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Adventures in Scotch Land
In the wide world of Scotch whisky, the rules of terroir don't always apply
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You don't have to be a spirits chemist to figure out how the land and the sea shape the whisky that flows from Islay.
Wine makers call this terroir—that special relationship between place and product that can explain why the same grape variety grown in the same way in two places can taste so different. In Scotland, a hundred distilleries dot the map, each making unique whiskies that speak—in a shout or a whisper—of the diverse locations in which they are made.
Wine makers call this terroir—that special relationship between place and product that can explain why the same grape variety grown in the same way in two places can taste so different. In Scotland, a hundred distilleries dot the map, each making unique whiskies that speak—in a shout or a whisper—of the diverse locations in which they are made.
For this reason, it is popular to divide the country into a number of whisky-making regions with a view to categorizing tastes. This may be handy, but it's a little too convenient to describe the country with the most diverse whisky styles in the world. Too many other factors go into production and too many contradictions exist for such a mysterious and irascible land as Scotland to be so neatly labeled.
It is easy to say that Islay whiskies are bold and smoky, Speysides are sweet and fruity, Lowlands delicate and floral, and for the most part you'd be right. But what of the huge Highlands area? It is widely spread out and includes a number of malts that are hard to reconcile stylistically. What some call the Islands region is an easy way to cordon off the Highland distilleries that are not on the mainland, but those islands are far flung and once again bridle at conformity. The Scotch Whisky Association, for purposes of labeling, recognizes five regions: Highland, Lowland, Speyside, Islay and Campbeltown, but that last designation isn't very useful as it refers to only three distilleries in a very small area. More industrious labelers have divided the Highlands into East, West, Central and North and separated the islands into Arran, Jura, Mull, Skye and Orkney. But then that's a lot to process, if the point is to simplify Scotch.
So how do you come to terms with Scotland's whisky diversity? Happily, the great majority of the country's distilleries welcome visitors and are very proud to explain what sets their products apart from others. Short of a Caledonian tour, you can also explore by reading on or, perhaps in happier manner, by further tasting.
Far north and east of Islay in the Highlands town of Tain near the North Sea, the Glenmorangie master blender and whisky creator Rachel Barrie leads a tasting of the wide range of whiskies she helps create. She starts by pointing out that only three things go into Scotch malt whisky—water, barley and yeast. It doesn't take long to catch on to her irony. Not only is her fruity and oaky whisky markedly different than that of most Islay whiskies, the expressions she offers—the original, Sonalta, Quinta Ruban—vary from glass to glass even though they were born of the same still.
To understand why, you must look not only to the variations that are allowed within Barrie's terse summation of the formula, but also to other variables it doesn't include.
The Speyside region offered two advantages to the early distillers that first crowded its hills and mountains centuries ago: haven from the authorities (most were moonshiners in the early days) and the numerous springs that feed the River Spey. While they might have moved closer to the city when taxes eased enough to make it profitable to operate in the open, the stillmen stayed for the felicitous water sources.
The terroir of many Scotches may best be defined by water. Glenmorangie's source is Tarlogie Springs, a short distance from the still house. It's not much to look at—a shallow pond perhaps 30 feet by 30 feet—but you can see by its sandy bottom that the clear water, which takes a hundred years to bubble up, has filtered through sandstone and limestone. Back in Islay, Laphroaig uses water that flows over the heather of granite hills and runs through all that peat in the bogs. Each has its own effect on the whisky.
Yet the differences in water sources are not only particular to large areas, but a sort of microgeology particular to each maker. Looked at through H2O, almost every still—even when built next to another—is its own region with its own personality.
While Speyside isn't thought of as making peaty whisky, quite a bit of the stuff is in the soil, Cardhu, one of the least smoky of whiskies, takes much of its water from springs in the nearby peat-filled Mannoch Hill. Nevertheless, The Glenlivet, not far from Cardhu, prides itself on the mineral-rich water it takes from Josie's Well.
Water has many functions in the whisky-making process. It first joins in when barley is steeped to begin the malting process that coaxes sugar from the grain. Then it is added in mashing, prior to fermenting a crude beer. It is in these stages that water quality is thought to have the greatest effect, as it interacts with the grain and yeast.
Water is further needed during distillation. This step captures high-proof spirits by essentially boiling alcohol out of the beer and then condensing it back into liquid form. Some whisky men feel that the temperature of the water used to cool the steaming spirit has a distinct effect on taste. If this is true, the cold waters of such high-altitude distilleries as Dalwhinnie and Tomatin would have a dramatically different influence than those at the distilleries closer to sea level.
In wine, terroir is largely a function of organic content, when the grapes used to make the juice are grown in the same place as the winery. This is hardly so in Scotland, where very little of the barley in a whisky is likely to be grown in the area where the spirit is produced. Regulations don't even stipulate that the grain content come from Scotland, although much is grown in its coastal areas. (Other popular barley sources are England, Scandinavia and Africa.) Some distilleries buy a portion of their grain from nearby farmers or have their own plots, but the volume of barley necessary usually precludes a 100 percent single-estate approach to grain.
The recent thrust has been to buy barley within Scotland, but the impetus behind that has been mostly economic rather than terroir-driven. (Shipping costs are prohibitive for foreign barleys.) Barley purchases tend to be pragmatic—the yield of alcohol-to-grain is the foremost determinant. But even while new varieties of barley are constantly being developed with names like Optic, Tankard and Chariot, Macallan highly prizes the less alcohol-efficient Golden Promise, a strain that has been used since the 1960s. However, it has had to add other strains of barley to have enough to meet demands.
A notable exception to the practice of mixing barley varieties is 1991 Triumph in The Glenlivet Nadurra line. As well as being a vintage whisky from that year, it was made wholly with Triumph barley. Moreover Glenlivet no longer uses that type of barley, so don't expect to see much of that.
"It's just like butter, guys." Laphroaig distillery manager John Campbell is demonstrating how to harvest a fourth ingredient in most Scotch whisky, one that isn't covered in the aforementioned water-barley-yeast formula.
He sticks a peat spade, a narrow tool with a flat end and a wing protruding from it on the perpendicular, and cuts into the soft soil to extract an almost perfect brick of peat, the partly decayed vegetable matter found beneath much of Scottish land. Piled in the stacks that are not uncommon sights in Scotland, these peat bricks dry out enough to burn, but are moist enough to provide the smoky taste that is—in varying degrees—the signature flavor note of the nation's spirit.
By sheer volume, peat is almost not worth mentioning—it is measured in the parts per million phenol. Far less than a drop exists in a bottle of even the peatiest of whiskies. But it is this minute ingredient that makes Scotch whisky instantly recognizable. Yet the peat smoke that laces most single malts wasn't originally meant solely for taste. When water is added to barley, it begins to germinate, releasing the sugars that the yeast will later feast on. The sprouting must be stopped ("John Barleycorn must die") before the sugars can be turned to alcohol during fermentation. Drying the grain stops the germination, and because peat is so common in Scotland, it was the preferred fuel for doing the drying job in the days when coal heat was a luxury.
No law compels Scotch whisky makers to dry barley with peat smoke (in fact Glengoyne and Auchentoshan don't use it all), but the tradition has passed down simply because it brings so much flavor to a malt. That the style of Islay malts is particularly peaty is probably tied to the abundance of peat there. But while some of the island's malts—Laphroaig, Ardbeg, Lagavulin—lead the league in smoke content, Bunnahabhain and Bruichladdich eschew that profile and the normally peaty Caol Ila also makes an unpeated version. Those contradictions exemplify how aspects that are often considered part of the Scotch terroir are simply regional styles that are not chiseled in stone—or peat in this case.
Nevertheless, a peat terroir does exist as the waterlogged vegetable matter has a different chemical makeup depending upon where it is decomposing. Islay's peat is high in lignum. At Orkney's Highland Park, the northernmost distillery, the peat has more carbohydrates.
