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As for the Giants getting no respect - come on now. Really? They're constantly referred to as one of the best teams in the league, and Eli, one of the best QBs. This is in spite of their recent string of incompetent performances.
As for the Giants getting no respect - come on now. Really? They're constantly referred to as one of the best teams in the league, and Eli, one of the best QBs. This is in spite of their recent string of incompetent performances.
Strap it on and play the game. The best team that day will win the game. End of story. All In. Go GIANTS!!!!!!
I unfortunately live in Washington. The sportscasters are as good as the theater in DC - not. They are delusional about Grif. If you analyze his performances, he is never put in difficult situations. He ususally dumps the ball off. That is why he has a high completion percentage. His big passes have been against poor defensive backs (including a Giant) after play action. The way to beat Grif is to contain him, make him pass beyond the first read and cover. Knocking him on his keyster about 20 times a game will help to tenderize him. By the way, I do think he is talented. He is on TV here all the time which is hard to take considering what an ugly face he has been cursed with
Skins fan here and Ill give my POV. I do think you guys are underrating us in the hype catagory. At the end of the day your boy Parcells is right in that you are what your record says you are but we arent any regular 5-6 team.'
Lets examine the 6 losses. Lets take the 4 losses first. We had a 4th quarter lead in all of them except for Cincy in which we were tied. Its not like we were getting blown out. We lost leads. Our 1st loss came at STL in which we led I think 21-6. Thats the game we lost Orakpo & Carrackter in. Thats already coming off of our 2 starting Safties in Merriweather & Jackson being out for injury & suspension. The Rams came back and took the lead because of the D. Nothing to do with RG3. Still, we are down 3 late but driving. Its 3rd down and thats when RG3 hits Morgan who made 2 huge mistakes. One mistake is that if he turns inside he has an easy 1st down and we probably end up sconring a TD with the momentum. Instead he goes outside, gets tackled short, then gets a 15yd penalty for throwing the ball at Finnegan. Then Cundiff goes on to miss the FG and we lose by 3. Keep in mind we were without Garcon who got hurt in the 1st quarter of he st game of the year. Our O was suppose to be based on him.
Next L is at Cincy. I talked on here about how the Shanny's go conservative at home for some reason but whatever. Again, we are without a ton of defensive starters and then our other best player on O in Trent Williams goes down. Jordan Black who was out the league just months before, comes in and gets destroyed. RG3 got lit up. We go down 24-7. We come all the way back to tie it up in the 4th 24-24. The game game ends with us again driving in Cincy teriitory down 38-31. Its actually 1st down from there 19 when we give up a late sack followed by a penalty on Kyle Shannahan which dooms us.
Our 3rd loss came against the undefeated Falcons. Shanny goes conservative again but we are actually leading them 10-7 with 2min left in the 3rd and we have the ball when Cousins comes in the game for an injuried RG3. Are you trrying to say that we had no chance to win that game if RG3 stays in? The 4th loss was to you and we all know what happened in that one. The last 2 losses were a lil more convincing but the Pitt game aided by the 12 drops which even the Pitt fans said drasitcally changed the game.
We have the bye. Merriweather comes back and loooks like a straight beast. Leading us in tackles, monster hits, and in interception in his 1st game of the year. He does that all in one half and tears his acl. Gone for the year. If we didnt have the injuries on D then we look totally different. If we have Garcon and or Davis then we look alot different. Dont forget we thought Jamal Brown would finally be healthy thsi year but his missed the whole season. We start Tyler Polumbo who may just be the worst tackle in the league.
The biggest thing was Garcon. He changes everything. We are 4-1 wth him in the lineup even though he's only been healthy for 1 quarter until last game. He's still not healthy but its the best he's felt since that opening quarter. Then you factor in RG3 is a rookie so you can tell the coach was holding him back some early but is not doing that at all now. Are alot of what I said excuses? Sure but Im just trying to say why some are hyping us moreso then you normally would a 5-6 team. People think if we get Garcon, Davis, Brown, Merriweather, Rak, Jackson, etc...... healthy next year then we could be very good, thats not including adding other pieces.
Someone said we wont win because of Snyder but thats not true. Snyder is strictly an owner now. Bruce Allen is the GM and Shanny makes all the decisions. We mgiht not win but it wont be because of Snyder is doing stuff. He's turned it all over to them. I think right now we are playing our best ball of the year. Sure it was Philly & Dallas but we probably wouldnt have beat them before teh bye and we definitley wouldnt have beat them like we did. We got healthier and energized while there is now no chains on the O. The whole playbook is open. Again, RG3's 300 yard games have all came with Garcon in the lineup even though he's only played a few games. Thats why we are 4-1 with him even when he hasnt been healthy or done much. It changes us
As for the writer, to take it even further as your top future division rival, he brings up our age and I wrote about that on the Skins board recently. RG3 is a rook, Morris is a rook, Robinson is a 2nd year guy, and the big 3 of Trent, Davis, & Garcon are all just coming into there prime. We have no old guys on O so I think we will only get better, espically with the Shanny's mind.
At the end of the day its all talk. We have to prove it just as you did but Im just giving you reasons for the hype. Its ok to be skeptical but I think we are on the right path
RGIII is exponentially more talented than Vick ever was.
With that said, his career will only be 7-8 years. Running QB's like him eventually get hurt, though he has an advantage that, unlike Vick, he always looks to make plays with his arm before he tries to make plays with his legs.


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1. Do we think Chan would've gotten that score in international competition? Do we think that another technical caller would've given both step sequences level four? Abbott's PCS might have dropped internationally, but given how awesome he was, I don't think by much (and frankly, we'd be complaining about his low PCS to high heaven - see NHK and GPF threads if you don't believe me).
2. Is it normal to see inflation at Nationals? Yep. Witness Laura Lepisto: she scored 106.24 for a free program containing one (!) credited triple. Travel over to Switzerland and see Sarah Meier scoring nearly 120 for a performance with three triples. For comparison, Akiko Suzuki landed 7 at the GPF and scored 116. Miki Ando landed four in the same event and scored only .71 points higher than Meier.
3. So what makes Canada different? Well, imo - two things
a) Canada's hosting the Olympics. Fairly self explanatory.
b) It might just be me, but there's a degree of calculation in the scores that bugs me. It almost seems as if the judges are trying to remind the world that Rochette, Chan and D/D are medal contenders (Virtue/Moir's scores by comparison, are quite reasonable in terms of inflation, and no one needs reminding that they're top tier contenders).
Yes. But their scores didn't match what I saw, even with Nationally tinted glasses on.
I watched the short program and not only does Chan's straight-line step sequence cover the ice length-wise but it also covers the ice width-wise.
Can we just get over the fact that the scores are inflated? No one is claiming that they aren't! Even the evil media is making sure that everyone knows they are inflated!!!
No, I don't think he would get as high scores internationally, but the reason is that I don't think the GOEs and PCS from the judges would be quite as generous.
If he met the requirements for level 4 step sequences, the callers should give him level 4 no matter who they are or where the competition is taking place. Element levels are really more of a "yes or no" question than components or +GOEs.
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So , it 's not a matter of whether it should happen ( I'm sure everyone thinks it shouldn't.) but recognizing that , realistically , it does happen, to a greater or lesser degree , pretty well universally. It's a vicious cycle.
The question is, what to do about it? There was a possible solution suggested by a group of skating insiders following the Salt Lake meltdown and the infamous foot-tapping world's, that I thought might have some merit. ( I've heard Tracy Wilson explain it a number of times, but haven't heard it mentioned much in the last couple of years.)
