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In some ways, northern New Mexico is ahead of other regions in building local community resilience under increasingly difficult environmental conditions. Drought is a familiar circumstance. The city of Santa Fe has one of the lowest per-capita water-use rates in the nation. But much more than water conservation is involved in local resilience.
Overdependence on the national economy infusing cash into the local economy through tourism, art sales and ancillary commerce may be a risky business emphasis as climate disruption intensifies. [1] As with agricultural monoculture, overreliance on one product line always carries risk. Not much high-end art-market and tourism money trickles down to support communities outside the old Santa Fe city center. The service-labor sector supporting these businesses is generally low-wage, even though Santa Fe's minimum wage is higher than most. Affordable housing is in very short supply, and there is no significant high-wage industry in the area.
Global Crisis, Local Action
Looking forward, under conditions of increasing climate disturbances, all economic activities must be examined through the lens of local energy flows among humans and their environments to foster ecological sustainability. Northern New Mexico communities need resilient living economies enhanced by the region's cultural traditions and integrated with the regional ecosystems. Sustainable local economies must minimize dependence upon outside economic systems and forces such as heavily carbon-emitting, international trade-based economies. Part of the larger problem of mitigating climate destabilization is that local resilience will be increasingly difficult to achieve and maintain. Massive reductions in total planetary carbon emissions, which in turn depend on transforming national and international industrial systems worldwide, are necessary. Adaptation without mitigation is collective suicide, not resilience. By turning away from excessive consumption of high-emissions production, local communities can help reduce total emissions.
To say that local economies must increasingly rely on local production and consumption to be sustainable has almost become a cliché among many environmentalists. Clichés are often overstated truths not necessarily acted upon. As the converging global crises of climate, economy and energy intensify, national and global economies grow increasingly less stable. These instabilities will directly affect local communities. To face this reality, we must build largely independent, resilient communities and regions. That must extend to mitigating the destructive effects of profligate extraction-production-consumption-waste.
How can such deep resilience be accomplished? So far, symbolic imagery and gestures, as well as a lot of commercial "greenwashing," merely feel good to the inattentive. But they also distract from the hard policy choices facing humanity. Tim DeChristopher and Naomi Klein have both illuminated the failure of Big Green organizations to achieve significant environmental goals by trading cosmetic corporate changes for generous donations.[2] Invoking a cosmetic language of sustainability is counterproductive; it trades in illusion. We know deep down that we must reorganize our lives in exceptionally challenging ways for our communities to become truly resilient. That reorganization will be a venture into new territory, barely now begun, which is why I think of it as the Next Great Transformation. [3]
Critics of climate action and the sustainability movement, even some big environmental groups, still imagine a "green" prosperity driven by international trade and perpetual economic growth. This is an illusory "greening" of ever-growing energy use, consumption and waste. This assumption is a major impediment to realistic climate policy, both nationally and locally. Cultural dominance of the growth ideology via corporate media control sustains the illusion that climate action can be contained within the growth economy. The deeper illusion is that the collapsing global political-economic system can somehow be repaired without disturbing "my lifestyle." Illusory technological fixes via "market solutions"—the disaster that is "carbon trading" or the hubris-laden "geo-engineering" fantasy—contribute to the deeper denial of today's climate crisis. These business-as-usual illusions implicitly deny the hard facts of a destabilizing earth-systems complex while aiming at patching fragments of the destabilization, as if it were enough.
Most New Mexicans, like other Americans, retain change-denying consumer fantasies. An obvious example is the many overpowered pickup trucks driving at excessive highway speeds, spewing carbon across the high desert into our still blue skies. Parking lots of big-box stores remain crowded. How much of the stuff manufactured on the other side of the planet do we really need, compared to what we actually buy? The new Walmart Superstore at the south end of Santa Fe ominously promotes corporate consumerism and drives out local retailers. Importantly, the Slow Food, Slow Money, and public banking movements are taking root, but they remain much too small. Far more development of these and other cooperative movements is desperately needed.
From Corporate Dependency to Community Resilience
A burgeoning local, organic farming industry in northern New Mexico struggles to mature in the sparse high-desert valleys. The Santa Fe Farmers' Market is quite popular among residents for whom price is not so important. Yet Santa Fe's only serious attempt at urban agriculture, Gaia Gardens, has been unable, according to its operators, to survive burdensome zoning rules and neighbor complaints. City support for urban agriculture has not yet been implemented. Urban farming is growing rapidly in both size and popularity in Detroit, Los Angeles, New York and elsewhere. How accurate are pretensions to sustainability in northern New Mexico?
Much of New Mexican agriculture, especially in the southern parts of the state, remains oriented to national markets, not diverse local-regional needs. Local communities still mostly depend on energy-intensive national and international food distribution. Meanwhile, California's ongoing drought damages production by the nation's main suppliers of vegetables, fruits and nuts. The United States depends on California's factory farms for over 90 percent of many staple food crops. Yet powerful agricultural businesses continue old, wasteful, water-usage practices, amplifying the risks of depending on agribusiness for our food supply. Water allocations continue to be made on contractual seniority rather than conservation and need; farmers are being asked to conserve far less than much smaller users in cities. As industrial agriculture begins to falter, New Mexicans, like most Americans, continue buying food produced far away. Long-distance transportation is a significant source of carbon emissions that threatens community resiliency around the world.
The vast majority of U.S. grain and feed crops are produced by giant Midwestern factory farms. The sustainability of large-scale industrial agriculture is increasingly tenuous as soils are depleted, water tables subside, and oil and gas fracking threaten major aquifers. Systems science confirms that large complex systems are inherently vulnerable to catastrophic breakdowns when disturbed by the introduction of new conditions. Unlike airline and aerospace mission-critical systems, our increasingly complex fossil-fuel-dependent food-production systems provide no fail-safe redundancy. Yet, with evermore plastic packaging, fossil-fuel intensity and long-distance transportation, they contribute to their own destabilization.
Continued dependency of industrial nations on energy-intensive, agricultural megasystems puts us all at high risk. But could northern New Mexico lands actually support their current population as national factory-food supplies falter? That urgent scientific question is neither asked nor answered in public. The question of carrying capacity has not been adequately developed for human populations as it has by ecologists for other species in nonhuman-influenced, relatively isolated ecosystems.
No mere industrial technology can save us from drought conditions that may become far worse than those that defeated the much smaller populations of ancestral Puebloans. Modern organic farming is as productive as it gets. On the other hand, new scientific applications and modifications of diverse older and existing less energy-intensive technologies can realistically adapt to severe climate conditions. Remember E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful? It still is. Also, many mostly forgotten technologies from the dawn of the industrial revolution do not rely on fossil-fuel energy but rather on skilled human work. Many of these could be resurrected and given modern refinements.
Real estate developers continue to press for new residential and commercial projects, adding pressure to dwindling water sources. Santa Fe County's Sustainable Growth Management Plan retains "growth" as a core value despite the high probability that growth itself is not sustainable beyond the very short-term. The Plan and the Sustainable Land Development Code are riddled with references to "sustainability," but neither addresses the natural limits to growth in northern New Mexico. The fundamental ecological concept of carrying capacity never enters the vocabulary of land development—it's a developer's world.