Nowadays most barley reaches the whisky plant having already been peated to order at a malting plant. Laphroaig controls its own peat content (which is very high, about 50 parts per million) first by cutting the peat by hand, which retains moisture and makes the fuel burn smokier.
Secondly, it performs its own floor maltings, which is the old-fashioned method that only a handful of distilleries, such as Balvenie, Highland Park and Glenfiddich, have retained. Most of the eight Islay distilleries are supplied with barley by Port Ellen Maltings, a former distillery now devoted to germinating barley and drying it in large drums.
At Laphroaig, the barley is spread out and wetted down across concrete floors. For days workers turn the barley by hand as sprouts appear on each corn and grow to the correct length. It is then that the workers fire peat ovens, and smoke wafts up to dry the grain and stop the germination. While pagoda roofs are common on Scotch distilleries, on most they are mere vestiges of a time when they peated their own barley. In the case of Laphroaig, the spire still shrouds a chimney used for expelling peat smoke.
After the germination is halted, the barley is ready to be milled and mashed—ground into grist and mixed with hot water, creating what is known as wort. Yeast is added and the wort is put in washbacks, huge open vats with capacities of tens of thousands of liters. There it ferments for several days, turning into noncarbonated beer.
The beer then enters another microclimate unique to each distillery—the still. Every distillery uses a different shape and sized still. Some use two different types for the first run (wash still) and the second (spirit still).
It is in the distillation of Scotch that size—in particular height—matters. Glenmorangie has the tallest still, letting only the lightest spirits escape. Macallan's are among the smallest, which concentrates the flavor of a spirit meant for long aging. Aberfeldy's are large and bulbous, which renders the light, honeyed malt that informs the Dewar's blend. So important are still dimensions that when The Glenlivet recently expanded, pains were taken to replicate the exact shape (tall and wide) of its stills.
Work on the pot stills of Scotland create enough business that outfits like R.G. Abercrombie coppersmith are devoted to these tasks. In its Alloa facility, parts of stills are being worked on, cut in basic form and forced into shape with hammers. The smiths all wear serious ear protection from the constant din as they attend to mushroom- and onion-shaped stills from makers such as Oban and Talisker.
Copper has charms that improve the taste of whisky as it interacts with the metal. If this were true of stainless steel, Abercrombie would have much less work. But copper wears out over 10 or 15 years-seldom at the same rate-so most of the work is piecemeal maintenance. Rarely are the smiths called upon to create an entire still at once, as Abercrombie was when Diageo opened Roseisle, the first new distillery in Scotland in 30 years. Then the coppersmiths had the opportunity to construct 14 stills in one fell swoop.
Back in the still house, the first run creates what are called low wines, bringing the alcohol content to about 20 percent before the second finishes the job, resulting in a spirit of between 60 and 75 percent alcohol. In the Lowlands region, as with Irish whiskey, a triple distillation employing a middle still has been traditional, but is now only used at Auchentoshan.
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Marv Eleazer Valdosta, GA, USA, January 26, 2011 9:32am ET
By far the most well written piece on present day Scotch distilling I've read. I'd love to see you guys publish more of this stuff. Great work!
stantine972 February 4, 2011 11:27pm ET
Nice article Jack. I agree with Marv we want more. I love anything Bourbon!
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something tells me he may want to keep his streak in tact.....im guessing no guarantees in this series....at least when it comes to detroit winning...
That's exactly what my brother said. "there's gonna be a guarantee"
Oh, and my Mom has a new nickname for Sheed - The Mouth. Damn, even my Mom is getting in on the action.
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Guaransheed won't matter.
They cannot possibly beat the spurs 3 times in a row at home and if they don't that means they have to win both games 6 and 7 -- equally improbable. Stick a fork in 'em.
Now the next question is, how the heck do WE beat the spurs?
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The lupus community has lost a dedicated champion with the passing of U.S. House of Representatives C.W. Bill Young (R-Fla). Representative Young consistently backed the need to further biomedical research at the National Institutes of Health to foster the advancements that improve the lives of Americans living with serious diseases, including lupus. "With compassion for all patients, Congressman Young supported national educational efforts like the Lupus Initiative that help alleviate healthcare disparities, particularly among underserved communities," commented Margaret Dowd, President and CEO of the Lupus Research Institute.
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Background: A friend and I run a weekly doubles series for charity called Winter Warriors. All money raised goes to the Food Bank of the Rockies. It's a great cause and we have such an awesomely giving disc golf community here in Colorado! It's a 13 week series that runs every Saturday morning on a different front range Colorado course each week. Living up to it's name, we play no matter the weather (cold, snow, sleet, wind...we follow the Ice Bowl motto of "No WImps - No Whiners"). To make things more fun we have double birdies (both partners can putt out for -2 on a hole) and unique holes like putter only, forehand only, driver only, off hand, worst shot, mini hole, etc... The players' scores are added up over the course of the 13 weeks and each players top 6 scores are considered towards determining the top 10 (who receive trophies). There's also a trophy for all players who make every week. For more info, check out www.mhdgc.org (it's pretty cool!).
As my friend and I do check-in up until the players' meeting, we rarely get an opportunity to get throws in for warm-up (which we're totally OK with and understand it comes with the territory when running an event). Often, our first throws of the day are on our first hole of the round and the temps are quite low (typically below freezing) so we're figuratively and literally cold. The focus each week is definitely raising money for charity and having fun..and it's a bonus if by chance I happen to play well. That being said, I'm a competitive guy and certainly prefer to play my best. And, I would like to be a productive teammate for my partner...as it's best disc doubles. Typically, it's not until 4-5 holes into the round that I get my timing and feel warmed up.
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Former reporter turned New York Times columnist Timothy Egan's Thursday hostile anti-Mitt Romney column had a peculiar omission. Egan insulted the likely Republican nominee by calling him an "Olympic" level flip-flopper, yet somehow managed not once to mention Romney's successful management of the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City.
In focus groups, he's described as a tin man, a shell, an empty suit, vacuous, a multimillionaire in mom jeans. And that's from supporters.
At the convention, you can expect to hear high praise for a virtuous, disciplined, loyal person of family and faith. You will surely hear the words "turnaround" and "no apology" -- both titles of platitudinous and unread books by Romney -- in defense of his business acumen and unshakable view of American exceptionalism.
But I doubt you will hear anything of the real Romney because he is afraid of his own past. His life -- even with prep school privilege in Bloomfield Hills, the draft-avoiding refuges of mission work in Paris and business school at Harvard, a founding role at Bain Capital from a mentor who guaranteed he would never fail financially or professionally -- is not without drama.
Yet that Romney story is laden with land mines of his making. Or rather, that of his party, which has turned so quickly against common-sense solutions to the nation's problems that Romney's real achievements, and prior principles, are now toxic to most Republicans.
Start with his family. His great-grandfather was a fugitive, tracked by federal marshals as he tried to plant polygamy throughout the Southwest for a radical new American faith. It's a hell of a tale, Butch Cassidy with five wives. But Romney never mentions this arc for fear his Mormon religion will offend evangelical Christians who dominate the Republican Party.
Speaking of presidential candidates with embarrassing polygamous pasts, sympathetic Obama biographer and Washington Post journalist David Maraniss wrote:
The line of polygamists in Obama's family can be traced back generations in western Kenya, where it was an accepted practice within the Luo (pronounced LOO-oh) tribe. His great-grandfather, Obama Opiyo, had five wives, including two who were sisters. His grandfather, Hussein Onyango, had at least four wives, one of whom, Akumu, gave birth to the president's father, Barack Obama, before fleeing her abusive husband. Obama Sr. was already married when he left Kenya to study at the University of Hawaii, where he married again. His American wife-to-be, Stanley Ann Dunham, was not yet 18 and unaware of his marital situation when she became pregnant with his namesake son in 1961.
