke, the Huskies lost 74-66 at Ferris State because that balance was nowhere to be seen.
Shooting over 50 percent for the season entering Thursday, Tech connected on 43 percent of their shots, while the Bulldogs bested their season average with a 48 percent success rate. Although Ali Haidar and Austin Armga each put up 18 points, zero points from the bench and combined 5-for-15 shooting from starters Phil Romback and Alex Culy hurt the Huskies.
"I don't know if this is a harsh word right now, but I felt like we were selfish offensively," Luke said in a phone interview Thursday. "(Ali) Haidar was doubled and he wouldn't pass it out or he was open and we wouldn't give it to him.
"They weren't really stopping Haidar but we didn't really go to him as much as he should.
"We needed to be better. Our shot selection was not real good for a lot of the time."
On the flip side, Ferris succeeded by consistently penetrating into the lane and then reaching the foul line once it got there.
The Bulldogs opened the game with a 13-2 run and, despite several mini-runs from Tech, were able to preserve their lead by hitting 20-of-26 free throws.
Top scorer Kenny Brown led the way, putting in 18 and connecting on all eight of his free-throw attempts.
"We did not handle their penetration well. That was clearly a problem," Luke said.
Tech was able to cut the lead as close as seven with 3:33 remaining but the Bulldogs sank nine straight free throws to close out the win. The Huskies dropped to 10-3 overall and 7-2 in GLIAC play, and Ferris State improved to 7-6, 6-3 GLIAC.
"Give them credit they played well," Luke said. "I don't think we were our best, but I have to give them credit. They made shots when they had to make shots and they made all of their free throws."


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Good Friday obituary
I would like to share this Good Friday obituary with all the readers of The Daily News.
It was given to me by a friend so the writer of it is unknown. As you read to the end most of us know that the boulder was rolled away, Jesus arose, and that is why we celebrate Easter. A blessed Easter to all.
MOUNT CALVARY – Jesus Christ, 33, of Nazareth, died Friday on Mount Calvary, also known as Golgotha, the place of the skull. Betrayed by the apostle Judas, Jesus was crucified by the Romans, by order of the ruler Pontius Pilate. The causes of death were crucifixion, extreme exhaustion, severe torture, and loss of blood.
Jesus Christ, a descendent of Abraham, was a member of the house of David. He was a son of the late Joseph, a carpenter of Nazareth, and Mary, His devoted Mother. Jesus was born in a stable in the city of Bethlehem, Judea. He is survived by his mother Mary, his faithful Apostles, numerous disciples, and many other followers.
Jesus was self educated and spent most of his adult life working as a teacher. Jesus also occasionally worked as a medical doctor and it is reported that he healed many patients. Up until the time of his death, Jesus was teaching and sharing the good news, healing the sick, touching the lonely, feeding the hungry, and helping the poor.
Jesus was most noted for telling parables about his father's kingdom and performing miracles, such as feeding over 5,000 people with only five loaves of bread and two fish, and healing a man who was born blind. On the day before his death, he held a Last Supper celebrating the Passover Feast, at which he foretold his death.
The body was quickly buried in a stone grave, which was donated by Joseph of Arimathea, a loyal friend of the family. By order of Pontius Pilate, a boulder was rolled in front of the tomb. Roman soldiers were put on guard.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested that everyone try to live as Jesus did. Donations may be sent to anyone in need.
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Terminally ill patients who are supported by religious communities are more likely to receive aggressive end-of-life care rather than hospice care; spiritual support from medical teams may reverse this
- Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
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Patients with cancer in the USA who receive spiritual support from religious communities alone may receive more aggressive end-of-life (EOL) medical interventions and are less likely to access hospice care.
Additional spiritual care and EOL discussions by the medical team may reduce aggressive treatments.
Research is needed outside the USA to validate these findings in more secular cultures and establish the efficacy of spiritual needs interventions.
Evidence-based training is essential to allow healthcare professionals (HCPs) to implement guidelines to ensure appropriate EOL care.
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Yesterday's poll revealed many of the responders were serious about new harvest teas. Yet still others appeared content to buy as they needed regardless of harvest. Please feel free to check it out and vote if you have not. The discussion was quite interesting and diversified as is the membership of TeaChat.