Local political cultures hold to the faltering, international corporate ideology of extractive capital and endless economic growth. Local people's response to climate change must reinvent the political culture if resilience in the face of climate disruption is to be achieved. Many new energy-efficient building designs have been developed in recent years, some approaching 100 percent energy-efficiency; a few are actually being implemented. However, new construction is a tiny fraction of the approximately 40 percent of total emissions attributable to the "built environment." A massive program of insulation and weather stripping would do far more to reduce carbon emissions than is possible from new designs for new construction. Priorities must be set. Local political focus on minor factors would be deadly.
Climate forecasters predict that near-term total precipitation may not be extremely low in northern New Mexico. But with rising temperatures, moderate snowpack and early snowmelt, premature runoff results in less usable water. In the hotter climate, evaporation causes huge amounts of water loss. The delicate balance of use between groundwater and surface water will be increasingly difficult to maintain. Extreme storms with sudden downpours result in flash floods, not greater reservoir reserves. This year's spring and summer rains produced extra fuel for wildfires but added little to usable water supplies.
Climate disruption we now experience was caused by carbon emissions the industrial nations have produced since the dawn of the Industrial Age two centuries ago. It is cumulative and accelerating. Worse yet, its effects lag behind its causes, making the nastiest effects seem far off as they rapidly approach. That, combined with the pervasive corporate ideology of growth, breeds complacency. The climate crisis is already here. The only viable mitigating response is to drastically reduce further emissions to stave off far worse climate catastrophe than is already in the pipeline. Attempting to merely adapt to climate disruption would be suicidal. Almost everywhere, increasingly extreme measures will have to be taken to give relatively stable communities a chance.
The science is solid but lagging. In each successive report, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) forecasts have consistently underestimated actual climate disruption. IPCC reports synthesize the work of hundreds of scientists with diverse specialties from all over the world, making deniers' conspiracy theories laughable. The reports have been extremely valuable. Yet the economic and social implications of their specific findings are politically resisted. Clearly, we cannot rely on rationality among national or international politicians. Neither can we wait for them to take the drastic measures necessary to avert the catastrophic convergence of climate disruption, poverty and violence around the world. [4] Unfortunately, political incentives and lobbyists point politicians in exactly the wrong direction. We have far better chances to initiate economic, political and social climate action to maximize resilience of local communities as climate disturbances continue.
Resistance, Replacement and Resilience
The accelerating climate crisis requires massive mobilization of populations to take back control of our lives through resistance, replacement and resilience. Small groups of people around the world have begun to resist the pressures of the hyperconsumer culture and the damage inflicted on their lands and waters by extractive industries. Extreme fossil-fuel and materials extraction methods in risky remote Arctic and deep-sea locations disrupt human habitats and climate. Yet, large majorities fail to "just say no" to the big-box stores.
More and more resisters are trying to replace corporate dependency with a "parallel lifestyle," [5] focusing on maximizing energy efficiency and reducing waste and dependence on fossil fuels. Resisters are building their local economies, producing and buying locally, reducing excess consumption, buying only low-ecological-impact products and forming co-ops and resilient community institutions. These movements are small, but they must grow rapidly. It is a race against time.
Replacement of corporate dependency with sustainable-community economic interdependence in harmony with living-earth systems requires a new vision. Local communities must forge new ways, adapting some indigenous old ways to transform our relations with the Earth. We must work with—instead of against—the Earth systems upon which we ultimately depend. [6] It takes community creativity to replace corporate-driven consumerism.
Resilience is not merely adapting to climate chaos. It comes from creating viable, living local economies not dependent on the corporate global economy. Local community economies must adapt to the increasingly difficult environments. Most important, we must replace the culture of industrial products with a culture of self-sufficient community economics. The most resilient and self-sufficient local communities will be better able to respond to increasingly severe climate conditions and maybe even fend off extreme climate chaos. They will contribute most to minimizing further global warming and its catastrophic consequences by resisting corporate consumerism and replacing it with local production of necessary products and services. No small task.
These are the first principles of the New Great Transformation that must happen in the next decade to foster human survival by recapturing the economic sovereignty of human populations. The megacorporations and financial elites control the global economy, transcending location and nation. We need just the opposite. The only power we have left is what they cannot take away: the peoples' power to organize ourselves where we live by resisting, replacing and becoming resilient.
Our greatest challenges are to recognize that our personal and cultural ways of living must change, figure out how to change them and act together, where we live. Taking back control requires resistance to corporate domination, replacement of the consumer culture of waste and creating community resilience by acting and organizing in harmony with the living Earth systems we inhabit.
Only when many communities around the world take these actions can the profligate plundering of Earth's resources and people be slowed. We must act where we live, right here in northern New Mexico. Earth-integrated local-community resilience must replace the corporate-consumer culture. Then, a powerful social movement will have already arisen from civil society. That global pattern of local movements will force governments around the world to transform growth economics and slow carbon emissions so human survival may persist.
_________[1] NASA expects increasingly severe droughts in the Southwest and central Great Plains, exacerbated by continued global warming. See Mark Fischetti, "U.S. Droughts Will Be the Worst in 1000 Years: The Southwest and central Great Plains will dry out even more than previously thought." Scientific American, February 12, 2015. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/u-s-droughts-will-be-the-worst-in-1-000-years1/ [2] Tim DeChristopher, in a talk at Santa Fe's Lensic Theater a few years ago, discussed at length the failure of Big Green organizations to achieve significant environmental goals by obtaining cosmetic changes in corporate behavior, in exchange for big donations from the corporations that co-opted them. Chapter 6 of Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (New York: Simon & Schuster 2014) details numerous examples of the environmental and political cost of what she terms the "merger of Big Business and Big Green." [3] Karl Polanyi explained the great transformation that was the industrial revolution in his book, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of our Time, in 1944. Many of the concerns he expressed about the trajectory of unfettered industrial capital have come to pass. Only a new great transformation can overcome the resulting destructive trends that are leading to the collapse of climate stability, along with that of economic and social systems (see note 4). [4] The "catastrophic convergence of poverty, violence and climate change" across the latitudes most vulnerable to early extreme weather events, mostly near the equator, is well under way and is thoroughly documented by Christian Parenti in Tropic of Chaos: Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence (New York: Nation Books, 2011). The growing international struggles for control of rapidly diminishing resources, from fossil-fuel and basic-metals deposits in increasingly remote and difficult locations, such as the Arctic and ocean floors, to rare earths and other critical minerals needed for high-tech manufacturing, to arable land for food production, is documented by Michael T. Klare in The Race for What's Left: The Global Scramble for the World's Last Resources (New York: Picador, 2012). [5] A new website, www.aparallelworld.com, recently launched from Santa Fe, is designed to provide consumers who want to replace fossil-fuel-intensive products with low-emissions, energy-efficient goods and services with information and referrals on local products and businesses consistent with a resilient lifestyle. [6] To shape a living economy in support of resilient communities, a lot of good ideas are offered by David Korten in Change the Story, Change the Future: A Living Economy for a Living Earth. (Oakland, Calif. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2015). What we need most now is creative local strategies to implement such ideas. Santa Fean Courtney White, co-founder of the Quivira Coalition, offers 50 suggestions—particularly useful in northern New Mexico—for actions to sequester carbon using low-tech natural techniques and to restore local/regional ecosystems, in his new book, Two Percent Solutions for the Planet: 50 Low-Cost, Low-Tech, Nature-Based Practices for Combating Hunger, Drought, and Climate Change (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2015).
