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Long Meadow Ranch Winery continues a proud legacy of crafting elegant, food-friendly wines utilizing "full-circle farming" methods.Each day we welcome guests at our General Store to taste and shop for artisan goods and LMR provisions, join excursions to our Estate, bring home what is in season from our farmer's market, and enjoy unique culinary & wine tasting experiences.At our Mayacamas Estate winery & cave, we cultivate 16 acres of mountain vineyards, raise grass-fed Highland cattle, and tend to -- as well as harvest from -- the oldest olive orchard in the Napa Valley. Our Rutherford Estate is dedicated to organic grapegrowing, fruit and vegetable production, hand-tended beehives, and our growing flock of egg-laying poultry. Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch is our destination for food & wine in St. Helena, the heart of Napa Valley.
The Chef's Table was a wonderful setting for a small birthday dinner. Excellent food, wine and service, inventive menu, and quiet enough to carry on a conversation. Highly recommend it!
Had a great experience at Long Meadow. Met us at the door with a glass of wine and the chef showed us around the garden and prepared a fantastic meal.
Wonderful experience. Amazing food. Friendly people. Generous pours. Attention to detail. Loved every morsel. Chef Kat was amazing!!!!Would not hesitate to come back and recommend to everyone. You won't be disappointed.
All the ladies were very friendly and made us feel comfortable. The food was so fresh and yummy.
The wine was just as delicious.
Since I made the reservation based on online info only, I felt responsible for the decision and more than a little bit nervous. But my fears were soon erased. Our evening at the Chef's Table went beyond our expectations; excellent service in a beautiful space, an educational evening centered around the creative preparation of amazing food.
Excellent meal and property tour with the chef. Overall great experience!!
Such a fun experience with great food and wine!
Chef was great. Staff was great. Wine was decent. Food was very good.
Tara was a lovely, informative host. Great hospitality. Breathtaking views and great wine.
Wonderful!!! Can not believe we have not done this sooner. We have been coming up for years and have established many traditions of what we do... This will be added to our yearly trip. We can not wait to come back. Chef Tim is amazing OMG we are still talking about him and the dinner. What an incredible experience. We told Tim we moved him up equal to French Laundry
We will be back
Absolutely perfect Napa Valley experience!
We loved every second of this experience. The food was amazing! Getting to meet the chef and hear about the food made it so much more personal. I will do this again on my next trip to Napa.
We attended the Chef's table dining experience for my husband and I's anniversary. The food was absolutely amazing!! Unique and elegant flavors, with wonderful use of farm fresh ingredients. Days later I am still desperately craving the cucumber gazpacho. The Chef, Tim, was wonderful, personable and made it a very interactive experience. I would highly suggest the chef's table experience!
Full Circle tour was awesome!!! Very personalized service. I loved our tour guide (sweet gal from Oklahoma). She was great! Very knowledgable about both the wines and olive oil. When we got back to the farm the 3 course lunch was great! I loved how the chef came to the table with each course and described what we were eating and then offered culinary tips later. Worth the money!
Absolutely exceptional. Food was delicious, excellently paired with the wines. Chef and his colleague were thoughtful, knowledgeable and made our meal one of the most memorable I've had in recent memory.
The entire experience was first class. We enjoyed the staff, food, wine and others who participated in the evening. It was a highlight of our trip to Napa
Love love love this place! Went on the full circle experience. It was the best experience that any winery has put on. Recommend to anyone who wants amazing wine, food, and company
The tour was intimate and educational, the food parings were excellent and the staff really made you feel at home and welcomed. The environment was warm and homey and we enjoyed out time immensely.
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Great, casual, friendly and warm setting. Everyone is down to earth, including all servers, the hostess and the chef. No pretentiousness at all. Food and wine pairings are amazing and at $125 per person, it is actually a good bargain for the quality and quantity of food. I would highly recommend.
We had the most amazing food at the Long Meadow Ranch Winery!! I cannot stop raving about it!
We had a wonderful experience! Everything was top-notch from the restaurant to the winery tour and tasting.
Definitely a highlight experience, Farmstead at Long Meadow Ranch features the blending of a farm to table eating experience with most pleasing wines. The Farmstead showcases a general store, farmers market, vegetable and herb garden, restaurant and large scale bbq/smoker producing scrumptious pork ribs. We opted for the Chef's Table lunch ($125/p), and the food was distinctive and exceptional, prepared by the Vineyard Executive Chef (who was originally from Scarsdale). Did I say exceptional? …doesn't begin to do justice to describe this food experience utilizing all fresh ingredients (including the beef and olive oil) grown on their properties, paired with very tasty wines.
Spectacular view
Very pleasant, informative, relaxing. We were not rushed at all.
Our guide Karah was terrific. She provided interesting history of the family and property while driving us to the vineyard from the ranch house. We enjoyed LMR wines on a terraced area with a beautiful view of Napa valley and a horse. The tour of the vineyard and olive oil making machines was informative. The lunch in the ranch house was delicious. The chef explained each meal.
The chef and her staff were great!
We did the full circle experience with Tara and she did a wonderful job. We all really enjoyed it. Tim the chef cooked us an amazing lunch. Long Meadow Ranch was a favorite experience for our party of 5. Thank you!
We were a bit disappointed at first as the chefs table was in a sparse room right off of the tasting room/general store. However the food was stellar! The experience kept getting better and better the longer we stayed, met new people, and enjoyed good wine and amazing the food. We completely forgot about our initial disappointment and can't wait to go back!
I believe that your winery will become a model to be admired over the next several years. Your platform to only use what you can grow or get naturally and provide everything from beverages to food is truly remarkable. This is a location that is definitely a must visit by all!
This was a wonderful experience. My grandparents were farmers. My grandfather died in 1966. He dry farmed, Rotated crops. So refreshing to see how you farm. My grandmother would freak at your chicken "coop". I am so uplifted that things will change. Keep going!
The food was absolutely amazing! Everyone at the table was discussing if it would inappropriate to lick our plates! Caution: they very generously top off your wines throughout the meal so you easily lose track of how much wine you're drinking. Our group had to go back to our rooms and "rest" after lunch.
Loved everything about the Chef's Table at Farmstead Restaurant. I would go back there in a heartbeat if I'm ever in the area. The food was exquisite and we all wished we could have had seconds on the dessert. All 7 of us cleaned each and every plate and didn't leave a morsel. It was that good!
Our best dining experience during our entire time in Napa & Sonoma. I cannot wait to get back to Napa for the Chef's Table dinner again. The entire experience was five stars! And Chef Timothy Mosblech not only provided us with mindblowingly delicious food, but he was also super personable and an all around awesome guy!
What a great experience. I loved the tour of the farm and the ranch. The tasting was great and in a really beautiful environment. I felt relaxed and was very interested in the wine making process. It was a fantastic day.
