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Sacramento police arrested Jeffrey Allen Jones in June on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon after throwing a spear at a moving car. Full story (Sacramento Police Image)
Would you have guessed this guy is from Pennsylvania? Drug dealer Mark Gross, Jr. referred to himself as the uncatchable "Gingerbread Man" when taunting police. Full story (Lansdale Police Image)
Police say Darrell Reynolds, 54, from Bryan, Texas walked into a theatre pretending to have a gun to scare away moviegoers. Full story (Photo courtesy Bryan Police)
You won't see this grinning mug out and about anytime soon. Scott M. Davis Jr., 23,was sentenced to 25 years in prison for attacking a Mo. cop with a club. Full story (O'Fallon Police Image)
Christal D. Smith, 20, of Salem, Ore. agreed to come to the Salem police station for sexual services. Her client was, of course, an undercover cop. Full story (Salem Police Dept. Image)
Chicago police arrested 64-year-old David Beckman in May on suspicion that he sexually abused a peacock. Full story (DuPage County Police Image)
Samantha Goudie, better known as 'Vodka Sam,' was arrested for running onto the field during a college game, then blew a .341 BAC, and bragged about the ordeal on Twitter. (She forgot to mention the tears). (Iowa University Police Image)
Dennis Lalime was returning from a Halloween party when he crashed his car in Pittsfield, Maine. He was apparently dressed as the Joker and was charged with drunk driving. Full story (Associated Press Image)
A man was arrested for allegedly attacking his roommate after waking from an alcohol-induced slumber to find drawings of male genitalia on his face. Full coverage (Arlington Police Image)
Oakland Raiders football player Desmond Bryant was arrested in March and charged with misdemeanor criminal mischief after he showed up at a neighbor's house drunk. We wonder how they could tell? (Miami-Dade Police Photo)
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Another HP Setback/Tragedy
Original post made by Paul Losch, Community Center, on Nov 20, 2012
HP stock drifting downward, will likely go below $10, from this year's high of nearly $30.
This company is (or maybe was?) our neighbor. I suspect most of us know people who work there or did at one time. The catharsis this company has experienced for all too many years seems endless.
My opinion is that former CEO's John Young and Lew Platt saw the writing on the wall. They saw a company in trouble, and were honest enough to admit that they did not know just what it would take for it to "Invent."
I fault HP's Board of Directors, who for years have agreed to hire flawed CEO's, which led to poor leadership, confusing strategies, and a company I cannot understand. To use a phrase that consultants from the likes of McKinsey and Bain (with apologies to Meg Whitman) "what business are we in?"
Meg has gravitas, and she likely is reconciled that HP has to broken up, as hard as that is to do. The foolish merger and acquisition strategy was poorly thought out and badly executed.
I do like walking by the Addison Street property that is now an historical site that commemorates the "garage" in which Bill H and Dave P got started.
Historical in one thing. History is another.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 20, 2012 at 1:06 pm
How do you see HP viz a viz Cisco? Both companies have had their ups and downs, yet Cisco seems to have tightened it focus, even though it is a M&A model. At one point, there was concern at Cisco that HP was serious compeition. Is this still the case?
Can HP follow on Cisco, and get its act together?
a resident of Community Center
on Nov 20, 2012 at 5:17 pm
Paul Losch is a registered user.
You ask questions well above my pay grade for this blog.
I did buy Cisco stock in 1993, and thank you very much, my IRA is better for it.
Keep it simple. HP has not done that the last 10+ years. Carly F. strutting around stages, Mark H. as Mr. Efficiency Expert, German guy who was not a good fit. Now Meg Whitman, whom I highly regard, and she is dealing at this point with a pig in a poke.
Cisco stock has not done well the last few years from a valuation standpoint, but I hold the stock because it does appear to understand its fit in the scheme of things.
Contact your financial advisor.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Nov 20, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Do you think that HP, if taken over by Oracle or Bain could be turned into a profit center, thus saving jobs in Palo Alto?
a resident of Green Acres
on Nov 20, 2012 at 6:05 pm
How would a vulture capital firm (not venture) save jobs in Palo Alto?
Besides, Meg is tied into the bain crowd, hasn't helped yet.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Nov 20, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Yep,the comment above shows good insight. I think both sides were less than ethical & now they're pointing fingers.
a resident of College Terrace
on Nov 20, 2012 at 6:30 pm
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a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Nov 20, 2012 at 6:32 pm
My husband has been saying for years that the HP Way died with David Packard. He and William Hewlett must be spinning in their graves.
a resident of Midtown
on Nov 20, 2012 at 7:02 pm
IBM in the early 90s faced the same challenges as HP at that.
1/ A culture of life time employment with no connection to performance
2/ A culture of politeness, conflict avoidance and consensus decision making
3/ Reduced revenues for its main product-Big Iron -and increased competition from companies like SUN
IBM hired a new CEO who turned IBM around into a consulting and professional services company-Chambers-CISOs Ceo was employed by IBM at that time-he learned the lessons.
When John Young became CEO of HP in the 90s he had a company that had
1/ A culture of life time employment with no connection to performance
2/ A culture of politeness, conflict avoidance and consensus decision making
3/ Reduced revenues for its main product-Big Iron -and increased competition from companies like SUN
Young did nothing, Lew Platt did stupid things-after that they payed lots of money to useless PR companies like cunningham communications and tried to spin their way out of what was and is a death spiral
Meanwhile CISCO applied the lessons from IBM and transformed itself from a Product Company to a Systems and Solutions Company
While HP hired a succession of incompetent fools as CEO and fired the only competent one - Hurd- for some silly Politically Correct/PR Psychobable reason
a resident of Palo Alto Hills
on Nov 21, 2012 at 2:10 pm
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a resident of College Terrace
on Nov 21, 2012 at 2:15 pm
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Here's a one-skillet version of chicken and stuffing made with wholesome ingredients. We use chicken thighs because we love the rich flavor of dark meat, but boneless, skinless breast works too. Serve with Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes.
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Prep Time 45 min
Total Time 45 min.
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Massachusetts Department of Education Charter School Office
Authorizer Profile: Selected Characteristics (as of 2005–06 school year)
|First year of operation
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|Total number of schools
|Number of students
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|9 (including charters granted but not opened)
Massachusetts State Charter Law: http://www.mass.gov/legis/laws/mgl/71-89.htm
In 1996, three years after the Commonwealth of Massachusetts enacted its charter school law, the state legislature shifted the state's sole authorizing authority from the Governor's Executive Office of Education to the State Department of Education. The Charter School office moved once again a few years later, this time to an established, larger office within the Massachusetts Department of Education—the Office of School Finance. The state commissioner for education made this move in part to give the Charter School office more institutional stability, according to Jeff Wulfson, the associate commissioner who currently oversees this office.
Wulfson recalls that at the time of this last move there was a real desire among charter advocates in the State Department of Education "to move away from charter schools being start-up and experimental, something different that might or might not be here for the long term, and really send a message that says charter schools are part of the landscape now. They are public schools like any other schools, and we don't necessarily need to have them sitting apart. We want to start integrating their activities and the department's activities with respect to them."