Egan shuffled through Romney's accomplishments and called his "greatest achievement" universal health care in Massachusetts, then followed up with the "Olympic insult" without managing to mention that another one of Romney's more conservative accomplishments was to successfully guide the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City to a profit.
As he shed the ideas he embraced in the Bay State and tried to become "severely conservative," Romney the unknowable became Romney the unlikable. His flip-flops were Olympic in caliber: on gun control, abortion, climate change, taxes, gays.


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AgrAbility of Wisconsin and the National Farm Medicine center are proud to announce the upcoming AgrAbility of Wisconsin Summit. The Summit will take place Thursday, May 16th, 2013 with registration starting at 10:00 AM and the event ending at 3:00 PM at the Marshfield Medical Center, and is open to all.
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The Summit will be hosted by the National Farm Center in the Froehlke Auditorium at the Marshfield Clinic, in Marshfield, WI. Professional Dairy Producers of Wisconsin will also be providing lunch for attendees. This free event will provide the opportunity for participants to network, prepare for the future, and learn about a variety of topics including retirement and family transition, financial stability, chronic pain management, and other resource topics relating to health and wellness.
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The perfect 10 is a rare and remarkable feat in any judged sport. In surfing, earning two perfect 10s in the same 30-minute heat is next to impossible. Only four surfers in ASP history have managed the feat since 1976. That makes "the perfect heat" even more rare than a perfect game in baseball. Not surprisingly, Kelly Slater is one of the few who's pulled it off. And on Wednesday morning at the Volcom Fiji Pro, the 41-year-old with 11 world titles became the first surfer in history to repeat the feat. He did it with the help of some big beautiful waves heaving over razor sharp coral at Thundercloud Reef. After weaving his way through a pair of giant spinning caverns, Slater finished his quarterfinal match with a full 20 out of the 20 available points. This is what perfect looks like in pro surfing…
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Naturally, he celebrated his perfect moment by winning the Volcom Fiji Pro and making it a perfect day. The victory is his 53rd at the elite level. He dedicated this one to his brand new nephew, Van Carter Slater, who arrived Monday. This was Slater's fourth time winning in Fiji. He's now back in the ratings lead as the ASP World Tour heads to Bali for the Oakley Bali Pro. Mick Fanning, who joined Slater in the final Wednesday, is right behind him in second. The threat from Fanning is very real. He took the title away from Slater in 2007 and 2009. Only four surfers have managed to wrestle world titles away from Slater since he claimed his first championship in 1992.
His two-decade reign at the top of the surf world is one of the most remarkable reigns in sports, and the craziest part of all is he seems to only be getting better.
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Albert's DogsLogic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Albert is a keen dog admirer and over the years has had a number of dogs. He has had an Alsatian, a Dalmatian, a Poodle and a Great Dane, but not necessarily in that order. Albert had Jamie first. The Dalmatian was an adored pet before the Great Dane. Sammy, the Alsatian, was the second dog Albert loved. Whitney was housed before the Poodle and Jimmy was not a Great Dane. Can you tell each of the dogs' name and the order in which Albert had them?
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River Cross Cowboy Church in Trenton will be hosting a free Kids Ranch Rodeo for kids 12 and under. Saturday, at 3560 S.W. County Road 334, Trenton.
Sign ups begin at 11 a.m. and the rodeo starts at noon. There will be food and live music. Events for the rodeo include mutton bustin', ranch branding, goat tying, goat undressing, barrel racing, chute doggin' and breakaway calf roping. For more information contact Tim Campbell at 352-494-8973.
'Art and the Animal,' music, children's
programs and more at the Appleton Museum in April
For more information call 352-291-4455 or visit www.AppletonMuseum.org.
Jeff Klinkenberg, who writes about Florida culture and people, will visit the Cedar Key Public Library at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 10, to give a program about his unique perspective on his home state. Klinkenberg's talk, part of the library's current "Our Stories" series, will be an entertaining, informative look at some of the state's more colorful people, places and events.
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The Suwannee Valley Players are so pleased to be able to present its annual musical, Master of Time, which was written by a local writer, Krista Perryman. Not only is SVP honored to produce this play, it is privileged to have Perryman as the musical director and choreographer, while working closely with a SVP veteran director, Janice Grant. The large cast is made up of residents from all parts of our Tri-County area. SVP is proud of its accomplishments.
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The Family Bible Chapel, located at 12 N. Main St., Chiefland, will host "Homeward Bound" on Sunday, Feb. 26 at 10:30 a.m. If you are a fan of Gospel music, this is the group to hear.
Parking is located behind the church. For more information, call 352-215-3065.
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Through March 4
Bellamy Road exhibit
Author and historian Carolyn Cohens, a self-taught artist from Chiefland, is part of an exhibit "Variations on a Dream: Black History, Liberation & Spirituality" at Bellamy Road in Melrose. Cohens' acrylic paintings celebrate the folk-life of African-Americans in Levy County and the surrounding region.
The Bronson FFA Alumni Organization's Annual Food Fest will be Friday, March 2, at First Baptist Church in Bronson, with entertainment beginning at 5 p.m. and food service at 5:30 p.m.
There will also be a singing group from the local Cowboy Church, a cake auction, a silent auction and door prizes.
Tickets for the event may be purchased in advance for $10 or for $15 at the event. Proceeds go to the Bronson FFA Alumni Scholarship Program and to send local students to leadership conferences.
OLUSTEE –The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Olustee Battlefield Historic State Park, Florida's first state park, will host the 36th Annual Reenactment of the Battle of Olustee on Feb. 17-19, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Throughout the weekend, more than 2,000 demonstrators will present living history impressions of military and civilian life at the time of Florida's largest Civil War battle.
For more information, visit www.floridastateparks.org/olustee or http://battleofolustee.org.
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Topic: Chemoemoblization cocktail
Hi all,
For the second time, my father has been recommended a chemoembolization cocktail of cisplatin (100mg), adriamycin (50mg) and mitomycin (10mg).
He is adamant that he does not want to be sick (nausea, other side effects, etc) though he fared well with a CE of gemcitabine (not sure dose) previously.
Does anyone have experience with this combo and how was it?
(sorry for posting this in two places, but I wanted to get as much feedback as possible)


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Give us an actual quote.Myotai wrote:Hi,
1) You are already enlightened, just sitting is Enlightenment nothing more is needed
[Ven. Ananda] But he does know this: 'All those who have been led, are being led, or will be led [to release] from the cosmos have done so, are doing so, or will do so after having abandoned the five hindrances — those defilements of awareness that weaken discernment — having well-established[1] their minds in the four frames of reference, and having developed, as they have come to be, the seven factors for Awakening.
it is samatha and vipassana practiced simultaneously.
tiltbillings wrote:Give us an actual quote.Myotai wrote:Hi,
1) You are already enlightened, just sitting is Enlightenment nothing more is needed
BuddhaSoup wrote:iit is samatha and vipassana practiced simultaneously.
after hearing one of his senior priests complain, after a daylong "sesshin," that he was "tired of all of this bulls**t sitting and staring at a wall." Probably the best teaching moment I experienced that year.
If these are published quotes from Dogen or some modern teacher, it is worth looking at the quote in its fuller context.Myotai wrote:Though I think it would be unfair of me to make direct quotes from individuals. Suffice to say that I have heard this said time and time again recently. Also that just sitting is all that is needed and that merely sitting in silence is an embodiment of enlightenment.
Myotai wrote:
2) There is almost no mention of anything to do with philosophy. Emptiness is mentioned but never discussed and there is nothing from what I can see that acknowledges the Abhidhamma.
Jon. S wrote:BuddhaSoup wrote:after hearing one of his senior priests complain, after a daylong "sesshin," that he was "tired of all of this bulls**t sitting and staring at a wall." Probably the best teaching moment I experienced that year.
