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Pairing wines with Chinese food: It can be done
How do you pair a wine with Sichuan chicken (口水鸡) in peppercorn lava or sweet, saucy hongshao rou? Wine pairing with Chinese food is possible, but does require significant experience. Here's a list of suggestions, courtesy of the experts: sommeliers Jean-Marc Nolant of Park Hyatt Shanghai and Philippe Huser of Napa Valley Wine Bar & Restaurant.
Rule 1: Avoid foods that require dipping in vinegar
For meals that include foods like xiaolongbao, hargow and potstickers, Jean-Marc Nolant recommends to "just pass on the wine." According to Nolant, the acidity of vinegar can linger in your mouth and change your entire taste perception.
But dishes flavored with vinegar in the cooking process, say sweet and sour Zhejiang ribs, are more easily paired with wine since the vinegar is neutralized and caramelized with the sugar, explains Nolant. "A Malbec from Argentina, a typical New World type of flavor profile, perhaps with a plummy character and aroma of leather, dried tobacco, cedar and a bit of vanilla oak, would hold up [with this type of Chinese food]."
Rule 2: Make sure lighter flavored dishes are served first
In China, all your dishes are cooked and delivered to your table at the same time regardless of what "course" they belong to. Nolant recommends that three wines with distinct flavor profiles be served at a banquet style Chinese meal, or, at the very least, one red wine and one white wine. Wines have to be served from the lightest to strongest -- generally, that means white, then red -- for the structure and intensity of each to be fully understood, so dishes have to be served in that order as well.
"For example, if I give you a big Australian shiraz followed by a light pinot noir from Burgundy, chances are you won't fully appreciate the Burgundy," he explains. "That's why it's very important that the braised pork comes after the steamed garoupa."
Rule 3: Likewise, start with your white wine and then move on to red
In turn, lighter flavored dishes suit lighter wines (usually easy-drinking whites) while stronger wines (generally fruity reds), go with more heavily flavored foods. Moderately spiced dishes, like those served at Guyi, should pair with a simple, entry-level wine. For example, a fruity but dry Riesling, says Nolant.
More suggestions: a half-dry German Riesling would pair well with smoked fish and a South African Pinotage goes well with smoked meat.
Hongshao rou? Try a Syrah. Cha siu, try a young pinot noir. For durian, a Chardonnay with a creamy, buttery character will pair well, while Kou Shui Ji (口水鸡) calls for a crisp white from Alsace. Ultra-sweet Shanghainese classics like red dates or lotus stuffed with glutinous rice require a very fruitful wine with aromatic fruit and flowers in the bouquet.
The spicier the dish, the less complex and less dry your wine should be. "If it gets too spicy, then wine, beer and water all taste the same. Don't waste a complex wine on a numbed palate," Nolant adds.
Rule 4: Chinese food with Chinese wines? Yes, but select well
If you venture into Chinese wine, "Try a good Chinese wine like a Grace Vineyard Chardonnay -- it's high acidity, good value for money, very drinkable -- it would pair quite well with Chinese style steamed turbot," says Huser.
"I've never seen a vine on the Great Wall," Nolant comments considering the famous Great Wall wine brand. "You have to remember that 60 percent of wines imported into China are cheap bulk wines, from South Africa, Chile, Argentina, Spain. They arrive and are bottled as Chinese wine." Despite Great Wall, Dynasty ("at least they tell you it's 'nasty,'" says Nolant) and Changyu, there are some notably good Chinese wineries -- Grace Vineyard in Shanxi and Silver Heights in Ningxia.
Rule 5: Choose your wine based on the preparation rather than the ingredients
When it comes to Chinese food, the red wine with meat and white wine with seafood doesn't apply. "The method of cooking and flavorings determines 70-80 percent of the taste of a dish," says Nolant, "so if you have a fish in a soy-based sauce, then consider a red wine," recommends Huser.
Cantonese cuisine has more delicate flavors. So when you have dim sum, Huser says, you can try an aged Burgundy, which has few tannins, or alternatively, white wine.
Rule 6: Make sure your Chinese food and wine night is feasible
According to Huser, "Many Chinese restaurants do their wine lists according to what the supplier has. It's usually big names and a very limited selection. They may not know to store wine out of the sun, or serve the white wine chilled. The glassware can be a problem too." Be prepared to bring your own bottle in such cases. (If you do BYOB, check out our guide to Shanghai corkage fees.)
Also think about the occasion. Are you trying to impress an important Chinese client? Then choosing a wine with status may be more essential than making a great pairing. "In the high-end Chinese restaurants, there will be wine lists offering big Latour and Bordeaux. Maybe the people who order these love wine, or maybe it's for status," says Huser as 'face' is always something important to consider. "But when you're talking about truly legendary wines and wine lovers, it's time to forget about the food."
getting there
Park Hyatt Shanghai (in the Shanghai World Financial Center)
79-93/F, 100 Century Avenue
+86 21 6888 1234,
Napa Wine Bar & Kitchen
57 Jiangyin Lu, near Huangpi Bei Lu
江阴路57号, 近黄陂北路
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Neil, How long does it take you for 3 coats of FK1000P and the Colly, total time including curing?
Neil, How long does it take you for 3 coats of FK1000P and the Colly, total time including curing?
Nice job. Its good to see something a bit more "mundane" getting the treatment after all the exotica.
Schoolboy question what does "Washed 2BM" mean?
is that polish better than megwirers and auto glym
2BM = 2 Bucket Method, basically you have one bucket with your shampoo/suds etc and one rinse bucket.
You take your wash mit, dunk in shampoo, clean one panel (or half if its large) and rinse your wash mit in the rinse bucket, therefore ensuring - as best as possible, that dirt and contaminents remain in the rinse bucket and you dont drag them back over the car, inflicting swirl marks etc etc.
You can get grit-guards to keep the dirt away from the mit, bit I think you can do without and simply keep your mit near the top of the bucket.
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Neil, vehicles looking top now! Have you thought about replacing the steelies at all?!
Polish enhances and cleans the paint.
Wax/sealant protects and maintains the finish
Yeah I have thought about putting some alloys on it but not decided what I'm going to do yet next year, maybe a new van or a new toy
I dont actually use the van for mobile work anymore anyway everthing is now done in house and has been for around 3 years now, so the van is just purely for advertising and when I go to peoples houses to price up jobs
Neil, great work on the van. Always enjoy your posts, seeing the before & after. Can never understand why you see some valeters with van's which are an absolute state, what better advertisement than to have your van gleaming!