Staff members in the Charter School Office see this move as positive. Their position in the office of school finance provides ready access to other resources within the department, including financial and legal expertise. Staff members also have more opportunities within the department to advocate for charter schools, and they have the support of Wulfson, a key department official who has ongoing contact with the larger education community in Massachusetts.
According to staff members, there are several advantages to being the sole authorizing entity in Massachusetts. Mary Street, the director of the Charter School Office, believes that "single authorizer states are bound to be more successful in many ways because there is a clear picture. We are able to give every school in the state the same information, the same clarification, the same point of contact." Cliff Chuang, the coordinator of research and finance within the Charter School Office, agrees, "Being a sole state agency authorizer has a lot of advantages because you have complete and absolute track of every charter school in the state. Data submitted by any public school is submitted by charter schools automatically, and we have access to all of it—the grant information, the tuition information— we have tabs on everything."
Access to student performance data has enabled the Charter School Office to closely monitor overall school performance and provide timely feedback to schools about what aspects of their programs need improvement (e.g., low student performance in particular grade levels or particular subjects). In general, the academic performance of Massachusetts' charter schools has been strong. A recently released study commissioned by the state examined the test scores of 52 charter schools in existence from 2001 through 2005.24 According to this report, about 60 percent of the charter school students performed about the same as their peers in regular schools on Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exams in English and math, while 30 percent performed "significantly higher." About 10 percent of the charter schools performed worse than the sending districts.* The data from Boston, the state's largest district, show that "Charter school students in Boston as a combined cohort have performed statistically significantly higher than students enrolled in the Boston Public Schools each year from 2001 through 2005 in both English language arts and mathematics, except there was no statistically significant difference in performance in English language arts in 2001."25
Having a rigorous monitoring process has enabled the Massachusetts office to withstand three legal challenges to its accountability system. In all three cases, the office recommended closure of a school because the school had not met the terms of its charter. In Massachusetts, state law dictates that charter schools meet three tests: 1) Is the academic program a success? 2) Is the organization viable? 3) Is the school faithful to the terms of its charter?26 In the case of Lynn Community Charter School in 2002 and Roxbury Charter High School in 2004, the Charter School Office determined that the answer to each of the questions was no. When the schools challenged the decision through an administrative hearing process, the Charter School Office's well-documented record of student performance data, annual reports, and site visits convinced the hearing officer who was in charge of ruling on their appeal to support the decision to close the schools.
While having a larger structure and support system behind the office can be an advantage, Chuang also notes that there are some disadvantages to working within a state department of education. "You definitely have to work within the state bureaucracy in order to do your job. And, as a subunit of a larger entity, you have much less control over operational decisions and budgetary decisions, and you report to a board that has competing priorities." The Charter School Office's funding is not a line item within the larger department, but rather a collection of funds from several sources, including state department administrative funds, federal special education funds, and federal charter school program grants.
Because these funds are not tied to the number of schools that the office oversees, the office's capacity is an ongoing issue as it continues to grow. For this reason, the Charter School Office is in the process of developing a five-year plan that documents how many applications, site visits, and renewals are anticipated over the next five years, so office leaders can make the case for additional staffing if necessary.
Unless there is a change in the law, the number of new charter school applicants will soon drop off significantly as the state approaches various limits on charter school growth, including a statewide cap on the overall number of charter schools. Since the original charter school law was enacted in 1993, the state has raised the charter school cap in Massachusetts twice. In 2006, the law allowed a total of 120 charters statewide, and there are 58 of those charters still available.
In addition to capping the overall number of charter schools allowed, Massachusetts' charter law includes other restrictions on growth, such as a provision that Commonwealth of Massachusetts charters cannot serve more than 4 percent of the state's public school population, and a provision that a school district's payments to charters cannot exceed 9 percent of the district's net school spending. For these reasons, the Massachusetts Board of Education cannot approve any more charter schools in approximately 150 of the state's 500 districts.
According to the state's charter law, once schools are approved, school leaders have one year to develop an accountability plan that lists the school's performance objectives and defines how progress toward those objectives will be measured. Schools are required to develop objectives in each area of accountability—academic success, organizational viability, and faithfulness to the terms of the charter. unlike some other authorizers, the Massachusetts Charter School Office does not prescribe one set of goals for all schools to meet. In order to meet obligations under No Child Left Behind, all charter schools are required to administer MCAS tests, but they also are encouraged to set specific goals that are appropriate to the school's unique program. The Charter School Office offers limited assistance to schools as they develop accountability plans.
In general, staff members do not provide technical assistance to the schools, partly because of their own capacity limitations, but also because they philosophically disagree with doing so. "We hold up a mirror, but the choices the schools make will always be their own," explains Street. The Charter School Office staff members are acutely aware of their responsibility both to respect schools' autonomy and to maintain the office's oversight integrity.
And yet, the Charter School Office staff members are keenly aware that even the strongest charter schools face an uphill battle because of the complexity of opening a school from scratch. For this reason, the Charter School office currently is engaged in a statewide conversation with other charter school advocates, such as the Massachusetts Charter Public School Association, about how to establish a resource center that would strengthen the level of support available to charter schools at various stages of their development.
|Signs of Success: Massachusetts Department of Education Charter School Office
* This study defined the comparison sending district for each charter school as follows: 1) For a charter school that is not regional, the school district in which it is located is its comparison sending district; 2) If 20 percent or more of a charter school's population in 2004–05 came from one sending district, and there are at least 40 students in this group, then that district is designated as the comparison sending district.
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Never argue with an idiot. They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience. MB Rule # 1
Probably a good idea for player safety. Now if we could only get independent game clock managers too. I can't count how many times the home team managed to get 3 seperate 4th quarter pass plays off in a mere 5 seconds this season.


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Compost heaps and worm farms
Can't emphasise enough how easy these are to maintain, their worthiness and how little space they take. Can do it on a balcony.
Ecologically, they are fantastic as they give back more than they take. They don't smell unless you feed them unsuitable material. The worms can be fattened for fishing bait (my kids hate this, even though we're all keen fisher-persons).Can hardly "name or identify" worms in a worm-farm.
Also,between the compost and worm farms, we have cut our use of the weekly "wheelie trash bin" to once a month at most.
Also use my office shredder to "feed" both the compost and worm farm.
It doesn't require huge changes but creates huge changes.
Try it. Far cheaper than buying potting mix and fertiliser at the nursery.
Ask if you want advice. Will do my best.
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nigella clarissa
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Re: Compost heaps and worm farms
Yuk, eeeuw...c'est dégoûtant ( disgusting ). Thank god my boyfriend hired a gardener to take care of that business at our place. You are a brave lady, Mary.
By the way, mon petit Guzz , where are you? I do so miss you. Des bisous mon petit.xxx
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Re: Compost heaps and worm farms
nigella Where've you been - not seen you for ages? Collecting more designer goodies I suppose. I've been missing Guzz too and I started to wonder if the two of you had eloped but clearly (sadly) not the case.
It's always a bit worrying when a regular disappears as suddenly as he did. I hope he didn't have one too many hot-tub experiences.