Myotai wrote:Spent the last month or so looking into the teachings of Dogen and how they're used by the Soto school. A few things that I have come away with, and in advance these are not meant to offend, merely my personal observations - but I would value your opinions:
Truth is perfect and complete in itself. It is not something newly discovered; it has always existed. Truth is not far away. It is nearer than near. There is no need to attain it, since not one of your steps leads away from it. Don't follow the advise of others; rather, learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become one, and you will realise the unity of all things. Even the slightest movement of your conceptual thought will prevent you from entering the palace of wisdom. The Buddha meditated for six years; Bodhidharma for nine. If such effort was required of these ancient Masters, how much more is required of you. Your search among books, sifting and shuffling through other people's words, may lead you to the depths of knowledge, but it cannot help you to see the reflection of your true self. When you have thrown away all conceptions of mind and body, the original person will appear, in all his fullness. To obtain the inestimable benefits of meditation, you should first make a firm decision to practice everyday.
Your meditation room should be clean and quiet. Wear loose clothing and remove your shoes. Sit on a cushion, with legs crossed, in as comfortable a manner as possible. Keep your back straight. Don't lean to the left or right; don't tip forward or bend back. ……Breathe through your nostrils. Before you begin meditation, take several slow, deep breaths. Hold your body erect, allowing your breathing to become normal again. Many thoughts will crowd into your mind. Don't dwell on thoughts of good or bad. Don't desire to attain enlightenment. Let thoughts come and go, without getting involved in them or trying to suppress them. Think the unthinkable. In other words think no-thinking. Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace and blessedness itself. It is the actualisation of wisdom, the ultimate truth of oneness with all things. In your meditation, you yourself are the mirror reflecting the solutions to your problems. The human mind has absolute freedom within its true nature. You can attain freedom intuitively. Don't work toward freedom; but allow the work itself to be freedom. When you want to rest, move your body slowly, and quietly stand up. Practice this meditation in the morning or in the evening, or at any leisure time during the day.
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On Monday, Wyoming guard Luke Martinez was suspended indefinitely for his role in an off-campus fight.
On Tuesday, details of the incident emerged.
Martinez, the Cowboys' second-leading scorer, helped the team to a 12-0 start, but sat out the previous three games—prior to the suspension—with a broken ring finger on his right hand from the incident.
Martinez was arrested and charged with aggravated battery and assault in a Dec. 30 fight outside Buckhorn Bar in Laramie, Wyo., according to the Star-Tribune.
According to the police report, Martinez's teammate Derek Cooke Jr. punched a man in the face and knocked him out. Then, as witnesses described in an affidavit, Martinez took "a running start" and kicked the unconscious victim in the head "like it was a football," the newspaper reported.
Police said that Martinez "did verbally admit that he caused serious bodily injury to the victim knowingly or recklessly under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life."
The victim had to have his jaw wired shut after suffering "multiple fractures of the lower mandible" his brother said.
Martinez appeared in court Tuesday morning and will be released on $25,000 signature bond, the Star-Tribune reported. As part of his release, Martinez has to check in with the university's athletic department three times per week, is not allowed to take drugs or drink alcohol, as well as not entering establishments "that make the majority of their income from sales of alcoholic beverages."
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Corn futures suffered amidst general commodity weakness Friday. Although the equity markets recovered somewhat from their Thursday breakdown, continued U.S. dollar strength held negative connotations for forthcoming demand. Generally favorable growing weather and easing old crop conditions also seemed to weigh upon prices. July corn ended the week having fallen 11.5 cents to $6.6175/bushel, while December lost 4.25 cents to $5.5625.
The soy complex also moved mostly lower to end the week. Although the tight old crop situation apparently boosted nearby soymeal futures and supported soybeans, the larger trend was downward. As in the corn pit, U.S. dollar strength and improved weather forecasts exerted pressure upon the crop markets. At the least, the drier conditions experienced this week suggest soybean plantings will be wrapped up in short order. July soybean futures slipped 2.0 cents to $14.9325/bushel at their Friday close, and July soyoil sank 0.35 cents to 48.02 cents/pound, whereas July soymeal rallied $2.1 to $448.1/ton.
Anecdotal reports seemingly supported wheat futures Friday. Traders were apparently hearing about disappointing winter wheat yields in both the Southern Plains and in southern Illinois. New crop conditions are not all that great either. They may also have been building upon talk that China will boost its buying of U.S. wheat after having bought French product earlier this week. However, the ongoing U.S. dollar rally probably pushed them downward along with most commodity markets. July CBOT wheat closed 3.5 cents lower at $6.98/bushel Friday afternoon, while July KCBT wheat dipped 0.5 cent to $7.365, and July MGE futures were steady at $8.14.
Cattle futures posted impressive gains Friday despite ostensibly bearish conditions. Traders seemed to think the cash cattle markets could be near a seasonal low. Actually, a significant portion of the CME bounce very likely stemmed from technical factors, which in turn might be a self-fulfilling prophecy if the futures advance caused cash prices to firm in late-week trading. The USDA Cattle on Feed report released after the close seemed somewhat bearish. August cattle jumped 1.60 cents to 121.60 cents/pound to end the trading week, while December climbed 1.17 cents to 127.10. Meanwhile, August feeder cattle futures leapt 2.50 cents to 146.92 cents/pound and November soared 1.85 to 152.00.
Chicago traders may now think the seasonal hog/pork rally has run its course. Despite a significant cash premium, a large gain on the midday wholesale report and the concurrent cattle rally, swine futures moved modestly lower Friday. The hog and complex has a history of reversing decisively after reaching a second-quarter high, so a cautious approach to CME futures probably seemed entirely warranted. July hog futures settled 0.50 cents lower at 99.75 cents/pound Friday afternoon, whereas concerns about the market impact of PEDV disease seemingly boosted December 0.05 cents to 82.30.


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Microsoft offers a feature for Microsoft Windows users through their Microsoft Windows Security Center/ Protect Your PC Site which can help you enable the essentials for computer virus protection that came preloaded with Windows.
In general it is important to know that the basics for computer virus prevention that you need are: an internet firewall, antispyware software and antivirus software.
It is also important to keep up with all updates for your software.
Windows Live OneCare is a virus prevention service that offers a 90-day free trial. It provides a firewall, virus scanning, antispyware, file backup and restore capability and PC performance tune-up ability.
One of the best ways to protect your computer from viruses is to download files only from websites you trust. When you need to download a file and you don't know the website source well enough to trust it then you can download it on to a removable source like a thumb drive rather than onto your hard drive or load your programs in an isolated space which prevents them from making permanent changes to other programs and data in your computer.
Don't open suspicious e-mail messages, messages from unknown sources, or unknown files. Often this is easier said than done if you have many people you may get messages and files from but do your best to only open email messages with a subject line that makes sense to you or you are expecting especially if you don't recognize the author. All email has a junk email filter but this will not protect you from viruses generally speaking.
Install antivirus software which can scan your system, looking out and eradicating viruses on a recurring footing. Leaders in antivirus software merchandise for Windows systems are Norton Antivirus, McAfee, Kaspersky Anti-Virus and PC-cilin.
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Columbus, Ohio Limited Brands Inc. has hired cosmetics-industry veteran Shashi Batra to serve as president of Victoria's Secret Beauty business, effective Jan. 22.
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Batra replaces former Victoria's Secret beauty president Christine Beauchamp, who announced plans to resign in late 2007 because of changes to her role through a company restructuring.


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A similar study was recently conducted with whey protein isolate. Subjects consumed whey after a bout of single leg knee extensions, using the non-exercised leg as a control. The subjects were older, with an average age of 70 years.