Anyway, was hoping you could answer a quick question for me. Just had my door repaired and painted, and the paint on the door is a slight shade lighter, not noticeable to most people, but I can spot it straight away.
Is there anything I can use which can make the panel appear a bit darker?
Thanks in advance.
It sound as though the body shop have not matched the paint correctly, not at all uncommon but if your not saitfied with the work they have done then your first point of call would be to go back to the body shop and raise your concerns with them.
Was the work done by an approved body shop or a smart repair?
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AS the cell door opened, the convicted triple killer emerged brandishing a broken bottle.
Raging Kevan Thakrar plunged the glass weapon into the upper left arm of prison officer Craig Wylde, cutting an artery.
Fellow guard Claire Lewis, just inches away, watched in horror as Craig's blood soaked through his uniform, and then began to pool at his feet.
Instinctively, she took two steps back, then turned and ran in fear for her life as 23-year-old Thakrar set off after her screaming: "I am going to kill you! I am going to kill you!"
Claire sprinted 60 yards past the cells of some of the most dangerous inmates in the country up on the second floor landing of County Durham's high security Frankland Prison, too scared to look back.
As she came to a corner, she lost her footing, with Thakrar just behind her.
He bounced off a wall because he was travelling at such speed, then Claire felt the sharp shattering blow of the broken bottle in her back.
"I honestly thought I was going to die on G-wing that day," says the mum-of-two.
"If it was not for Neil Walker, the colleague who came to rescue me, I'm convinced I'd be dead. The way Thakrar came out I knew straight away he was going to try and kill me. I looked at Craig and saw the red on his shirt, then a pool of blood on the floor. I got such a fright and just ran.
"He was shouting 'I'm going to kill you' and I slipped. I felt the broken bottle going into my back and the blood pumping out.
"On the CCTV footage of the attack, you can see the pure rage, you can see from the body language that he is after me. He was bouncing with fury.
"The only saving grace was a big piece of the bottle stuck in my back, so he could not use that in the attack on Neil, but he still slashed him across the face and head."
Claire awoke the day after the brutal assault – Mother's Day, 2010 – in a hospital bed. Her partner Ged Mulheran, 42, and two teenage children had been told of her horrific injuries in a telephone call to their home in Washington, Tyne and Wear. At first her family thought she had been murdered.
The attack was only the start of an ordeal which became even more harrowing when her attacker finally came to trial in November last year. Savage Thakrar was serving three life sentences for the killing of three men with a 1,000-round-a-minute machine gun over a £10,000 drug debt at the time.
His murder trial heard the gangster forced his victims to kneel on the ground before pumping them with bullets in August 2007, and also attempted to murder two women at the scene, who were seen as potential witnesses. When they survived, he was arrested as he tried to flee the country.
An internet campaign claimed he was the victim of a miscarriage of justice when he was sentenced to 35 years. He also alleged that he had been subjected to racial discrimination while inside jail.
When he was tried for attacking the prison officers he claimed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, brought on by earlier beatings at the hands of guards, made him lunge at Claire, 36, in a "pre-emptive strike".
He admitted lashing out but claimed it was in self-defence after enduring years of racist bullying and abuse.
Officers denied a "culture of racism" at the jail. During the trial Thakrar said he was sorry that the guards were hurt but said "it should not have come to that".
A jury at Newcastle crown court cleared Thakrar of attempting to murder Claire and Craig, and wounding Neil, after a trial lasting three and a half weeks. The verdict sent shock waves through the entire prison system.
Steve Gillan, general secretary of the Prison Officers Association, said: "The POA is of the opinion that there is something wrong with the court system when a convicted murderer admits he attacked prison officers, but is then acquitted after he is charged in relation to this offence, regardless of his emotional or mental state at the time."
Durham Police deputy chief constable Mike Barton called the verdict "incomprehensible, unbelievable and flabbergasting". Ex-Frankland governor David Thompson added: "Staff feel let down." However, the jury believed Thakrar.
And Mark Leech, editor of national prisoners' newspaper Converse, said: "Of course prison officers do not deserve to be assaulted, that goes without saying, but all the evidence in this case pointed to Kevan Thakrar suffering from PTSD, and David Thompson does himself nor the Prison Service any credit by simply dismissing that out of hand."
But in a cruel twist, which only adds to Claire's feelings of injustice and despair, now SHE has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, unable to banish the horrific violent images of Thakrar's attack. She regularly wakes at night in a cold sweat haunted by images of the incident, the pool of blood at Craig's feet, the feeling of the weapon lodged in her back.
"The force of the blow left the glass in my back," Claire says. "I have severe PTSD, I cannot go out by myself any more, I am suffering terrible depression because I cannot go back to the job that I loved.
"I cannot sleep at night because of the nightmares. I really am a completely different person to the woman I was before the attack.
"I used to be the life and soul of the party, now I am really quiet and withdrawn all the time. It has had an absolutely devastating effect on both me and my family."
Devastated Claire, who can no longer do the job she loved, continues: "It has totally destroyed me, not just the injuries but also the impact of the trial.
"I have lost all my confidence. The attack was the day before Mother's Day. That is a Mother's Day I'll never forget.
"I hope the case can at least highlight the dangers which my former colleagues face every day, because I think the Prison Service is the forgotten service, yet it deals with highly dangerous people every day."
The Mirror was allowed to watch the harrowing CCTV footage of the prison attack.
In the opening seconds of the eight-minute clip, Thakrar opens his cell door and lunges at Craig Wylde with a broken bottle. He just misses the prison officer's chest but cuts open an artery in his upper left arm.
Sickeningly, the first officer to come to his aid slips and falls in the pool of Craig's blood. Craig runs off in one direction on the landing with blood still pouring from the wound as Claire runs in the other.
Thakrar chases Claire, catching her as she slips, and plunges the broken bottle into her back. She jumps in pain but keeps running.
Courageous officer Neil Walker then tackles Thakrar who slashes him across the face and body, lashing out as he is taken down. It takes six officers to finally subdue Thakrar.
Attacks on prison wardens are falling by one per cent a year, according to official figures. The Ministry of Justice claims that 2,856 prison staff were assaulted over one year, and 304 cases were classed as serious.
But the Professional Trades Union for Prison, Correctional and Secure Psychiatric Workers strongly disputes the statistics.