Photo credit: The Quivara Coalition website.


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About Seth
June 26th, 2011
My name is Seth Thomas. I live in Brooklyn and I work at a digital design firm called Huge. Though I make my living as an interactive designer, Brian Eno would say that interactive is just another word for unfinished. I like creating for the Internet because all these screens represent an interactive experience with no end in sight. The whole world is <3ing, FAILing, and LMFAOing its contents every minute of every day.
Physical Affection is one of my contributions to this babel.
Here are some others:

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NBA Playoffs Preview: Cavaliers vs. Raptors
The Cleveland Cavaliers and Toronto Raptors were both tested in the opening round of the NBA playoffs. Of course, those mean vastly different things.
The Cavaliers, despite finding themselves in close games and needing some historic comebacks, swept the Indiana Pacers. The Raptors needed six games to fend off the feisty Milwaukee Bucks.
By net rating, the Bucks (+0.6) were better than the Pacers (-0.1) in the regular season, but neither team was significantly above or below average. The Raptors (+4.9) were the fourth-best squad this season by net rating, and the Cavaliers (+2.9) were eighth in the NBA.
That led to a better nERD rating for the Raptors this season, as well, and our metrics graded out Toronto as the best team in the East this season and the third best in the NBA.
Will it matter in this series?
Cleveland Cavaliers (2)
Record: 51-31
nERD: 59.0
Championship Odds: 8.2%
Toronto Raptors (3)
Record: 51-31
nERD: 65.1
Championship Odds: 11.0%
Regular Season Series - Cavaliers 3, Raptors 1
The Cavs took three of the four games in this regular season series, the first coming on the second day of the season.
The Cavaliers topped the Raptors in Toronto 94-91 and saw big performances from the usual suspects. LeBron James had 21 points, 8 rebounds, and 7 assists. Kyrie Irving had 26 points (on 23 field goal attempts, though) with 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Kevin Love scored 18 and added 10 boards.
For the Raps, DeMar DeRozan scored 32 points (on 28 field goal attempts) and had 7 boards. Kyle Lowry poured in 17 points but had more turnovers (6) than assists (4). The only other Raptor to score double-digit points was Jonas Valanciunas, who finished with a plus/minus of -11 -- in a close game.
On November 15th, the game played more like what the Cavaliers have become accustomed to: a 121-117 win. James turned in a 28-point, 9-rebound, 15-assist showcase, and Channing Frye chipped in five threes from the bench. For Toronto, Terrence Ross, now with the Orlando Magic, had 18 points of his own off the bench. The Raptors won the turnover battle 17-8 but couldn't overcome Cleveland's offense.
Cleveland won again in Toronto on December 5th 116-112. Frye had 10 but was the only Cavalier to score more than 6 other than James (34), Love (28), and Irving (24).
The Raptors were similarly one-sided, with Lowry scoring 24 and DeRozan leading the team with 31. Ross had 14, and Patrick Patterson had 12 off the bench, but the three other starters for Toronto all had plus/minus marks worse than 10. DeMarre Carroll was -11, Valanciunas was -16, and Pascal Siakam was -21.
We can finally lead off with the Raptors here in the fourth matchup of the season, a 98-83 win in Cleveland on April 12th, the final day of the regular season. Toronto posted an offensive rating of 111.1 to Cleveland's 94.1 and dominated the offensive glass (27.3% to 21.7%) and turnover battles (7.9% to 14.8%). And they did it all without DeRozan, who missed the game with an illness.
The catch, of course, is that James, Irving, and Love all sat out in this game.
How the Cavaliers Can Win
Let's just say that limiting turnovers should be on the whiteboard for Tyronn Lue and the Cavaliers. Even if we throw out the final game between the two teams this regular season, the Cavaliers had a turnover rate of 17.1% against the Raptors. Their full season rate was 13.7%, 12th-best, but the 17.1% rate would have been a league-worst mark.
The Raptors aren't a team that relies on transition points, but they are efficient when given the chance, grading out in the 75th percentile in terms of points per possession in the regular season. Even if the turnovers don't lead to fast breaks, giving the Raptors -- 6th in offensive rating on the season -- extra chances against this weak defense could be a huge headache for the Cavaliers.
Cavaliers Player to Watch - LeBron James
Ideally, we'd go elsewhere with this, but it's quite absurd how much this team -- even with Irving and Love -- relies on James. According to Basketball-Reference, the Cavaliers' offense played 14.7 points per 100 possessions better with James than without him (118.4 to 103.7) in the regular season. In the opening round, they scored 117.8 points per 100 with James and 109.7 without him.
Defensively, the Cavaliers' defensive rating jumped 2.3 points without James (to 112.3 from 110.0 with him) in the regular season. Cleveland posted a 112.3 defensive rating in 130 minutes with James against the Pacers in the opening round. Without him for 14 minutes, they allowed 135.7 points per 100.
James played 90% of the minutes during the sweep, and the volume he can handle could determine the series.
How the Raptors Can Win
We can only discuss the Cavaliers' defense so many times, but that's still something they need to figure out and that the Raptors can exploit. Cleveland allowed 111.0 points per 100 possessions to Indiana in the opening round, the fourth-worst defensive rating among the 16 playoff teams.
One way that Toronto can attack is the pick and roll. The Cavaliers allowed 0.89 points per possession to ball handlers in the pick and roll this season, fifth-highest in the NBA. The Raptors scored 0.95 points per possession on those plays, tied for best in the league. No team ran the play more frequently (24.2%) than Toronto, either.
The Bucks defended the play well, though, giving up just 0.83 points per possession in pick and roll ball handler situations against Toronto in Round 1. The Cavs were torched by the Pacers in the first round, allowing 1.08 points per possession to ball handlers on the play.
Raptors Player to Watch - Norman Powell
Norman Powell entered Toronto's starting lineup in Game 3 against the Bucks, and that sparked a turnaround. The team played substantially better with Powell on the court in the opening series, and he, too, can get buckets via the pick and roll.
In the regular season, Powell was the ball handler on a pick and roll 28.4% of his possessions and scored 0.97 points per play, putting him in the 84th percentile in the league.
DeRozan (40.9%, 0.97, 84th percentile) and Lowry (39.1%, 1.05, 95th percentile) excel there, as well, and even Delon Wright (47.0%, 0.91, 76th percentile) and Cory Joseph (45.1%, 0.80, 50th percentile) could make a difference if they get minutes.
