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"You will have an ideal trip," she said, looking over some astronomical star-charts and
photographic maps of Jupiter and Saturn that lay on the table, with a pair of compasses,
"and I hope you won't lose your way."
"I shall need no compass to find my way back," replied Ayrault, "if I ever succeed in
leaving this planet; neither will star-charts be necessary, for you will be a magnet
stronger than any compass, and, compared with my star, all others are dim."
"You should write a book," said Sylvia, "and put some of those things in it." She was
wearing a bunch of forget-me-nots and violets that she had cut from a small flower-
garden of potted plants Ayrault had sent her, which she had placed in her father's
At this moment the small chime clock set in the Callisto's wood-work rang out quarter to
eleven. As the sounds died away, Sylvia became very pale, and began to regret in her
womanly way that she had allowed her hero to attempt this experiment.
"Oh," she said, clinging to his arm, "it was very wrong of me to let you begin this. I was
so dazzled by the splendour of your scheme when I heard it, and so anxious that you
should have the glory of being the first to surpass Columbus, that I did not realize the full
meaning. I thought, also, you seemed rather ready to leave me," she added gently, "and so
said little; you do not know how it almost breaks my heart now that I am about to lose
you. It was quixotic to let you undertake this journey."
"An undertaker would have given me his kind offices for one even longer, had I remained
here," replied Ayrault. "I cannot live in this humdrum world without you. The most
sustained excitement cannot even palliate what seems to me like unrequited love."
"O Dick!" she exclaimed, giving him a reproachful glance, "you mustn't say that. You
know you have often told me my reason for staying and taking my degree was good. My
lot will be very much harder than yours, for you will forget me in the excitement of
discovery and adventure; but I--what can I do in the midst of all the old associations?"
"Never mind, sweetheart," he said, kissing her hand, "I have seemed on the verge of
despair all the time."
Seeing that their separation must shortly begin, Ayrault tried to assume a cheerful look;
but as Sylvia turned her eyes away they were suspiciously moist.
Just one minute before the starting-time Ayrault took Sylvia back to her mother, and,
after pressing her hand and having one last long look into her--or, as he considered them,
HIS--deep-sea eyes, he returned to the Callisto, and was standing at the foot of the
telescopic aluminum ladder when his friends arrived. As all baggage and impedimenta
bad been sent aboard and properly stowed the day before, the travellers had not to do but
climb to and enter by the second-story window. It distressed Bearwarden that the north
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Sorry for the lag between posts, but the past week SHE-POWER has been undergoing renovations. After 18 months I thought it was time the site had a new look, and so here it is!
The job's not finished yet as I still want to customize the header more and change the color of the sidebar headings (simple, but I haven't figured it out so far). The important thing is most of the major construction is done; I just need to call in a decorator to finish things up.
So far, this has been very much a D.I.Y project and when you're as technically un-handy as me, that makes website changes a lengthy and laborious job.
The new look is thanks to the THESIS theme, and I'd like to thank Marelisa (Abundance-Blog.Marelisa-Online) and Robin (Let's Live Forever) for recommending it to me, and trying to help me troubleshoot when my theme upload and WordPress update went pear shaped. In the end, I needed the trusty (though definitely not speedy) help of Bluehost Support, but after much ado the site is up and I am very pleased with the redesign.
To be honest, while THESIS is promoted as the theme to end all themes – versatile and easily customizable by anyone – I wasn't sure how much I would be able to do without paying for some expertise. But I have to admit, so far I am very impressed. The CSS has taken some getting used to ( I've always coded in html and figured it out as I go), but the support forums are extremely helpful and I think anyone with some patience and logic can buld themselves a distinctive website.
If you're wondering if the THESIS links are affiliate, they are. But I wouldn't recommend the product if I didn't like it and think it's a great theme for all the technically challenged bloggers out there.
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The absence of, and search for, a tagline for SHE-POWER has been the greatest pain in my behind since I started this blog. If you're a long time reader, you'll know I mentioned this in my 1 Year Anniversary post, but the past six months still haven't provided me with a tagline that I feel suits this blog.
I have a brainstorming file that goes forever, but the past week alone has seen me change the tagline at least four times! Ideas are not my problem. Decision making seems to be my problem. I've even questioned whether I need a tagline at all, but I think my blog name alone does not provide new readers with a sense of what SHE-POWER is about.
The current:
Searching for Inspiration and Wisdom. Laughing at Life Along the Way
suits me as a person, but does that also mean it suits the blog?
I think part of the problem is the lack of a clear niche for this blog, but that's not something I intend on changing. I do write about a few topics and I like to keep my options open – I guess that's my attitude to life in general.
One way you can help me out though in targeting the future direction of this blog, and maybe deciding on a tagline, is to answer these questions:
Why do you read SHE-POWER?
What is unique about this blog? What do I offer that I should be shouting from the roof tops?
Do you have any suggestions for how I can improve the CONTENT or LOOK of this blog?
What do you think of the new tagline, and do you have any other suggestions?
And this is nitpicky, but do you think the new smaller photo with wraparound text post style is better or worse than the old way I laid out posts? See here.
If you could give me your thoughts on any or all of these life changing questions, i would much appreciate it. The fate of the free world (or at least this corner of it) is in your hands
And with that, I'll leave you until Sunday. It's my 10 year wedding anniversary this weekend and Musicman and I have a few days to ourselves while my wonderful, super generous mother looks after Bunny.