Amazing day in the hills and fields.
The tour and tasting was extremely average and I am not a fan of "wine clubs" and it appeared the only way to get your olive oil which sounded impressive was to join the "club" and "maybe" you could get a bottle of the great olive oil....
The hostess seemed fairly knowledgeable but it all seemed too rehearsed....
The food was fantastic and the servers were great. The food and wine pairing combinations were done very well. The setting was perfect and the groups of people all mixed very well. In all a great night
We enjoyed a trip up to the Mayacamas winery. The scenery was breathtaking and the wine was very, very good.
Excellent experience. Well organized chef's table. Well thought out menu, friendly staff, excellent service. Reasonably priced too. Highly recommended.
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WINCHENDON, Mass. (MyFoxBoston.com) – Police are searching for the person who left a dog hanging from a tree in Winchendon Monday.
At about 3:30 p.m., Snoopy, a 14-week-old Beagle, was let out of his house while his owner, Allyson Clark, went inside to make dinner. After about 25 minutes, Clark's 10-year-old daughter went outside and found Snoopy hanging from a tree. The dog was hung by his neck with rope from the family's bird feeder. The rope was wrapped around Snoopy's neck so tightly that it killed him, and the family had to cut the rope off after he was cut down from the tree.
"I don't know how somebody could ever do this to us," Clark said.
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One Halloween night, when I was 16 and my little brother was 3 or 4, Mother asked me to take him several houses down our street for trick or treating. That was only the second time I'd been out like that myself; 1951 had barely seen the beginning of the tradition of going around and collecting candy in a bag.
At the third house we visited, a woman wearing a scary animal mask and howling ferociously opened the door, and plump little Robert dropped his goodies and fled down her steps bawling for mama all the way home. I was laughing so hard I fell off the neighbor's porch and skinned my knee. "Oh I didn't know it was a baby," she said, tearing off the mask and trying in vain to get him to come back.
On the All Hallows Eve before that, four or five of us teenagers had decided to go trick or treating and had been rewarded by a smirking man doling out cellophane-wrapped and beribboned pieces of what looked like divinity fudge. One of the boys bit into it, discovered it was soap, and tried to convince us to go back and assist him in putting the bicycle in the man's yard on his roof. We didn't.
In my tiny hometown in east Texas, the big Halloween event was the carnival in the school gymnasium for which princesses and princes were elected from each class, processing out before the 12th-grade king and queen to the strains of "Funiculi, Funicula." The year before I finally got to be a princess and wear an evening dress with sleeves that my cousin had worn in a piano recital, I was part of a musical number presented by the fifth grade girls. We wore white blouses and short, orange crepe-paper skirts, and as I was running to the schoolhouse to change out of my costume and into clothes for the rest of the carnival, a nasty little third-grade boy ripped the crepe paper clean off me. I was in my white panties, screaming at the top of my lungs, and Mother was brought out from the kitchen where the ladies were making hamburgers for sale at the festivities. She advised me to put a plug in it. Story of my life.
After I got married and our son was born, I made a trick-or-treat costume for him out of a pillowcase. He was a precious little ghost, and over the years many costumes were devised for him and his sister by a mom who couldn't sew, at a time when there weren't as many cheap costumes for sale as there today.
Our most memorable Halloween came the year our very tiny 3-year-old daughter dragged her trick-or-treat bag along the sidewalk from house to house and discovered a big hole in the bottom — and not much candy. Her daddy took her back over the entire route. But her troubles weren't over.
Our chihuahua liked the treats as much as she did and followed her about the house for the next few days, stealing candy as she continued to drag the bag.
These days we do Halloween at a fun party at some friends' house. But for those seniors tempted to go out on the town, here are 10 ways — emailed to me by a friend — that they can know they're too old to go trick or treating:
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2. You remove your teeth to change your appearance.
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4. When someone drops a candy bar in your bag, you lose your balance and fall over.
5. People say, "Great Boris Karloff mask!" and you're not wearing a mask.
6. When the door opens, you yell, "Trick or —" and can't remember the rest.
7. By the end of the night, you have a bag full of restraining orders.
8. You have to carefully choose a costume that doesn't dislodge your hairpiece.
9. You're the only Power Ranger in the night on a walker.
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Orchard seek to overcome heartbreak of final defeat
Their heartbreaking defeat to Roscommon in last year's Nicky Rackard Cup final undoubtedly provides Armagh with the biggest possible spur for their return to Croke Park today and another appearance in the final in which they will meet Mayo on this occasion (3.30pm).
It was a last-gasp goal that saw the trophy prised from the Orchard county's grasp in 2015 and for seasoned defender Ciaran Clifford the memories of that sombre occasion remain all too vivid.
"It was just real sickening, there's no other way of putting it," says Clifford. "But now that we are going back to Croke Park we want to do ourselves justice."
Armagh's handsome semi-final win over Fingal (3-19 to 1-11) has bolstered confidence with the superb consistency of hot-shot Ryan Gaffney (0-25) and the strike rate of Conor Corvan (5-14) lending substance to the belief that the team can come good this time.
But Mayo go into battle buoyed by having claimed an earlier win over Armagh in the competition and cushioned by a wealth of experience which is epitomised by Keith Higgins, Ciaran Charlton, Sean Regan,Kenny Feeney and Darren McTigue.
They beat Donegal in the semi-final and their resilience, pace and finishing skills will certainly test Armagh to the full today.
"While it's great to be in the final again, this time we have to win it," says Clifford.
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'Gefilte' Gets an A on Holiday Taste Test
While we weren't intentionally looking for one, a theme quickly emerged at our recent taste test of "The Gefilte Manifesto," and that theme was: "I don't usually like" blank, "but I like this." It started in the very first moments of our gathering, when our friend Fred took his first sip of the Celery Collins cocktail and loved it — despite a decades-long distaste for gin — and ended with all of us practically swooning over the orange-spiced rye honey cake, despite most of us describing our sentiments about honey cake as "meh" at best.
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Tzimmes is a sweet Ashkenazi stew in which the ingredients vary depending on family origin and tradition. The dish is often eaten during the Jewish High Holidays to symbolically usher in a sweet new year. This sweet-and-savory chicken tzimmes is an easy dish with a built-in side. The juices of the chicken enhance the flavors of the carrots and prunes. It's filling when paired with rice or kasha, and it's colorful and complex enough to serve for the holidays. — Liz Alpern, co-author of "The Gefilte Manifesto."
