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Flexner Lectures on Middle East
Rashid Khalidi, one of the foremost authorities on the history of the modern Middle East, delivered the 2007 Mary Flexner Lectures in October and November on "The United States, the Middle East and the Cold War."
The topics of Khalidi's three lectures were "Rethinking the Cold War in the Middle East," "Oil, Strategy and the Cold War in the Middle East," and "The Middle East in the Cold War and Afterwards." Discussions on the lectures and workshops on associated subjects with Khalidi were held for faculty, staff and students.
In the October 24 lecture, Khalidi argued that it is important for today's students to understand how and why America was engaged in the Middle East during the 1970s and '80s, particularly in Afghanistan, because "the ghosts of the Cold War still walk in the hearts and minds of those who make U.S. foreign policy." Stalin had no plan for global domination after World War II; what galvanized the Cold War was U.S. interest in controlling the energy reserves of the Middle East, he argued.
Historians don't predict the future, Khalidi said, but "lost wars have a leaven of their own." It may be that a change of mind about Iraq similar to the Indochina and Vietnam wars will have an effect. Regardless of party leadership after the next election, however, without "acts of legislative courage" to check "a bloated imperial executive branch," the war in the Middle East may get "longer and hotter," Khalidi said.
Khalidi is the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He has published scores of scholarly works on the history and politics of the Middle East. In recent years, Khalidi has also embraced the role of a public intellectual: his five monographs and two edited volumes include works intended for a general audience, and he has appeared on numerous radio and television news and public-affairs broadcasts. He has also published opinion pieces in the popular press, often urging more consultation with Middle East experts in the shaping of U.S. foreign policy.
Established in honor of Mary Flexner, a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of 1895, the Flexner Lectures have brought some of the world's best-known scholars of the humanities to Bryn Mawr's campus and have resulted in some of the most influential books of the 20th century. That tradition continues into the 21st century, thanks to an agreement between the College and Harvard University Press to publish the lectures. The 2005 series by K. Anthony Appiah will be available through HUP in January 2008 as Experiments in Ethics.
BMC website displays community
The College's website will get a fresh look in January, four years after its last redesign went live. Behind the new graphics will be the latest web technology, allowing easier maintenance and updating of content.
RSS feeds will distribute pertinent data—such as media reports, menus and schedules—to departments behind the main page, and blogging software will help students maintain sites for clubs and activities.
Users will be able to customize their own gateway pages and keep track of the departments they have visited. The site also will be wider.
"We can tell what kind of equipment visitors are using," said Janet Scannell, director of computing and information services. "Screen resolution has increased. This makes us more flexible in allowing different options for personal sites and in the overall navigation scheme."
The site's graphic look is "simpler, cleaner and draws more attention to content," said Scannell. It coordinates with the new admissions viewbook for prospective students, which resembles a color-coded naturalist's field guide. Stories of community members will be shared on the website, and there will be a strong alumnae/i presence. "Students look to alumnae as models," said Scannell. "Our buildings have personalities, too, and there will be more information about them and the beauty of the physical plant."
Electronic Ink, the Philadelphia-based research and design firm creating the site, interviewed students, prospective students and their parents, and alumnae. At a September presentation, EI representatives who worked on the project said they were deeply impressed by the passion of students and alumnae for Bryn Mawr and by what makes it such a special place.
Dangerous Behavior
A review panel of the massacre at Virginia Tech pointed to failures by the university in disclosure and counseling, but concluded that Seung-Hui Cho, the subject of concern and outreach throughout his life, "himself was the biggest impediment to stabilizing his mental health" in college. And although such mass shootings on college campuses are rare—the last in 1966 at the University of Texas—the tragedy has raised a debate over what colleges should do about dangerous behavior on campus.
Dr. Eileen Bazelon, resident psychiatrist at the College's Health Center, convened a group of nationally-recognized experts on September 24 to discuss the law and ethics of balancing students' right to privacy against their own safety and that of their communities. The one-day conference, held in Thomas Great Hall, drew more than 150 college and university administrators, counselors, deans, security officers, and legal counselors from the Philadelphia area and as far away as Florida.
Keynote speaker Gary Pavela, director of judicial programs at the University of Maryland-College Park and an authority on academic ethics, noted that college campuses are very protective environments. "In general there is half the suicide rate of that in the same aged population not in school," he said. Pavela argued for the importance of building relationships with troubled students, "getting into their hearts and heads," and assuring faculty that they are supported by a team trained in threat assessment. Colleges and universities have, however, "erred on the side of underreaction, in terms of notifying parents, of hospitalization, of therapeutic resources" to deal with students who are at risk of suicide, he said. "The law (the Federal Disabilities Act and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is reasonably balanced and interpreted; the institution is not handcuffed to permit violent behavior. But discretion is also an important tool for keeping order. If students cannot trust teachers and administrators, they will be reluctant to report concerns."
Moral courage
A panel discussion that followed covered a range of positions. Karen Bower, senior attorney with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, successfully sued Hunter College and George Washington University on behalf of students who were excluded from the university after expressing suicidal thoughts or making suicide gestures. Bower argued that the majority of students with mental disabilities are not dangerous but in crisis and should get help, not punitive action. "To use a disciplinary process for self-injury discourages them and others from getting help," she said.
Arthur Caplan, the Emmanuel and Robert Hart Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and director of the Center for Bioethics, addressed ethical points about intervention. "Our culture doesn't like people who intervene in other people's problems," Caplan said. "The fate of whistleblowers is not usually a pretty one. But in building a community, it is your business to know what's going on with your family members—students, faculty, staff. People have a responsibility to report someone acting strangely, and you need some feedback to the community when action is taken."
"The gold standard is danger to oneself and others," said Mark Olshaker, author of Obsession and Mindhunter. Olshaker collaborated on these and other books with former FBI Agent John Douglas, who helped develop the practice of criminal profiling. "If there is someone with the capacity to harm, I have serious concerns about protecting their rights," Olshaker said. "In most situations, there is no substitute for moral courage."
"Autonomy has limits, and you have to lay that out," said Caplan. "Following the law blindly is not what the law demands. Do what you think is right and then defend it; don't hide behind the law."
Carroll Ellis, director of victim services for the Fairfax County Police Department and member of the Virginia Tech Task Force, stressed the importance of equal support for students with mental disabilities and for those who are victims of crime on campus such as sexual assault and stalking. She praised those at the scene of the massacre: "I would have fallen apart if I had been there—they were brave."
Remove stigma
Participants agreed that stigma prevents students from finding resources and support available to them, let alone seeking them out.
"You hear a lot of rhetoric about diversity and the value of different learning styles on college campuses," Caplan said, "but the students themselves don't accept peers with mental disabilities. They tend to move on. The culture doesn't support them, and there are not many success stories."
In the afternoon, conference attendees separated into breakout groups. "We wanted them to teach each other and reassure each other, and that seemed to have happened," said Bazelon. "We had great feedback from the groups."
Closing the conference, Alison Malmon, founder and executive director of Active Minds, spoke about forming the organization in 2001 on her campus at the University of Pennsylvania after the suicide of her only sibling, 22-year-old brother Brian Malmon, to promote an open, enlightened dialogue around the issues.
The Bryn Mawr chapter of Active Minds, which strung educational postcards along the walk from Erdman to Thomas Great Hall for the conference, seeks to promote mental health awareness, advocacy and education on campus. "Because Bryn Mawr women have high expectations for themselves and their peers, asking for help is often seen as a sign of weakness," said Co-President Katherine Penzo '09, who is also a member of the organization's national student advisory council. "As a chapter, we are actively working against this notion."
Bazelon thanked the College for underwriting the conference. "The Dean's office, in person of Karen Tidmarsh, and Health Center Director Kay Kerr were unbelievably helpful in every possible way," she said.
