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Tutu said people do not choose their sexual orientation, and would be crazy to choose homosexuality "when you expose yourself to so much hatred, even to the extent of being killed."
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Port Adelaide's Peter Burgoyne will miss the match against Brisbane at the weekend after being suspended for three matches by the AFL Tribunal last night for a so-called "spear tackle" on West Coast's Daniel Kerr.
The tribunal found that Burgoyne's action in up-ending Kerr and throwing him to the ground in the fiery first quarter of last Saturday night's match did constitute rough play.
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St Kilda's Fraser Gehrig was suspended for one match after being found guilty of striking the Kangaroos' Drew Petrie during last Sunday's match at Docklands, but Melbourne's Matthew Whelan was cleared of a rough-play charge against Hawthorn's Shane Crawford. Demon Brad Green and Hawk Kris Barlow were cleared of charges of stomping on each other's feet in the same match.
It was the Burgoyne case that drew the most attention. In finding the Port player guilty, tribunal chairman Brian Collis, QC, said he had "man-handled" Kerr in such a manner that Kerr's upward motion was continued and that he had then been thrown head-first to the ground.
His actions constituted rough play, were unreasonable in the circumstances, contrary to the rules and reckless. On penalty, Collis said that it was "clearly an act with the potential for serious injury".
Burgoyne's two previous convictions for charging - in round one this season and in 2001 - were also relevant.
Port Adelaide football manager Mick Moylan gave no indication as to whether the club would appeal, saying "no comment" when asked. But in addressing the tribunal on penalty, player advocate Iain Findlay had indicated the club was expecting at least two matches, which would seem to make an appeal less likely.
Melbourne Storm football manager Greg Brentnall, who has played Australian football and rugby league, did not appear as an expert witness. The club decided not to call him as he would not be allowed to express a view on whether the contact was rough or unreasonable.
Field umpire Hayden Kennedy made the report against Burgoyne after being invited to review video of the incident on Monday. He said he had been "taken aback" by the action on the night and had paid a free kick, wrongly as it turned out, for a high tackle. He had not filed a notice of investigation.
Kennedy said his only comment on the night was to tell Port skipper Matthew Primus, "it was dangerous".
Kerr told the tribunal that his body could have been forcing Burgoyne backwards, as the defence contended, but was unable to say whether he had rolled over or been forced to the ground. "It happened too quickly, I can't remember that," Kerr said.
Burgoyne said he had tackled Kerr correctly around the chest region and that in the act of trying to kick the ball, "Kerr came back on me, rolled over me, I let him go and he went down with (his own) momentum."
Gehrig, St Kilda's match-winner with nine goals against the Roos, was found guilty of striking Petrie. The tribunal noted that the ball was dead after a free kick had been paid to Petrie, against Gehrig.
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Joseph René Vilatte (24 January 1854 - 8 July 1929) was, at different times, a Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, Russian Orthodox and Jacobite. He is best known, however, for his activities as an Old Catholic cleric.
Early life and conversion to Roman Catholicism
Vilatte was born in Paris to French parents hailing from the Maine region and who belonged to the Petite Eglise, a sect formed by so-called rigorist Catholics angry with the Holy See and the dioceses for signing or accepting the Concordat of 1801, which in their eyes was a betrayal of the Catholic Church and an heretical liberal compromise with the French revolutionaries of 1789. The Petit Église sect had all but died out, and Joseph was baptized as an infant by a layman, as the sect had become priestless. His mother died soon after his birth, and he was raised in a Parisian orphanage operated by the Brothers of the Christian Schools after having been conditionally baptized anew. He finally converted to Roman Catholicism and was accepted into the Roman Catholic Church in 1867.
Following Napoleon III's Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Uprising of the Commune of Paris, Vilatte decided to emigrate to Canada, where near Ottawa, he worked as a catechist in a small school. After two years, he returned to France, but being informed that he would need to serve in the armed forces for seven years, he moved to Belgium, joining the Congregation of the Christian Brothers at Namur. However, he decided to try for the secular priesthood, and once again emigrated to Canada in 1876, principally in order to avoid arrest and extradition to France for dodging the draft.
In Canada he studied with the Congregation of the Holy Cross Fathers at the College of St. Laurent in Montreal, until, about three years later, he met a former Roman Catholic priest turned Presbyterian minister, Charles Chiniquy, who persuaded him to turn Protestant. Chiniquy introduced Vilatte to a Protestant pastor who helped him to get admission to McGill University. After two years, however, Vilatte once again reconciled with the Roman Catholic Church and entered the Clerics of Saint Viator at Bourbonnais, Illinois. Here he once again met Chiniquy, who told him of Franco-Belgian Catholics (Walloon settlers) in North-East Wisconsin who wished to integrate with the American mainstream as Protestants. Chiniquy also introduced Vilatte to another former Roman Catholic, Hyacinth Loyson, formerly a Carmelite who had been excommunicated in 1869 after marrying an American widow and founding the "Gallican Catholic Church". Under the inspiration of Chiniquy and Loyson, Vilatte moved to the Green Bay area of Wisconsin as a Presbyterian minister.
Episcopalian and Old Catholic connections
However, he was not able to make much headway with the Franco-Belgian immigrants so, after a few months of trying and at the advice of Loyson, he turned to John Henry Hobart Brown, the Episcopalian Bishop of Fond du Lac for support. Vilatte suggested to Brown that his (Vilatte's) Presbyterian mission should be taken over by the Episcopalian Diocese of Fond du Lac as an Old Catholic outpost. Brown seized on this as a means of building a bridge with the Old Catholics in Europe and agreed to support Vilatte.
At the same time Loyson, who had migrated to France, wrote to Vilatte to come over and be ordained a priest by Eduard Herzog, the Old Catholic (Christkatholische) Bishop of Berne, Switzerland, as a first step in founding the Old Catholic Church in North America. With the support and encouragement of Brown and his fellow Episcopalian bishops, Vilatte then traveled to France where Herzog ordained him to the diaconate and priesthood on 6 and 7 June 1885.
In 1888 Brown, who had supported Vilatte morally and financially, died and was succeeded by Charles C. Grafton. Grafton, unlike Brown, did not favor Vilatte and conflicts soon arose. In order to correct the canonical situation created by Brown, Grafton demanded that Vilatte surrender ownership of his missions to the diocese which had paid for them in the first place; Vilatte complied in August 1890. Despite this, however, the relationship between the two deteriorated fast.
At the heart of the dispute was the conflicting vision for Vilatte's missions held by Vilatte and Grafton. Vilatte hoped that Grafton would continue Brown's policy of financing these missions in the hope of converting Roman Catholics to non-papalist Old Catholicism and of using these missions as a springboard to founding the Old Catholic Church in North America. Grafton, on the contrary, wished to integrate these missions into his Episcopalian diocese.
Adding to the dispute was Vilatte's refusal to break with the Franco-Belgians' adamant rejection of Anglican orders as invalid, while accepting the validity of Old Catholic orders; an attitude carried in from Roman Catholicism. Brown had been willing to countenance this but Grafton took this as an affront to the legitimacy of his own orders as a bishop.
In the meantime Herman Jan Heykamp, the head (archbishop) of the Ultrajectines in the Netherlands, hearing of Vilatte's difficulties with Grafton, wrote to him to disassociate himself from Episcopalians. In reply Vilatte asked whether the Ultrajectines would consecrate him as the Old Catholic bishop for North America. When Grafton was informed of these developments he wrote to the Ultrajectines that he would not oppose their consecrating Vilatte as a coadjutor Episcopalian bishop for the Fond du Lac diocese, but if Vilatte was consecrated as the Old Catholic bishop for North America, he (Grafton) would no longer support him and without his financial support Vilatte would be a nobody.