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www.abc.net.au/gardening has good info especially for us in the southern hemisphere
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An undergraduate major or campus is designated as impacted when the number of applications received from fully qualified applicants during the initial filing period exceeds the number of available spaces. Such majors or campuses are authorized to use supplementary admission criteria to screen applications.
There are subtle, yet important, differences between major and campus impaction. Major impaction means that the number of applications from fully eligible students to a designated major on a CSU campus during the initial filing period far exceeds the number of spaces available in that major. However, students can still be admitted to the campus in an alternate major, or they may eventually be admitted to the oversubscribed major if they meet the supplementary admission criteria. Fullerton, Long Beach, San Diego, San Jose, and San Luis Obispo campuses are impacted in all majors.
Campus impaction (otherwise known as campuswide impaction) means that a campus has exhausted existing enrollment capacity in terms of the instructional resources and physical capacity of the campus. Because the campus receives more eligible applicants during the initial admission application filing period than can be accommodated, the campus must therefore restrict enrollment to the campus for a specific enrollment category (i.e. first-time freshmen or transfers).
Students interested in an impacted major or campus must apply for admission during the initial filing period of October 1, 2016 through November 30, 2016 for admission in fall 2017. Applications for admission to impacted majors and campuses are not accepted after the initial filing period. Additionally, by utilizing CSUMentor, applicants can easily complete multiple applications for multiple campuses and submit them for consideration. CSUMentor allows for re-routing an application to an alternate campus, when a timely application from a CSU minimally qualified applicant cannot be accommodated; the filing of additional applications may be unnecessary. However, the system will not re-route applications to other impacted campuses or majors or to campuses that have already closed to applicants.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Buffalo Trace Demonstrates Another Way To Sour A Mash.
The repositioned brand's first release is Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr. Old Fashioned Sour Mash Bourbon Whiskey. It will be 9-years-old, 50% alcohol, bottled-in-bond, and $70 per 750ml cork-finished bottle. The bottle comes in a tubular canister similar to those sported by many single malt scotches.
But the product's raison d'etre is the 'Old Fashioned Sour Mash' claim.
At this time I must issue a Geek Alert. This is about to get very geeky. Geeky and long. You have been warned. Continue reading at your own risk.
Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr. (1830-1923) was a major figure in American whiskey history. Among his long list of accomplishments was ownership of the distillery now known as Buffalo Trace. It was under Taylor's leadership that it became a major whiskey producer.
The Taylor name was disconnected from the distillery during his lifetime, by him, and only restored to it in 2009.
By coincidence, that distillery in 2002 conducted an experiment inspired by one of Taylor's practices. In barrels ever since, that experiment has now been deemed a success and bottled.
Sadly, the history of American whiskey-making has been not well preserved nor very much studied. We have very little detailed information about distillery practices in Taylor's day, which spanned the 1850s to Prohibition.
Taylor was a distillery owner and financier, not a day-to-day distiller, but he worked with people such as James Crow and other top distillers, and he had his own strong opinions about the best ways to make whiskey.
Normally, the term 'sour mash' refers to the use of spent mash to condition new mash by lowering its pH. Spent mash is what comes out of the still after distillation. It contains no alcohol, no fermentable sugar, and no yeast or other micro-organisms, but it does have other nutrients yeast can use and is more acidic than new mash. All of today's major American whiskey distilleries use this technique, mixing old mash with new in a 1:3 to 1:4 ratio.
There are some obscure references in old literature to a 'sour mash' technique that doesn't use spent mash. Something else sours the mash. Mike Veach has noted references to this by Taylor himself in the Taylor-Hay papers, which Veach archived for Louisville's Filson Historical Society. This confuses modern readers who equate sour mash with spent mash.
This subject has also come up with micro-distillers because some of them refer to the introduction of lactobacillus during mashing as 'sour mash,' even though no spent mash is used. Lactobacillus produce lactic acid, which has an effect similar to spent mash in lowering the pH of new mash to an appropriate level. Lactobacillus are used in the production of yogurt, cheese, sourdough bread, and other foods. They are also used in brewing. Before Buffalo Trace switched to dry yeast they used to add lactobacillus to their yeast mash, as some distilleries still do.
At Buffalo Trace, mash goes from the cooker into what they call a drop tub, where they can hold it before sending it to the fermenters. Usually this is just for timing, where a batch of mash might sit there for a couple of hours. In 2002, Buffalo Trace decided to deliberately let a batch of rye-recipe bourbon mash sit in the drop tub for several days, monitoring the pH level but otherwise leaving it alone.
Would the mash sour naturally? Is time just as good as spent mash at neutralizing new mash? Would the mash then ferment well and make good whiskey?
Because they were concerned about spontaneous fermentation and other possible contamination they planned the experiment for the end of a run so nothing else could be affected and they could clean up afterwards if it went wrong.
One difference from Taylor's day was that back then they mashed in barrels, not the large mash cookers they use today.
To learn more they interviewed six different old-time employees, all then in their 80s and 90s. One was Al Geiser, who was the first master distiller there after Prohibition. Another was Ralph Dupps, who died in 2007 at age 90.
None of them had lived in Taylor's time, but they all had heard stories about how the distillery didn't use spent mash then but instead allowed their mash to sour 'naturally.' Dupps was the only one who really looked into it. A mechanical engineer by training, Dupps worked for Schenley at both Buffalo Trace in Frankfort and Bernheim in Louisville before going to Tennessee in 1956 to build the George Dickel Distillery. He considered using this technique at Dickel.
After a few days the pH was right and the mash was otherwise as it should be so they piped it to the fermenters, pitched their yeast, and everything after that was done in the usual way. They liked the taste of the distillate, even though it was different, so they decided to barrel it up. Nine years later, that is the whiskey they are releasing as Colonel E. H. Taylor, Jr. Old Fashioned Sour Mash Bourbon Whiskey.
This is similar to Woodford Reserve's sweet mash experiment, which was released in 2008. They didn't sour their mash in any way. Their yeast were able to adapt but produced a very different set of flavors due to the different environment.
In both the Woodford and Buffalo Trace cases, it's a good experiment from a scientific standpoint because they changed one variable only, no mash conditioning in Woodford's case and the use of time instead of spent mash to condition it in Buffalo Trace's case.
The experiment doesn't show us how Taylor soured his mash, but it demonstrates that it is possible to sour mash 'naturally,' without spent mash.
As for the Taylor name, in January 2009, Buffalo Trace parent company Sazerac acquired some assets from Constellation Brands which included the Effen Vodka brand. Beam Global, which owned the Old Taylor brand, wanted Effen so a deal was made. Buffalo Trace announced then that they would continue the existing Old Taylor product but expected to re-launch the line, up-market, sometime in 2010 using extra-aged rye recipe bourbon from existing stocks. (See my article in Malt Advocate, the Winter 2009 issue.) They are slightly late but this is the fulfillment of that promise.
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- The Gentleman said...
Chuck- I made it through the whole post...but I thought you were gonna let us know how it tastes! Don't leave us in suspense like that!
- February 24, 2011 at 6:01 AM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
I don't know yet. Watch for the follow-up.