"We do have people who are depressed, and we are seeing a large percentage of the student body," said Bazelon. "We're lucky because the community is so rich in outside therapists; if we get overwhelmed or students can afford it, we refer them outside our service. We never turn anyone away because of money, however, which is amazing because most college services do—and we carry people for a lengthy period of time if they have no money. We also have 24-hour-a-day service, something that almost no one else has at this point. Yes, students do take leaves of absence at times but those leaves are often very beneficial. I have many students who come back and say they were so glad they did so. Exit interviews usually affirm our work. If there are other things we should be doing, let me know!"
On November 30, Active Minds will host a fundraiser at the College for The Forteniters Club, Inc., a Norristown-based organization that helps the severely mentally ill to establish friendships, seek out housing and employment, and gain social acceptance within the community. The fundraiser will feature a raffle and silent auction, including items made by campus community artists, and Bryn Mawr performance groups.
Bazelon has served as a psychiatrist at Bryn Mawr for more than 30 years and is an associate professor of psychiatry at the Drexel University College of Medicine. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, whose mission is to protect and advance the rights of adults and children who have mental disabilities.
Over the summer, the College implemented a new emergency communication system to provide immediate information in various electronic forms to students, faculty, staff, parents and other interested parties in the event of any campus emergency.
New Tenure Track Faculty
Assistant Professor of Classics Annette Baertschi has taught a variety of courses in Latin and Greek language and literature, from elementary to advanced level. At Bryn Mawr this semester, she is teaching Intermediate Latin and a Classical Studies course on Lucan's Civil War.
Baertschi's special interests are in imperial epic poetry and tragedy, ancient magic, classics in film, and the reception of classical literature in general. She is currently researching and writing about the narrative strategies in Senecan messenger scenes and their reception in early modern European drama; ancient consolatory literature; and the tears and lament of military leaders in post-Augustan epic.
The interdisciplinary research of Assistant Professor of Biology Monica Chander reflects her interest in understanding how bacteria regulate cellular activities, particularly metal-dependent proteins, in response to environmental signals. "My research can broadly be applied to learning more about cancer mechanisms because I look at oxidative stress responses in bacteria—free radical generation
and how cells cope with this," she notes.
Chandler received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke and returned there to teach and do research for three years prior to coming to Bryn Mawr. "The students at both campuses are a special breed—motivated, confident, mature and well-rounded individuals," she said. "I've noticed in my short time here, though, that Bryn Mawr women tend to generally be more outspoken (in a positive way) than Mount Holyoke women. I find this very stimulating—especially in the classroom—where there's a real give-and-take." This semester Chandler is teaching Introductory Biology I, and Integrated Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, both with Tamara Davis.
Assistant Professor of English Walter Liu writes about the relationship between Asian American literature, literary experimentation, and political representation. He also works more broadly on post-1950 American poetry and fiction, focusing on questions of race and ethnicity, experimental forms, and interpretive modes and models.
Liu is teaching a College Seminar, Destination LA, and a new course on Asian American Poetry from 1900 to the Present. Liu says, "At the heart of the course lies a perhaps unanswerable, but productively troublesome, set of questions: What makes a poem 'Asian American?' How do we define a form with, or without, explicit reference to authorial identity, ethnicity, race, gender, class? What role does history play in such formal definitions?"
Three of Liu's own were included in the anthology Asian-American Poets: The Next Generation.
Assistant Professor of Social Work and Social Research Kevin Robinson was a W.K. Kellogg Community Health Scholar at The University of Michigan School of Public Health last year. His dissertation for Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, from which he received his PhD in 2006, was a descriptive case study of a 51-year-old African American gay man's experiences living with AIDS. His current research projects are extensions of his dissertation research and are integral components of two projects of the Prevention Research Center of Michigan—The Community Capacity Building to Reduce Health Disparities and the 2005 Speak to Your Health! Community Survey and Qualitative Assessment.
Assistant Professor of Physics Michael Schulz's research seeks to understand nature at its most fundamental level, focusing on string theory and its applications to quantum field theory, cosmology and particle physics.
Schulz's teaching and research mentoring are based on the assumption that all students have an intrinsic love of learning. He seeks to help each student navigate her own path through the terrain of a given course and develop her own individual approach to lifelong learning. He believes that a healthy balance between theory and practice is essential for continued motivation and discovery on this journey. Schulz worked jointly at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and the Institute for Theoretical Physics. He spent three years at Caltech as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Theoretical Physics before returning to the East Coast in 2005 to join the High Energy Theory Group at UPenn as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
Lecturer in History Jennifer Spohrer specializes in modern European history. Her research interests center around the increasing transnational communication of goods, ideas, and culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
While these developments created new links among European countries and between Europe and the world, they also created profound tensions within nations, destabilizing the control that traditional elites exercised over national politics, the economy, and culture. Spohrer has looked closely at the history of the media, for example. She wants to incorporate into her courses the ambivalence of Europeans toward international connections and their attempts to master and direct them through inter-governmental and non-governmental networks. She is also designing a course on the history of European food consumption.
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BMC robotics on the move
Bryn Mawr College, along with four U.S. and three Korean universities, has won a five-year NSF Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant for $2.5 million designed to advance humanoid design and capabilities in the United States and Korea.
Humanoids (HUBOs) are bipedal robots engineered to mimic human locomotion, balance and coordination. HUBOs have given researchers insight on issues ranging from balance disorders to cognition and perception. The goal of the project is to create a 3-tier tool set of virtual, mini and on-line HUBOs. Bryn Mawr students will be involved with all tiers, but will focus on virtual HUBOs. (The other four U.S. schools are Drexel, UPenn, Virginia Tech and Swarthmore.)
Associate Professor and Chair of Computer Science Douglas Blank, who is a co-principle investigator of the project, sees it as the logical extension of robotics research taking place at Bryn Mawr that has involved wheeled or four-legged robots.
Last year, Bryn Mawr joined Georgia Tech and the Microsoft Corporation to create the Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE). IPRE is developing an introductory computer-science course, now being taught at Bryn Mawr for the second year, in which every student is given a personal robot to program and debug.
The first activity this fall, "robo-archaeologist," challenged students to program their robot to enter a pyramid, photograph the hieroglyphics inside (provided by Bryn Mawr archaeologists), send the photos back for analysis, and then make it out of the tomb.
Lucy Shoe and Dorothy Burr have tea at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1934. Photo courtesy Lucy Shoe Meritt Papers, Bryn Mawr College.
Bryn Mawr's women archaeologists
Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway, PhD '58, Rhys Carpenter Professor Emerita of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, offered a spirited oral history of the extraordinary female archaeologists who came out of Bryn Mawr. Her September 25 lecture accompanied the opening of the exhibition "Breaking Ground, Breaking Tradition: Bryn Mawr and the First Generations of Women Archaeologists."
The exhibition focuses on a group of women who trained at Bryn Mawr at a time when archaeology was still a very young, very male-dominated discipline, and their professors, Mary Hamilton Swindler, PhD '12 and Rhys Carpenter. Edith Hall Dohan, PhD 1906, and Hetty Goldman, A.B. 1903, were two of the first women to lead field excavations. Dorothy Burr Thompson '23, PhD '31; Virginia Grace '22, PhD '34; and Lucy Shoe Meritt '27, PhD '35, transformed the field of archaeology through their meticulous research and scholarship.
Ridgway, who has taught at Bryn Mawr since 1957 and is herself one of the foremost authorities on sculpture in the ancient world, discussed the work of Thompson, Grace and Meritt on Hellenistic terracotta figurines, stamped amphora handles, and moldings in architecture.