As the Ultrajectines of the Netherlands and the Old Catholics of Germany and Switzerland delayed answering Vilatte until they had met in their congress at Cologne, Vilatte next sought to affiliate himself with the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). To this end he began correspondence with ROC Bishop Vladimir of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. He also opened negotiations to reconcile with the Roman Catholic Church. When Grafton learned of these developments he published warnings to Episcopalians to stop supporting Vilatte. He also demanded from Vilatte that he cease operating from the Old Catholic missions owned by the Episcopalian diocese. In response Vilatte announced in September 1890 that he was severing relations with the Episcopal Church and founded a new independent mission near Green Bay.
Russian Orthodox Church connection and Jacobite consecration
Probably due to Grafton's letters, the Old Catholic Congress of Cologne informed Vilatte that they would not consecrate him as the Old Catholic bishop for North America. Isolated by both the Episcopalians and the Old Catholics-Ultrajectines, Vilatte turned once again to the ROC Bishop Vladimir of Alaska who, in May 1891, publicly announced that Vilatte was accepted by the ROC as a priest and under its jurisdiction.
At the same time an associate of Vilatte, another former Roman Catholic cleric and missionary in British India, Augustine Harding, advised Vilatte to seek consecration from a church recently formed by former Goan Catholics in Goa and British India under the leadership of Fr. Antonio Francisco Xavier Alvares and Dr. Lisboa e Pinto; Alvares being consecrated as Mar Julious I, the Latin Rite Jacobite bishop for this sect, by the Jacobites of Antioch and the Malabar Coast. Collecting $225 and being elected bishop by his small flock (according to the records of the Episcopalian Diocese of Fond du Lac, Vilatte had about 500 adherents), Vilatte sailed to Colombo in Ceylon where Alvares and two other Jacobite bishops consecrated him with the permission of the Jacobite Patriarch of Antioch as Mar Timotheous I, Jacobite Old Catholic Bishop of North America on 29 May 1892; Dr. Lisboa e Pinto, acting as the U.S. Consul, attested to the consecration. When news of this reached North America the Episcopal Church excommunicated Vilatte.
In 1893 Vilatte had a booth in the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago, although he had not been invited. Shortly thereafter, reduced to penury, Vilatte traveled the East Coast offering the sacraments to, and soliciting monetary aid from, Episcopalians and Romans Catholics, but was rebuffed; in some places he was driven away by the Franco-Belgian Catholics. Then he once again opened negotiations with the Roman Catholic Church for reconciliation. In March 1894 he approached Archbishop Satolli, the Apostolic Delegate to the USA, who wrote to the Bishop Messmer (Roman Catholic) of Green Bay that Vilatte was ready to reconcile. Three weeks later Vilatte himself wrote to Messmer that he was preparing his people for reconciliation. Further correspondence took place with Satolli and Messmer. In August 1894 Satolli advised Messmer to finance Vilatte's journey to Rome and that the Congregation Propaganda Fide (Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith or "Sacra Congregatio de Propaganda Fide") would refund him the money.
However, in spite of the offer of a journey to Rome at the expense of the Diocese of Green Bay or ''Propaganda'', Vilatte continued to waver. Matters dragged on for almost four years. Eventually both Archbishop Satolli and Bishop Messmer realized that Vilatte would not submit to Rome.
At this time Vilatte began his dalliance with Polish Roman Catholics who, dissatisfied with non-Polish Roman Catholic priests, sought to set up a schismatic Catholic church at the urgings of the priests Anthony Kazlowski and Francis Hodur, eventually founding the Polish National Catholic Church in the United States independent from Rome. In 1894 a Fr. Kolaszewski invited him to dedicate a church in Cleveland.
Bishop Messmer wrote to Archbishop Satolli: "For the present, he has an asylum among schismatic Poles, who will pay him court until he will be infatuated and foolish enough to consecrate one of them for the episcopate. Then they will cast him out."
Consecration of Kaminski and others
Anthony Kazlowski obtained consecration from the Dutch Ultrajectines (Old Catholics in Holland) on 17 November 1897. After Kazlowski's consecration, Vilatte was approached by a Father Stephen Kaminski, pastor of the Roman Catholic Parish church of the Holy Mother of the Rosary, Buffalo, New York, to raise him to the episcopate. This priest had failed to persuade the Old Catholic Archbishop of Utrecht to raise him to the episcopate. It is rumored[who?] that Vilatte was paid $5,000 for this episcopal consecration and that the invitation stated that both James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore and Archbishop Martinelli, the Apostolic Delegate would assist in the ceremony. Vilatte arrived in Buffalo on 21 March 1898, and consecrated Kaminski. However, the new bishop fled the United States to Canada because of creditors. He was excommunicated by Rome and he abandoned Vilatte.
After the consecration in Buffalo, Vilatte sailed from New York to England, to meet-up with the Anglican-Benedictine Joseph Leycester Lyne (1837 - 1908) and his Llanthony Monastery which he founded in 1869 in the Honddu valley of the Black Mountains of South Wales; Lyne styled himself "Ignatius of Jesus, O.S.B." (Lyne's Llanthony Monastery must not be confused with the Catholic Llanthony Monastery suppressed by the Protestants, although they are near each other).
Vilatte arrived in England three months after the Kaminski consecration. Lyne was visiting the U.S.A. in 1890–1891, raising funds for his work in England, when Vilatte became acquainted with him. Lyne claimed that he belonged to the "Ancient British Church", the oldest after Jerusalem and Antioch. Vilatte first visited Dr. Frederick George Lee of the "Order of Corporate Reunion" and Anglican Bishop of Dorchester. Lee gave Vilatte a letter of introduction to Lyne.
Vilatte arrived in the Black Mountains on 18 July 1898, bringing all of his documents and vestments and offered valid orders to any and all, including Lyne, explaining that he was on his way to Russia. Eventually Lyne and others received ordination from the hands of Vilatte, using the Latin Rite.
In January 1899, most Catholic newspapers of Europe and North America reported that Vilatte was in Rome, seeking reconciliation with the Roman Catholic Church, instead of with the Russian Orthodox Church.
On 2 February 1899, Father David Flemming, Defender General of the Friars Minor and Consultor of the Congregation of the Holy Office, issued a statement to the effect that Joseph Rene Vilatte had expressed his most sincere and heartfelt regret for having taught many errors and for having attacked and misrepresented the Holy Roman Catholic Church; that he withdrew any such teachings, and that he regretted that he had illicitly and sacrilegiously conferred upon others various orders. This Vatican cleric called upon others whom Vilatte had ordained to submit to the Roman Pontiff. On 25 May 1899 Bishop Zardetti wrote Bishop Messmer of Green Bay that Father Flemming had the case well in hand.
Then came reports that Vilatte had not made his final abjuration with Rome or been reconciled with the Church. It was explained that he was awaiting the result of the process before the Holy Office. Meanwhile, the Holy Office received an eight page report from the Diocese of Green Bay, in which the Bishop laid stress on the insincerity of Vilatte in the past; suggesting that he merely wanted Rome to say that his orders were valid so that he could go to England and validate the orders of the Anglicans.
By 1900, Vilatte was in France. His hosts were the Roman Catholic Benedictine monks of the Abbey of Saint Martin, near Poitiers, in order to make a careful study of his Orders from the Syro-Malabar Jacobite (Oriental Orthodox) Church, so that Vilatte could convince the Holy Office in Rome of the validity of his episcopate.
