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- adj. Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
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- Same as antithetical.
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Running late, or left behind
10 and 9, 8 and 7, 6 and 5 and 4,
Call upon the savior while you may,
3 and 2, coming through the clouds in bright array,
The countdown's getting lower every day.
~ The Blast-Off Song (The Rapture Song)
Last year I attended a party for several graduate students of San Francisco State University's MA program in history. Towards the end of the evening a man in his early 30′s told me how as a child he had gotten lost in the grocery store. Unable to find his mother after some time he began to panic. He wondered if the Rapture had happened. He wondered if he had been left behind while his mother had been spirited away. I almost dropped my beer bottle. This was an experience that I knew well, but one I hadn't thought about in years. The memory of a similar event washed over me like a wave and I found myself shaking uncontrollably for several minutes. It was the result of shear recognition; an enormous rush of adrenaline courtesy of meeting a long lost friend on a dark road at night.
That long lost friend was prepubescent me, looking at my watch when my mother was 15 minutes late from picking me up at the barber shop. I was certain Christ had returned and I had not really been one of the elect. My heart raced as the internal, mental Rolodex spun frantically, possessed by gale force winds. Who could I call? Who could I run to with the Seven Year Tribulation about to commence? Then I had it: my great aunt Gerry, grandma's agnostic, divorced sister, never without a cigarette. Her house had an entire room of wall-to-wall books, none of them Christian. What was more, she lived only six or seven blocks from the barber shop. I knew if the Rapture had happened, Aunt Gerry would definitely have been left behind. I recalled her rolling her eyes when I mentioned Adam and Eve and in that sardonic smoker's cackle of hers offering up a pithy "Well, that's ONE theory." Aunt Gerry would be my refuge!
Although I had not vanished along with my godly mother into the clouds I had most certainly disappeared into my own head. It took a moment to realize my mother was standing in front of me, a little out of breath "Jason. Jason, I'm sorry I'm late." Years later my graduate student friend, seeing a similar glazed look in my eyes put his hand on my shoulder: "You look like you need another beer."
Expectation, or I know all there is to know about the waiting game
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises;
And oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits.
~ William Shakespeare – "As You Like It", Act I, Scene 2
The Rapture is an immanent event for millions of American Evangelicals. Christians have always believed in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, however, the idea of a pre-coming (as it were), when Christ's follower will be taken up before his actual reign over the earth as Messiah Triumphant, is part of a belief system scarcely two centuries old. It is called premillenial dispensationalism. Few American Christians know this, although it is the source of their view of time and eternity. The didactic visuals of this belief-world are a rich topic unto themselves. For a glimpse take a look at the apocalyptic time-maps of Clarence Larkin, first introduced to me by my great-grandmother who was a devout student of dispensational lore.
My father began to do the work of a grown man when he was a small child. Along with his siblings, he was essentially a work horse, helping to run a small dairy for an unhappy father who would rather have been hunting in the woods or racing his hound dogs. Although a devout Christian later in life, my father's father was for the most part incapable of showing Christian charity to his only son. This little boy grew up to be a man who had two modes of being-in-the-world: work and drink. Despite this, he was (and is) a devout Evangelical Christian.


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We are heading to Waikiki in April for a week after getting off a cruise and would like to know where we can purchase gluten free food as well as eating in restaurants that will provide or alter the menu to suit people with coelics. Does anyone have any ideas for us?
Was looking at several on-line posts for Honolulu on gluten free places and this one seems the best. Here is the link;
Some of the others just indicate restaurants that may have one gluten free item on the menu.
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Believe it or not Oahu has Whole Foods.
Looking at the google map I can see it's kinda outside of Waikiki area. But I'd think if you have a car a visit to the market at the beginning of the stay will be worth it.
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So says the The Hollywood Reporter
The TV series will follow a critical moment from the first Terminator film (1984), and where the film's story goes one way, the upcoming series will take the same moment in a completely different direction. As the rebooted film trilogy and the new TV series progress, the two narratives will intersect with each other in surprising and dramatic ways.
There is also an interesting line in said report:
"Schwarzenegger will reprise his famed role in the new trilogy, described as a time-spanning story that sees him tasked with protecting Sarah Connor as she grows up."
Color me confused, but also intrigued.
I just hope these movies are good, do well, and make up for T3 (and T4; though T4 was better than T3 IMHO).
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More foreigners visit Korea than Japan in Jan.-April
TOKYO (Yonhap) -- More foreigners visited South Korea than Japan in the first four months of this year as travelers appeared to have avoided the quake-stricken neighboring country, data showed Wednesday.
According to the data by justice ministries of both countries, the number of foreigners who entered and left South Korea in the January-April period came to 5.42 million, surpassing that of Japan, which was recorded at 4.99 million. The number of foreigners going in and out of Japan totaled 1.59 million and 1.54 million in January and February, respectively. But it fell to 1.13 million in March and 720,837 in April following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami. The comparative figures for South Korea formed a contrast to the Japanese situation. The number of foreign visitors to South Korea has been on an uptrend since March, when it stood at 1.47 million, and came in at 1.44 million the following month. |


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Felicity Marshall is an author/illustrator with an honours degree in fine arts. She has also studied classical ballet, performed with the West Australian Ballet Company, children's pantomime, and worked in film production for 17 years. She was educated in the UK, USA and Western Australia. During the last 5 years she has lived for six months of each year in France. Her published books are You and Me Murrawee, Sage's Ark, and short story Bob's Place. She has also written My Brush with France — an artist's view of living in France. She is currently completing illustrations for her new book The Star.
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This course provides a well established combination of the subjects of political science and of modern history which are generally recognised as complementing each other. As part of this integrated degree, you will benefit from a generous choice of optional modules on those historical and political themes which are central to an understanding of public life in the modern world. This degree is taught jointly by the School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, and the School of History, Archaeology and Religion.
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- The Dynamics of Witchcraft 1450 – 1750
- The British Civil Wars and Revolution, c1683 – 49
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- India and the Raj 1857 – 1947
- France 1870 – 1968
- Medicine and Society in Europe
- Europe East and West 1945 – 1995
- A Great Leap Forward: China Transformed 1840 – present
- Managing the Mind: Psychiatry, Psychology and British Culture, 1800 – 2000
- Into the Vortex: Britain and the First World War
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- Politics and Policies of the EU
- British Politics since 1945
- Theory and Practice in Comparative Politics
- Democracy in Crisis?
- Justice and Politics
- Political Thought from Machiavelli to Rousseau
- Political Thought from Marx to Nietzsche
- Conducting Political Research
- Global Justice
- Transatlantic Security Relations
- International Law in a Changing World
- International Security
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- Crime in England and Europe 1550-1800
- Identity and the British State: Wales 1485-1660
- Germany's New Order in Europe 1933-1945
- Joseph Goebbels and National Socialism
- German for Historians
- Conflict, Coercion and Mass Mobilisation in Republican China 1911 – 1945
- Fascism and Anti-Fascism in France
- War, Liberation and Reconstruction: Europe 1939-51
- Socialism, Society and Politics in Britain 1880-1918
- Britain and the Integration of Europe 1940-1975
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- Class, Protest and Politics: South Wales 1918-39
- British Social History 1918-1951
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- French Politics and Society
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- Global Climate Politics
- Global International Organisations in World Politics
- Justice and the Politics and International Law
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Lectures provide a broad structure for each subject, introduce key concepts, and convey relevant up-to-date information. These are outlined in course syllabi.