Welcome to TeaDay everybody! Pour a pot and come share with everyone what is in your cup today...all day. So, stop by throughout the day if you are able and post updates. If you must reflect back on your teaday, we would enjoy that too.
While you are here, be sure to check out what everyone else is sipping today...that is half the fun, right?
Today's TeaPoll and discussion topic, one of the first TeaDays asked if you were drinking alone. Today we ask, what do you prefer...and why. So please share with everyone what you prefer...a solitary tea time or one shared...or some where in between. And why of course.
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The perfect combination of a large, comfortable, countryside-style house, in a highly convenient location. A small Business Center, Wi Fi -accessible everywhere, Parking Lot, Laundry Area, Swimming Pool, and a Living Room with garden views
Supermarkets, banks, cinemas, restaurants, and a few bars are walking distance. Also, a very well-stocked Convenience Store is located just steps away from home. Yet our place is extremely quiet and peaceful !
You can catch a taxi cab a block and a half away from home, or you can call a taxi for them to come pick you up from home. You can easy taxi drivers by the hour or by trip
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While most likely idiosyncratic to the specific guitar, I had a (BOOMY) wolf note at the low E through my Anthem.
Turning the bass knob all the way down on both the Venue pre-amp and the amp or pa itself didn't do the job. Tried adjusting the balance between the two signals, boosting the trebles etc. Yuk!
Then, I turned the second knob on the Venue EQ (the sweep from 100 to 2500 db's) all the way down to 100 and cut it to about 1/8 strength.
Bass knob and everyone else comes back to flat. This allows other nearby bass frequencies to join in, the trebles to return from Stratocasterland, and the fun begins again.


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One that doesn't burn the bottom.
I had the floor up around 900 and it instantly charred the bottom. I am looking to find that sweet spot for making plain margarita thin crust pizza. The few times I had the oven floor up to 650 and it was ok. Took about 3 to 4 minutes to completely cook a 12 inch pie.
Something is wrong with your dough or your thermometer if you are getting instant char @ 900F. I'm betting it's your dough. What are your ingredients, ratios, and fermentation/proofing procedure. My pizzas bake on a 925F-950F floor, sometimes higher. Only time I've seen excessive charring on the bottom is with malted flours, added carbohydrates or oils.
Remember temperature is only half the equation when it comes to deck temperature, thermal conductivity is just as important, and from what I have been told your Earthstone has a great hearth in it with low conductivity in it. I've never searched out the data first hand but have been told from a pretty reliable source. I frequently hear reports from people with medium duty firebricks that they get instant char at 850+.
I am new to this, so correct me if I am wrong, that is a 69% Hydration ratio, correct?
I have the FB Andiamo 60. Here is a pic of my last pie's. There came out good, but it needs more...


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When New York Teetered on the Brink of Bankruptcy
In October 1975, Mayor Abraham D. Beame signed a formal petition attesting to municipal default, but at the last minute, the city dodged the financial fate that Detroit suffered last week.
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Like New York City mayoral races in 1973 and 1977, this campaign is filled with intrigue and is difficult to predict.
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Mayoral Race With a Rarity: No Top Hopeful Who Is Jewish
The prospect of no major Jewish candidate in 2013 reflects New York City's shifting demographics and a splintered electorate.
November 26, 2012, Monday
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New York City drivers have had to contend with gas rationing before though not as a result of a natural disaster.
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Occupy Wall Street has a local precedent: the sit-ins and "occupations" that followed New York City's deep budget cuts in 1975 and 1976.
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Oh god Shannon please no! We are def suffering from too much talk and no action.
We keep on putting things off until we have a meeting about it, then it gets discussed for ages and nothing gets done until another meeting, and so it goes on.
if you think windows are easy, please clean them often. thanks. same goes for the toilets. etc.
If those people who are uncomfortable with the prospect of paying someone to work in the Forest want to come in everyday and clean the place to as high a level as a paid cleaner can then fine
If we could find someone who really objected to paying cleaners, it would be great, as they could do the cleaning voluntarily.