In the mean time, I will try to think of something profound to say about marriage since I'm such an expert after 10 years
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Today we introduce a new format for ReThink . Henceforth we will be focusing intensively on a single theme with a single thinker for an entire week. Everyday (Monday through Friday) we will publish a new post highlighting a different nuance of the week's theme.
This week we analyse religion and morality with Frans de Waal, the Charles Howard Candler professor of Primate Behaviour in the Emory University Department of Psychology, and director of the Living Links Center and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center. His scientific research focuses on various aspects of primate social behaviour, including altruism, cooperation, and conflict resolution. Professor de Waal has written numerous books, including The Bonobo and the Atheist , which forms the basis of our conversation with him.
After a lifetime of studying the behaviour of chimpanzees and bonobos, Frans believes that many of the behaviours we assume to be uniquely human are, in fact, shared with our fellow primates and other members of the animal kingdom:
"If you said, 'Humans have the tendency to be moral, and we are the only species that does so', you would have to explain where that came from, and you would probably come up with explanations of culture and religion. But biologists, like myself, believe that many of these moral tendencies are much older than our species. It's not something that we invented."
This leads him to suggest, in today's clip, that rather than looking at religion as something that tells us what to do, current research in primate behaviour suggests that we already have a sense of morality within us. It is "bred for us" by evolution. We are pre-programmed, so to speak, to accept a sense of religious morality.
Are we pre-programmed to accept morality as Frans suggests? Or is there more to religion than Frans would have us believe? Could it be that we are essentially an amoral species and acquire our morality only through religion?
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As the Episcopal Church and other denominations have taken positions of that support the full inclusion of LGBT Christians and marriage equality, those in support of that position point out that the ritual law of the Old Testament was suspended after the resurrection, and arguing that Levitical prohibitions are still in force for some things and not others doesn't make a lot of sense.
Conservative voices in the larger church call this the "shellfish argument" and generally dismiss it. Al Mohler, the leading voice in the Southern Baptist convention characterizes the argument this way:
"Look," we are told, "the Bible condemns eating shellfish, wearing mixed fabrics and any number of other things. Why do you ignore those things and insist that the Bible must be obeyed when it comes to sex?"
Mohler goes on to dismiss the argument saying that the explicit removal of ritual purity laws in Peter's vision in the 10th chapter of Acts only refers to things, not people.
Fred Clark, writing on his blog Slacktivist takes strong exception with Mohler's reasoning.
"But while popular, this view utterly contradicts Peter's own interpretation of his vision. If Mohler is right, then Peter was wrong. If Peter was right, then Mohler is wrong.
For Peter, his rooftop vision wasn't about kosher dietary laws — it was about people. He says this explicitly: 'God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean.'
That's a very different conclusion from the one Mohler draws. Mohler says this story — this scripture — is about purity laws. Peter says this story is about God's commandment that no people should be excluded as impure.
I'm going to have to side with Peter on this one. Peter was right. Mohler is wrong."
Go check out the full argument and Clark's reasoning. God does seem to be less worried about how we feed ourselves than how we treat one another.
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Glad to see you linking to "Slacktivist." It's a must-read for me.
John Banks
We go round and round about this and get nowhere. No amount of logic or intentional argument seems to change anything on either side and that's because it's the wrong strategy to utilize. Human relationship (inspired by God's love) is the only thing that will change hearts; that's really what needs changing here.
Get to know some GLBT folks.
Ask about their lives.
Remain curious and not certain.
See what God does with that opportunity.
I agree with Mohler. It's a very poor argument to make when that passage was clearly about dietary laws, not how we conduct ourselves personally. My parish has GLBT members. I also know some gay and lesbian clergy. My beliefs remain intact regardless as I'm sure many others do as well.
"I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself, but it is unclean for anyone who thinks it unclean."-Romans 14:14
"how we conduct ourselves personally"
Is that all a human relationship is to you, Nicole? Mere "conduct"?
Try taking ALL PeterP's advice, inc. "Ask about their lives" and "Remain curious and not certain".
If I may amend the last step, I would say "ASK God for more wisdom, and more compassion, and see what happens." And then repeat, ad eternum! 🙂
JC Fisher
Mr. Fisher, some people just won't land on your side. That's life. And I also recognize that this goes both ways. Please do likewise.
… and if you find that what you think is more important than the people who cross your path, go back to the first step and start over.
P.S. "Like" to JC!
More importantly, these straw man arguments are no longer needed. There was a time when Christian apologists who sided with GLBTQ folks created these, but today they aren't necessary. We now have GLBTQ scholars that know the truth and its time that we keep saying it, there are no passages of scripture in either the old or new testaments that condemn homosexual relationships. There is only the continued, willful mistranslation and misinterpretation of what are the historic clobber passages.
And the simple minded intellectual dishonesty of folks like Mohler who has no concept of the meaning of the passage about Peter's vision in its English translation, let alone in the original language.
Brother David
"God has shown me that I should not call anyone profane or unclean." (Acts 10.28)
Rather than proof-texting from all over the Bible (ala Al Mohler), I'd rather stick with the passage at hand in the article. This passage is the hermeneutical key, which clearly indicates that Acts 10 is not about dietary laws and has everything to do with the radical expansion of the church to include those with whom the Jerusalem church found it scandalous to even associate. If Peter's vision is not metaphor, what do you do with the rest of the story? If it is all about dietary laws, why do the apostles in Judea get so ticked at Peter for eating WITH Cornelius, a Gentile, in the following chapter of Acts? Perhaps we should also note they do not ask him why he ate this or that.