- February 24, 2011 at 7:21 AM
- Scott said...
Very interesting history, Chuck. Thanks for sharing.
- February 24, 2011 at 10:18 AM
Sounds interesting, but a little out of my price range. I'll have to taste it vicariously through you.
- February 24, 2011 at 10:26 AM
Great coverage of the subject, Chuck. Does that mean this experiment is a one-off bottling? If so it seems to justify the price.
- February 24, 2011 at 4:03 PM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
This is a one-off but they intend to launch future products from the same platform.
- February 24, 2011 at 4:09 PM
- Paul M. Hletko said...
Wonderful to hear how "sour mash" has such radically different meanings. Great history - but you definitely oversold the complexity! Can't wait to try this (and the Devils Cut too).
- February 25, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Call me a geek that enjoys the long posts. Great post, Mr. Cowdery!
- February 25, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Chuck - Really loved the post. One question that may seem stupid, but: those spirits that use lactobaccilus,should someone with lacto intolerance beware?
- February 28, 2011 at 10:44 AM
- Chuck Cowdery said...
Lactose intolerance is the inability to digest lactose. Lactobacillus do have the ability to digest lactose, which they convert into lactic acid. I suppose the presence of lactobacillus indicate the presence of lactose, but they reduce the amount of lactose. But then the whole mess goes into the still, whose high temperatures kill everything. I can't imagine there is any lactose in bourbon, but I can't say for sure.
- February 28, 2011 at 10:58 AM
- Pete Bignell said...
I hope I can revive this old thread here Chuck. I came across it through ADI Forum. I have a small rye distillery in Tasmania, Australia and I use a very similar souring method. I discovered it accidently while trying to lauter a rye mash, the same as Scotch is produced. It took so long that the mash soured with natural lactobicillus, I assume from my grain.
The spirit produced is very different and with a much more complex flavour profile than the usual American made rye white dog.
I am constantly trying to speed up the throughput of my distillery, but after reading your blog I will not rush this stage.
Keep up the writing, I enjoy your blogs, the geekier the better
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I tried to reason out the cause and can't say for sure. Last year, I did have heavier then normal mite loads which started earlier, do to the non-existant winter. I had to treat w/formic 2X's.
I migrate between PA and SC so queens don't get much of a break.
I had higher then expected mite loads already this spring so I did a knock down treatment in mid-Jan(sounds early but the weather was warmer then average by at least a couple weeks at that point) before making nucs in March.
Of course, poor nutrition or poor mating conditions seem to play a big part too.
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For theatergoers not sufficiently uplifted this holiday season by Trinity Repertory Company's production of A Christmas Carol, the troupe is presenting a second annual feel-good offering, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, in the downstairs theater through December 31.
The show debuted last year and, having induced sufficient warm glows, will likely continue as a yearly event; it's being directed by Tyler Dobrowski, who co-helmed its premiere with Curt Columbus.
Adapted by Joe Landry from the 1946 Frank Capra classic starring Jimmy Stewart, it's being presented as a live radio drama from that period, complete with old-fashioned microphones and sound effects.
Staging the play that way works surprisingly well. You might think that watching a script being read would get boring, no matter how animated the participants. But it's fun, like being a studio audience witnessing the proceedings back then.
For those raised by wolves and only recently found, here's a brief synopsis: Earning his wings, Angel 2nd-Class Clarence is sent to Earth to prevent a despondent George Bailey from jumping into an icy river to kill himself. Cleverly, Clarence jumps in first so that he'll be rescued. But George is head of a savings-and-loan bank where $8000 is missing, and he still figures that he's worth more dead than alive. When he mutters in passing that he wishes he'd never been born, the angel latches on to the notion and, lo and behold, George is in a world that has never benefited from his presence.
That means his kid brother never shoots down two Japanese fighter planes that would have sunk a troop transport — George wasn't there to rescue him from falling through the ice and drowning. And so forth. Most importantly for the people of Bedford Falls, there was no self-sacrificing George to save the small-town savings-and-loan by continuing to put his life on hold in order to keep it going. Instead, wealthy and greedy curmudgeon Henry Potter took over, good working folk couldn't get mortgages to own their homes, and the town became a neon honky-tonk. Of course George can't have that, especially because his wife becomes a timid spinster without him. So George happily goes back to his old life, money problem put in perspective.
Familiarity with the story is an essential part of being an optimistic American. That comes right after the Pledge of Allegiance in the naturalization exam.
We and the peppy cast of the WBFR Playhouse of the Air have a grand old time as the tale unfolds. Much of that has to do with watching the actors remain the same as their voices morph into distinctly different characters. The widest range of contrast is accomplished by Timothy Crowe. In one brisk sequence we hear the voice of flibbertigibbet Uncle Billy, the numbskull who lost the $8000, followed by the gruff villain Mr. Potter, and then the dignified voice of Mr. Bailey, George's father.
An hour of the 90 minutes goes by before George is transported to the world without him, and the sequence is as absorbing to us as it is to its victim. The lights go down, the microphones are taken away, and Mauro Hantman is alone on the stage as the perplexed George, being the character rather than just reading his words. The others are offstage voices, until Rachael Warren appears as the spinster librarian, frightened by this crazy man who insists he is her husband.
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When they last performed here in 2009, Baltimore's Animal Collective proved they were more than just a folksy, avant-garde electro-pop group. They were tribal and primal, connecting songs with heartbeats and drawing the crowd into a rocking frenzy. Three years on, Centipede Hz sees Josh Dibb return to the fold, and finds them heading off to weird town with a complex, layered, sensory overload of beats, samples, synths, the occasional guitar and, of course, strong vocal melodies. It is less pop-oriented, but ultimately just as joyous as their previous Merriweather Post Pavillion hits. There are virtually no lush vocal harmonies this time around, but individual voices resonate, like on the rather lovely Wide Eyed when we hear Dibb for the first time. Monkey Riches has a pounding, funky drive and New Town Burnout is a surprisingly sweet ode to the quiet life.
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The fourth annual mayor's business day in Idaho Falls brought in people and businesses to the Shilo Inn today, but not as many as you'd think. The event was presented by the Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce, Department of Labor and the city of Idaho Falls.
Representatives from more than two dozen businesses took applications, resumes and offered advice to locals looking for a job.
Rexburg company Progrexion was at the fair. The company helps people and businesses improve their credit scores.
"This gives us the opportunity to let people know what we do and let people know that we're thriving and doing really good in Rexburg," said senior recruiter Dana Rae Bennett.
But this year, the turnout was down for the event. Organizer Raquel Longoria says about 150 people showed up this year, compared to 300 people last year. Other years have seen up to 500 people.
"I really would have anticipated more job-seekers to be out," said Longoria.
Regional Economist Will Jenson explained why he thinks the turnout was so low.
"The unemployment rate is about 5.4 percent now, so that's improving, so with those changes it's easy to see how there would be less participation in a job fair," he said.
Other factors may include advertising, a change of venue and a new time. Jenson also says we may be seeing a change when it comes to the usefulness of job fairs like this.