This, requires more management and less discussion in my opinion - something we are notoriously bad at.
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Although Overland is an older community it has a great location! It is close to Clayton, the Airport, downtown and Major Highways. There is affordable living for all people in all walks of life. They have a Community Center to enjoy. They have wonderful parks, ie. Mort Jacobs Park, Norman Meyers Park to name a few, there are many to explore, a Nature Park at Midland and Ashby. Ample shopping includes Schnucks, Food for Less and Shop N Save. Not far from the Metro Link. The VFW Hall on Midland near Woodson has the BEST FISH FRY IN TOWN! Muenks Tax Service is a 3rd generation local company in town and Overland Hardware is the place to go for all your hardware needs!!!!
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missouri - 12/5/2015
Missouri is a mixed bag - like most states. Politically, it is very conservative. Mo has the most restrictive laws in the U.S. on abortion, marijuana,and public access to govt. records. On the flip-side, it has some of the least restrictive laws on firearms, property ownership and sex offenses. So, if you are a rich, gun-toting pedophile, welcome to the Show-Me-State. Physically, the state is beautiful and offers great recreational opportunities. I live, and have lived my entire life, near the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, which almost makes the Bible thumping, 'the'll ner take our guns,'gay-hating mentality of the majority tolerable.
Notice I said almost. After 40 years here, my wife and I are getting ready to retire and move to Atlantic Canada. In a nutshell, if you are a liberal, or really even just a mod dem as we are,this is not the place for you.[Comment on this Posting]
Missouri sucks - 8/19/2015
Don't move to Missouri. Most of the state is very country and conservative. I hate it here.[Comment on this Posting]
Looking for a retirement state - 10/25/2014
Looking for retirement area. Lots of lakes. Would also be interested in Arkansas..[Comment on this Posting]
Worst place to live - 2/2/2014
It is the most filthy place to live I have ever been. The locals are all related and look at any new people as their income. You will be ripped off EVERY time you hire someone to work on your home. There is no law saying someone has to be certified, so some guy claiming to be a plumber, electrician, roof repair, ect will not only charge you much more than other locals, but will not do the job right, i hired so many people and some actually laughed in my face as they took my money, and left my family to suffer, sparks shooting out of my electrical, roof pouring in rain, you get the picture.
I am not making this up, all the small towns around here do this and though i know this happens everywhere, i have never seen a people so warped and mentally ill enough as to be so unashamed. There is no shame here, there is also no law, the sheriff will show up but will do nothing, and even the locals feel the same about the so called law enforcement....do NOT move here for any reason, you will have a very big x painted on your back...the X stands for here comes another sucker, ha! HA![Comment on this Posting]
cost of living - 6/12/2013
The state of Missouri is not a good retirement state. [Comment on this Posting]
MO weather - 3/29/2013
MIssouri is known for it's changing weather. There are definitely four season although spring and fall are rapidly disappearing. Winters are usually pretty mild with moderate snow but 2012/2013 has had heavy snowfall. Also, summers are HOT and HUMID.[Comment on this Posting]
Getting worse here - 11/29/2012
The crime rate here where we are now, is getting worse and we are ready to relocate to somewhere new and start fresh. We are hoping that Elk City will be the place for us.
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Life in Missouri - 11/18/2010
Its cold in the winter and hot in the summer but over all a good place to live [Comment on this Posting]
Midwest - cost of living - 7/4/2010
Coming from the Northwest, you can find a lower cost of living and better employment. Kansas City has many
features, food, micro breweries, coffee shops, fine dining that you would find in the Northwest. Housing is lower
the recent "power and light district" is very Portland Oregon like... [Comment on this Posting]
Great - 9/25/2009
There are a lot of different and interesting things to do in Missouri. Something for everybody![Comment on this Posting]
Overland, Missouri is a great location, central an - 9/12/2009
Although Overland is an older community it has a great location! It is close to Clayton, the Airport, downtown and Major Highways. There is affordable living for all people in all walks of life. They have a Community Center to enjoy. They have wonderful parks, ie. Mort Jacobs Park, Norman Meyers Park to name a few, there are many to explore, a Nature Park at Midland and Ashby. Ample shopping includes Schnucks, Food for Less and Shop N Save. Not far from the Metro Link. The VFW Hall on Midland near Woodson has the BEST FISH FRY IN TOWN! Muenks Tax Service is a 3rd generation local company in town and Overland Hardware is the place to go for all your hardware needs!!!!