After exercising one leg, they consumed a drink containing 0, 10, 20 or 40 grams of whey protein isolate. Measures of muscle protein synthesis were determined for 4 hours after exercise in the control (non-exercised) leg (to assess the effects of simply ingesting whey without exercise), and in the exercised leg (to assess the effects of whey plus resistance exercise). Rates of muscle protein synthesis were higher in the exercised leg compared to the control leg at all doses of whey, consistent with the synergistic effect of whey and exercise.
In the control (non-exercised) leg, there was a significant increase in muscle protein synthesis with the 20 gram dose, but no further increase with 40 grams. In the exercised leg, there was a significant increase in muscle protein synthesis with 20 grams of whey, and a further 32% increase with the 40 gram dose. This indicates that 20 grams of whey was necessary to significantly increase muscle protein synthesis at rest in elderly subjects, but after resistance exercise, a higher dose may be needed to achieve a maximal increase in muscle protein synthesis.


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Close call with calamity
By Patty Kruszewski, Citizen Managing Editor 10/10/12
No one would ever accuse Fred McConnell of being a couch potato.
At 70, the program head and professor of engineering at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College (JSRCC) is slim and fit, and plays volleyball three nights a week or more.
So McConnell was not too alarmed at first when his heartburn wouldn't go away.
Even after two months, when the chest discomfort did not respond to medication and his doctor recommended a stress test, McConnell shrugged it off.
"I just had a stress test a couple of years ago," he told his doctor -- who checked his records and countered, "No, it's been seven."
In those seven years, said McConnell, stress tests have changed considerably. His 2005 test was conducted on a treadmill with the physician in the room, monitoring his reaction to exertion.
The 2005 diagnosis? Chronic heartburn.
This time, his stress test was the nuclear version, in which a radioactive dye is injected into the bloodstream to help create images of the heart muscle and valves at work. The pictures showed that one of McConnell's heart chambers wasn't filling up as it should, and he was referred to a cardiologist for a heart catheterization.
Still relatively unfazed, McConnell scheduled the catheterization -- then rescheduled it a week later so that he could play in a volleyball tournament first.
"I was afraid they'd find something," he admits now. And find something they did.
'A real mess'
"I was only half awake," said McConnell, as he recalls coming out of the anesthesia after the catheterization. "But I remember the doctor telling me, 'You have a real mess in there.'"
Later, the cardiologist told McConnell he was surprised he had never had a heart attack -- though he saw signs that there may have been one of the "silent" variety.
McConnell consulted with a surgeon, who drew pictures of the three blockages and scheduled him for surgery two weeks later. Since McConnell was on spring break at the time, he asked the surgeon if it was okay to go back to work.
"That depends," answered the doctor. "Is your job stressful?"
McConnell chuckles as he recalls his answer.
"Not for me -- but maybe for my students!"
Finding a substitute to take over at JSRCC for the rest of the semester, McConnell underwent surgery on March 27. During the operation, a fourth blockage was found.
Nine weeks after his quadruple bypass surgery, McConnell traveled to Salt Lake City and won both silver and bronze medals at the USA Volleyball Open National Championships.
Rum and medals
More than 430 teams from around the world competed in the June championships.
A long-time member of the Richmond Volleyball Club, McConnell earned his silver medal as a member of the GROG-65 Team (pictured above) in one session, and his bronze medal in another session as a member of Team SOTA-70.
Team GROG, he says, takes its name from the acronym for "Greater Richmond Old Guys," but the name hardly fits any more. In addition to the Richmond players, McConnell has GROG teammates hailing from Texas, Colorado and Arkansas.
"Grog also was a rum drink for the British Navy," he adds, "so our uniforms have a rum bottle logo."
Last October, he won a gold medal in the Huntsman World Senior Games in St. George, Utah, on a 65's team that was a blend of RVC and Canadian players. In a couple of weeks, he will head to Utah for this year's Huntsman tournament, and he looks forward to it.
"The weather in Utah is beautiful this time of year," says McConnell. "And it's a well-run tournament -- like a mini-Olympics."
'A second home'
A native of Gate City, Va., McConnell began playing intramural volleyball when he was a student at Virginia Tech. (The loyal Hokie and season ticket holder is actually a "triple dipper," having gotten his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in civil engineering at Tech.) During grad school, he says, "we would get the gym for an hour and play volleyball instead of basketball. The faculty was really into volleyball."
Moving to Richmond in 1972 to teach at the newly-opened JSRCC, following stints at Germana and Wytheville community colleges, McConnell was invited to play in volleyball leagues that eventually formed the basis of RVC (established in 1980).
"Now it's a second home," the Glen Allen resident says of RVC.
At his other second home, JSRCC, McConnell enjoys frequent visits and contacts from former students -- who, he says with a chuckle, "are often shocked to see I'm still teaching."
His daughter, a freshman at Christopher Newport University, recently told him that she had seen his reviews online on "Rate Your Professor" and noted that the only bad rating he got was for giving too much work.
"But I've never had a student come back and say, 'You worked me too hard,'" says McConnell.
"They say, 'Thank you for kicking my butt. I wouldn't have made it at [the four-year institution attended] if you hadn't."
Not long ago, in fact, McConnell says he got an email from a 1981 graduate of JSRCC who went on to get his bachelor's degree and professional engineer license at other schools.
"He said JSRCC was the best school he attended," recalls McConnell, "with the best professors."
At an age when most people have long ago retired, McConnell has no immediate plans to stop working -- or to stop playing volleyball. In fact, he not only goes to rehab once a week, but also frequently works out on the treadmill at Shady Grove YMCA.
"I don't sit around much. I have to [stay in shape] if I'm going to be competitive," he says.
After competing in the USA Open National Championships every year for 23 years, McConnell says he can't single out any one year as his most memorable -- but admits the 2012 Open is likely to stand out in his memory in years to come.
"Any time you get to the medal stand, that's an accomplishment on its own. But nine weeks after heart surgery?" he exclaims, making it clear that his close call with calamity renders the accomplishment all the sweeter.
And McConnell has a word of advice for anyone suffering from what seems to be chronic heartburn.
"If it doesn't go away, see your doctor," he says emphatically. "Especially if you're not active."
Thoracic surgeon is first to perform 100 robot-assisted lobectomies in Central Virginia
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Graham M. Bundy, a thoracic surgeon with HCA Virginia Physicians' Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates, is the first such surgeon in Central Virginia to perform 100 minimally-invasive Da Vinci robot-assisted lobectomies (a surgical procedure to remove a lobe of the lung). The procedure is used to treat multiple types of conditions but is most often used to treat lung cancer. > Read more.
UMFS has urgent need for foster parents
Citizen Staff Reports 09/22/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
UMFS officials say they have a desperate need for more foster families in the Richmond region and Central Virginia, especially those who would receive teenagers currently in the foster care system.
In recent years throughout the state, the number of children entering the foster care system has grown. > Read more.
VSP issues warning about automated traffic ticket email scam
Citizen Staff Reports 09/22/2017 General NewsPublic Safety
Virginia State Police officials are warning Virginians about an email scam that tells people they are receiving an "automated traffic ticket" from the agency. State Police do not use or issue digital or automated traffic tickets or summonses, however. Anyone receiving such an email should delete it and not click on any links provided in the email, police said. > Read more.
READ Center offers free classes, training to low-literate people
Citizen Staff Reports 09/22/2017 FeaturesGeneral News
One in six adults in Metro Richmond has literacy issues, and the READ Center in Henrico County is working to address the issue.
Next week – Sept. 24-30 – is Adult Education and Family Literacy Week, a time during which the READ Center is shining a light on its efforts to help some of the 35,000 adults in the region for whom reading, writing and basic math remain an elusive target. > Read more.
Play Day RVA planned for Sept. 21
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The Richmond region will celebrate Play Day RVA Thursday, Sept. 21, with activities throughout the area to celebrate the opportunities that exist to play in the community. Dozens of employers, local governments, schools and community organizations will participate by hosting events that integrate playful activities into daily life and spread awareness of the value of active living. > Read more.