While living as a guest of the Benedictines of Poitiers, Vilatte did not cease his subversive, anti-Catholic activities, although conducted secretly. News of this reached Cardinal Richard of Paris who, on 17 April 1900, circulated a warning among his clergy to be on their guard against men who claimed to be ordained or consecrated by Vilatte. At this time, on 6 May 1900, Vilatte consecrated an Italian, Paolo Miraglia-Gulotti as the Old Catholic Bishop of Italy, with the title of Bishop of Piacenza; this later became known as the Italian National Episcopal Church, a church modelled in an Anglican fashion and moderately anti-Roman.
Excommunication and additional ordinations
When the authorities of the Catholic Church learned of this, they issued on 13 June 1900, major excommunications against both Vilatte and Paolo Miragila-Gulotti. Vilatte decided to once again return to Canada.
In the summer of 1903, Vilatte was back in South Wales and raised to the episcopacy Henry Marsh-Edwards, with the title of Bishop of Caerleon. Marsh-Edwards was a former Anglican priest of the Diocese of Southwell. The next day both men consecrated Henry Bernard Ventham as Bishop of Dorchester. Priests were ordained that summer in both England and the Continent.
While Vilatte was in England and Europe a series of conflicts between the anti-Catholic Government of France and the Roman Catholic Church broke out, arising from the government's anti-clerical legislation. This gave Vilatte inspiration to return to his native country to exploit the situation with the hope of setting up a State-controlled Gallican National Church, under influence of the anti-clerical liberal and proto-socialist French government, in opposition to the official Roman Catholic Church. This he did in the summer of 1906. The previous December the government abrogated the Concordat that made Roman Catholicism the official religion of France. Vilatte was on friendly terms with Aristide Briand, one of the leaders of this liberal anti-Roman movement and the Minister of Education. The new legislation confiscated Roman Catholic Church property and made them State property. Soon after his arrival in Paris, Vilatte managed to obtain possession of the former Barnabite Church in the Rue Legendre, which he reopened for Old Catholic services in the vernacular. One of his former priests from Wisconsin assisted.
On 21 June 1907 Vilatte consecrated a formerly Roman Catholic, former Trappist monk, Louis Marie Francois Giraud, who had been expelled from the Roman Catholic Church for dabbling in magic and the occult. Shortly after this consecration Cardinal Richard issued a warning to the people about apostate priests who were celebrating mass under cover of a pseudo American Bishop, and excommunicated Vilatte a second time. Soon thereafter Vilatte returned to the United States.
Chicago became the next home to Archbishop Vilatte. At this time, he had severed all relations with Alvares' Independent Jacobite Church of Ceylon, Goa and India, the Syro-Malabar Jacobite Church and the Old Catholic Churches of Europe. The establishment of the Polish National Catholic Church and the consecration of Francis Hodur was the final blow to his hope of being recognized as the Old Catholic Archbishop of North America.
In 1910, Vilatte ordained William Henry Francis Brothers, prior of the Anglican-Benedictine Saint Dunstan's Abbey, Waukegan, Illinois. This was an Old Catholic group of men, legally incorporated in Fond du Lac in 1909 by Charles Grafton as "The American Congregation of the Order of Saint Benedict" (In 1911 the Abbey was united with the Polish Old Catholic Church).
It is claimed that in 1915, Vilatte consecrated to the episcopacy Carmelo Henry Carfora, formerly an Italian Franciscan priest who had been ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1901 and had been sent to the U.S.A. as a missionary, before falling into heresy; however, Carfora had no documentation to prove this claim. Carfora was also consecrated in 1916 in the English Old Roman Catholic Mathew lineage (Union of Utrecht).
Founding the American Catholic Church
In 1915, Vilatte founded the "American Catholic Church". At the same time he received Frederick Ebenezer Lloyd into his newly-founded sect and on 19 December 1915 consecrated him at Saint David's Chapel on East 36th Street, Chicago. Vilatte was assisted by Paolo Miraglia-Gulotti, formerly of Italy and then of New York and working with Vilatte in the United States. During this consecration Vilatte addressed the congregation and newly consecrated prelate saying:
- It needs no prophet to foretell for you and the American Catholic Church a great future in the Province of God. The need for a Church both American and Catholic, and free from Paparchy [rule of the Pope] and all foreign denominations, has been felt for many years by Christians of all the denominations. May your zeal and apostolic ministry be crowned with success.
The second wife of Bishop Lloyd, Philena Peabody was a descendant of George Peabody, the American industrialist and merchant who made his fortune in England (But George Peabody died a bachelor!). Subsequently, in a synod held in Chicago on 10 April 1920, Vilatte retired from his newly founded "American Catholic Church", naming Lloyd as his successor as Primate and Metropolitan. The clergy attending granted Vilatte the honorary title of Exarch. He lived in retirement at 4427 North Mulligan Avenue, Chicago and did not perform any more Episcopal functions until 22 September 1921 when he ordained Wallace David de Ortega Maxey to the priesthood.
On 28 September 1921, Vilatte conditionally consecrated a former Episcopalian minister, the African American George Alexander McGuire in Chicago for McGuire's newly founded African Orthodox Church.[1]
Reconciliation with Rome
Soon Vilatte was again reduced to penury. In 1925, he returned to France where he sought the assistance of the Gnostic magician "Msgr. Johnny" Jean Bricaud. However, as this did nothing to improve his finances, he sought to be reconciled once again to the Roman Catholic Church. On 1 June 1925, Vilatte made his formal declaration before Bishop Ceretti, Apostolic Nuncio at Paris, regretting and repenting having received illicitly Holy Orders and having conferred them on others. The Roman Catholic Church sent him on to the Cistercian Abbey at Pont Colbert to do penance. A week later La Croix and other newspapers announced that Vilatte, with an American boy-servant (named Maxey), was staying at Pont Colbert at the request of Pope Pius XI. The Holy See granted him a pension of 22,000 francs annually.
On 23 June 1925, the Bayerischer Kurieg published a statement on the orders of the "Swiss Christian Catholic Church", to the effect that Vilatte had never been a priest of this body nor any other genuine Old Catholic Church in the widely recognized Union of Utrecht.
Bishop Ceretti, papal nuncio, replied to the newspaper as follows:
- Archbishop Vilatte received the Minor Orders and the Order of Subdeacon on 5 June 1885, the Order of Deacon on 6 June of the same year, and on the following day, 7 June 1885, the Ordination to the Priesthood.
- All these orders were conferred upon him by Bishop Herzog (Old Catholic Bishop) in the Old Catholic Church in Berne.
- This proved by documents, seals and signatures of Bishop Herzog.
- Concerning his Episcopal Consecration, it took place on 29 May 1892.
- Archbishop Vilatte was consecrated by three Jacobite Bishops in the Cathedral of Archbishop Alvares in Colombo (Ceylon).
- Archbishop Vilatte is likewise in the possession of the consecration deed in question bearing the signatures of the three above mentioned bishops and of the American Consul, who was present at the ceremony.
This letter was published in the same newspaper and Vilatte was very pleased that Bishop Ceretti believed and accepted his priesthood and consecration, even though they were irregular from a Roman Catholic view.
For the next three and a half years, Vilatte led a quiet and secluded life in a cottage within the Abbey grounds. He was addressed as Archbishop, but wore a simple soutane (black cassock). Pope Pius XI offered to conditionally re-ordain him, but he declined. He attended daily Mass, receiving Holy Communion during them on Sundays. His end came suddenly of heart failure on 8 July 1929, and he was buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery in Versailles.
Subsequently, it was revealed that Vilatte had "consecrated" one of the novices of Port Colbert in secret. This was dismissed by others however as a rumour. During his lifetime, he consecrated some seven to eight bishops. Shortly after his death, most of his papers vanished.