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100 degrees in three months - 7/7/2009
It can go from 100 to 0 degrees in 90 days or less - or the other way around! The winters really are not bad and we get plenty of nice pretty snows, but the summers can be horribly hot especially in the cities. If you are in Southern MO where it's hilly, rural and there's lots of trees, it's not so bad. Here in KC, it's hot and humid and there's no big bodies of water. I miss living near the ocean, but I like the snow. Last summer, I thought I would almost rip my face off - I was so hot! I went to Florida in August and it was cooler![Comment on this Posting]
Life In General - 6/26/2009
Troy, MO is a town/city not as small as Bryant Pond, ME where I lived as a child but no where near as large as St. Charles, MO. Unless you live in the city commute is the magic word. You are within 45-60 minutes away from conveniences of city living. We have small strip malls here in town. If you are looking for Sears, Home Depot or stores other than Wal-Mart you need to go to Wentzville, St. Peters, St. Charles or even St. Louis. There are plenty of routes to use to get to your desinations as long as you don't mind the commute. You can feel secure living in a small some what friendly location. It is hot and humid for a 2-4 weeks in the summer. Land locked, and the food at restaurants is average. After living in New England for 30 years I have spent 11 years here and my list of fine dining is short. The price of homes varies from inexpensive older homes to expensive newer developments. You must be very careful not to buy the fixer upper that has structural damage. If you are unfortunate enough to purchase one of these there is little to no recourse to recoupe your monies. This is also the case for modular homes as well. It's an okay place but I am not planning on retiring here.[Comment on this Posting]
cold - 12/20/2008
really theres alot of wierd people here
if you like to party have fun
forget about it.
but im thinking about moving to flordia
and well as i see most people dont like liveing where they live.
Everyone wants something new
so come to st.louis and enjoy[Comment on this Posting]
Senior Retirement and Healthcare - 8/12/2008
Reside in west St. Louis County but travel extensively throughout the state evaluating senior care.[Comment on this Posting]
Sweet people - 3/12/2008
The most distinctive comment I ever hear about Missouri is how nice the people are. I grew up in Rolla and am now attending college in Kirksville, and I have to say--I've never been anywhere where the people are as sweet (and I've traveled all over the country, and few foreign countries too!).
If you're strolling in town, joggers and people walking their dogs will wave a sunny good morning from ten feet off. Out in the country, farmers call hello to any person or car that passes, whether they know you or not. Everyone is just as encouraging and helpful as can be. The entire atmosphere is laid back.[Comment on this Posting]
Missouri - 3/3/2008
Missouri is a great place to live. Lots of things to do. Not too expensive. The humid summers can be uncomfortable, though.[Comment on this Posting]
St.louis - 1/16/2008
The Weather is tricky it can be 100 today cold,windy the nextday then snow the third day.[Comment on this Posting]
Good Place to live in - 12/6/2007
Missouri is a good place to live in..if u r expecting to see average cost of living,good education..etc..In all aspects it is a wonderful place with good job chances also..[Comment on this Posting]


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USA Field Hockey Develops National Club Structure
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USA Field Hockey Develops National Club Structure
COLORADO SPRINGS, C.O.- USA Field Hockey recently announced an annual National Club Championship beginning in 2011. The Championship will feature the top club teams from across the United States as they vie for honors and bragging rights as the number one club team in the nation. In early October, Laura Darling, Managing Director of Olympic and Athlete Development and Strategic Partnerships took on the role of overseeing divisional programs with a primary emphasis on the development of new members and clubs and sustaining existing clubs. Darling will lead the development of new competitive opportunities and increase the number of sanctioned events for players at all levels.
USA Field Hockey is affiliated with over 250 clubs throughout the country. Over the next six months, Darling will speak with every club to collectively establish a program that will enable clubs to organize a competition structure within themselves.