Seminars provide an opportunity to ask questions and discuss key ideas in a small group environment. Their purpose is to assist you to integrate the information and ideas you receive from lectures and readings and to explore issues critically and in depth. Seminars are kept small and usually average between 12-15 students. This is designed to give you ample opportunity to participate and to provide close contact between you and members of the academic staff.
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Essays and examinations are used not only for assessment purposes but also as a means of developing your capacities to gather, organise, evaluate and deploy relevant information and ideas from a variety of sources in reasoned arguments. Prior advice and written feedback (for essays) are used to help you understand what is required.
The optional final-year dissertation provides you with the opportunity to investigate a specific topic of interest to you in depth and thereby develop your capacities to apply different concepts, theories and methods to the analysis of political questions; acquire detailed knowledge about a particular area of politics; use your initiative in the collection and presentation of material; and present a clear, cogent argument and draw appropriate conclusions.
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Diamond Industry Invests in Lab-Created Knockoffs For Semiconductors
After ages of controlling the international market for natural diamonds, the diamond cartel De Beers is starting to spread its tentacles into Silicon Valley, where the hardest form of carbon is prized for much more than glitter. De Beers is investing heavily in convincing IT pros that lab-grown diamonds — not long ago, the bane of diamond dealers' existence — are the semiconductor substrate of the future.
During the past several years, a few firms have honed the process of manufacturing synthetic diamonds, using anvil cells to supplant billions of years of crustal compression and building diamond crystals atom-by-atom using chemical vapor deposition. These gemstones appear flawless and are chemically identical to the roughs mined from Africa and other places.
Along with their hardness, diamonds are prized for their high thermal conductivity — a diamond-based processor could run at much higher speeds than a silicon one, potentially enabling much more powerful computers. They can also withstand prodigious amounts of radiation, so they are useful for detecting radiation in things like particle accelerators. So De Beers would like to get in on the game, reports Technology Review.
Element Six (like carbon, get it?) is a De Beers subsidiary that just opened a San Francisco Bay-area office, investing venture capital in seven companies. "Part of our goal in being here in Silicon Valley is to go out and really proselytize diamonds to the technology companies based here," said the company's managing director, Susie Wheeler, in an interview with GigaOM.
Some of these investments have already yielded interesting technology — Element Six invested in a firm called Diamond Detectors, which makes the Large Hadron Collider's radiation detectors. Much more could be to come, given that De Beers has apparently placed no limits on the depths of its planned investments.
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Diamonds are ugly. I hope the manufacturing of diamonds drives the value of them down to pennies a piece. I hate all the greed and human suffering that surrounds earth found diamonds. I hope our USA government gives the R&D of these companies' mountains of money for research and better electronics.
Government does not have to (and it most cases shouldn't) invest in anything. First of all, its not their money, so who are they to decide how to invest the money that was taken from its people. Secondly, Government should not be in the business of deciding who "wins" and who "fails". That is why capitalism works, if people want it it wins, and if they don't want it then it fails. We've already seen too many examples of companies that the govt. has decided will "win", that eventually fail anyways. The govt. does not represent the people in all cases.
Should be a good thing all around. Stop the mines and make them in the lab, good for everyone in the end. Except those miners will need to go find out howto live without the dictactorship which might be hard since they are slave/drone minded.
Based off the picture in this article, that diamond sure seems to have a lot of flaws. I find that kind of odd, since the synthetic diamonds I read about now, tend to be clearer and better than the top quality earth found diamonds. I suppose it could just be the picture; I mean yea, I am not really looking at this diamond under a microscope, sure.
The synthetic diamonds are made so well, they are predictable like a manufacture electronic component. The diamonds found in earth are not consistent like that.
If you want a perfect diamond and possibly get it a lot cheaper, by synthetic. But if you want to waste a lot your own money, buy a semi dirty looking earth diamonds and contribute to earth slavery.
I agree 100% with taysoren.
Q, try explaining any of that to a woman. I've argued with my soon to be wife about man made vs naturally occuring diamonds a few times. Most women are adamant about having a "real" diamond vs a synthetic. Hell, you can make sythetic diamonds to have imperfections in them to further fool consumers into thinking they are "real." Keep in mind that picture provided is probably a picture of a "real" diamond. Popsci pulls pictures from Google images sometimes and throws them onto the article.
Question for anyone out there, who the @#%& came up with the 3 months pay is what you should spend on a ring?
since when has capitalism ever really worked for the people?
I'm sorry capitalism is just as dysfunctional as any government, to say it works is too willingly blind yourself to all of it's glaring faults. in real life the best answer is a blance between capitalism and socialism go to far one way or the other and you end up in trouble.
Take the world today that has gone way to far towards capitalism.
We're distorting this world left and right with ecological disasters (strip mining, oil spills, over fishing and so on) let alone the human costs of death, disease and slavery. I'm sorry you can't tell me capitalism "works" if those are the costs because it only works for a few. That most people over look because they couldn't enjoy when they think about how three of person that put their new iphone together committed suicide from how bad their living conditions are,
The honest truth is there are just things governments/socialism does better then corporations/capitalism and there are things corporations/capitalism does better then governments/socialism. The secret is we as a people need understand this again and to use both for what they do best.
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Please don't take this the wrong I'm sure you wife is love caring person. But the problem you pointing out aren't with diamond it's in the way your wife to be was raised.
Oh no dex drako, you shouldn't have. I was enjoying this article and the posts until I read yours. Now I'm going to have to rip your anti-capitalist/free market nonsense to shreds.
Let's start with the simple fact that capitalism (freedom to produce, buy and sell) is the greatest economic system ever conceived. It has lifted more people out of poverty, improved the living standards of more people, and generated more wealth than any other economic system ever. If you disagree, name your favored economic system and I'll happily shred it in front of your tear-filled eyes.
To say that capitalism has "glaring faults" is exactly the same as saying that freedom has "glaring faults." If you haven't made the direct connection between private ownership and freedom to buy or sell and your other personal freedoms--speech, worship, pursuit of happiness, etc.--it's time you did. There is no difference. Capitalism is freedom. Any other system, by definition, limits the free choice of producers and consumers. There are no glaring faults whatsoever.
Sure someone can become a multibillionaire while another settles for nominal pay. There's nothing wrong with that. Those two people probably have different desires, different priorities, different ability, different measures of success and happiness. Good for both of them.
As a side-effect of all this freedom--protected and practiced nowhere better than in the United States of America (at least for now)--we are the most charitable country on earth in total giving and in giving per capita; far more than any others. That's not only voluntary giving to our own people and institutions, it's to other people and countries around the world. That's what capitalism bring.
Those "disasters" you mention are not a result of capitalism. Slavery is not practiced in free, capitalist countries; it's illegal. Because of capitalism, new drugs and treatments were invented that extend your sorry life decades beyond what your great-grandparents enjoyed and improve the quality of your life. Medicine, treatments, gadgets, luxuries, vacations, transportation technology--virtually everything affecting your ungrateful life have improved and become cheaper because of capitalism, so what was once only affordable to the rich is now available to complainers like you. So much for your deluded fantasy illusion that capitalism only works for "a few."