"I owe the honor of opening this exhibition to fact that I knew three very well, barely one more, who were the teachers of the great trio that I'm going to talk about today and some of their contemporaries—so you can see that there are some advantages to being over three quarters of a century old," Ridgway said. "I felt I owe it to the younger generation of students to hear about these big names of the past, because they really were fantastic women.
"I will start by explaining their academic achievements because they were remarkable for each one of them and then I shall try to talk about them as persons --- what they had in common and what they for the field.
"Let me try a trick that I used with my students when I was teaching. I'm going to ask you to freeze—don't move, don't look around; just look at me. How many moldings are in this room? Honestly, had you seen any moldings? Had you looked at moldings. I must say, none of my students had seen moldings—as a matter of fact, many of them didn't even know what a molding was, so I looked it up. It is supposed to be: "an ornamental strip, either flat or curved, added to a surface for decorative purposes." This doesn't sound very intriguing, does it? As a matter of fact, it doesn't do it justice. If you are confronted with the majesty of a Greek temple, you are going to look at the columns, at the pedimental sculptures—if you are at the Parthenon—all of the other elements of a Greek temple that are so impressive—look at our banks and neoclassical buildings. You don't really look for moldings, but the Greeks did. To the Greeks, it was very important. The molding was not just a practical way of moving from one part of the architecture to the next one—it was not a way to see the join—it was a way of expressing the grades of the building, the inner meaning, especially to the decorator of the molding, as I know that one of your own people is trying to prove in book form now.
"So to a Greek, a molding was much more than a decorative strip, and would have been immediately aware of it. Now Lucy Shoe realized that, even though she had been taught, you know, "The Greeks derived from the two Egyptian moldings, the cavetto and the half-round, the variety of their own and they used them in certain positions." Well, she saw that, yes, they used them in certain positions, but only in certain places, at certain times, with different outlines, with different profiles, with different decorations. The idea of a molding changed with time; the shape of the molding changed with time, and she went on to demonstrate. And this wasn't an easy thing. You've seen the photo on the poster advertising today's talk—Lucy Shoe on a ladder trying to measure the molding of an anta on the Temple of Hephaistus in the Athenian Agora. It was dangerous work. She went all over the place with a template that she designed herself as a way of outlining the profile of the molding.
"There was a special place for each molding at each time. This also created a major chronological sequence, a major indication of what was popular in a certain area—for instance, in Athens of the 5th century, the so-called Periclean moldings. When she went to Italy, she found that there was a completely different system of molds. An Ionic capital in Rome and an Ionic capital in Greece, are totally different, even in conception. She found out all these subtle things by looking at moldings, even though it was not very easy. As a result, she created a system of chronology and even of geographic contact and attribution that has become fundamental in architecture. No one today can write a book on a piece of Greece architecture without mentioning moldings and without mentioning Lucy Shoe. From this point of view, her work has been colossal and monumental." (Read this article celebrating Lucy Shoe in the Spring 2001 Alumnae Bulletin)
"From ornamental temples we are going to amphoras, not the big large pithoi that you see in Crete or other areas that contained a lot of liquids or grains or other things. These are vessels that can be lifted, although it usually takes more than one person because they are heavy, especially when they are full, and you pick them up on both sides. Usually they have a pointed bottom so that you can tilt it. They are the equivalent of today's plastic containers. You can put practically anything in an amphora, and the Greeks did—wine, oil, grain. The interiors were coated with pine resin, and in the case of wine, this gave it a special flavor, retsina. We even know from excavations at Corinth that they put salted fish in amphoras. They excavated fish scales—can you imagine, very carefully—and they proved that's what these amphoras were used for.
"Now here is another great woman, Virginia Grace, who noticed that amphoras are practically indestructible. You can break them up in many pieces, and they're useful for a variety of purposes, as filling, media, for example, or refill them after they're empty because they are expensive items. But she also noticed that there was a way in which the handles of the amphoras could tell a story because they were stamped. Now two places were especially important during the Hellenistic period in the stamping of their amphoras, Leros and Rhodes. They wanted to advertise how good their wine was; Rhodes stamped the handles of its amphoras with the sign of the rose, which gives the name to Rhodos, the island of the roses. That same symbol appears on their coins. Not only that, they even put in the name of their magistrate under whom that particular vessel had been constructed—maybe it was a way of showing the vintage of the wine; maybe it was a way of guaranteeing the purity of the product—in any case, it gave a very good indication of time. Now because you find amphoras in pieces, you cannot just rely on the handles to see what they looked like. Fortunately, Virginia Grace worked for Athenian Agora, the marketplace, which has been an American excavation from the 1930s. There, because it was the center of commerce, there were lots of amphoras. Many of them were whole, and some were in fragments but she could also figure out outlines and shapes, and they were coming from a variety of places. Through the stamps on the handles, she could figure out when they were made, at what time, and from which area, because obviously they were coming from a variety of sites. Now because they were so reuseable, the fact that you have a stamp of a certain date doesn't date the stratigraphy in which you find it. On the other hand, it will give you a terminus post quem—it has to be after that date.
"Virginia trained many, many people in a field that until that point had been completely neglected—a completely new area of archaeology, something that has really thrilled people, so that she went from site to site, especially through Alexandria in Egypt, where she did a lot of work. In Samos she worked for the German excavations at the Sanctuary of Hera. There is practically no site where amphoras have been found that was not followed by Virginia Grace.
"The third person is Dorothy Thompson, who looked at terracotta figurines, which might have been considered relatively unimportant, they are very plentiful. You find them everywhere in sanctuaries. They're not the beautiful stone sculptures, the bronzes, the great monuments—they are cheap offerings that people can make by mold. People thought, 'These are no great artistic inspirations; they're mold made. You can just change a head here, an arm position there, you can reproduce them over and over.' Yes, maybe you can date the molds stylistically, but then how do you know how many more times the same mold has been used in later years? Nobody had paid that much attention to that.
"Dorothy Thompson saw the terracottas as much more than just cheap offerings. She saw them as echoes of contemporary style and contemporary sculptures. Moreover, in terracottas she could see details that were lost on marble sculptures—she could see colors. Now we have done enough studies with ultraviolet and infrared photography to know that the marbles that we always thought were white were very heavily painted. … Dorothy Thompson was able to say, 'These are works of great importance for our history of knowledge.' The moment she started working in the Agora, and she started excavating wells, where the material was more or less stratified, then she could tell how the changes in style gave an idea of chronology. So there too, she could use the terracottas as an element of dating other monuments."
Ridgway noted that Thompson, Meritt and Shoe shared the "great teachers of Bryn Mawr," years with the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and a deep love for the countries where they excavated. "If America as a whole had more respect for the cultures where we go, instead of making the terrible mistakes that we are making now, I think the situation would be so much better," Ridgway concluded. "If we only understood the other side, if we spoke the language. These women stand for all of this. I hope the students here will keep it in mind and do the same."
The exhibition, curated by Megan Risse, a PhD. candidate in classical and Near Eastern archaeology runs, through December 21 in the Class of 1912 Rare Book Room in Mariam Coffin Canaday Library.
On paper gifts
Two alumnae have added significant items to Bryn Mawr's collection of works on paper, used regularly for class research and reports. Ten prints from Eleanor May Morris '41, M.A. '70, include two Rembrandt van Rijn etchings, an engraving of Albrecht Durer, and six early 19th century Japanese color woodblock prints. The Margery Peterson Lee ('51) and B. Herbert Lee Collection comprises eight contemporary prints by prominent artists, including Jody Pinto, Jim Dine and James Rosenquist, and one dye coupler photograph.
Lucy Show and Doroth Burr have tea at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 1934. Photo courtesy Lucy Shoe Meritt Papers, Bryn Mawr College.