Powell's impact against Cleveland will depend on head coach Dwane Casey's rotation. Powell probably can't start alongside Lowry and DeRozan (one of the three would have to guard James), but he certainly can sway the series in different ways. Powell might not be the real difference maker, but he'll be someone to watch for so that we can figure out what the Raptors' initial, preferred rotation might be.
Series Prediction
The Raptors were the better team this season, over a full, 82-game sample. Cleveland played like a .500 team during the second half of the season, and the Raptors maintained efficiency even without Kyle Lowry for a stretch.
Still, they haven't gotten the better of Cleveland head-to-head this season, and they have no answer for a locked-in LeBron James, who can play nearly every minute of a series.
According to our algorithms: Raptors are 52.94% favorites.
My final prediction: Cavaliers in six.


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JESSE (Damage Control, #2) COVER REVEAL
New Adult contemporary romance
by Jo Raven
New Adult contemporary romance
by Jo Raven
Cover by Jo Raven
Model: Francis Clément
Photographer: Sara Eirew
RELEASE DATE: Late June/Beginning of July 2015
Returning to Madison hurts. I thought Id left my past behind, but the past goes on living. I carry it inside of me, its a piece of me. People have marked me in indelible ways and I drag the shreds of my soul behind me, trying to put my pieces back together. Im not the Amber I used to be. I fly under the radar, try to be invisible.
It doesn't always work. Drawing attention scares me. It always spells trouble. Returning to my home town is a last ditch effort to lay my demons to rest and start anew, for good this time.
Meeting Jesse Lee wasnt in the plan. Yet here he is with his heart-stopping, sexy grin, handsome like a god, shining bright. Hes full of life, full of heat, packing the energy of a thousand suns in his gaze and muscular body. Jesse burns, and the pain of being near him is sweet.
But hes foiling my plans. Its hard to remain a ghost when hes around. Hard to avoid his attention, to remain invisible. He sees me, really sees me, and behind his bright radiance, I can see shadows from his own past crowding in. Hes swimming hard to stay afloat even as he reaches for me.
What is he afraid of? And how can he save me from drowning when he cant even save himself?
I turn on him, hands on my hips. What do you want?
That sounds like a trick question. He winks.
Does it? You barged in here and you think asking you what you want is a trick question?
Hey now. I didnt barge in here. You opened the door. He lifts his hands much like Kayla did. I think I scare people.
Good. Better them than me.
Youre an ass.
He grins. And a fine one, too.
Oh dear God. You're a dick.
He nods solemnly, but his eyes dip to my cleavage and darken to forest green. A big, big dick.
Crap, I walked right into this one, didnt I? Of course, Ive always had trouble recognizing plays on words and jokes. I should be upset. Hes teasing me, and teasing, in my book, is a prelude to hurting me.
But the smile lingering on his full lips takes the sting away, and whats more, its hot. Way too hot. Heat rushes to my face, flames licking my cheeks, and a pulse starts between my legs.
This is so not happening. Stop being such a jerk.
You say that affectionately. Hes somehow moved closer to me while I was busy self-combusting and his scent engulfs me, something hot, spicy and heady like mulled wine. Like that pet name you gave me.
What? I stare at the dark brows over his intense eyes, the faint stubble on that square jaw, that mouth and Oh God. Ive lost the thread. I tear my gaze from his face, glancing down at his bare arms. One of them is heavily inked with swirling colors and a snake.
A cobra, I think, done in red and green, curling on his thick bicep. And underneath the riot of colored ink swathing his arm from shoulder to wrist, faint crisscrossing lines catch my eyes, some thin and some thick, dark and raised.
His voice startles me. This place sure looks different when its not full of people.
Like what, empty?
He chuckles, warm and delicious like a treacle of melted hot chocolate. Like, nice.
Although theres no blonde wrapped around you and no sucking involved?
He chokes and bends over hacking.
You He shakes his head as he straightens, and wipes his mouth on the back of his hand. Shit.
Yeah, Im not only antisocial, I also dont have any control over my mouth. Double whammy. Who wouldnt want to be around me?
So what do you want? Might as well get this over with so we can both go on our separate ways he, back to his blonde and the sucking, and me, to my room and my beads.
He flinches, a barely there twitch that has me wondering if I even saw it. I lost something. A leather wrist band. I cant find it since the party here, and I thought to ask in case you saw it anywhere.
I remember seeing the band on his arm that night. It was an old thing, wasnt it? Old, worn and starting to fray.
Its He rubs his forehead, frowning. Its important to me.
Hes been an ass. Sort of. Hes been pushy. Kind of. He scares me.
But the uncertainty is back in his eyes, and now I know I didnt imagine it. And although Im not sure what to do with it, this glimpse beneath the sunny surface that defines Jesse Lee, I wish I wish I could. I wish I had the courage to prod and break the brittle skin, the scab over a wound I can only guess at.
I havent seen it, I say, and his jaw tightens. This bracelet really seems important to him. But Ill look around. Were still cleaning after the party from hell.
Thanks. His mouth quirks. He shifts back and leans against the wall, and I try hard not to notice how good he looks in a faded green T-shirt and low-slung dark jeans, not to stare at the bulge between his legs.
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I came across this very interesting art piece, by way of Kottke's website. It upset me.
First of all, this guy is essentially ripping off Walker Evans. Walker did it better, far better, and he did it seventy friggin' years ago. But there's more to this story.
The Walker Evans photos from his 1938 project are really haunting because they were taken with a hidden camera; they capture the very souls of New Yorkers trying to endure the daily grind of city life. These Bill Sullivan photos are more in the "caught on camera" vein, which is a little more obvious -- more supermarket tabloid work than photographic art, and it annoys me that this is being peddled as the latter.
But the really disturbing thing is that all the people in the Sullivan piece look either really tired, really pissed off, really harried, or some combination of the three (Except for the dude walking through the turnstile with a brand new pair of Skyway TuffWheels (and you can't help but feel happy for that guy (where in the hell did he find those gems, anyway?))).
Those turnstile photos reminded me of my life as a New Jerseyite commuting to Manhattan every day, and my daily experiences ebbing and flowing amidst the many different kinds of wildlife calling New York City home. Honestly, in retrospect, I hated it, and these photos illustrate quite well the mood of the average New Yorker: the "what are you lookin' at", the "ugh", the I can't take much more of this", the "why am I doing this", the "there's got to be something better"; the "go fuck yourself".
Well, after a year and a half of living 2,000 miles from New York City, I can say that there is something better, and that I wouldn't trade this for the world, despite all the goddamned snow.


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I was browsing the shelves of Libreria Toletta in Venice, Italy, when this book caught my eye. Truth be told, I wasn't keen on picking up another young adult novel just then, but there it was — beautiful cover and all. And I'm really glad I picked it up because it was a splendid read.
Louvric writes with lovely detail, filling the pages with mystery and wonder. Since I was in Venice for the winter holidays, it was a cold and foggy Venice for most of my visit — shrouded in a thick fog at night with cold mists blowing in around mid-afternoon. In other words, it was perfect for a good tale of murder and villainy in the floating city. And that's exactly what The Undrowned Child delivered: two lovable child-protagonists who find themselves swept along in a sinister plot to destroy the beautiful city.
