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Is Joel Stein a wuss for preferring Sicilian primitivo over frat punch? Yes—but he says he's a better man for it.

There was no way I was going to mess with that prissy, leather-bound wine list. I was having dinner with a guy I've known since high school—and I went to high school in New Jersey. But since we weren't eating hot wings and our waitress wasn't wearing polyester shorts, I figured instead of getting beer I'd just tell our server to bring us a bottle of something cheap and interesting, as long as it wasn't New World. My friend looked at me and said, "Don't ever fucking say that again." Say what? "New World. Or I'll punch you. In your old testicles."
This was just a few months after I was invited to a friend's house for pizza and poker and brought a bottle of simple Sicilian primitivo. I was mocked so hard for bringing wine instead of beer that I wound up drinking most of it myself, then having a tall glass of rye to prove something that only a guy drunk on primitivo would understand. As far as I know, they stopped having poker games after that. At least I didn't hear about them anymore.
None of this is my fault. I live in a time when people are invited to Top Chef viewing parties, meet girls at farmers markets and go on dates to cooking classes. A time when I can't go to a restaurant without seeing at least one dude carefully arranging his appetizer so he can shoot it for his food blog. When I know the names of 15 current world leaders, six artists, four poets, two philosophers and more than 100 chefs. When men make time to eat long meals while in Las Vegas.
I know that this is not the way a man should act. I know that the only time I should think of eating as entertainment is when the word contest is involved. That I should not be able to identify field greens unless I made it to Eagle Scout. I know these are descriptors that should not be important to me: "organic," "local," "artisanal," "grass-fed," "heirloom." I know these are descriptors that should be: "fried," "smoked," "bacon-y," "cool ranch" and "ass-in-the-tub hot."
And yet I keep choosing food over life. I go out to long dinners, which means I never have time for a movie after. I cook elaborate meals for friends and then sit around talking about the elaborate meal I cooked. Those really expensive, supposedly romantic prix-fixe meals I've been to? It turns out nothing makes a woman want to have sex less than 16 courses and 3,500 calories. My odds were 20 times better with dorm food and frat punch.
But I'm not the only man who has given up so much for bottarga. Baseball games—where for generations men got peanuts, hot dogs, beer and, if they were feeling culinarily adventurous, Cracker Jacks—are now mini-Vegases with food courts where chefs' names are more prominent than middle relievers'. When I went to AT&T Park last season to see the world champion Giants play, I didn't want to eat a fresh Dungeness crab sandwich served on warm slices of garlic-butter-brushed sourdough, but it was right there. So was the organic strawberry shortcake. And if I had found the California wine cart before the Gordon Biersch beer stand, I might have been an even worse role model for my friend's 11-year-old son.
But it is too late to go back. In the globalized information age, a man who eats just meat and potatoes is no longer rugged but fearful. A man now has to have a bit of Anthony Bourdain and a dash of Andrew Zimmern, daring to eat fermented shark, fertilized duck egg or salted tuna sperm. A man has to take the bull by the balls, fry them, dip them in cocktail sauce and pretend to like them. Eating disgusting food is yet one more area where we cannot afford to keep getting beaten by the Chinese.
Women are impressed with guys' knowledge of northern versus southern Thai cuisine, as long as we don't talk too much about history. Our worldliness, even though it's restricted to restaurant meals, makes us look sophisticated and daring, which makes us more likely to get away with doing weird sex stuff with them. It's the same logic that led us to name all the good sex acts with French words. If I'm willing to eat salted tuna sperm, she should be willing to try going down on her friend in front of me. If I eat only hot dogs, well, you can see how her argument might go. Men who don't know about food will be viewed as not being sensual enough. As they say, jerky eaters are often jerky doers.
It helps to be able to cook too. I spent a 24-hour shift in a firehouse once, and I couldn't believe how seriously those guys took food. Men were valorized for their chimichangas nearly as much as for saving lives. And flouting every stereotype of masculinity ever promulgated, they ate dessert. Chocolate dessert.
So I'm going to keep bringing my rustic, Old World wines to card games. I'm dropping truffle salt on my popcorn at the next Super Bowl party. I'll put Gruyère, onion confit and bacon jam on my burger. And far more manly, when I see you I'll bore you with every tiny detail I've researched about each of those dishes.


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|The hilarious illustration of 'self-papparizing blogo-grammers' from BikeExif
It wasn't an income; the only people living off the motorcycle game were (impoverished) moto-journalists and employees of legitimate dealerships. I knew lots of fellows, and a few ladies, who spent all their time repairing and modifying bikes, and none aspired to be anything but a garagiste. At the time, Von Dutch lived in a trailer, Ed Roth had long-ago lost his Revell contract, and only bands sold t-shirts.