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Dear Carolyn • In the mid-1990s, when I was 22 and my brother was 18, our family took a Caribbean cruise. It was fun, but not so much fun that I cared to go back again. Now that my parents are in their late 60s and retired, my mom has gotten it in her mind that all four of us should take another cruise together as a family. They have even offered to pay. Aside from not having an interest in the cruise, I am also not interested in taking a family vacation. I am single and in my late 30s, and a family vacation smacks of desperation, a way of saying, "Oh, how sad, he didn't want to go by himself, so he went with Mommy and Daddy." Also, traveling anywhere with my parents is never a simple process. In short, a cruise might be a vacation for my parents, but it would be anything but one for me. I have repeatedly explained that neither a cruise nor a family vacation (wherever the destination) interests me. Nevertheless, the badgering continues. For the record, I take my own vacations, usually by myself. I also see my parents about once a month, so it is not as if I ignore them and am being "guilted" into a vacation. Any thoughts?
Dear Badgered • Disclosure 1: I see badgering as one of the Deadly Relationship Sins. 2: I believe adults can say no to a vacation for whatever reasons they want, except possibly to their intimate partners. 3: I have no interest in a cruise, though I'd go with my mom if I could. Opinion, finally: That's your reason for refusing to go, fear of looking desperate? To whom? It also takes a certain stubbornness to use a trip at 22 in the mid-'90s as the template for your visions of this proposed trip. Also project to 10 years from now; will you look back on this "no" with regret? What if your mom or dad dies or gets sick? If you're hearing violins at this point, my apologies. It's just that people can be absolutely sure they don't want to do something, and absolutely entitled to those reasons, and still be wrong in a way they don't give enough credit: the big-picture, emotional, just-because way. I'm not advising you to say yes, just to think more broadly about that "no."


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Recently my Kali Sister, Svasti, wrote about finding her tribe. I can certainly relate to that. That has pretty much been the story of my life. usually an outsider, always the loner. I'm that person whom when you first meet me you think I'm a bitch or creepy because I don't do small talk, never have. I'm a hard nut to crack. A former boss told me a very long time ago that those who give up or who don't want to make the effort aren't worthy to be in my life anyway. My nickname used to be Loba (Spanish feminine for wolf) because as I was told, wolves and wild women are always misunderstood.
This relates to the tarot card reading I had last week. Besides what I wrote about the reader was emphatic when she told me that I should "be ready" when I get back from India because I will "need" to find a bigger space for teaching, she was certain of it. Whether it is enlarging my home shala, renting space, collaborating with someone, whatever it is, she said it will happen. And yesterday it fell into my lap.
Yesterday I met a former student now yoga teacher for coffee. We had a lovely discussion and she said she had a theory about me (I love hearing people's theories about me), that I am not a "pushing" teacher but a "pulling" teacher. By "pushing" she meant the type of teacher who is always telling you to take their classes, filling your in box with emails about workshops, etc.
In her opinion a "pulling" teacher draws you in by virtue of, well, by not doing the things a pushing teacher does. Students find a pulling teacher on their own, kind of like a resonance, radar, synchronicity, whatever you want to call it. I thought about what she said and realized that my home shala students are just like that because they've been with me almost since Day One of my teaching over 10 years ago.
This woman only took 16 weeks of yoga with me more than a few years ago at a place where I no longer teach but she said she never lost sight of me, she always followed my doings. We reconnected because she invited me to take her class, a class specifically for belly dancers as she is one herself. Her teaching was lovely, the real deal, it wasn't scripted, it was honest and smart. She is a new teacher but not a "new" teacher if you know what I mean. She is already seasoned and has marinated for a while and long time readers of this blog know what I mean by how yoga marinates us.
The space where she teaches is inside a belly dance studio that is inside a holistic center in an old, rehabbed building (read: "with character and good energy") in an area where I used to teach. The holistic center offers energy work, acupuncture, holistic chiropractic care, among other things. When I walked in I was greeted immediately by the person at the door with warmth and laughter and the building had nice, uplifting energy. The yoga teacher who had the space for a number of years left (from what I hear she couldn't make a go of it for whatever reason) and my friend suggested me to the belly dance studio operator. She then connected us on Facebook and before I had a chance to respond, the proprietress contacted me. We will start discussions and if it's meant to be when I return in April, it's meant to be, I'm open.
What does this have to do with finding my tribe? That I should find my own tribe is something my astrologer first told me years ago, even before I went to India the first time. It's in my natal chart plain as day. The longer I teach, the more I realize the so-called yoga community is not my tribe, but there is nothing negative in that idea. It just is. Unfortunately some in my local yoga scene think that if you're not with us, you're against us. No, not so because I've never been part of mainstream anything. I've always walked to a different drummer, you say go right and I go left. It's probably why I've never had any desire to attend any type of yoga fest.
Without getting into any specifics I've heard a plethora of stories lately about people in my local yoga scene, stories about teachers and owners, the usual yoga studio drama yama, all of which makes me uber-glad once again that I teach out of my house. It also makes me glad that I am leaving for India a week from this Sunday. As a friend told me, "I bet you can't wait to leave."
So given the stories I've heard lately and one thing that happened to me just this week (again, no specifics), Kali Ma gave me a slap upside the head as She is prone to do. Boom Shiva! I thought, it ain't the yoga peeps, baby, it never was, my tribe is other energy workers (why the serious call last year to learn more energy healing?) and dancers (since I connect with dance as much as I do with yoga.)
Coincidence about the possible space? I think not.
Boom laka laka laka, I'm gonna take it higher.


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This bright green spring salad is one of my favorites. I love panzanella salads in general (who wouldn't love a bread salad?!), and this version from Michael Chiarello is really awesome. Thank god I finally like asparagus and peas – if you'd served this to me as a kid I'd have probably made a wise-crack [...]Read more


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Marian Hossa, to borrow from comedian Colin Quinn, doesn't give a care.
Hossa took some heat for not playing in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup finals, particularly from former Hawk and current NESN analyst Tony Amonte. Hossa followed that with a solid-enough, one-assist performance in more than 19 minutes of Chicago's series-tying 6-5 win on Thursday.
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Naturally, he was asked about the criticism.
"I don't really care what Tony Amonte says," Hossa told reporters.
And he shouldn't. For the record, what Amonte said on WEEI: "(Hossa is) not the guy with the highest pain threshold in the NHL. ... He's not a guy that will play through a lot of injuries."
That's wrong. Hossa's a durable, tough player who, like most, would've been in the lineup in Game 3, a 2-0 Bruins win on Monda. His teammates, Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews in particular, stood up for him on Wednesday morning.
"There's no question in our locker room that if Hoss could go and he could be effective for us, he would have," Toews said.
By Wednesday night, he was a positive factor—with him on the ice at even strength, Chicago attempted nine more shots than they allowed. That's Hossa's specialty, and where they missed him the most in Game 3.
"I felt so-so but the decision was for me to play and I'm glad I could help a little bit," Hossa said, declining to put a percentage on how his reported upper-body injury felt.
Teammate Patrick Sharp said it best: "He was not moving his best, but we'll take Hoss at whatever percentage we can get him."


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Julien Melendez provided the game-deciding strike and Tam High's defense did the rest, affording the Red-tailed Hawks an opportunity to defend the MCAL boys soccer championship they won last season.
Melendez tallied in the 55th minute, securing a 1-0 victory in an MCAL boys soccer semifinal on Wednesday. Top-seeded Tam hosts No. 4 Marin Catholic at 4 p.m. in Friday's championship game.
In a game defined by defense and few quality chances for either side, Melendez provided the only scoring after collecting a pass from Jackson Wong outside of the 18-yard box. Melendez let it rip and found the side netting inside the far post to a 1-0 lead.