Peter does not go to a deli after his vision and have a nice shrimp po-boy sandwich whilst wearing a leisure suit. He meets with people, Gentiles, those who were excluded from the earliest expressions of the Church and they receive the Holy Spirit and baptism. The narrative thrust of the story does not reach its climax with Peter's rooftop vision, that is merely exposition. The climax of the story is when all in Cornelius' house are baptized.
Simply put, Mohler's exegesis is wrong.
Of course the passage is NOT about dietary laws. If you read the whole story – Acts 10- it is about the Gentile seeking to join the other Christians, Peter having his vision, and saying truly God shows no partiality == and then welcoming the Gentile. If you only read the vision passage you might be mistaken about the meaning of the story – but if you read the whole story – it is very clear – Mohler is grasping at straws that don't exist.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. The conservative case can still be made in different ways.
There is no conservative case to be made. Since we now know that there are no scriptures that condemn homosexual relations, there is no longer any foundation for any other argument that conservatives have ever tried to make. It was all built on sand and the house has crumbled.
Brother David
Not really,Brother David. I don't see an outpouring of mea culpas anywhere. But you're more than entitled to your opinion.
At the end of the day, it doesn't matter. The conservative case can still be made in different ways.
…or "Don't confuse me w/ the Truth, my prejudices rule"? O_o
At the end of the (cosmic) day, Nicole, I don't believe there are multiple "sides". There's only God's side, and we're all included (BY God) in it. It's a just a question of how soon we (all, not just you and me) realize that, and start treating each other (compassionately) like the Family of God that we are. Ergo, if you keep hanging around the Cafe, prepare to be—in the Name of Jesus Christ— nudged! 😉
JC Fisher
"there are no passages of scripture in either the old or new testaments that condemn homosexual relationships"
I can't agree. I think it's pretty clear that the purity codes of the OT contain some pretty powerful sexual strictures, including forbidding *at least* male/male anal intercourse (mishevei ishah, as historically interpreted in Judaism).
Nor do I understand why it should be so surprising that a Bronze Age culture had arbitrary taboos like these, or why some gay Christians insist on trying to read them out of the Bible. They are part of the purity codes, and as much a relic of their time as all the rigamarole surrounding menstruation or leprosy. Our understanding of whether or not God approves of gay sexuality simply doesn't depend on what the OT says. We have simply got to stop trying to beat the Bible thumpers at their own game by trying to reframe the Bible in an attempt to remove anything that couldn't be heartily endorsed by GLAAD or HRC.
"It's a very poor argument to make when that passage was clearly about dietary laws"
The context of the vision, which takes place just as the messengers of Cornelius reach Peter's lodging place, make it abundantly clear that it has nothing to do whatsoever with diet, except its use as a synecdoche for the purity code as a whole.
I can't agree. I think it's pretty clear that the purity codes of the OT contain some pretty powerful sexual strictures, including forbidding *at least* male/male anal intercourse
There are plenty of us who read ancient languages now Bill, and the two Levitical passages that you refer to do not forbid "male/male anal intercourse." The passages in question forbid two men having a sexual relationship within the bed of a woman.
or why some gay Christians insist on trying to read them out of the Bible.
If you aren't a gay Christian then "you don't have a dog in this fight." We do, these passages don't exist in the Bible and it's important to us that that message is clearly known by all.
And because they clearly don't exist, the ridiculous logical gymnastics that some of you do to get around them are no longer necessary.
Brother David
Brother David,
First of all, not only am I a gay Christian, but I'm pretty sure that I've been out and associated with the Episcopal Church (well, off and on) since before you were born. Even if I weren't, though, the idea that only gay people can venture to address gay issues strikes me as ridiculous.
Secondly, if you go back and read what I wrote, it's hardly my interpretation of "mishkevei ishah." The standard reading of mishkevei ishah in Rabbinic Judaism is not "a woman's bed" but "lyings of a woman" – and the prohibition has been held to apply only to male/male anal intercourse (as opposed to other all forms of male/male sex). Sometimes mishkav can mean bedding, and sometimes it means "lying," as when it's used in Numbers 31:17 when the subject is women who have not had sex with a man.
But again, why the need for gay Christians to reshape the OT into a gay-friendly text? It's not as if adherence to the commandments of the purity codes were of any importance to us, as it might be if we were Jewish. It suggests an approach to the Bible that mirrors that of conservative literalists; the implication is that being gay is allowed because the OT doesn't forbid it (as if everything the OT forbids is wrong, and everything it allows is good).
And it's not as if, having made the Torah gay-friendly, we're left with anything like a liberal text. I mean, it elevates genocidal war to the level of divine commandment, allows chattel slavery, and treats most women (in one way or another) as the property of men. Trying to scrub it free of homophobia seems pretty pointless to me.
It seems much more intellectually honest and mature to say, "Yes, the OT restricts sex to a man and his wife (or some other woman he owns). So what? It also prohibits shellfish, wool/linen blends, lighting a fire on Saturdays and not killing every last Amalekite man, woman and child. Why should I be terribly concerned with OT prohibitions?"
Do you read the Hebrew, Bill, or do you repeat what others have told you the Hebrew says. I read Hebrew. I am familiar with the "layings of a woman" translation and I don't find it in the Hebrew that is there.