Interestingly enough, I think this was my first-ever foray into the genre of young-adult-fantasy-historical-fiction. There were mermaids and monsters right alongside historical figures (the Butcher Biasio, for one), which made it a great book to read while in Venice — especially since Louvric included two appendices: one explaning what was based on fact and what was altered for the fiction, and one highlighting the locations in the novel that you can still visit in the city today.
I'm not sure how much more perfect this book could have been for this particular reader on this particular trip, but I'd still recommend it heartily to anyone looking for an imaginative and compelling read.


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Stephen Burroughs is a writer, Humane Society volunteer, and lifelong dog-lover. His best friend and benevolent overlord is a Miniature Pinscher named Herschel. Stephen writes for Havahart, which specializes in a variety of dog doors.
The holidays are stressful, and after we survive all of that stress we usually feel bad about ourselves when it's all done. We chide ourselves for eating too much good food, for having too many adult beverages and scold ourselves at how much money we spent. We're stressed the whole time, we enjoy ourselves for a few moments, and then we're back to stressing out/hating ourselves. For us, a few extra pounds aren't the end of the world. We can work dutifully and get back to where we were before the most wonderful time of the year. Unfortunately, our dogs also tend to gain weight during the holidays and it's hard for them to shed those extra pounds without our help.
How It Happens
We work hard during the holidays. We spend time wrapping presents, shopping, cooking and hanging out with relatives we don't see more than a few times a year. That means we also spend less time with our dogs. To make up for that, we tend to feed them a little bit more off of our plates. They get extra portions of our holiday feasts, which packs on the pounds quickly. I'm not immune from this either—I keep a careful mental list of which human foods to never feed Herschel (my Min Pin), but I have moments of weakness where I feed him something that he can reasonably get away with eating. I did it more than once this holiday season because I felt bad for him.
Herschel ended up gaining almost a third of a pound—that's a ton for such a little guy!
How We Can Reverse the Curse
According to PetObesityPrevention.com, approximately 45% of American pets are overweight or obese. That's a rough road to travel down, and it can start once we overfeed our furry friends during the holidays. Health is all about habits, and if we start picking up bad pet-related habits, we'll likely keep them up. Remember that our dogs might have the best intentions in the world—they just need our help when it comes to structure and their daily routine.
It's 2013 now and the holidays are over. I can't exactly say "Quick, get in your time machine and stop your past self from giving your pet too many holiday treats and human food!"
We can only deal with the future. The solution, it turns out, is actually pretty easy. For a few weeks, just feed your dog a few less pieces of kibble. Don't starve him by any means, just pour a bit less than you usually do. During that time, take the opportunity to go on a brisk half hour walk with your dog every day (every day you possibly can, anyway). You'll both shed some holiday pounds—though don't be surprised if your dog gets slim and trim more quickly than you do!
How to Prevent it Next Time
This is going to sound crazy, but to prevent the pet weight gain next holiday season the first step is to dial down the empathy. We all feel bad when we don't get as much tennis ball time in with our dog because we had to spend a few hours shopping or making that one casserole everyone politely takes a few small bites of and never finishes. When we start feeling too empathetic (and even guilty), we over-indulge our pets. We feed them way too many holiday dog treats and too much people food. We have to hold back and realize that we can make up the lost time in other ways.
When we do give our pets a little holiday treat, we should focus on crunchy veggies and lean meats. Anything deep fried, buttery or overly oily is pretty much a no. We also need to exercise portion control. Our dogs are seemingly bottomless pits; they're quite a bit smaller than us so we need to plan accordingly when giving them a morsel. Just because they can eat an entire salmon steak in 10 seconds doesn't mean we should give them one—a few little pieces are more than enough. Your dog will still be super excited to receive the gift of people food, but he won't have the extra pounds that traditionally go along with it. In this case, we don't want a gift that keeps on giving. The gifts that overindulging your dog during the holidays give are the following: weight gain, diabetes, heart problems and other life-threatening illnesses.
I haven't seen Herschel's weight since the vet recorded it a couple of days ago, but I'm determined to get him back down to where he was before this whole crazy holiday thing started. Our morning walks are cold, but they're worth it. Even if the lure of a warm bed or couch are strong, we both feel better after a trot around the park every morning. He also doesn't seem to notice I'm feeding him just a tiny bit less—but to be honest, I don't think Herschel will ever think any amount of food is enough. He's basically grumpy no matter what, but I'd rather have a healthy grump than a grump that I've gotten in the habit of overfeeding and under-exercising.
The holidays have come and gone. All we can do now is work to undo the damage we've done and give our dogs better options the next time the season comes around. Oh—we could stand to beat ourselves up about it a little less, too. An extra half pound isn't the end of the world and our dogs will forgive us, so let's just do better next time.


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Homemade bread
I was feeling out of sorts today and wasn't really excited to do anything, like I usually am. Didn't want to read, bake, or write "" three things that usually give me much joy. The day stretched before me like the ringing peals of a bell "" each feeling of boredom longer than the last. Sigh. Somebody stop me. When I get this way, I can wax melodramatic about it forever.
So I pushed myself into the kitchen. I wasn't in the mood for anything sweet (!) so I thought I'd make some bread. I'd been neglecting my baking for a long while now, and I blame the past summer heat for that. Now that the rains are here, being in the kitchen isn't a sweltering tour of duty anymore. Besides, I'm sure all that kneading and pounding would help me release some aggression.
I've already mentioned that bread is my most favorite food in the whole world. I like all sorts of breads, even the Wonder Bread/Pullman loaf types. I prefer soft breads as opposed to the crunchy, artisan loaves that take three days to make. I'm no bread snob, and frankly, I only work with all-purpose flour when making breads. I used to flirt with whole-wheat flour but it's hell to knead (so sticky!) and the bread would always come out heavy. No one at home would touch the stuff, and I live in a household where an empty breadbox is a tragedy.
There's nothing to it, really, this business of making bread. I let my KitchenAid do all the mixing and then I knead the dough by hand on my Silpat mat, which as a pastry chef once told me, "…is the best thing since breathing." I taught a bread class once, and I feel that bread-making is not something that can easily be taught. You develop your own style and you discover that touching the dough is the most important lesson of all. It will tell you if it needs more or less water or flour. It gets easier with practice. Of course the greatest plus of making bread, aside from eating it, is the smell that envelops the house while it's baking. I don't wear perfume, but if there were some way for me to bottle the smell of bread baking, that would be my perfume.
Since it's so hot here in the Philippines, I have no problem whatsoever getting my bread to rise. I've read some pretty intense accounts of bakers in colder climes who resort to turning on their oven's pilot light just for some heat.
Today I made something called Butterflake Bread, a soft loaf made yellow with the addition of three eggs. It's called Butterflake because it's got loads of butter (for one) and the dough is rolled up jelly-roll style and then snipped crosswise into slices. See the photo for reference. It's baked at 400°F for 25 minutes, which I think is just too high a temperature because the crust got burnt. Perhaps I should've covered the loaf halfway with aluminum foil. I also made a batch of small rolls using a basic white sandwich bread recipe. Those were fun to do (and eat!)
