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Ah, Sundance… Channel. My first real paying job in the film/tv industry after my $5 a day internship at October Films (a sincere R.I.P. for the great Bingham Ray). The crazy fluke of that Sundance gig was that it required my antiquated skills of linear editing on a ¾" editing deck to create sales tapes for the marketing team.
When I joined Sundance, it was a partnership between Polygram/Gramercy, Showtime, and Redford. Like October FIlms, Polygram/Gramercy got bought out by Universal (who I sort of work for now, with an NBC before it) and then the whole shebang got sold to Rainbow, now AMC Networks. It used to be the intelligent, independent cinema channel, but now it resembles some sort of fashion network or something. I barely recognize it. (Same can be said of IFC, which seems to be a hipster version of Comedy Central)
The #2 guy that got fired at Sundance was coincidentally a guy I worked with when I was a go-fer (Go fer this, go fer that…) at an animation production company that I interned at during college at NYU. I remember him working on the launch of the Cartoon Network and that checker-board logo coming through, rolling out on the ancient FAX machine. What an Adventure kind of Time.
It's the second time that NY Knights cap would appear. The first was in the last Trip City-featured strip, So Intrepid.
T.J. Kirsch has been with me since the beginning, having had art in every So Buttons published. Recently, he drew the excellent "She Died in Terrebonne" written by Kevin Church.
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Before Jonathan Baylis wrote auto-bio comics, he interned at Marvel Comics, Valiant/Acclaim Comics, and was an Associate Editor at Topps Comics. His comics have been published locally in New York City in Free Comics NYC, The Comical Magazine, & The Comedians Magazine. "So… Only Nixon Could've Gone to China" was the first comic story to be published in The Florida Review. His first fiction story with David Beyer was published by Arcana Press in Dark Horrors 2. Jonathan & T.J. have two-pagers that were published in the Random House/Three Rivers press collection edited by Julia Wertz, "I Saw You… Missed Connections", as well as Poseur Ink's "Side B: The Music Lover's Comic Anthology".
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I'm trying to achieve all sorts of things this year. Better balance in all directions. I love & am so passionate about creating but I haven't been making enough time for it since I moved my studio last year. Its a cool big space but its unfinished and it was so much work getting stuff moved. Cold winter, busy Christmas, hot summer, blah blah... I kinda lost a bit of mojo I guess. The work has been sporadic. And I'm not putting pressure on myself, I just want to play more.
Anyway, I've recently started messing around and scribbling again both in my paper sketchbook & on my iPad. I can see slightly new things happening and I'm not exactly sure where I am going but I want to merge some of the things I love and see what happens.
Last year I started switching to canvas sheet for my collaged paintings. I still have a few of these coming up for sale. I quite like these because not only are they very cheap to post which is good for buyers, I can get stuck into the machine or hand stitching to add words and additional layers of texture & detail. I love sewing, scrappy sewing. And I can't wait to merge some of my messy stitching & fabrics into my painted collages. I can envision some coolio marriages there.
Up until now, I have also been doing quite busy backgrounds with colourful characters over the top but sometimes less is more and that is a real area I want to develop. Find some restraint in patterned colour on patterned colour on patterned colour. Mature a bit in my work I guess. Yes, grow up a bit, ha! So I have some ideas on that too. And then taking it one step further, I'd like to merge some of my hand made + stitched + collaged + painted work with some of my digital works too.... Exciting times, for me.
Anyway this year I have made some big brave decisions. Not only do I want to focus on my health & fitness and better general life balance but I want to spend regular time on my art making. It brings me great peace. And that is a great thing. It so happens that while all these thoughts and plans are swirling, there's other things at play in our family life right now. Times are tight and we are stretched. But more about that in another post.
I had booked a few tiny trips this year but I've made the very difficult decision to cancel two of them. I'm going to focus more on art making & illustration. I've had to put my blinkers on, and really think very hard about priorities, my plans with my family, and my plans to invest in myself & 'go confidently in the direction of my dreams'. That is a wee bit scary but I need to back myself otherwise I'm just meandering. And I do feel good about the decisions I've made. I feel like I made decisions that sit just right with me & my family.
So anyway, over the coming months I hope to share some of my experimentation & processes here on my blog as I work towards finding a new happy place in my art making. I'll try and list as many pieces as I can in my ETSY shop too. Now that all of my tiny art income will be contributing to the household budget & savings, I will need to get a little more organised in the area of listing & getting prints made! Gee, it would be so nice to have an assistant! Anyone like working for free? hehe


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wikiHow to Design an Event Flyer That Gets Attention
A flyer is only as good as the attention it grabs. Event flyers especially have to stand out, since they're usually competing with a sea of other flyers. This article will focus on ways to make yours more attention-worthy.
1Visit a spot where there are lots of flyers. It's best to visit a spot where event flyers tend to get posted, not the laundromat, where it's mostly babysitting, housecleaning, and appliances for sale. Scan the flyers and note which ones stand out to you the most. Take a closer look: What made those flyers stand out to you? Keep that in mind as you continue with these steps.
2Use the largest paper format that your printer can handle or the biggest enlargement you can afford from a print shop. Size matters, especially among a flurry of other flyers.
3Use brightly colored paper. Neon paper will grab the most attention on its own, but it can overpower the text or pictures. Consider using a color that's bright but still soft enough to create contrast with dark ink (e.g. sky blue). Or, if you do stick with a neon color, use a dark color for the text and images.
4Choose a striking picture. The picture you choose will depend on your audience, but no matter what, make sure it has high enough contrast and saturation that it "pops".
5Use simple, thick fonts. The funky fonts may look good on your computer, and work well on a handbill or some other type of pamphlet, but they are hard to read from a distance and don't photocopy well. Use simple, bold fonts that are easily read and will not distort after being copied 150 times.
6Avoid clutter. It's tempting to cram every square inch of the flyer with words and graphics, but sometimes having "whitespace" around your headlines and images can make them stand out better.
7Make sure the flyer can be seen from a distance. Test your flyer by hanging it up and taking 4-5 big steps back- you should be able to read the headline from this distance.
8Post your flyers early, at least one week before your event. This will ensure that your poster is posted before others, and help publicize your event early on. Check back later and re-post your flyer if necessary.
9Plan any big events a month or 2 before you start handing out flyers to make sure that everything is planned.
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What program are you using to design it?wikiHow ContributorWell if you have a Mac, you can download pages, and there is a format for an event flyer. If not, you can download Microsoft, and there is another format for an event flyer
What is a good entry level program I can use to make fliers?wikiHow ContributorMicrosoft Word would likely be the easiest program to start with as it's familiar to most people.
How is this done in Microsoft 2010?
How can I make my own advertisement poster?
- Use string to post flyers on live trees, not tacks or staples.
- If contact can be made by e-mail, fax, or telephone, or more information is available on a web site, include that as well. This information does not need to be as large and can go at the bottom of your flyer. Just remember, "If you want 'em there, tell them where."
- Don't forget to include all pertinent address, contact, date and time information - even if it looks redundant. For example: Thursday Evening Show. Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010 @ 7pm. Likewise, even though it seems everyone should know where the Washington Monument is, tell them again: the intersection of Madison Dr, NW & 15th St, NW; Washington, DC 20001.