In Fr. Anthony Cekada's article (linked to below), we find the following personal statement of a Roman Cardinal:
- In Anson's book on the Old Catholics we learn that Merry Cardinal Del Val had decided that Vilatte's ordinations and consecrations had been commercialized. The Cardinal personally believed, therefore, that they could not be regarded as valid. (Peter Anson, Bishops At Large, London. Faber & Faber, 1964, p 29.)
By contrast, some of the Old Catholic sects descended from Vilatte claim that, despite the fact that he had, in practical fact, abandoned any connection with the Jacobites, some of the Jacobite sects in India consider him a "Saint" (The Jacobites in India have split into about three principal independent sects).
While the validity of Vilatte's Orders in the Roman Catholic Church was never finally settled, though personal opinions tend to the negative, most non-Roman Old Catholics concede his Orders were valid.
- ↑ Contact Us at www.coltranechurch.org
- Fr. Anthony Cekada on the Old Catholics in the United States
- Gallican.org webpage in French - Gallican National Church
- Biography at Gnostique.Net
- Vilatte, Joseph Réné - Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
External links
- An Encyclical to All Bishops Claiming To Be of the Apostolic Succession 1893 letter by Vilatte
|This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original article was at Joseph René Vilatte. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.


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Aaaahhhh yes, my monthly blog post!
Kidding aside, I really should look to add more posts to the site. Thing is, I've been grinding away getting my "non-IM" niche products ready to market. My partner and I are releasing a pretty legit weight loss/fitness product pretty soon. It's going to be a physical product with DVDs, books, etc. Fancy, yes?
Anyway, what does that have to do with my post today, really how does this benefit you?
Well, I want to tell you what lead me towards adding my own products into the daily pipeline. As most of you know, I've done pretty good with CPA marketing, and I still make a good living, you could say, with exclusive deals I have setup. So why fix what ain't broke?
Well, it came down to offer chasing.
Offer chasing is something I've seen that's pretty unique to CPA marketing. Your affiliate manager has recommended a high converting offer. The offer is "killing it". So, you jump on the offer. You setup your landers, you split test, you optimize, and if you've done your homework, you start making some money. Your able to find new distribution channels to scale to. If you've got to this point, you're doing pretty good, making good money most likely.
Then, the e-mail comes.
"XXXX Offer Expires Tonight
Hey Publishers,
Sorry about the short notice, but XXXX is being paused and pulled from the network tonight. Sorry for any inconvenience."
Can you tell this happened to me a few times? So at this point, it's up to you to test and find a new high converting offer, scale that up, etc. It's a pain in the a$$ really.
Now, I know what you're thinking. "Well Chad, if I was making $X,XXX a day, I wouldn't care, I'd swap offers every single day." And you know what, you might. For a while anyway. But then you'd probably start to realize that this isn't a way to build a long term sustainable business.
So, what did I have to start doing to eliminate this?
Well, I started to focus less on the offers, and more on the traffic channel and the market I was promoting to. I began to splinter the largest markets into smaller segments. So, an example was the massive "weight loss" vertical being successfully splintered into the "postpartum and pregnancy weight loss" niche. If you look at the majority of CPA offers, many of them are based around the largest verticals out there. Money, Health, Relationships. I like to say, everyone wants to be skinny, young, rich, and popular. After that it comes down to splintering. Here are some examples:
belly fat cream >>> general weight loss product
love handles >>> general weight loss product
single mother assistance >>> bizopp offer
Those are really obvious examples. What I'm trying to get across is that the same product/offer can be positioned to tons of different niches. You do this through your ads, landing pages, e-mail messages, etc.
A big part of this process for me, was capturing the opt-in. I know I know, one of the reasons people like to market CPA or affiliate offers is because you don't need any human interaction. You can be a lone ranger. But, I'll tell you this. You will make more money, with better ROI, when you start capturing leads for YOUR own purposes. Most major businesses long term life blood is their leads. You need to get people into your funnel. Yes, affiliates can have a back end sales funnel, it's possible. This site is one of the best examples I can show you:
If you opt in for their list, you'll be hit with tons of affiliate offers. Professional front end presentation, back end filled with CPA offers. If they treat their list well, they can release their own product down the road to the asset they have (that list) and clean up.
When you build sites like this, focusing on the market and not just particular offers, then offer chasing isn't really a problem. You basically just plug in offers where needed, and when needed. It's the market, demographic, and traffic channel that you want to have a strangle hold on.
So, what does all this have to do with motivation? Well, I've been receiving a lot of questions from people wondering where to start, and that they're just not convinced/motivated on which direction to go into.
Understand one thing. Driving traffic is based on certain principles and techniques. These are things you need to learn through testing and certain courses (people speak highly of mine, ya know..)
But after that, you need to apply that knowledge in some way. Everyone screams "yes, take action!". It's true, you gotta take action. You gotta implement something. But, I will tell you that this entire process is much easier when you have an interest in what you're promoting outside of the money you'll make. Right now you might be thinking "I just need to make $xxx-xxxx/day and I'll be happy".
Thing is though, you can do that fairly quickly when you learn the principles behind driving traffic and converting it. Once you get there, you're going to need something else to drive you. Trust me, I'm speaking from experience. This is one reason I decided to start making my own product in the weight loss vertical. Sure, I love that I can control the back end process and leverage affiliates and various distribution channels that aren't as easily accessible to affiliates…. but I'd be lying if I said I'm not more motivated to push my own product, something I can stand behind, than an ambiguous offer.
You might be in a tough financial situation. You might NEED to make money as fast as you can. I've been there before. It sucks I know. But understand that you're marketing to actual people, so when you write your copy and ads, keep this in mind. Become your customer. Actually give them a reason to fill out or buy your CPA offer.
Keep in mind, if you have no interest whatsoever becoming an offer owner or product creator, you'd still be wise to focus on your market influence first, and offers second. Choose a traffic channel and market to become an expert in, this alone will make your marketing efforts easier since your focus is going to be laser guided. After that you can diversify.
Thanks very much,
Chad Hamzeh


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The shoots of the hydrangea should be well thinned, and those left cut hard back in the spring.
One had settled on the hydrangea plant that filled the hearth.
By some the hydrangea is grown as a standard, and is very effective when in beauty.
A hydrangea has no scent; that is why we get tired of it, for all its loveliness.
Viburnum niveum, hydrangea arbuscula, non-scandens, Berberis integrifolia.
The only known flower which can be dissected is the hydrangea japonica.
Without any preamble he disclosed his difficulty, and proposed that the fifteenth princess should be named hydrangea.
hydrangea paniculata grandiflora, the finest of all hardy shrubs.
In shrubs we can be sure of a variety of lilacs, snowballs, and hydrangea paniculata.
In Fig. 214, some are seen around the margin of the cyme in hydrangea.


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Spring Jazz
LocationSammons Center for the Arts
3630 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75219
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Neighborhood: Oak Lawn
Category: Music
- February 6, 2013 7:30 pm
Each month, the Sammons Center brings in different artists to pay tribute to jazz masters and show off our local talented. First up is a concert honoring the memory of Texas saxophonist David "Fathead" Newman as well as the living legacy of Johnny Pate. The ticket price always includes valet parking, drinks (of both the non-alcoholic and alcoholic variety), and light appetizers.
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For tickets, call 214-520-7789
What's Nearby
Oak New American 0.3 miles away
- Quill Eclectic 0.3 miles away
Pakpao Thai Thai 0.3 miles away
- Ascension Coffee Coffeehouses 0.3 miles away
Meddlesome Moth Eclectic 0.3 miles away
- Meddlesome Moth Pubs & Taverns 0.3 miles away
- The Grapevine Bar Dives 0.4 miles away
- Grailey's Fine Wines & Wine Cellar Wine Bars 0.4 miles away
- Katy Trail Ice House Sports Bars 0.5 miles away
- Nick & Sam's Restaurant Bars 0.5 miles away
- Roche Bobois Furniture and Accessories 0.2 miles away
- Interior Resources 0.3 miles away
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REDLANDS>> June may be a little early to start thinking about the winter holiday season, but the Redlands Chamber of Commerce believes it's not too soon to start getting residents excited over a proposed skating rink at the Redlands Mall.