"This also could be an indicator as to how people are looking for jobs, and a lot of new job-seekers are very inclined to look for jobs online instead of walking in and talking to someone person to person," he said.
But those few who did show up Tuesday might have that face-to-face advantage.
"We're really excited about a few of the resumes we've been able to pick up today," said Bennett.
A lunch and a business trade show wrapped up the afternoon. The turnout for the trade show was a little better than the job fair.


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I'm anticipating setting up about twenty to thirty mating nucs this upcoming weekend depending on how many queens I cull and I'm curious how far away from the original apiary I should place the mating nucs. I don't have enough yards set up this year so that I can do a mating yard setup with a bunch of drone mother colonies around it. The original yard that I'm wanting to set them up close to has twenty-three full sized colonies in it and I only grafted cells from three of those colonies so even though inbreeding is possible I think the odds are in my favor. This is also my first attempt at rearing queens so it's more of an experiment than an earnest queen rearing program.
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I can still recall from all those years ago the Bible Camp leader at full throttle, decrying the evils of the demon drink. Thumping the lecturn, he would shout: "Shame tonight and pain tomorrow."
He had a point. Champagne, especially drunk quickly and to excess, can send most people reeling. It infiltrates the bloodstream faster than does table wine, is very quaffable and those slender flutes are deceptive when it comes to volume.
Champagne is often associated with celebratory occasions like weddings, anniversaries, race days and the like - events that are leisurely and lengthy by nature. So what starts as a Champagne breakfast rolls into a Champagne lunch and even dinner. You can see where this is going, the end result isn't pretty and a designated driver or taxi is essential. After a bad night followed by an excruciating hangover you're likely to avoid alcohol beverage in general and bubbles in particular.
It's not really the sparkling wine's fault, it's ours. Less is more, because, as we all know (or should), too much of a good thing can be, well, too much of a good thing.
The genuine pleasure of a glass of bubbles can sadly be lost in a wash of excess.
Here endeth that lesson - which you probably knew already but repetition, especially at this time of year, when most Champagne is sold, is not a bad thing.
January is the month when Champagne, or methode traditionelle as we must refer to it outside the Champagne region of France, is usually at its cheapest. Sure, there's all that discounting in the lead-up to Christmas and New Year, but inevitably there is still plenty to sell and the price can plummet even further. Retailers know that bulk bubbles sales occur over the summer months and to be caught with large volumes of stock going into autumn isn't going to help the bottom line.
So discerning buyers can do rather well, especially if you are of the opinion that a more pleasurable sparkling experience comes from quality rather than quantity. Extraordinarily cheap styles can be cloyingly sweet, sickly and migraine-inducing, so if ever there was a case for trying to up the budget for an enjoyable return ... it's with bubbles.
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The house is very cozy and is in a perfect location. The Parliament is a few steps and the main streets are nearby. The apartment is clean and well equipped and the whole team are very friendly.
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What about the refund of the amount I have already paid. k am curious if I get an answer, or reasons you get positive answers only. gladly answer.
I have 2 times this trip canceled due to an accident with my wife, I have done this in three languages, no response, this report I ook once already Submitted what about the refund of the amount I have already paid. k am very curious if I get an answer, or you only get positive answers. Please answer
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Krush 12 Results: Team Dragon Victorious; Naokick Defeats Takeuchi
- Written by Dave Walsh
With the K-1 MAX 70kg Japan Tournament taking place the following day, September 24th's Krush 12 was largely forgotten about. The event was headlined by a triple main event of Team Dragon's Hirotaka Urabe, Ryuji Kajiwara and Hideaki Yamazaki facing off against Chinese Sanshou fighters whose names I believe are Zhang Bo, Liu Wei and Ming Ming Chen. Also on this card was the rematch of the Krush 2009 Lightweight tournament semifinal between Naoki "Naokick" Ishikawa and "Kyoken" Yuji Takeuchi.
In the main event, Krush 60kg champion Hirotaka Urabe defeated Chinese Sanshou fighter Zhang Bo, but not without some trouble. Urabe took a majority decision on scores of 30-30 and 30-29(x2) and Boutreview's on-site reporter scored it a 30-30 draw after 3. The close win is somewhat of a letdown as Urabe had been on a roll with his dominant performances in the Krush 60kg tournament. Nonetheless, it's a 5th straight win for Urabe. Next for him is unknown as he just dismissed a fight with RISE champion Kosuke Komiyama. Perhaps a title defense against Naoki Ishikawa could be in his future with Masaaki Noiri being tied up in the Krush Supernova tournament.
In the co-main event, Krush 63kg champion Ryuji Kajiwara managed to squeak by Chinese fighter Liu Wei as a result of a 2nd round penalty by Wei that resulted in an immediate yellow card and a point deduction. The final scores were 30-29, 29-28 and 30-28 in favor of Kajiwara and had it not been for the point deduction, the fight would have gone to an extension round. The win puts Kajiwara back on the winning track after his loss to Masaaki Noiri in the quarterfinals of the K-1 63kg Japan tournament ended his 6-fight win streak.
The final fight in the Team Dragon vs China saga was also at 63kg where Team Dragon fighter Hideaki Yamazaki knocked out Chinese fighter Ming Ming Chen at 56 seconds into the 2nd round with a knee to the body, sweeping the challenge for Team Dragon. The win is Yamazaki's 3rd straight and moves the 24 year old to 10-1-1 (5 KOs) with the only blemishes on his record being a draw back in 2009 and a TKO loss to TaCa earlier this. For Chen, it's a second straight stoppage loss after losing to Hirotaka Urabe by stoppage back in July.
In the night's most hyped fight, Naoki "Naokick" Ishikawa got back on the winning track with a 2 round technical decision win in a rematch of a great fight with "Kyoken" Yuji Takeuchi on scores of 18-17(x3). In their first fight, a spot in the finals of the Krush 2009 Lightweight tournament was up for grabs and both men fought hard for it, but ultimately Naokick scored a spectacular 2nd round flying knee knockout. However, Ishikawa got cut and was unable to participate in the finals. Before this bout, Takeuchi weighed in 1.7kg over and was deducted a point, 30% of his purse and had to wear 8 oz. gloves compared to Ishikawa's 6 oz. gloves. Both camps also decided to allow clinches and elbows. In the first round, I believe Takeuchi was able to score one or two downs while Ishikawa either scored one or two downs, as Boutreview's reporter scored the round 8-8, with the round ultimately going to Ishikawa 8-7 as a result of the point deduction. In the second round, Ishikawa started to take an advantage, but not before a clash of heads near the end of the round caused a cut to form on Naokick's head, much like their first bout. With the cut, the fight was stopped and Ishikawa got the decision. After the bout, Ishikawa announced that he wished to face the winner of the Krush Supernova tournament and would retire following the bout. Krush event producer Mitsuru Miyata was reluctant to give Ishikawa the bout and was hesitant about letting him retire. The win is a bright spot in what has been a rough patch of Ishikawa's career, as this win puts him at just 2-4 in his last 6. Takeuchi is now on a two-fight losing streak after losing in the finals of the Krush tournament to Hirotaka Urabe.