- If you make flyers often, pick a theme and stick with it. Maybe that means a color, or running your flyers horizontally rather than vertically. Find something that makes you stand out in your community and stick with it; people will start to recognize your flyers before they have even read them, this makes it more likely that they stop and see what you are currently up to.
- If you look at a color wheel, any two colors that are at opposite ends will look vibrant next to each other.
- When removing old posters from poles or boards only remove posters for events that have already occurred. You wouldn't want someone taking down your poster before your event.
- Avoid placing flyers on parked cars. People may complain.
- Many municipal codes restrict the size of and where flyers may be posted. Check your local codes. The same is true for placing posters within a business or school, always seek permission first.
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Many of you have given me very helpful advice on my question concerning the path to stream entry. Thanks a lot!
I'm preparing a list of my daily recollections and reflections. In addition to this daily reflecton, I also study suttas (mainly MN) and listening to Ven. Bodhi's teaching classes on the suttas, do sitting and walking meditation. I'd like to share with you what I've prepared for my morning lesson/chant. I hope that my mistakes/wrong understandings can be corrected if you notice, and anything you feel helpful can be added to my list. I also hope this collection can be of some help to the beginners like me.
My Daily Recollections (for the morning):
"Established in these five qualities [conviction, mindfulness, persistence, concentration, discernment], you should further develop six qualities:
[1] "There is the case where you recollect the Tathagata:
"Iti pi so Bhagavā Arahaṃ
[Thus indeed is the blessed accomplished one]
[Rightly awakened one]
Vijjā-caraṇa Sampanno
[Endowed with true knowledge and virtuous conduct]
Sugato [well gone]
Lokavidū [the Knower of the worlds]
Anuttaro Purisa-damma-sārathi
[peerless trainer of the tameable ones ]
Satthā deva-manussānaṃ
[Teacher of gods and men]
[Awakened and awake others]
Bhagavā ti
[Blessed]. "
[2] … recollect the Dhamma:
Svākkhāto Bhagavatā Dhammo Sandiṭṭhiko
Akāliko Ehi-passiko Opanayiko Paccattaṃ
Veditabbo viññūhī ti
The Dhamma of the Blessed One
Is well expounded,
To be seen here and now,
Encouraging investigation,
Leading to liberation
To be realized by the wise for themselves.
[3] … recollect the Sangha:
Supaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
Ujupaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
Ñāyapaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
Sāmīcipaṭipanno Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
Yadidaṃ cattāri purisayugāni aṭṭha
purisa-puggalā, esa Bhagavato sāvaka-saṅgho
Āhuṇeyyo, pāhuṇeyyo, dakkhiṇeyyo,
Añjalikaraṇīyo, anuttaraṃ puññākkhettaṃ
lokassā ti
'The Sangha of the Blessed One's disciples have practiced well,
have practiced straight-forwardly,
have entered the right path,
are accomplished in the practice;
That is the Four Pairs, the Eight Types of noble beings,
these are the Sangha of the Blessed One's disciples:
worthy of gifts, worthy of hospitality, worthy of offerings, worthy of respect,
the incomparable field of merit for the world.'
[4] … recollect own virtues:
First 5 precepts [Pañca Sīla]
Pānātipātā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
Adinnādānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
Kāmesu micchācārā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
Musāvādā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
Surā-meraya-majja-pamādaṭṭhānā veramaṇī sikkhāpadaṃ samādiyāmi
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from killing sentient living beings [intentionally].
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from taking things not given.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from sexual misconduct.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from false speech.
I undertake to observe the precept to abstain from liquor causing intoxication and heedlessness.
'(May my virtues be) untorn, unbroken, unspotted, unsplattered, untarnished, liberating, praised by the wise, conducive to concentration'
"Seeing danger in the slightest fault, he undertakes & trains himself in the training rules."
Khamāyācanā [Forgiveness of Faults]
Kāyena vācā cittena [If by deeds, speech or thoughts heedlessly]
Pamādena mayā kataṃ [I have committed any wrong-doing]
Accayaṃ khama me bhante [Forgive me, O Venerable]
Bhūripañña tathāgata! [O Victor, Greatly Wise!]
[5] … recollect own generosity:
'It is a gain, a great gain for me, that — among people overcome with the stain of possessiveness — I live at home, my awareness cleansed of the stain of possessiveness, freely generous, openhanded, delighting in being magnanimous, responsive to requests, delighting in the distribution of alms.'
[6] … recollect the devas:
'There are the devas of the Four Great Kings,
the devas of the Thirty-three,
the devas of the Hours,
the Contented Devas,
the devas who delight in creation,
the devas who have power over the creations of others,
the devas of Brahma's retinue,
the devas beyond them.
Whatever conviction they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there,
May the same sort of conviction be present in me as well.
Whatever virtue they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there,
May the same sort of virtue be present in me as well.
Whatever learning they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there,
May the same sort of learning be present in me as well.
Whatever generosity they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there,
May the same sort of generosity be present in me as well.
Whatever discernment they were endowed with that — when falling away from this life — they re-arose there,
May the same sort of discernment be present in me as well.'
The Blessed One said, "Because I teach the Dhamma through direct knowledge and not without direct knowledge, because I teach the Dhamma with a cause and not without a cause, because I teach the Dhamma with marvels and not without marvels, there is good reason for my instruction, good reason for my admonition. And it is enough for you to be content, enough for you to be gratified, enough for you to take joy, that the Blessed One is rightly self-awakened, the Dhamma is well-taught by the Blessed One, and the community has practiced rightly." — AN 3.126
[The joy and confidence induced by these 6 recollections can bring the mind to concentration and cleanse it of defilement: "He lives with Brahma [= the Buddha] [Dhamma, Sangha, virtues, devas] … . It is owing to Brahma [Dhamma, Sangha, virtues, devas] … that his mind is brightened, that joy arises, and that whatever defilements there are in his mind are abandoned. "
"Sabba-dukkha sabba-bhaya sabba-roga vinassantu,"
"All sufferings, all dangers, all diseases can be destroyed through the power of the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha."
"But I tell you this: If — when you have gone into the wilderness, to the shade of a tree, or to an empty building — there should arise fear, terror, or horripilation, then on that occasion you should recollect me: 'Indeed, the Blessed One is worthy & rightly self-awakened, consummate in knowledge & conduct, well-gone, an expert with regard to the world, unexcelled as a trainer for those people fit to be tamed, the Teacher of divine & human beings, awakened, blessed.' For when you have recollected me, whatever fear, terror, or horripilation there is will be abandoned. Why is that? Because the Tathagata — worthy & rightly self-awakened — is devoid of passion, devoid of aversion, devoid of delusion. He feels no fear, feels no terror, feels no dread. He doesn't run away."
"you should develop this recollection of the Buddha [Dhamma, Sangha] while you are walking, while you are standing, while you are sitting, while you are lying down, while you are busy at work, while you are resting in your home crowded with children."