Roughly , the idea would be to have all international judges hired directly by the ISU , and be answerable only to that body, bound to uphold a universal standard. They would have to demonstrate a certain level of expertise to be hired . They would owe nothing to any national federation , and their jobs would be on the line if their performance was poor or seen to be politically motivated.
Is anything like that still simmering on a back burner, somewhere ?
And again, what is a fair score for a skater anyway. There's no guide saying, ok, that skate worths 150, anything over is overscored. And it is even harder to compare skaters who were skating in a different competition.
Don't even understand your question. Why or who thinks Canada is different? Are you implying that if a Canadian team win gold, it's because it's in Canada?3. So what makes Canada different? Well, imo - two things
a) Canada's hosting the Olympics. Fairly self explanatory.
b) It might just be me, but there's a degree of calculation in the scores that bugs me. It almost seems as if the judges are trying to remind the world that Rochette, Chan and D/D are medal contenders (Virtue/Moir's scores by comparison, are quite reasonable in terms of inflation, and no one needs reminding that they're top tier contenders).
Watching on video, I think the two skaters who have the best skating skills in the world right now in terms of using deep edges and complex turns and combinations of edges throughout the programs, including leading into and out of the elements, are Chan and Abbott. They are both that good.
What I can't tell from the videos is how they compare with each other and with the other top skaters in terms of power, speed, absolute ice coverage.
The actual Skating Skills marks may vary from performance to performance depending on execution. Same for the other components. And Interpretation especially would be more subject to judges' (or fans') subjective impressions.

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Raising Hell in Telluride with Playmate Pilar Lastra

Hit the Colorado slopes with Playmate Pilar Lastra!

Legend has it that Telluride got its name from its brutal mining town reputation. When Old West gold prospectors headed to the town, they were warned, "To hell you ride." That doesn't line up with what Dizzy Gillespie thought when he visited this Colorado town: "If Telluride ain't paradise," the trumpeter said, "then heaven can wait."
The legendary jazzman is but one of a multitude of artists, celebrities, intellectuals and everyday people who consider this erstwhile mining town in southwestern Colorado one of the most beautiful places on earth.
Playboy.com decided to send a beauty in her own right—Playmate Pilar Lastra—to spend a weekend enjoying the spring skiing charms of Telluride. Pilar sampled the slopes and snow sports, dining, nightlife, history and epic natural landscape of this San Juan mountains mining town–turned–tourist mecca. Don't miss Pilar's video rundown of her visit below, and read on to learn how to do it up right in Telluride.
Lodging in Telluride comes down to one basic decision: do you want to stay in the historic town itself or amid the posh hotels and shops of the nearby Mountain Village? To preserve the venerable structures within Telluride, the resort stewards confined all new development (resort hotels, condos, boutiques and shops) to the Mountain Village. A brief gondola ride up the mountain, Mountain Village affords ski-in, ski-out convenience (or a near approximation, depending on where you stay). An alternative is to stay down in the town of Telluride. The New Sheridan is one of Telluride's oldest establishments, while the Hotel Telluride—at the entrance to town—has all the comforts of a rustic lodge. Visit www.tellurideskiresort.com and check out the lodging tab for options all around town.
Don't want to schlep your own equipment? No problem. Get geared up at Boot Doctors, with locations in Telluride and Mountain Village. The expert outfitters know how to fit ski boots so you're spending time enjoying the powder, not adjusting buckles so your feet don't hurt. Once you're properly outfitted, snowboard and ski paradise awaits. More than 4,400 feet of vertical drop. Total trails: 127. Longest run: 4.6 miles. Terrain parks for beginners and experts. One of the best skiing and snowboarding schools in North America. No crowds, 300 days of sunshine and 300-plus inches of snow per year. Got expert skills? More than 40 percent of the mountain is geared toward advanced and expert skiers. Don't have expert skills? Consider taking a lesson at the Telluride Ski & Snowboard School, where you can learn from some of the best instructors in the country.
Many a long night of partying starts at the Tomboy Tavern, located at the foot of the slopes. Its broad patio gets especially packed as the afternoon cools down and the après-ski warms up, with patrons enjoying selections from a broad list of Colorado craft beers. Down in the town of Telluride, whiskey flows freely at the New Sheridan bar and pretty much every other drinking establishment around Main Street. The New Sheridan is a hub of nightlife and a great place to start off your evening (as are two nearby restaurants with standout cocktails, 221 South Oak and There…). And when the night is winding down, hit up the Buck, the nickname for the Last Dollar Saloon.
For first-time visitors, Telluride is a dining revelation. While only 2,500 people call the town home, the quality of cuisine (whether casual or high-class) is topflight. Fine dining experiences await at such gems as Alpino Vino, accessible via a snow coach ride at more than 11,000 feet up the mountain, or at 221 South Oak Restaurant. Other musts include There… Bar, as well as a stop at Bon Vivant, a restaurant on the mountain with a terrace and flower vases fashioned out of avalanche mortar shells. After a long night, hangover breakfast emergencies can be treated at Baked in Telluride, where you can get the necessary breakfast sandwich and coffee to start your day.
Winter sports don't just mean sliding down a hill on a plank (or two). Don't miss the chance to experience the slopes of Telluride on a snowmobile. Even if you've never ridden before, Telluride Snowmobile Adventures can get you up to the base of Palmyra Peak via serpentine tree-lined paths, with a little hot-dogging hill-climbing thrown in. Try the Alta Ghost Town tour, which brings you up to an abandoned mining town that played a key role in the implementation of electricity in the mountains. And if you're planning the ultimate bachelor party, the tour stops near the ultimate Telluride party house, Alta Lakes. The site of decades of debauchery, it's worthy of any epic bachelor party or guys' weekend. If snow sports aren't exactly your thing, Telluride isn't only a winter destination. At the popular September festival Blues & Brews the region's craft beers are on full display, and you'll find a great selection of Colorado and wider-ranging craft brews throughout the year at most bars. Telluride has a well-deserved reputation as a great festival town. The Telluride Film Festival boasts a series of Oscar-winner premieres, and the summertime Bluegrass Festival has hosted Mumford and Sons, Elvis Costello, Lyle Lovett, David Byrne and other major acts.
Compared to other well-known Colorado ski resorts, Telluride is a little off the beaten path—and that's to your benefit. You'll own the place when you arrive, rather than fighting flocks of weekend warriors who inundate resorts closer to Denver. You can fly directly into Telluride airport, but you'll have more flight options heading into Montrose airport, about 70 miles away. On the shuttle ride, you'll pass through Ouray County—the setting for the John Wayne film True Grit—before arriving in skiing paradise. Saddle up for a memorable adventure.


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I have three goals at the start of each day: learn something new, discover a new way to look at something and put myself in somebody else's shoes. That's why I'm thrilled to be reporting for NEWSCHANNEL 13.
Before moving to Colorado Springs, I reported for the Medill News Service in Washington D.C. Enterprising stories with a focus on education, I talked to students, educators and lawmakers. The job also gave me a chance to work in Chicago, IL where I was a health reporter. Health news is one of my passions and I'm always interested in new technologies and medical mysteries.
My first jump into broadcast news started in the small town of Quincy, IL where I worked for WGEM. After experiencing firsthand how local news affects a community, I never turned back...I will forever be a news nerd.