But for argument's sake, what if "the layings of a woman" translation was correct. Then the text could read "With a man, do not lay the layings of a woman, it is an abomination…" What is the "layings of a woman?" "The layings of a woman" is the passive roll in penetrative sex. So this would say that it is an abomination for an Israelite man to be the passive partner in penetrative sex with another man. However, there is no proscription against being the active partner in penetrative sex with another man. So in US vernacular, at most, if one were to accept the "layings of a woman" translation, the passage is a proscription against Israelite men being bottoms, and has no problem with them being tops.
But then that brings up another issue, the word translated man in the passage. It isn't the ordinary word for man, but many scholars believe that it alludes to a man who is a religious sex worker, or prostitute. So what it could be saying then is that it is an abomination for an Israelite man to be the passive partner in penetrative sex with a religious prostitute.
Either way, one is hard pressed to get a blanket condemnation of homosexual relationships from the piece.
The rest of what you have to say is your opinion on the matter and you are free to hold to it. I don't share it.
Brother David
Yes, David, I read Hebrew. But as I've said, the interpretation I'm referring to is that historically used by Jewish scholars.
"The rest of what you have to say is your opinion on the matter and you are free to hold to it. I don't share it."
Huh? The genocidal wars of extermination, the slavery, and the unequal treatment of women in the OT are my opinion? The fact that Christians are not bound by the purity codes is my opinion?
While it's nice of you to encourage me in my own opinions, I would really like to know why its so important to establish the approval of the OT on the subject. If such a thing were possible, would proof that the Torah condemned every sex act other than with a man and his wife make any difference whatsoever in your life?
Traditions are as prone as translators to give coherent readings to obscure or corrupted texts. Thanks to Brother David for pointing out that the Hebrew expressions in many passages dealing with male sexuality do not make sense when examined word for word. This is important for people who rely on Scripture as Authority, despite the fact that it was written by human beings, translated in different times and contexts, and understood by fallible readers in the present-day.
Thanks to Bill Dilworth for resolutely declaring that we need to base ourselves on present-day knowledge. Myths can give pleasure and insight, but cannot trump reality. Leviticus and Romans have nothing to do with present-day experience of relationships, and people who try to apply them must twist logic to the extreme. (Gay men do not sleep with men as with women — they sleep with men as with men, not as a substitute for women — and homosexuality is not caused by idolatry — really!)
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Mice given peanut butter laced with a common, harmless soil bacterium ran through mazes twice as fast and enjoyed doing so. So says Dorothy Matthews of the Sage Colleges in Troy, New York state, who presented her results at the annual meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego, California, this week.
In a classic test of learning ability, Matthews gave mice a treat – white bread with peanut butter – as a reward to encourage them to learn to run through a maze. When she laced the treat with a tiny bit of Mycobacterium vaccae, she found that the mice ran through the maze twice as fast as mice that were given plain peanut butter. This suggests that they had learned to navigate the maze faster, Matthews says.
Moreover, the mice given the bacteria continued to run the maze faster than those without it for 18 more trials over the next six weeks, showing they weren't just made more alert by a surprise change to their treat. This effect lasted for four weeks after the last piece of doctored peanut butter was given to the mice.
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An article in the Wall Street Journal tells of their 27 million dollar debt to suppliers domestic and foreign.
Maybe Rader could find a link to the article?
An article in the Wall Street Journal tells of their 27 million dollar debt to suppliers domestic and foreign.
Maybe Rader could find a link to the article?
Last edited by Barry; 10-07-2013 at 06:42 AM. Reason: add link
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Not to step on Rader's toes, but I saw it here:
On their website:
"Worldwide leadership in honey processing and best-in-class producer of wholesome food ingredients, industrial sweeteners, food service products, and value-added retail products."
"best-in-class producer", I guess they're claiming to be the best in honey laundering?
"value-added", Chinese honey?
Regards, Barry
This bankruptcy isn't necessarily goring to take Groeb Farms out of the market. Here is a press release they put out:
Note the words above in the headline, "Normal operations to Continue", and then there is this gem in the text:Groeb Farms, Inc. Announces Recapitalization And Reorganization Plan
Normal Business Operations to Continue Under Chapter 11 Process
"continued supply chain integrity"?The bankruptcy is based on a prepackaged reorganization that releases the company from its legacy liabilities, allowing us to emerge as a strong, well-capitalized company, under new ownership, with a continued commitment to world class products and services, customer satisfaction and supply chain integrity."
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That is common in Chapter 11. "normal operations to continue". The trick is if they can exit Chap 11 or a Trustee decides to liquidate the operation. If you are a creditor, you might get 10 cents on the dollar. Once, I was ordered by a Trustee to return payments I had received from the debtor in a Chap 11. That really sucks. WORLDCOM still owes me more money from their bankruptcy and I had to write off a lot. It really p****ed me off.
If you read the press release, it also says this is a "pre-packaged" bankruptcy. That generally means that everybody that counts is "onboard" and the whole thing is not likely to be stopped.
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Just because they filed everything together in no way means it "is not likely to be stopped." Creditors still have to vote on the plan. The judge still has to approve the plan as "fair."
More on the topic of prepackaged Chapter 11 bankruptcies.