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Kugel comes in many forms, not just noodles. Liz and I both love savory vegetable kugels, and this cauliflower-mushroom version is lighter and more refined than the ever-popular potato kugel. If you're lucky enough to live in a place where foraged mushrooms are accessible, get the best you can find. They will only enhance the dish. In Seattle, we made this dish with hedgehog and black trumpet mushrooms foraged from a nearby forest, and it was the best version of this kugel we've ever created. Be aware that this kugel has a delicate consistency and serves more like an Italian sformato (vegetable souffle) than the dense kugels you might be used to. Normally we like to make this dish in ramekins and serve it in individual portions, for an elegant look and feel. In Seattle, we found squat 8-ounce mason jars and baked individual kugels in those, but baking in a 9-inch square glass baking dish works well, too—just let the kugel cool slightly before slicing or scooping into individual portions. For Passover, you can swap out the bread crumbs for matzo meal. If you're making it a dairy kugel, you can use butter and sprinkle it with Parmesan cheese. Serve individual portions topped with crispy fried shallots and garnished with fresh parsley. — Jeffrey Yoskowitz, co-author of "The Gefilte Manifesto"
'Gefilte Manifesto' Spicy Whole-Grain Mustard
Mustard is a key player in Ashkenazi cooking. The mustard plant, a member of the Brassica family, has some pretty important relatives in cabbage and horseradish. Can you imagine eastern European Jewish cooking without them? Probably not. And you also probably can't imagine a hot deli pastrami sandwich without spicy ground mustard. Personally, I can't fathom life without a hot deli pastrami sandwich.
With New Cookbook, Gefilteria Duo Spreads Gospel of Ashkenazi Food
Just before Passover 2012, The Gefilteria launched its artisanal line of gefilte fish. Co-founders Jeffrey Yoskowitz and Liz Alpern wanted to take gefilte fish out of the jars in the kosher aisle and gently place it on the table in a fresh and meaningful way. But the fish was just a symbol of the Ashkenazi food renaissance that these two 20-somethings were determined to nurture.


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The doors in question belonged to the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel, known to most as simply The Tunnel. For as long as "Whittier, Alaska" had appeared on a map, The Tunnel had been the only land route in or out of town, unless you counted hiking straight up over Portage Pass and down in Portage Valley, which most people didn't. That old hole at the far end of town, burrowed through the length of Maynard Mountain, was the source of much mythology and consternation. The tunnel provided welcome isolation but was also a headache and then some. Trains ran through the tunnel from Whittier to Anchorage only every few days on irregular, unpredictable schedules. After the last train left, metal gates barred both entrance and exit. Whittier was an island until the next train came.
City Under One Roof is a documentary project in photographs, writing and archival materials about the town of Whittier, Alaska. A former World War II military base, Whittier is accessible by land only through a 2.6-mile-long tunnel, which until 2000 could only be traversed by railroad. Today most of the community's 200 residents live in one of two enormous buildings, remnants from the former base, and drive through the single-lane tunnel on an alternating schedule: in on the bottom of the hour, out on the top.
I lived in Whittier from July 2013 to June 2014, photographing, interviewing and writing about land use and community development for the regional newspaper, the Turnagain Times. City Under One Roof was awarded the 2013 Dorothea Lange - Paul Taylor Prize from the Center for Documentary Studies and a project grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum. AmericanPhotoMag.com named the fall 2014 City Under One Roof exhibition at the Center for Documentary Studies one of the 5 best photography shows of the season. City Under One Roof has been featured in High Country News online, Gizmodo, Juxtapoz, Business Insider, and Satellite Magazine, among others.


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Objectives Edit
Kill Dragonmaw Marauders and collect 8 Dragonmaw Insignias. Named characters within the Thundermar Ruins will also carry insignias.
Description Edit
The Dragonmaw!
<Colin spits.>
Monsters, all of them. We've fought them up and down these highlands since the last war. And now they're joining forces with the Horde?
If you're going to convince us Wildhammers to unite under the Alliance banner, you'd best prove yourself against the Dragonmaw. Wade into the battle that's raging in the Thundermar ruins to the south and southwest. Kill Dragonmaw marauders and collect the insignias that their greatest warriors wear. Then we'll talk.
How goes the fight, <class>?
Look at that! That's quite a collection of trophies you have there.
I'll spread the word. If a single Alliance <class> can do this, imagine what the rest of your lot can accomplish!
Rewards Edit
You will receive:
- 9
- 250 reputation with Wildhammer clan
You will also be able to choose one of the following:
|[Trophy-Taker Bracers]
|[Belt of Bloody Dreams]
|[Orc-Shock Spaulders]
- All the mobs can be found throughout the Thundermar Ruins. Named mobs that also drop the insignias are Karkrog the Exterminator and Warlord Halthar. Killing these two will also meet some of the requirements for earning the achievement [Wildhammer Tour of Duty].
- Pair this with Never Leave a Dinner Behind, as they are in the same area.
Quest progressionEdit
- [84] A Coward's Due
- Complete the following:
- [84] Dragonmaw Takedown
- [84] My Sister, Fanny
- [84] Fight Like a Wildhammer
- Complete all of the following:
- [84] Magmalord Falthazar
- [84] A Vision of Twilight
- [84] We All Must Sacrifice
- [84] The Eyes Have It
- [84] Eye Spy
- [84] Tempered in Elemental Flame / [84] Hot Stuff / [84] Potential Energy
- [84] Last Stand at Thundermar
- [84] Narkrall, The Drake-Tamer
Patch changes Edit
Patch 4.0.3a (2010-11-23): Added.


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Millionday Wednesday Night News Part 1
Millionday news 12/3/14 Part 1
Millionday: Tgb fluctuations experienced by the region's economies and the resultant damage directly and indirectly represented an important Arab Annual Conference for the current year at the center,
which recently took place in Beirut, according to a banking expert Mohammad Ali Jaber, who stressed the importance of changing the patterns of dealing for the banking sector in line with the stage with the requirements of the country, including help in crossing the contraction phase experienced by.
Millionday: NOTE -- THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT THE BANKING CONFERENCE AND THE ORDERS AND ACTIONS THEY WERE TO TAKE –
Millionday: Jaber said in an interview for the "morning" This conference was a dialogue platform and a place for the convergence of the poles of the Arab banking industry and makers of financial decision-Arab and international economic,
pointing out that the Iraqi delegation discussed the responsibility of private banks to deal with the situation Deflation desired.
Millionday: NOTE -- THIS IS ABOUT THE ACTION NEEDED BY THE PRIVATE BANKS OF IRAQ AND THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO DEAL WITH DEFLATION DUE TO THE ECONOMIC CONDITION AND NEED FOR CHANGE
Millionday: He added that the current circumstances, which passes by the Iraqi economy requires that the private and public banks to change their activities pattern by placing the budgets of ameliorative next phase responsive and goals of the government program,
which seeks to speed up cross-deflation taking place in the current situation the process, pointing to the importance of developing a plan Court to study and analyze all the stalled projects and speed up the rehabilitation of these projects as well as the reduction of interest rates on credit and change their investment style.