It never occurred to us that someday we'd be aglow with some sort of notoriety. But 'some sort' is now within the purview of every human on the planet, via the joys of InstaFame. A downloadable phone trick has the power to make us globally recognizable in weeks. Via the savvy curation of images, we trigger a mutual oxytocin drip in our fans and ourselves, liking and being liked, tapping away like starving lab monkeys, who've chosen the button for 'attention' over the one for 'food'.
It's fame, man, to the hungry end, and maybe even bigger when you're dead; is that the ghost of TuPac or Indian Larry I hear laughing over posthumous sales? Don't think I'm judging; I owe the mysterious gods of the Internet a debt of gratitude for my own lifestyle; let's just hope I don't owe them my soul.
The shimmering dust of glamour has always coated parts of the motorcycle scene, and right now it's falling on handsome, bearded guys wearing heritage work clothing and riding '69-clone choppers or knobby-tyred customs, or girls doing seat-top acrobatics aboard same.
The original meaning of 'glamour' was the art of enchantment, a spell-caster's ability to create an illusion around a person, place, or thing. And while the packs of self-paparazzing blogo-grammers crowding custom bike events are indeed beautiful and achingly cool, I fear our glamour is a spell cast in the mirror.
A mix of hopes and pleasures motivate today's custom motorcycle builders; the joy of creativity mingled with glow of Web attention, and now there's an established recipe for making a 'cool' bike, tested via the comments section on a hundred moto-blogs.
It's easy to mistake the whoosh of online chatter for a wind to fill your sails, and a virtual wind is exactly that, while selling garage-altered metal to strangers has always been difficult. Savvy shops sell logo'd up clothing and calendars and keyfobs, scattering brand stickers in an Autumn of moto-foliage… but even such sales will only pay the bills, not the salary of a desperately-needed employee – or your own.
There are two ways to profit in business; large sales volumes with small profit margins, or high-end retail, and the successful moto-businesses sell the tanks and levers and rearsets the Wannabes need for an InstaFamous custom.
At the rich end of the spectrum, the market for hundred grand choppers evaporated in 2008, and I know exactly one builder who's sold an art-gallery motorcycle for big bucks. Every other shop, then, is in competition for a limited audience, even if it seems at times that 'everyone' thinks we're cool and 'everyone' wants your bikes…but is that the magic mirror?
|The demise of Radical Ducati, as per this example, inspired this essay...
Still, it seems the business of pushing aesthetic boundaries with a motorcycle is best trod with a trust fund springing your step, or proceeding with deep humility and little expectation of worldly increase; the hackneyed rule for artists.
I've spoken with genius motorcycle builders whose controversial but gloriously innovative customs have netted them almost zero sales. A 'like' isn't a dollar. But then again, as they slowly go broke or accustomed to reduced circumstances, the refrain is 'there's nothing I'd rather be doing'.
The coolest bike boom since the 1970s has kids buzzing like bees at Wheels + Waves, DirtQuake, and Born Free, and featured in popular books like the 'The Ride', to which I contributed. Riding bikes while young, beautiful and creative is a heady cocktail, as is the glamour of InstaFame.
But let's not confuse the rain of electrons, following our every move, for a rain of cash. Because in the end, bikes are just motorcycles, but business is business."
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To back out of a pre-planned event, especially after weeks/months of dramatic build up to said event. To quit. To wimp out at the last possible minute before being forced to fulfill your duties.
Tito out is derived from Tito Ortiz in Season 11 of The Ultimate Fighter when he, at the last minute, decided he was too "injured" to fight Chuck Liddell.
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Hmm. Thirty minutes=forever. So, how long has my job, now on its
eleventh day, taken? ;-)
Take care.
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> Could someone who knows about the event study (Finance or Accounting
> area) in Stata give me some hints? My stata took too long to run a
> event study program.
> My version is Intercool Stata.
> I have around 1,300 events. For each event, I need to calculate CAR
> (cumulative abnormal return) around the event based on the market
> model.
> The event window is 3 days (-1, 1). The CAR is totalled for the 3 days period.
> The estimation window is 241 days (-250, -10)
> In Stata, for each event, a simple linear regression will be estimated
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> will be calculated for the 3-day event window. Since I have around
> 1,300 events, Stata will do the same routine around 1,300 times.
> I ran the program several times, and everytime it would take more than
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CEH Recertification (valid for 2 years)
Do I have to recertify?
From June 2007 onwards, CEH certification will be valid for 2 years. You will need to earn EC-Council Professional Education Credits (EPE) to maintain the certification.
Arrrrrggg!! Man, I can't believe this. What about for all the people who are already CEH. Will their CEH cert expires? Do they have to recertify?
This really sucks, does anyone hear $$$$$$ in eccouncil pockets. I sure do!