In the end, it's true what they say that you need to keep busy if something's bothering you. Goodness knows if I'd allowed myself to dwell on why I was out of sorts, I might've gone out and bought myself another cookbook.


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By Larry Downes – 193 member nations and hundreds of non-voting private members will meet in Dubai for the World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT. The goal of the WCIT is to finalize changes to the International Telecommunications Regulations.
The last major revisions to the ITRs were ratified in 1988, long before the rise of the commercial Internet. But with months to go before proposed changes to the ITR are closed, member nations and private members of the ITU have already begun lobbying for a vast expansion of Internet powers, including new network taxes, mandatory censorship technologies disguised as security measures, and efforts to undermine the Internet's longstanding engineering-based governance processes. more> http://tinyurl.com/8zgq93y
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- Why the UN is Trying to Take over the Internet (forbes.com)
- Interview: US Ambassador David Gross explains UN 'takeover' of the Internet (digitaltrends.com)
- The ITU WCIT And Internet Freedom (blogs.strategygroup.net)
- US will refuse bid to give United Nations control over the internet (wired.co.uk)
- US prepared to fight UN to retain Internet domination (itproportal.com)
- US will push for open markets, free expression at ITU meeting (computerworld.co.nz)
- US plans to block any plan to give UN more control of the internet (theverge.com)
- US will fight ITU members for internet domination (blogs.strategygroup.net)
- Ethiopia Shows That Congress Is Right to Be Worried About UN Control of the Internet (circleid.com)
- US Will Push for Open Markets, Free Expression at ITU Meeting (pcworld.com)
- The United Nations and the Internet: It's Complicated, Rebecca Mackinnon, Foreign Policy


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Department of Law Visiting Scholars 2016-17
Dr Nathanael Tilahun Ali is a lecturer in public international law at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He is also a post-doctoral researcher and coordinator of a major interdisciplinary research project on rule of law (www.esl.eur.nl/INFAR) at Erasmus. During his visit at Queen Mary, he will be developing research projects that study the involvement of private companies in immigration control and the advent of risk management approach in international governance of terrorism financing, to be submitted to the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Dr Ali has previously held visiting fellowships at the Lauterpacht Center for International Law in Cambridge and Hofstra University in New York. Dr Ali's academic contact at Queen Mary is Professor Phoebe Okowa, and the duration of his visit is from 1 September till 31 December 2016.
Guilherme Rizzo Amaral holds a Master's degree by the Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and a Doctor's degree by the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) and has authored books and various legal articles on procedural law. He has taught Civil Procedural Law at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and at Fundação Escola Superior do Ministério Público (FMP), among other institutions. He was a member of a committee that assisted the Brazilian House of Representatives in the drafting of the bill of the new Brazilian Code of Civil Procedure (which entered into force in 2016). He is also one of the founding partners of Souto Correa Cesa Lummertz & Amaral Advogados (Brazil), where he heads the Disputes Resolution practice, and is currently participating on the Scholar-In-Residence program at WilmerHale in London. His research title is Judicial Precedent and Arbitration - are arbitrators bound by judicial precedent? A comparative study among the United Kingdom, the United States and Brazil and the purpose of his visit to QMUL is to do research in order to finish his book, as well as to participate on seminars, academic discussions and cultural exchange with faculty members and alumni. His academic contact is Dr Maxi Scherer and he will be visiting QMUL from 9 January - 22 February 2017.
The main aim of my research is to study a specific way for the tax authorities to tackle VAT fraud which consists in establishing a chain liability for the unpaid tax. At this point, we need to remember that one of the most serious EU VAT frauds is Missing Trader Intra-Community fraud, also known as carousel VAT fraud, which consists of the abuse of the VAT rules on crossborder transactions within the EU. More specifically, MTIC occurs because of a fundamental flaw in the design of the EU VAT system. The threat to the EU revenue is real. According to the "Study to quantify and analyse the VAT Gap in the EU Member States" (2015) the total amount of VAT lost across the EU is estimated at €168 billion. On account of this, Member States have established a set of measures to enhance tax systems and minimise VAT fraud. One of these measures is the joint and several liability which enables Tax Administrations to recover one taxable person's deliberately unpaid output tax from another taxable person, but only when that other taxable person is in the same supply chain and subject to certain conditions.
The ECJ has held in a number of cases that Member States are able to introduce this measure in their respective legislations as long as the principles of legal certainty and proportionally are not breached. In practice, this mean that any trader involved in a carousel fraud who "knew or should have known" that they were involved in dubious transactions can be held liable for the payment of the VAT lost, unless they prove that they have been acting in good faith. But the ECJ leaves every Member State to develop their own strategies to apply this measure and define its limits. The measure has proven to be effective but it has a clear drawback: innocent businesses may be unwittingly used by criminals and may bear unfairly the consequences of the fraud committed by others.
Dr Emmanouil Billis, Master of Laws (Athens), LL.M. (Bonn), is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law in Freiburg (Germany). He was granted a doctorate from the University of Freiburg in 2014 for a comparative legal dissertation on the role of the judge in adversarial and inquisitorial evidentiary proceedings (Die Rolle des Richters im adversatorischen und im inquisitorischen Beweisverfahren, Duncker & Humblot). A former member of the International Max Planck Research School for Comparative Criminal Law, he was the recipient of an Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Scholarship. Dr Billis, a qualified lawyer in Athens since 2007, has been a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law since 2010. He is currently conducting post-doc research on discretionary criminal justice and the formal limits of criminal law under the supervision of Professor Dr Dr h.c. mult. Ulrich Sieber. Dr Billis will be visiting the Department of Law of the Queen Mary University of London as a visiting research scholar from November 27 to December 10. His academic contact is Professor Valsamis Mitsilegas. Dr Billis will be giving an introductory lecture on comparative criminal procedure within the LL.M.-course on Global Policing (28/11) and a lecture on expression crimes and historical memory at the Fourth Queen Mary – Renmin Criminal Justice Conference (01/12). He will be also delivering a PhD research workshop 'On the Methodology of Comparative Criminal Law Research' (09/12, 12.00 to 2.00pm, Lecture Theatre, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Lincoln's Inn Fields). Contact: email@example.com.
Professor Vicenç Ribas Ferrer is Profesor de Derecho Mercantil (Contratado Doctor) at Universidad de Alcalá, Madrid, Spain. He graduated in Law and Journalism, and obtained an LLM in European Law in 1994 and completed his PhD in 2004. He also has a Master in Education (2012).
He is undertaking a research project on corporate governance in listed companies and financial institutions. Among others aspects of the subject, he develops research on remuneration policies and directors' fiduciary duties and wishes to further research on the topics.
He is a Member of the Bar (Barcelona, Spain) and a Fellow of the IELAT. His academic contact is Professor Duncan Matthews.