I'm a proud graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. I completed my B.S.J. and M.S.J. in August of 2008, majoring in journalism with a minor in political science. I was honored as one of UWire's Top 100 College Journalists and anchored a national news show for OSTN.
Outside of the news world, I love music. I play the piano, flute and sing. I also love traveling and foreign languages. I've explored Europe and Asia. I speak Korean and a little French.
As a Colorado native, I'm so happy to be back home with family, friends and close to the Rocky Mountains. I'm always excited to meet new people and hear your stories.


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Amazing Apartment on 38th floor 769
Size108 m²
Floor No.38(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
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- Air conditioning
- Parking available
- Gym
- Elevator in building
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Central location next to HS station. The city centre is within walking (10mins) distance. Living room with bedroom, open kitchen and bathroom with fluffy towels. Perfect for a night or longer stay in The Hague, your own skyscraper apartment!
The tower also includes a business lounge with free access, a basic fitness facility (free entrance) and a luxury restaurant, The Penthouse. The building is an enlarged copy of New York city's flat iron building.
This apartment is fully furnished and is on Wimdu as part of of a test to see how the apartments on these floors could be furnished and how guests from different countries like them. The only requirement in return of the low price asked is that you write a short but honest review after your stay.
I am an advertising and event consultant. I live in the centre of The Hague, The Netherlands and really enjoy traveling. I run the restaurant on the top floors of the tower. This apartment was meant for my staff, but is not being used at the moment.
I have enjoyed Wimdu like hospitality in many countries, so now it's time to return the favor. Welcome!
- You can check availabilty on the calendar on this page, we always update after any reservation - so availabilty is live. If the dates you require are available, feel free to make a direct reservation or reservation request. I will always confirm within 24 hours, and normally within just a few hours -:). All requests will always be answered.
- Prices are calculated automatically on Wimdu. If you stay longer, prices per night are discounted automatically. So why not stay for a week?
- Check-in is from 14:00hrs, check-out before 12:00hrs. Our reception opens Monday-Friday from 09:00 till late (at least 23:00 hrs). Weekends we are there from 10:00-even later. You can always leave your luggage at no charge at reception and check if you get your keys earlier or stay late upon departure.
- Breakfast is not provided, but there are enough supermarkets in the area. And of course you can have lunch or dinner at my restaurant, if you like!
- During your stay you can use the outside parking of The Penthouse restaurant at a rate of €15,- extra per day. That is about half the price of the public parking Q-Park Laakhaven. At Q-Park your car is parked inside, so there is a difference.
- The apartment will be clean upon your arrival. I ask you to leave it as clean as possible on departure. You don't have to wash towels or linen at departure. If you would like extra cleaning during your stay, that is possible at an additional charge of €20,-
- Sheets, bedlinen and towels are included. We will supply you with a clean set upon arrival and will take care of washing after your departure. If you stay longer, you will be expected to do your own laundry with the washing machine and dryer located in your apartment. A first supply of toilet paper is also present.
- Your apartment is fully independent and has it's own TV and internet/wifi connection. No need to share or leave your home away from home.
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There is no smoking in the apartments; all are equipped with individual smoke alarms. There is a penalty for smoking of a minimum of €500 to reset the alarms and pay for additional cleaning. To facilitate our low pricing, please try and leave the apartment as clean as possible. Respect the neighbours living in the building. No groups or parties are allowed in the apartments for this reason, there is a penalty of €750,- For parties we have special function rooms at The Penthouse restaurant on the 40th and 42 floor, let us know your requirements and we will be glad to make an offer. We reserve the right to terminate any reservation by guests not sticking to our house rules, you will be asked to leave the apartment immediately without any right to a refund. We are happy hosts, please be a happy tenant!
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Reviews of this property
A spacious and well-kept apartment. Excellent service.De furnishings and kitchen equipment are some sober, but that number is then compensated by the fantastic view. We were there with storm; an experience!
Een ruim en goed onderhouden appartement. Uitstekende service.De inrichting en de uitrusting van de keuken zijn wat sober, maar dat wordt mer dan goed gemaakt door het fantastische uitzicht. Wij waren er met storm; een belevenis!
Everything was great! 'll Be back!
Alles prima! Gerne wieder!
The cottage is beautifully decorated again. The plants made the atmosphere even off immediately! T was short again is worth it. It was a topdagje!
Het huisje is weer mooi ingericht.
De planten maakte de sfeer ook meteen af!
Kortom t was weer is de moeite waard.
Het was een topdagje!
Really nice accomodation near City Centre of the Hague (10min walk), close to public transport (for instance, take the tram 1 in front of the building to Scheveningen). Lovely view, spacious. Everything looks splendid. I would strongly recommend this.
Great view. The towels and linens fresh and clean. Very complete tremendous space for longer stays. Everything neat and clean. The reception is friendly and helpful.
Geweldig uitzicht. De handdoeken en beddengoed lekker fris en schoon. Geweldig veel ruimte Zeer compleet om langer te verblijven. Alles netjes en schoon. De receptie is vriendelijk en behulpzaam.
Het is alweer een aantal maanden geleden dat wij hier geweest zijn, nog steeds denk ik hier met veel plezier aan terug. Iedereen heeft het over de adembenemende uitzicht, ik kan daar niets anders aan toevoegen dat dat werkelijk prachtig was. Als fotograaf heb ik zeer mooie plaatjes kunnen maken. Appartement was er mooi, ruim en schoon. Er waren een paar kleine dingen die direct na melden opgelost werden, dat vind ik zeer goed!!!
Der Penthouse Tower ist zu empfehlen.
Einfaches Check-In und Check-Out Verfahren, Parkplatz gegenüber des Gebäudes für 15 €/Tag, im Tower bestehen Frühstücks - und Abendessen Möglichkeiten, aber auch außerhalb sind einige Geschäfte sowie ein Supermarkt innerhalb 5 Minuten zu Fuß zu erreichen, generell gute Lage: zu Fuss ca. 10 Minuten von der City entfernt und mit der Tram ca. 25 Minuten vom Strand in Scheveningen entfernt.
Das Apartment war in Ordnung, weist jedoch ein paar Verbesserungsmöglichkeiten auf - die bereits in den vorherigen Bewertungen benannt wurden (Spültab zu wenig, Sauberkeit - speziell im Küchenbereich).
Die Aussicht ist großartig und es besteht kaum Lärmbelästigung.
Wir waren zufrieden mit dem Aufenthalt im Tower!
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The real impact of apartment 767 on the 39th floor of the Hague Tower is the view, and it is spectacular.
What do you get? A huge airconditioned lounge/dinning room, with a comfortable L shaped couch a small TV and DVD player sitting on a long unit. A dinning room table with plenty of room for dinner with friends, or a business meeting with papers everywhere. A guest loo, a bathroom with a separate shower, loo and 2 wash hand basins. A bedroom (through an alcove, no door) with 2 very comfortable, good size single beds, good bed linen. A functioning kitchen - we didn't cook, but a quick check revealed stuff to make pasta etc. Only small cups, no mugs for a decent sized coffee, plenty of wine glasses but no large glasses for water/beer etc Utility room with washer drier ironing etc. The wifi is good and a simple connect.
Whats it like? Minimalist... very! The overall impression is one of space. Which in summer is lovely, in winter it might be a little sparse, but it is very comfortable. Parking is across the road (not so great in the rain) and €15/day.
We slept very well, loved the view and our business colleagues were impressed. Worth the money.
The view, the view, the view !!! The apartment is nice and comfortable.
It's a pitty that there was the construction of a new building right next door!