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Richard (a.k.a. "Woodtick" or "Woody") Larson, 52, of Nisswa, passed away Tuesday, April 2, 2013, at Essentia Health-St. Joseph's Medical Center, Brainerd.
He was born to Lester and Martha Larson on June 17, 1960, in Brainerd.
Richard is survived by his mother, Martha; sister, Patsy Roethemeier (Dale); and significant other, Michelle Jensen.
He was preceded in death by his father, Lester.
Services were at 2 p.m. Monday, April 8, at Christ Community Church, Nisswa. Visitation was Sunday from 5-7 p.m. at Kline Funeral Home, Pequot Lakes, and one hour prior to the service at the church with burial at Evergreen Memorial Gardens, Brainerd.
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Interesting. Good link on the lifestraw tanvil, thank you..
Lot of rice in storage, plenty of fish here to be caught and lots of natural veggies from the swamp..
Now if the people in the cities do not swarm us, we have enough natural food here to supply our whole community..
Natural spring pumping millions of gallons of fresh water a day into the river.
Medications could become a problem. Ah what the hell, we all have to die of something..


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10 fingers inserted into the vagina. Sometimes called "10 Soldiers of Victory." Unlike fisting, and for easier facilitation, the hands are held straight out and flat as though in prayer (or literal muff-diving).
"Dude, I totally attempted the 10 Soldiers of Victory last night, but she didn't let it get past the mini-van."
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Coming out of winter made me think.
What if I gathered up the hives late fall and stored them in the barn. It still gets cold, but much warmer then outside and no wind. Still lots of openings for them to fly in and outside if they wanted.
Coming out of winter made me think.
What if I gathered up the hives late fall and stored them in the barn. It still gets cold, but much warmer then outside and no wind. Still lots of openings for them to fly in and outside if they wanted.
I was thinking something similar, but more just to keep the rain off them during winter. You don't want it warm enough in the barn to where they fly out into the cold and then can't make it back is the only concern.
My bees are in an eight foot by twenty foot shed with a solid roof and a large open door. They seem to like the set up (there are 2 windows to help with cross ventilation in the summer). There is protection from the wind and no moisture, yet open enough for the bees to come and go as they please. The door faces SE so they get early light and I put the hives far enough back so there isn't much rain or snow blowing through the doorway. I have two hives in there nowand might go to four at some point, but I think that's about all that will fit comfortably. I would recommend this type of setup.
Honey bees do not do well in a greenhouse for several reasons.
You don't want a structure that is going to warm up quicker than outside. The bees will find a way out and then what? Or, they will kill themselves trying to get out.
I tried wintering some nucs with screened entrances in a closed shed with windows this year for the first and last time. The shed warms up too much on sunny days, much warmer than the outside, and the bees go nuts trying to get out. They end up being too active which means they eat too much which means they need to go to the bathroom, I ended up with feces all over the inside of the hives and some even died, bad deal. They are better off outside IMO. John
I have had three hives on my front porch all winter. The porch is insulated and heated and stays about 55 -60 most of the cold winter, then warms some when the sun shines in the spring. They are nucs that did not store enough honey to make it thru the winter, so I cut a hole in the top of each nuc to fit a pint mason jar. Each nuc used about 1 pint of 1:1 per month thru the winter. Now they are using about a pint per two weeks. They have access to the outdoors thru a 1 1/4 inch pipe and have been very active during the warm days lately.
In another two or three weeks I will move they out to the back yard and continue to feed until they build up enough to put into a 10 frame hive box.
cdevier, its good that your nucs have made it through the winter on the porch, having access to the outside for flying on nicer days is a key thing. My results would have been better I think if they could have been able to fly when they needed to. John
cdevier, I wonder if they reared some brood all winter long being it was so warm on the porch? John
It seems that optimally, at least in the Pacific NW, you want a cover but keep then open to the outside temps. Anything will work - just something to keep the rain off the top and sides and give them a bit of dry ground to set on. This has been the biggest factor in improving my overwinter survival.
Some of the large beekeeping outfits do overwinter in potato barns in you're neck of the woods. They have to run very large ventilation fans to keep it cold & lots of fresh air.
Lots of info regarding indoor wintering on beesource if you do a search.
Need consistent cold during winter, proper ventilation and complete darkness.
My bees are indoors and have been since the last week in October. Should be going out now but this winters seems to never end. In Manitoba hives wintered indoors have a better winter survival rate than hives wintered outdoors.
Interesting discussion, This winter I read CC Millers "Fifty Years Among The Bees" and he moved his hives to the basement every year. He describes in detail the timing, how, and why he did it.