"For a disciple who has conviction in the Master's message & lives to penetrate it, it is a principle that, 'The Blessed One is the Master, I am a disciple. He is the one who knows, not I.' For a disciple who has conviction in the Master's message & lives to penetrate it, the Master's message is healing & nourishing. For a disciple who has conviction in the Master's message & lives to penetrate it, it is a principle that, 'Gladly would I let the flesh & blood in my body dry up, leaving just the skin, tendons, & bones, but if I have not attained what can be reached through human firmness, human persistence, human striving, there will be no relaxing my persistence.' For a disciple who has conviction in the Master's message & lives to penetrate it, one of two fruits can be expected: either gnosis here & now, or — if there be any remnant of clinging/sustenance — non-return." — MN 70
[7] Reflects on aging and death
"When he/she often reflects on this [illness, aging, death and the rare opportunity to gain the human body during the cycle of samsara], the (factors of the) path take birth. He/she sticks with that path, develops it, cultivates it. As he/she sticks with that path, develops it and cultivates it, the fetters are abandoned, the latent tendencies destroyed."— AN 5.57
[Because there is no way of knowing when death will come, one should focus each day on which skillful qualities of mind most need developing, and which unskillful qualities of mind most need abandoning].
"Are there any evil, unskillful mental qualities unabandoned by me that would be an obstruction for me were I to die in night?' If, on reflecting, he realizes that there are evil, unskillful mental qualities unabandoned by him that would be an obstruction for him were he to die in the night, then he should put forth extra desire, effort, diligence, endeavor, undivided mindfulness, & alertness for the abandoning of those very same evil, unskillful qualities. … training himself day & night in skillful qualities."
[unskillful qualities: e.g. ignorance, delusion, confusion, doubts, greed – wanting to know/learn more, do/accomplish more, gain more/get the best; sensual desire for beautiful clothes/scenes and delicious food …, heedlessness, laziness, envy/ jealousy, rivalry, anger, aversion, … ]
"'I will grow different, separate from all that is dear and appealing to me.' ...
"'I am the owner of my actions, heir to my actions, born of my actions, related through my actions, and have my actions as my arbitrator. Whatever I do, for good or for evil, to that will I fall heir.'
[8] Recollection on peace – deathless
"Which is a more worthwhile use of one's time, the pursuit of objects and ideals subject to change and death, or the pursuit of the Deathless?"
"There's no fire like passion, no loss like anger, no pain like the aggregates, no bliss other than peace. Hunger [craving]: the foremost illness. Fabrications: the foremost pain. For one knowing this truth as it has come to be, Unbinding is the foremost bliss."
"How inconstant are compounded things! Their nature: to arise & pass away. They disband as they are arising. Their total stilling is bliss." — DN 16
"Whereas formerly he foolishly had greed — as well as desire & infatuation — he has now abandoned them, their root destroyed like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. Whereas formerly he foolishly had malice — as well as ill-will & hatred — he has now abandoned them... Whereas formerly he foolishly had ignorance — as well as delusion & confusion — he has now abandoned them, their root destroyed like an uprooted palm tree, deprived of the conditions of development, not destined for future arising. Thus a monk so endowed is endowed with the highest determination for stilling, for this — the stilling of passions, aversions, & delusions — is the highest noble stilling."— MN 140
"Among whatever qualities [dhammas] there may be, fabricated or unfabricated, the quality of dispassion — the subduing of intoxication, the elimination of thirst, the uprooting of attachment, the breaking of the round, the destruction of craving, dispassion, cessation, the realization of Unbinding — is considered supreme. Those who have confidence in the quality of dispassion have confidence in what is supreme; and for those with confidence in the supreme, supreme is the result."
"I tell you, the ending of the fermentations depends on the first jhana... the second jhana... the third... the fourth... the dimension of the infinitude of space... the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness... the dimension of nothingness. I tell you, the ending of the fermentations depends on the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.
"'I tell you, the ending of the fermentations depends on the first jhana.' Thus it has been said. In reference to what was it said? There is the case where a monk, secluded from sensuality, secluded from unskillful qualities, enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from seclusion, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. He regards whatever phenomena there that are connected with form, feeling, perception, fabrications, & consciousness, as inconstant, stressful, a disease, a cancer, an arrow, painful, an affliction, alien, a disintegration, an emptiness, not-self. He turns his mind away from those phenomena, and having done so, inclines his mind to the property of deathlessness: 'This is peace, this is exquisite — the resolution of all fabrications; the relinquishment of all acquisitions; the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding.'
"Staying right there, he reaches the ending of the fermentations. Or, if not, then — through this very Dhamma-passion, this Dhamma-delight, and from the total wasting away of the first five Fetters [self-identity views, (wrong) grasping at precepts & practices, uncertainty (doubt), sensual passion, and ill will] — he is due to be reborn (in the Pure Abodes), there to be totally unbound, never again to return from that world."
[So it's possible to reach unbinding from the 1st jhana?? It's impossible to reach unbinding without 1st jhana??]
"View the world, … as empty — always mindful to have removed any view about self. This way one is above & beyond death. This is how one views the world so as not to be seen by Death's king." — Sn 5.15
Get up!
Sit up!
Train firmly for the sake of peace,
Don't let the king of death,
— seeing you heedless —
deceive you,
bring you under his sway.
— Sn 2.10
By the way, I have a question about the deathless. Is my following understanding right?
The deathless (our common original nature) has no fabrications, no acquisitions, is unconditioned, uncompounded …and … has no self – no difference. What's different is not self; what's not different has no self.
Your advice and help has been most appreciated. May you succeed in the practice!


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GM Reportedly The Latest Company To Pull Ads From Anti-Immigrant John & Ken Show
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After losing major advertisers AT&T and Verizon, KFI Los Angeles' John & Ken Show can add one more brick to the pile: General Motors. The auto company reportedly pulled its advertisements from the program following a campaign led by the National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) calling for a boycott of the program by its advertisers in response to the disparaging, anti-immigrant vitriol the hosts frequently use on-air.
According to The Huffington Post, GM issued the following statement on Twitter:
This was a radio ad buy from a group of dealers, and we quickly asked the ad group to cancel it, which they are doing now.
The John & Ken Show -- hosted by John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou -- airs from 3 to 7 p.m. on KFI, a Clear Channel network, and reportedly has an audience of 1.2 million listeners.
On September 1, the hosts aired the personal cell phone number of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) activist Jorge-Mario Cabrera, who received hundreds of threatening calls as a result. The hosts denied responsibility, stating repeatedly that Cabrera's phone number was part of a press release, and therefore public information.
Clear Channel later wrote a letter to NHMC president Alex Nogales defending the hosts' actions.
Additionally, the Los Angeles Times reported in February 2009:
Not that John & Ken or their website strive for subtlety. A central image on the site in recent weeks: pictures of the Republican budget supporters, their heads lopped off and set atop cartoon pikes.
Duly inspired, one KFI fan called the office of Assembly Republican leader Mike Villines in the wee hours of the morning (as the budget talks went overnight) and repeated, time after time, "Head on a stick! Head on a stick!"
Earlier this month, Los Angeles-area grocery store chains Vons and Ralphs also agreed not to advertise on John & Ken in the future.
Despite these advertiser retreats, Kobylt and Chiampou vowed that "nothing on the show is changing. We're going to talk about illegal aliens all we want," promising more of the reckless rhetoric that has led to numerous advertiser retreats.
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Celebrating a little-known chapter in the history of California modernism, the University Art Museum at CSULB presents Frank Bros.: The Store that Modernized Modern. On view from January 28–April 9, 2017, the exhibition relates the story of Southern California's largest and most prominent mid-century retailer of modern furniture and design. Based in Long Beach from 1938–1982, Frank Bros. embodied the optimistic post-war ethos of the American consumer, bringing fresh and exciting designs to the public not only through well-sourced inventory but with an innovative program of advertising, mailers, exhibitions and off-site custom interiors. As an exemplar of California modernism, Frank Bros. fueled and shaped the market for good design. Learn More.