Volunteer Awards
Kimberly J. Blessing '97, representative for electronic communications to the Executive Board of the Alumnae Association, received the Young Alumnae Service award at Alumnae Council in October for her volunteer efforts, leadership initiative and dedication to the Association and College. The awards for Distinguished Service, to Justine Jentes '88, and for Lifetime Service, to Barbara Goldman Aaron '53, will be presented at Reunion 2008.
Kimberly J. Blessing '97 and President of the College Nancy J. Vickers. Photo by Paola Nogueras '84.
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Posted: 30 December 2010 at 12:44am
Dear All,
I am having a bit of a crises.
Without going into the details of my lifelong hardships (everyone has them), my love for God has diminished considerably.
The most peculiar aspect of this is how I become angry and full of hate when God helps me or gives me a sign to help me.
Maybe an illustration will help. If someone is being tortured for decades, to the breaking point, and at that point, the torturer stops and gives a bit of relief and maybe even a bit of love, that isolated incident would arouse anger, mistrust and loathing in the victim - who might feel that the giving and taking of pain, at the torturer's will, is unfair and the torturer should not deserve love.
This is an extreme example, because I know God loves me 70 times more than my mother and he certainly has not only given me torture but good times as well. However, yes, I do feel like I cannot love him anymore although that won't effect my prayers or belief.
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|Posted: 31 December 2010 at 7:31am
sorry i maybe missing the point but are you asking for help or just wanted to make a statement?
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|Posted: 03 January 2011 at 12:22am
i suppose its a request for help in the form of a statement. but apart from answers as to how i may be able to love God again, i would also appreciate any feedback on whether others out there may also feel they are in an estranged/ loveless relationship with God.
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why and when did you first start hating god?
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Nevermind. Thank You for listening.
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I think, in your case it seems, that you could not develop the relationship between you and God to begin with. Should that have happened you would not have said what you said.
I hope and pray that God keep us all from trials and tests, but God is our last and ultimate strength where everything fails.
As in my own life experiences, I find God to be most near and comforting in distressed times then ever. I firmly believe that one relationship I cannot afford to mess up is with my creator.
39:64 Proclaim: Is it some one other than God that you order me to worship, O you ignorant ones?"
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Hi Castor...
Sometimes fate throws so many trials our way that our Imaan (Faith) starts to waiver. Imaan does go up and down during our lifetime - it never stays constant... thats what the struggle in life is all about, maintaining our imaan.
Some people grow nearer to God in times of distress - others get angry & disappointed, and blame Him. However the fact remains that whatever your attitude - its not going to change reality, we are stuck with it. So we might as well be positive about. What we can change is our reactions, our attitude and outlook.
If I indulge in self-pity, listen to sad/angry songs, and surround myself with negative people who only reaffirm my own self-pity - I will never get out of the vicious cycle. On the other hand, I could pick myself up, be positive and productive, be around people who motivate you and encourage you. Sometimes our 'friends' can suck the life out of us with thier negative energy, others can help you look at the sunny side of life, or pull you through. Focus on all the things that didn't go wrong. Our blessings in life. There is a saying of Prophet Muhammad, never look at those above you (better off than you), but always look at those below you (those that are not as blessed you).
Maybe all this sounds so very cliched to you . . . but it actually does work!
Also, we should look at positive role models around us who went through trials and came out smiling. Even the Prophetic history gives examples of Prophets and Messengers who went through downright awful times - but did not damage their relationship with Allah. Prophet Ayub (r.a) suffered a disease that caused sores all over his body, Prophet Muhammad lost his wife, daughters, sons, uncle, grandfather during his lifetime, Noah not only had to suffer ridicule, his own son was his worst enemy. Moses suffered exile, Jesus was persecuted by his own people, Yusuf (Joseph) was backstabbed by his own brothers and then spent years in jail for a crime he didn't even commit!
Trials and afflictions are something that the best of the best people have gone through, they are a part of life. But we should not let that damage our relationship with God... nor blame him.
"O Lord, forgive me, my parents and Muslims in the Hereafter. O Lord, show mercy on them as they showed mercy to me when I was young."
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Hi Chrysalis,
Thank you for that comprehensive reply.
Yes, I admit, your suggestion is rather cliched, but that does not, by default, take away any of its merit.
I am trying to overcome the troubles in my life and, it seems, things are, Mash-Allah, getting better. There are certain problems that may never go away - and I think Allah wants me to love Him despite these problems being constantly present in my life.
There is a mantra in Christian theology that has helped me to some extent. I am not sure if you have heard of the Serenity Prayer - it goes something like this: "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference." Of course the role models you have suggested greatly help as well.
Therefore, it is just a matter or readjusting and accomodating new difficult circumstances into my life rather than trying to change things to make life better. This new attitude will, hopefully, renew my love for Allah. Thank you for your advice.
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The third installment in the wildly popular franchise began filming in Beijing last week after Marvel annouced that Chinese star Wang Xueqi was officially joining the Iron Man 3 production. In the on-set photo, Xueqi—who plays evil scientist Dr. Wu in the flick—and Iron Man are pictured at the Chinese capital, standing outside of the southern city gate of Yongdingmen.
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British Army presence scaled back in North
The military presence in Northern Ireland is being downgraded in the New Year, it was announced today.
The British Army's General Officer Commanding is leaving and a Brigadier will be put in charge.
It will be the first time since the foundation of the State in 1921 that there has been no GOC, but the move is a clear reflection of the changed times in Northern Ireland.
Major General Chris Brown packs his bags on January 1 and heads off to Iraq to take up a new command in Baghdad.
``It is the end of an era, we have had a GOC in Northern Ireland since partition, but I am now superfluous and it is time to go,'' he said.
Since the Army's duties in Northern Ireland - Operation Banner - ended in 2007 it had always been envisaged the top job would be downgraded.
Where once there were up to 30,000 soldiers on duty, there is now a peacetime garrison of just under 5,000 scattered around bases across the province.
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The power of information: evidence from public expenditure tracking surveys in Uganda
In Uganda, for every dollar spent by the central government on non-wage education items in 1995, only 20 cents actually reached schools, with local governments capturing most of the rest. Poor students suffered disproportionately because schools catering to them received even less than others. Disbursements were rarely monitored or audited, and most schools and parents had little or no information about their entitlements to the grants. To respond to the problem, the central government began publishing data on monthly transfers of capitation grants to districts in newspapers, and to broadcast them on the radio. It required primary schools and district administration to post notices of all inflows of funds. This promoted accountability by giving schools and parents access to the information needed to understand and monitor the grant programme.
An evaluation of the information campaign revealed large improvement. Not all schools are receiving the entire grant and there are delays. But capture by interests along the way was reduced from 80 percent in 1995 to 20 percent in 2001.
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Bangkok Ladyboys take to the stage in Belfast
The Ladyboys of Bangkok have touched down in Northern Ireland on their 2009 Mile High Tour.
Sixteen of the world's most beautiful showgirls - who just happen to be men - are performing two shows each night at a two-week residency in the Speigeltent in Custom House Square.
The show made its UK debut at the Edinburgh Festival 11 years ago and has been packing in crowds at venues across the UK ever since.
This week it finally landed in Belfast.
The highly colourful cabaret-style shows – which feature an Abba medley, Rod Stewart and Michael Jackson look-alikes, amazing acrobatics and dozens of costume changes – are being held twice nightly in Custom House Square up until November 21.
Philip Gandey, the producer and director of the show, told Belfast Telegraph online: "The Belfast audiences love the Ladyboys and the Ladyboys love Belfast.
>>Video: Gary Grattan at the Ladyboys Belfast debut
"Its very much a word of mouth thing. It's a show that people really have to come and see for themselves and then go and tell their friends about it.
"When we started in the UK in Edinburgh 11 years ago it was quite a small affair. But this year we were the biggest at there, selling over 40,000 tickets.