I overwintered two hives in my 4x6 chicken coop (sold off the chickens first) and lost the smaller of the two hives. I used a heat lamp with a thermostat that came on when temps lowered to about 35, and turned off at about 40 degrees. This is the setup I used for my chickens during the winter so their toes wouldn't freeze. Doors were mostly shut, so plenty of darkness. Holes drilled in coop for plenty of ventilation. Pulled them out when temps outside hit 50 degrees. Noted next to nothing as far as brood at that time, however, once they got heated up by the sun the queen started laying very well. I will try again this season, but will probably save most of the space for overwintering several nucs this time...hives will stay outside, but protected from winds/rain/snow one way or another.
jmgi, Yes - they do have brood during the winter months. My nucs are made of plywood and I cannot see inside them. Also can't remove the top because they are in my porch.
However, I have an observation hive (4 frames high) right beside the nucs. They produced a small patch of brood in mid January (about 4 sq. inches) and then more in February. Now there is 1/2 a frame of hatching brood. I can only assume that the nucs are about the same.


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I do get a few that don't recover, but I don't let them completely die out (like you and Ted suggest), but just combine them with strong hives after killing the queen and making sure there are no other deseases involved.
I read something by I think either Ross Conrad or Sam Comfort, that said the late summer die back was important. Dee calls it "the fall brood turnover".
sorry fellers, perhaps i took 'live and let die' too literally.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Kevin, as with many labels and assumptions made about TF, those doing it probably didn't come up with them. I don't think I had ever used the term "Treatment-free beekeeping" just a couple years ago. We used to use organic, but then they codified organic in law, then we used natural (My previous website was allnaturalhoney.com) and then somebody came up with Certified Naturally Produced or something like that, then came treatment-free. Then somebody came up with benign. I'm sticking with treatment free for the time being until somebody messes that up too.
maybe they won't mess than one up sol.
you may have blown my cover, most assumed 'peg' was a she!
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
>>We are not talking about natural selection At least I am not . I am talking about breeding. they are not even close to the same. I don't consider the bond method natural selection. I do consider it a selection method and it is almost entirely selection by survival. that is not natural.
hmm, not sure most would agree with that one either dan.
i think the phrase commonly cited is 'natural selection by survival of the fittest'
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
All bees are selected by survival naturally, but many are treated to help them with it. Selection by survival is natural. That's the way it works. It's not the only survival criteria (mating, assuring progeny survive as well, etc.) but neither is Bond Method beekeeping. If you (Dan) are not sure, ask a Bond Method beekeeper because you seem to be a bit misinformed, even after 200 posts in which the issue has been informed many times.
Daniel, you don't need an account to view either of the videos I've posted here.
I know you were asked to repost your response....when you do, please consider the following that you said:
There are not 19 genes in each drone that determine sex.....there is one allele of one gene in each drone that is the sex determination gene. When you make a mistake in paraphrasing, it is not the fault of the work you are paraphrasing.If there are 19 genes in each drone that determine sex. and the queen mates with 10 drones. this means there is a pool of 190 possible genes that determine the sex of every fertile egg in the hive. The chance that a drone will result from a fertile egg is almost impossible.
Seems to me the definition of the Bond method is being changed of recent times.
Years ago, what I was reading about on the TF forum, was pretty much leave it alone beekeeping. Any hives that couldn't make it were left to die. Replacements were made by doing walkaway splits from the survivors. This method was regarded as the ultimate, buying in outside bees and queens was frowned on, although through necessity, many did it. The great majority had no interest in raising queens, other than by splitting hives and letting them raise their own.
But this year, Sol discovered how to raise queens, and has realised what a greaty stride forward this is in terms of making increase, or maintaining hive numbers, and even actually selling bees. So now what seems to be getting discussed is deliberately raising queens from a selected breeder, to requeen hives instead of letting them die. So if I've understood that correctly, the Bond method is moving a lot closer to traditional beekeeping, and it's great to see people learning more and using new skills. If the knowledge level in TF beekeeping continues to increase, with people learning and teaching new skills, there will end up little difference in management between the Bond method, and what many commercial beekeepers do.
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good point oldtimer! how's your spring flow this year?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Well pretty good, although each site will be different to another just a few miles down the road, that's because of the hilly country, various different farming methods used, and the amount of unbroken native bush still in an area.
This year I've been under a lot of pressure with big orders for bees and queens which has stretched me to the limit. But I'm now totally caught up and supplying pretty much on demand, and feeling pretty pleased with myself!
And oh, I've always known you are a guy!
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oh well, it appears the cat is out of the bag.....
congrats on your success mate. (hopefully nz's use that term)
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
At any rate this entire subject is falling well off the map of this topic. We can beat exact word around to death. either you get the point or you don't. You either agree with it or you don't it really doesn't matter. If you are in fact right and i am wrong then get busy about breeding the better bee. that will matter.
If what I have said is said in such a way that it is nothing more than confusing. that is my lack of ability to make myself clear. So be it. I took my shot at it.