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The University Art Museum has an excellent permanent collection, one that is strengthened by the generous support of our donors. A collection such as ours is made vibrant by the addition of new contemporary works, such as the works highlighted in this recent acquisitions exhibition.


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If they do something that warrants my pulling a gun, it is going to be pointed at them. I certainly don't want to endanger anyone else by pointing away from my target.
Certain LEO's definately need to point their gun at something besided the suspect or their partner. Not picking on LEO's just a fitting video.


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Alexander Lukashenko was under pressure from the European Union to hold a free election so he made a pretense of allowing voting. Much to his surprise in a free election people are free to vote for whom they desire. After a feeble attempt at holding an election, he let loose the dogs of brutality. Opposition candidate was not only beat up by the local KGB, but together with his wife, Irina Khalip, an international recognized journalist, they wound up in jail. But, mad man Lukashenko could not halt at that brutality. Now that their 3 year old son has both parents in jail, he must live with his grandmother, but the KGB is investigating the possibility of declaring the grand parent incompetent to raise a child and send the boy to an orphanage. As one opponent put it: "Lukashenko is trying to frighten Belarussian society, to plunge it into fear." The petty little men is depending on repression, fear and brutality.
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Does this scene sound familiar? You are trying to fix dinner and your children are running in and out of the kitchen asking you questions, tattling on each other, and causing each other grief as only siblings know how to do so well. It doesn't exactly look like a scene from Leave it to Beaver that you an envisioned, right? What's a parent to do? In these cases, the best thing to do is divide and conquer. Keep one child with you and send the other(s) to another room to do something productive like homework.
You can teach a quick Common Core lesson with your child who is spending time in the kitchen with you while you prepare dinner. As a parent you quickly learned the fine art of multi-tasking so this should be easy for you.
You will need the following supplies: rubberbands, salt, and a pie plate.
You will pour salt into the pie plate. Your child will "write" with his/her finger in the salt.
The large rubberbands that are used for files work best.
First, give your child a rubberband. Say a word and ask your child to stretch out the word. I found a really good article that explains this activity that you should read. Click HERE.
Next, say a word and ask your child to write the word using his/her finger in the salt pie plate. After writing the word, your child will spell the word to you and then use it in a sentence. Then ask your child to name 2 words that rhymes with that word.
Here are some word cards that you can print. Punch a hole at the top and put on a shower curtain ring. Then you can keep these in a handy spot in your kitchen so they'll be ready the next time when you need them.
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It's all so beautiful OM. You've done a great job :elf3: I love the fireplace :home:
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It's all so beautiful OM. You've done a great job :elf3: I love the fireplace :home:
Thanks everyone. Hope to get the rest if the photos posted today. It is raining so don't know about the outside lights
All of it is great!!! I'm going to show my mom those Nutcrackers, she's going to be JEALOUS! :)
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My kitchen stove and my livingroom. Outide pictures didn't come out. I'll have to retake them.
No village this year. I just don't have the energy
I love the tree OM :christmastree: Your living room looks so inviting. Nice and cosy :home: We have similar taste in ornaments and colors :elf3:
Really neat decorations, I love the fireplace! :)
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Let me continue my travelogue about my journey to Vietnam. We are now on our second day and we were scheduled to go to Mekong River. Let me give you a brief background first about this historical tourist destination...
The Mekong River is the longest river in the Southeast Asian region. It is 2,700 miles (or 4,350 kilometers) and flows through through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Does this mean I've practically been to the tips of these wonderful countries? Hehehe.
Anyway, the brown water-ways of the Mekong serve as the region's foremost conduit for their local transportation and trade. It is also known as the Lancang River in China, which is considered to be the heart and soul of mainland Southeast Asia. There are more than 60 million people who depend on the river and its tributaries for supplies of food, water, transport and a lot of other aspects of their daily lives. The Mekong river supports one of the world's most diverse fisheries, and is second only to Brazil's Amazon River. How amazing is this? And I'm so happy that I've been here and experienced it all.
Mekong River is at the southern part of Ho Chi Minh. Here's a video Jem took while we were riding the bus going there:
Finally, after an hour or so, we got here at the docking station. This is the place where I bought my Vietnamese hat. Had I been a lot thinner, people could've mistaken me to be one of the locals. Teehee.
We rode these boats on the way to the narrower parts of the river. Since Mekong River is the longest river in Southeast Asia, the 7th longest in Asia, and the 12th longest in the world, it took some time before we got to the most exciting part.
Watch this video Jem took while we were riding this bigger boat:
After lunch, we took a walk heading to the docking station of the bancas. It was a good way to burn some calories as the walk was a bit long.
I think after about 10-15 mins., we already saw a glimpse of these bancas and tourists were already falling in line, waiting their turns to take a ride..
Then it was our turn to ride the banca!
Watch this video Jem took while we were riding one of these little boats:
It was such a wonderful experience being able to tour one of the longest rivers in Asia. Jem and I truly had fun being with the locals. We were so amazed to see women manning and maneuvering the boats! The other time I saw this was back in Pandin and Yambo Lakes in Laguna where women also paddle the rafts.
On my next post, I will share with you the other exciting things we did at Mekong Delta. If you want to read the rest of my 2010 Asian trip so far, please click: Asian Trip
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First off, remember this forum is for scenarios, this is hypothetical, for the sake or argument, etc, etc...
So you are walking down the street with your family, and your wife is carrying your newborn child in a carrier, case, bassinet, whatever you want to call it. As you are walking, a man runs up, shoves your wife down and runs off with your child (Still in the bassinet or whatever).
You draw your weapon and realize you only have seconds to shoot if you are to make a clean shot. Once you have drawn and obtained a sight picture, the BG is about 7-10 meters away. You can get a back shot without much risk of hitting your child.
Do you:
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This can be any street, anywhere. At the mall, a block from your front door, on vacation, where ever you want it to be.
For me, I don't think this would take much thought, I would probably do it. Although the BG may be running from me and have his back to me, he is still posing a "clear and present danger" to the life of my child. With the things people do to children these days, I would probably unload my magazine on his back....
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Drinking from Our Own Wells
by Robert McAfee Brown
Robert McAfee Brown, whose name is symbolic for engaged theologian and ethicist, is perhaps best known for being able to write clearly, for example, in Theology in a New Key: Responding to Liberation Theology and Saying Yes and Saying No: On Rendering to God and Caesar. This article appeared in the Christian Century May 9, 1984, p. 483. Copyright by the Christian Century Foundation and used by permission. Current articles and subscription information can be found at www.christiancentury.org. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted & Winnie Brock.
Pope John Paul II, in a pastoral letter on spirituality?
Query: Who said:
Laborers . cannot wait any longer for their dignity to be recognized really and fully. . . . They have a right not to be deprived of the little they have by maneuvers that sometimes amount to real plunder. They have a right not to be blocked in their own desire to take part in their own advancement. They have a right to have the barriers of exploitation removed. . . . They have a right to effective help, which is neither a handout nor a few crumbs of justice. . . . There is always a social mortgage on all private property. . . . And if the common good demands it, there is no need to hesitate at expropriation itself.