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Through its various services, The Salvation Army touches thousands of lives in Southwest Louisiana.
Major David Craddock, who along with his wife, Major Karen Craddock, heads the local operations of The Salvation Army, talked with the American Press about its outreach and impact.
American Press: How many people do you serve at your facility?
Major Craddock: Almost 300 a week for meals. So about 600 meals at least a week, plus the beds in a 36-bed facility so those are kept fairly full every day, plus the people of the community coming in for meals every day. Just that facility alone does that. Then we've got the groceries, the clothing that we provide through our family store, the vouchers that we give when it's available for rent and utility money. I would say on an average week we are probably touching 500 people.
And in terms of a dollar amount in all of those different services, what do you think you distribute in a week's time?
That would vary depending on the need. I would imagine probably when we look at the number of meals, we're looking at a couple of hundred dollars per person by the time you take into (account) meals, accommodation, all of the utilities that they use, the showers and laundry and things, clothing given, food baskets given, it would be a couple of hundred dollars per person.
Talk about the facilities that you have on Legion Street.
Our property has a number of different buildings on it. Right at the front of the property you'll see our worship center with the chapel and youth hall where we do all of the church programs.
At the back of the property is where the day-to-day goes on. We have a large facility which is a lodge. It's got beds for transients and transitional housing for men. We've got a kitchen. We've got food storage. And we've got a social services office where case work and case management is done. We have a building in the back that is used for AA (Alcoholic Anonymous) meetings throughout the week. And then our food pantry. There is a big workout area with weights and everything for the fellas to work out on and they use the gym area to shoot baskets. And then our disaster warehouse where we store all of our stuff that we use for tornadoes and hurricanes and feeding and all the disaster things and extra storage for stuff like Christmas.
So in a sense, you are always in a mobilization mode if the need arises?
Yes. We have the mobile canteen that's parked there. It can do about 1,500 meals a day just being prepared out of it because it's a fully equipped kitchen. That's always on standby. We use it and try to go out as often as possible to feed in the community so we go to some of the low end and depressed areas and do that. And then when there are things like fires, or as what happened in Alabama, that holdout (standoff) that was going on, or storms or hurricanes, we are ready to mobilize and in about a half an hour we can be on the road.
This community is well aware of The Salvation Army and that mobilization because of Hurricane Rita.
What was surprising with Rita is that when some of the other first responders finally got the roads open, I know going down into Cameron Parish when they finally got the roads open and began to roll down, they found The Salvation Army was already there. They couldn't figure out how we got there. We had found a way in and our vehicles were already on the scene serving in areas that nobody else could get into.
How has those facilities helped in the Army's ability to serve this community?
Well, the facility that we have is much better than what we used to have. When they built that shelter that we use now back in 2001 that was really a big jump because we didn't have proper facilities for the men. We were really trying to work some room for families, which we are still working on and accomplish that. It gave us a better property to work on. And then with the large, expansive grounds that we have, we're able to put more things in there.
There even things we still want to put in there with possible campaigns, something like a gymnasium because with do youth programs and we don't have enough space for these youth programs. We rent our family store facilities and we're debating do we continue to rent or do we try to put something up that would put everything in one area so that people could one-stop shop instead of having to go all over town.
It has enabled us to provide more programs than we used to in the old facilities that we had. And it's much better as far as what the gentlemen have to use when they are coming in. For most people coming in off the street or having been evicted or having family problems, the last thing they want to do is have a hassle. When they are looking for shelter, the better we can make it for them, the better it is for them.
Have you seen a rise in the number of clients that you are serving?
It goes up and down. It can go up and down with the weather, it certainly goes up and down with the economy. I think we don't realize how blessed we've been here with our economy because we have not been hit as bad as some of the other areas of the country. But we've seen people coming in here who are coming from other areas looking for work. And then when they get a shut down of oil fields or companies begin to scale back because of a down time in their business, we find that people who didn't know how to handle their finances or are living paycheck to paycheck and suddenly certainly find themselves living on the street, we see a big spike in that kind of demand.
Tell me about some of your success stories.
Quite a number of people have ended up being employees of The Salvation Army of people that have come through. They've gotten jobs and when we've had openings, they've come back and applied to work for us because they were so blessed with what they received. My desk staff right now, a couple of them were clients. One of them was a client of mine in Texas and she ended up coming to work for us here. Another one was a client here and he's now working on the desk. They are able to give back. They learned how to handle their money, they learned how to straighten out those problems in their lives that was causing them those issues. We try to provide them with life skills the best we can and it enables them to get back to being profitable citizens.
Once we do that, for many of them The Salvation Army has become their church home because they started attending and they want to give back so I have a couple of folks on my desk, my thrift store manager was one time a client and now he's running our store. We have people that are working for us but there are other people in our community that have come through, they got a job and they learned how to handle their money, found their own place and moved on and are now working regular jobs and doing very, very well.
Are the majority of your clients transitional?
The majority are transitional. Many of the transients ones that come in, we give them five days to begin with and within that five days they sit down with a case manager and we find out what the problem was, what issues they've had. If they can fit the program, if we feel they can do what the program requires, we will offer them a chance to come into the program, even if they weren't thinking about it to begin with and they start their job search. We give them 30 days to go out and find employment and start getting checks. At the end of 30 days, they start paying a program fee which helps offset our costs. By that time, most of them have found work and they are getting their check and they are starting to put their money into a back account and showing us that they are saving.
Many of them that will come in as transient will end up in the transitional program. The largest number of beds is the transitional program.
Are most of them are people who are down on their luck?
They come from every kind of problem. We have people who are down on their luck, they've lost their jobs and things have really gone bad. We have people who've gone through marriage breakouts. We get people who come out of jail who for whatever reason they are in, they have had just a bad turn and they come out trying to get their lives straightened out. We have people who are just the landlord decided they didn't want them and evicted and then suddenly one day they've got a house, the next day they are evicted. It's all kinds of issues and it's not all that they are just homeless or that they all couldn't just handle a job. It's many different reasons. So we have to tailor the program for them and work with each individual.
How did you get involved in The Salvation Army?
I was born and raised in The Salvation Army. My parents were Salvation Army officers. My grandparents were Salvation Army officers. Both my wife and I can trace our families back to the earliest days of The Salvation Army when it was known as the Christian Mission in England. I describe myself as I was born in it, I was wrapped in The Salvation Army flag at birth and if you cut me, I will bleed yellow, red and blue, the three Army colors.
It's been a part of our life because we grew up in the church aspect and knew all the social service work that The Salvation Army does. We're both originally from Canada. My wife's mother is American and married a Canadian so we've had contact with both sides of the border. My grandparents came from England to Canada and moved to the U.S. and worked for The Salvation Army in the U.S. before going back to Canada. So it's been a way of life for us.
We had to make a choice ourselves to go into ministry. It didn't automatically happen but we made a choice to go into ministry with The Salvation Army ourselves. It's that way for us.
At the (recent) conference we heard from other people that came and somebody knocked on their door and invited them to the Sunday School or the Girl Guards or the Venture Corps programs that we run. One fellow was talking about how he had been an alcoholic and one day he just found himself in a line. He didn't know why he was in that line but he found it was a line to go into to get a meal at The Salvation Army and now he's serving as a Salvation Army officer. It changes lives.
How have you seen The Salvation Army change over the last 20 or 30 years?