I don't in the end think that any bond method will result in a better bee, and even if it dose you will know nothing about how to do it again. so why be using it in the first place. I can break that sentence down into a very long complex reason I have it. but then nobody would want to take the time to read it anyway. my time will be better spent assessing the link you have provided and gaining some information. Maybe i will be able to apply more of the basics I already know about genetic to the information that is already known about the bee. That is after all what I am really interested in.
In all I am interested in all the confusing stuff. I think I have said that. and I think some of you have provided some sources of that information. I thank you and I ask your forgiveness if my comments in the process have been distracting and confusing.
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Okay my comments are obviously not welcome in this conversation anymore. I have far better things to do with myself than spend time writing comments that will just be deleted.
Best of luck getting your better bees through random chance.
Everything gets darker, as it goes to where there is less light. Darrel Tank (5PM drawing instructor)
I suppose I should not have used the "Bond Method" in the thread, as I guess there is some confusion. In truth, the 'real' Bond Method involved, as you say a totally 'hands off' approach. And even if it were practiced, I doubt it would have much effect on the gene pool, as there are usually enough other bees and beekeepers in a given area to keep most of the local genetic material afloat.
With the confines of this thread, or at least my thinking on the subject, I see more people applying a 'live and let die' philosophy to the mite issue alone, and otherwise selecting and breeding and bringing in new queens like anyone else might. And in that sense, I guess you're right. There's little difference between that and what a lot of other operations.
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Genesis Solar Energy Project
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Unit 1, March 7, 2014.
Unit 1, March 7, 2014.
The California Energy Commission approved this project's Application for Certification on September 29, 2010. The Commission monitors the power plant's construction, operation and eventual decommissioning through a compliance proceeding.
Committee that oversaw Original Licensing Proceeding:
James D. Boyd, Vice Chair, Presiding Member
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Hearing Officer: Kenneth Celli
Key Dates
- 8/31/2009 - Application for Certification (AFC) filed
- 11/4/2009 - Commission accepts AFC as "data adequate."
- 3/26/2010 - Commission and BLM staff release Staff Analysis and Draft Environmental Impact Statement.
- 8/19/2010 - Committee releases Presiding Member's Proposed Decision.
- 09/29/2010 - Commission approves Application For Certification.
- 11/30/2013 - Unit 2 on line and producing power.
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Genesis Solar LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra™ Energy Resources LLC, submitted an Application for Certification (AFC) to the California Energy Commission on August 31, 2009, to construct, own, and operate the Genesis Solar Energy Project. The project is a concentrated solar electric generating facility that would be located in Riverside County, California.
The project consists of two independent solar electric generating facilities with a nominal net electrical output of 125 megawatts (MW) each, for a total net electrical output of 250 MW. Electrical power would be produced using steam turbine generators fed from solar steam generators. The solar steam generators receive heated transfer fluid from solar thermal equipment comprised of arrays of parabolic mirrors that collect energy from the sun.
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The project is located approximately 25 miles west of the city of Blythe, California, on lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The project is an undeveloped area of the Sonoran Desert. Surrounding features include the McCoy Mountains to the east, the Palen Mountains (including the Palen/McCoy Wilderness Area) to the north, and Ford Dry Lake, a dry lakebed, to the south. I-10 is located to the south of the project facility. The Chuckwalla Mountains and Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness Areas are also located farther south-southwest. The project area is currently undisturbed, although the area has been used for grazing and off-highway vehicle recreation in the past. Ford Dry Lake was formerly open to the public for off-highway vehicle use but has since been closed.
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Off Roading in New Hampshire - Live Free and WheelPosted in Events on December 12, 2006 Comment (0)
In case you haven't noticed, over the past few issues we've been making an effort to bring you wheeling from parts of the country other than the West Coast and Southwest. It's not that the Jp staff doesn't want to wheel other parts of the country, it's just that it's pretty hard to leave our comfy little corner of the world where fall, winter, and spring temperatures rarely rise above 75 degrees, dip below 55 degrees, and where it's too dry to breed disease-carrying insects.
But bring you varying terrain we must, so Associate Editor Trasborg earned his frequent-flier miles traveling to various Midwest and Eastern states during the hotter months of 2006. While we didn't set him up with any West Nile or equine encephalitis virus vaccines, we did hand him an expired can of bug spray. Now his complexion resembles that of a ripe plum, and he frequently drools on his shirt and softly babbles to himself. So when it was Hazel's turn to head east, he waited until the first freeze came through to kill off any biting nasties.
If there's one time to hit the trails of northern New England, it's in the early part of October. Not only are the Maple, Birch, and other hardwood trees erupting in gorgeous colors, but all the airborne vermin have been laid to waste by the brisk evening temperatures. To get a taste of what kind of wheeling New Englanders have in their backyard, we contacted Dan Stonesifer, president of the North East Willys Jeeps Organization, or NEWJO.
