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31st August 2012, 11:59 PM
Today we went swimming at my parents house. Fletcher loves to swim and has no issues wearing his life jacket. Well we have had a lot of rain lately and more is expected this weekend so the pool was full past where is should be kept. So I needed to drain water. The drain hose not like a regular garden hose its made out of the same stuff as the pool liner anyway when you drain water the hose end will sometime flip around like wild snake. Its pretty funny normally the kids scream and the dogs bark at it. Well today for the first time Fletcher tried to attack it, he was having a good old time jumping around biting the water. The water comes out pretty fast it so after a minute I went to turn it off well about that time Fletcher somehow took a good hose full in the face!!!! He jumped back and yelped, I ran to turn the water off. He came right to me I dried his face and EARS off then he went back to swimming with us. But ever since then he has been stopping and shaking his head. I got some cotton balls and re-dried inside his ears but he's acting like he has water in them or something. He ate dinner fine when we got home and he's playing like normal just shaking his head like he's shaking water off. I know I should watch for signs of infection which I do anyway since he swims so much but if the head shaking continues should I be calling the vet?? And if so how long should I give it? He is not scratching at them which I think is a good thing??? But I don't know.
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Recent Posts
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Koi Fish Cake
Posted by Erin Eason
While I was at Cake Love 2012, I also took a cake carving class with Mike Elder from Black Sheep Custom Cakes. It was a great experience and I learned a lot of new techniques that I will definitely be trying again soon. Here is the finished project. I think this koi cake is pretty fancy.
Gumpaste Peony
Posted by Erin Eason
At Cake Love 2012, I took a flower class from Jacqueline Butler of Petalsweet Cakes. For those of you that know me, I know...a flower class? I love making cake and wish more often than not that I liked to, was patient enough or was good at making sugar flowers. However, this class may have changed my mind. My flower actually turned out pretty good. I may have actually have the thought of making a whole army of these flowers, enough that I could cover a cake in them. What do you think?
Gumpaste Red High Heel Shoe
Posted by Erin Eason
This past October, I went to the Cake Love 2012 cake conference in Vancouver, BC with a bunch of my cake friends. It was a great time and I got to take some fabulous classes by some awesome instructors.
Here is my gumpaste red closed toe high heeled shoe I made in a class taught by Wayne Steinkopf from Swank Cake Design.
I can't wait to make another and actually put it on a cake. Right now, this one hangs out on the shelf is my craft room. I think it might be lonely!
Ade's First Birthday - A Jungle Cake
Posted by Erin Eason
I made this sweet first birthday cake for the sweetest little boy. The jungle theme was really fun and gave me the opportunity to not only make some awesome gumpaste figures but extend the theme by adding animal print to the cake rounds. Happy Birthday Ade!
The Pickle Cake
Posted by Erin Eason
A friend of mine came to me and explained that her daughter was turning 9 and had requested a pickle birthday party. At this pickle party, they were going to eat all kinds of pickles, can their own pickles, and play a bunch of different pickle inspired games. I love a good themed birthday party probably more than most people, so when she asked if I could come up with a pickle cake I was happy to help her out.
My friend gave me complete creative license with the design of this cake. The only requests were that it needed to feed 12 people and that they would like it to be made from chocolate cake. In the planning process for this cake, I decided that I would try to make the pickle as realistic as possible and then quickly realized that this plan would either turn out great or turn out very, very badly. There was a definite possibility that the cake could turn out as awesome as I imagine it could be in my head or it could turn out to look like a big, green, unappealing blob of a cake. Oh geez!
I went to work baking, carving, covering and worrying...and then I decided that maybe the key to a fabulous pickle cake would be in it's color, or rather it's range of color, depth and realism. So, I got out my rarely used airbrush. I rarely used it because I am mostly afraid of it. I have not used it very many time and know that once you airbrush a cake you can't got back, you can't remove it and it is extremely hard to remedy without starting over completely. But, I went for it anyways and I am now in awe of the airbrush's awesome abilities. Starting with a very light avocado green colored base I layered shade of green, yellow and warm brown to achieve almost exactly what I had imagined. I love it!