Now let's talk about the benefits of socialism. Oh, sorry, there aren't any. Ask any former citizen of the USSR.
I do not care about diamonds. They cost a lot and they give nothing back to me.
I hardily support synthetic diamonds for a better electronic and human future.
The old ideas of diamonds are bullsh##
I want a wife that is my partner in life!
Earth found diamonds value are of greed and create suffering for others or slavery. I want nothing of earth found diamonds!
I will tell you what is beautiful and rare! I true friend! Honesty! Never lying! A faithful marriage! Faithful to GOD! Faith to family! Honor these things and if you do not believe in GOD, at least believe in the rest!
Earth found diamonds are bullsh##!
What I see is a company that artificially inflated the prices of diamonds at the expense of the people it employs and the country it exploits to line its pockets, looking ahead and seeing that the ability to produce flawless diamonds is going to cut in on it's bottom line.
So, they are trying to get their foot in the door in order to (once again) control the market, or at least a part of it, so that they can manipulate ALL diamond production and continue to suck blood money from the rest of the world.
@JediMindset Noticed your signature quote "The people of the world only divide into two kinds, One sort with brains who hold no religion, The other with religion and no brain."
Reminds me of another quote: "Only a Sith deals in absolutes."


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"I was singing with our church choir at that point because I wasn't really sure whether I had faith or not, but gosh darn it, I like singing." —Jeff Viniard, a man in the midst of a crisis of faith, Radiolab
But Roth is such a figure of our half-forgotten past, the living personification of easy-breezy, sunglasses-wearing '80s California cheese, that it's weird to imagine him occupying the newfangled podcast realm, even if The Roth Show episodes are essentially audio versions of Roth's YouTube show of the same name. The technology might be newfangled, but Diamond Dave remains lost in a fuzzy, glorious past. He behaves throughout the show like a coked-up cartoon of a '60s hipster, spitting word jazz and freestyle audio razzamatazz for an audience of one: himself. Roth isn't just the whole show, he's also his own best audience, an easily dazzled enthusiast who can't stop guffawing at the things that come out of his mouth or marveling at his own wisdom.
Roth spends the first 10 minutes of the very first podcast marveling that due to the magic of sarcasm and slang, words can mean different things in different contexts. For example, sometimes when the brothers say "bad," it means "good." Seriously. Roth aspires to educate as well as entertain: The average episode of The Roth Show is a breathless, barely coherent combination of crackpot lecture, open-mic-night stand-up set, and long-winded autobiography, a weird and rambling half-hour monologue that flits distractedly from subject to subject. The Roth Show is alternately fascinating and exhausting, riveting in its unselfconscious craziness and utterly obnoxious. Fans of Roth and rubberneckers who find him morbidly fascinating are both likely to get a lot out of The Roth Show, albeit possibly not in the manner intended. But in a way, listeners are superfluous, since if podcasting didn't exist, Roth would probably just be yammering these weird rants into a tape recorder for his own private amusement and edification. [NR]
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Radiolab: Are You Sure?
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Uhh Yeah Dude: #364
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Comedy Bang! Bang! #209: The Bisco Boys: Don't Stop Or We'll Die, Howard Kremer
Any time Don't Stop Or We'll Die—Harris Wittels, Paul Rust, and Michael Cassady—guest, it's going to be an especially loose show, and that's the case here. Howard Kremer doesn't get much in with the hyperactive Rust and Wittels around, and the episode could've used more of him. And by the third "it's funny because it's grating" Don't Stop song, it's mostly grating. [KR]
Comedy Bang! Bang! #210: A Spiritual Journey: Adam Brody, Lauren Lapkus, Joe Wengert
A trio of first-timers—podcast newbie Adam Brody and new characters from Lauren Lapkus and Joe Wengert—makes for a slow show, particularly a first segment that really drags. Brody is game, and Wengert's pop-culture medium is funny, but Lapkus' character goes nowhere. [KR]
Doug Loves Movies: Brie Larson, Jack Plotnick And "Werner Herzog"
"Werner Herzog's" return appearance on DLM should have been great, but his fellow panelists don't jibe particularly well with the downcast director. It's not a bad episode, and it has its share of laughs, but a sense of missed opportunity hovers over the whole thing. [GK]
Mike And Tom Eat Snacks #78: Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Mike and Tom review traditional Reese's cups and several of the brand's other permutations, but for the most part it seems like the hosts are grasping at straws. [DA]
Mohr Stories #144: Brace Philosophy
Brace Philosophy, breakout star of Showtime gigolo reality show Gigolos, reveals how one enters the profession, what he looks for in a client, and what happens in a session. Aspiring companions can tune in to learn about the protocol for peeing on clients. [DXF]
Nerdist #336: Lily Tomlin
The episode starts strong but slowly peters out over its nearly 90-minute duration. A more condensed version surely would have been great, but at this length it feels a bit more laborious than it should. [DA]
Never Not Funny #1211: Copping To It With John Ross Bowie
John Ross Bowie is fine support for Jimmy Pardo, but a collective inability to make logical ends meet results in riffs that rely on recycled material and familiar Pardoisms for humor. [SM]
Professor Blastoff #97: Viruses (w/ Eric Kane)
Distracted, ill, or still dazed from a varnish overdose (Kyle Dunnigan, Tig Notaro, and David Huntsberger, respectively), the hosts aren't in much shape to discuss this week's topic, leading to a conversation that's both cursory and conceptual. (Much thought is given to whether viruses have a soul.) An update on Notaro's special mammal and another round of "Name That Punky" are pretty fun, though. [SM]
Stuff You Missed In History Class: The Contentious Invention Of The Sewing Machine
The fight over the patent for the first sewing machine is amusing, but the scattered plot is confusing and not as fun to follow. [DT]
Stuff You Should Know: Gesundeit! How Allergies Work
The cellular science of what causes our immune systems to go into overdrive is interesting, but there's limited entertaining places for hosts Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant to take the discussion. [DT]
WTF #371: E Of Eels
Marc Maron's interview with Mark Oliver Everett of Eels covers some compelling personal drama, but doesn't quite reach the heights of his other notable music interviews, in that it doesn't find a way to make the subject interesting to people who aren't already fans. [KM]
WTF #372: Adam Parfrey
Adam Parfrey's conspiracy-theory-laden Apocalypse Culture books were a big influence on Marc Maron. Unfortunately, the interview fails to introduce the book and its author to a broader audience, which feels like a wasted opportunity given the juicy subject matter of the book and the author's admitted taste for provocation. [CZ]
You Made It Weird #136: Megan Ganz
In an episode he proudly announces as YMIW's longest yet, Pete Holmes has an amiable exchange with Community and Modern Family writer Megan Ganz. [SG]


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Not your Grandma's Antenna
Remember those days of tinfoil wrapped rabbit ears, or going back even further through Mr. Peabody's "Wayback Machine", when you had to go outside and manually turn that giant pole attached to an antenna on the roof? After all the sweating, cursing, and adjusting, the picture was still fuzzy and wavy enough to make you seasick.