"I hope to see each member clubs vision on how to best organize the club system as a functioning body for more competitions amongst themselves. The only way we will succeed on this, is if club members are part of the process in building and developing this new structure," said Darling.
In the process of developing a new club structure, USA Field Hockey has made some improvements to the club membership.
USA Field Hockey recognizes how other sports such as lacrosse and triathlon have grown their membership for sport through a process of sanctioning regional events in the private sector. The concept being that the National Governing Body can provide benefits such as budget relieving insurance and national marketing that allow events to be more successful at a local and regional level.
Currently the National Indoor Tournament qualifiers are the only group of sanctioned events. In recent years, participation in the event has grown substantially and there is now a waiting list. In 2012, there will be sanctioned regional qualifiers for the U19 and U17 National Club Championships and possibly other age groups.
"Throughout 2011, I will continue to work with clubs to better understand how sanctioning can be of benefit to the group of clubs and the whole sport," said Darling.
Stickstarz and Turftykes are two youth development programs created for children between the ages of 5-11. Both programs are part of USA Field Hockey's athlete development pipeline and serve as feeders directly into the already recognized and successful Futures program. Effective in 2011, all member clubs will have access to the Stickstarz and Turftyke curriculums and will be able to deliver these youth programs with the assistance of USA Field Hockey promotional materials.
For media inquiries, please contact Ashley Meunier, USA Field Hockey Communications Manager, at firstname.lastname@example.com, or at (719) 866-4365. Additional information regarding USA Field Hockey can be found online by visiting www.usafieldhockey.com.


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Hello! Jill from Every Day is an Occasion here to share a double sided magnetic board with you today. I love making these magnetic boards because they are super fun to hold pictures I print from Instagram.
Double Sided Magnetic Board
This summer I was fortunate enough to go to CHA and while I was there a must-do on my list was meet Heidi Swapp. To showcase my holiday photos this season I made a magnetic board. It's super easy and quite festive.
To create this magnetic board I used Heidi's Believe 12×12 paper pack and Core'dinations Tim Holtz Seasonal Impressions.
The 4 small magnets are made using Heidi Swapp's 12 x12 Believe paper pack and the Epiphany Crafts 25 Round tool. The bow is actually a magnet , too! You can get little magnets at your local craft store and you can get full sheets, too, so you can cut them any size you want. The bow is Core's Tim Holtz Seasonal Impressions paper and cut from my Silhouette. EASY!
Just cover the magnets with patterned paper after you cut them with the Epiphany Crafts round tool so they will "stick" to the back. This way you can change photos or even make a Christmas countdown. So many possibilities with this easy project.
And if check out yesterday's post you will see one of Clare's gorgeous cards and we have another one for you today, too!
Make card from cardstock. Emboss Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Nostalgic Collection cardstock, sand with Sand-It gadget and wipe with Dust Buddy. Ink edges with Distress Ink and adhere to card front. Add patterned paper across card. Add lace, ribbon and ric rac. Layer sentiment panel onto patterned paper, ink edges and machine stitch border, adhere to card with foam pads. Attach bow embellishment.


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This Academic Alert Program (AAP) form is for Ithaca College faculty and can be used to communicate information about a student who you feel may need extra assistance in order to succeed in your course. The form is located below. Please fill out the requested information regarding the student and your academic concerns.
Upon submission of the form you will see a confirmation screen. The Academic Advising Center (AAC) will then reach out to your student. Upon completion of the outreach, you will receive follow-up communication from the AAC.
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"You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was. "
Bombardier Rolls Out First NetJets Global 6000
Bombardier Aerospace and NetJets celebrated the rollout of the fractional provider's first Global-series jet on January 31, a Global 6000 (neé XRS). Last March, NetJets placed an order for 50 Globals worth $2.8 billion, as well as options for 70 more, breaking the fractional provider's tradition of buying only Gulfstreams for its large-cabin fleets. NetJets' Global 6000s, to be configured for up to 13 passengers, will feature an aft-cabin stateroom and full-service galley. NetJets' firm order includes 30 ultra-long-range Global 5000s and 6000s, with deliveries set to begin in the fourth quarter; and 20 extended-range Global 7000s and 8000s, for delivery starting in 2017.
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