Gustavo Gutiérrez, describing how workers need to take things into their own hands?
Something strange is going on. The first quotation is actually the initial paragraph and normative theme of Gustavo Gutiérrez's new book on spirituality, We Drink from Our Own Wells: The Spiritual Journey of a People (Orbis, 1984), and the second is a slight condensation of two paragraphs of a speech Pope John Paul II gave to Indian peasants in Mexico in 1979 (quoted in John Eagleson and Philip Scharper, eds., Pueblo and Beyond [Orbis, 1979], p. 82).
What is so strange is that in a recently launched, widely orchestrated attack -- emanating both from Rome and the Peruvian hierarchy -- on Gutiérrez's presumably 'errant" version of liberation theology, he is accused of not saying the things he does say in the first quotation, and of saying the things that the pope says in the second. And there is heavy irony in the fact that the charges have been launched just when the publication of Gutiérrez's new book makes them even less accurate than they were before. The stakes in this controversy are high, not only for Gutiérrez but for all Christians who are committed, as he is, to a theology created from the standpoint of the oppressed. As a result, the only way to do justice to the significance of We Drink from Our Own Wells is to look first at the recent re-articulation of the charges against Gutiérrez and liberation theology, and then to examine the book in their light.
These charges are not new. Ever since 1971, when A Theology of Liberation was first published in Spanish (the English translation was brought out by Orbis early in 1973), the themes of Gutiérrez's writings, his person and the entire "theology of the people" that he is articulating have been subjected to a barrage from the theological and political right. The themes of liberation theology were not invented by Gutiérrez. They are our authentic heritage from the Hebrew prophets, the Gospels and the early church (see, for example, Charles Avila's Ownership: Early Christian Teaching [Orbis, 1983]; they are themes that were anticipated in part by developments in the papal "social encyclicals" from 1891 to the present, and by the Vatican Council's 1965 pastoral constitution "The Church and the World Today." Many of these ideas were episcopally appropriated in the documents of the conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín in 1968, three years before Gutiérrez's landmark book appeared -- especially those on "Justice'' and ''Peace,'' in the composition of which Gutiérrez played a part as one of the official periti at the conference. In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base ("grass-roots ' Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from "temporal'' tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of "dependency" on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for "conscienticization" ; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of "institutionalized violence."
As the implications of such commitments began to filter into the experience of the Latin American church, a number of conservative bishops under the leadership of Colombian Archbishop Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, worried by what they perceived to be a swing to the left, began to organize for the next bishops conference, ultimately held at Puebla, Mexico, in 1979. Hoping to repudiate such themes and restore the church to its proper track, they saw to it that so-called "liberation theologians" were excluded from the Puebla meetings, and sought to turn episcopal teaching in ''safer" directions.
But they were unsuccessful. The Puebla documents not only did not "condemn" liberation theology, but gave new support to many of its central concerns. Not even the opening papal address contained the salvos against liberation theology that the conservatives had hoped for (despite erroneous impressions to the contrary given by the New York Times), and the Puebla documents, though a mixed bag, gave ongoing support to the major concerns of this theology, particularly in the emphasis on the need for the church to make ''a preferential option for the poor.
Not even this mode of attack is new; it was the approach taken by López Trujillo before Puebla, both through his network of communication with other bishops and in his Liberación o Revoluciön?, published in 1975 (English translation: Liberation or Revolution? [Our Sunday Visitor, 1977]). The basic distinction that is pressed in all of these attempts to separate "true" from "false" liberation is that the former is based on gospel values, while the latter is overly dependent on Karl Marx and a Marxist analysis of the world, especially in relation to Marx's theory of class struggle.
Most of the other charges, both from Rome and from the Peruvian bishops, are variants or amplifications of this initial one. The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that "false" liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on "material" poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a ''temporal messianism" that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely "earthly" new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so-called "people's church" against the hierarchy.
The overall suspicion, in other words, is that somehow Christian faith has lost its ''transcendent'' element, that It has been "reduced" to "horizontalism" at the expense of ''verticalism," that it has become nothing more than ''ethics" (and left-wing ethics at that), that ''social analysis" has replaced theology, that revolution has replaced revelation -- and that Karl Marx is the source of all the difficulty.
As one who has been immersed in Gutiérrez's writings for more than a decade, I consider the charges preposterous. The clearest rebuttal, however, is not exasperation but simply firsthand exposure to the writings themselves, along with a look at the quality and spiritual depth of his own life and of Gutiérrez's personal commitment to the poor. The new book is especially helpful in this regard, but before turning to it a word must be said about the specter of Karl Marx and the way Gutiérrez deals with the theme of class struggle.
It is clear that Gutiérrez, like almost every contemporary theologian, pays attention to Marx; no responsible modern thinker could fail to do so. It is also clear that he makes use of some of Marx's analytic tools, particularly the notion of "class struggle" -- and it is primarily for this that he is being attacked. But it is neither clear nor true that Marx provides the world view or the overarching ideology that informs Gutiérrez's position. Here is where a shift that faults the whole procedure occurs in the attacks. Those attacking Gutiérez assume that using any of Marx's comments on society automatically brands one a ''Marxist,'' in the sense of accepting the whole Marxist position -- its materialistic view of history, its scorn of religion as an opiate, and all the rest. This is clearly nonsense.
What actually happens with Gutiérez and others close to him is something like this: they turn to the social sciences for help in understanding the dynamics of the world in which they live; among those they read is Marx, who describes a world in which a ''class struggle'' is going on. They look at Latin America (so different from North America) and see that what Marx described is actually taking place: there is a ''class struggle" going on, and it is being waged between the tiny ''class'' of the extremely wealthy, who oppress and exploit the rest, and the huge "class" of the desperately poor, who are oppressed by the wealthy and powerful. Marx, they discover, did not invent "class struggle"; he merely reported that it was taking place. The struggle would be there even if Marx had never appeared on the scene. Liberation theologians find plenty of descriptive material in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Amos and Luke, for example, to underline the injustice of the patent discrepancies between rich and poor, exploiters and exploited, oppressors and oppressed. Indeed, it is their attempt to hear this long-neglected side of Scripture that draws the unfair charge that they are reading ''selectively.''
Now what does Gutiérrez do in the face of the very obvious fact that there is a struggle going on between classes, initiated not by the poor but by the rich? He reaches two very clear and, it seems to me, irrefutable conclusions: "The class struggle is a fact, and neutrality in this matter is impossible" (A Theology of Liberation, p. 223).
What are Christians to do in this situation? Since, as Gutiérrez points out, neutrality is impossible, those who seek to remain aloof from the struggle (as many Christians do) are actually giving tacit support to those possessing unjust power, often maintained through guns and torture. One must, therefore, side with the poor and the oppressed, a theme Gutiérrez has been affirming and living for many years. Why "taking sides" in the struggle should be considered foreign to Christian faith is hard to fathom. Surely "taking sides'' is what the bishops at Puebla called the church to do when they stated that it must make "a preferential option for the poor." For centuries the church has made a preferential option for the rich, and the rich have found no cause for dismay. The decisions on behalf of the poor at Medellín and Puebla did not implicate the church in "taking sides'' for the first time, but simply in "changing sides" as the result of a new reading of Scripture and of the human situation.