In a trio of 63kg fights, Krush 63kg Tournament participant Naoki Terazaki got an extension round decision over Makoto Nishiyama while fellow Krush 63kg tournament participants TaCa and Takuya Shirahama lost to former NJKF Lightweight champion Kazuki and NOMAN, respectively. TaCa was coming off of a win over Hideaki Yamazaki, but lost in the extension round by TKO to Kazuki who is bouncing back from losing his NJKF title to Keijiro Miyakoshi. Shirahama made it to the semifinals of the Krush tournament, but lost to Koya Urabe and has now lost two straight after this loss to NOMAN.
Members of Team Dragon rounded out the card, going 5-2 overall with notable member Takumi picking up a win.
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I just got back from the range testing out my 1911 after some upgrades. I ordered up a new trigger, a light sear spring, a 20 lbs. hammer spring, and I installed a new firing pin spring I had from Wolff. After fitting the trigger and installing all the springs I headed up to the range. I hadn't done any shooting since early last fall so I wasn't really expecting much in the way of improved accuracy. I just wanted to check the pistol with all the new parts in addition to a new mag I'd bought.
WOW! What a diffrence!!!
My group sizes were WAY smaller then last fall. I really didn't think the trigger pull was really all that much better to tell the truth but man what a plesent suprise.


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#1 Tue 11 Dec 12 3:04am
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Nans Xmas Pudding
Hello, I have just made Jamie's xmas pudding and it looks and smells great. Can I store it until Xmas Day and if so how? This was my first attempt at xmas pud. Many thanks.
#2 Mon 17 Dec 12 3:55pm
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If you dosed it with booze it should keep until Christmas provided that it's stored in a dark place, maybe in a tin? You have to keep on feeding it with a little booze every now and then to keep it moist and happy. I hope it helps!
#3 Wed 19 Dec 12 3:25am
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Thank you for your response. I have been checking the pudding and adding some brandy to it. Looks and smells great! I have currently made two more puds and added much needed booze! Thanks again and I hope you have a wonderful xmas.
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gaviota_uk. Never heard of dosing a Christmas pud before. Christmas cake, yes but not a pud. The pud should now be in it's basin, with clean pleated greaseproof paper and then foil over the top and secured with string. Shouldn't touch it now until required. Am I missing something here? I've always made Delia's recipe which doesn't suggest feeding.
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Tsultrim AllioneTsultrim Allione is one of the most widely known contemporary Western women teachers of Buddhism. She received her master's degree from Antioch University in Buddhism/Women's Studies and was among the first Western women ordained as a Tibetan Buddhist nun. She has been a practicing Buddhist for over thirty years and has taught throughout the world, making great efforts to create teaching methods which facilitate the Western understanding of Buddhism. She is founder and director of Tara Mandala, a retreat center in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, that has been described as one of the most dynamic new Buddhist centers in North America. In 2009, Allione received the Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award.
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Lama Tsultrim Allione, author and international teacher, is the founder and spiritual director of Tara Mandala. In 2009, Lama Tsultrim was selected by an esteemed committee of scholars and practitioners to receive the International Outstanding Woman in Buddhism Award given in Bangkok, Thailand.
Born in 1947 as Joan Rousmaniere Ewing, the daughter of a small town New England newspaper publisher, James Ewing and Ruth D. Ewing, a labor mediator. Her maternal grandparents both received PhD. degrees in philosophy at Harvard University, and her grandmother was the fifth women to receive a PhD. there having to ask men to get books from the library as women were not allowed to enter. She gave Lama Tsultrim her first book on Buddhism when she was fifteen, planting a seed which would come to fruition in a life devoted to Buddhist teachings. On her father's side, she descended from Oscar Ewing, a lawyer and politician who, as a cabinet member under President Truman, sought universal health care, but due to the political climate had to settle for what became Medicare. Her family was politically progressive and involved in early environmental activities.
She grew up in Maine and New Hampshire with an older sister Carolyn and younger brother, Tom. At nineteen, in 1967, having read every book available at the time about Tibet, she traveled to Nepal and India with her college friend filmmaker, Victress Hitchcock. Meeting the Tibetan refugees in Nepal, she recognized that she was 'home' and began to sit in the Kagyu monastery on Swayambhu mountain. At this time she was living with the American yogi Bhagavan Dass when he met Dr. Richard Alpert, an already eminent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr.Timothy Leary. Alpert and Bhagavan Dass embarked on the famous journey to see Neem Keroli Baba, where Alpert bacame Baba Ram Dass, and documented this journey in his famous influential book Remember Be Here Now. Lama Tsultrim left to go to see the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala after hitch hiking across India to Dharamsala, to the home of the Dalai Lama, she began a lifelong study of Tibetan Buddhism.
Study and Practice
After a six month stay in India and Nepal, she returned home and went back to school, but felt what she wanted to learn was not being taught in American colleges, and in 1969 made her way to the first Tibetan monastery established in the West: Samye Ling in an old Scottish country house in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
She stayed for six months and there met Trungpa Rinpoche arriving the day he returned from the hospital after a car accident and shortly before his departure for the U.S.A. From him she received The Sadhana of Mahamudra which he had composed at Taksang in Bhutan.
In the sadhana (a Tantric meditation practice) the line, "The only offering I can make is to follow your example" struck her as significant. Leaving Samye Ling for Nepal at the end of 1969 she practiced The Sadhana of Mahamudra daily while traveling overland in a VW bus with five other people from London to Kathmandu , where she met H.H. 16th Karmapa, great master and a committed monk. He spotted her in a large crowd at Swayambhu and made prophecies that she would benefit beings through the Dharma. Not knowing this at the time, but feeling spontaneous devotion for His Holiness she recalled the line from the sadhana and decided to follow his example by becoming a monastic.
At the age of 22 on the full moon of January 1970 in Bodhgaya, India, she was ordained as Karma Tsultrim Chodron by H.H. 16th Karmapa Rigpai Dorje, with the four main reincarnate tulkus: H.E. Tai Situ, H.E. Jamgon Kongtul, H.E. Gyaltsap Rinpoche, and H.E. Sharmar Rinpoche as her witnesses. She was the first American ordained by H.H. Karmapa and he became her root Lama.
She returned to Nepal and studied with Sapchu Rinpoche and with many of the great masters who had escaped from Tibet including Lama Thupten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. She received Phowa and Gyalwa Gyamtso from Sapchu Rinpoche.
Then in 1971 she traveled to Darjeeling and studied the Ngondro (Preliminary Practices) and Chenrizig extensively with Khabje Kalu Rinpoche and was also able to meet many great Tibetan masters such as Khabje Chatral Rinpoche, Dudjom Rinpoche and Drukpa Thugse Rinpoche. At this time she went to see His Holiness Karmapa in Sikkim at Rumtek monastery where foreigners were allowed to stay only one week and was not able to see him again until 1981, however he appeared often in her dreams giving teachings and empowerments.
She then went to Bodhgaya for the winter of 1971 reconnecting with Baba Ram Dass and meeting his followers who were there doing the first Goenka Vipasana courses.