When I delivered this pickle, the birthday girl was not only surprised by how real it looked but also by it's size. You can't tell from the picture, but i grossly over-estimated the amount of cake I would need and this cake was huge. I could easily fed 40 people.
So, three cheers for a super huge pickle cake. I'm sure it tasted better than it looked (because that is a lot of pickle).
***Another funny pickle cake story:
I saw my friend who ordered the pickle cake the week following the party and she had great things to say about the cake. She then went on to tell me that since she didn't actually get to have a piece of cake at the party (and since there was so much left over) she decided to have a piece after dinner that night, When she took a bite of the cake, she was surprised to find that the chocolate cake not only have a slight pickle flavor but was a tad crunchy. Needless to say, she did finish her piece but still wondered if I had intended for the flavor of the cake to include the cake's theme as well. The next day, after a little super sleuthing, she came to find out that her 4 year old son had come by some of the sprigs of dill that were left over from the party's pickle canning activity and had decided to place the sprigs inside the holes the candles had made in the top of the leftover cake. So, there was at least one piece of cake that actually tasted like a pickle. Too funny!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Lovely Ladybug Cake
Posted by Erin Eason
My husband works for the an e-commerce company managing their online experience team. I know it sounds fancy, but truth be told I'm not exactly sure what it means (Shhh, don't tel the hubby!). What I do know is that this great group of people write a lot of 'code' which produces a great looking, fast and profitable front end website where you can purchase just about anything you might need. This team of people are also responsible for fixing any 'bugs' or problems that might occur on this code. From what I understand. fixing bugs can be pretty tricky and somewhat stressful.I made this cake for the team to celebrate fixing 5,000 bugs. Great works guys!

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Saw this bit come through the wires about the AELTC suspending its all-white dress code when it hosts the tennis portion of the 2012 Olympics, in London.
From the club's head honcho, Ian Ritchie: "We have been very supportive to the Olympic organizers throughout the process… We hope to some extent there will be a different type of audience. It is not a repeat of the Championships. It will be its own competition, have its own style and it will play out in its own way."
Perhaps they're just trying to give everything over to the Olympics organizers so they won't be blamed if anything goes wrong. (We also saw this post over at BBC about the possibility of the Wimbledon's usual food offerings — Pimms, strawberries and cream, etc. — not being available at the Coca-Cola- and McDonald's-sponsored event.)
On the flipside, we're happy for the prospect of having folks who don't usually get into the AELTC have an opportunity to do so with this equally grand tournament. And while we're disappointed about the dress code (what is this, Queen's Club??), we take consolation in knowing that many of the clothing companies, like they do for the Davis and Fed Cups, will probably dress their players in country colors.
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One of the main points of any election is what a candidate brings to the table. In my case, it is a leadership style that encourages the contributions of others.
Since becoming town supervisor, our town has seen many positive changes, during trying economic times:
- As supervisor, a new Town Hall was built after two decades of nothing but talk.
- People on East Lake Road needed clean drinking water, and I made it happen by putting the process in motion so homeowners could vote it in. My opponent, while supervisor, couldn't get a project off the ground.
- Acting on my recommendation, the Town Board hired a person to get a $500,000 grant to lower the cost of construction for the water project on East Lake Road, and we got it.
- Residents on Ashley and White roads came to us wanting good water, and I helped make it happen. As town supervisor, I will continue to help residents get water on Big Tree, Belcher and Allen's Hill roads.
- The Town Board, at my lead, directed the Planning Board to find a website company, and they did.
- The bankrupt Stone Construction property was purchased by Commodore Plastics. They will employ 40 people, according to my conversations with them.