We always have to adapt. We try to keep up with current trends and technology. One thing we will not do is we will not let go of our message or our stand as far as moral issues. But, the Army has had to, as society has changed, as issues have come and gone, we've sometimes bend with some of these things as you would as a tree with the wind, and say, yes, we will to a certain point provide.
We've always been nondiscriminatory. The Salvation Army has never discriminated and continues to hold that stance. We will not discriminate as far as our services go. Anybody and everybody that needs help gets it.
The things that what's causing and what people need to know to change. The old days and somebody would come in and needed help and you'd put them to work mopping floors or teach them how to do simple chores and they could go out and do something. Now we have to teach them how to a job search on the computer, how to fill out an electronic resume. There are issues that we face now that we never faced years ago.
There were even times when they came for a meal, they worked for the meal. Nowadays because of regulations and so on, you can't ask them to do certain things. So, we had to look at how could we make this a learning opportunity for them and still stay within the guidelines that we have to maintain. We find ways to teach them lessons and still get across to them the things they need and still stay within the regulations. There are all kinds of rules and regulations that come and go and we have abide by everything.
Talk about those core principles that The Salvation Army has always maintained.
Because The Salvation Army began its mission as a church, our core principles are based upon the Gospel of Christ and we don't bend those. We have always looked at what the teachings of Christ are. Jesus did not discriminate. He didn't say, ''You I'll help and you I won't.'' And we hold that same thing. But there are certain biblical truths for members of The Salvation Army, for those who are actually involved, in the service, that we hold ourselves to and we hold our employees to certain levels. Those things we will not bend.
While society may say it's right, if God says it's wrong, The Salvation Army will stand by that. But it will not cause us to discriminate and cause us to say we don't like your color or we don't like your practices, we don't like your beliefs so we won't help you. If you need help, you get help.
What we believe here and I've always made it a position for myself, is I avoid getting government money because there are certain stipulations that we have to abide by and whether we believe it's a misrepresentation or constitutional, the idea of separation of church and state, if you get government money, you cannot proclaim the Gospel of Christ. So we try in every way possible to avoid that so that we can tell people the best way to change their life is not just get a job or get a back account, it's to change them, change themselves spiritually. That is one of the very, very core positions that The Salvation Army maintains — the best way to change a person's life is to change the person through Christ.
What are the myths that the general public has about The Salvation Army?
Those are many. The idea that we are just a social agency, that's a big one. That we just help drug addicts or alcoholics. That we just sell old clothes. There's so many of those like that. There's those who just think that we are a disaster agency. There are people who think we are connected with other agencies and I won't mention the other agencies because of that, but they seem to believe we're all one, and yet we are separate entities. There are those who believe we discriminate and that we will not give service to specific portions of society, which is great myth.
I say the biggest way for me to do away with those myths is have somebody come and tour my facility because they will meet people of every kind in there and they very quickly learn that we don't. But that's probably one of the biggest myths that we have is that The Salvation Army is a discriminatory group.
The other one is that we beat people over the head with the Bible and that if you don't believe you're out. And that again is far from the truth. We're not going to tell you that you have to believe, but you are certainly going to hear it. You can't make a choice if you don't know both sides.
How large of a staff do you have?
We run normally about 19 employees between our family store and our lodge facility.
Is there any volunteer included in that?
Yep. We have volunteers as well who come in. We have many volunteers that come in and help at our store. They'll sort and they'll help on the floor with the arranging of product. We have people who come and volunteer at our center. I have a full-time cook but he can't work seven days a week. So we're always looking for volunteers who will come in and prepare meals on the off days. We have people who come in and clean. We have people who come in and provide classes, the budget classes or other life skills that are normally all done by volunteers.
Christmas time is our biggest time for volunteers. When we're doing the bell ringing and the Angel Tree we use a lot of volunteers then and at other times of the year it's less. Disaster time, volunteer. We train people in the quiet times of the year on how to run our vehicle and how to do disaster work so when it comes, we can pick up the phone and call them and they are ready to roll.
What type of budget do you have?
Just about 800,000 dollars a year.
That's pretty lean.
I describe myself as cheap, my advisory board describes me as thrifty. We have over the years run deficits. Since I've been here we have not had any deficits. We pay our bills and make things go, but we never have enough. That's always a challenge. But we are also known for being able to stretch a dollar further than anybody else. We know that at least 80 cents of every dollar is going to service, if not more.
Tell me about the Empty Bowl Fundraiser.
The Empty Bowl Fundraiser came about a number of years ago as a way to help us to kind of overcome a deficit time of the year. The idea behind it is a banquet-type meal. We have potters, volunteer potters, who make clay bowls and each bowl is unique, but the idea is that everyone will get one at the end of the night. They come together to sample soups and we have chefs from all over the city providing us with some of their top soups. And people sample soups. But the idea was that for many people a bowl of soup would be a luxury. And for a lot of people all they have is an empty soup bowl. And we need to fill the soup bowl.
People can come and either buy a ticket or sponsor a table. There are different levels of sponsorship that gives them promotions and so on. But they can come and sample soups and listen to some form of entertainment and learn about The Salvation Army. We give them a presentation so they understand what we are doing and why we are doing it. And it's a way for people to contribute to filling stomachs and filling soup bowls for other people in the community.
It's a fun night. We always have a lot of fun with it. But it's an eye-opener when you realize that I can come and I can sample six or eight or 12 soups and there are people that one little bowl of soup that would be a luxury for them.
This year's Empty Bowl Fundraiser is when?
March the 14th. We use L'Auberge. L'Auberge has been very, very gracious to us over the years. We use the ballroom there.
We have the Dixie Belles who are from New Orleans as the entertainment and my understanding there are some folks who are saying that they are already bringing some of the wounded warriors because of that World War II connection. We look at things like The Salvation Army was there in the trenches in the first (World) War, serving donuts, which is why we have such a love for donuts and we can blame part of our weight problem in America on The Salvation Army.
Of course, we were instrumental in the USO in the second World War. So we have that connection with these people and the warriors with providing that kind of sources. So people said they were going to bring some wounded warriors to the Empty Bowl which is great.
It's a great opportunity to come and sit and enjoy some great entertainment and have a meal and meet with a lot of folks and support The Salvation Army.
How can individuals or corporations get involved in helping The Salvation Army?
First thing they can do is just call our office at 337-433-4155. If they just call the office, they can ask about the Empty Bowl tickets and they'll be put through to the bookkeeper. We have different levels of support. Tickets are 100 dollars a seat and there are eight to a table, but we ask sponsors to buy a table for a thousand dollars and they get their name on the table. They are listed under the rank of lieutenant. If they give, 2,500 dollars they are list as a rank of captain. And they get promotion in the flyer and on the screen. Five-thousand would make them a major and 10,000 would make them a general.
It's great to have that support and we give them all the promotion and advertisement and say these people support us and believe in what The Salvation Army is doing.
The same hold true if they want do more for something other than the Empty Bowl Fundraiser?
If they want to come and volunteer for a day or do some work helping around the center, we have groups that come in sometimes and will do some work on helping to get the property up. We sometimes need some extra work on the property or the building needs repairs or something. They offer to come in and do that kind of thing. They might want to get involved in disaster work. They may want to get involved at Christmas time.
This past year, probably the greatest example of that was Sasol. Sasol has always supported us at Christmas, but all of their new contractors and partners in their expansion wanted to get in on it. And they went from roughly 3,000 dollar support to roughly 16,000 dollar support. They went out and cleaned out a store of bicycles and brought toys. We have people who work with Sasol that came and helped sort toys and packed bags to get things out on distribution day. We have people that come out and just get involved in things that The Salvation Army is doing.