She then went to Sarnath where she met Nyichang Rinpoche, and studied Buddhist philosophy with him. That spring she traveled to Himachial Pradesh where she met H.E. Khamtrul Rinpoche and in Manali she encoutered her heart teacher Apho Rinpoche, grandson of the great yogi Shakya Shri. Here she practiced Ngondro and received Shene Lhakthong (Shamanta/Vipasana) teachings and completed the half of her first Ngondro. Then in late 1972, the age of 25 she returned to America and went directly to Trungpa Rinpoche's center in Vermont called Tail of the Tiger
(now Karma Choling) and went into retreat to finish her first Ngondro. At this time she met Allen Ginsberg and traveled with him in a Volkswagon Bug around Wyoming and Montana and then again with Ginsberg and Ram Dass, she traveled through Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming. Allen Ginsberg later asked her to be his meditation instructor.
After a year in the United States Trungpa Rinpoche sent her back to India as his emissary to invite His Holiness Karmapa to the United States. During this visit she received the Dam Ngag Dzod Empowerments from Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche which took three months in Tashi Jong hosted by H.E. Khamtrul Rinpoche. Then she returned to Manali to be with Apho Rinpoche and there learned her first Chod practice of Naro Sang Chod from Gegyen Khyentse. At this time she made the difficult decision to return her monastic vows and shortly afterwards married Paul Kloppenburg from Holland in Delhi. They then returned to America and moved to Vashon Island in the Puget sound South of Seattle. There they began to study with the great all knowing Deshung Rinpoche. It was during this period that she gave birth to her two daughters Sherab (1974) and Aloka (1975). The family then moved to Boulder to study with Trungpa Rinpoche. Here she separated from her first husband and became one of the first meditation instructors trained by Trungpa Rinpoche. She began to teach at Naropa Institute (now Naropa University) and to work for his organization at that time called Vajradhatu (now Shambhala International). She was in the first group to receive the Vajra Varahi Empowerment from Trungpa Rinpoche and was also asked to become a Vajrayana instructor.
Women of Wisdom
In 1978, at Naropa she met Italian documentary filmmaker Costanzo Allione, who became her second husband. She moved to Italy with her two daughters where she met Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche with whom she studied and practiced Dzogchen teachings for the next eighteen years. In 1980 she gave birth to twins: a boy, Costanzo, and a girl, Chiara. When they were two and a half months old, Chiara died of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
This event triggered a need to find the life stories of women teachers from the Buddhist tradition and so she began research what became her first book, Women of Wisdom, a groundbreaking book on the lives of great Tibetan women practitioners published in 1984. At this time Lama Tsultrim earned her Master's degree in Buddhist Studies/Women's Studies from Antioch University. After leaving her Italian husband in 1986, she moved back to the USA and began teaching widely under Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche. She met her third husband David Petit in 1988. David taught dance and theater at The Waldorf School in Spring Valley, NY, which her children attended. This marriage proved to be a true partnership on every level and until David`s sudden death in 2010 they worked together on many projects, primarily Tara Mandala.
In 1993, after Lama Tsultrim's children had grown up, she recalled her vision formed in Manali in 1972 to create a western retreat center where meditation could be practiced as it had been in Tibet. She envisioned a place that would explore the interface between Western psychology and Buddhism. On Sept 18, 1993, following dreams and visions she and her husband David found the beautiful 700 acres of rolling hills, flowering meadows, forests, that became Tara Mandala. The land in Pagosa Springs in Southwest Colorado has many special features including ridges, views of two snow mountain ranges.
In June 1994 Lama Tsultrim and David moved to the land with a group of supporters and began to hold retreats, build retreat cabins and host visiting teachers. In 1999 the first stupa on the land was consecrated by Chogyal Namkhai Norbu Rinpoche, dedicated to Nyala Pema Duddul, great Dzogchen master who took rainbow body in 1872. The community lived on the land for ten years before any permanent buildings were built, retreats were held in large tents and yurts. Between 2005 to 2008, three buildings were completed at Tara Mandala: the Community Building, which houses the kitchen, dining room, offices, store, and bathing facilities; Prajna Residence Hall, which houses forty people in spacious sunlit rooms; and the extraordinary three-story mandala-shaped Tara Temple.
In 1999 the great yogi and Dzogchen master Adzom Paylo Rinpoche, reincarnation of Pema Wangyal one of the gyalse or sons of Adzom Drukpa also recognized as an emanation of Jigme Lingpa came to Tara Mandala for the first time. Lama Tsultrim and her family made a close connection with him. He taught at Tara Mandala many years offering the lineage of Longchen Nyingtig and Adzom Drukpa. He back a heart teacher of Lama Tsultrim and a great support for Tara Mandala. He revealed an extraordinary Troma Terma on December 19, 2002 at Tara Mandala and witnessed by many people imprinted his hand into a stone in 2003 . has on several occasions made auspicious prophecies about its future. He taught Ngondro extensively, Chod, Green Tara and Yeshe Lama.
Machig Labdron's Lineage
Since learning Chod from Gegyen Khyentse in 1972 she always felt and connection with Machig Labdron. Thwn in 1981 she had a vision of her while practicing Chod with Chogyl Namkhai Norbu which lead to the discovery and translation of her biography for her first book Women of Wisdom.
For many years, Lama Tsultrim focused her teachings on the lineage of Machig Labdrön, the 11th century Tibetan yogini who founded the Chöd lineage. While teaching Norbu Rinpoche's Chod she developed the five steps of feeding your demons that developed into her book Feeding Your Demons (Little Brown 2008) .
While traveling in Tibet in 2007 Lama Tsultrim was recognized as an emanation of Machig Labdrön by the resident Lama of Zangri Khangmar (Machig's monastery in Tibet). Before Lama Tsultrim's arrival, the resident Lama had had a dream of a white Dakini coming from the West loudly sounding a damaru (drum used in Chöd). There were other indicative signs during the visit such as rainbows that stayed for hours, rain after a long drought etc. After these signs Lama Karma Dorje Rinpoche tulku of the brother of the second Karmapa Karma Pakshi made the announcement of the recognition and gave her Machig's relics to bring back to Tara Mandala, claiming that the future of Machig's lineage would be in the West.
The pilgrimage group then returned to Nepal where Lama Tsering Wangdu who holds the lineage of Machig from Tingri Langkhor, the seat of Phadampa Sangye in Tibet and is abbot of the Shelkar Chode monastery in Kathmandu which is dedicated to Machig Labdron's lineage was waiting for them. He also had had a dream. Three days before the group arrived, he dreamed of Machig Labdrön and her entire lineage in the sky above him. Machig said to him, 'In three days I will be there.' When the pilgrimage group arrived he gave the the Machig Chöd Empowerment at his monastery and saw Mchig Labdron dissolve into Lama Tsultrim heart through the top of her head.
While visiting Tara Mandala in 2008, he gave Lama Tsultrim the title of 'Lama' and wrote a recognition letter of her as an emanation of Machig Labdrön, a long life prayer, and praises of her. Read more about Lama Tsultrim's recognition. Lama Wangdu subsequently came to Tara Mandala and wrote a Long Life Pray


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HK's won't be made because HK holds their brand pretty close to the chest. GSG pretty much got a cease and desist letter.