Spokesman Glyn Travis said: "The attacks are going up every year. One of the biggest problems we face is staff not reporting assaults for fear of retribution."
The prison population of England and Wales reached a record high in November of 87,749 – just 1,650 below the operational capacity.
There are another 8,222 prisoners in Scotland's 15 jails.


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"Honey Boo Boo Makes A Farting Game" And Other Celebrity News No One Cares About
Nothing about this week's title should sound surprising. And it isn't.
"Farting can be healthy and fun," says the 7 year old.
The Honey Boo Boo crew is at it again, but this time with a helpful contribution to society known as the "Doorknob Game." The rules include running to the nearest doorknob if you are guilty of flatulence, and until you do, the other people in the room are allowed to beat you up.
Just as an FYI, there are people in other countries who probably have to run away from tigers every day just to get drinking water from a hole in the ground while we sit in our A/C and watch crap like this:
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Here's some more garbage to fill your brain with in case that wasn't enough.
- Zooey Deschanel thinks the Internet is mean! She's right though. Except maybe if she would get rid of those stupid f&%*ing bangs and had a normal name like "Beth" she wouldn't be such a worthless human being. (JK, Zooey, do you see what I did there?)
- Geena Davis is still hot.
- Lady Gaga gets naked, wears some weird cone thing on her face and lays in the woods. What else is new? (NSFW)
- Snooki's baby spotted being carried by Mrs. Potato Head.
- When Brocks Forester blindsided and devastated Bachelorette contestant Desiree Hartsock with his own willful departure on the show, she almost gave up on love. But then 30 seconds later she was happily engaged to Chris Siegfried, who's just some dude she's known for a few weeks and had everything documented with and broadcasted to the entire nation. A true fairy tale.


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March 25, 1985, Monday, Late City Final Edition Section C; Page 17, Column 1; Cultural Desk
By Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
BLACK ROBE. By Brian Moore. 246
pages. Dutton. $15.95. As Brian Moore explains in an author's note that precedes the opening of his unusual new novel, ''Black Robe'': ''A few years ago, in Graham Greene's 'Collected Essays', I came upon his discussion of 'The Jesuits of North America,' the celebrated work by the American historian Francis Parkman (1823-1893).''
A passage cited by Greene, about the extraordinary dedication of one particular 17th-century Jesuit Father, led Mr. Moore to read Parkman's great work and to discover that his main source was the ''Relations,'' the voluminous letters that the Jesuits sent back to their superiors in France. In the ''Relations'' themselves - and in ''their deeply moving reports'' revealing ''an unknown and unpredictable world'' - Mr. Moore found the inspiration for ''Black Robe.''
If the route to his material is somewhat remote, the ground he arrives at will be familiar enough to anyone who has followed Brian Moore's fertile and inventive career as the author of 14 novels, among them ''The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne,'' ''The Luck of Ginger Coffey,'' ''The Emperor of Ice Cream,'' ''The Great Victorian Collection,'' and his last, ''Cold Heaven.'' For it is understanding God's mysterious ways that concerns Mr. Moore in this imagined account of a dangerous trek through the wilderness north of Samuel de Champlain's Quebec settlement.
Whose version of the spiritual realm was more valid, Mr. Moore seems to be asking - ''the Indian belief in a world of night and in the power of dreams'' or ''the Jesuits' preachments of Christianity and a paradise after death''? Could one set of beliefs be comprehended by followers of the other? What if Christianity was actually inimical to ''Les Sauvages'', as the Indians were collectively known to the French? What if the Jesuit fathers, or ''Blackrobes,'' as the Indians called them, were corrupted by savage spirits?
If this summation makes ''Black Robe'' sound like thesis fiction, it is not altogether misleading. ''This novel is an attempt to show,'' Mr. Moore concludes his introductory note, ''that each of these beliefs inspired in the other fear, hostility, and despair, which later would result in the destruction and abandonment of the Jesuit missions, and the conquest of the Huron people by the Iroquois, their deadly enemy.''
Yet if he is painting by the numbers, he has done an admirable job of modulating the colors within the spaces of his canvas. A reader is immediately intrigued with the figure of Father Laforgue, the guilt-infested missionary who is trying to reach an Indian community up north where disease has broken out and a priest has been murdered. Mr. Moore's unadorned but evocative prose creates a powerful sense of the lonely North American wilderness. ''The day passed. The sun, high in the sky, dipped until it barely cleared the tops of the trees. A wind rippled the water into waves, a wind which numbed Laforgue's cheeks. He remembered what Father Bourque had told him of a second false summer which came in mid-October, bringing a few days of heat at the end of the autumnal season. That false summer was ending. Winter was near.''
Mr. Moore has done a particularly good job of representing the Indians, succumbing to neither the noble-savage nor the lo-the-poor-Indian cliche, but instead representing what is known to have been their obscene and joshing banter with a liberal dollop of four-letter words. Most admirably of all, he has balanced perfectly the two spiritual worlds. When Laforgue recovers suddenly from an illness for which his Indian escorts are threatening to kill and ditch him, it might with equal plausibility be credited to the God to which he prays, or a humpbacked Indian sorcerer who is convinced Laforgue is possessed by a demon, or just plain chance.
The novel's realism breaks down only in the speed with which Laforgue and an Algonquin family recover from the tortures inflicted upon them by some Iroquois who capture them. It is a necessary part of Mr. Moore's grand design to illustrate both how and why the Indians ''practiced ritual cannibalism and, for reasons of religion, subjected their enemies to prolonged and unbearable tortures.'' Yet having made his point - in scenes where the Iroquois ''caress'' their victims most horrifyingly - he hurries on a little hastily, and the reader must wince in sympathetic pain at what their injured persons are asked to perform.
But it is with spirits and not bodies that Brian Moore is ultimately concerned. And it is spirits that finally suffer the real and lasting damage in ''Black Robe.'' ''We have become as bad as the Normans themselves,'' argues one Algonquin leader, referring of course to the French. ''We have become greedy and stupid like the hairy ones.''
And at the point where the plague- ridden Indians finally accept the offer of baptism out of fear that the priests have cast a spell on them, Laforgue reflects, ''What are these baptisms but a mockery of the Church, of all the saintly stories we have read of saving barbarians for Christ?''
Yet despite these realizations both the Indians and the priests continue to work at cross purposes. The result is inevitable and tragic - the mutual destruction of their souls.