- I have directed that Honeoye Lake become a regular agenda item in our Town Board meetings.
When my opponent was supervisor (1994-2002), he voted to jack up sewer rates as chairman of the Public Works Committee, and he voted to impose a 3 percent motel/hotel tax on tourists to our area. When asked why he horded over a million dollars of taxpayers money without a plan to spend it, he said "that was poor municipal planning." We should take him at his word.
As supervisor, he studied and studied and studied the problems of Honeoye Lake. But he couldn't come up with an action plan, then, or even now. Just more studies and nothing to show for it.
My action plan for Honeoye Lake is doable. In late October, the town needs to pick up homeowners� leaves to keep them out of the lake. I remember when the wetlands/inlet worked like it was supposed to; we can fix it. I am asking for your vote to keep the improvements coming.
Ralph Angelo is running as an independent.


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Gold prices, now at a three-year low, could continue to get hammered as investors reshape their views of the precious metal.
Forecasts for $1,000 an ounce gold sound much less far-fetched than they did before the metal breached $1,300 on June 20.
"Technically, as these things start to break down, they often overshoot," said Robert Sinche, global strategist for Pierpont Securities. "I just think we have this critical couple of levels coming here around the $1,150 level and if it gets through there, who knows—it could have some pretty significant downside from there," he said.


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Is Kermitt Gosnell really locked up or is he alive and well in your community?
All over America reports are revealing that Gosnellish conditions, dirty instruments, shoddy procedures and dirty secrets of the abortion community are not under lock and key.
Kermit Gosnell now joins the ranks of Elvis and Tupac in that sightings of Gosnell or Gosnellish doctors have been reported in Maryland, Arkansas, Texas, Philadelphia, Virginia, Florida, and Delaware. There are other sightings that we are aware of but have not been reported on yet which would lead one to wonder, "Where is Gosnell?"
The Family Foundation reported in April,
As the Virginia Board of Health prepares to vote tomorrow on abortion center health and safety standards, documents obtained by The Family Foundation of Virginia from the Virginia Board of Health indicate continued widespread health and safety violations at Virginia's abortion centers and widespread failure to fulfill plans of correction for earlier findings. At one facility, startling evidence of violations of the Commonwealth's parental consent law was found.
This report dozens and dozens of deficiencies at abortion facilities all over Virginia that exist and have continue to exist despite the facilities stating in Plans of corrections that the dificiencies would be addressed.
In Little Rock, AK, as reported by Little Rock Family Planning Warnings Blog, a Little Rock Family Planning SD 05-09-13 Survey Report revealed that,
Clinic exposed patients to dirty linens and blankets, dispensed expired medications, no plan in place to protect patients from TB, and no plan in place to report infectious diseases. Please note, the deficiencies related to the expired drugs being used on patients is a repeat offense, that can cause serious complications especially if these expired drugs are being used to treat patients during an emergency!
Just as all things are BIG in Texas, so are the abortion alleged crimes. Shortly after the conviction of Kermit Gosnell in Philadelphia for murdering babies born alive during abortion procedures, a new video was released of three women who told of unspeakable acts they witnessed by Dr. Douglas Karpen at his Houston, TX abortion facility when they used to work for him.
The facts revealed in the joint project of Priests for Life, Stand True, Operation Rescue, and Life Dynamics disturbed Lt. Governor David Dewhurst so much that he immediately called for an investigation into Karpen.
You can read all about Dr. Douglas Karpen at TexasGosnell.com
These are but a few of the doctors involved in this Gosnellesque era. As I stated earlier, we know of others in the states mentioned above which a quick Google search will reveal. There are others that have been shared with me but have not been written about.
Like the pro-life community has been shouting from the rooftops, GOSNEL's 'HOUSE OF HORRORS' IS NOT AN ABERRATION. He may be in your community.
Where is Gosnell hiding? Really?