"I was just going for it," Melendez said. "I just took my chance and I hit it."
Melendez, the leading scorer in the MCAL in 2011, has provided many such moments for the Red-tailed Hawks (16-3-3).
"We've only scored two goals against Branson in however many minutes (three games this season)," Tam coach Dustin Nygaard said. "It was going to take a great strike. ... Julien came up huge when we needed him."
Branson (12-8-2) has given Tam a tough time in all three meetings this season — losing by a combined 2-0 score — but has been held off the scoresheet all three times by Tam's defense.
"They're just really organized in the back," Branson coach Tom Ryan said. "They don't give you a whole lot and don't make a lot of mistakes. ... It's a combination of their personnel and method — what they do tactically."
Branson's best chances to score came late in the first half. In the 30th minute, Kipling Wiesel sent a header into the six-yard box but Colin Joyce's touch at the far post went just wide. Five minutes later, Conor Capitolo's shot on goal was saved by goalie Kenny Rosenberg, diving to his right.
"We were very physical," Tam defender Parker Walls said. "We came together as a back four and Kenny in goal. There's something about Branson where they come at you hard. We had to go at them and be better than them."
Tam also had some near misses in the first half. In the 19th minute, Lucas Janetos sent a cross into the box for Teddy Mauze, whose header glanced off the crossbar. In the 38th minute, Mohammad Manneh and Mauze had an opportunity to put the Red-tailed Hawks on the board, but Branson's defense foiled the initial attempt.
Mannah retrieved the ball, fed it back to Mauze in front of a mostly open goal, but Branson goalie Ben Kullavanijaya made a sprawling save to somehow keep the ball out of the net and the game scoreless going into the half.
Melendez finally broke the stalemate and Tam defends its title against MC on Friday. The Red-tailed Hawks won the lone meeting of the season by a 2-1 score.
"I'm very excited," said Mauze, a Mill Valley resident who transferred from the Cate School in Santa Barbara. "This is my first year playing soccer at Tam. It's been a really good ride so far. We hope to continue that success in the final."
Marin Catholic 1, Redwood 0
Nico Page scored on a header midway through the second half to lead the No. 4 Wildcats to an upset victory over second-seeded Redwood.
"The ball bounced around in front of the goal, guys were going for it left and right and Nico literally went horizontal to push the ball into the goal," MC coach David Roualdes said. "It was pretty amazing."
MC (12-8-2) also had a goal called back in the first half.
"We started to come alive in the middle of the second half," Roualdes said. "All of a sudden things started clicking for us."
Roualdes also credited goalie Tyler Shaver with playing a strong game against Redwood (10-4-3).
"Shaver had a fantastic game," Roualdes said. "He had some incredible saves, some very close calls for us."
Marin Academy 2, Lick-Wilmerding 0
SAN FRANCISCO — Josh Cohen scored a pair of goals in a three-minute span midway through the second half to guide the Wildcats back into the Bay Counties League West championship game.
Cohen scored his first goal in the 57th minute on a cross from Jose Orozco and added another in the 60th minute on a cross from Matt Fields.
MA (16-1-2) faces University in Friday's championship game at 7:30 p.m. at Kimbell Field in San Francisco. The Wildcats will have to overcome some adversity in order to defend their BCL West title.
"Early in first half, (forward Dexter Eichhorst) sprained his ankle pretty bad," MA coach Josh Kalkstein said. "That changes things quite a bit. It's not clear how long that's going to keep him out. He wasn't able to put any weight on it today."
Fields also picked up a red card in the 70th minute and will miss Friday's game. MA defeated University twice this season, 5-1 in the first meeting and 1-0 in the rematch.
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Hi all,
Apologies for the short title but it does sum up my question!
Once I have established some sense of concentration - by following the breath - I feel like I have dropped away much of the distractions I feel at the onset of the session. I seem to be in a warm, comfortable, off-sensation type of calm <that was a cumbersome description!>. But then as comfortable as it feels I am urged to 'do something' with this calm mind. I feel like I need/should use a Koan, or meditate on Emptiness or something. I guess I am unsure how such a calm can do anything to get me closer to an understanding of Emptiness or the nature of my mind....its just, well, nice!
Any advice welcome as ever!


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Hachad Finds Multicultural Perspective an Advantage
For Naïma Hachad, one thing often leads to another.
As citizen of both France and Morocco, Hachad has lived in both countries, speaking Moroccan Arabic and French in her multicultural household. Her particular background and her undergraduate studies in English led her to think more academically about difference. "I realized how rewarding multilingualism can be and how as one acquires a new language one also gains different perspectives on the world and the self," the World Languages and Culture professor said about her interest in teaching French and Francophone cultures.
While an exchange student at Vanderbilt University, Hachad discovered the importance and the extent of Francophone and postcolonial studies, a field that was still marginal in France. She also realized the connections between her research in African American studies and Francophone cultural productions marked by the experience of slavery and colonialism. "W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neal Hurston, and Langston Hughes' texts led me to read Francophone literary texts from the Maghreb and the Caribbean and pursue a doctorate in French and Francophone studies after my MA in English and American studies," said Hachad.
Hachad's past and current research was inspired by her experience as a student in France and the United States as well as by her readings of major Francophone thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries such as Jacques Derrida, Abdelkébir Khatibi, and Edouard Glissant. "These philosophers and poets have given me the tools to read and analyze artistic and literary forms derived from representations of identity and memory in the Maghreb and the Caribbean."
Hachad's interests and research projects in the Caribbean and the Maghreb have resulted in several published articles in which she explores representations of the body, landscape, history, and collective memory in literary texts and visual arts from these regions. For example her article "Victor Anicet," coauthored with Valérie Loichot, addresses the politics of "restitution" in the works of this contemporary ceramist and painter from Martinique. It investigates his mixed-media piece titled Restitution as a site of memory, restoration, reinvention, and healing.
Another of her articles, published in Revue des sciences humaines, looks at importance of imaginary and actual Francophone landscapes. Hachad explained that this analysis is done though a dialogue she created between Martinican Edouard Glissant and Moroccan Abdelkébir Khatibi around the various meanings of the sea in their works: "They are very close theoretically speaking, but one comes from a culture that is haunted by the memory of slavery and deportation; so the sea is a tomb, a place where the bodies of those who didn't make it were left behind," she said. "And for the other, the sea is a place where the characters of his novels venture in order to get rid of all the constraints, cultural or political, and where they reinvent themselves."
Hachad's interest in contemporary struggles and transformations in the Maghreb as well as the language they have generated are explored in her article entitled "Dégage! C'est la révolution." It analyzes slogans and gestures of the Tunisian Revolution and the role of social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and Al-Jazeera in its instigation and propagation.
In her most recent article, forthcoming in June 2013 in Francosphères, Hachad analyzes the depiction of the veil and the Arab and Muslim female body in the works of U.S.-based Moroccan artist Lalla Essaydi.
Hachad has also been conducting research for the past two years on "forms of the embodiment of the past and ideas of filiation, transmission, and disintegration in contemporary Francophone literature and visual arts of Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in the U.S. and in Europe." Much of this research will be explored in the book that she is currently writing and which is tentatively entitled: The Body that Manifests: Death, Silence, Violence and Memory in Contemporary Moroccan and Moroccan Diaspora's Visual Arts and Literature.
Hachad's research interests go hand in hand with her passion for teaching and sharing her most recent findings with her students. "Thinking of my students and my courses strengthens my inquisitive nature. I ultimately want to make my students aware of how learning French and understanding Francophone cultures can be personally and professionally enriching," said Hachad.


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FOR CITIZENS dismayed with the status quo in Sacramento, Proposition 32 — the "Paycheck Protection" Initiative — is arguably the most important state item on the ballot in November and yet most people know little or nothing about it.
Proposition 32 simply bans unions, corporations and government contractors from spending money deducted from an employee's paycheck for political purposes.