They do make 9mm AR15's. You just have to look for them. Several different companies make them.
CZ Scorpion would take a complete retooling as they cannot import anymore scorpion kits. Cost intensive for what would amount to a niche toy.
CZW is just too ugly to reproduce.
Thompson Contender? or Tommy gun? Auto Ordinance makes Tommy guns in rifle and pistol configurations already. Heavy and impractical.
On the HK note though, you can still have an HKMP5 semiauto... I just had one built on an original HK parts kit.
Now, it's waiting on SBR paperwork so I can put a stock on it.


text: I'm not hating on him, nor am I saying he's bad, but the way he's talked about on here you'd think he was the Fat Jesus. I understand he draws the double team most of the time, and he's been pretty effective at times in the pass rush. But he seems to have a hard time shedding blockers. He'll get blocked and an RB will run right by him and he won't disengage fast enough to make the stop. One positive is though that he doesn't give up on the play. Even when the ball carrier gets passed the defensive front, he chases the guy down and occasionally makes a nice tackle. Once again, I'm not calling him bad. I'm just saying he's a bit overrated, at least on these boards. Feel free to prove me wrong, as I am not a world renowned football scout. This is just my observation.


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PlayBook: The Great Gronk Gamble
It's Super Bowl weekend and Playboy.com has all your props.
It is a well-documented fact that Rob Gronkowski scored touchdowns this season at an alarming pace. Seventeen of them and 1,327 yards. He is a purebred athlete, a season long live wire and a 6'6," 265 pound monster tight end with a penchant for scoring and new-found taste for winning and blood. He's dangerous to everyone around him but he's been in a walking boot with a supposed high ankle sprain and if history has taught us anything it's that high ankle sprains are seriously debilitating things that limit production, if not end careers.
So this week folks, we will not bet heavily on Gronk until we see him march out onto the field in full form at which time we will invest homes and daughters to the cause and call for three touchdowns or more. A hundred plus yards of nothing but straight Gronk.
Gronkowski lines worth taking if…
…he is healthy:Receptions over 5.5: -145, Score a touchdown: -160, 51 to 70 yards: +350
…he isn't healthy:Receptions under 5.5: +125, 11-20 receiving yards +1000
But a more modest if not likely proposal will be the Giants tandem of Nicks and Cruz valued at +700 and +800 respectively to score the first touchdown. The Giants are favored for first possession as Bill Belichick is a creature of superstition and habit, refusing to receive the ball if he wins the toss since that fateful ACL tear cost Tom Brady a season. Adding intrigue to this gambit are the Patriots corner backs who have been asleep at the wheel for the better part of a year and will allow predators like Cruz and Nicks to wander around unguarded down field for extended periods of time.
Manning is an equal opportunist these days, take both: Hakeem Nicks +700, Victor Cruz +800
We'll also be taking this guy for the value of the line: Jake Ballard +2000
So it's something like 7-0, 7-3 or 7-6 now for those of you keeping score at home. The last time these two teams met the whole thing was a scoreless tie for the entire first half which we all know to be unacceptable and unlikely to be repeated in the Super Bowl. The Patriots will want to play like cowboys in Indy but the Giants can keep pace and have also shown ability on the other side of the ball, holding the Falcons and Packers to a combined 22 points in two games. Brady is unstoppable when he really gets going and he'll want to air it out if Gronk isn't in the midfield mix but he'll be under pressure on third and fourth downs and Corey Webster will be lurking somewhere in the shadows, licking his chops and lying in wait.
Will Tom Brady throw an interception:Yes -140, No +120
Taking the "yes" and parlaying that with a "yes" on…
Will Corey Webster intercept a pass: Yes +400, No -500
…will net you somewhere in the neighborhood of five times your original wager. Not a bad day's work for a Sunday.
By now, you've probably noticed a trend favoring the Giants here in the early goings. Here's another.
How many different Giants will score:Over 3.5 -140 and kickers count.
Two TDs and a short yardage rush are not that hard to imagine against the Pats but this is just about where the fun stops for them. We need to take this Patriots team seriously and not forget the flurry of 20 plus point comebacks Brady has engineered this season. So what if the Giants take early advantage of the horrible New England defensive sprawl?
Biggest lead by either team:Over 13.5 points -160
Then Brady kicks this whole team into high gear and starts an offensive march that only ends in touchdowns. Two or maybe three of them. He's got Welker, Branch, BenJarvus Green-Ellis and Aaron Hernandez, the ugly but almost as good step brother of Gronkowski. And by God if Gronk is healthy you can believe this thing will turn into an all-out shoot 'em up western.
Combined points for both teams:55 Even, 62.5 +200, 69.5 +400
We're getting ambitious when we start talking about 70 points but if the Pats fall behind they don't have a track record of limping away to die. An early big lead for the Giants might just be the most dangerous thing of all which leads us to our final bet of the day.
This Week's Lines:
New England (-3) over New York
What we've laid out here is a scenario in which the Giants lead early and Pats play from behind the whole game only to sneak out a win in the dying minutes of the fourth. But what if Brady, seeking redemption for a defeat still fresh on his mind, runs wild and free all game? Do the bets still work? Well the Gronk bets are totally dependent on him so we'll set them aside. The odds the Giants score on the opening drive and within the first five (for the record the line on that is +105) are pretty good. The odds that it's one of three mentioned above are better so the bet stands. Even if the Patriots answer right back and play ahead all game, the Giants can keep up so taking the over on 3.5 different players to score is good and if that's the case, the score will definitely be pushing the limits of 70. If Brady gets rolling he can easily break off a 13.5 lead and what if in the hustle and bustle he throws a pick? The wagers all play!
This is the Super Bowl folks. No slowing down now. These are fast times for fast people and it's just the way we like it.


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I'm working on a TimeCop/TEC Agent costume and have gotten most of the items so far. The list of items I have so far is:
Navy Blue Tactical Pants (5.11 Tactical gear - police issue)
Navy Blue Tactical Shirt (5.11 Tactical gear - police issue)
TEC patches (shoulders)
Name Tape (goes above left breast pocket)
Collar Pins for TEC "badge" (for placement on Vest)
Black Tactial Boots (Magnum Boots)
Nylon police belt with pouches for clips & handcuffs
Handcuffs (police issue)
gun (Airsoft Taurus 92 with resin pieces added)
I've attached a few pictures of the WIP uniform. Please keep in mind the patches are just laid upon the shirt top.. they still need to be sewn on.
Shirt sleeve with TEC patch
Left breast pocket with name tape positioned above it.
Shot of "white" undershirt (Target find)
Magnum "SWAT" boots (after putting on some leather dye to touch them up... had them for a while)
Full gun belt minus holster
close-up of clip carrier with extra clip I had from another airsoft gun.
close-up of handcuffs (yes, they are real)
TEC firearm made from airsoft Taurus and resin kit I bought from the RPF.
Got the badge and holster done. Haven't gotten any pictures of the holster, but here's the bage with the rangers vest I am going to use. In the images, the badge looks white, but that's from the flash washing the color out. It's really silver in color.