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The character, quality, and connectivity of the pedestrian network vary greatly throughout the city. In some neighborhoods, Seattle has achieved a high level of walkability. Neighborhoods such as Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Wallingford, Columbia City, and Ballard have a commercial core that serves as a hub of activity and is easily accessible on foot. And yet, these accomplishments do not extend to all of Seattle's neighborhoods, many of which have streets lacking sidewalks, curb ramps, and other pedestrian infrastructure.
Walking conditions along and across streets with high traffic volumes are challenging, especially in locations that have long blocks and more suburban-scaled land uses . Free-flowing on-ramps and off-ramps for highways and major arterial roads can make pedestrian access difficult in some areas.
Physical characteristics that are more automobile-oriented often result in difficult conditions for pedestrians, poor access to transit, lack of destinations and services within walking distance to residences, and other issues that make walking a less viable mode of transportation. The pedestrian environment in Seattle is also shaped by things like parks, civic land uses, the availability of transit, and private development along roads.
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For the last time guys… Ghostbusters proton packs are NOT responsible for the "sparks" in sparkfuns website/products… Thats the customers doint it!!!!
thank you robert
If only there was a "like" button apart from "reply" and "report" :-D
Our new Radioaactive gamma suit also comes with a space for a backup driver..
Exhibit A : Under such circumstances when prolonged exposure to the green radioactive renders you incapable of moving, another human can then get into the pillion/driving/walking assist seat and navigate you…
If i can just get into the suit without killing myself…..
A Bit late i suppose for these kind of questions
But i have had one sitting in my desk for ages…
and i would like to just use it…
i do have a GPS LNA 661AS but i was wondering if i could use it with any of maxims GPS LNA?
( You just have to love Maxim and TI for their sample support program)
I have currently MAX2655, 2659 and a MAX12000 for this purpose
and i wanted to confirm that one of these could be used as a replacement for the LNA661 before i even started the schematic/layout
Thanks in advance
I always wondered why this Salea analyzer when you can have an openlogic sniffer with twice the performance for half the price…..
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hi5 to charlie for the awesome job
a long time since the last comment but nevertheless
i picked one up with the connector from the store.
A great deal must say getting the lcd for $29.95
Dare i ask for a brief tutorial or a walkthrough
I see there is one website given below
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I can think of atleast four applications right now where i can use this..
Cant wait till i get the knock of the postman on the front door with this package…
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Baseboard heaters ignoring thermostat
Hi All
I'm refinishing my basement and I installed two 6' Marley Farenheat 2500 Series Electric Baseboard Heaters. I'm trying to control them with a Honeywell RLV430 tstat which is rated for 220v. The tstat only has two black wires on the back. As instructed by Honeywell, I've connected the black from the feed to one of those wires, and the black from the line out to the other. I've wire-capped the white. I'm using 12/3 so there's a red in there too that I'm not using. I've connected the heaters as shown in the instructions. When I throw the 2-pole breaker, they both come on and stay on at full tilt. Unfortunately, this tstat has no "off" mode, you can only turn the heat way down which I did. I gave it time but both heaters continued to blast. Please help.
Can you take a picture of the thermostat connections?
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Here you go. As you can see, the blacks are attached to the tstat and the whites are wire-nutted together. The reds are not hooked up so they're just taped off. The ground is hooked up back there too.
Looks right. Are you sure there isn't a manual override mode that is coming on? If you had a meter you could test the load connection to see if the thermostat is actually breaking the connection when the call for heat is satisfied.
I've programmed the tstat fully to be 40 degrees in every mode, both auto and manual, and for every time period that was pre-programmed. I do have a meter, but I'm not very good w/ it. Where should I take a reading and on what setting?
Also, what is the total connected load here? Is it more than the rated 14.6A? If it is way more than that, the relay contacts may have welded closed the first time it turned on.
How is your 12/3 connected at the panel and at the heaters?
What colour wires are attached to the breaker? What colour wires are connected at the heater? Are those two reds connected together or just taped up? They should have nuts on them not just tape, even if not used.
Thanks everyone
Hi all.
after taking various people's advice and an hour long call w/ Honeywell, I've tracked it down to a faulty tstat. I just exchanged it at HD and it works fine.
Thanks again.
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Kernel Holding in the WIG20
- The first Ukrainian and second foreign company included in the WIG20 index.
- Kernel Holding's capitalization has grown fourfold in three years.
The dynamic expansion of Kernel Holding, and its promotion to the index incorporating the largest and most traded companies on the WSE, is an example of the business success which a listing on the Warsaw exchange can bring to Ukrainian issuers. The second Ukrainian company to be listed on the WSE – Kernel Holding – débuted on 23 November 2007, raising more than 400 million zloty from the sale of newly issued shares. Thanks to that issue, a good development strategy and effective management, the company's market value has grown more than fourfold since that time, going from 1.5 to 6.1 billion PLN.
"The inclusion of Kernel in the WIG 20 index is a very important step for our Company. It is a tribute to the vitality of our business and to the significant growth we have achieved over the 3 years since we have been listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. (...) Undoubtedly, this event brings Kernel and Ukraine under the spotlight of the international investment community: it will provide a further opportunity to highlight the quality of our Company and the investment opportunities in the agribusiness of Ukraine." - Andrey Verevskyy, Chairman of the Board of Kernel Holding stated.
Kernel Holding's success has assured the company a prominent position not only on the WSE. In May 2010 it became one of the companies making up the MSCI Emerging Markets index, which is used by global investors to analyse the economic situation in developing markets.
Kernel will be the second foreign company included in the WIG20 index (the first being CEZ, from the Czech Republic). The change will be made at the annual revision following the trading session on 18 March 2011.
Ukrainian issuers are attracting a great deal of interest from investors on the WSE. Six companies from that country have so far chosen the Warsaw exchange as a platform for financing and secondary trading: Agroliga Group, Agroton, Astarta Holding, Kernel Holding, Milkiland and Sadovaya Group. Further companies from beyond Poland's eastern border are planning débuts on the WSE.
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HPDE in Focus?