The ice skating rink, sponsored by the city and the Rochford Foundation, will be the city's first, and chamber officials are starting to get the word out.
The synthetic ice rink will be assembled on the northwest corner of the mall and will offer daytime and evening skating from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1.
"I've had the good fortune of seeing some of the synthetic rinks in other cities that have them and they are just so wonderful," said Kathie Thurston, executive director of the chamber. "They bring the community out and bring visitors and it's just so charming. What better place on the planet to have this than Redlands?"
Residents looking to beat the heat this summer may find comfort while imagining the ice rink, full of skaters laughing and having a good time surrounded by sparkling holiday lights and cheerful music.
"This is really our pilot program, our test market, to make sure we can line up all of our ducks, put skates on them and push them out on the ice," Thurston said. "I am fully expecting this to be very, very successful and a tremendous addition to the holiday season."
Chamber officials, still in the planning stages, hope to have opportunities for hockey lessons and times for small children to skate with their families.
Thurston said she is reaching out to nonprofits to set up booths near the rink.
The seed is being planted in the community now to give residents a chance to plan to be there, she said.
A website is in the works that will include schedules and activities. Skates will be provided.
The Chamber's Night Light Run is scheduled for Dec. 27, which will add to the festivities downtown.
"We are all very excited about this amazing opportunity and grateful to our sponsors for making this happen," said chamber President Geoff Bonney of Bonney Architecture in a chamber news release. "We believe that visitors and residents alike will stop at the downtown businesses before and after their skating adventure, once again bringing focus to the charm of downtown Redlands. There are plans underway to offer a hockey clinic, have a skate time for toddlers and much, much more."


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New tile drainage technologies at field day
Iowa's bountiful harvests wouldn't be a reality without underground drainage. After years of installing tile in farm fields to increase drainage to improve yields and profits, questions are being asked about environmental impacts. New technologies that may minimize negative environmental impacts will be installed July 12 at the Iowa State University (ISU) Southeast Iowa Research and Demonstration Farm near Crawfordsville.
ISU Extension and the Natural Resources Conservation Service, along with tile manufacturers and local tiling contractors, will install controlled drainage systems and construct a wetland. The demonstrations will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. One project will investigate controlled drainage to determine if this system has an advantage in southeast Iowa over conventional drainage. Controlled drainage allows excess soil moisture lower in the subsoil to be held early in the season in case it is needed later during dry weather.
A wetland will be constructed to see if it results in lower nitrates in tile water exiting the property. Tile will also be placed to compare shallow, close spacing of drainage tile to deeper, wider spacing. Both plowing and trenching machines will be demonstrated. Matt Helmers, Iowa State University Extension agricultural engineer, and Greg Brenneman, Iowa State University Extension field engineer in southeast Iowa, will supervise the research conducted at the farm and collect data for several years. Both will be at the field day to speak with attendees, along with Jim Baker, Iowa State University professor emeritus.
Certified crop advisers can obtain 3 hours of soil and water continuing education credit by attending a special session from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. There is a $40 fee for credit. The rain date is July 13. Food will be available for purchase.
For more information, contact Jim Jensen, Iowa State University Extension farm management specialist, 319-385-8126, email@example.com or Kevin Van Dee, farm superintendent, Southeast Iowa Research and Demonstration Farm, 319-658-2353, email@example.com. The farm is located 13/4 miles south of Crawfordsville on Highway 218, then 2 miles east on County Road G-62, then 3/4 mile north. Watch for Iowa State University field day signs on Highway 218.
This article originally appeared on page 181 of the IC-496(16) -- June 19, 2006 issue.
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Wyeth Lab Research Support
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The following agencies and groups have helped fund the research or students:
- St. Francis Xavier University - University Council for Research
- StFX Student Research Internships
- StFX Biology Student Awards
- Canadian Foundation for Innovation
- Nova Scotia Research and Innovation Trust
- Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Foundation
- National Geographic Society
- DFO - Aquaculture Collaborative Research and Development Program (ACRDP)
- Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
- Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
- Malacological Society of the UK
- Conchologists of America
- Pacific Northwest Shell Club
- HRSDC - Canada Summer Jobs
Student Support Options
The following are scholarships or research grants relevant to students working in the Wyeth lab. Deadline information may be out of date!
- NSERC PGS (graduate scholarships; deadline mid Oct)
- NSERC USRA (undergraduate scholarships; deadline late Jan)
- St. Francis Xavier University Internal Awards (apply for NSERC USRA/UCR/Biology Dept Student Awards; deadline late Jan)
- Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation (in transition - check website for latest details)
- Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (grad research at BMSC; deadline mid Feb)
- Malacological Society of London (malacology; deadline Dec 15)
- Malacological Society of Australasia (malacology)
- Conchologists of America (malacology; deadline Feb 28)
- American Malacological Society (malacology; deadline ~Apr 16)
- Pacific Northwest Shell Club (Pacific Northwest malacology; deadline Apr 1)
- Western Society of Malacologists (western North America malacology; deadline early May?)
- Unitas Malacologica (malacology; deadline May 31)
- CSZ: Student Research Grant (zoology; research or travel; deadline Jan 31)
- CSZ: CPB Section Student Research Grant (physiology/biophysics; research or travel; deadline Jan 31)
- CSZ: Leo Margolis Scholarship (fisheries; grad student; deadline Nov 1)
- SICB: Grants in Aid of Research (integrative and comparative research)
- SICB: Fellowship for Graduate Student Travel (research travel)
- SICB: Libbie H. Hyman Memorial Scholarship (travel to a marine station)
- PADI Foundation (aquatic ecology and conservation)
- American Microscopical Society (microscopy; deadline ~Apr 1;, also lists several other possible grant sources)
- Sigma Xi (all fields of science; deadline Mar 15 and Oct 15)
- Journal of Experimental Biology (travel to another laboratory; deadlines Apr 30, Aug 31, Dec 31)
- Crustacean Society (grad research on crustaceans; deadline Feb 15)
- Atlantic Lobster Sustainability Foundation (grad research on lobster/lobster ecosystem; deadline Dec 15)
- Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability (grad research in Southern Gulf; deadline Feb 15)
- Silverhill Institute of Environmental Research and Conservation (grad research with applied environmental/conservation focus)
- Pengrowth-Nova Scotia Energy Scholarship Program (MSc research with energy/environmental science focus; deadline Jan?)
- Offshore Energy Research Association of Nova Scotia travel program (travel for grad research relevant to OERA only, not conferences, Sept 30)
- Nova Scotia Museum Research Grant (Nova Scotia natural history; deadline mid Feb)
- Aquaculture Assoc. of NS Cathy Enright Scholarship (NS aquaculture; deadline early Jan)
- Robin Rigby Trust (coastal research, with community or other collaboration; deadline Oct 31)
- National Shellfish Association (3 different awards; grad research on shellfish; deadline Nov 30)
- Clean Nova Scotia (grad research in Environmental Studies; deadline late Jan)
- Mitacs Globalink (12 -24 weeks of undergrad or grad research at foreign universities; no deadline)
- Nova Scotia Graduate Scholarships (first competition deadline May 12, 2014 but likely to be different in future years)


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Hillwalking South Gigha
Gigha Isle North Gigha South Gigha
Isle of Gigha is a small Island off the west coast of Kintyre
close to Campbeltown and is off the east cost of Isle of Mull.