The title may initially seem elusive to those who are not, like Gutiérrez, steeped in the literature of spirituality. The phrase comes from Bernard of Clairvaux's De Consideratione, in which he indicates that we must all think, pray and work in the place from which our own spiritual nourishment comes. For Gutiérez, "the experience that comes from the Spirit" is found in the midst of the Latin, American people's struggle for liberation, a struggle in which God's gifts of faith, hope and love make people. disciples. ''This experience is our well,'' he writes. It provides the living water that both purifies and energizes.
The structure of the book illustrates both the methodology and the content of his approach. Part one briefly sets a context: spirituality in Latin America -- a spirituality that covers every dimension of human life and is by no means confined to the political -- in a situation of hostility and death resulting from poverty. Gutiérrez dismisses as inadequate any spirituality that is available only to a few, thus dividing Christians into two classes, as well as any individualistic spirituality that leads to privatization and a turning away from the world. True spirituality encompasses all life (a favorite theme in Gutiérrez's writings), and involves solidarity (i.e., community), prayer, martyrdom -- a part of Christian living foreign to contemporary North Americans -- and a recognition that now is the time of salvation. Such spirituality involves the people, especially the poor, in struggle -- a struggle about which the psalms, the prophets, the gospel and the epistles are full of words of encouragement and hope.
The middle and longest section of the book takes us into the "second act" -- i.e., reflection on the situation in Latin America "in the light of the Word of God." By means of intensive Bible study, Gutiérrez here sets out the main aspects of spirituality as the communal following of Jesus -- i.e., "the spiritual journey of a people" (as the subtitle describes it), not just of individuals.
The three aspects of this journey are the encounter with Christ, walking according to the Spirit, and searching for the Creator; Those who continue to demean Gutiérrez's orthodoxy should at least acknowledge that this is a clearly trinitarian formula. Throughout this section of the book, Gutiérrez bases his argument on the Gospels and the Pauline epistles (especially Romans 8 and Galatians 5). as well as on the thought of St. John of the Cross and Teresa of Ávila. The Pauline section is particularly helpful in distinguishing the various meanings of "flesh," "spirit" and "body.''
Having grounded his discussion of the communal nature of the Christian journey in Scripture and the history of- Catholic spirituality, Gutiérez returns in the final section to the contemporary world, offering a preliminary sketch of the spirituality needed for struggle within the societies that he has described. He develops five characteristics of such a spirituality: conversion, with its requirement for solidarity; gratuitousness, as creating the atmosphere for efficacy; joy, which seeks victory over suffering by going through the school of martyrdom to Easter victory; spiritual childhood, which emphasizes being "with the poor and against poverty"; and community, which must emerge out of the dark night of injustice and solitude.
But there is a second reason for offering a running outline of the themes of We Drink from Our Own Wells, which is to invite our own reading of the text. The book is important not only, and not mainly, as a theological event that disposes of a series of threadbare charges still being directed against its author. It is important simply because for anyone, whether in Latin America or elsewhere, it powerfully and beautifully provides a guide for "the spiritual journey of a people," a people of whom we too are a part. No one can read the biblical section without personal profit and spiritual enrichment, nor encounter the five proposed dimensions of a new spirituality without realizing how needed they are in our own lives, our own churches, our own society.
Realizing the gifts he brings us, I find it both dismaying and disheartening to see Gutiérrez once again under attack by heavy theological artillery from within his own church. Not only Catholics but all of us need his words, his witness and the example of his life. What is currently happening to him is not simply an intramural Catholic affair, but something that is important for the rest of the Christian family, and for all the poor and oppressed peoples everywhere who have found in Gutiérrez someone who not only speaks for them but stands with them. Many of us have been nurtured by this man; our faith has been deepened by encounters with his writings and his person. During our moments of anguish about the relevance of our faith to a parched world, he has encouraged us to keep working, to keep praying, to keep evangelizing, to keep acting, to keep drinking from our own wells so that we can all draw living water. We need his help in finding those wells whence the power of the spirit pours forth. We are all deprived when he has to turn his energies from struggling for the poor in order to defend himself against attack. We must work, hope and pray for his release from such constraints, so that he -- and we -- can turn with renewed commitment to the holy tasks of justice and love.
We began with the first words of Gutiérrez's book. We can do no better than conclude with the last:
Spirituality is a community enterprise. It is the passage of a people through the solitude and dangers of the desert, as it carves out its own way in the following of Jesus Christ. This spiritual experience is the well from which we must drink. From it we draw the promise of resurrection [p. 137].


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At 27, Ace is already a key player in the World Pro Surfers union and the decision making process that charts the future of competitive surfing. He's also the published author of a children's book and last year finished equal first with Owen Wright for the World Tour's "goofy-foot world championship" (or equal 7th overall). Here he discusses the handicap of having just one lefthand wave on tour, the Kelly effect, why Freddy P is wrong, and what we can expect from the tour in 2011 — if Dane Reynolds doesn't return. —Jed Smith
Ace: The standard has definitely gone up a notch. There are no easy heats anymore. You've gotta work hard for your points and for your wins. Everyone is really comfortable with the spots on tour and the wildcards that are coming through are getting better each year. Also, the guys that make it on tour are much better because there are fewer of them. That also probably reflects the WQS, which is held in a variety of waves now rather than pretty average beachbreaks.
Kelly is the front-runner to claim an 11th world title. What will it take to stop him?
It's so early in the year but he's obviously confident right now and having fun competing. They're two elements that are pretty lethal. He's so experienced when he gets into those [high-pressure] situations; he doesn't get flustered, and younger guys get flustered. I was excited when I had him needing an eight with five minutes to go (in Round 5 at the Quik Pro) but he got an eight. You've gotta be able to come through those situations and have what it's gonna take to beat him and produce your best surfing when you're under pressure.
Is he that much better than the rest of the tour or are there other factors to his success?
Talent wise, I don't think he's that much better than everyone. Obviously he's an extremely talented guy and he's got that experience. I think it's amazing that he's had that longevity. He's physically in great shape. He doesn't actually look like he's getting older. He still looks very fit and you'll look at peers that are his age and retired a few years ago, not naming any names, and they look ten years older than him. Being around young guys, you get to a point in your career when your brain is telling you can't keep doing these things anymore. But if you look after your body there is no reason why you can't. You see Kelly and hear his interviews and he's got that belief and sees no reason why he can't replicate his best surfing. I read an interview with him in the latest Surfing World [magazine] and he sees what Jordy and Owen and those guys do and he's kind of in awe. But then he's like, "If they can do it, I can do it."
There is a little bit more anticipation and excitement. He's definitely got a presence as a competitor. You build that up over years. The longer you're on tour you develop that persona or competitive alter ego. Kelly is definitely very comfortable paddling out for heats and being in that space. Kelly has that confidence. You've gotta have that confidence and expectation of a positive result. That's what competing is about. Whether you're making a shot or trying to execute a move, you've gotta have that expectation that it's gonna come off and obviously Kelly has that. When some guys come on tour you can feel that they're still feeling their way. Competitively, surfing is such a mental sport. A lot of it is about being comfortable within yourself.