Hardly sounds controversial, as it treats corporations and unions equally and individuals are still allowed to voluntarily donate money to causes they individually feel strongly about — only the coercive withholding of "dues" for political purposes will be eliminated.
Public-sector unions are understandably up in arms about this proposition as it would crimp their ability to effectively tax their members for self-serving political purposes, as they have done so successfully over time.
If you listen to the barrage of public union-financed "No on 32" ads, you would think that the clichéd "Wall Street Firms," "Big Oil" and "Billionaires" were running California.
A look at facts shows otherwise: the "Big Money Talks" report, published by the non-partisan California Fair Political Practices Commission, reveals the No. 1 special interest, in terms of political spending over the past decade, was the California Teachers Association. It spent $211.8 million dollars to influence election outcomes in its favor, including spending over $50 million alone defeating Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's 2005 slate of reforms.
The CTA was able to reduce the "Terminator" to an impotent "girly-man" with its dues-fueled ad blitz. That is a powerful special interest.
Journalist Troy Senik calls the CTA "a political behemoth that blocks meaningful education reform, protects failing and even criminal educators." It should come as no surprise then, that it is the biggest funder of the aggressive "No on Prop. 32" campaign.
So far, according to Ballotpedia, the CTA has made a $18.2 million "investment" toward keeping the dysfunctional status quo intact. The SEIU, AFSCME and a raft of other public-sector unions, have collectively raised a warchest of $45.6 million to convince voters that they are the defenders of "working families."
The outcome of Proposition 32 will determine whether California charts a new course, relatively free of special interest spending, or continues to founder on the shoals of the dysfunctional status quo.
Unfortunately, our county supervisors have revealed their true allegiance by unanimously recommending against Proposition 32, a vote of solidarity with public-sector unions over the greater good of citizen taxpayers.
Voters should take the time to educate themselves on Proposition 32, follow the special interest trail of money and then vote accordingly — "yes" on Proposition 32.
Ken Broad of Mill Valley is an investment analyst and a political activist.


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24 comments:
Wow! That's some great looking party food, Kalyn! The fat noodles look amazing!!ReplyDelete
I like to mix it up, and rarely make the same thing twice, but this year my Crispy Prawns w/ Spicy Aioli were a huge hit on two occasions so far, including the Superbowl. At this rate, I may just have to make them again for the Oscars.
~ Paula
You sure feast on great food! Love this kind of traditions!ReplyDelete
My lord, what a SPREAD. Good thing I wasn't there, otherwise you'd probably have to roll me out the door!ReplyDelete
Wow. Bet you guys had an awesome time. How could you not with all that food! Yum.ReplyDelete
I would love the cheese soup recipe!!!ReplyDelete
great pictures:) makes me hungry!
- AnonymousFebruary 7, 2009 at 6:14 AM
Can you share the fat noodle recipe. Looked just like what my mom used to make. I think her noodles were more kin to the slick dumplings of the South. Would really love to see your recipe.ReplyDelete
Regards, Nan
Please share the fat noodle recipe, please please please. And Thank you!ReplyDelete
It was definitely a fun party. I'll see if I can get the recipe for fat noodles from Pam and cheese soup from Lisa. I need to think about whether to post them here in the comments or as a recipe post, because I try to be careful about keeping the recipes on the site South Beach Diet friendly so people don't get confused. Maybe it would be okay if I make sure to emphasize that they aren't diet friendly! I grew up on those Fat Noodles, and they are really delicious! I've made them, but not for years and Pam makes them much better than I do!ReplyDelete
Wow, Kalyn - what amazing food! I don't think I've ever met a 7-layer dip I didn't like.ReplyDelete
I made your black bean/cilantro/lime chili for the party I went to, and it was a hit. :)
Laurie, it was definitely a food-fest at the party! So glad to hear you liked the chili; thanks for letting me know!ReplyDelete
I love your site. I just started South Beach 1 week ago and I've found a couple recipes on your site I want to try. I tried the cauliflower au gratin tonight and loved it so much, I put a link to your recipe on my blog.ReplyDelete
I see that good eats was had by all. ;-)ReplyDelete
Cindy, glad you liked it!ReplyDelete
Paz, our family does know how to eat!
Here is the Cheese Soup recipe from my sister-in-law Lisa (NOT South Beach friendly, as she warns in the recipe, but very delicious!)ReplyDelete
Cheese and Broccoli Soup
(non-south beach)
In one pot:
2 c diced potatoes
10 oz frozen peas and carrots (or fresh)
diced onions
stalk (or more) diced celery
10 oz chopped broccoli
Barely cover with water and simmer until soft.
In big, big pot (that will hold the final soup)
2 qts water
12 bouillon cubes
Boil and melt the cubes and stir well.
In little pot
2 cubes butter
1 1/2 c flour
Make the rue.
Back to the big pot:
Add the rue. Stir well.
Add 16 oz. cheese whiz. Stir well.
Add the veggies. Stir well.
Eat and enjoy!
I'm impressed with the homemade noodles! Lovely to have things homemade.ReplyDelete
Arfi, my sister says I can come and photograph and take notes next time she makes them, so I'll share the recipe when that happens.ReplyDelete
My favorite, I think, is the noodle soup. Those noodles look fantastic.ReplyDelete
What a great family! Now Pam has sent me the recipe for Fat Noodles. (I still want to go watch her make it and take photos, but this may help people in the meantime.)ReplyDelete
[Chicken Noodle Soup]
Broth: Boil 1 whole chicken for 2-3 hours in 8 quarts of water. Add 8 generous teaspoons of Knorr chicken bouillon granules [or may use cubes].
Remove chicken and strain broth.
5 eggs
5 egg shells of water [use ½ side of the egg shell]
1 t salt
3-4 cups flour [must be a stiff dough]
½ to 1 cup more flour—used while rolling out
Pepper to your taste. May add a little salt, but not needed if
you added enough bouillon.
Mix eggs, water, and salt; beat with a fork. Add flour, 1 cup at a time, to the egg/water mixture. Mix until dough is stiff, still able to knead. Knead well. Roll out on a well floured board until very thin [about 1/8 inch]. Cut into noodles about 1/3 inch wide, using a pizza cutter. Be very generous with the flour during the rolling and cutting steps.
Drop noodles, a few at a time, into the boiling broth. Stir in between while dropping in the noodles so they don't stick together. Optional: Add chunks of chicken.
Cook for about 40 minutes.
Thanks Pam!
I should probably clarify that Fat Noodles are also not South Beach friendly with all that white flour. I tried making them once with whole wheat flour, but it wasn't a success!ReplyDelete
What a great family fun time. I know my Gorn would have been heavy into those Spicy Sausage Wraps ;) I'd have headed for those strawberries ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousFebruary 9, 2009 at 1:09 AM
Any chance of getting the spicy sausage roll recipe? Everything sounds so good.ReplyDelete
Anonymous, I'll see if I can get the recipe from Amy.ReplyDelete
Here is the recipe for the Spicy Sausage Wraps from Amy (not South Beach Diet friendly, but tasty, especially with mustard!)ReplyDelete
1 pkg. Little Smokies sausages
1 tube Popping Fresh refrigerator biscuits
mustard, for serving
Preheat oven to 400F.
Cut biscuit in half. Wrap each sausage with half biscuit and place on cookie sheet sprayed with non-stick spray.
Bake about 12 minutes, or until biscuit dough is starting to brown and sausage is hot.
Serve with mustard.
Amy used a crockpot to keep them warm at the party, although they disappeared so fast she probably didn't need it!
Hi, Kalyn! Pretty good pics! All looks so tasteful!ReplyDelete
I'm so happy you're taking the time to comment on Kalyn's Kitchen! I love hearing from people who stop by, especially if you're sharing feedback or asking questions about a recipe I've posted here.
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