The area includes Fishing Cycling, Sightseeing, Hillwalking, Climbing, Touring in the Scottish Countryside.
Hillwalking South Isle of Gigha - Scottish Walks.
Gigha Isle.
Difficulty. 1/10. Duration. 2 Hrs. O.S. 62.
Leaving Ardminish, be it from the campsite or from the hotel make your way south on the M6 ( joke ) and ready yourself for the two to three mile walk. The journey is straightforward, straight down south and straight back up again. On your way, firstly, you will encounter the village hall with football field at its rear, for the Gigha Strollers, then the entrance to Achmore Gardens, which is really worth a look, remember, all the time in the world.
South to Cara Island.
Keeping on the single track road after the gardens, enjoying the roadside flora, you will come to the windfarm, consisting of three wind turbines and then onto a wonderfull airstrip that takes one back to the olden days and similar to the beach runway on Barra, further up the coast, in that the plane arriving on Gigha has to land on what effectively is a cow field. After that there is the pier, an old one at that and from this point the small deserted islands of Cara and Gigulum can be sighted. There are a few beaches at the southern end that may be attractive to the walker to spend a few hours beachcombing.
On return, depending on where the tide is, another beach walk is available at the indented southern end of Ardminish Bay. Take the small farmlike road, to the right, to North Drumachro and this will lead you onto the beach, with Ardminish in sight….follow your nose home or the smell of the seaweed.


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This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).
To overcome the performance degradation in the presence of steering vector mismatches, strict restrictions on the number of available snapshots, and numerous interferences, a novel beamforming approach based on nonlinear least-square support vector regression machine (LS-SVR) is derived in this paper. In this approach, the conventional linearly constrained minimum variance cost function used by minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer is replaced by a squared-loss function to increase robustness in complex scenarios and provide additional control over the sidelobe level. Gaussian kernels are also used to obtain better generalization capacity. This novel approach has two highlights, one is a recursive regression procedure to estimate the weight vectors on real-time, the other is a sparse model with novelty criterion to reduce the final size of the beamformer. The analysis and simulation tests show that the proposed approach offers better noise suppression capability and achieve near optimal signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) with a low computational burden, as compared to other recently proposed robust beamforming techniques.
As one important branch of modern array signal processing, the beamforming technique has been widely studied and applied in the radar, wireless communication, sonar, medical imaging, as well as astronomy domains. The standard beamforming approach, such as the minimum variance distortionless response (MVDR) beamformer [
During the last decades, in order to resist the model mismatches and possible environment changes, the robust beamforming approach have been largely studied [
In order to reject jamming signals, poor array calibration, signal wave-front distortions, the minimum-variance-distortionless-response (MVDR) beamforming is modified by the means of incorporating multiple linear constrains [
Support Vector Machines (SVM), introduced by Vapnik [
This paper presents a new LS-SVR-based approach to address the robust beamforming issue. This approach alleviates the array output SINR degradation in the presence of steering vector mismatches, strict restrictions on the number of available snapshots, and numerous interferences by replacing the conventional linearly constrained minimum variance cost function with a squared-loss function, and achieves better generalization capacity by applying Gaussian kernels to the array observations. We also present a fast recursive procedure to estimate the weight vectors on real-time, and a novelty criterion to perform model reduction. The paper is organized as follows. The signal model, also the minimum mean square error (MMSE) and the MVDR-beamformer solutions are presented in Section 2. The basic principle of LS-SVR-based beamforming method is introduced in Section 3. In Section 4, a recursive procedure to calculate the regression parameters is provided. And a sparse mode is presented in Section 5. The simulation tests under different mismatch scenarios are illustrated in Section 6. A summary conclusion is given at the last of this paper.
Consider a linear array of M sensors receives signals from D narrowband source. The vector of array observations x(
The output of the beamformer is defined as:
If certain observations are known during the procedure of training parameters, then, according to the MMSE criterion, the complex vector of beamformer weights
The classical MVDR beamformer minimizes the array output energy, and the weights subject to a constraint of unity array response on the desired array steering vectors, that is:
The constraint
In practice, it is not feasible to calculate the exact covariance matrix
The performance of MVDR beamformer in
Consider a set of snapshots
The parameter set
The weight vector
Instead of the inequality constrains in standard SVM algorithm, the equality ones are taken in LS-SVR, and the linear equation of the
The array observations of the beamformer are complex, whereas the variables in the objective function of SVM are real. So, it is necessary to rewrite the complex variables as real variables. For this reason, the array observations
The result of the quadratic optimization problem of
According to the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions, differentiating the above function with respect to the Lagrange multipliers
The system obtained from the KKT conditions is linear. Its result is obtained by solving the linear system which is expressed as following matrix:
The outputs of the nonlinear LS-SVR beamformer are:
Then, we have:
As the number of snapshots increases, the dimension of Gramm matrix
At time step
As time run to
Comparing the elements of
According to the theorem of inverting block matrix, the inverse of
The crucial drawback of LS-SVR beamformer is that it deals with high-dimension matrix, which is equal to the number of the snapshots due to the use of a quadratic constraint function. This would bring a big implementation problem to the proposed beamforming method since it is required to increase memory and computational resources as time evolves. Several methods have been proposed to cope with these problems [ Step 1: Initialing an empty center set C0; Step 2: Calculating the distance between the new snapshot x Step 3: If the distance obtained from Step 2 is smaller than the preset threshold Step 4: if |e|
Step 1: Initialing an empty center set C0;
Step 2: Calculating the distance between the new snapshot x
Step 3: If the distance obtained from Step 2 is smaller than the preset threshold
Step 4: if |e|
Applying the above sparsification procedure, the computation complexity of the proposed beamformer will be reduced from
To evaluate the performance of the proposed LS-SVR-based beamformer, simulation tests are carried out. A 10 elements uniform linear array with half-wavelength spacing is taken into account. The desired signal comes from a presumed direction
The first simulation aims to compare the performance of these beamformers when steering vector mismatch is presented. From
The covariance matrix would be inaccurately estimated owing to insufficient snapshots, DOA mismatch of desired signal and array calibration errors. This kind of inaccuracy may result in the degradation of array response. Hence, both the errors of insufficient snapshots and DOA mismatch are considered to verify the proposed beamformer in our second simulation tests.
The performance of the proposed beamformer in the scenario with multiple interferences is demonstrated in the third test. The steering vector mismatch is also presented. As it can be seen from
The corresponding beampatterns of the beamformers are demonstrated in
To show the computation complexity of the novel approach, the dictionary size growth with the input samples is given in
We present a novel nonlinear LS-SVR-based beamforming approach in this paper. This approach first uses a squared-loss function to replace the conventional linearly constrained minimum variance cost function, which can significantly increase robustness against mismatch problems and provide additional control over the sidelobe level. The method also applies Gaussian kernels to the array observations to improve the generalization capacity. Finally, the method uses a recursive regression procedure to estimate the weight vectors on real-time and performs mode reduction to reduce the final size of the beamformer.
The simulation tests, with steering vector mismatch, numerous interferences and limited available snapshots, are carried out to verify the performance of the proposed beamforming algorithm in comparison with other recently proposed ones. The test results show that the proposed beamforming method significantly outperforms many other recently proposed linear robust beamforming techniques in terms of signal distortion in the desired signal and noise reduction in scenarios with DOA mismatch, limited observation samples, and numerous interferences.
This research was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.61071191) and Natural Science Foundation of Chongqing (CSTC 2011BB2048).