Millionday: NOTE -- THEY ARE FORMING A GROUP FOR STUDY TO MONITOR THE BANKING AS THEY IMPLEMENT THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM AND THE BUDGET DURING THIS CURRENT PHASE –
Millionday: NOTE -- THIS IS TO SPEED UP THE PROJECTS AND APPLY THE REGULATIONS THAT WILL ALLOW THAT --- INTERNATIONAL INVESTMENT INCLUDED
Millionday: He thought that any activity, whether domestic or foreign must begin with the banking sector being the head of the investment device, as a n any investment relationship arise between Iraq and its surroundings regional or foreign begin by banks.
Millionday: NOTE -- HE IS SAYING THAT THE MOVE FORWARD HAS TO TAKE PLACE FIRST WITH THE BANKING REFORM AND THE CHANGES THEY ARE MOVING THROUGH FOR IRAQ AND ALL REFORMS
Millionday: Jabri returned to confirm that the conference discussed the impact of the movement of change in some of our Arab countries on the political and social levels,
with highlights on the other side the absence of alternative plans that of the first tasks at least a push to get out of the crisis and work on the mechanism of Arab cooperation and economic integration was able to face the challenges ahead, including the prospects of economic cooperation between the Arab countries, and the role of the banking sector in the rebuilding and reconstruction.
Millionday: He pointed out the reasons for the weakness of private investment as a result of shifts in the region, and the conference stressed the importance of activating the Arab and international initiatives to promote Small and medium enterprises in addition to the special axis led by experts and decision-makers, as well as the future of Arab youth in the face of the future.
changing needs in the Arab economy has had a presence within the conference the most important of strengthening the role of Arab development funds and combating rampant unemployment and its impact on social structures, as well as the future of Arab youth in the face of challenges of the future, according to Jaber.
Millionday: NOTE -- THE ROLL OF THE ECONOMIC REFORM IS MASSIVE IN ALL AVENUES AND CERTAINLY FOR THE YOUTH AND THE OPPORTUNITY IN THE ARAB REGION
Millionday: The future of Islamic banking was a central part of stopping when the next role and its impact on countries' economies,
and what it represents instruments Islamic as a new source of funding and liquidity and its impact on Islamic banking (liquidity management).
Jaber acknowledged social and developmental role to meet the challenges through the activation Arab and international initiatives to promote small and medium enterprises, and the establishment of an Arab fund and activate the World Bank initiative to fund it.
Millionday: NOTE -- THIS IS FUNDING FOR THE PROJECTS AND THE USE OF THE PRIVATE BANKS TO ACTIVATE THE ECONOMIC CHANGE IN IRAQ AND THE REGION –
Millionday: I have been to the representatives of participating Iraqi banks, which amounted to about 10 banks a big role in the delivery and evaluation of the discussion to
ics addressed by the conference sessions, as well as active participation in the exhibition, which was held in specialized halls so .
He said that the Iraqi economy maintains a level of growth to reduce the impact of the challenges faced at present by his government to gain control and guidance in the investment and operational side, and this requires the oil sector development and its role,
as well as activating the role of the agricultural and industrial sector, pointing out that the security and stability does the production and service sectors of the economy movement.
Millionday: SO THEY ARE SAYING THAT THE NEED NOW IS TO ACTIVATE THE PRIVATE SECTORS AND OF COURSE THE PIRVATE BANKING SECTOR FIRST –
Millionday: Hashemi Park a number of those interested in economic affairs agreement between Baghdad and Erbil on oil exports, and confirmed its positive effect in the reality of the country's economic and implementation of the approved by the government program.
Finally, the central government has reached an agreement with the Kurdistan Regional Government to resolve outstanding and chronic since most of the problems Ten years and exacerbated beginnings in 2013 when it was the use of a tube export my father established by the province in agreement with Turkey
for the purposes of private export Balakulaim.alkhbayr oil Mustafa al-Maliki said that the National ultimate goal of this agreement between the central government and the province on oil exports is to leave the event of disagreement, and
Millionday: NOTE -- THE IMPACT OF THE ERBIL AGREEMENT CONFIRMS A POSITIVE EFFECT ON THE REALITY OF THE ECONOMY AND ALSO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS --- WHOOOPOW
Millionday: the creation of mechanisms and national understanding mutually beneficial, with the importance of a follow-up committees and continuous keenness to follow up
and dissolving any differences are possible to occur over the next year and down to transparent approval and just general budget for 2015 with the wishes of a recovery in prices of a barrel of crude oil.
Millionday: NOTE -- THEY EXPECT THE TOOLS WILL BE APPLIED THAT THE AGREEMENT HAS MADE AND ALLOW THEM TO RESOLVE DISPUTES AND ACTUALLY WORK AS A UNIFIED GOV AND COUNTRY ---
Millionday: He pointed out that the benefits of the new agreement is a shift to the stage of understanding unprecedented between the parties as long as they disagreed about returns and style obtained,
but the significance lies through for the province on the proportion of the 17 percent without deductions in addition to the Peshmerga benefits that are play an important role in the national effort to confront the gangs of terrorists Aldaasha.
Millionday: NOTE -- THE NEW AGREEMENT ALLOWS FOR THE PAYMENT OF DUSPURSEMENTS – SMILE
Millionday: He said the return of steady Such a guaranteed sing region the independent export risk and at informal perhaps without channel (SOMO) official marketer of Iraqi crude, and its part, the federal government will add value 550 000 barrels per day,
250 thousand of them especially the production of the province while the North Oil Company, finding export security port for about 300 000 barrels a midwife to increase through the pipeline in the territory of the province extended facilities.
Pointing out that this is in the declared aim to export more than three million and six hundred thousand barrels of crude from the whole of Iraq by the ministry's plan for 2015 through (SOMO), and achieve the goal of four million barrels of where the production end of the same year.
Millionday: NOTE -- THEY HAVE RETURNED THE SOMO AS THE MARKETER FOR IRAQI OIL AND ALSO HAVE RETURNED THE NORTH OIL COMPANY AND WILL PER AGREEMENT REACH THEIR EXPORT GOALS TO STAND BEHIND THE ECONOMIC GOALS AND GROWTH EXPECTED
Millionday: member of the administrative board of the Association of Iraqi economists Dr. Ikram Abdul Aziz said that the central government's agreement with the Kurdistan region to serve the country in his embarrassment by covering other expenses had to be covered for the implementation of the feasibility of projects and serve the citizens.
It said in a statement the "morning" that the country is going through the plight threaten the country's sovereignty, security and preservation requires channeling financial imports so as to enhance the stability of Iraq as part of them will be allocated for salaries for mobilizing popular and spending the war as well as the promotion of the private sector, regardless dues of what it takes to expand the entry process of economic development.