I just got my 2012 Focus SE and I'm hoping to get to an HPDE in the spring here in lovely VA. I got the sport package so the rear brakes are of a disk orientation, but I plan to add a set of 17's with a track oriented tire (probably some kind of high perf summer tire). Are there any other considerations I need particular to this car? I have had a couple of days with other higher perf cars on the track that were already set up for track time, and want to make sure I don't damage anything. I know enough to know that I'm not a very good driver (20 minutes in the passenger seat of a Noble with an experienced driver can open one's eyes pretty effing wide)
Do I need an alignment, or anything like that? Anything guaranted to break after 15min of hard driving? Any recommendations like "track pads would be good, but not necessary"?
Thanks in advance. I'm really interested in info from people who have track experience because there is no substitute for it.
Dot 4 brake fluid and hawk, or equivalent, brake pads. A good set of tires would help a lot. I would recommend a dedicated set of wheels/tires. I also wouldn't mess with the suspension right away unless you are having issues. Get started and make changes as your experience dictates.
Good idea on the brake fluid. I figured brake pads and wheels/tires - on top of the OBVIOUS stuff like go-fast stickers and a sub in the trunk. I'm good picking out tires, but the rims is what gets me. I don't want to spend a ton of money on dedicated rims, but finding the right offset and boltpattern is greek to me. And I don't speak Greek. I know the tirerack is a great place to shop, but I'd prefer used.
See if you can find some used stock focus rims, that may be the cheapest , also I would consider 16" rims. 16" tires tend to be less expensive.
Will previous generation Focus rims fit? I suppose I should use the search function for that.
I'm thinking I might go up an inch for the handling gains. I'm all about saving money, but I'll appreciate the difference. That being said, if I can find a set of rims for a song and a dance, that might be the deciding factor.
If you make sure the car is in good working order beforehand, just go out there and have fun; be safe and set some time aside afterwards to do fluid changes and go back over the car.
If you plan on beating on the car, fresh fluids and faster change intervals are going to prevent/prolong internal wear from extended driving with overheated or dirty fluids.
I'm a stickler for maintaining my things, so I am positive it will be going to the track in good order.
Given my previous forrays onto the track, I expect to be expending more energy trying to drive smoothly than anything else, but going back over the car afterwards is good advice. Good rubber and driver education are probably the two most important "go fast and go safe" improvements one can make, I suppose. I've always thought the best modification a driver can make with $500 is a day at the track with an instructor.
The previous gen Focus rims won't fit. The Bolt pattern is different. Find a good tire shop that sells used rims. The bolt pattern of some previous gen Lincoln, Ford, Volvo, and Jaguar fit the MKIII Focus (5X108). I used Volvo (S40) rims for my winter wheels.
I wouldn't worry about the 16's vs 17's unless you are planning on upgrading the rotors to ones that won't fit on a 16 inch wheel. If you are going to go through rubber, smaller wheels are better. They should be lighter too. If you pick a good tire, I wouldn't worry.
also depending on how hot it is you might want to switch out your power steering fluid. i havent raced the focus on a road course but in my mustang after about 15 minutes in 90+ heat my steering started getting pretty damn heavy bc the fluid was boiling
HPS pads, Ford Heavy Duty brake fluid (if you're going to be changing fluid requently might as well save a couple of bucks), and SS brake lines (not needed right away, but make a big difference, at least on older cars).
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From The Rebelution by Brett Harris in "Defending the Second Amendment" "Purging our society of violence and murder cannot be done by gun control legislation." She continues, saying that in passing legislation,"You are not eliminating guns from society … [Read more...]
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A diagnosis of an early stage of Alzheimer's disease hasn't stopped cookbook author Paula Wolfert's decades-long career with food. But it has changed the direction.
The 76-year-old Wolfert, renowned for classics like "Couscous and Other Good Food from Morocco," has been diagnosed with a variant of Benson's syndrome, a rare condition related to Alzheimer's.
That was the end of following the complex, meticulous recipes for which she's known. But it was the beginning of looking at food in terms of healing, rather than hedonistic properties, as well as speaking frankly about the disease in hopes of encouraging others who think they might have a problem to get tested, and treated, sooner rather than later.


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Hawthorne Man Arrested in Connection to Human Trafficking Case
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- A Hawthorne man arrested in Marion County for possessing crack cocaine is facing extradition to Gainesville for his alleged involvement in a human trafficking case.
According to Gainesville police, 31-year-old Mikal Craig of Hawthorne met his victim -- who is a female over 18 years-old -- at a party in Keystone back in early March.
In her interview with police, the victim says she blacked out at that party, but later regained consciousness while at Craig's home in Hawthorne.
The victim told police she suffers from substance abuse issues -- something she says Craig took advantage of by offering to supply her with drugs and promising to keep her safe if she agreed to stay with him.
But according to the arrest report, it was only a matter of days before Craig told the victim she could begin earning money by having sex with people he found online.
"The victim was taken to a plethora of locations in and around Alachua County, a lot of hotels and motels in the city of Gainesville," said Lt. Will Halvosa of GPD. "He was setting up sexual encounters for the victim to be taken advantage of."
The victim told police Craig kept all the money she would make, and whenever she would try to leave, he would threaten her.
Police say this continued for several weeks until the victim managed to get away, and call her family, who then reported the incident to GPD.
FDLE agents arrested Craig in Ocala on Wednesday night after an investigator spotted his car outside of a Days Inn. Upon his arrest, Craig admitted to police he had crack cocaine in his possession.
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For eight hours on Tuesday Tribe managerial candidate Manny Acta meet with key members of the Indians front office and then took questions from the media before dashing off to the airport to make a 4:15 p.m. flight home.
It was a day full of thought-provoking questions in addition to a thourough background check as the two sides discussed a range of subjects from Acta's background having grown up in the Domincan Republic to his thoughts on who'd he'd like to bring in to join his coaching staff if hired.
In additon to Acta, the Indians are also expected to bring to Cleveland to interview veteran manager Bobby Valentine (who has spent the last six years managing in Japan), Indians Triple-A Columbus manager Torrey Lovullo and two other unnamed candidates, one of which is widely believed to be Don Mattingly.
In a brief session with the media, Acta gave good insight into the type of manager he will be, whether in Cleveland or Houston - the organization who originally drafted him and for whom he has prior experience coaching for.
Below you will find some of the questions and Acta's responses from Tuesday's sit-down with the media:
Q) How has your two years managing for the Washington Nationals prepared you to manage elsewhere?:
A) Let's be realistic, everybody in this town and in every town in America would want a top-notch guy like a Joe Torre or a Tony LaRussa to walk in and manange their club. But the reality is those guys don't go for those kind of (rebuilding) jobs. Everyone of them already paid their dues, and those types of jobs go to guys like me at the beginning. I needed to get my feet in the door and I was in no position to turn down a job like (Washington). I felt it was important for me to start my managerial career and I took advantage of it...I have absolutely no regret - I knew what I was getting into.