Those days are gone, my friend, with HDTV and something called a signal booster. As of two days ago, I'm cable free!
While my cable bill was going up, up, up, I was using the service less, less, less since I got a Roku a couple of years ago. Roku streams wirelessly over the internet to your TV and makes hundreds of channels available, including Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu. Many are free. The only real disadvantage is that sometimes the programs aren't available until the next day via Hulu. But you can still watch news programs, network series, listen to music, and have access to thousands of movies for less than ten dollars a month plus the cost of wireless internet.
My biggest problem when I considered breaking my cable habit was what to do in case of emergency. I wanted to have access to my local channels when spring tornadoes inevitably rolled through Kansas. After doing a little research, I discovered a nifty gadget called an HDTV signal booster. It looks something like a small, thin stereo speaker with extendable antennas and attaches easily to your cable port on your TV. The one I purchased came with everything I needed, including the cable, and cost about $35.00.
The picture is incredible! I'm able to get all the major networks–NBC, CBS, Fox, and ABC, three public broadcasting stations, and a 24 hour weather channel. I can access about twenty channels for free, and I haven't missed cable one little bit.
So if you're interested in joining me, here's what you'll need– access to wireless internet that delivers at least 7-8 Megabytes per second (I use AT&T DSL), a signal booster antenna (mine is an RCA from Best Buy), and a way to stream programs (Roku, Wii, Playstation, or a television with built-in internet capability). If you have an older model TV, you'll need a digital converter. Since my television is HD, I don't know how the picture quality would compare. You could find out by searching online or asking someone at your local electronics store.
You could also go "cold turkey", forget about wireless streaming, and just hook up the signal booster. But the package I have allows me to enjoy TV viewing that is comparable to cable at a fraction of the cost.
The only drawback is the booster sometimes interferes with my internet signal to Roku; however, it isn't a problem with my laptop. I found an easy fix by turning the signal booster off–either with the switch or unplugging it– when I'm using Roku.
Maybe you'll consider joining me, or perhaps, you've already cut the cord and you're screaming with me at the top of your lungs, "I'm cable free"!
The Mystery of Reality
When I worked at Borders, I used to spend my lunch hours wandering the store aisles and thumbing the pages of all those wonderful books. One day, I picked up a book called "The Hidden Messages in Water" by Dr. Masaru Emoto. It was pretty interesting, because if the evidence is credible, water consciously responds to its environment.
The experiment was simple–just write a word on a piece of paper like "ugly", "beautiful", or "hate", place it in front of a glass of water, superfast freeze it, and photograph the magnified image of the crystal structure. The resulting photos (captured in the book's pages) showed remarkable differences. The "beautiful" water formed organized, eye-pleasing crystals and the "ugly" water formed disjointed, unattractive ones. Even more bizarre, if you put "you fool" by a glass of water, it didn't form crystals at all! Seemed that the water actually became too stupid to crystallize!
My first thought after reading the book was, "could water really respond to words?" Actually, my first thought was, "this is pretty crazy". Think about it. Some mad scientist decides to destroy the world by tossing giant pieces of paper marked "hurricane" into all the oceans. Or he is less ambitious and destroys a Midwestern town by throwing "flood" into the Mississippi. Crazy, right?
I don't think that's likely anytime soon. However, it is possible the experiment wasn't measuring water's response, at all. The more I thought about it, the more it seemed possible that they were measuring the observer's expectations. There's some evidence this might be the case based on quantum experiments. It's called the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principal.
Maybe, we just see what we decide to see. We tell water it's ugly, and we see ugly water; call it beautiful and it responds in kind. That's true of a lot of things in life. If we see hate and distrust in other people, we're likely to find it there. If we search for something positive, we're likely to see that too. Words and thoughts have power—even when they are directed at something as simple as a glass of water.
And hey, the body is about 60% water, so I'm taping "beautiful" to my mirror and waiting for good things to happen. Instead of being what we eat, we're more likely to be what we think we're going to eat, or what we think we'll look like after we eat, or……oh, never mind. Just have a "beautiful" day.
Let the Music Play
"Many people die with their music still in them. Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." ~Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Yesterday, at about 11:30 in the morning, I felt a blast shake my house. Curious, I went outside to see what was up. Nothing seemed unusual, so I came back inside and investigated the basement, second floor, and attic to see if something had fallen off my house. Everything looked fine, and I shrugged it off.
Later, I found out what had happened on the local news. While installing lawn sprinklers in a neighborhood down the street, someone had cut into the gas line, and caused an explosion at the adjacent house. Incredibly, there was almost nothing left of the split-level structure. Even worse, an elderly woman was inside, and is now in the hospital in critical condition.
This is almost mind boggling. I feel so sorry for that poor lady, who was probably just going about her normal, morning routine. Doubtless, there will be plenty of discussion in the coming weeks about who or what was to blame. Regardless of the outcome, the house will still be gone and the woman's life will be forever changed. It all happened in the blink of an eye.
We never know what the future holds; nothing is certain. We live on a rock filled with molten lava that is hurling through space at unimaginable speeds. Sometimes, it's important to remember just how fragile life is, and that tomorrow is never guaranteed. In the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes, if there is music inside you, let it sing; don't wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.
Walking in the Footprints of Ghosts
Several years ago, I wrote a story called, Snow Dancing With Ghosts, which is available on Writer's Cramp. The tale is about an elderly lady who refuses to give up a dream that her childhood sweetheart will one day rescue her from her crazy, painful life. It is about faith and love.
Most people don't know that the story is based on a woman I used to see riding the Tenth Street bus when I lived in Indianapolis during my own youth. Dressed in a ratty coat and tattered clothes, she boarded the bus almost every day in the gypsy neighborhood on Massachusetts Avenue. Her hair was bleached and frizzy, her red lips were cracked. Rouged circles melted into the lines of her weathered cheeks, and the soles of her worn shoes were patched together with band-aids.
She was Venus in decay, sad and noble, and unforgettable. Many years later, I finally wrote the story that gave her a happy ending.
Of course, I have no idea what her real story was, but I suppose that's what writers do—weave tales about people we encounter and imagine "what if".
I was thinking about her today, because I'm considering writing a novel about that crazy time in the 1960s when I lived in Woodruff Place. I have mostly ignored it in my writing, partly because it is my own special treasure—a place that glows and vibrates with the intensity of youthful exuberance. Everything is in Technicolor and poignant and relegated to long, long ago.
It's also possible, I haven't written about it, because a very, good friend of mine was killed in Viet Nam during those years. He is in my thoughts, even now, and I wonder what would have happened if he and so many others had lived. Of course, I carry his unfinished story in my heart, much as I did the elderly lady on the Tenth Street bus. And maybe, as a writer, that's all we can do. Tell our stories and hope they do justice to the people we remember.
Here's a link to Snow Dancing With Ghosts on Writer's Cramp, if you care to read it: http://www.writerscramp.ca/archives/snow_dancing_with_ghosts.htm
I'm Digging Coal
Somehow, I missed Thom Beers' (Deadliest Catch) latest reality show, Coal. Maybe it was because the series, set in West Virginia, aired on Spike TV. I have no idea where the channel is, what it is, or if I even get it on my cable provider. Lucky for me, however, Coal showed up in my top suggestions on Netflix Instant View, because I am definitely digging Coal! … continue reading.