Millionday: NOTE -- THE AGREEMENT WAS TO SERVE THE CITIZENS AND AFFORD THE PROMISES AND NEEDS SO SOME PROJECTS COULD NOT BE AFFORDED DUE TO THE EXPENSE OF WAR –
Millionday: THE ERBIL AGREEMENT>>> It confirmed that the agreement reflects the weft national and a sense of unified crisis faced by the country and threaten the economy
Also, this rational and responsible approach in a critical juncture, adding that the agreement is possible to serve the security and service side through direct government spending, which will come from additional revenue for the budget after the agreement.
Millionday: NOTE -- SOME OF THE AGREEMENT FINANCIALLY WILL BE ACTIVE JAN 1ST 2015 AND SOME NOW
Millionday: The Rat Abdul Aziz, the budget of 2015 has been prepared and can not be adjusted up new doors to spend what provides the money and contributes channeled towards vital projects affect the lives of the citizen allocated amounts may be not enough size.
competent economic affairs Samir Nasiri described in his "morning" the agreement between the central government and the province as significant and positive at this stage faced by the country, pointing out that he will provide a resource for additional general budget of the Federal to cover many doors expenses within them.
Millionday: said the high volume of oil exports to achieve new imports of the country, despite the low crude oil prices in world markets, so the rise in oil exports through the southern and northern Almnavd through the port of Ceyhan flows into the budget with money to help implement what came in the government program.
He that the federal budget must be based on accurate calculations and the prices of oil logical reduce the deficit.
especially as the international expert forecasts suggest that oil prices will see a stable after the first quarter of next year, the oil and then maintains constant level.
Millionday: SO THEY EXPECT THE OIL EXPORTS THEY HAVE PLANNED THROUGH THE AGREEMENT AND THE GOVERNMENT PROGRAM TO MINIMIZE THE DEFICIT
Millionday: SO THIS IS SAYING THAT THE ERBIL AGREEMENT HAS MOVED ALL THEY WANT TO A BETTER PLACE FOR IMPLEMENTATION
Millionday: Smart card is an electronic card based on the concept of transferring real cash into electroniccash fixed on a sim card to facilitate cash exchange.
Smart card ( QI ) is similar to other credit cards recognized worldwide with essential difference that the smart card deals with balances without direct contact with the server which is called ( off line ) to facilitate business in regions of no good telecommunication networks .
Besides , the card depends on fingerprint as a substitute of the Serial No. in processes of electronic cash transfer .
Millionday: Our Bank pursued this modern technique in order to facilitate cashing pensions as a first stage . The retired employee can get his/ her pensions from any branch of Rasheed or Rafideen banks , noting that the smart card contains ( 255 ) banking or non- banking activities and one of them is cashing pensions .
Pursuing the fingerprint provides to bank and any party related to it . The possibility of getting clean data base unrepeatable through fingerprint matching in case of inability of referring to written data .
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My, Nintendo, how you've changed. The Japanese entertainment giant once spent almost a decade on top of the console gaming industry by following up the legendary Nintendo 64 with an equally impressive system in the Nintendo GameCube, but it appears the brand as many of us 90's kids knew it no longer exists. Riddled with batshit insane decisions which saw the prolific video game company ship not one, but two misguided attempts at a modern home console by pushing gimmicks over gameplay, the new Nintendo Switch – unveiled yesterday – is the pinnacle of poor choices which serves to highlight Nintendo's fall from grace. This is a very different company than the one which helped propel Mario Kart 64 into the living rooms of basically anyone under the age of twenty five, and I can't imagine these guys will be around for much longer.
Sure, the under-powered Wii sold a metric tonne of units after it was first introduced on store shelves back in the fall of 2006 – capitalizing on casual-oriented titles such as Wii Sports and Wii Fit to reel in a new audience at the expense of loyal fans – but an incorrect assessment of market trends saw Microsoft and Sony utterly destroy Nintendo's offering once the masses indicated Call of Duty was here to stay. Essentially, most people did rush out to buy a Wii, only to realize there wasn't much substance behind the experimental controller, and permanently went back to the other console they owned within less than a month. Playing catch-up for five straight years, Nintendo partially attempted to rectify the obvious gap in performance and capabilities compared to their competitors by releasing the Nintendo Wii U, but once again, a reliance upon gimmicks that nobody really cared for in the first place relegated the system to the status of an expensive paperweight. Hell, aside from Lego City Undercover, and Need for Speed Most Wanted, there weren't any racing games on the damned thing.
Rather than build a traditional gaming experience to directly compete with what Microsoft and Sony currently offer, Nintendo is set to push out their third gimmick in ten years, completely failing to realize that the market doesn't give a shit about this stuff anymore. Nintendo's stock dropped 6.5 percent on the day of the Switch's reveal, with market analysts downright confused at Nintendo's business decisions. Simply put, Nintendo is finished.
And that's a shame. The company which single-handedly revived the video game industry in America after the 1983 crash is now hardwired to self destruct; the indisputable greatness of their four most prominent consoles now relegated to the pages of history books and Wikipedia articles. Sure, we'd been given a not-so-subtle warning beforehand that things at Nintendo had gone haywire – such as their public relations manager moonlighting as an escort – but physically seeing the string of bad decisions manifest into something so utterly useless as the Nintendo Switch is a sight to behold.
The controller looks uncomfortable and clunky, nobody in North America wants a spontaneous game of Madden on a tiny screen in a dingy park when everyone's been in a competition with their friends to build the most luxurious entertainment center, and given that Nintendo hasn't actively tried to compete with Sony and Microsoft in terms of performance since 2001, it's too risky to buy a console that could potentially be less powerful that what you already own and have sunk money into. For those three primary reasons, the Nintendo Switch will be a failure of which the likes we've never seen before. It's going to kill the company. In a world where Grand Theft Auto V earned a billion dollars in revenue within the first 72 hours of the game arriving on shelves, you simply cannot stick your fingers in your ears and instead build something so preposterously nonsensical.
It's certainly strange to be talking about Nintendo in this manner, as the twenty year period spanning from 1985 to 2005 were basically dominated by Mario's home system. Yes, you can make an argument that the PlayStation 2 sold more units, or that the Microsoft Xbox was the most powerful console in terms of hardware, but Nintendo systems traditionally featured the highest concentration of games you wanted to play. While Sony's original PlayStation struggled to maintain 30 FPS in all but a handful of games, busting out the N64 on a mid-range TV was gaming on an entirely different level. And there's a reason people are still playing Super Mario 64 and Luigi's Mansion on modern PC emulators, while Crash Bandicoot is relegated to being an obscure relic from a bygone era – Nintendo games were worth every penny of the retail price.