Q) How different is the situation you walked into at Washington compared to here in Cleveland?
A) This is far away advanced. The Indians have a lot more pieces in place. In D.C., we were looking to identify the 25 core guys to continue rebuilding the franchise. Here, you have pretty much a whole lineup in place with exciting young players. Now it's just moving forward and bringing in a little bit of a supporting cast and get ready to bring some exciting times to Cleveland.
Q) What kind of manager are you?
A) I'm a common sense kind of manager. I'm a guy who brings a lot of positive energy and communication skills.
Q) What do you bring to the table that separates you from the other candidates?
A) I just try to be myself...I've already paid my dues for a rebuilding process. Baseball people know what we went through (in Washington), how our character was tested for two and a half years and we didn't break down. So we are ready to move on, take this talent and move to the next level.
Q) What do you think about the Indians current pitching staff compared to the one you inherited in Washington and who would you handle it?
A) It's different here (than in Washington) because you have guys who have already been in the big leagues for years. The game in the American League is different than in the National League, you don't have to worry pinch-hitting and doing double switches. Hopefully here, Fausto (Carmona) can bounce back and we can get Jake (Westbrook) back for spring training - and that's going to be a big part of the battle.
Q) What would you do differently this time around?
A) It's a different scenerio. Over there, there weren't that many pieces in place. Here, it's just about bringing the right attitude right off the bat and convincing the club and making them believe that with a little bit of improvement in our bullpen and starting rotation, we're ready to win here because this division is probably the most balanced one in baseball. It's a division where every year everyone comes in with hopes that they can win it.
Q) What is the most important thing a manager has to do?
A) I think it's the communication...This is a job where handling people and working with people is the key.
Q) How much time did you spend studying the Indians before coming to interview?
A) Like the baseball motto, I live for this. This is what I do...I could probably talk to you about the other 29 clubs, too, because this is what I do. But don't ask me about the Browns, I'm going to support them because I'm here, but I'm not very good at football...I did research on the club, I actually spent the last month of the season (watching) late at night, so I'm familiar with (the Indians)...(The team) has a good core of players. There's already an offense in place that if Grady (Sizemore) would have been healthy all season and (Travis) Hafner would have been healthy and Jhonny (Peralta) would have had his typical year, that's as good as it gets in the (American League) Central.
Q) How do you put together a successful bullpen and how do you handle it?
A) In the American League you basically need power arms, and we're in the right direction here. You look at the numbers, a lot of the guys we have here are able to miss bats when you look at the strikeout ratio. I think the bullpen here has a chance to be very good. Guys like Chris Perez can be huge for this bullpen. We already have (closer) Kerry Wood and Jensen Lewis has been a good pitcher here out of the pen since 2007...I think this bullpen can come around. I like to have some balance. I would love to have a minimum of two lefties in the bullpen who can get lefties out. I would also love to have a guy from the right side and the left side who can pitch multiple innings.
Q) When did you know you wanted to be a manager?
A) When I was 22 years old, the Houston Astros told me to my face I wasn't good enough to play in the big leagues. Since that was my goal, it was pretty tough to swallow in the beginning. Then I just made the goal that if I can't make it as a player, now you're going to have to make it as a coach. So I went down there in the minor leagues and worked very hard. Now that I made it as a manager, my goal is to become a mainstay manager in the major leagues, to manage for 20, 25 years with those top five, six guys that you guys know about and eventually win some championships.


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Roy Williams expects that his 2012-13 Tar Heels will once again have balance, as he has emphasized in his previous nine seasons as Carolina's head coach. It's just that this year, he expects a different kind of balance.
Williams's two national championship teams at UNC have been anchored by dominant post men. Sean May turned in one of the best postseasons in Tar Heel history in helping Carolina to the 2005 championship. The 2009 club, which had the most dominating NCAA Tournament of any Tar Heel club ever, featured the school's all-time leading scorer, Tyler Hansbrough, in the post.
"I've always felt we have to have balance," the head coach says. "With our teams, we've had balance, but maybe it's been skewed towards the post. Now it's going to be skewed a little bit in the other direction."
Williams hasn't had a sudden change of heart and suddenly eschewed the Dean Smith formula of looking inside first. But he is a realist, and he knows the post depth is as thin as it's ever been in his tenure in Chapel Hill. There's James Michael McAdoo, who the coach noted is probably "more comfortable in the mid-range than in the post right now."
After McAdoo there's, well, a few question marks, made up primarily of sophomore Desmond Hubert, freshmen Brice Johnson and Joel James, and sophomore Jackson Simmons. That's forced Williams to reevaluate his 2013 club.
"You look at what the strengths and weaknesses are with every club," he says. "If you look at this team, you'd have to say we don't have any of those players like a Sean May or a Tyler Hansbrough or a Tyler Zeller or a John Henson who has proven over an entire season they can score inside. So where is our scoring going to come from?"
It's probably going to have to come from the perimeter. The perception of Carolina as an inside-oriented team dates back to Smith, and there's some truth in it. The legendary coach's philosophy was pretty simple: where are players most likely to make a shot? Near the hoop. Where should his teams take the most shots? Near the hoop.
But there's also some truth in the fact that the very best Tar Heel teams have had very good outside shooting. Wayne Ellington was the 2009 Final Four Most Outstanding Player and ranks second all-time at Carolina in three-pointers made. Rashad McCants, from the 2005 national champions, is right behind him in third place. They are the only two Williams-era players in the top seven on that list.
It hasn't just been brute force since 2003. Two of the top three seasons in school history in three-point attempts have come since 2003. In the Williams era, Carolina is 135-13 (.912) in games when it has hit at least 38 percent from the three-point line.
So, how often can they do that this year? That's the key question. The best career three-point shooter among the returning Tar Heels is Reggie Bullock, at 35.2%. The wild card is P.J. Hairston, who alternately exceled and struggled as a freshman before ending the season in a slump.
The Greensboro native says the addition of Hubert Davis to the coaching staff will have a positive effect on the team's perimeter shooting. "He was one of the best shooters in the history of the NBA," Hairston says. "Why wouldn't I listen to him? When you can get that advice coming from a fellow shooter, for a shooter, that's so valuable."