A prepack can have significant advantages over either a traditional chapter 11 case or an out-of-court restructuring, especially for a company that does not need to repair operational problems with the extended use of bankruptcy tools. Unlike a restructuring that takes place fully-out-of-court, a prepack allows a company to minimize the leverage of holdouts and to reach and effectuate an arrangement that satisfies the majority of creditors. Unlike an ordinary chapter 11 case (in which the debtor files, obtains approval of its disclosure statement, solicits votes, and seeks to have the plan confirmed), a company in a prepackaged chapter 11 case does much of the work before entering the bankruptcy system. It negotiates and solicits votes on a plan, then files for bankruptcy with the potentially confirmable plan in hand. This enables the debtor to confirm a plan and emerge from bankruptcy within a few months or less.
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Every chapter 11 negotiates and solicits votes in a plan. Most attempt to do this prior to filing bankruptcy. That does not mean it's a "done deal" or that all creditors are already on board. Nothing in that quote said that everyone in a pre-packaged bk is onboard. Nothing in that quote said that creditors did not have to vote on the plan, or that the judge didn't have to approve it.
Thank you for informing a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Attorney on how it works by searching the internet Rader.
The quote I linked to above was provided by the American Bankruptcy Institute which says they are:
If you are not a member of the ABI, perhaps you should be.The American Bankruptcy Institute is the largest multi-disciplinary, non-partisan organization dedicated to research and education on matters related to insolvency. ABI was founded in 1982 to provide Congress and the public with unbiased analysis of bankruptcy issues. The ABImembership includes more than 13,000 attorneys, auctioneers, bankers, judges, lenders, professors, turnaround specialists, accountants and other bankruptcy professionals providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and information. In fulfillment of its mission to provide information to its members, journalists, Congress and the public, ABI is engaged in numerous educational and research activities, as well as the production of a number of publications both for the insolvency practitioner and the public.
My comments included the qualifiers "LIKELY" and "GENERALLY", and are of course, my opinion.
Everyone reading this, including any and all attorneys, are welcome to provide their own differing opinion. Perhaps your opinion might have more credibility if you provided a link to support your opinion.
A link to statistics showing the percentage of prepackaged Chapter 11 plans that are approved without substantial changes vs non-approved would be a good start, in my opinion.
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Apparently their bad business practices extended well beyond importing fake honey. If you end up needing forgiveness of 27 million dollars when you are selling sugar water and cheap laundered honey as real honey then you have a big problem at the core of the business. The 2 million dollar fine was a tiny slap on the wrist and didn't even seem to be as much as they benefited from the criminal activity.
I would be very hesitant selling them any honey in the future... If you don't get paid in cash up front you become a creditor and if the 'reorganization' doesn't work you could end up one of those being paid 10 cents on the dollar.
Over the past several weeks since Groeb filed for bankruptcy I have been getting letters and documents from the lawyers handling the case. Has everyone else been getting these also? Today was a ballot voting to approve/disapprove the reorganization plan.
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Those who didn't get letters may be interested in this article published Nov 11 summarizing the Groeb bankruptcy situation:
Some highlights from the link:
The bankruptcy-exit plan would enable three private equity firms that extended another $7 million to remain the company's lenders but with new terms that weren't disclosed in court papers. Unsecured creditors would recover 10% of the amount they are owed, and the company's current owners--mostly individual investors--would be wiped out.
The company filed for Chapter 11 protection on Oct. 1, blaming financial troubles that hit after Groeb Farms was accused of buying Chinese honey through other countries to avoid antidumping tariffs imposed by U.S. trade regulators in 2001. The bankruptcy filing halted several lawsuits filed earlier this year by honey producers and distributors that said they were harmed in the scandal.According to the article, there will be a hearing December 19th to review the results of the creditor ballot.The company, based in Onsted, Mich., operates a second processing plant in San Bernardino, Calif., and a testing lab in Belleview, Fla. It also owns the Miller's American Honey retail brand , which it purchased in 2010 for about $16 million, according to court papers.
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I've been getting the letters and have never done business with them either. They seem to be casting a wide net just in case. They have listed every possible debt including many that are less than $100. They'll spend more discharging many of the debt than what the amount is.
I do fee sorry for the beekeepers and small businesses on the list that will end up paying for Groeb Farms mistakes and illegal activity.
I sent in my ballot today. Can't say I'm in favor of seeing them continue. Looks like the little guys aren't going to get back much if anything. Feel a bad for them but I don't see any point in supporting a company that bought that much Chinese honey.
That depends on two things:
1. Will 2/3 of the dollar amount AND 51% of the number of unsecured ballots cast be rejecting the plan?
2. What do you consider "substantial"?
If the answer to 1 is no, then the Plan likely won't change (absent some secured creditor wanting a slightly higher payment). If the answer to 1 is yes, the Plan may change slightly, likely based on the Absolute Priority Rule, requiring new investors to infuse capital to flow to 1) administrative expenses and operational expenses, and 2) unsecured creditors.


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Last week in Historical Views we saw a picture of the Broad Channel Long Island Rail Road Station in 1895, and the picture was taken from a moving train, which had just passed the old Broad Channel Drawbridge on the way to Hammels Station in Rockaway Beach.
A short time ago, in my last foray into the world of antique post card collecting, one of my most dependable providers surprised me with the image you see today – in a timely fashion, I might say – to give us a look at the same station ten years later.
Usually, in the world of old postals, a new photo card was printed and issued after a notable change had taken place in the area of the publisher. Such is the case of publisher S. Hirschberg, who sold the postcards at his Rockaway Beach store. Hirschberg did not know it at the time, but he has contributed much to Historical Views, and the history of the Rockaways, simply by selling his picture postcards.