High Tea in a Blueblood Bat Cave
Last night, I decided to go highbrow and watch Masterpiece Classic's, Downton Abbey. I just love those English manor tales where you can practically crawl into the lush gardens, oak-paneled libraries, and draped four-poster beds. When the Lady of the Manor pulls the cord for tea, I am right there, Lady Ann, in my little white gloves and velvet hat with my ankles politely crossed, as the butler pours tea into my china cup and passes cream-filled scones.
Well, you can imagine my horror—my sense of social impropriety– when my virtual tea was interrupted by a bat soaring over my head and almost parting my hair. … continue reading.
Looking for John Henry
I have a confession. I'm a genealogy junkie. I can spend hours, sometimes weeks, going through thousands of old records and books. I sort of see myself as an astronomer gazing at a billion, billion stars until something oddly wonderful shows up on that telescope glued to my squinty, bloodshot eyes.
One of my missing ancestors is John Henry Ferguson, who probably lived in Scotland or Ulster in the late sixteen hundreds. It's also possible he traveled the wide oceans to "the colonies" before his grandson, (my 3rd great grandfather) Samuel Ferguson bought a ¼ acre lot in Staunton, Virginia, and showed up in the Augusta County Records, "The Chronicles of the Scots-Irish in Virginia". … continue reading.
Gliding Down an Icy Hill on a Snowy Day: Remembering Kent Grade School
I woke up this morning to a sprinkling of snow, not much more than a thimble's worth, but as I sit here drinking a cup of steaming, hot chocolate, my thoughts drift back to my childhood and cold winters' mornings at Kent Elementary on Snow Days.
The school had two classrooms of four grades each. A single teacher stood at the helm of the room, conducting rowdy students with the deftness of a maestro at Carnegie Hall. Later, they opened up two storage rooms and cut the classes to two per room. Still, it was a strange environment by today's standard. After our lessons each day, we'd just sit there coloring and listening as the teacher taught the other grades. By osmosis, alone, we pretty much knew everything for the next year and had the past year's lessons drummed into our skulls over and over, until we could almost teach the class, ourselves.
It was a lawless, wild west, method of teaching children. During recess, we all traipsed over to Tub Temperley's, the town's general store, to buy penny candy, waxed lips, or cream sodas. The store was a wood frame structure with oiled floors, an ancient register, and a group of old men gathered around a pot belly stove spinning yarns. They were a fixture in most of the local towns, gathering each day at the barber shop or general store. They all looked the same to me– overalls, grizzled beards, and plaid shirts– and I sometimes wondered if they traveled from town to town like a bunch of gypsies. … continue reading.
On Writing—To the Pain!
There's a wonderful scene in Princess Bride when Westley, still weakened from being tortured and left for dead by Prince Humperdinck, storms Humperdinck's Castle with Fezzig and Inigo. Westley is lying in Buttercup's bedroom, because he is too weak to stand. Prince Humperdinck walks in and challenges Westley with brandished sword, "To the death!". Westley slowly stands up, takes his sword, and says, "To the pain!".
Well, it turns out to the pain is a lot scarier than to the death, since it involves maiming body parts, gouging Humperdinck's eyes, cutting off his nose and lips, and only leaving his "perfect ears", so he can hear every horrible scream when people see his horribleness.
It's an exaggeration to claim that any pain caused by writing will ever come close to that! But, believe it or not, that call rallies me when my body sometimes wants to give up, and I tell myself "Write—to the pain!".
For several years I've had to deal with tendonitis and shoulder pain when I'm trying to write. Other times, my legs start to ache after sitting for hours when I'm "in the zone". And sometimes, my eyes are so strained; I see everything as a blurred haze. There have been many periods that I've just given up writing for months on end. Voice Recognition Software doesn't work very well for me, since my creative brain seems to be glued to my fingers. I need to type to write.
In the grand scheme of things, this problem is little stuff. When I look at my life, I feel lucky and blessed. God has been good to me. But sometimes, like today, that shoulder pain niggles and my wrists feel like melted butter while I sit here looking at my blurred screen.
I have so many things I want to say, and so many stories that fill my head so full, that sometimes it wants to burst. Those are the times I have to tell myself to write—"to the pain"!
The Legend of Swift's Silver Mine
I don't collect much. There are no china dolls, baseball cards, or rare stamps hidden away in the attic. What I have collected is pretty much intangible: old family stories going back to the seventeen hundreds, weird facts, and legends.
One of my favorite legends is about Swift's Silver Mine. It is what I call a "traveling legend", because the mine's location bobs and weaves with the agility of a greased pig on county fair day. … continue reading.


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Help needed with Acer aspire T120E recovery
Hi, My in-laws have a Acer aspire T120E computer which they let their grandkids play on and it has died. The computer wouldn't start at all, so I went to go through the recovery disks, but their cd drive was broken . So I brought it home and hooked it up to my cd drive for now. I enter Disk one and it works ok, then it asks me to enter disk 2. When I do this I get an error message saying usage error 11030. Then it tells me to enter disk one again and we keep going round and round and round in circles
Any ideas? any help? please, I am pulling my hair out here!!
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Hello HB.... hope ya still got some hair left! I found this on Google: Desperate plea The last post seems to make the most sense IMO, and while you're inside the case blow it out using a can of moisture free compressed air. About 5.00 USD @ WalMart.
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Mrs, Dembowske age, 93 passed away Thursday March 29, 2012 at Brian's House. She was born on August 29, 1918 inSebewaing,MIto the late Herman & Lillian (Griegor) Gettel. She married Alfred on July 8, 1940 in Sebewaing at theImmanuelLutheranChurch. He predeceased her on August 21, 1979. She was a member of theImmanuelLutheranChurch. Viola enjoyed bowling, golfing, and cooking she will always be remembered for gifting all of her baking goods. She is survived by her children Donna (LeRoy) Swenson, Darwin Dembowske, and Cindy Turner, grandchildren; LeeAnn (Dave) Juul, Todd (Carrie) Dembowske, Teri (Kip) Parsell, Gina Gettel, Dane (Dawn) Swenson, Scott Dembowske, Carisue Gettel, and Jason Turner, 6 great grandchildren; Corey and Tyler Parsell, Shawn and Jake Dembowske, Danielle and Delaney Swenson. She was predeceased by two sons David and Richard, a grand daughter Lori Swenson, a son in law Dale Turner, a brother Harlon, and two sisters Orpha and Kathlyn. Funeral Services will be held Monday April 2, 2012 at 1 pm from theImmanuelLutheranChurchin Sebewaing with Rev. Michael Boyer presiding with burial inSt. JohnsCemetery. Friends may call at the church on Monday from 10 am until time of services. Arrangements are entrusted to Rivertown Funeral Chapel.


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Worst Week Ever for US Economic Indicators?