"It's the same story in major cities across the UK. Each year the audiences just get bigger and bigger."
Leyla, one of the stars of the show, said: "I've been a ladyboy for six years. I'm very happy to be in Belfast. I really enjoy the shows – all the fun and the dancing – and performing live in front of people"
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Poem: "Urban Law" by Alison Hawthorne Deming from Genius Loci. © Penguin Poets. Reprinted with permission.
Urban Law
Rush hour and the urban outflow pours
across the Million Dollar Bridge. I wait
for the walk-light, cross-traffic slight but
caution's the rule when the city roars
toward all its separate homes. I get
the sign, little electric man, and step
into the street. A woman turns into
my lane, bearing down, eye-contact,
and still she guns it until I stare and
shake my head in disbelief at her
ferocity. She slows begrudged to let
me pass, runs down the window of her Saab
and shouts, "Why don't you wait for the light?"
and flips me the bird. I feel weepy like
a punished child, mind sinking to lament,
What's wrong with the human race? Too many
of us, too crowded, too greedy for space
we're doomed, of course, so I head for coffee
and a muffin, walking sad and slow on
the return. I'm waiting again to cross,
picking fingersful of muffin from the
paper sack and watching the phalanx of
cars race by, not even a cell of a
thought in my mind that I might jump the change,
when a man who's got the green stops,
an executive wearing a crisp white
shirt and shiny red tie, and he raises
his palm to gesture me safely across,
making all the cars behind him wait while
I walk, and together at rush hour that
man and I redeem the whole human race.
Literary and Historical Notes:
It was on this day in 1897 that Stephen Crane (1871) survived the sinking of a boat to Cuba and went on to write his short story "The Open Boat" about his experience.
It begins, "None of them knew the color to the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save for the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea."
"The Open Boat" was one of the first works of fiction based on actual reportage and led to a new genre.
It's the birthday of one of the most prolific writers of the 20th century, Isaac Asimov, born in Petrovichi, Russia (1920). He came with his family to the United States when he was three years old and his parents opened a candy shop in Brooklyn. From an early age Asimov was drawn to the magazine rack in his father's store. The one magazine his father let him read was the science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, which his father hoped might interest him in the study of science.
His father was partly right. Asimov did become interested in science, and he went on to study biochemistry, but he also began writing science fiction short stories and publishing them in various pulp fiction magazines. He went on to become a professor of biochemistry at the Boston University School of medicine and in 1950 he published his first novel Pebble in the Sky.
Around the same time Asimov took part in writing a textbook for medical students and he found that he loved explaining complicated things in ordinary language. It occurred to him that even though the modern world was built on countless scientific breakthroughs, most ordinary people didn't understand those breakthroughs any better than cave men would have. And so he set out to write about science for the general public. He said, "Little by little my science writing swallowed up the rest of me."
Asimov developed a regimen of working ten hours a day, seven days a week, producing between two and five thousand words a day. It helped that he suffered from a terrible fear of heights and a fear of flying, so he rarely traveled. Even by car, he rarely went beyond a four hundred mile radius around New York City. His wife kept a garden for years on the trellis of their apartment but Asimov never once set foot on that trellis.
Asimov's method was to write a book about any subject that interested him but which he didn't fully understand. He used writing as a way of teaching himself about everything. By 1970 Asimov had written more than a hundred books and he began branching out into areas other than science. He wrote about nuclear physics and organic chemistry, history, Greek mythology, astronomy, religion, in addition to his collections of limericks, mystery novels, autobiography and science fiction. He liked to point out that the world publishing record by one man was held by a British mystery writer, but that Asimov had probably published more books on more topics than anyone in history. By the time of his death in 1992 he had published more than 400 books.
His friend Kurt Vonnegut once asked him how it felt to know everything and Asimov replied, "I only know how it feels to have the reputation of knowing everything. Uneasy."
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Thomas Tyner broke an Oregon state record by rushing for 644 yards - and he added 10 touchdowns - in one game earlier this month.
After that performance, Tyner was surprised when told he ran for so many yards.
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"I thought I only ran for 400," Tyner said.
That's how high expectations are on Tyner, a four-star running back from Beaverton (Ore.) Aloha who was awarded his U.S. Army All-American Bowl game jersey during a presentation at his high school Tuesday.
No one expects him to put up those monstrous numbers during his time in San Antonio but Tyner is looking forward to the Army Bowl's national stage to continue proving he's one of the nation's best running backs.
"I see it as a huge opportunity to get a good head start to college," Tyner said. "I know all those guys will be on the college level so it will give me a chance to compete against them and playing in the Alamodome, that's a dream. That should be a lot of fun."
The Army Bowl was always a draw to Tyner, rated as the sixth-best running back and No. 51 prospect in the 2013 class.
He's seen recent players from Oregon shine in the game and being the state's top prospect this recruiting cycle, Tyner thought it was important to represent himself, his school, his community and his state in the all-star extravaganza.
"It's an extreme honor not only for me but I think it's an honor for the whole community," said Tyner, who's rushed for 1,484 yards and 19 touchdowns in four wins this season.
"It's something for them to look at down the road. They've all helped me play in the Army game so it's a big step for the community and a great honor for me. I know some local guys played in it. That played into my decision and the Army game has always stuck out to me for some reason."
The weeklong event in San Antonio serves many purposes and for many it's a chance to figure out their recruitments, find the right school and meet friends who might influence them to one team over another.
For Tyner, who committed to Oregon in November of his junior season, it will be nice to spend some time meeting people and influencing them. He's done worrying about the recruiting process. Tyner, averaging 371 rushing yards per game this season, is set for the Ducks and couldn't be more pleased.
"I made my decision early last year because I wanted to cruise through my senior year and not have to worry about it," Tyner said. "I'm going through my senior year of high school like any other student would, not worrying about recruiting or anything, but worrying about my classes and all the academic stuff.
"I'm very excited about Oregon. Last year I got to know the team, the coaches and the community really well so I feel like I'm going in and comfortable with everything there. Not only do they have great success in athletics but there is great success in the community and I'm part of the family which is really nice for me. Not to mention the uniforms are even better so I have a lot to look forward to."
During numerous unofficial visits, Tyner has even jump-started recruiting some players, possibly future teammates. He's not overbearing but the four-star knows how to sell the Oregon program.
With a lofty ranking, exquisite facilities and a system at Oregon that intrigues many top prospects, Tyner doesn't have a difficult job but it's one he looks forward to every time he's on campus.
"I go down to games and if some people are on officials I talk to them," Tyner said. "They just picked up (Tyree Robinson and Tyrell Robinson) from California. I talked to them and they're a big pickup. I do that sometimes when I visit Oregon."
Tyner might do a little more of it in San Antonio.
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Sunday, April 04, 2010
GoRetro's Mad Men Predictions
I just finished watching season 3 of Mad Men on DVD, and as Don Draper strode towards a new future to the tune of Roy Orbison's "Shahdaroba", (which, the lyrics tell us, means the "future is much better than the past") I thought what a fitting ending. It seems prophetic that the writers chose to end the most recent season just after President Kennedy was assassinated - a pivotal moment for the country as well as a pivotal moment for the main characters of the show, who decided to form their own ad agency. Here's where the swinging 60s decade really begins, and I couldn't resist making a list of predictions of what may happen - or what I wish would happen - in the coming years:
Mad Men, Meet Fab Men
As any Beatles fan knows - or at least, the way we imagine it - America was pitched into perpetual darkness after losing our President. That is, at least, until four young men from Liverpool appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show in February 1964 and transformed the nation into happiness again. I'm sure the writers will weave the Fab Four somehow into the plot of one of the first episodes of season 4...if not by way of some advertising tie-in, then perhaps by tying up traffic in New York. Maybe some of the girls (that Trudy Campbell, Pete's wife, looks like a Ringo fan to me) will go Beatlemania crazy and drive the boys crazy in the process.