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Submitted by megan on Sat, 03/07/2009 - 22:27
While I can't say that my performance went off without a hitch - I did indeed need to be reminded of the third sentence of the first bit - what I can say is that it was very, uh, warmly received.
The whole night was amazing. All the performances kicked ass (and you can see more by some of the performers on April 4), and the DJs spun amazing. There were pretty ladies dancing everywhere, on stage and off. The boys weren't half bad neither.
And also, we raised a good chunk of change for the Bursary Fund.
Strangely enough, as soon as I got off stage I felt flat. For no reason. People were nothing but effusive about what Shelley and I did, and I was genuinely pleased about that, but I felt like a pricked balloon.
So much tension and worry going into the night, I think. When that kind of tension eases off, it can leave in its wake one of two things - either you get a rush of euphoria and ride that for the rest of the night, or you feel emptied out and affectless. I think I put up a good front, but man, I was pulling it out of the reserves.
That's carried through to today, sadly, along with the dry, catchy throat that was exacerbated by shouting over music. I've felt low and lonely most of today. Not great, not fun, but okay.
And I can't get through 5 sentences without trailing off into a breathy cough that turns into a hack that makes it sound like my lungs are turning inside out inside my ribs. Luckily, my lungs feel much better than they sound.
Submitted by megan on Thu, 03/05/2009 - 23:25
Man, I feel like I'm going in about 10 different directions at once.
It's going to be warm in California. I won't have to wear a parka. Man, I hope we bought enough beer for tomorrow night. What if someone gets sick for the show? What if I fall down again? No, I won't be drinking. When I see CT, boy, am I going to [redacted] [redacted] him. What if I've fucked up and they pull our license? What if our houseguest thinks my house is dirty? Or ugly? And don't forget to take the address of where you're staying in San Fran. Those poor bartenders, Rice-a-roni Fuck Fest 2009. Oh, that Michael. Fucking hilarious.
Instead of being extra responsible and coming home early from work to clean and practice, I met Michael for a post-work drink. We sat at the bar in the Whalesbone and gossiped and laughed and said inappropriate things to the waitstaff.
I got back half-drunk and wound up, talking exactly one mile a minute.
When Shelley came over, I realized that half-drunk with only a couple of slices of bread and hummus to sop that up is a bad way to practice. I have those pieces memorized, and quite well by now, but when push comes to shove, the start of the next line sticks its head in the sand. Hopefully, when we're on stage, and push comes to shove comes back to push, I'll be able to yank 'em out.
Submitted by megan on Wed, 03/04/2009 - 22:55
Well, the cold has laid off, or rather laid in, lower.
I've developed my Third Stage Honk, during which I sit by the computer in the kitchen not noticing what I sound like until M-C comes down and says "Jesus, you okay? You sound awful." Or Shelley calls, and when I go to say hello the air catches on my vocal chords but I don't want to honk hello in her ear and so I swallow it instead, which sounds not like hello at all but like air leaving a bellows; or, like Shelley's grandma.
But I feel fine. It's just with the honking every time I breathe in. Exactly what I was hoping to avoid by taking a day off.
Because what is not sexy? Giving out a big honk in the middle of your porn reading.
It's probably a good thing I'm so het up over this performance on Friday. I'm het up for a bunch of reasons.
One, I usually read my work, rather than memorizing and performing it. Been a long time since I've had to go off-book, as it were. Two, I'm not used to taking my clothes off in front of a large group of people. Three, I'm not used to performing with other people, and although I'm pretty solid when Shelley's not performing with me, the first time or two together I'm off my game.
What's the worst that can happen? Well. The worst is that I start into a coughing fit part way through and have to leave the stage because of it. And that's pretty bad.
Anyone have any suggestions about staving off a coughing fit? My ex used to use Slippery Elm if he was feeling throaty and had to go on stage.
I'm willing to listen to any and all pet remedies.
It's probably a good thing that I'm so het up over the performance on Friday because if I weren't, my head would be totally lost in the clouds thinking about my trip to California and I'd be walking into things and falling under cars.
One. Week. Today.
While I can't believe the time has passed so quickly, CT and I have both had it already with the anticipation.
Before a month ago, we weren't going to see each other again, well, maybe in the far off distant probably-never future; that was the plan. So the first few weeks after I booked were a high of "oh my god, i'm going to see you again. for real! that's so weird. i'm so excited."
Now, though I'm still excited, and how, I'm used to the idea of going, and I would really really like to stop remembering what it's like to kiss him and actually plant my lips right smack on him.
I've managed not to start packing, but it's taken all my worrying about the performance to do so. Starting Saturday, all bets are off.
Submitted by megan on Sun, 02/11/2007 - 17:59
Jennifer and I did a reading last night, reprising our roles as Miss Matilda Manners and Miss Edwina Etiquette. It was in Rolf's living room, and we were the openers for a band from Waterloo called Agile Like This. They were really fun. They had a song about how great feminism is. That made me happy.
I was also happy with our performance, though I was way more nervous than I remember being for the launch at venus envy. The more intimate environment, I think.
After ALT, Aurele, Eric and I went to the Shanghai for a bit of kareoke watching and a drink. It was super messy there, end of the night "I drank enough to get my courage up to sing that Meatloaf song that goes on for one hundred excrutiating years but then I didn't stop drinking and now I'm doing weird dancing while other people are singing" kind of messy. It was entertaining, but a little strange, voyeuristic, like we'd caught the last act of something a little naughty that was supposed to make sense, instead of just dropping in to the local to have a beer.
For two days in a row, I have had two breakfasts. First breakfast has been a leisurely and lovely chat over toast and coffee and sliced pear, served with a side of making out. This morning, I introduced my gentleman caller to the Two Commandments of Megan's House.
1) Thou shalt not get peanut butter in the honey jar. 2) Thou shalt not flip the flip-top lid on the toothpaste tube. Thou shalt unscrew the entire cap because it is cleaner and nicer than getting the flip-top lid all cakey and gummy with old toothpaste that is impossible to help getting jammed into the flip-top hinge.
There's really only the two rules. Other than the common sense rule of treating me, my cat, and my belongings with care. But I've set the bar high enough at this point that people who don't get the unspoken rule don't usually make it to my apartment. At least not twice. And I don't serve them coffee.
My gentleman caller gets the unspoken rule. And then some. In fact, my gentleman caller seems to intuitively understand that the way to my heart is to ask me to help him organize his record collection and then listen patiently while I list all the ways in which that most enjoyable task could be accomplished.*
I get that most people don't see the wisdom of not flipping the flip-top lid right away, and must be shown the way and the light of entire cap removal.
* By band name, by genre (which would, of course, mean the creation of a controlled vocabulary), by country of origin, by label - all those alphabetically ordered. Then there's the idea of arranging them chronologcially. Of course, it will most likely be alphabetically by band name, and then chronologcially by album, because that is what makes the most sense. Because I said so.
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Beauty ads: Are we being conned?
One of my biggest bugbears at the moment (and I've ranted about it many a time on Twitter and other blogs) is beauty advertising. Or rather, beauty advertising small print. You know the kind, where a mascara promises amazing volume and length, but the small print tells you they're wearing lash inserts and the image is retouched 'post production.'
Now, I don't have a huge problem with a bit of light airbrushing, to get rid of the odd hair out of place or spot. But combine it with lash inserts and you're essentially dabbling in a spot of false advertising.
It's not just mascaras. Hair adverts are just as bad. Sure, my hair can look as thick and glossy as the model's....if I use hair extensions.
So, why are they allowed to continue doing this? It's not like there haven't been complaints about them, but the ASA clears the majority of them, because the small print makes it clear.
Thankfully, there are a few brands bucking the trend. Most notably is Make Up For Ever, who released an untouched ad earlier this month.