Good surfing is gonna win you heats. You saw that on the [Gold Coast] with Kelly. He was able to mix it up in heats but he wasn't surfing super new school. Taj was the most exciting guy and he had a pretty innovative attack but he wasn't busting out many airs. And Tiago made the semis and he's just a really solid, powerful surfer. Good surfing, whether it is above the lip, in the barrel or on the face is gonna win you heats. And if you're maturing as a surfer and progressing. Dusty really showed that in the first event, that he'd gone away and worked on things that he failed to execute last year.
So you think there is an element of getting judged against yourself?
Yeah definitely, definitely. It shows when the surfer is surfing out of their skin or above their level. I think the judges see that as well.
Isn't that unfair though?
I don't think you're judged solely against yourself. You're against the surfer on the day but I think if I go out and do my best surfing and do a big air at the end, that will be [judged] different to someone who does airs often. The surfer has to show the judges different stuff. Last year they must have got sick of me doing five-thousand backhand reos. By the second to last event in Puerto Rico, they didn't want to see another one. That's when it comes down to being judged against yourself.
Dane Reynolds was absent from the opening event. What affect did that have on the level of surfing on show?
Obviously Dane is amazingly talented and we all watch his heats. It's hard to say. He's been hot and cold for the last few years. He did some of the best surfing all year at the Gold Coast last year. It was a bit of a shame not to see him and the waves this year would have really suited his surfing. I'm sure he would have been bummed not to be able to compete there but maybe this is what he needs — to step back and have a look and decide whether this is really what he wants to do now that it's been taken away from him. I'd love to see him competing and throwing everything at it.
Does Dane's absence affect the judging patterns of a contest and was his presence accelerating the progression of competitive surfing?
I wouldn't specifically pin it on him. With Dane or Kelly or Jordy, if someone puts in a benchmark performance in a round, the judges are going to look at that and say, "The bar has been raised. Here's what's possible." Dane did that in the quarterfinal against Joel last year. Would things have been different if he had been here this year? I don't know, but obviously those other guys have the ability to change the judging.
It's definitely an issue and it's becoming more out in the open. As a goofy footer you have to have a phenomenal backhand to stay on tour, 'cause we go right very often. I've been on tour for a while now and I'm really comfortable going right and at times I actually see it as an advantage. But I'd like to see more lefts on tour because I can't remember the last time I saw Kelly or Mick do a backhand reo. I think it would be great to get some more lefts on tour and it would show some more weaknesses, not only among the naturals but the goofies because we work on our backhands so much. I think it would be exciting to see the top guys go left a little bit more. Day in, day out, surf fans are going left and right. They don't wanna see guys just going right.
Freddy P was recently quoted as saying the new 35-man tour doesn't work and competitive surfing is headed in the wrong direction. Both of you are involved with the surfers' union — how do you feel about the changes and the direction the sport is moving in?
I disagree that the tour is moving in the wrong direction. The way that it happened and how the numbers got cut, things could have
been different. It was tough that the numbers were shortened and we all lost friends from tour and now it is more competitive and harder.
The argument is that we are becoming a global sport, and to encompass all those smaller nations, by having smaller numbers, we are limiting the opportunity of guys from smaller nations to get on tour. Three or four years down the track we might be able to reevaluate it, but I think it's working really well and I love the format. The way it is now you're seeing the best guys surf more and that's what surfing lacked. A few years ago with [a proposed] Top 16, I thought that was a step in the wrong direction. Look at tennis and the amount of hours you get to watch Federer or Nadal or Roddick on court, compared to the time you get to see Jordy or Kelly surfing. It's a big difference. The new format is definitely a step in the right direction in terms of seeing the best surfers surf more in the best waves.
Last year was a good year for me and re-establishing myself in the top ten was my goal. Top five this year. I'm enjoying competing more than ever. I'm excited about every stop. Surfing wise, I'm having fun trying different stuff and adding new moves to my repertoire like airs. Just to be there competing with the top guys is enough motivation for me to improve. As long as I'm motivated and passionate I'll enjoy it.


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Replacing standing rigging
We have a Cal 39 and the standing rigging is over 10 years old and the halyard has a fray. Plan to replace all rigging at once, including roller furler.
We sail frequently so want to decrease the down time. Another consideration is that we are poor so want to do this as cheaply as possible, and don't want to remove the mast.
Is it possible to do this ourselves? Did it before on a Catalina 30 with a tabernacle mast, but this is more complicated :)
Can get a discount at West Marine (Port Supply), but there may be a cheaper option?
Been told that Port Supply might have lower quality 316 stainless - is that true and should we be concerned?
So is it possible to do all this ourselves, including measuring? We're in Honolulu with constant winds - how can we accurately measure?
How do you start replacing cables with the mast in place?
Sorry for so many questions but any help is appreciated.
-Skipper and Mary Ann
Re: Replacing standing rigging
You can't replace the standing rigging unless you climb the mast and detach the shrouds and stays. You can hold the mast upright with a tightened halyard secured to the toerail but do you really want to climb the mast under those conditions? I wouldn't!
If you pull the mast you can detach and accurately measure the rigging and have new shrouds and stays made. Or you can do it youself with Stayloc or Norseman fittings.
The Pacific is large and unforgiving; do it right.
Re: Replacing standing rigging
If you have done it before you can do it again. Call Rigging Only or go to riggingonly.com. They will get you what you need and all the follow on support you need. I did my Alberg 30 last year with sta-locs, used old rigging as template....saved quite a bit of money and learned alot about rigging and systems involved. Good Luck!
Re: Replacing standing rigging
In some cases it can be better to take the mast down, send the old stuff to where it will be worked on, then they can make new stuff.
The fact that is is windy should not matter from a measuring standpoint. As long as you are using a true steel tape measure. These do not stretch, along with they should not be as effected by the wind as a fiberglass/plastic style tape will be. Or do early int he AM, as most places the wind is less in the morning that later in the day.
Being as you are possibly dealing with PS, IIRC the only places that have rigging shops is Seattle and California. Cliff in Seattle is pretty sharp. You will need to have everything measured up from the get go correctly, or it will not get down and sent back to you correctly either.
Re: Replacing standing rigging
If the mast hasn't been off the boat for 10 years it might be time for a thorough inspection.
It's easier to do with the mast down..
Replace the frayed halyard before starting to climb the mast, You need two good halyards to climb the mast.
Copying the old ones is the best way to get correct length, depending on how much the turnbuckle was tightened you may adjust the length of the new one. Riggers also adjust the length for stretch (don't have this number at hand)
Use screw on fittings of good quality (stalok or ..)
Or find a local rigger to put on swage terminals
If possible I would take the mast down, don't think the "downtime" is shorter with the mast up.
My rigger (who made the new wires when I replaced my rigging), does not replace standing rigging with the mast up.
Re: Replacing standing rigging
If you are comfortable in a chair or harness it is not hard to do from aloft. After loosening remove opposites in pairs for replacement. I watched a rigger (a pro admittedly) replace an entire rig on a Westsail 32 at the dock, including removing the spreaders for inspection, with a swaging machine on the dock. He had to answer my questions at the same time as well. :)
Re: Replacing standing rigging
Just to clarify.
We are talking about replacing all the wires.
He has got access to mast crane at his workshop.
The total time used is less by taking the mast down, and inspecting the mast is easier when down.
Re: Replacing standing rigging
A friend of mine replaced his standing rig at the dock, one wire at a time. He used StaLok or Norseman fittings (I forget which). I recall that he had built his own mast climber setup that functioned like the atn climber.