The view was shot from the west side trestle in the area once called Shad Creek Flats, just to the southwest of the station proper. The old Broad Channel Drawbridge is to the right across Broad Channel, and on the Rockaway Beach side there was the Beach Channel Drawbridge. The card is dated 1905 on the back, in print. There was no postmark, as people mailed packs of the cards to friends and vice versa. They were put in albums and collected by all in the postcard era of long ago.
That big event in 1905 is that the Long Island Rail Road was electrified from Flatbush Avenue Station in Brooklyn to Rockaway Park. With third rails installed, the bay colony stations now had crossovers (the top section of which can be seen past the building on the left) and fences were put up between the east and west bound tracks, to get from one side to the other.
This view shows us what the eastbound (to Rockaway) side of the station platform looked like as attached to the side of the raw trestle over the bay waters. The present station is on a landfill.
On the left side is Hoobs Hotel and Fishing Station (formerly of Isaac Carpenter and his wife) and on the other or east side is Edward Schleuter's Delevan Hotel and Palm Garden. Before the high track crossover was built in 1905, Schleuter had built an underpass when he took over his place in 1903.
In between and behind the hotels and fishing stations shown are the old Enterprise and Dorman Hotels. In 1916, the LIRR was urged to build a foot walk along the entire length of the trestle, so stranded passengers could safely be removed from a stalled or broken down train on the bay crossing. The LIRR agreed to only a half mile from the stations.
Smitty's Fishing Station and the IND Rapid Transit Railroad Station at Broad Channel occupy the site shown at present.
Twice a year, in May and Nov-ember of each year, an international antique postcard bourse (show) is held in Manhattan. Dealers come from all areas of the states, and from all over the world. No matter what your favorite subject or category…there are postcards to cover it! Rockaway history is my bag and my tag whenever I do attend….and I do all the time!
In November of 2002, nationwide dealers came from VT, NJ, MD, NY MA, OH, MI, CT, ME, FL, WA, and NYC, plus Las Vegas, NV!
World dealers came from Herenth-out in Belgium; Herzilla in Israel; York in England; Budapest in Hungary; Gentilly and Frejus in France; and Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.
Dealers were set up by the Metro-politan Postcard Club in the New Yorker Hotel on 34 Street in Manhat-tan. For the event, the Grand Ball-room, The Crystal Ballroom, and the large foyer between the two, were filled with 50 dealers in antique postcards. Visitors to the show kept the hotel's Eighth Avenue entrance revolving doors spinning during the Vet-eran's Day weekend.
The club was founded in 1946 by a handful of people and has grown and prospered since. Meetings are held monthly in the hotel and a mini-show is held in March to help shed the winter blahs! Club auctions and album competitions are also held during the year. Once an album of postcards about the Ole! Night Party won a prize. See, I told you there were cards for all subjects!
Today's Historical Views presents photos of the international bourse of November 2002, and one postcard I found in the patriotic category. The card is white with a light blue border, and Old Glory is in the great red/white /blue colors with green leaf florals at the gold flagpole crossing God Bless America!
As all Wave newspaper readers already know, the history of the Rock-aways and Broad Channel has been well documented through the picture postcard, since they were first issued in the 1890's. Artists' drawings were gravured at first, followed by the black & white halftone printed photos, followed by color gravure photos, and then sepia-tone real photos; black & white real photos; and real color photos.
Yours truly got married, so to speak, to postcards at a small flea market style table in the second floor hallway of King's Plaza Shopping Center in Brooklyn.
It was run by a fellow from Coney Island, Alex Stein, who happened to be a collector of Coney Island memorabilia! And a rabid one at that!
During a conversation I mentioned that I was into bottle collecting, especially Rock-away Beach and Far Rockaway. Alex then said that he wished he had a Coney Island bottle. I said that I had one… And at that…he grabbed my hand and filled it with Rockaway postcards, stating that if I brought him the Coney Island bottle, he would give me all he had of Rockaway postals.
I did, he did, and a friend at work told me about the metropolitan Post-card Club, which I joined as soon as possible.
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As the Browns start to interview candidates and whittle down the list, I was curious where Browns fans were on the list of candidates. I posted the question to our Facebook page to let everyone weigh in, and two candidates emerged as the favorites. Some of the comments were interesting too. (I will eave them unattributed because I didn't tell anyone that their comments would be featured here.) "They would be a fool not to go after Arians. He earned his star this year in Indy, but even more so, knows how to mold QBs, was excellent with PIT, was our OC in our only play off year in new era, and most importantly he knows how to win in the AFC North." A lot of people were torn between Arians and Kelly as well. "I'm torn between Arians and Kelly, but I went with Kelly because I am intrigued by his offense. Systems similar to him are thriving (i.e. Seattle) right now. I'm just curious what that would mean for us at QB, as we'd have to get rid of Weeden and go after a more mobile QB…Tebowmania might be coming to Cleveland if that happens." I'll just say no to Tebowmania right now, thank you very much. "Don't forget Browns fans couldn't see Arians leave fast enough. Once again stupid Cleveland/fans run a guy out of town who has success elsewhere. It doesn't matter who they hire if you change coaches and QBs every 2 years." Some love for Marrone too. "I think Marrone is getting unfairly overlooked because he is HC at Syracuse, but his record with the Saints and turning around the Orangemen is pretty impressive." Lastly, some from the "Other" camp. Mike McCoy from the Broncos garnered a comment. He worked with Tim Tebow a year ago to orchestrate the win over the Steelers before hitting easy street with Peyton Manning this year. Of course Jim Tressel also got a vote of confidence, although that was roundly mocked thereafter. So we'll see, of course. I'm of the mindset that there's just a limited amount that we can know about these candidates without the benefit of actually interviewing them. Staring at their resumes via statistics will make you blind after awhile and rarely tells the tale, I think.