Nintendo systems were also a safe way to enter the world of console gaming without really knowing exactly what you wanted from your gaming experience. Nintendo paid close attention to the types of products arriving on their consoles, meaning the library of games available were never too graphic or too obscure for the general public. The best part of owning a Nintendo console during the final ten years of their dominance, was outright sucking at first-person shooters, yet knowing you could take a chance on something like Metroid Prime at random and still come away totally satisfied with the experience. If you couldn't deal with the super-serious tone of FIFA 07, whether it was because you were too young at the time, or needed a simple multiplayer co-op sports game for your buddies, Super Mario Strikers was a valid alternative. Each game for all four of Nintendo's golden systems, regardless of whether it was developed by Nintendo, or an unrelated third party entity, just seemed right for the console it was released on.
So for today, what I'd like to do here on PretendRaceCars.net is to take a look at the five best racing games for Nintendo systems which capture the spirit of Nintendo's classic consoles – driving games that you could recommend to someone who doesn't give two shits about race cars or motorcycles in the slightest, yet they could sit down for a day with the title, and at the end of their session say "I get it now, this shit is awesome, I want more."
I'm aware that F-Zero GX is the greatest racing game released for the Nintendo GameCube, but let's be real here – it's too ridiculously difficult for the common gamer. And given our hardcore background, I'd love to write yet another article praising NASCAR: Dirt to Daytona for all that it managed to accomplish as an oval racing simulator almost fifteen years ago, but I won't. Kart racers also need not apply, as their lessons in socialism lead to a scenario where skill simply doesn't apply on the track.
So in our farewell piece to Nintendo, let's talk about five racing games that fully understood what a Nintendo console was all about.
The introduction of the Sony PlayStation 2 onto the market saw Electronic Arts in a bit of a bind. Traditional sports games like Madden and FIFA had become infinitely more complex than the developer had ever anticipated, turning off several early PlayStation 2 adopters who were overwhelmed by the in-depth control schemes. The solution was to create an offshoot brand that took a more lighthearted approach to the flagship franchises, resulting in the creation of EA Sports BIG. You're most likely aware of these guys thanks to the astounding popularity of the SSX franchise, yet the brand covered an impressive array of both traditional sports and auto racing disciplines, including soccer, basketball, football, snowmobile racing, rallycross, and even freestyle motocross.
Freekstyle was EA's spin on the growing popularity of freestyle motocross, which has only expanded since the death of the EA Big brand with the likes of Nitro Circus and Red Bull X-Fighters becoming household names. While motocross games already existed on the Nintendo GameCube platform from developers such as THQ and Acclaim, Freekstyle didn't require any knowledge of the sport to enjoy the title; opting for extremely simple tracks with ludicrous jumps allowing you to execute hyperbolic tricks in exchange for copious amounts of boost, much like the SSX franchise a few years earlier. Rather than including a cast of fictional characters playing up on motocross culture stereotypes, Freekstyle opted to include real world riders such as Brian Deegan and Mike Metzger to flesh out the personality of the fictional game environment, a move which turned Freekstyle into this really wild rust-filtered post-apocalyptic motocross carnival.
The end result was a phenomenal arcade racing game which draws heavily from the SSX franchise without appearing to be a straight rip-off. The simple gameplay that didn't ask users to perfectly time jumps or plan their lines through a corner, mixed with radical track designs and a cohesive art direction, was a welcome addition to the GameCube's vibrant library.
Nintendo has traditionally been extremely weary of adult-themed games appearing on their platforms (despite their old PR lady turning tricks on the side), meaning that GameCube owners in the fall of 2003 were shit out of luck when Grand Theft Auto: Vice City took the world by storm. While older gamers primarily used the playground Rockstar Games had created to act out their inner psychopathic fantasies and challenge themselves to outrun a never-ending supply of SWAT team members, a key element to remember is that open-world driving games were still relatively new at the time, and many flocked to the 3D Grand Theft Auto offerings to merely test drive a massive variety of vehicles and explore a fully-rendered world at their own pace.
The Simpsons: Hit & Run offered a solution to the distinct lack of Grand Theft Auto's presence on the Nintendo GameCube. While not a racing game in the traditional sense, as virtually everyone who's heard about this game is well aware that it's a straight up copy of Grand Theft Auto, Hit & Run centers largely around the driving aspect of open world crime sandboxes thanks to the complete eradication of any actual violence. If you strip out everything except the vehicle based missions from Grand Theft Auto V, and insert the absolute best writers that have ever worked on an episode of The Simpsons, you receive a surprisingly competent product in Hit & Run.
With a campaign mode that featured an abundance of memorable missions, an overall plot that was as deep and interesting as some of the show's best twenty-two minute episodes, and a structurally sound open world package, Hit & Run was a seriously solid interactive version of Springfield that you could explore at your own free will. Given how popular The Simpsons had been as a television show in 2003, picking this one up was a no-brainer and fit in perfectly with the theme of licensed GameCube games.
#3 – Need for Speed: Underground
Yes, there were indeed a string of Need for Speed titles released for the Nintendo GameCube, but what most people don't tell you is that many of them suffered from design flaws or massive performance issues. Hot Pursuit 2, released a year earlier, was developed by EA Seattle and paled in comparison to the superior PS2 offering, while Underground's sequel included arguably more content at the cost of mammoth framerate problems which saw the title's score slide heavily on Gamespot.com. Future Need for Speed iterations on Nintendo's small purple box were met with a drastic decline in texture quality to maintain a base level of performance standards, meaning that 2003's Need for Speed: Underground is really the only entry in the NFS franchise that could be experienced in its full glory on the Nintendo GameCube.
Underground had been released at a time when the popularity and general absurdity of the Fast & the Furious franchise had skyrocketed to instant cult classic status, and the import tuner scene had been thrust into the spotlight. While not an officially licensed tie-in with the movies that inspired it, Underground was seen as the unofficial video game counterpart – and basically everybody knew why Need for Speed had suddenly dropped Ferrari's and Lamborghini's for Honda Civics and a robust customization feature.
However, as someone who's played through the game three times over the past thirteen years, it's not just the comprehensive customization element which catapults Underground into the number three spot. From a raw driving physics standpoint, Underground's controls are incredibly tight, and the track layouts were all somewhat memorable thanks to a reliance upon dedicated levels rather than the open world seen in the sequel. Despite appearing to be spontaneous street circuits, Black Box had crafted the circuit layouts in Underground by hand to ensure they were not a series of random corners, but flowed in a way which were enjoyable to drive, meaning you rarely had to rely on checking the map or smashing head-on into a wall to learn a circuit. Whether you were on the track, or in the garage menu, Underground was a solid game, and the simplicity of the racing element combined with the expansive car customization meta-game which capitalized on a new and exciting pop culture trend made for an easy purchase for Nintendo fans. Pretty much everybody with a GameCube owned, or at least tried, Need for Speed Underground.