Give Me Hair - Long, Beautiful Hair
With the Beatles came long hair on men...hair that actually moved and didn't look slick and greasy. Don and Pete, it's time to give the old Brylcreem the boot. Both Jon Hamm and Vincent Kartheiser, who play Don and Pete, have proven that they like to get a bit hairy in between season shooting. I could see some of the guys getting hippyish with each progressing year.
I Am Woman, Hear Me Roar
I don't trust this Henry dude who has latched onto the soon-to-be-divorced Betty, do you? He barely knows our Betty, and yet he's talking already about marrying and taking care of her. I smell possessive control freak on the horizon, and a rebelling Betty as women's rights come to the forefront. Also, Henry hasn't met the wrath of little Sally Draper yet, who will no doubt balk at the idea of having a stepdad (we already saw how manipulative she can be when baby Gene came home from the hospital.)
Women's treatment in the workplace will find its way into the show - the mandatory skirt chasing and talking down to female staff may soon be in jeopardy.
Dr. Harris, Don't Be A Hero
Joan's lackadaisical fiance announced to her that he was joining the army - and excitingly said, "Maybe they'll send me to Vietnam!" Considering the way he forced himself upon Joanie in one disturbing scene from season 2, I'm betting many of us won't shed much tears when Greg gives his life fighting for his country.
Operation Acid Drop
Drug use has slowly been working its way into the show - Peggy smoked her first joint, and Don has proven that he's no slouch when it comes to popping unknown pills. It won't be long until someone gets introduced to LSD to expand the creative portion of their mind. It may even become a way to kill off a character. As morbid as it sounds, I can't think of a more memorable way for someone to exit their contract than to have the writers make them jump out of a building window stark naked on a bad acid trip.
And if you don't think ad guys in the 60s ever did drugs, just check out this creepy 1969 television commercial for IHOP. Just think, a group of ad guys presented storyboards of this to IHOP execs and everyone thought it was a good idea!
I can't wait for season four. What are your predictions for the show?
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Wow, a voice over done with helium and speed!! Those dishes looked horrible...that salad especially, and whatever they gave the little girl...ew!ReplyDelete
I still think Don is too into his Draperness to pull a hippie before anyone else. Henry is evil. Can't wait for Season 4...
Not only that, but the timing/beat of the music is so strange as is having one of the Chipmunks doing the singing. The food looks horrid - that salad doesn't even look like it has lettuce, more like cabbage leaves.ReplyDelete
I used to love going to International house of pancakes as a kid. I remember going on Easter once after church. A waitress was making a big fuss over me and gave me a big chocolate Bunny. Ahhh yes.. 2009 was a great year.ReplyDelete
Just Kidding.. it was 1974.
I'm onboard with all your predictions except there's no way Don will give up the Brylcreem. Pete, yes. Maybe. And on a side note, that photo of Hamm is horrifying.ReplyDelete
As for Peggy, I'm really hoping she gets a mod makeover. And I hope Betty gets some sense.
Joan's lackadaisical fiance announced to her that he was joining the army - and excitingly said, "Maybe they'll send me to Vietnam!" Considering the way he forced himself upon Joanie in one disturbing scene from season 2, I'm betting many of us won't shed much tears when Greg gives his life fighting for his country.ReplyDelete
You've got this little "happily ever after" scenario all mapped out for Joan. What if Greg survives Vietnam and she has to deal with having a Vietnam vet as a husband?
And why have many fans given Betty so much shit for becoming involved in Henry Francis, yet moaned "poor Joan", when Joan was stupid enough to marry that rapist, Greg?
Henry is evil? You mean like that lying man whore, Don Draper?
@Juanita's Journal, no one's sticking up for Don Draper. I was pretty pissed myself when he called Betty a whore after finding out she'd been seen with Henry. Betty should hire a private detective for proof of Don's infidelities.ReplyDelete
Good point on the possibility of Joan having to deal with a disabled vet.
You sound a bit angry or annoyed with the comments. It's just a show.
You sound a bit angry or annoyed with the comments. It's just a show.ReplyDelete
I use the same tone that others do when they talk about Betty or any other character they happen to dislike.
Pam--I happen to agree with all of your predictions. Esp. the one about Joan's husband going to Vietnam & not returning--Will Joanie & Roger reunite? There are so many unanswered questions from last season, though!!! Will Sal return? I miss him so much. I can't wait til Season 4.ReplyDelete
Mimi, I love Sal, too. His untimely firing was so unfair, even if that's the way it was in those days. I believe the real reason Don fired him is because he saw him in the hotel and knew his secret.ReplyDelete
The new team is going to need an artist, so hopefully he'll return in season 4.
Joanie and Roger...for now it seems Roger is actually being faithful to his current wife, but who knows.
I forgot to mention I do see Pete and Peggy together one day. I think the fact that they had a child is going to pull them together. The scene at the end of season 2 where Peggy told Pete about the baby just blew me away. The look on Pete's face...superb acting in that moment.
Also, not sure if Betty and Don will actually divorce. Don may fight her on this...


text: Updated May 5th, 2013. Fixed broken links. TBS (Thin Blue Smoke) ... Less is more! This write up is based on a GOSM Big Block Smoker using large chunks, individual results may vary. There are many variables to consider, Humidity, type of smoker, type of wood, quality of wood, size of wood, how the wood is placed in the chip pan, the heat being applied to the wood, amount of oxygen the wood is receiving ...to name a few. So please experiment a bit and find what works best for you. But don't get hung up on acquiring TBS, Thin Blue Smoke isn't the only way to smoke some awesome food. Some cherry from a ½ cord that I had recently picked up sliced on the band saw. Stacking the wood will lengthen the smoke duration, place them in the chip pan and placed the lid on top. This method achieved longer smoke durations. For more smoke volume lay the pieces side by side. The camera didn't pick up the wisp of smoke from the picture to the left, but it is doing what I wanted it to do, Notice the bottom piece appears to be finished and the top piece has a little life left in it. Notice the small spent piece of cherry on the left in the chip pan. Although I could hardly see any smoke, I could smell it faintly. The photo below shows the wood to the right that was on the bottom in the chip pan, completely spent and the one on the left that was on the top has a wee bit of smoke left in it... notice the reddish brown color in the center/right. The piece on the left could have stayed in a wee bit longer. Notice, there is no white ash. Tried some small cherry chunks. Awesome TBS going on in the photo below. The smaller chunks started to ash up more when I removed them from the smoker and they got more oxygen. They did ash up a tiny bit, however when I removed them from the smoker and they were exposed to even more oxygen they ashed up at a much quicker rate. But it's still putting out some TBS. The photos below are what you want the wood to look like when it has been used up. Spent Wood TBS on my Reverse Flow Stickburner "Frank" AMNPS smoke. TBS is not the only way to smoke, you can lay down a heavier smoke, I have found the AMNPS to lay down a much heavier smoke than my chunk method... with great results. I do not soak my wood, some soak the wood, I believe this does nothing but delay the inevitable. Moisture needs to be expelled from the wood before it starts smoking, some see the water vapor coming off the wood and think it's smoke but it's actually steam, this is short lived and will start smoking once the water has been expelled. I won't go into the science behind it, but I urge you do some research and testing yourself and then decide what works best for your smoker and your style of cooking. So with that said, this is my two cents on the subject of TBS; By decreasing the oxygen to the wood and controlling the heat, it will smoke lightly and last longer. You may not to see the smoke but if you can smell it then you are in good shape. The smoke flavor is very mild, but it's a "good quality smoke". Heavy white Billowing smoke can cause a creosote residue on the food, ruining your food or even getting you sick, try to stay away from that heavy billowing smoke. You may notice a tingling sensation on your tongue if it has creosote on it, (much like the sensation you get by placing your tongue on a 9V battery), some refer to this as a bitter taste. On some smokes I have noticed the smoky flavor is so mild that you can smell it on your fingers after eating something like ribs but not distinctly taste it on the ribs, however, after it has been refrigerated a few hours it seems to get a stronger smoky flavor and smell. It seems the smoke flavor is stronger after it has cooled down in the fridge. My goal is achieving a subtle smoky flavor to compliment the food not overpower it. The cherry wood is mild when achieving TBS, but can be very strong if heavily smoked. Stronger flavored wood such as Mesquite would benefit from this method. If chips are to be used I would make foil pouches and poke the foil several times with a fork, just watch the heat. I try and avoid the wood going to ash, if you are not careful, the ash can blow around and get into your food and the ash has all kinds of nasties in it. If you take a piece of the spent wood it should snap easily and be black all the way through. Before I knew what I was doing I would try to get the heaviest smoke possible although I don't recall ruining any food, with the exception of jerky. In the past I would always be adding wood and had a ton of ash, now I get no ash, use a lot less wood, leave the door shut longer and cleanup of the chip pan is as easy as removing a few pieces of spent wood chunks with tongs. Stacking or placing the wood upright on the narrow side, gives you a longer burn times. To remove and/or add wood try this. (for the Big Block) Keep a pair of tongs and a pair of pliers handy during the smoke. Monitor the smoke as it will start to really smoke towards the end. I have noticed the chunks tend to really smoke when they are nearly spent, they sort of supernova. Using extreme caution, take the pliers and slide out the chip pan rack and remove the lid with the pliers and lay it on a heat safe surface. Remove the spent chunks with the tongs and place them somewhere heat safe as well (save these chunks). To do this you can use a metal pot or can with a lid, just make sure to place it on a heat safe surface. Add the new chunks; stacking and laying the chunks upright on the narrow edge gives a longer smoke, side by side gives more smoke. Using extreme caution take the pliers and place the lid on top of the chip box and slide back into position After the chunks have cooled, snap them in half to see how you did! Don't throw away these chunks they can be used as lump coal.