Since September 2014 Dr Costantino Grasso has been working as a Visiting Scholar at Queen Mary University of London. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Honours Degree (2000), a post-graduate diploma in legal professions (2003), and a PhD in Criminal Law (2013) awarded by the University of Naples; he also obtained an LLM in Commercial and Corporate Law (2014) at Queen Mary University of London. He spent several months researching as an International Research Fellow (2005) at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, and joined as a Visiting Research Associate (2012) the Criminal Justice Centre of Queen Mary, University of London. He qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and as a lawyer in Italy, where he practiced criminal law for ten years.
He has published various papers both in English and Italian in the areas of criminal law and justice, European and transnational criminal law and energy law. In particular, he is the co-author of the entry "European Arrest Warrant" in Oxford Bibliographies (Oxford University Press, 2012) and published the article "The European Arrest Warrant under the Scrutiny of the Italian Constitutional Court" (New Journal of European Criminal Law, 2013). In 2012, he was selected as an international expert for the European Union Project "Prevention of fraud, corruption and bribery committed through legal entities for the purpose of financial and economic gain" led by the Centre for International & European Law of the T.M.C. Asser Institute in cooperation with the Dutch Ministry of Justice.
His major research interests are domestic and transnational criminal law and justice, corporate governance, European criminal law, EU external relations law, and energy law.
Dr Guo Huachun is an associate professor from School of International Law, East China University of Political Science and Law in Shanghai, P.R. China. His 12 month academic visit to CCLS focuses on academic research, course skill development. Professor Rodrigo Olivares-Caminal is the academic contact during his stay in QMUL.
His major research interests are the interaction between international law and finance, including but not limited to sovereign debt resolution, extraterritorial financial regulation, legal issues related to RMB cross border, and financial disputes settlement under international law. Rule of Law Mechanism Governing State Financial Entities' Cross border Transactions is his ongoing research project.
His recent publications including Monograph On the Procedural Way to Regulate Transnational Regulation of Finance from a Reflexive Law Perspective (2012), and Journal articles such as On the Relationship between New Development Bank's Jurisdictional Immunities and the Protection of Third Parties' Rights and Interests (2015), On China's Central Bank Immunity from the Perspective of Balancing of Interests (2014), Systemic Risks and the Legalization of Accountable Transnational Financial Regulation (2013), Creditor's Capacity Mechanism of Bargaining in Sovereign Debt: Perspectives from Litigations (2012).
Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law, Department of Constitutional Law, Law Faculty, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain.
She has been like Advisor Constitutional Law Professor in the Centre of Political and Constitutional studies, of Minitry of the Presidence. Substitute Judge in Avila (2002-2004). Assistant Professor in Official Master's Degree Law and New Technologies in Pablo Olavide University in Sevilla; Academic Member Official Master's Degree in Parliamentary Law, Elections and Legislative Studies (IDP Institute of Complutense University) and Academic Member Official Master's Degree EUPADRA (Joint Master in Parliamentary Procedures and Legislative Drafting Erasmus+ Programme). She is member of the editorial board of General Review of Administrative Law (IUSTEL) and member of a Monitoring of electronic voting: Voto-bit of León University in Spain. She has been like Visiting researcher, in Max-planc-Institute, Heidelberg; Ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Volkerrecht. She also has been like Erasmus Assistant Professor of Constitutional Law in Faculta Nova de Dereito in Lisbon, Portugal. Visiting Scholar Professor at the QMUL's School of Law. Academic contact: Professor Kate Malleson. Current research focus on Judicial Independence, last reforms in the Spanish organic Act of the Judiciary redesigning the General council of the Judiciary as government body of Judges and Magistrates. The Purpose of the visit to QMUL/CCLS (January-June 2017) is to study a new judicial British model after Constitutional reform Act 2005 (new concept and role of Lord Chancellor Institution, Judicial Appointment Commission and procedures of judicial appointments, a new Supreme Court).
Professor Dr Adoración Pérez Troya teaches Commercial and Company Law at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). Author of several books and articles. She has also undertaken several research projects sponsored by public and private institutions.
Current Research focus on Corporate and Finance Law, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, and Gender Law. The Purpose of the visit to QMUL/CCLS (July-December 2016) is to develop a new research project on Patents as well as working in others on going projects. Academic contact: Professor Duncan Matthews.


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"The flowers and candles are here to protect us…" This was a dawning realisation expressed by a young Parisian immigrant child in conversation with his father, an exchange captured in a short You-Tube interview taking place amid the crowds in the Place de la Republique on the day after the terrorist attack a few weeks ago in November. (The film clip is available to view on St Oswald's Facebook page, and I recommend you have a look at it when and if you have a quiet moment in the post-Christmas lull). As the interviewer gently asks the child whether he understands what has happened, the four year old boy, held in the arms of his father, is acutely anxious about the "very, very bad people with guns" who were threatening to kill everyone, and about his family possibly having to leave their home in order to escape the violence. His father tenderly but hastily reassures him that they don't need to move house, because "France is our home". When the child then whispers, "But what about the bad men with guns, papa?", his father does not sugar-coat the pill, simply repeating softly in sadness, "There are bad people everywhere…"
Then, in an inspired moment, the father points out to the child, still very worried about the bad men with guns, "They might have guns, but we have flowers! " The child looks back over his shoulder, but clearly needs some convincing about the validity of this statement. Frowning, he stammers out, "But, but, flowers don't do anything!?" He's lost for words. His father immediately replies, "Of course they do! Look, everyone is putting flowers over there. It's to fight against guns." "To protect..?" asks the child. He is silent for a moment, then asks, "And the candles?" "The candles are to remember the people who are gone," says his father. Another moment of thoughtful contemplation follows, and then the child turns directly to the interviewer and unexpectedly says, quietly and confidently, "The flowers and candles are here to protect us." His father quickly whispers, "Yes!" And there is a beautiful exchange of a slow, shy smile between the two of them. The interviewer asks the child, "Do you feel better now?" And the little boy says, "Yes, I feel better." He turns his small trusting face back to gaze on the candles and the flowers, which suddenly have kindled a fragile but blossoming hope within his fearful young heart.
That small boy, I think, speaks for many of us, adults, teenagers and children alike, when faced with dreadful situations shown daily on our television screens from across the world. Or when we encounter in our everyday lives difficult or distressing things much closer to home, in our families, workplaces, schools or local communities. We often have to be helped by others to find any glimmer of light in those dark places, whether in our inner being or in the complex world around us, or else we might otherwise stumble and fall. We all, at some time or other, need the encouragement of other people who care about us, to get us through and to help us see more clearly the bigger picture. This Christmas, many of us venture in through the open doors of our local churches, to find inside a light to help guide us in our common human search for making sense of things and for "feeling better" about it all… Lit by the candles of hopefulness and surrounded by the flowers of faith, even those held in tentative fingers by our companions gathered here tonight, I pray you will discover here your feet returning afresh to a well-trodden path which leads you into the light and tries to make some better sense of the confusions and sadnesses of our world.
Another short film-clip on our Facebook page features the simple yet profoundly wondering lyrics of the song "Mary, did you know?" sung by an A Cappella group called Pentatonix. This too is well worth listening to. The words echo those of the prophets as found in the Book of Isaiah from ancient days, and the song also picks up on Jesus' own sense of his calling and purpose in life as we can hear later on in Luke's Gospel, when as an adult Jesus stands up to read from the sacred scroll in the synagogue. The words of the song go like this:
Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy would one day walk on water? Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy would save our sons and daughters?