Friday, June 1, 2012 at 04:02PM
We can't recall a worse week for US economic indicators. While it was only a four-day week, there were a large number of indicators released -- 21 to be exact. As shown below, of the 21 releases, a whopping 18 came in weaker than expected! Just 1 out of the 21 indicators came in stronger than expected. With US economic data completely collapsing this week, and the euro and gold rallying on Friday as US stocks tanked, have we just experienced a key pivot point in which the US starts to underperform the rest of the world again?
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text: This past Dec 8th-11th was spent in Miami Beach, FL at the 2010 AffCon Affiliate Conference. Here are several takeaways and a blog I wrote on the flight home about how NOT to be spammy on Facebook… because the two are so related (well, some affiliates have attempted to and even succeeded in spamming Facebook so maybe!). Some AffCon 2010 Miami Takeaways: Re: Online Gaming & Apps and end user costs… 1) The future of this space is making ALL the apps entirely free to the end user, but with simply making them download 'add-on's to remove the ads. The entire app is FREE and everything in it is free, but it has ads. If you want to get the 'AD FREE' version, then you need to simply download the 'ad free pack' which does that. By doing this '3rd party download', the ads go away and some monetary amount … Continue reading


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According to Lord of the Rings Online Executive Producer Kate Paiz, the Riders of Rohan expansion will be delayed until October 15th to give the team time to address some issues and concerns brought up by players during the recent beta test. Riders of Rohan was scheduled for a mid-September release. Players who have preordered the expansion will receive 500 Turbine points and a "goodie bag" of consumables that will be available to them on September 5th. In addition, the team is planning several in-game events including a celebration of both Frodo's and Bilbo's birthdays! Read the full post on the Lord of the Rings Online site. Associate Editor: MMORPG.com |
Hope these new events are better than the last one, the farmers event was badly bugged and just not fun at all.
I'd prefer them to iron out the bugs and glitches before releasing it and nice of them to compensate the RoR pre-order players for the delay too. looking forward to the Frodo and Bilbo birthdays haha should be good fun :)
"In addition, the team is planning several in-game events including a celebration of both Frodo's and Bilbo's birthdays!" Actually, Bilbo's birthday is happening every year, so it's hardly 'in addition' :) I guess, the delay can be a good thing. It provide a chance to fix the problems, so the launch will be smoother (especially in the light of the previously launched bugfest called RoI...) Also worth mention, that this way the summer festival won't overlapse Rohan's start, people can focus on the festival :) |
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Originally posted by MMOGamer71 WB is forcing them to release an expansion every single year and the small staff simple can't do it. This is two "expansions" in a row where there is no instance cluster on release. There are still major bugs from last years dragon raid. WB philosophy is to squeeze money out of the players by reducing content and raising prices. Blizzard at least waits until the product is tested and polished. |
lol this is a blatant excuse for them to launch after GW2 and MOP so those games don't steal any of Lotro's thunder.
WoW! just wow. smh. So they make a game exceeding expensive with a growing cost to players each expansion then they delay it? smh |
Originally posted by FrodoFragins Even tho blizz waits they are still no better about content release, making players wait because they have a tiny dev team that can't keep up so they can spend the sub numbers on their yacht parties and summer homes really isn't good business either. Can't wait for annual subs to run out. |
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It doesn't matter how far Turbine pushes back the expansion, because it will still be lame in that it limits mounted combat to Rohan.
I cant wait to grind my way to level 85 fighting the same mobs over and over and over again just like I did to 75. Besides I get a new mount that I can only use in a limited area. And best of all its only $29? $39? I dont even know... LOTRO died after the mines of Moria expansion....
Originally posted by cagan Absolutely. that's when they started cutting back on their development team and only made mini-expansions. they at least had the decency to admit SoM was a mini-expansion and only charge $20. Now they just pretend they are the kind of expansions WOW and Rift get. |
Agreed SoM was the last good expac. It's really sad that they turned it into crap with the F2P conversion(imho). One of the very few game's I would rather pay a sub for. Now the install disk's make great coffee coaster's.
Originally posted by itgrowls What are you talking about? Blizz ALWAYS releases content. It's not their fault that players don't understand the word moderation. They produce adequate if not more than adequate content. While it might be a *yawn* been there done that thing but they still produce decent content production. They routinely release expansions/major patches with new raids, factions (favor), crafting items, quests, and storyline. |
Originally posted by clumsytoes44 That means theres been one sub-par xpac in your opinion (and mine). That happens with most mmos . This ones not released yet so its hard to know what its like . The fee to play conversion made it better imo . Its easier to group up when your leveling etc .I do know people that agree with you though but they are more hard core players . I only ever played lotro as my second mmo so I probably havn't been hit by the same things that annoyed you enough to give up . I still enjoy it . It still has a great community and its a nice relaxing interesting world to quest around . Maybe not the most exciting mmo ever but its still very much a world as a game . Which is what an mmo should be . |
SHOCKING NEWS It was always stupid of them to try and release this tiny expansion sandwiched between the monsters of GW2 and MoP I mean, people are still not going to care at all about this come October because this game is dead, but it's better than not caring at all in the negative zone! |
Very well said roo67. I guess the naysayers wont be happy until the good people at Turbine work for free. I'm happy to pay for what I enjoy and after 5 years (albeit on and off being a lifetimer) I still enjoy the game and as said above, the community. Draw yourself two big circles that cross each other. Write AAA title in one. Write quality community in the other. Write Lotro in the bit that overlaps. I challenge you to put another name in that space. Playing: Lotro (lifetimer), FFXIV, DFUW |
Actually, the real reason for the delay is that they still need to polish quite a few things, like class balance (especially in mounted combat), itemization, quest rewards, etc. Currently, experience differs considerably, depending which class you have chosen to test. Some are quite polished, but some aren't. Thus, the decision is actually very good, and the LOTRO community is responding very positively. I must say from what I have seen from beta (NDA is already up, so I can talk), the expansion is very impressive, and is worth your dime. In fact, Turbine is currently going uphill, as the latest content update (the Great River region) was actually quite good. Thus far, the work done on Riders of Rohan is very impressive, and mounted combat is a true novelty system. It will require some getting used to, but Turbine are certainly offering something new this time. I don't want to go too far, but this expansion has the potential of rivalling Moria in terms of quality. The only stain so far is the delay of the instance cluster, but as said above, Turbine are pressed to release expansions every year now, and the team is simply not big enough. Besides, this is certainly something to cheer about - a developer delays a product, admitting it is not ready yet. This is certainly a change in attitude, and I hope it continues. |
Not to mention the community rep actually said that Rohan will be bigger than moria, in terms of landmass aswell as quests, deeds etc. Also it makes sense to release endgame instance clusters a bit later, cause people will need time to level up their chars first anyway. There is no point in delaying a whole expansion just for the couple nolifes that will complain about lacking endgame 2 days after headstart of a new expansion. I mean they could have just added 2 months to the announced release date early 2012 and we would get the expansion in december with instances. I prefer this way, not just because it means the instance cluster will get its own beta test and they will have the time to fix any bugs in MC instead of releasing buggy MC and buggy instances. And no, they don't want to double dip. The IC coming later is included in the expansion price, it simply gets out later. |
Originally posted by Rocketeer Moria is actually bigger than it's top down footprint, there are multiple levels there but turbine likes to quote Moria anyway. Quest comparisons are fair, assuming they are equally interesting/complex. You can make a ton of kill "X" quests to boost a quest count. You run a lot faster on mounts and Rohan is mostly fields. It's nice to get large areas but you can't forget the fact that it is mount based. Moria had a LOT of detail in it's design thanks to the large dev team and budget. RoR really does not. Turbine adds instance clusters later because WB forced them to release expansions in September and they fell behind. Rather than release the expansion when it's ready, like any good developer/publisher, they release it on artificial deadlines based on financials. This year they took advantage of being behind on instances and their plan was to double dip and charge everyone for them. They had to cancel that when their FAQ was copy pasted from last years which said it was free to those buying the expansion with cash. You may fool some people with this post. But I pay close attention to Turbines statements and actions. If you love the game and are happy with the prices they set for their content, that's great. But if you read their official forums, even people who were OK with RoI were unhappy with RoR. |


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Thanks to our great vendors, presenters and sponsors for a wonderful 2010 Kansas Farmers Market Conference for Vendors. More than 100 participants braved post-blizzard conditions to attend the gathering on January 30 at Flint Hills Technical College in Emporia. If you were unable to attend, the majority of presentations are available as PDFs in the resource section. Find the Conference Presentations here.