We have youth programs. It's great to have people that we clear as volunteers who could help teach these kids character-building lessons and do sports and activities like that. There's always volunteer opportunities and all they have to do is pick up the phone and call.
If not for the volunteers — we are have such a huge impact on society and America as a whole — The Salvation Army has a huge impact on society and yet number wise, internally, we're small. If not for the 3 million-plus volunteers every year we would not have nearly the impact that we have every year. And we have people believing the message of The Salvation Army, believing that if they give their money to us it's going to be used properly and wisely, that we will not discriminate, but we will not let down our standards. There are those things that people have a trust in The Salvation Army.
I've always said whether they talked about what the Army did for them in the war or whether how they were helped after a fire or somebody came to them at Christmas, I say the biggest problem that I have with what The Salvation Army did 50 years ago, is that I have to live up to that reputation. And it's always a challenge to live up to what somebody else has set as a level, as a bar to continue to provide that service. It's a real challenge. ...
Our best testimonies come from the people whose lives we have touched. For many people, they don't know what The Salvation Army can do for them and will do for them until it's touched their lives.
If you were to ask people to do a quick poll, how many people over their lives were touched by The Salvation Army in Lake Charles, you would find people who went to one of the Red Shield Clubs when they were young or went to Sunbeams or Girl Guards or Venture Corps, those who had a Christmas gift under their tree from The Salvation Army, those who got a meal from disaster work and they don't think anything of it until they see that red shield or somebody says something.
I would say more than half the population of Lake Charles has at one point or the other been touched by the service of Salvation Army, whether it was a child or an adult, somebody has been touched and we don't go out blowing our horn and making a big parade about it, we just go out and do the job.
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VMware Drops, EMC Rises: Street Debates Prospects of Better Times Ahead
Shares of EMC (EMC), and VMware (VMW), in which EMC holds a controlling stake, are going in opposite directions today following earnings reports from the two.
EMC shares are up 15 cents, or 0.7%, at $22.51, while VMware shares are down $3.97, over 5%, at $71.73.
Last night, VMware reported Q1 revenue in line with expectations, but offered a Q2 and a year revenue view that both missed consensus.
EMC this morning reported Q1 revenue of $5.39 billion, up 6%, year over year, and EPS of 39 cents, missing the consensus $5.42 billion and 40 cents.
The company's year view, for $23.5 billion in revenue, was above the average $23.46 billion only slightly, while the EPS projection of $1.85 was a penny shy of consensus. EMC said it plans to buy back $1 billion of its shares this year.
VMware is seeing some cuts in target price today, while EMC is generally getting favorable marks from the Street despite the miss.
RBC Capital's Matthew Hedberg reiterates an Outperform rating on VMware shares, while cutting his price target to $100 from $110, arguing that investors should "hold the line" following a "solid" quarter.
"While the stock may be range-bound in the short term due to heightened expectations for Q4/13, we maintain our Outperform rating given the upcoming ELA renewal cycle and several new products that should show a more meaningful impact in the 2H/13," writes Hedberg.
Hedberg cut his 2013 estimates to $5.17 billion in revenue from $5.2 billion, but raised his EPS estimate to $3.30 from $3.26.
Credit Suisse's Philip Winslow reiterates an Outperform rating on VMW, and also cut his price target to $100 from $110, and like Hedberg, holds out hope for a revival in enterprise licenses later this year:
We continue to expect a reacceleration in license revenue growth in the second half of 2013, given the timing of the peaks and troughs of VMware's three-year ELA renewal cycle, which should transition from a headwind during 2012 into a meaningful tailwind in late 2013. Additionally, we anticipate that the pipeline of proof of concept pilots of both vCloud Director and vCloud Automation Center will begin to transition to deal signings during the second half on 2013 and into 2014 (driven in part by the introduction of vCloud Suite pricing/packaging).
Bernstein Research's Mark Moerdler reiterates a Market Perform rating on VMware shares, and a $75 price target, writing that he's skeptical the company can carry out planned new product areas in cloud computing while maintaining current profitability:
In the wake of realigning assets for Pivotal, the company is targeting growth outside of its core business and cited 3 areas of growth: 1) End-User Computing 2) Software Defined Data Center and 3) Hybrid Cloud. We believe the company's recent guidance for 15% YoY growth in FY14 has significant implications and are concerned that it cannot be achieved with a similar profitability structure. We believe that depending on the structure of the offering- the hybrid cloud will either 1) Provide a significant drag on margins or 2) Not provide the necessary revenue uplift. […] As end-user computing was less than 10% of total license bookings in Q1, we believe it helps replace some of the growth but is too small drive overall company growth […] We believe the Software Defined Datacenter is nascent and cannot drive significant revenue uplift within the FY14 timeframe. We believe the technology can be disruptive but believe SDN and software-defined storage initiatives are appropriately viewed as having optionality value.
Likewise, Craig-Hallum's Rajesh Ghai reiterates a Hold rating, and cuts his price target to $80 from $86, writing that he's "concerned that despite a broadening product and market footprint and healthy ELA renewals, license revenue growth remains tepid which indicates to us that the new products and new markets are only barely making up for the decline in the core vSphere license business."
"With Hyper- V and OpenStack becoming more competitive, the core virtualization market increasingly saturated and the macro-economy not showing any signs of robust growth, we continue to remain on the sidelines on VMW," adds Ghai.
FBN Securities' Shebly Seyrafi, reiterating an Outperform rating on EMC, while cutting his price target to $26 from $29, writes that "the roughly 10% decline in the stock price over the past three months creates an attractive entry point for investors."
Adds Seyrafi, "We also see EMC having several new product cycles this year: software-defined-storage (SDS) possibly announced at EMC World in early May, followed by a new VNX midrange array, xTremIO flash based array, and new BRS/Data Domain products in FH2. These launches could help the company's GM improve."
And FBR Capital's Daniel Ives reiterates an Outperform rating on EMC shares, and his $31 price target, writing that despite evincing some of the same "malaise" that has afflicted Oracle (ORCL) and other enterprise giants, nevertheless the quarter's results were "very respectable":
Total revenue of $5.4 billion (6% year-over- year growth) was generally in line with the Street's estimate, with good growth from EMC's high-end offerings. The operating margin came in at 23.2% (ahead of our estimate of 22.5%), versus the Street's 23.6% estimate, and was down from 27.5% in the prior quarter and in line with 23.2% in the year-ago period, as EMC did a commendable job of balancing growth and profitability despite work on rolling out Pivotal (April 1), in our opinion. We expect operating margins to improve in coming quarters (mainly in 2H) given leverage in the model and expectations for accelerating top-line growth in 2H. Pro forma EPS came in at $0.39, slightly below the Street's expectation of $0.40.


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Will a CCC-MAC remain unwelcome in Alamo?
Original post made by [removed], Alamo, on Oct 4, 2011
Melissa, government law counsel resident in Alamo, has circulated analysis of effectiveness of Contra Costa County Municipal Advisory Councils ("CCC-MAC") under new policies authored by Mary Piepho and Federal Glover in 2006. In cooperation with news service researchers, Melissa used interviews with current and former CCC-MAC members and leaders of communities to be served by such MACs to determine if community residents' will and interests are being served by current MAC's throughout Contra Costa County. The overall response from such interviews illustrated a major flaw in the 2006 CCC-MAC policy as the restriction of MAC members from having interactive discussions, considerations and mitigations with residents in the communities they serve. MAC members further noted that they cannot form committees of local residents for study of major issues in communities due to CCC-MAC policy restricting all committees to only those appointed MAC members.