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Located in Duomo, Hotel Axial is next to popular attractions like Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower and Florence Baptistery. This 14-room, 3-star hotel has free breakfast, free in-room WiFi, and a rooftop terrace. It's in central Florence and also a short walk from Palazzo Vecchio and Bargello.
Free continental breakfast is included with your stay and awaits you each morning. Quench your thirst with a drink at the bar/lounge.
Hotel Axial's 14 air-conditioned rooms provide refrigerators, free newspapers, and safes. Guests can expect free WiFi and wired Internet, along with satellite TV. Bathrooms have hair dryers and free toiletries. Desks are also standard.
At Hotel Axial, guests have access to a rooftop terrace, free WiFi in public areas, and express check-in. Valet parking is offered for EUR 25-31 per night. A multilingual staff is on hand to assist with luggage storage and tours/tickets. Additional amenities include free newspapers, a garden, and a TV in a common area.
Property features
- Steps from Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower and Florence Baptistery
- Free continental breakfast
- Free WiFi and wired Internet in rooms and public areas
- Bar/lounge
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Hotel Amenities
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A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wired and wireless Internet access.
This Florence hotel also offers a rooftop terrace, tour/ticket assistance, and multilingual staff. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Hotel Axial is a smoke-free property.
- Total number of rooms - 14
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Free breakfast
- Elevator/lift
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Rooftop terrace
- Luggage storage
- Bar/lounge
- Express check-in
- Garden
- Multilingual staff
- Smoke-free property
- Television in common areas
- Valet parking (surcharge)
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi , Free wired high-speed Internet
Valet parking (surcharge)
Room Amenities
Hotel Axial offers 14 air-conditioned accommodations with safes and complimentary newspapers. Televisions come with satellite channels.
Bathrooms include showers, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. This Florence hotel provides complimentary wired and wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower only
- In-room safe
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Free newspaper
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Guests are offered a complimentary continental breakfast each morning.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Bicycle rentals nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
- Mountain biking nearby
- Scooter/moped rentals nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 12:30 PM
Check-in time ends at midnight
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Cribs (infant beds) are available.
- Pets not allowed
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
No rollaway/extra beds available
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.50 per person, per night, up to 7 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.
Optional extras
- Valet parking fee: EUR 25-31 per night
- Cribs (infant beds) are available for an additional fee
Hotel Name
- Axial Florence
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All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport. Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 2999.99, due to national regulations. For further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation.


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In 88 Minutes, Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out.
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VI. Of Qualities Useful To Ourselves
IT seems evident, that where a quality or habit is subjected to our examination, if it
appear in any respect prejudicial to the person possessed of it, or such as incapacitates
him for business and action, it is instantly blamed, and ranked among his faults and
imperfections. Indolence, negligence, want of order and method, obstinacy, fickleness,
rashness, credulity; these qualities were never esteemed by any one indifferent to a
character; much less, extolled as accomplishments or virtues. The prejudice, resulting
from them, immediately strikes our eye, and gives us the sentiment of pain and
No quality, it is allowed, is absolutely either blameable or praiseworthy. It is all
according to its degree. A due medium, says the Peripatetics, is the characteristic of
virtue. But this medium is chiefly determined by utility. A proper celerity, for instance,
and dispatch in business, is commendable. When defective, no progress is ever made in
the execution of any purpose: When excessive, it engages us in precipitate and ill-
concerted measures and enterprises: By such reasonings, we fix the proper and
commendable mediocrity in all moral and prudential disquisitions; and never lose view of
the advantages, which result from any character or habit. Now as these advantages are
enjoyed by the person possessed of the character, it can never be SELF-LOVE which
renders the prospect of them agreeable to us, the spectators, and prompts our esteem and
approbation. No force of imagination can convert us into another person, and make us
fancy, that we, being that person, reap benefit from those valuable qualities, which
belong to him. Or if it did, no celerity of imagination could immediately transport us
back, into ourselves, and make us love and esteem the person, as different from us. Views
and sentiments, so opposite to known truth and to each other, could never have place, at
the same time, in the same person. All suspicion, therefore, of selfish regards, is here
totally excluded. It is a quite different principle, which actuates our bosom, and interests
us in the felicity of the person whom we contemplate. Where his natural talents and
acquired abilities give us the prospect of elevation, advancement, a figure in life,
prosperous success, a steady command over fortune, and the execution of great or
advantageous undertakings; we are struck with such agreeable images, and feel a
complacency and regard immediately arise towards him. The ideas of happiness, joy,
triumph, prosperity, are connected with every circumstance of his character, and diffuse
over our minds a pleasing sentiment of sympathy and humanity.
[Footnote: One may venture to affirm, that there is no human nature, to whom the
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Whole Foods Market, the natural foods supermarket, is coming to the Buffalo area some time in 2016. But the company is not saying where the store will be.
The national chain announced today that it has signed leases for nine stores, and Buffalo is among its new locations.