It's coincidence that in Davis's first year on the bench, the Tar Heels suddenly have a roster built much more in his image. Williams still believes in pounding it inside. But he also believes in winning games, and he knows this particular team might have to achieve that goal in an unusual--for Carolina--fashion.
"We have Reggie," Williams says. "We have P.J. We have Leslie (McDonald). We have some people who can really shoot the basketball. P.J. has to prove he can do it in a game consistently. But that's where a lot of our scoring can come from. We are going to emphasize the three-point shot a little more.
"We're going to work like crazy with James Michael and Joel and Brice and Desmond to give us that balance I've always felt we have to have. But if these perimeter guys can shoot the ball as well as I think they can, we've got to have them in a position to get better shots."
Adam Lucas is the publisher of Tar Heel Monthly and the author or co-author of seven books on the Tar Heels.


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The Ford Fusion "greens up" for the 2013 model year with continued use of sustainable materials.
American automaker Ford introduces the all-new 2013 Fusion model that is made with sustainable materials. The "green" car employs green solutions to reduce petroleum-based content such as seat fabrics and interior plastics. Among the production materials, the company has added the use of recycled cotton, clear plastic bottles and soybeans. The Fusion's aerodynamically fuel-efficient body can be converted into:
- Denim material equivalent to slightly more than two average-sized pairs of blue jeans
- 38.9 clear plastic 16-ounce recycled bottles
- About 31,250 soybeans
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Building vehicles with great fuel economy is our highest priority in reducing impact on the environment. With every new product design, we also are charged with increasing the use of renewable and recyclable materials in our cars, utilities and trucks to reduce impact on the environment.
It is estimated that the materials from recycled automotive battery casings on the Fusion will utilize close to 2 million pounds of recycled plastic per year. In addition, Ford's use of soy foam has already reduced petroleum production by more than 5 million pounds and carbon dioxide emissions by more than 20 million pounds annually.


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Celebrating Foodland's 63rd Anniversary
As our company celebrates its 63rd anniversary this week, I can't help but think about what it must have been like on May 6th, 1948 when our founders, Irish immigrant "Sully" Sullivan and his Chinese immigrant future mother-in law, "Mama" Lau opened the doors to the first Foodland at the corner of Kapiolani and Harding Avenues in Honolulu. I've heard the story of that day so many times and looked at the photos so often that if I close my eyes I can almost feel the pride, excitement and ... more »
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Pirate Brands, the maker of delicious snack, Pirate's Booty, has teamed up with Walt Disney Pictures to help promote the upcoming "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" movie. You may remember pirate ships floating around the windward side of Oahu last year as they were filming the movie right here in Hawaii. Pirate's Booty has released a limited edition "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" themed package of Aged White Cheddar Pirate's Booty.
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ColdFyyre Ice Cream, made in Hawaii
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If you do, then you have got to try these Mini Cucumbers grown in Kahuku by Ho Farms.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Second-team Academic All-America Marcus Paige led four University of North Carolina men's basketball players named to the 2013-14 Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll, announced on Thursday by the league. Joining Paige on the list are teammates Luke Davis, James Manor and Wade Moody.
A record 347 UNC student-athletes earned the honor, up from last year's record 329.
"All of us in the Academic Support Program and the Department of Athletics are proud of the UNC student-athletes who have earned this honor," said Michelle Brown, Director of the Academic Support Program. "They do an outstanding job of balancing their responsibilities and excelling in both athletics and academics. I'm very pleased that we've had a record number of student-athletes honored the past two years - it's our goal to keep increasing the number of Tar Heel student-athletes who are recognized."
The ACC Academic Honor Roll is comprised of student-athletes who participated in a varsity-level sport and registered a grade point average of 3.0 or better for the full academic year. A record 3,967 student-athletes earned spots on the 58th annual list.
Duke led all schools with an ACC-record 494 student-athletes recognized, eclipsing its own mark of 474 set last year. Boston College followed with 402 honorees, and Notre Dame saw 397 student-athletes achieve Honor Roll status following its first year of ACC membership.
North Carolina saw 347 student-athletes recognized, followed by Virginia with 305, Virginia Tech with 232, NC State with 230, Syracuse with 229, Maryland with 224, Pitt with 213, Florida State with 202, Clemson with 198, Wake Forest with 183, Georgia Tech with 159 and Miami with 152.
Four Tar Heels are among the 32 conference student-athletes honored for the fifth time in their careers. Those honored a fifth time were Meghan Drake (field hockey), Michelle Ikoma (gymnastics), Meredith Magjuka (gymnastics) and Ashley Miess (track and field).
Additionally, two Tar Heels were among the nine ACC Freshmen of the Year honored. They are Sydney Holman (women's lacrosse) and Hayley Carter (women's tennis).
For a list of all UNC student-athletes honored, click here.
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sorry for the decline but you should submit this to the weather theme ps. awesome pic
Can't really understand why it cannot be considered a skyscapes pic.. but ok.. here it is for your weather folder..
well i would have accepted it but its just that i was wondering if you would have wanted to participate in the theme we currently have going on, i wanted to include you because this is an awesome pic. it just started today.
what a nice shot...but ..just a minute......why this thunder took place out of the clouds???
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Very nice capture!
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The deliberate spraying of particulates into the atmosphere is extremely obvious and plentiful for numerous reasons - different appearance than normal contrails, different flight patterns than normal air traffic, different dispersal and spread pattern than normal contrails, obvious creation of haze and white sky from blue, and many others.
This thread is pure disinfo, mixing fact with doubt with irrelevency with trivia, and asking people to prove the obvious, to consider themselves as potentially wrong when they feel no such need, and to deny the fundamental legitimacy of people's observations of the sky unless they are certified aeronautical engineers.
Bunk. They're spraying the hell out of the skies, and the whole world knows it. It's screwed with th wheather, it's screwed with the crops, it's screwed with the rain and the storms, and whenever anyone analyzes the crap, it's filled with so many toxins it's a wonder we're not already dead.