Below is the most up-to-date list of Session Descriptions for the 2010 Kansas Farmers Market Conference for Vendors. With more than 30 sessions covering a wide variety of market vendor categories, we are sure you will have significant learning opportunities. Invest in your business by registering for the conference today.
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Keynote Presentation
Putting a Face with the Food We Eat
Don Wambles
Farmers market has grown and changed over the years. The public desires 'fresh and local' produce but are accustomed to stylish marketing techniques used by grocery store chains. Incorporating tried and true marketing with the demand for 'fresh and local' is a win-win for farmers markets. Update on one of the most successful government programs of all–the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program. 60 minutes
Specialty Crop Production:
Adding Strawberries to Vegetable Production
Jerry Wohletz
Jerry shares his family's experience of growing vegetables for the Lawrence and DeSoto farmers markets and the farm's growth over the 7 years. With the addition of strawberries grown in their high tunnel in 2009, the demand has convinced them to start a "Pick Your Own" strawberry patch for the 2010 season. 60 minutes
Breakout One: 10:45 a.m.
Beans: Not Just the Green Ones
Jill Elmers
There are so many different types of beans that can be grown and brought to market. We will talk about the different varieties available, tips on how to grow the less familiar types, and how to educate your customers on their uses. 30 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Bok Pac Choy Choi: Demystifying an Asian Vegetable
Rebecca McMahon
There is lots of potential for growing Bok Choy in Kansas during the spring and fall market seasons. It is not as challenging to grow as the name might seem! Gain insight into this unique vegetable: how it fits into your farm system, marketing ideas, and some pitfalls. 30 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:30 p.m.
Brambles to Berries
Rebecca McMahon
Both raspberries and blackberries can be grown successfully in Kansas and bring a premium price, but getting them to market can be a challenge. This will be an overview of variety selection, growing systems, and marketing for raspberries and blackberries in Kansas. 60 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Cultural and Alternative Methods for Pest Management
Jennifer Smith
Learn the best ways to prevent insect and disease problems through selection and good cultural practices, and explore what works and what doesn't with alternative methods for pest control. The session will focus on insect and disease pests of fruits and vegetables and explore what works and what doesn't with alternative methods for pest control. 30 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:30 p.m.
Early Season Perennials: Asparagus and Rhubarb
Karen Pendleton
Draw shoppers to your stall early for spring crops and you'll have a good chance of keeping them throughout the growing season. Karen shares her tips for growing these early season shopper favorites–from favored varieties to production methods. 30 minutes
Breakout Two: 1:30 p.m.
Karen Pendleton
With 15 years experience growing and selling this vegetable, Karen offers advice on selecting varieties and determining best cultural practices. Even more importantly, Karen will share how she has built a strong market for this less common crop. 30 minutes
Breakout One: 10:45 a.m.
Growing Acorn, Butternut and Spaghetti Squash for the Market
Mark Jirak
The basics to successful production and marketing of winter squash. 30 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Growing and Marketing Sweet Potatoes in North Eastern Central Kansas
Stephanie Thomas
Get the dirt on growing these nutritious golden-red, tasty tubers. Info on what varieties grow best in our area, and when and how to plant. Harvest and storage tips, and marketing advice from a farmer who loves to grow them as much as eat them. 30 minutes
Breakout Four: 4:00 p.m.
Kansas Cantaloupe Production
Mark Jirak
A basic overview of how to grow cantaloupes and market them at Kansas Farmers Markets. 30 minutes
Breakout One: 11:15 a.m.
Primary Seed Saving For Market Gardens
Dianna Henry
Saving you own market garden seeds is not as difficult as you may think! We will start with Primary/open pollinated varieties. Local heirlooms are long term PROVEN producers, specifically for our soils and climate. Varieties such as Mortgage Lifter Tomato and Aunt Mary's Sweet Corn pulled their families through the Great Depression. As our economy gets more challenging, we get more and more local! We will cover a few ways we can start to save our own seeds and help each other locally.
Breakout Two: 1:00 p.m.
Salad Mixes: The options are endless
Jill Elmers
Salad mix has become a market staple for many customers. Learn what makes a good mix, growing methods, and harvesting methods. 30 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Swiss Chard and Kale
Laura Christensen
Bunched greens make an eye-catching market display and can be popular with customers. We'll cover simple production, harvest and storage practices as well as tips on marketing, presentation and pricing. 30 minutes
Breakout Two: 1:00 p.m.
Sales, Marketing and Display:
Community Supported Agriculture: What it takes to become someone's farmer
John Crisp
One family farm's experience with CSA setup, marketing, logistics, and customer service. Participate in an informal discussion of the joys/challenges of knowing the families you feed. Come with your questions about this rapidly growing market! 60 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Kansas Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program–Vendor Training and Certification
Jennifer Church
The Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program has returned to Kansas! At the end of this session, vendors will have the option of being certified to receive senior farmers' market checks during the 2010, 2011, and 2012 market seasons; recertification will not be necessary until 2013. Guidelines for receiving and cashing checks and what products are eligible (honey is now an eligible product!) will be explained. 30 minutes + registration time
Breakout One: 10:45 a.m.
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Making the Most at Market
Dave Heidebrink
When designing a market strategy, vendors can draw in shoppers through attractive, bountiful displays, farm promotion, fair prices and excellent customer service. Join Dave as he gives you a tour of his market booth and shares his tips on strengthening relationships with customers. 60 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Reaching New Customers: www.buylocalks.com
Pete Garfinkel
We will discuss and demonstrate the new Kansas Rural Center website designed to increase the sale of specialty crops and locally grown foods produced in Kansas. Specialty crop producers can post detailed descriptions about their operation and available products on this website as well as add their information to maps to increase ease in locating their business. A restaurants & markets section showcases businesses that sell specialty crops and value added items produced in Kansas.
Breakout Two: 1:00 p.m.