Unlike the Southwest, where there are thousands of square miles currently open to recreational vehicle use, New Englanders must beg, borrow, and fight for every acre. Our trip out with NEWJO was on private logging company land the club calls Cemetery Hill, due to the 19th century boneyard located on a portion of the property. In return for access to the land, 4WD clubs maintain and clear the trails, fight soil erosion and runoff, and generally take an active part in making sure the areas are utilized in a responsible and environmentally friendly manner so they can stay open. For more info on club runs and events, contact NEWJO at www.newjo.org.
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National Auxiliary president to visit Nisswa Legion on March 5
Peggy Thomas, national American Legion Auxiliary president, will visit eight different Minnesota American Legion Posts and Auxiliary Units throughout Minnesota.
On Tuesday, March 5, she will be at the Nisswa American Legion Post #627 at 5:30 p.m. for social hour and dinner. The entire American Legion Family is encouraged to attend. All veterans and families are welcome to come and meet her.
Thomas, of Richmond, Va., was elected national president of the American Legion Auxiliary during the organization's 92nd National Convention in Indianapolis.
Thomas, 73, joined the American Legion Auxiliary through her late husband, John C. Thomas, a U.S. Army veteran. Thomas, a 31-year member of the Auxiliary, has held numerous leadership positions in the organization at the unit, district and department levels.
At the national level, she just completed her term as vice president and has served as chairman of many committees.
"My dream for the Auxiliary is to help it grow and flourish," Thomas told Auxiliary members and convention delegates at her installation speech. "We are members of a very noble and prestigious organization that has made a difference in the lives of many men, women and children for decades."
Founded in 1919, the American Legion Auxiliary is the world's largest women's patriotic service organization. With a membership of nearly 800,000, local American Legion Auxiliary units have a strong presence in more than 9,000 communities nationwide.
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Patriots off to 5-1 start in tennis
After sweeping Big Lake 7-0, the Pequot Lakes Patriots tennis team absorbed their first loss of the season as they fell to the Foley Falcons 5-2 on Tuesday, Aug. 20, at Foley.
"We're pleased to be 5-1 (overall) at this point," said Pequot Lakes coach Monica Sergent. "I was hopeful that this would be our year to beat Foley, but I don't think we played as well as we're capable of playing. It's too bad we won't have a chance to play them later in the season."
In singles play, the Patriots' Sydney Holt improved to 6-0 at No. 3. Haley Wiebolt is 5-1 at No. 1 and Lauren Bengtson is 5-1 at No. 4. Jaden Linder is 3-3.
"Sydney (Holt) is playing well after moving from four singles to three," Sergent said. "Sydney has showed that she's up to the challenge.
"Haley (Wiebolt) has also shown great improvement. She had a close 5-7 game against Foley's Abby Kantor, who is ranked fourth or fifth."
In doubles, Ellie Erholtz-Carly Fyle improved to 4-2 at No. 1, Madison Galligan-Alex Nelson is 5-1 at No. 2, and Erika Monson is 5-1 at No. 3. Sarah Najjar is 4-1 and Maggie Heggerston is 1-0 while splitting time at No. 3 doubles.
Pequot Lakes, 5-1 overall, were scheduled to play at the Park Rapids quadrangular on Tuesday, Aug. 27, and then host Little Falls at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 29.
Pequot Lakes 7, Big Lake 0
No. 1: Haley Wiebolt (PL) def. Maddy Johnson 6-3. 6-0
No. 2: Jaden Lindner (PL) def. Alexa Campbell 6-4, 6-3
No. 3: Sydney Holt (PL) def. Karleig Johnson 6-0, 6-3
No. 4: Lauren Bengtson (PL) def. Kendall Westman 6-7 (5-8), 6-1, 10-5
No. 1: Ellie Erholtz-Carly Fyle (PL) def. Amanda Campbell-Kendall Janousek 6-2, 6-1
No. 2: Madison Galligan-Alex Nelson (PL) def. Ali Robertson-Mary Peterson 6-2, 6-1
No. 3: Erika Monson-Maggie Heggerston (PL) def. Paige Dornyahm-Aleesha Moss 6-3, 7-5
Foley 5, Big Lake 2
No. 1: Abby Kantor (F) def. Wiebolt 7-5, 6-1
No. 2: Hattie Scott (F) def. Lindner 6-0, 4-6, 10-4
No. 3: Holt (PL) def. Kayla McIver 6-2, 6-3
No. 4: McKenzie Boland (F) def. Bengtson 6-1, 6-0
No. 1: Alesah Chmielewski-Kylee Funk (F) def. Erholtz-Fyle 6-3, 6-1
No. 2: Galligan-Nelson (PL) def. Lizzy Laterall-Austin Gorecki 6-1, 6-2
No. 3: Alle Mumm-Jaimie Studenski (F) def. Monson-Sarah Najjar 6-3, 6-2


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thX taigu for answering some of my questions, i founded hard to sleep last night having many toughts about how radical the changes in rituals can be without stepping aside from the true practice.