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posted: 1/3/2008 at 3:32 PM
Hi. I run in Asics 2120 road shoes but find that I'm doing more and more off road, would anyone be able to tell me which would be the nearest suitable off road shoe. Thanks.
posted: 1/3/2008 at 4:14 PM
Why types of trails are you running that the 2120 won't handle? Depending on the kinds of trails you're running, many people use road shoes. Some trail shoes are more suitable for pointy-side-up rocky trails but might be really uncomfortable in other situations. Other trail shoes are good for muddy trails, and the lugs may tend to shed the mud. Some hybrid shoes do a so-so job under an assortment of conditions. (I'm not that familiar with any of the road shoes or any of the specific trail shoe models other than my own to make a suggestion, but was just suggesting some additional info you might provide to get a suitable answer.)
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posted: 1/3/2008 at 4:19 PM
Thanks for this. Generally muddy, hilly and with some rocky bits! I'm thinking a hybrid may be the way to go.
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. 2130 is the next in the 2000 series, so hopefully the fit would be similar. I love my 2120's also, and I was planning on trying the trail ones soon. MTA: there's an Asics 2120 trail shoe also. I can give a review on it in a few weeks I hope, as I ordered one last night from Road Runner Sports.
posted: 1/3/2008 at 8:15 PM
Over $100.00-ish: Asics Trail Sensor WR Under $100.00-ish: NB 808 Both provided me with excellent arch protection (vs. arch support) on rocky, muddy, hilly and root-filled trails. I would have bought the 808's again, except that the store I was at (Luke's Locker in Dallas) isn't a NB dealer. I was never in love with the heel/ankle cup on the 808 (it kept slipping down as I put my shoe on), but they have lasted forever.
posted: 1/4/2008 at 6:15 PM
I use racing flats for trails just like all of my other runs.
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posted: 1/4/2008 at 8:51 PM
I run in 2120 road and 2120 trails. I love the trail shoes. I actually like them better than the road. I had the trail shoes first and moved away from Saucony to the 2120 roads. The trail shoes give a good amount of support but still feel like a running shoe.
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posted: 1/5/2008 at 12:25 AM
I just got a pair of North Face Boa Trail Shoes. I really like them and the "novelty" of the Boa lace is actually quite nice and makes adjusting it on the fly easy. Pebble in shoe and you can have it out in 10-15 seconds even with gloves on. I use them on pavement too as they are quite comfy...
posted: 1/5/2008 at 6:42 AM
Thanks all! You have all given me food for for thought - I guess the issues of pronation/ over pronation are not as crucial running trails? This is the main reason I mention my 2120's as I'm happy in those on the road.
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House and Senate leaders have reached a deal that averts a looming shutdown of federal highway and aviation programs, a key GOP lawmaker said Friday.
The agreement clears the way for passage next week of a single, short-term bill that extends operating authority for the Federal Aviation Administration through the end of January and highway and transit assistance programs through the end of March, Rep. John Mica of Florida, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee said in an interview.
Republicans have agreed not to include any spending cuts or contentious policy provisions in the bill, Mica said.
In exchange, Senate Democrats have made concessions involving some of the more difficult issues that been holding up passage of a long-term funding bill for the FAA, Mica said. He declined to elaborate on what those concessions entail.
"This wouldn't be done if there weren't terms that satisfied both sides," Mica said. "It's a positive step."
Republicans plan to bring a bipartisan bill extending both programs to the House floor for a vote on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week, a House GOP leadership said. The aide, who wasn't authorized to speak publicly, asked not to be named.
Vince Morris, a spokesman for Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, declined to comment on the substance of the negotiations.
"We are still awaiting details on a final package," Morris said. "We want a (long-term) FAA bill and if we don't have that, we want a clean extension to buy us time to work out the differences."
The last long-term FAA funding bill expired in 2007. The agency has been limping along since then under a series of 21 short-term extensions because the House and Senate have been unable to reach agreement on half dozen or so contentious issues.
The FAA was forced to partially shut down for two weeks this summer because Senate Democrats balked at passing a short-term extension bill. House Republicans had added a provision to the bill eliminating air service subsidies for 13 rural communities. Democrats said they didn't want to set a precedent allowing the House steamroll policy changes that hadn't been negotiated with the Senate by attaching them to a must-pass bill.
Mica acknowledged at the time that he had attached the spending cuts in part to get Senate Democrats to negotiate a deal on a GOP provision in the long-term bill that would make it more difficult for airline workers to unionize.
The standoff forced FAA to furlough nearly 4,000 employees and issue stop-work orders on more than 200 airport construction projects, putting tens of thousands of construction workers out of work. More than $350 million airline ticket taxes went uncollected.
Eventually Senate Democrats gave way and passed the House bill, but the episode raised concern that a similar impasse could occur this month involving not just the FAA, but highway and transit programs as well.
The current short-term FAA extension expires on Sept. 16. Highway and transit programs are in a similar situation. The last long-term transportation bill expired in 2009. The programs have continued to operate under seven short-term extensions, but the most recent extension is due to expire on Sept. 30.
The main issue holding up a long-term transportation bill is money. Revenue from the federal gas and diesel taxes that fund the program are declining, but lawmakers have been reluctant to either raise taxes or cut spending.
Mica said he initially planned to introduce a short-term extension bill on Friday that would have cut FAA's budget by 5 percent and rural air service subsidies by 25 percent.
However, when he circulated a draft of the bill, it prodded House and Senate leaders to open discussions that led to the deal to pass a single transportation extension bill next week, he said.


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While she says they're "just friends" and his rep insists they're not dating, Holly Madison and Criss Angel have done a pretty good job at fueling the rumor mill fires.