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|"We gave the teachers nearly a semester of material in less than two weeks and the teachers turned around and immediately made lesson plans using authentic scientific ocean-drilling data for the grade levels they teach." — Kristen St. John
There's nothing quite like the teacher with firsthand experience in the subject being taught.
That's why JMU geology Associate Professor Kristen St. John is looking to expand upon a special, hands-on research expedition for earth and ocean-science teachers that she helped to lead in fall 2005: A two-week voyage on the drill ship JOIDES Resolution.
Thirteen middle- and high-school teachers selected from across the country spent two weeks aboard the ship as it sailed from Victoria, Canada, to Acapulco, Mexico, as an ocean-going classroom, dubbed the "School of Rock." Along the way, the teachers observed firsthand how St. John and other scientists collect samples and study data mined from the ocean depths. The teachers also corresponded daily with their students and others around the world who logged onto a Web site created to follow the expedition.
St. John is a member of an investigative team seeking a $1.17 million grant from the National Science Foundation for more teachers and their students to reap the same benefits as those who participated in the first voyage. In addition to offering more ocean-going experiences, the team's proposed program, "Investigating Earth Systems' History," would involve training exercises in repositories where cores drilled from ocean floors are stored for study, in the laboratories of scientists in the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program and in the drill ship's home ports.
The trip last fall, Oct. 29-Nov. 16, exceeded St. John's expectations, she said. "We gave the teachers nearly a semester of material in less than two weeks and the teachers turned around and immediately made lesson plans using authentic scientific ocean-drilling data for the grade levels they teach.
"Days were long—7 a.m. to 10 p.m. sometimes—but we all wanted to be there and knew what a special opportunity this was, hopefully, paving the way for more like it."
In its application for the grant, the investigative team wrote: "The proposed activities are built upon the evaluation conducted during and after (the School of Rock) that revealed educators grasped the importance of scientific ocean drilling, the (ship's) role in the scientific process and the historical role of cores as a primary data source."
Their program aims to advance knowledge of earth science and scientists' tools for discovery and to inspire students to include earth science in their education.
Funds for the proposal are being requested from GLOBE, the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment program funded by NSF and NASA. The GLOBE program anticipates having $4 million over four years and will make awards to three to five projects; those will be announced in mid-summer, St. John said.


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Our staff members have been directly involved in the farm-to-cup coffee business, have diverse scientific backgrounds, contributed or written articles for leading trade and consumer journals, made numerous public appearances, conducted "cupping" seminars, appeared on radio and TV, and served as expert witnesses in legal proceedings.
The senior staff has extensive experience in all aspects and stages of coffee production, from buying and roasting to production of the retail operations. Our staff includes Licensed Q-Graders, Cup of Excellence Judges, and United States Barista Championship Judges, certified Golden Cup Brewing Technicians, Certified SCAA Lead Instructors and a Roaster Guild Certified Roaster. Professional development for our staff members includes travel to coffee producing countries, training seminars at coffee industry conferences, and regular participation in sensory panels for calibration.
Coffee Analysts founder Dan Cox started his career in coffee at a start-up coffee roasting company in 1981. For the next decade, he held numerous positions in coffee organizations from retail clerk to VP and junior partner.
In 1992 he was named the Specialty Coffee Association of America's "Man of the Year" and received the Distinguished Service Award. During the same year, Dan founded Coffee Enterprises and officially added Coffee Analysts in 1994. In 2012 Dan received the "Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Specialty Coffee Association recognizing his contributions to the specialty coffee industry
Dan is the President of Coffee Analysts and continues to offer senior tasting expertise as a Licensed Q-Grader. Dan holds a BA from Norwich University and served as a Captain in the US Army
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Spencer is Chairman of the Technical Standards Committee of the Specialty Coffee Association of America, a member of Technical & Regulatory Affairs Committee of the National Coffee Association and the Editorial Advisory Board for ROAST Magazine. He is a founding member of the Roasters Guild and served on the first Executive Council. Spencer is a frequent presenter and instructor at trade conferences, and has published articles on coffee topics in trade and consumer magazines, assisted book authors on coffee industry topics. He is an experienced coffee competition judge including Cup of Excellence, the United States Barista Championship, and the first Q Auction program.
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David is a native Vermonter who joined the Coffee Analysts Sensory Team in 2001. Prior to joining Coffee Enterprises, he traded world commodity futures, including coffee contracts, for a private investor in Boston. David then moved to Monterey Bay in California for several years before returning to Vermont in 1990. After attending the SCAA in Boston in 2003, David began doing more extensive work at Coffee Analysts. He continues to gain much knowledge and experience sorting green coffee from origin & cupping coffee daily. He regularly sample roasts greens on our Jabez Burns & Sons sample roasters for evaluation in our cupping room. In November, 2005 he successfully completed 3 SCAA Skill Building Workshops for Roasting, Brewing Fundamentals & Comparative Cupping. He is also a Certified Brewing Technician. In January 2006, David joined a group of people on a Coffee Harvest Tour as guests of the Specialty Coffee Association of El Salvador. David spends time on the weekends with his family and his woodworking endeavors or in Montreal, just an hour and a half away. After all these years, he remains steadfast to a cup of Indonesian PNG (Papua New Guinea) coffee.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Acting Administrator David J. Barram of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) today announced the appointment of David L. Bibb, Deputy Commissioner of GSA's Public Buildings Service, as Deputy Associate Administrator of the Office of Real Property in GSA's Office of Governmentwide Policy. The appointment is effective in January.
"David's experience in planning and development during his long and distinguished career at GSA makes him an outstanding choice for this challenging role in overseeing governmentwide real estate policy," Barram said.
In his new position Bibb will be responsible for the direction of policy and regulatory development for the acquisition, management and disposal of real property assets of the federal government.
Bibb joined GSA's Atlanta office as a management intern in 1971 and since 1978 has filled a series of executive real estate positions at agency headquarters in Washington, D.C. He has received numerous awards for his service, including the Administrator's Distinguished Service Award and the Presidential Rank of Meritorious Executive Award.


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Yay, now we can show you what we have been doing. ^^
Please check out the manga 'My Boyfriend's an Anime Character' created by Mella Rose and artwork done by Dokutoku here:
Narumi Hibiki is a 17-year-old-girl with a crush on an anime character named Takaharu, from the series 'Feudal Fairytale'.
When Narumi finds a 'limited edition', one-of-a-kind, video game that is based on 'Feudal Fairytale', she gets pulled into the world of 'Feudal Fairytale', and meets Takaharu.
Narumi then meets the whole cast of 'Feudal Fairytale', and travels with Takaharu and his friends as they search for the Yusouki Gems, their ticket home, all the while having to hide how much she really knows about them.
Will Narumi tell Takaharu how she feels? And, how will the guys react if they find out the secret that they are anime characters?
The story's genre is Shojo Romance/Action-Adventure. The rating is 'Teen' for Violence/fighting and language.
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Like every industry, concrete production will feel the effects of computer problems in the year 2000. In the 1960s, when disk space was a coveted commodity, computer programmers abbreviated the year entry by shaving off the first two digits. Once the calendar reaches 2000, the machines will interpret 2000 as 1900 or 1980. Despite a steep decline in the cost of memory, many hardware and software developers didn't abandon the custom of abbreviating the year until very recently. The result is that Y2K will impact both hardware and software, and compliance testing has revealed that even the newest computer products may also be in jeopardy because their design incorporated pre-Y2K programming. Y2K will affect various areas of concrete production: accounts receivable, dispatching, inventory control, quality control and batching. The time to address the problem is now. Included are a few simple tests to determine the degree to which your PC is Y2K-compliant.
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