Thank you for that. My first dharma experiences were in the Tibetan tradition here in France, where everyone tried to be as Tibetan as they could. I guess that's one extreme, but it really turned me off. As always, a middle way: take some, leave some, what you need will make itself clear.
Thank you kindly for this very clear explanation of our form of practice
Thank you Taigu,
I like that "practice the rituals and THEN decide whether to change them" ... I like it,
certainly my likes and dislikes have strong opinions about what to drop :-D But lets
do it first, lets live it first.
Exactly...thank you Taigu!Originally Posted by Myoku
PS - Up on podcast now.
Thank you Rev Taigu,
I will whole-heartedly bow, gassho, sit and sew a Rakusu.
If I would start chanting my wife would probably move out, so between the two I choose the wife. Incense I can do without. There are not many insects where I sit, I have a clock and it smells.
This also struck me deeply!Myoku wrote:
I like that "practice the rituals and THEN decide whether to change them" ... But lets
do it first, lets live it first.
Wonderful talk Taigu Sensei.
Also, Thank you for being there with all your love and support for us during Jukai _/_
As always thank you for the gift of your time and effort. Gassho Shogen
Thank you for this talk, Taigu. I am still unfamiliar with some of the Japanese forms, but the basic template is the same throughout the different traditions of Buddha Dharma. Personally I love these forms, they are beautiful, simple gestures. My first Zen teacher described prostrations (for instance) as being like water flowing down to lowest ground, over and over, free of all pretension. These forms are an important part of letting-go, IMO.
Anyway, I'm glad they aren't being jettisoned willy nilly here at Treeleaf.
Gassho. Kojip
I had some reluctance towards bowing, untill hearing Taigu and Jundo here explaining how it works, so to speak, and now bowing and gassho are an integral part of my ritual. It really helps me to feel more connected and compasionate. I've been able to stop verbal fights with people with the simple act of gassho. Sometimes I don't even do the gesture, and I just gassho in my head, and it works too!
Thanks for the talk Taigu, and thank you for how you lead the retreat. I think it was a perfect mix of ritual and feeling cozy and at home
one of the first thing explained in our dojo
thanks for the reminder
I really wanted to ask about rituals, so this teaching was in perfect timing.
Thank you Taigu San.
Thank you for this talk. I have only in the last few months begun to practice Soto Zen wholeheartedly as a religion, with its rituals and chants. For years I kept it at arms length, thinking Shikantaza was sufficent. I had not embodied or understood the notion of compassion in our practice, in bowing, in the three refuges, in the precepts. My sitting was incomplete - it was, to borrow your terminology, a "wellness practice." This was the primary reason I participated in Jukai for a second time yesterday. I am happy, and humbled tremendously now to say I practice a religion.
Your comment about incense bringing back "unpleasant" memories for some was right on mark - I grew up in the Greek Orthodox church, replete with icons, candles, and incense. It's quite interesting really, as of late I have found beeswax candles to burn on my altar, exactly like the ones I remember from my youth. I don't know why, and sometimes it makes me uncomfortable, but the purpose of this practice is not necessarily to be comforted. I recall a minister's admonition: "our job is to comfort those who are afflicted, and afflict those who are comfortable..." Now I would like to keep bees, just like Father Andreas, the village priest of my youth (he made wine as well!) :lol:
Thank you, Taigu. A very important and timely message. I think I will do 108 bows like the Koreans until the bows just bow.
P.S. I shaved my head/beard for Jukai, just to drop my vanity and see what it might feel like for a monk. I'm letting it grow back!... but I'm glad I did it. Just do it, eh.
I laughed when I heard "Shave your head if you can". I think my husband would be very upset with me if I shaved my long, red curly hair :lol:
Thanks for this teaching Taigu,
Thank you Taigu Sensei! I love that Rakusu.
Truly live the rituals before you decide to discard them. Thanks Taigu.
Thanks very much for the talk. I feel daido summed things up very well. Personally I find the rituals an aid to help ground me in the present moment. I will now ensure I truly live the rituals now.Originally Posted by Daido
I always have wanted to shave my head before I found the practice. Only problem is my wife would throw me out! She expects me to wear a turban and grow a beard I can never shave off. I guess we have met half way!
Thank you very much, Taigu-san, for these wonderful words.
Thank you Taigu. I find a pure bow renews everything, vow and practice.