#2 – Burnout 2: Point of Impact
Many credit Electronic Arts for helping to thrust the Burnout franchise into the limelight, but it's important to remember the series was once under the guidance of Acclaim Entertainment, and Criterion Games had been seen as underdogs tasked with pushing a relatively obscure racing game into a market dominated by Electronic Arts and the aforementioned Need for Speed franchise. While the yearly renditions of Need for Speed on the Nintendo GameCube obviously sold more copies, Burnout 2: Point of Impact was by far the better game. After a lukewarm reception to the original title – which attempted to experiment with cinematic car crashes when the player fucked up – Criterion jacked up the special effects and sense of speed for Burnout 2, creating a game that was both notoriously difficult to get right, and incredibly hilarious when you got it wrong.
Criterion knew people would intentionally want to see their revitalized damage model in all its glory for Burnout 2, so the team included a special Crash Mode in the sequel to their completely average arcade racer, allowing players to fling their sports car at an intersection full of traffic in an effort to cause the most damage possible. What was intended to be an otherwise goofy diversion from the main campaign mode turned into an extremely strategic high-speed chess match, captivating fans who had taken a risk on Burnout 2. As a result, word quickly spread that this was the best racing game for the Nintendo GameCube, and Criterion were eventually picked up by Electronic Arts once Acclaim Entertainment went bankrupt a few years later.
The quintessential high-speed arcade racer, which drew upon the sloppy handling of Daytona USA as inspiration while inserting an endless wave of commuter and commercial traffic to navigate through, Burnout 2's frantic battles, iconic knock-off vehicles, and vastly superior level design compared to the original, all contributed to the game being incredibly well-received by those looking for some kind of pick-up-and-play arcade racer that couldn't keep up with the pace of F-Zero GX. Burnout 2 was absolutely fucking crazy, and it's exactly what the Nintendo GameCube platform needed after it was clear Mario Kart Double Dash wouldn't have the lasting appeal of Mario Kart 64. You could give this game to virtually anyone, and a big smile would stretch across their faces the very first time they hopelessly smashed into a bus at 150 mph. It was that kind of game, and Criterion continued to make more of them for the next five years.
It's extremely difficult to gauge the quality of a Nintendo 64 game in 2016, as most of our collective opinions have been tinted by the fanciest set of nostalgia goggles imaginable. I'm one of those guys who continues to maintain a set of fifth generation emulators on my PC to revisit games that used to kick my ass when I was younger, and unfortunately I'm slowly starting to realize that a vast majority of titles on both the Nintendo 64, as well as Sony's original PlayStation, simply aren't as good as I remember them to be. Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing, is not one of those games. In fact, it's the one ROM worth re-installing Project64 for.
With the Nintendo 64 not adequately equipped to handle the performance requirements of a Need for Speed entry, and the audience far too broad for the market to support a traditional Cops vs. Racers approach, Electronic Arts changed their ideology when creating products for the Nintendo 64, opting to push well-made family-oriented driving games rather than an orgy of 90's supercars. Beetle Adventure Racing was a bit of a mixed bag, but Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing resonated with the audience, offering what's undoubtedly one of the best arcade racing experiences ever created for a Nintendo console. The vehicle roster was diverse and drew heavily from the fictional line of Hot Wheels toys rather than flavor-of-the-week replicas, locations were fine-tuned to include mammoth jumps and alternate shortcuts to capitalize on the unique capabilities of each specific car, and the physics engine actually made you wheel the damn thing.
Hot Wheels: Turbo Racing succeeded because the game used the Mattel license to reel people in, but was a ridiculous challenge once you hit the track and forced you to be a better driver. Each car had a very different set of handling characteristics, meaning a big, burly tow truck or jet semi required a significantly different driving style than an open wheel grand prix car or futuristic twin-engine monstrosity. Locations didn't cater to any specific vehicle on the roster, forcing players to make trade-offs and carefully plan their route around the circuit each lap, otherwise the AI would simply decimate them. Last, but most certainly not least, the game's basic physics engine allowed you to perform flips, rolls, and spins while flying through the air, rewarding a successful landing with brief shots of turbo – which was necessary to even remain competitive on the higher difficulties. Turbo Racing was an arcade racer at heart, but it didn't let you win in the way most arcade racers would. The packaging indicates Turbo Racing is a kids game, but make no mistake – it continuously tries to kick your ass.
And that's what Nintendo games used to be about. Not this shit.
Rest in piece, Nintendo. You were pretty cool at one point.


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Over the course of several months, I had a pleasure to work with two incredible families. The story, Big Brother, was a project that evolved overtime. Meeting Michael Rio and his son Ben, lead me to JoJo and his mother Michelle Dashosh. It's a story about two young men who supported each other in a time of need and then became friends. Without the openness of each person and their own dedication to this project, we simply wouldn't have succeeded.
I'm extremely grateful to these families as they treated me like I was a part of theirs. The time spent with them will always be remembered.
I'm also super thankful to the editors and producers of this project. Producer Arnold Miller, executive producer and editor Bobby Cassidy and editor Matthew Golub worked extremely hard together and with myself to produce this piece.
In August we entered Big Brother in the New York Emmy Awards contest. In February we received the great news that we had been nominated within the Human Interest category for an Emmy! In April, myself and many of my colleagues attended the NY Emmy Awards diner in New York City at the Marriott Marquis in Time Square. When it was time for our category, we were all anxiously waiting for the results. To hear our piece called out as a win was an incredible feeling. A very quick 20 sec speech and we were whisked off stage.
Unfortunately, it's impossible to thank everyone in 20 seconds, thus this post! The Rio's and Dashosh's, it was an honor to tell your story. My colleagues, thank you so much for your dedication. Last but not least, my wife, family and friends. You have always stood behind me. Without you, I'm confident I would not be where I'm at today. Thank you all very much! Chris…….


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Another interesting note is that the traditional readings for the Last Sunday of the year are very close to the First Sunday of the year - also reminding us of the Second Coming of Christ as we begin the season celebrating His First Coming - Advent.
It's time for my annual campaign too! This is NOT the Christmas season! Christmas begins with the First Mass of Christmas - the Midnight Mass - and lasts through Epiphany (more modern tradition) or through Candlemas (the more ancient tradition). Either way, the Christmas season begins ON Christmas Day. Advent, the season we enter this Sunday, is a time of penance and anticipation - and it is a similar season to Lent.
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Today we've almost completed the liturgical cycle, which starts over again with Advent next Sunday. Our focus now is on the Second Coming of Christ (the "Parousia"), the Last Judgment, and the Heavenly Jerusalem. Today's Mass readings will include the frightening "Olivet Discourse" (Matthew 24:15-35).