Tonight, Contra Costa County Municipal Advisory Council for Alamo will meet at Hap Magee Park for the first time as District 2 volunteer staff. Melissa points to the posted agenda on www.alamore.org as absent any subject important to Alamo's majority and the lack of detailed description of MAC members' discussion of the topic list. Based on the agenda provided by Supervisor Uilkema's staff for tonight's meeting, the conclusion by Alamo residents is nothing has changed and CCC-MAC Alamo remains seven volunteer staff members of the supervisor's office without connection or role among Alamo's majority.
We will look forward to your coverage of the results of this meeting and your views on the impact of a new supervisor for Alamo.
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I sat through the meaningless drivel of the October 4 CCC-MAC Alamo meeting at the request of Alamo neighborhoods. CDSI courtesy to neighborhoods was to determine if Gayle and staff were going to make a difference in MAC members' ability to serve the majority of Alamo residents. I have already reported that there is no interactive discussion, consideration and mitigation of major issues impacting the will and interests of Alamo neighborhood, business district and community groups. Quite obviously there is no consideration of any issue important to the >8200 voters that are participants in Alamo neighborhoods or the overall neighborhood participants in the region from Saranap to Blackhawk.
Supervisor Uilkema has engaged Ms. Jill Ray, firstname.lastname@example.com, to be her liaison at CCC-MAC Alamo meetings and would be the appropriate contact for Alamo neighbors to express their expectations for operations and agendas. Alamo residents might wish to comment on the issues that previously divided the MAC from community support and participation:
1. MAC members Bowlby, MacDonald, Best, and Evans violated CCC-MAC policy in endorsing Tomi van de Brooke for District 2 Supervisor using their MAC titles.
2. Parks and recreation programs are not used by the majority of Alamo residents or aligned to interests in natural open space and self-directed recreation.
3. Inclusion of lighting and landscaping, as Z-36 parcel tax purpose, in R-7A funds usage for unwanted tree lighting in the business district.
4. Traffic management including removing Alamo from the consideration of Tri-Valley Transportation Council.
5. Plans to attract more commute traffic to Alamo by landscaping and identifying the Alamo off-ramp using R-7A funding.
6. Failure to review the impact of diversion of traffic from Diablo Road to Green Valley/Stone Valley corridor due to Danville's illegitimate development approvals.
7. Another reconstitution of the P-2B committee and the designation of a new chair without community consideration or notice.
8. Continued use of "fill out a card, wait to be recognized, do your 3 minutes and then shut up and go away!"
Your journalism is needed in determining what community organization or agency can represent the will and interests of Alamo region residents.


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Federated Farmers has given provisional support for the Ministry for Primary Industries' (MPI) review of the Animal Welfare Act 1999 and development of a national animal welfare strategy, but is waiting for more details.
When drafting its submission, the Federation asked members for their opinions and many responded saying the "devil would be in the detail".
Federated Farmers agrees.
The Federation welcomes many of MPI's proposals, including one ensuring anything put into standards is practical and economically viable. The Federation's submission noted that where these make sense, are achievable and help farmers' bottom lines, farmers will happily comply.
There are three proposals, however, the Federation is wary of: classifying surgical procedures in the Animal Welfare Act itself; placing stockmanship into regulation; and specifying the intentional drowning of any land animal as an offence.
Classifying surgical procedures in the Act will require debate in Parliament. The Federation is concerned this could lead to emotional grandstanding by politicians and voting along party lines which could be manipulated for political gain.
Instead of debate, the surgical procedures proposal requires careful questioning of experts. This can happen only outside the House. The Federation would prefer surgical procedures be classified through regulations, decided by Cabinet after consulting the appropriate experts.
Federated Farmers shares MPI's concern around declining stock skills, but does not believe regulating them will lift skills. Stockmanship is a broad issue with as many theories as practitioners. Rather than specifying good practices, it would be better to regulate poor stockmanship, dealing with the owner of the neglected or poorly treated animals, leaving stockmanship improvement to industry training organisations.
Finally, the Federation does not condone ill-treatment, including drowning, of animals, but this proposal could unintentionally include pest management.
As an example, many people cage-trap pests, from possums to rats, but may not have a firearm licence to shoot them and are unlikely to call a vet to euthanase them. In these cases drowning may be the only option.
Federated Farmers believes inhumane drowning of animals can be dealt with in the current Act, without spelling it out.


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Organised by the National Gallery of Ireland and the Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, in Connecticut, this exhibition brought together over 40 masterpieces drawn from the great art museums of the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, the United States of America, and from private collections throughout the world. The central theme of the exhibition was letter writing as a genre in its own right, first depicted in the works of the great Dutch artists of the seventeenth century.
Among the masterpieces on display were Vermeer's, A lady writing (National Gallery of Art, Washington) and The love letter (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam). The paintings of Vermeer and his contemporaries still hold their fascination today, not only because of their remarkable ability as painters, but also because they stir in the onlooker a curiosity to know more about the lives and emotions of their inhabitants.
Also on view were paintings by one of the greatest Dutch masters of the Golden Age, Gerard ter Borch, the artist who first popularized the letter theme. His painting, A Woman writing a Letter (Royal Cabinet of Paintings, Mauritshuis, The Hague), is considered the "perfect embodiment of this elegant new treatment of the letter theme." Masterpieces by Johannes Vermeer and Gabriel Metsu from the National Gallery's own collection were also included in the exhibition.
In a lavishly illustrated catalogue to the exhibition, Dr. Peter Sutton, Executive Director of the Bruce Museum in Connecticut, and curator of the exhibition, said the leading Dutch masters of genre painting like Vermeer, Metsu, ter Borch, and de Hooch, produced wonderful images of people reading, writing, receiving and dispatching letters. Their paintings, "document for the first time in any culture the full range and power of letters not merely as an expression of ritualistic social interaction but as a highly personal form of communication delivering pleasure, pain and a full spectrum of emotion." One artist, he added, who brought the subject of letter writing to classical perfection was Vermeer. "His world of letters is a feminine one, with women standing in the light reading letters alone with such hushed expectation that they seem to hold their breath."
Dublin was the only European venue for this enchanting show before it travelled to the USA.
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text: Charles Fox Parham (1873-1929), minister, author and one of the founders of the modern Pentecostal Movement, was born in Muscatine, Iowa. Parham came to believe in divine healing after recovering from rheumatic fever and subsequently became an independent Holiness preacher, centering his teaching around divine healing, sanctification as a second work of grace, and Spirit baptism i.e. speaking in tongues. Along with William Seymour, Parham played an instrumental role in the Azusa Street revival (1906-09) in Los Angeles. Although plagued by troubles and controversies towards the end of his ministry, Parham provided the movement with a defined theological corpus through his bi-monthly publication Apostolic Faith and instilled within the movement a fervent missionary emphasis. For further reading see James R. Goff, Jr., Fields White Unto Harvest: Charles F. Parham and the Missionary Origins of Pentecostalism (University of Arkansas Press, 1988).


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Galdhøpiggen Climber's Log
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|Via Stygebreen glacier to Spiterstulen
Date Climbed: Jul 12, 2016
|We started from Juvashytta up to the summit via the glacier, down to Spiterstulen.