This was on a CT38. Big offshore performance cruiser.
So it reallly depends on your knowledge and skill level. Me - I'd hire a rigger! (And did so for our new rig.)
Re: Replacing standing rigging
How old is the standing rigging? 10 years is not that old unless there are issues.
Re: Replacing standing rigging
Their insurance company may want it done more often than that.
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Mark Shea's Blog: So That No Thought of Mine, No Matter How Stupid, Should Ever Go Unpublished Again!
"Always at the shadowy edge of human evil is the awareness that it trails off into a darkness where something is breathing: something that hates us and wills our destruction."
Well, Mark, that gave me the only chill I've had on Halloween in decades.
The night I decided to walk my dog all the way down the bike path to the cemetery and discovered that someone thought glow-in-the-dark gravestone inserts were a good idea gave me rather shiver. It was a foggy night with great spooky ambiance. T'was not Halloween, though.
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March Madness 2010: Last-Second Loss a Fitting End for TexasMarch 19, 2010
The clock was ticking.
Clinging to just a one point lead following two missed free throws by Gary Johnson, the Texas Longhorns were just seconds away from outlasting Wake Forest and moving on to the second round. All they needed was one stop.
A fade-away jumper later, Texas' hopes of finally finding a measure of success amidst their epic collapse came crashing down.
All senior Damion James could do was watch in disbelief from the bench after fouling out just minutes before.
The first day of the NCAA Tournament saw an array of thrilling overtime contests and epic buzzer-beaters, and Wake Forest-Texas followed suit.
The way the game ended for the Longhorns was shocking to those of us who put so much faith in them week in and week out, even when they aren't playing up to expectations, but it's the fact that they haven't played up to expectations in well over a month that makes the end of that game seem fitting.
Texas struggled all game long containing the speedy Ishmael Smith, as he was able to rip through the lane and bury open jumpers. The guy was unstoppable, finishing with 19 points (including the game winner), 12 rebounds, and seven assists.
Deacan star forward Al-Farouq Aminu made his presence felt as well, plowing his way to 20 points and 15 rebounds.
The Longhorns trailed by double figures twice during regulation, but they managed to dig their way back into the game in the closing minutes, riding the backs of Damion James and J'Covan Brown.
Enter free throw shooting woes.
Given a chance to perhaps win the game in the final nine seconds, Damion James walked to the free throw line. The first attempt hit the back of the rim, but managed to roll in to the basket. The second bounced off the rim.
It is worth noting that Texas shot a pathetic 63 percent from the charity stripe this season, so it's really no big surprise that they were unable to close it out when it mattered most.
In the opening moments of overtime, the Longhorns thundered out to a commanding eight point lead following back-to-back threes by J'Covan Brown and Jordan Hamilton.
"Big Mo" was firmly on Texas' side heading in to the final two minutes.
Enter more free throw shooting woes.
With the lead cut to four in the final 30 seconds, J'Covan Brown (90 percent from the line), was fouled and given two shots to stretch the Texas lead back to six.
He missed both.
The Deacans hurried back down the court and Ari Smith was left all alone in the corner. He buried the three.
With the Texas lead at just one point, Gary Johnson was fouled on the other end, sending him to the line for two and a chance to make it a three point game.
This is getting ridiculously predictable, isn't it?
Johnson missed both miserably, and the rest is history.
Those two missed free throws summed up an inexplicable season for Texas.
In January, we were all discussing how dominant Texas looked and whether they could truly win it all.
After starting 17-0, the Longhorns plummeted quickly, and we were left to discuss whether they deserved the rather generous No. 8 seed they received.
This is simply the case of a talented group of players who never quite figured out how to play as a team, despite every attempt by their head coach to motivate and teach them.
It was the kind of season where you scratch your head and wonder what could have been had this "team" realized its tremendous potential. I guess that's why they call it March Madness. Watching the Longhorns fall as quickly as they did was maddening for the burnt orange faithful.
I'll admit, I've been the ultimate optimist. I half expected this team to finally come together and play as a team. I expected them to fix issues in one week that have been tormenting them for the last six weeks.
I should have known it was going to end like this, and you have to think that somehow Rick Barnes knew it too.
A team can't succeed when they play mediocre defense, take bad shots, and miss key free throws down the stretch. Period.
The Longhorns have been guilty of all three in their late-season slump. Whether it was the inexperienced freshmen, the injury to Dogus Balbay, or the college basketball gods demanding some kind of tribute is irrelevant. This group gave up a long time ago.
It's a real shame. You wanna root for guys like Damion James and Dexter Pittman. You don't see a whole lot of fourth-year players with as much talent as these two. They had chances to go pro, but they stayed put because they cared enough about the team and bringing some kind of championship home to Austin.
They ended their Texas careers empty-handed.
So now Rick Barnes can head into the offseason and ponder what might have been. I can imagine he'll be losing a lot of sleep in the coming nights.
Despite all the recent gloom and doom, the future will always be bright in Austin becuase 1). Rick Barnes is still a very good head coach who will figure out a way to get this program back on track and 2). The talent level at Texas will always be top-notch.
It was just one of those years where you're left saying, "Maybe next year..."


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One of the most popular rootkit scanners on Linux is Chkrootkit [2]. The toolkit by Nelson Murilo and Klaus Steding-Jessen comprises a collection of small C programs specially written to detect a specific anomaly. After unpacking the archive, build the applications by typing
make sense
and then perform a trial run by typing ./chkrootkit (Figure 1). Unfortunately, the rootkit scanner calls various binary programs on the infected system. For this reason, you should always run these tools directly from a separate, clean medium such as a CD or DVD drive:
./chkrootkit -p /cdrom/bin
in order to avoid infection.
Rootkit Hunter
Just like Chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter also searches the infected system for specific characteristics that indicate the existence of a rootkit. Originally written by Michael Boelen, the tool was passed on to a team of developers in 2006, and the results are visible on SourceForge [3]. After downloading and unpacking the archive, become root and enter the following to build:
./installer.sh --layout custom . --install
Then change to the files subdirectory and modify the rkhunter.conf configuration file. The following command line starts the check
./rkhunter --check
In contrast to previous, simple scanners, OSSEC [4] launches a whole battery of functions (Figure 2). In addition to automatically performing period rootkit detection, it offers permanent monitoring and analysis of logfiles, integrity checks, and (rules-based) intrusion detection. The Rootcheck project has rootkit signatures up for grabs on its website [5].
OSSEC lets you set up a client/server team: Agents monitor the operating system on the client machines. Whenever a suspicious or atypical event occurs, a message is passed on to a central monitoring server, which then performs the analysis, draws conclusions, and raises the alarm if necessary.
To install OSSEC, just unpack the archive and type:
Say yes to all the prompts and choose local as the installation type, if you do not want to set up an agent/server operation.
Next, select one of the installation routine options for rootkit detection, then modify the configuration in /var/ossec/etc/ossec.conf, and launch OSSEC HIDS by typing
/var/ossec/bin/ossec-control start
The program then starts to monitor the target system.
In a default installation, the configuration file is stored in /etc/ossec-init.conf, with all other files in /var/ossec. Rootkit signatures are stored in the files rootkit_files.txt and rootkit_trojans.txt in /var/ossec/etc/shared.
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