Thank you for your teaching, Taigu. You bring a warm depth of meaning to simple gestures. I was doing a short, fast gassho, out of shyness and being self-conscious, but now, seeing it as connecting and compassion, I understand the full meaning of the gestures/bows, and promise to be more conscious of connecting with those around me...your teaching and reminder is wonderful.
Deep Gassho,
Even if it is true that rituals involve both the vertical and the horizontal directions, I more and more experience them as an expression of the non dual and a sweeping-giving-offering-dropping that touches the most distant horizons.
Please. perform them without being negligent and without indulgence ... do them simply, directly, in a non complicated way.


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Original post made by Pekhna Singh, Ruby Hill, on Dec 7, 2012
We have been missing our beloved tabby cat since Dec. 3. She is an outdoor access cat who never stays out past dark. We have contacted every single person we could and have even enlisted the help of professionals.
She is 2 years old and 8 pounds. She is brown with black stripes, has a striped tail that is dipped at the end and has very velvety back paws.
She has allegedly been seen in the Vintage Hills area, Vineyard and Tawny Park. She has also maybe been seen around the Vineyard Mobile Homes area. She however, disappeared in the Ruby Hill area.
If you have any information, please help. I know many people don't agree with letting cats out to roam neighborhoods, but none of my neighbors have complained. If you know anything about her whereabouts, please let us know. If they had, I assure you, we would have kept her indoors. I think almost all of our neighbors have outdoor access cats as well. We are worried sick!!!
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Dec 7, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Sorry I didn't say, but her name is TOONA and also responds to Bells. She is a little skiddish but not aggressive.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Dec 8, 2012 at 2:05 pm
Pekhna, can't you just buy another one?
My guess is that your cat found someone who gave it milk and top-notch food of better quality than you did and so the cat said why the heck not go with the higher class owner?
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 8, 2012 at 5:31 pm
The mean-spirited nature of the posts above is really appalling, and you should be ashamed. Do you think the OP really needs a lecture right now? PW editors, the garbage on these fora has really gotten out of hand and reflects poorly on your site.
a resident of Ruby Hill
on Dec 8, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Steve comes across as a bleeding heart liberal loon who wants to shame everyone who has a better life than he does. Both Pleasanton Heights and myself (Ruby Hill) posted our neighborhood. Steve appears to be ashamed of his neighborhood and turns his envy into trying to humiliate people who are work harder and are better educated than he is.
I hope you have found your cat Pekhna. I'm just saying it's probably found a better home.
a resident of Laguna Oaks
on Dec 10, 2012 at 10:35 am
I hope you find you beloved pet - in spit of jerks like Tony.
Pekhna - did you go to Foothill....? I think we know you :)
a resident of San Ramon
on Dec 10, 2012 at 4:08 pm
San Ramon Observer is a registered user.
Did you try the East County Animal Shelter in Dublin? If your cat has been picked up by Animal Control or turned in by someone, she will be there. They are required to keep her 5 days, and it could be past that now, so you better call or go over there ASAP.
Foster with Safe-Cat Foundation in San Ramon
PS I'll post you story on Safe-Cat. Several of our fosters live in Pleasanton.
a resident of Stoneridge
on Dec 10, 2012 at 4:08 pm
I hope you find your kitty. Dont let
people discourage you. Put a flyer
with a picture of your cat and info
on every doorstep in your neighborhood.
Check the Ptown Animal Control and
the shelter on Gleason in Dublin. Give
the shelter a flyer as well. It's heartbreaking
to lose a loved one....two legs or four. :-(
Toona is a very cute name.
a resident of Another Pleasanton neighborhood
on Dec 10, 2012 at 4:53 pm
I hope you checked with as many neighbors as possible. This happened to us a number of years ago. Our cat was about one year, he went visiting the neighbors behind us and a few houses down. Though we called him numerous times throughoutday he didnt come home. We then walked the neighborhood, knocking on doors. Seems the neighbors daughter fell in love with him and the decided to keep him. Needless to say, we got our cat back.


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Lori Loughlin showed up to give some support to Candace Cameron Bure.
Two nights ago Kate Mara was out with Ellen Page. Last night it was this guy.
Kristen Stewart is back in LA.
Lena Dunham gets cute with Jude Law.
Tracy Anderson looks ridiculous. Fit, but ridiculous.
Lady GaGa headed to her live action production of Cats.
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This is a scenario I see often, yet I am not sure if it's a good one or a bad one...
I have a TBH. There are several bees positioned backwards on the entrance landing. There heads are pointed in the hive and their tails pointed out. I have seen them with their tails up, but today they have their tails down and they are beating their wings rapidly. My entrance is about 1" deep and 12" wide. There is a cluster of bees fanning at 1/3 of the entrance.
Sorry no pictures - technologically challenged here.
Any ideas why this happens?
Much Thanks,