Did you know That your Baby Boy has come to make you new? This Child that you delivered, will soon deliver you.
Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy will give sight to a blind man? Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy will calm the storm with His hand? Did you know That your Baby Boy has walked where angels trod? When you kissed your little Baby, you kissed the face of God?
The blind will see. The deaf will hear. The dead will live again. The lame will leap. The dumb will speak the praises of The Lamb.
Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy is Lord of all creation? Mary, did you know That your Baby Boy will one day rule the nations? Did you know That your Baby Boy is heaven's perfect Lamb? The sleeping child you're holding, is the great I AM!
© Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
(Some of the imagery here, strange to us but familiar to the ancient Hebrew people, is of a sacrificial lamb given up to enable restoration and reconciliation with one another and with the mysterious God whose name was almost too sacred to speak aloud…)
That same God, the one who is our Creator, Redeemer and Sustainer, may be glimpsed here tonight amidst the busyness and crowdedness of our everyday existence. That same God waits for us to enter into honest conversation with him, as (like the best of parents) he holds us tenderly, and desires to protect us from all that otherwise would harm us.
Jesus, who Christians believe is the Son of God, was born as a vulnerable questioning child into our dangerous and violent but also beautiful world, to show us the better way of truth, kindness, compassion, co-operation, courage and peace, and somehow, mysteriously, revealed to be in himself the Light and Hope that will ultimately lead all human beings safely home to God in heaven.
May we once again find ourselves just as awestruck as no doubt Mary was that first Christmas night, daring to recognise here God in Christ placed into our own hands, in the ordinariness of bread, broken for us, fragmented and shared out. May we glimpse God's renewed purposes for our lives as, mysteriously through this Holy Communion, we find integrity and wholeness, both within and between us.
May the holy angels and all God's saints, living and departed, remain our joyful companions as we go out from here, restored and refreshed for our different journeys through this often troublous life, and may God bless each one of us, friend and stranger alike, with true peace and heart-felt hope, this Christmas and always. Amen.


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I know from myself that in general, I'm a very happy girl and people know that. At work I'm cheerful most of the time, singing along with songs and love to make people laugh. Weather at work or not of course! A while back I wrote Something Good In Every Day for more happy inspiration.
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- Wearing a great outfit
- Hugs & kisses
- Hearing a favorite song on the radio
- Breaking a PR in the gym
- Friends
- My cat Charlie
- Breakfast
- Fresh bed linen
- Finishing a topic from my study
- A new book/magazine
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Willow – April 2, 2006 – April 1, 2019
Willow has left us. The little girl coyote who grew into a force of nature, who was 'She Who Cannot Be Ignored', according to Twister, passed away on April 1st. The next day would have been her thirteenth birthday I … Continue reading
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Ayla, April 12, 2004 – August 13, 2018
Ayla was born to Tristan and Erin in 2004. The litter included her brothers, Renki and Ruedi, and sister Kailani. We kept all four pups, and they grew up to be beautiful wolves. Unfortunately, Ayla and Kailani were bratty adolescents … Continue reading
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Twister 2006 – 2018
Saying goodbye is always hard. On Monday, June 4, we said an unexpected goodbye to our coyote, Twister. As a young pup, Twister and Willow were brought from a USDA facility near Logan UT, where they studied non-lethal methods of … Continue reading
Another Walking Success!
Thank you everyone who joined us in person or in spirit for Walk for Wolves! The weather was beautiful, and the animals were fortunately active. It was an eventful day all around. The puppies needed another year before they were … Continue reading
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A Very Merry Birthday
Wolf Park celebrated another anniversary, and all the animals' birthdays! For this year's birthday, everyone received piñatas! That was fun for everyone. The interns had fun making piñatas with the appearance of frogs, caterpillars, and elephants! The wolves had a … Continue reading
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It Might Be Spring
"March comes in like a lion, out like a lamb", goes the old saying. But in the mid-west, it's hard to know what the weather will do day-to-day, and even hour-to-hour. We've seen it all this spring – from flowers … Continue reading
Saying Goodbye to Renki
Renki – April 12, 2004 – January 5, 2018 Renki is no longer with us. A wolf who could fairly be called a legend at Wolf Park was put to sleep on the evening of January 5th. He had been … Continue reading
Celebrating Timber and Scarlette
We're celebrating milestones at Wolf Park this week as we celebrate the 'adoption' dates of two of our residents. Two years ago this week, Timber came to live with us. Three years ago, Scarlette was our early Christmas present. Wolf … Continue reading
Donate This Holiday Season
Dear Friend of Wolf Park, Forty-five years ago, Wolf Park's founder, Dr. Erich Klinghammer inspired us with his mission to "Save Wolves, Save Wilderness"—this year with YOUR help we have celebrated his memory and done just that. Along with our … Continue reading
Renki's Milestone
Today we celebrated a very important anniversary. A year ago today Renki's underwent surgery to halt the spread of his cancer. This involved the amputation of his forelimb. It was not something we'd ever tried before, but we trusted Renki's … Continue reading


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Alarm clock sings no screams at 4:18 Upright, walking blurry eyes unseeing Coffee made Black gold in mug Sipping, sipping One final chug Out of jammies Into gear Headlamp secure Blinking light snapped to rear Into darkness Away from light 5 miles out Sun peeks into sight Now go run! Keli 🙂
Month: March 2012
Quote of the Day
Enjoy! "Watching the pack run, I am reminded once again how important it is to play when we run. We can get so serious about our pace, our plan, our blah blah blah that we lose the joy..." Kristin Armstrong, Mile Markers blog, Runner's World.com Now go run! Keli 🙂
Meandering and musing
I love running with friends. It guarantees I'll get the miles done. Sadly, I can't always find a willing partner for my dark o'clock weekly morning runs so I usually head out solo. Boo hoo, right? Well, don't cry for me Argentina because I've figured out the key to the Universe. That's right - running …
Spring flings
I know a lot of you are firmly entrenched in your exercise programs and have made healthy eating a priority. If however, you have let some winter padding creep in or your exercise program has fallen to the wayside, this is the perfect opportunity to snap to and focus. Because even though tank tops and …
Have I mentioned I like colorful running clothes? Here was the color explosion I wore for my run yesterday. Seeing them in a heap on my bathroom floor made me smile! Now go run! Keli 🙂
Bring on the rain!
When it's raining it's oh so tempting to crawl back under the covers and wait 'til tomorrow. But don't let the wet weather deter you from your run. Here's a few tips and some motivation for getting you out the door! 1. Wear light layers so you don't feel that your clothes are weighing you …
Now go think!
Courtesy of Runner's World... My favorite part of running is the thinking time. I'm a game designer, and whenever I have a hard design challenge or I'm trying to solve a problem, I run. Jane McGonigal, game designer and best-selling author Now go run! Keli 🙂 lling author


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