"After many years of hearing from residents of Buffalo, and its surrounding communities, we're thrilled to officially announce plans to bring a Whole Foods Market to Western New York," spokesman Michael Sinatra said in a release. "We will announce the exact location in partnership with the developer in the near future. We look forward to creating new career opportunities, partnering with local food purveyors and serving this community. We hope to open in 2016."
Whole Foods operates 14 stores New York state, with the 15th scheduled to open in Albany in June.
The company also has six stores, including the Buffalo site, in development throughout the state, Sinatra said.
The company has 379 stores and 114 more in development. The announcement was part of the chain's second-quarter earnings report.
The presence of the specialty chain will be an interesting addition to the expanding speciality food market in the area, which includes Wegmans, Premier Gourmet, Orchard Fresh, and Trader Joe's.
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IBM's PR engine has been ratcheting up the volume about its efforts in cloud computing lately and if you are like me, I found their press releases confusing, so I got them on the phone to try and get past the hype to better understand what they are really doing in this space. Turns out they have turned on a powerful listening and learning engine.
IBM's BlueCloud initiative isn't (at least not initially) an attempt to become a cloud services provider or to become a cloud computing platform, but rather to help their customers experiment with, try out, and custom design cloud solutions to fit their needs. Building off the IBM Innovation Center concept, IBM is providing Cloud centers that are places customers from enterprise and government accounts, as well as non-IBM customers can test out cloud computing concepts, mostly for deployment internal to their own data centers. Gerrit Huizenga, the technical solutions architect for BlueCloud for IBM's Systems & Technology Group (STG) said these efforts are helping them build out a series of cloud blueprints, or proven/standardized cloud infrastructures. "Our goal is to deliver solutions that make it much easier to deploy and manage these things," Huizenga said.
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Over the past few months a flurry of announcements have begun swirling around the cloud computing space, which remains a nascent market in the overall IT realm. Do these announcements portend a fast maturity for the concept or just the typical "me too" that comes with a hyped market?
In June, RightScale, a cloud management software and consulting company that has become a bit of a poster child as a cloud integrator, announced a partnership with GigaSpaces that integrates their eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) clustering and cache solution with the RightScale automated cloud management platform for Amazon EC2 clients. The value of this partnership comes from the fact that EC2 simply provides you with a VM you can populate but no availability or scalability services. XAP is a cluster architecture that delivers these values and can be quickly and easily deployed via the RightScale tool.
Next came Elastra, a San Francisco startup building a Cloud Server, a middleware layer that turns a commodity infrastructure into a cloud (similar value to what 3Tera provides today). The first iteration deploys similarly to XAP -- as a software layer you load into EC2 VMs, that enables scale and availability to the apps you lay on top of it.


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Steamboat Springs The Steamboat Springs High School boys soccer program has built a reputation in the Western Slope Conference that will make them a marked team when the season opens this week.
"Steamboat has a history of strong teams," Glenwood coach Steve McElroy said. "I'm sure Rob (Bohlmann) will have them ready to go again this season."
Glenwood and Battle Mountain are just two of the teams that will challenge the Sailors in league play this season. Rifle, Palisade and even Moffat County will also test the waters in a highly competitive division.
"Our league is always tough," Sailors coach Rob Bohlmann said. "You can't take any team lightly, or they will beat you."
The coaches across the league think the Sailors, Glenwood and Battle Mountain will be the three teams contending for the title this year. However, Palisade and Rifle will also be waiting in the wings for their chance to snag the title.
"We will be competitive against everybody in the league," Rifle coach Tom Taucher said. "In soccer anything can happen."
Besides Steamboat, both Glenwood Springs and Battle Mountain look best primed to make title runs.
Glenwood finished second in the league last season with an 11-5 (7-3) record and will return seven starters to a solid lineup. The team also lost seven seniors, but McElroy said he has a close and talented group of seniors returning. Top players will include seniors Nick Rolph and Jake Taufer.
The Battle Mountain Huskies will also be hoping to make a title run after finishing last season with a 10-5 record. The squad will also have one of the top forwards in the state in Scott Liqouri.
Head coach Ed Cope had 60 players come out for this year's team and will open the season Sept. 1 against Summit County.
Other Western Slope contenders will include Palisade. The Bulldogs have six returning starters and will be led by senior striker James Temple, senior midfielder Ryan Ehlers and senior defender Chris Sargent.
Head coach Sean Kennedy is hoping to finish the season with one of the top two seeds in the league and improve the team's position when the playoffs roll around.
"We have advanced to the playoffs the past several years, but we've never had a good seed," Kennedy said. "It's our goal to improve that seed this year."
Rifle will also be returning with hopes of making the state playoffs. The Bears just missed the playoffs last season after losing the final three games of the year, including the season finale against Palisade.
"We are going to take every team one game at a time," Taucher said. "We learned last year that you can't take any team lightly."
The Bears will be led by eight seniors, including Nick Krick, Louie Savage and Doug Humble.
The final team in the league, Moffat County will be looking to turn a new page when the soccer season opens later this month.
The Bulldogs, who finished dead last in the Western Slope last year, will be under the leadership of new coach Tom St. Louis. The team will be led by a group of veteran players, including Eric Havilla, Brandon Duarte and Danny Gottschall, bent on turning the Moffat County soccer program around.
Most of the teams in the league agree Steamboat will also be contending for a title late this fall. Bohlmann, however, knows the Sailors' success may rest on how his players respond in the first portion of the season.
Sailors star Mike Rinn will be sidelined with a knee injury, and Bohlmann said some other players will have to step up to lead the team offensively.
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