Angel's rep has repeatedly denied the two are dating and Madison has said their friendship is "platonic," but rumors have swirled about the two for weeks.
The 28-year-old recently split from her longtime boyfriend, 82-year-old Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner. Angel, meanwhile, is in the midst of a divorce that was filed in 2007.
Madison took in the final "preview" performance of her apparent beau's Cirque du Soleil show, "Criss Angel Believe," Tuesday night at the Luxor.
She sat next to Angel's mother, Dimitria Sarantakos, during the performance. The two also were joined by Angel's aunt, Stella, who is credited with teaching her nephew his first magic trick when he was 7 years old.
Angel played homage to his extra-special guest during the performance by working Madison's name into the script.
"She's so illusive, kind of like Holly Madison!" he exclaimed as he chased his on-stage love interest across the stage.
Angel's impromptu nod, coupled with Madison's in-audience appearance and apparent cozy relationship with his mother, will likely add fuel to the fire.
Madison has been a fan of Angel's for years and has been seen with Angel at various Las Vegas nightclubs and restaurants following her break-up.
While she has said the two are just good friends, celebrity watchers have read between the lines, while gossip columnists have outright suggested otherwise.
Madison and fellow "Girls Next Door" co-star and Hefner alum Bridget Marquardt were in town Tuesday to host a Playboy-sanctioned Halloween party at the Playboy Club and Moon nightclub at the Palms.
Madison and Marquardt are just two of Angel's high-profile friends confirmed to walk the special "Believe" black carpet during the show's Halloween night gala premiere.


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Fashion chain Next has unveiled a 9% rise in profits but admitted recent trading had been "quiet".
The group, which has 541 stores, said current demand reinforced its cautious approach as it budgets for stores to take moderately less than the previous year.
Sales in its retail estate were flat at £2.19bn in the year to January but with its online Directory business increasing revenues by 9.5% to £1.2bn the blue-chip company's profits rose to £621.6m.
Chairman John Barton said the group did well in difficult conditions. But he added: "We anticipate another challenging year ahead, with little if any growth in the UK retail economy."
Sales in the current financial year are at the bottom of its target range, although it hopes this situation will improve as temperatures return to normal.
It is targeting profits of between £615m and £665m this year, helped by stability in supply costs.
Shares were 1% higher following the update, which came on the day that Next opened its latest store at the new £350m Trinity Leeds shopping centre.
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Doing Business in a Globalised World
MUMBAI, November 26, 2013 —Globalization has led to a world of increasingly interconnected markets and supply-chains. As a result businesses that once remained firmly domestic in focus have now been looking outward, no longer capable of ignoring the plethora of opportunities offered by emerging markets abroad. In light of these changing dynamics in the global marketplace, stakeholders across the world are searching for ways in which to expand and make the best of new opportunities.
To address this pertinent topic, Asia Society India Centre hosted a private roundtable discussion as part of its BASIC (Breakfast at Asia Society India Centre) series with Peter Sutherland. Sutherland, Former Canadian High Commissioner to India, and President and CEO of the Canada India Business Council, drew on his extensive experience to discuss "Business Opportunities in Asia- Trends and Flashpoints." Sutherland spoke to the experiences of Canadian companies, many of whom took several years researching and analyzing India's investment and business environment, before they eventually succeeded in making significant inroads into the country.
Sutherland encouraged investors to take the time to understand Indian markets, stressing the importance of patience and perseverence, when they make the decision to try to invest. He spoke to the areas of development, in India specifically, that could benefit significantly from foreign investment, such as infrastructure, energy and technology, and how having the necessary know-how of the Indian regulatory framework was a must for all investors. He pointed to Canadian companies' unique familiarity with high level infrastructure projects, given the country's vast territorial expanse, and how their expertise could be utilized to invest in similar projects in India.
Sutherland then spoke of the important role Canada could hope to play in helping India meet its current energy needs. He emphasised how Canada's burgeoning supply of natural gas, and its relatively small population, gave it a unique ability to serve as a large scale energy exporter. Given India's current energy needs, Sutherland spoke to how greater ties with Canada could be mutually beneficial. He also emphasized the environmental benefits that would come from such ties. As India's current energy supply is largely derived from coal burning, one of the worst sources of greenhouse gas emissions, the far cleaner alternative of natural gas could help India off-set environmental damage while meeting its energy needs.
Sutherland spoke additionally about his country's familiarity with cold-storage supply chains, and how Canadian companies could use their experience to help India in dealing with its massive problems with transporting and maintaining food supplies. He then went on to emphasize the traditional political connections between India and Canada, but the relatively weak economic connections that had persisted until recently. He spoke largely to the influence of the Indian-Canadian diaspora community, and their role in building greater links between the two nations.
Sutherland concluded by pinpointing education as a critical area in which country's such as India and Canada could seek to develop longlasting ties. By capitalizing on foreign exchange programs, he indicated that a healthy level of cooperation would not only help students develop the necessary skills they needed for the workplace, but that it would equip them with critical knowledge on how to interact in a world increasingly defined by cross-cultural interactions.
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10gig is there..
After I saw this I went to the site, they have firewalls that go all the way up to 120Gbps of throughput and 300,000+ connections per second. Last time I looked I don't recall seeing anything that could go nearly that fast! That particular high end firewall has 4x10Gbps ports and 40x1Gbps ports.
The lowest end firewall I see with 10gig is the SRX3400 which has 2x10Gbps ports and 32x1Gbps ports


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In a blog post yesterday, Oracle outlined the steps its been taking and the investments it's been making to ensure the security of Java, its beleaguered open-source programming language.
Starting in October 2013, the company will release quarterly security patches. It also says it will respond more quickly to security issues in the future and will do better at ensuring vulnerabilities don't make it into the codebase in the first place using automated security testing tools.
"The company has made a number of product enhancements to default security and provide more end user control over security," writes Oracle Java software development lead Nandini Ramani on the company blog.
For the enterprise, which still relies heavily on Java, Ramani said, "The public coverage of the recently published vulnerabilities impacting Java in the browser has caused concern to organizations committed to Java applications running on servers," implying the problem was more with PR than security on the server side. In response, Oracle introduced Server JRE as a separate distro.
The trouble started nearly a year ago, when Oracle fixed a gaping Java security hole it may have known about for months. Slow security is no security, and Oracle's investment at that time wasn't nearly good enough, and that vulnerability set the stage for 2013, when a string of security issues popped up.
In January, the world found out about a Java vulnerability that would allow attackers to steal information or hook up a botnet to any user with a Java plugin-running browser. At that point, the Department of Homeland Security and Apple issued memos saying no one should use Java. Oracle issued a patch, but like a junkie with a $10 habit and a $5 stash, DHS said the fix was insufficient.
Then, after an attack in February, Facebook disabled Java in a high-profile vote of no confidence. (Microsoft and Apple underwent similar attacks.)
Finally, in March, Oracle issued a big emergency Java update. The company issued a further 42 security fixes in April.
"It is our belief that as a result of this ongoing security effort, we will decrease the exploitability and severity of potential Java vulnerabilities in the desktop environment and provide additional security protections for Java operating in the server environment," Ramani said in conclusion.
"Oracle's effort has already enabled the Java development team to deliver security fixes more quickly, resulting in fewer outstanding security bugs in Java."
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A couple of Chicago Police squad cars are in bad shape, and four officers are recovering from injuries sustained in an overnight car crash on the West Side.
The officers crashed at around 10:15 a.m. near the intersection of Washington Boulevard and Central Avenue, police said.
Four officers were hurt in the crash but their injuries were not life threatening. Two of the officers are described in serious-to-critical condition and two were listed in fair-to-serious condition.
More details should be available shortly, police said.
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