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Strategies Farmers Can Use to Increase Sales
Don Wambles
Are you one of the many farmers that think your primary goal is to produce bountiful crops? Producing a bountiful crop does not always translate into bountiful profits. In this session you will learn methods for pricing, ways to keep customers coming back and strategies to gain new customers. All of which will increase your sales. 60 minutes
Breakout Two: 1:00 p.m.
Making Time to be Inspired
Jozie Schimke and Brian Henry
Earth Flowers annual pilgrimage in photos. To keep reinventing your business, you've got to be alert wherever you are and we believe in the magic of travel! 30 minutes
Breakout One: 11:15 a.m.
Perennial Pizzazz for Bouquets
Jozie Schimke and Brian Henry
Discover perennials and fillers to round out and add seasonal interest to market bouquets. 30 minutes
Breakout One: 10:45 a.m.
Top 5 Tips for Standout Sellout Bouquets
Jozie Schimke and Brian Henry
The art and the craft of fabulous bouquet making. Come develop your skill in this hands-on workshop. 45 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Meat, Poultry and Eggs:
Meat Marketing Displays at Kansas Farmers Markets
Rosanna Bauman
A kaleidoscope of Kansas farmers market meat vendor' display techniques interpreted by KRC's Farmer Educator Rosanna Bauman. Vendors showcasing multiple meat species, niche and value-added meats will be critiqued for displays exhibiting character, signage and sidelights. This session in followed by a brief look at profit keys that will support the demand generated by good displays. 30 minutes
Meat-mathics 101: A profits and pricing survival guide for meat producers drowning in numbers
Rosanna Bauman
Why is someone who is notorious for poor record keeping giving a talk on record keeping? Because the Baumans can tell you the horror stories of not keeping records and the necessary systems they use to track their eleven on-farm enterprises. The operators of Cedar Valley Farms share their simple systems for profit and cost assessment, cash flow analysis, and value increasing. 30 minutes
Niche Poultry Production: Slow Growing Broilers
Betsy Conner
Slow growing broilers can be a great niche pastured poultry market opportunity. Learn about slow growing broilers including differences between slow and fast growing broilers, budget, resources, and marketing options. 30 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Small Scale Egg Production
Betsy Conner
Thinking of getting into small-scale egg production or increasing the size of your existing flock? Learn the bare bones of egg production including production systems, breed choices, egg handling, marketing, and resources. 40 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Stop the Meatball Slingin': Producer/Processor Relationships
Rosanna Bauman
A successful direct marketing meat business must have good relationships with its processor/butcher. The future of many processing facilities is dependent on local meat producers. As a diversified meat producer from Bauman's Cedar Valley Farms, Rosanna also has experience as a poultry processor with her family's USDA-certified ANCO Processing facility. Get the scoop on how to improve and strengthen the relationship with your processor. 30 minutes
Winter Production and High Tunnels:
Designing Structures for Deep Winter Growing
Chuck Waibel
Chuck talks about designing a new kind of greenhouse for energy-efficient deep winter growing. Seeing that most greenhouses are designed assuming cheap and abundant energy, he developed a different design philosophy "from the ground up." He will explain the basics of that philosophy, and how he applied it to the Garden Goddess Greenhouse. 60 minutes
Breakout Two: 1:00 p.m.
High Tunnels from A to maybe M or N
Dan Nagengast
An introduction to high tunnel construction, use, crops and research going on in Kansas and the Midwest. 60 minutes
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
The Story of Garden Goddess
Chuck Waibel and Carol Ford
Chuck and Carol missed the fresh vegetables of Summer and decided to do something about it. They designed and built a first-of-its kind solar powered greenhouse, from which they provide fresh vegetables for not only themselves, but over a dozen families, in the cold, windy Minnesota Winter! Talk with them about the whys and wherefores of what they call "Winter's tastiest miracle." 60 minutes
Breakout One: 10:45 a.m.
Winter Horticulture, Growing in the Cold and White
Carol Ford
Carol is the "Garden Goddess." She has learned that growing food in the depth of Winter is very different from growing in the Summer. She will share her techniques and insights from years of research and practical experience, including best plant varieties, soil mixes, scheduling, and the "Three Seasons of Winter." 60 minutes
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Food Safety and KDA Licensing:
Licensed Facilities: Where do I start?
Shannon Rees
Shannon explains her experience in trying to discover information for adding a certified kitchen to the Rees Fruit Farm market. Learn who she contacted, what laws applied to her facility, and the hoops she jumped through to get the project approved. 30 minutes
KDA's Adam Inman holds a Q & A on licensed facilities following this session.
Breakout Four: 3:30 p.m.
Get Right or Get Left: The story of Flory Foods' licensed mobile unit
Don Flory
Don shares the process he implemented to develop and license a mobile unit to sell grilled breakfast sandwiches at farmers market. Know what end results you want to achieve. Define a path including procedures and contacts. Explanation of process involved in procuring license from state. 30 minutes
KDA's Adam Inman holds a Q & A on licensed mobile units following this session.
Breakout Three: 2:00 p.m.
Got GAPs?
Pete Garfinkel
GAPs certification is increasingly becoming a requirement for producers selling to many wholesale outlets. This will be an overview of the major aspects of Good Agricultural Practices guidelines (GAPs) for fruit and vegetable producers. We will discuss the features and benefits of GAPs certification and completion of farm self assessments. 30 minutes
Breakout One: 11:15 a.m.
Update on Federal Food Safety Legislation
Dan Nagengast
Will the pending federal food safety legislation affect produce sales at farmers markets? How about wholesale sales? Dan explains the current status of legislation in the House and Senate. 30 minutes
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I know its probably not recommended due to the file/folder structures and what not. But with Windows Vista, I was wondering if it's possible to keep both alpha and beta at the same time, at least until more of the bugs get worked out. There are some apps I had in alpha that I don't in beta (nothing that's that important), local video files' audio is out of sync, and I'd kinda like to compare the 2 a little more 1 on 1 on. I didn't even try this yet because I don't want to mess anything up, removed everything boxee before installing beta.


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Having been in the securities investment business for more than 45 years I bear witness to some important investment truths:
Movements in all investment markets, i.e., stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities are interrelated for numerous reasons. For example, stock prices invariably bottom and begin to rise when interest rates are going down. This usually happens because the economy is weak, and the Federal Reserve Board has loosened monetary policy. The public's emotions at these times usually make people wrongfully afraid to buy stocks...but that's when they are cheap.
Conversely, stock prices usually begin to go down when the yield curve is inverted (short term rates are higher than long term rates) and the economy is strong. The yield curve is inverted because the Fed is now trying to slow down the economy and put the brakes on price inflation. Stock prices are up, and it is probably a good time to do some selling. Investor's emotions, again, make that a hard thing to do.
Gold and other hard commodities usually rise in price when the U.S. $is weak. A weak $may be forecasting a rise in interest rates. When the price of oil goes up, oil service company stocks usually do better than most other stocks and airlines do far worse.
Paying attention to just one asset class disregards many of the forces that actually drive that asset class. It pays to watch them all in a disciplined non emotional way for signs in one or two that will affect others.
Not only is the whole the sum of the parts, today it is also global.
Many major product lines and even major service companies today are foreign.
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AGEP (Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate) is a program sponsored by the National Science Foundation designed with a two-fold purpose:
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