Then you get an asshole coming on and saying, "now, think carefully, are you absolutely, positively, sure that you know what an airplane is? Can you explain how a jet engine works? Why do you think decades of watching normal aircraft in the sky has anything to do with your ability to remember what a normal aircraft contrail looks like? Do you always go around claiming to be an expert in things you don't have a Ph.D. in? Have you ever actually flown a multi-engine jet plane yourself? Then why on earth do you think you can say that that heavy, thick, white, crossed-x pattern in the sky that turn the sky completely white, smells like chemicals and dries your skin, leaving white poisonous crud on everything, isn't completely ordinary and normal? Do you have a doctorate in cellular biology? Well, DO you?
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You are absolutely correct. I think that George B has an agenda. the difference with him and other shills is that he is using psychological methods of being nice but sneaky.
He doesn't fool all the people. I have been noticing this for a long time now with all his threads.
Often I wonder if he is not working alone.
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I do have an agenda . . . I want a rational discussion/debate between the two extremes of the Chemtrail conspiracy . . . I am between the two in many ways . . . I also want the people who support the existence of chemtrails to understand the science behind the alternate explanations for trails in the sky . . . that in no way harms their advocacy of their position . . . I think it helps them to justify their position . . .
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I don't believe you, sorry. Your double talk again, "alternate explanations for trails in the sky"
Big Fat other AGENDA!
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The executive director of America Moving Forward (AMF)—a nonprofit coalition devoted to promoting solutions to the infrastructure crisis currently plaguing the country—believes U.S. infrastructure is in a sorry state, and he believes he has the solution.
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This was in MomMomKat's mail today. She has yet to get through the whole thing so I thought I would keep it here for when she's ready.
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The Journey
When you bring a pet into your life, you begin a journey -- a journey that
will bring you more love and devotion than you have ever known, yet also
test your strength and courage.
If you allow, the journey will teach you many things, about life, about
yourself, and most of all, about love. You will come away changed forever,
for one soul cannot touch another without leaving its mark.
Along the way, you will learn much about savoring life's simple pleasures
-- jumping in leaves, snoozing in the sun, the joys of puddles, and even
the satisfaction of a good scratch behind the ears.
If you spend much time outside, you will be taught how to truly experience
every element, for no rock, leaf, or log will go unexamined, no rustling
bush will be overlooked, and even the very air will be inhaled, pondered,
and noted as being full of valuable information. Your pace may be slower --
except when heading home to the food dish -- but you will become a better
naturalist, having been taught by an expert in the field.
Too many times we hike on automatic pilot, our goal being to complete the
trail rather than enjoy the journey. We miss the details -- the colorful
mushrooms on the rotting log, the honeycomb in the old maple snag, the hawk
feather caught on a twig. Once we walk as a dog does, we discover a whole
new world. We stop; we browse the landscape, we kick over leaves, peek in
tree holes, look up, down, all around. And we learn what any dog knows:
that nature has created a marvelously complex world that is full of
surprises, that each cycle of the seasons bring ever changing wonders, each
day an essence all its own.
Even from indoors you will find yourself more attuned to the world around
you. You will find yourself watching summer insects collecting on a screen.
(How bizarre they are! How many kinds there are!), or noting the flick and
flash of fireflies through the dark. You will stop to observe the swirling
dance of windblown leaves, or sniff the air after a rain. It does not
matter that there is no objective in this; the point is in the doing, in
not letting life's most important details slip by.
You will find yourself doing silly things that your pet-less friends might
not understand: spending thirty minutes in the grocery aisle looking for
the cat food brand your feline must have, buying dog birthday treats, or
driving around the block an extra time because your pet enjoys the ride.
You will roll in the snow, wrestle with chewie toys, bounce little rubber
balls till your eyes cross, and even run around the house trailing your
bathrobe tie -- with a cat in hot pursuit -- all in the name of love.
Your house will become muddier and hairier. You will wear less dark
clothing and buy more lint rollers. You may find dog biscuits in your
pocket or purse, and feel the need to explain that an old plastic shopping
bag adorns your living room rug because your cat loves the crinkly sound.
You will learn the true measure of love -- the steadfast, undying kind that
says, "It doesn't matter where we are or what we do, or how life treats us
as long as we are together." Respect this always. It is the most precious
gift any living soul can give another. You will not find it often among the
human race.
And you will learn humility. The look in my dog's eyes often made me feel
ashamed. Such joy and love at my presence. She saw not some flawed human
who could be cross and stubborn, moody or rude, but only her wonderful
companion. Or maybe she saw those things and dismissed them as mere human
foibles, not worth considering, and so chose to love me anyway.
If you pay attention and learn well, when the journey is done, you will be
not just a better person, but the person your pet always knew you to be --
the one they were proud to call beloved friend.
I must caution you that this journey is not without pain. Like all paths of
true love, the pain is part of loving. For as surely as the sun sets, one
day your dear animal companion will follow a trail you cannot yet go down.
And you will have to find the strength and love to let them go. A pet's
time on earth is far too short -- especially for those that love them. We
borrow them, really, just for a while, and during these brief years they
are generous enough to give us all their love, every inch of their spirit
and heart, until one day there is nothing left.
The cat that only yesterday was a kitten is all too soon old and frail and
sleeping in the sun. The young pup of boundless energy wakes up stiff and
lame, the muzzle now gray. Deep down we somehow always knew that this
journey would end. We knew that if we gave our hearts they would be broken.
But give them we must for it is all they ask in return. When the time comes
and the road curves ahead to a place we cannot see, we give one final gift
and let them run on ahead -- young and whole once more. "God speed, good
friend," we say, until our journey comes full circle and our paths cross
by Crystal Ward Kent
Psalm 36:6:
Your righteousness is like the great mountains,
Your judgments are a great deep
0 Lord, you preserve man and beast.
Althought I never really got too close to you, I tolerated you, and enjoyed your company in my own special way. It has been a year and a half since I crossed the Rainbow Bridge and I'm waiting at the gates for you my friend. I think we will be better friends now.
I look down and see my MomMomKat and DaddyKat cry for you as they cried for me. I wish we could come back and purr for them and tell them everything is going to be ok. But, alas, the spiritual boundary prevents this. We will always look down on them, keep a watchful eye on them and make sure they are ok.
Come, MikeyKat, and I will show you Heaven!
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I want to get a dog, but am wondering if crating it while I am at work is cruel. I was thinking of getting a mutt, and before work I would probably run/walk/bike (change it up) before work, and then when I get home it would be a run/walk/bike etc. too, to make sure the dog is getting plenty of exercise. On weekends the dog wouldn't be crated hardly at all, we would be going to dog parks, dog beach, the boardwalk skateboarding and walking etc..
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