Beautiful, a bit too cloudy that day though.
|Posted Jul 27, 2016 6:55 am
|From Spiterstulen
Date Climbed: Jul 6, 2016
|Enjoyable and challenging climb with my niece Megan. Perfect weather with good visibility. Beautiful views.
|Posted Jul 17, 2016 9:47 pm
|Lovely hike to the roof of Scandinavia
Date Climbed: Aug 29, 2014
|Great day hike, summiting 3 peaks. Very rewarding views. From Spiterstulen.
|Posted Dec 29, 2015 7:02 am
|bruno baschung
|north route
Date Climbed: Jul 7, 2014
|A nice climb though with very windy conditions and clouds, plus some rain, we appreciated to spend some time in the refuge on the top!
Using a rope on the glacier is of course mandatory, some crevasses.
Bruno baschung
|Posted Jul 19, 2014 3:11 am
|Quick Hike
Date Climbed: Jul 10, 2014
|Nice hike with a lot of people. We were glad to still have some snowfields on the way up. Took us about 2.5 hours to summit.
|Posted Jul 17, 2014 10:05 pm
|Gangolf Haub
|Snow and fog in August
|Attempted the normal route but due to the fog and snow conditions turned around about 200m shy of the summit
|Posted Feb 22, 2014 4:59 am
|From Spiterstulen August 2013
Date Climbed: Aug 18, 2013
|Climbed this high point with a group of friends on August 18, 2013. Low visibility (50M) restricted view above 2,000M (seems to be common). However, the views on the glacier to be crossed from the Juvashytte route were spectacular when visibility cleared for short moments. The low visibility didn't seem to stop many people from climbing Galdhoppigen though.
The Spiterstulen route requires no technical equipment or skills. However, be aware that the rocks near the top can be very slippery. A good sole is a must (I used worn-out shoes, which was a little problematic due to lack of grip and water resistance). The climb itself is relatively constant, but remember that the galdhoppigen has a small structure on top (we thought we reached the top initially, but it appeared to be the Keilhaus topp).
|Posted Jan 22, 2014 2:53 pm
Date Climbed: Apr 22, 2013
|Tried to climb Galdhpiggen from Spiterstulen but I didn't have luck with the weather and due to thick fog and strong wind I lost the path and after a short wandering around decided to go back to the refuge. Hope to have a better luck next time.
|Posted Aug 27, 2013 10:03 am
|SW ridge, traversing Ymmelstinden and Storjuvtinden
Date Climbed: May 26, 2013
|Early summer season climb! Approached through Svellnosbrean glacier and put tents up just under the ridge. Nice ridge climbing requires some rappels and III+ rock climbing sections. But nothing too difficult. One of the best routes up to the highest mountain in Northern Europe.
|Posted May 31, 2013 5:06 am
|From Spiterstulen
Date Climbed: Oct 6, 2012
|Cold, sunny and beautiful hike.
|Posted Nov 24, 2012 11:25 am
|Day to remember
|No real experience required. It is a long plod with an easy scramble. Fitness, warm clothes, and food are the only things you need in summer. It is SO worth it, breathtaking views of gigantic glaciers, distant mountains all from the highest mountain in Scandinavia :) Began in sunny conditions, but summitted in a blizzard as weather changed, adding to the thrill. Jogged down the mountain to Spiterstulen for 9pm (late start I know), relaxed with a glass of wine and cards in the log cabin by a fire. What could be more perfect? 10/10.
|Posted Sep 18, 2012 5:52 pm
|1st time from Spiterstulen, 2nd time via Styggebreen the following year.
|Posted May 5, 2012 6:15 am
|From Spiterstulen
Date Climbed: Jul 21, 2011
|It was suppose to rain so we hurried up the mountain and reached the summit in 3,5 hour. Our reward was a 360 degree panorama view! Lovely! But later when we got back to Spiterstulen it started to rain...and it never stopped, so we went home to Sweden.
|Posted Oct 9, 2011 4:38 pm
|andre hangaard
Date Climbed: Aug 2, 2011
|Me and my girlfriend Åsa climbed Galdhøpiggen from the Jyvvas hytta across the Styggebraen-glacier. Our descent was via the Spiterstulen-route. We were the first party on the glacier at around 08:00 hrs. Later during the day huge parties of 30-40 people crossed the Styggebraen. (Guided groups from Jyvvas hytta). No early alpine starts over here....
|Posted Aug 15, 2011 5:28 pm
|Spiterstulen route.
Date Climbed: Jul 22, 2009
|A sunny walk to the top of Norway.
|Posted Aug 14, 2011 6:46 am
|Tomek Lodowy
|From Spiterstulen
Date Climbed: Aug 5, 2010
|Great hike with some very impressive views of those vast glaciers all around there.
|Posted Aug 12, 2010 8:14 am
|Jukka Ahonen
|Route climbed: from Spiterstulen in changing weather
Date Climbed: Jul 11, 2010
|A nice climb from Spiterstulen. We started the day around 7 AM in nice, sunny weather, which unfortunately went from bad to worse on the way up. By the time we reached the top, we had strong winds, the rain was a mix of water and sleet, and it was hard to stand up. The weather continued to get worse when we descended from the mountain, and a lot of groups decided to turn back, so we had made it just in-time.
According to discussion inside the summit hut, the previous night had been the prettiest on the mountain that whole year - just our luck!
The climb took us around 7 hours, including some rest at the summit hut.
|Posted Jul 24, 2010 4:42 am
|Route climbed from Spiterstulen
|Route climbed from Spiterstulen during a 12 day hike in Jotunheimen.
|Posted May 27, 2010 3:03 pm
|From Spiterstulen Hut
Date Climbed: Aug 23, 1993
|We started from the Spiterstulen hut which is at 1200 meter. Long rather easy route, (August 23, 1993).
|Posted Oct 11, 2009 7:33 am
|Spiterstulen route
Date Climbed: Aug 7, 2009
|Nice and sunny day. Florence and I started at 9h00am from the parking, we reached summit at 13h30. As it was packed, we ate with pleasure some "sardines". After coffee and chocolate we did some pictures and headed down, enjoying "bottom ski" when possible. We reached the parking at 17h45. We refreshed our feet in the glacial river before heading to a deserved shower and dinner in Lom. Beautiful climb and successful iniatiation for Florence.
|Posted Aug 11, 2009 9:42 am


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Im not a hater i'm a fan of Justin, but i don't ship Yovanna and Justin.. Justin and Selena look way much better as a couple than him being with Yovanna, i mean it's normal for models to take pictures of themselves in a bikini but i personally think for my idols that they deserve better, you know, a girl with respect who dosen't post their bodies in the net. Yovanna is pretty and all but i can't just get over this i guess all of us is used to Justin and Selena. Anyway we should just support him and his new Gf because it's their life right. Who are we to judge. But i still hope he gets back together with Selena :(
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Why does he continue to wear those stupid ugly hats all the time, half of them do not fit his head and he looks like a real wanna be!! Why cant he just be a normal person with out all the crap he his pushing out!! All the tattoos on his body? what is all that and what for? to look like what? … im not a hater of justin bieber, personally i dont care what he does, but im over seeing him look like someone he isnt, he looks like a real wanna be someone else person….
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Dude. U had to spoils it u care about. Money fame and. Lady's u screwd. It dude saleena if I. Listening guys. Do dum things move on if he don't want Yuh keep the baby I'm not happy. About this new gf u guys were. Great for. Each. Other. And this !!!! Is coming from a little girl. Dude not cool bad move Justin. Just. Be lucky u famous
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