What does the Church teach about the Parousia? That Jesus will come in glory and unexpectedly and that no man knows when this will be. That when He comes, the bodies of the dead -- who've already been judged in what is called the "particular judgment" that takes place just after death -- will be raised and united with their souls. That all who have ever lived will be judged in what is called the "Last Judgment" which will happen in such a manner that everyone will know Who Christ is and that His judgments are just.
This world will be destroyed, and a new world will take its place. Christ will reign forever and ever with His saints.
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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth was gone, and the sea is now no more. And I John saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from the throne, saying: Behold the tabernacle of God with men, and He will dwell with them. And they shall be His people; and God Himself with them shall be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes: and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more, for the former things are passed away. And he that sat on the throne, said: Behold, I make all things new. And He said to me: Write, for these words are most faithful and true...
...And He showed me a river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree of life, bearing twelve fruits, yielding its fruits every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no curse any more; but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and his servants shall serve him. And they shall see His Face: and His Name shall be on their foreheads. And night shall be no more: and they shall not need the light of the lamp, nor the light of the sun, because the Lord God shall enlighten them, and they shall reign for ever and ever.
It is interesting that the readings from Matthew for today's Mass are almost duplicated in next week's Mass's readings from Luke 21:25-33. On the first Sunday of Advent, we hear again of the destruction of Jerusalem, but this time with an eye toward His Second Coming -- even as we ready ourselves to remember His First Coming at the Feast of the Nativity. The first and last Sundays of the year meet and together remind us to prepare.


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The Civil War was an exceedingly gripping battle for America. It was internal, on the home front, and involved the changing of opinions through non-physical means. Although there is a century gap between the America of today and the America of 1865, there is still a similar internal war. The only difference is that it is soundless, concealed, and making its way into the bloodstream of Uncle Sam. Unbeknownst to many citizens, we have unconsciously been making choices that lean us closer to our favored political party and then inflating our beliefs in it. It is a war of lifestyles as Bill Bishop explained in his novel, The Big Sort. Our political views have meshed so deeply into the fabric of our being that we now attribute our lifestyles to our political party.
As history has often shown, the birth and rising of new generations tend to cleanse away the sins of the past and offer hope for a new future. Bishop begins The Big Sort by providing examples of escalating hatred and violence due to political views. He shows that extreme political devotion can sever the bonds of community, friendship, and love through various examples. Have our values changed so much that we have redefined ourselves as member of a political party, rather than unique individuals in the microcosm we claim for ourselves? Or perhaps have we been facilitated into prioritizing our political party and inflating it into such a degree that we have left no room for our personal views? While speaking on "The Agenda of Steven Paikin", Bill Bishop mentions, "There is the psychological phenomena that happens when people live around people who do things the way they do. That is, they become more extreme in what they believe." There are actually three psychological effects that are occurring within this situation: group polarization, group think, and confirmation bias.
Group polarization is when these views escalate due to being surrounded by like minded people. Group think is when individuals become more cautious of stating alternate views since they do not want to disturb the harmony of the community. Lastly, confirmation bias is when individuals of like-mindedness only look for evidence and facts that support their claims. Thus, living in areas of similar Political values helps inflate all of these. Group polarization can be as small as becoming more religious in a Bible study group. It can also be incredibly damaging and assemble the support of like-minded individuals which may then escalate into the genocide of a culture, as was the case with the Holocaust. As was the case with the story of Gerald Daugherty in Bishop's novel. Daugherty did not want a light rail built in his neighborhood; however, the rest of his neighborhood did. The neighborhood then proceeded to wreck and egg his car.
Group think is equally as damaging, because it deteriorates any chances of individualization. It is impressively forceful and it can ruin any chance of moderate opinions or views. Recently, Samuel Jackson was part of an advertisement endorsing Obama. With inflamed language and aggressive tactics, he forcefully tells the audience that they should vote for Obama. Especially with the higher approval rating for Obama, most people are likely to vote for him- even if they do not agree with him. This flamboyant ad only adds to the conformity of people.
One of the other key psychological aspects to this political division in communities is confirmation bias. In a large portion of Bishop's first chapter he speaks about how polarization may not even exist. At one point, he speaks of a skewed study done- this study portrays the abortion options as "very pro life" or "pro choice", by doing so it creates this illusion of polarization and creates intense party identification. In a recent interview with Frank Gonzalez, he spoke of the importance of maintaining unbiased studies and being very cautious of language and how the study is performed. It is incredibly difficult to measure qualitative beliefs and thus the empirical nature is hard to measure. Through these various psychological means, there is plenty of room for the divisions within locations to intensify.
As stated earlier, this new division is sly and quiet- creeping through the bloodstream of America. However, it is not just a political division. As Steve Paikin notes it is political, geographical, and religious. He references the obvious- that geographically there are divisions with politics. During Bishop's interview with Jon Stewart, he states that there is one easy way to tell a Democrat from a Republican. He states that the closer people are, the more likely they are to be Democratic. The farther they are, the more likely they are to be Republican. Simply speaking- people living in rural areas, outside of the city or away from the metropolitan buzz are more likely to lean towards safe values of the Republican nature. Whereas, individuals who enjoy the fast paced life of communities will tend to enjoy and culminate Democratic values. The last division that surprisingly illustrates political beliefs are religious. This is slightly ironic, considering that (in accordance to the studies done by marketing firms in 2006) Democrats dislike mixing religion and politics. Bishop refers to this as the "Church Growth Theory" stating that churches tend to build themselves in proper political environments. For example, the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska has a larger congregation population and has a larger amount of churches in the area in comparison to the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois- that includes the metropolitan Chicago area. The Dioceses of Lincoln has 588 thousand congregation members, whereas the Diocese of Joliet has around 655 thousand congregation members. Despite the Diocese of Joliet having the large Chicago population, Lincoln still has a very close population to it. This can be due to the slightly more overall Republican nature of Nebraska. Whereas, the Chicago area is primarily Democratic thus causing Illinois to be a swing-state, but primarily democratic. In the areas of spirituality, even politics has managed to creep into the full being of the United States.
The question that is now posed is how do we identify ourselves. Can we simply be measured, quantified, personified, and determined by our political party? Is it really as red and blue as the world portrays it to be? I believe that we all start out our lives with a blank slate, 'tabula rasa', and that over time we begin to accumulate certain views and opinions. These views are typically a byproduct of our environment, as well. If politics has now built a foundation in matters of religion, geography, and cultural views- are we ever really safe? Will there always be a division in our lives and lifestyles? For values, beliefs, and political messages so deeply hidden within the maze of our life- is it really possible to ever leave the game?
For more information on Bill Bishop's The Big Sort