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The problem of theodicy—why bad things happen to good people—predates Christianity. Writing around 300 b.c., the Greek philosopher Epicurus framed the problem this way: God is believed by most people to be infinite in his power and also in his goodness and compassion. Now evil exists in the world and seems always to have existed. If God is unable to remove evil, he lacks omnipotence. If God is able to remove evil but doesn't, he lacks goodness and compassion. So clearly the all-powerful, compassionate God that most people pray to does not exist.
This old critique has been revived by Bart Ehrman in God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer. Theologians over the centuries have responded to questions about the existence of evil by pointing out that man, not God, is the author of moral evil. Evil in this view refers to the bad things that people do to each other. Moral evil is the necessary price that God pays for granting humans moral autonomy.
Yet while human freedom may account for moral evil, it cannot account for natural evil, or more accurately, natural suffering. Ehrman's book is full of examples, to which we can add recent tragedies such as the earthquake in China last spring and the 2004 tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Southeast Asia.
Christian apologists such as C. S. Lewis have attempted to account for natural disasters by showing how they draw people together, or how they provide moral instruction to the survivors, or how they turn our eyes to God. Ehrman asks, but couldn't God have found better ways to achieve these worthy objectives? Rejecting as implausible and offensive the usual responses to innocent suffering, Ehrman has stopped calling himself ...1


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vvn wrote:mscha wrote:Okay, 10 (Outside) minutes past newpix it is, from now on.
I agree that the contest to post the next TimeFrame is fun, and am glad that the bot is now delayed. However I still think mscha is due kudos for creating it, and more for changing it to check if anyone else had done so before posting. (After all there were two newpix posts with nothing between, so we might have missed it. Reminds me of the "steam engine in the Indy 500" story. Obviously faster, so we make it against the rules. Because we are all here for fun.
So, from me, a hat tip for good coding, and another for good sportsmanship.
Change is change, sometimes good, sometimes bad. This one is good. Kudos ++


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New Brew: Guinness Black Lager
The brews we're sipping, one by one.
I'd drink porter and stout anytime, but this early in the fall, you may want to reach for something a little crisper. Guinness recently released the first lager brewed under the Guinness name—a black lager—and we gave it a try.
This beer pours dark brown (though not opaque) and tastes crisp but lightly roasty, with hints of coffee and molasses with a medium-light body. There's a bit of sourness at the core and a hint of char on the finish, but this is an approachable, easy-drinking beer. It's not super-rich or super-complex, but it offers a little more than your standard lager. We'd happily pick up a sixpack to drink alongside some chili, cornbread, and football.
September release. Sample provided for review.
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Sweepstakes business owners have historically been content to operate in the shadows.
Fears about a negative public perception have fueled that behavior, as have strategic efforts to fly under the radar of competitors.
But the industry�s recent legal hurdles in North Carolina have triggered a survival instinct. An alliance of sweepstakes entrepreneurs are trying to win support by touting their virtues.
With unemployment high and the economy still struggling, they argue the state can�t afford to ignore the number of people they employ, and the revenue they produce in taxes and license fees.
�I think we probably should have done something like this a long time ago,� said Jim Harris, chairman of the Coalition for Electronic Sweepstakes. �We�re trying to educate the public, the legislators and everybody, so they�ll see the good we bring, and understand that we�re not casinos.�
Playing up the positive
Harris has operated sweepstakes businesses in and around Fayetteville about five years. He and other members of the coalition have launched a website, www.keepitlegalnc.com, �to educate the public on the economic benefits of electronic sweepstakes.�
The move comes after the state Supreme Court crippled the industry with a December ruling, in which it upheld a 2010 state sweepstakes ban. Affected businesses are appealing.
The website cites data from a study by economist and former N.C. State University professor J.C. Poindexter. He determined that prior to the December court ruling, there were more than 1,000 electronic sweepstakes cafes across the state that directly employed 10,000 people. The average pay was 40 percent higher than minimum wage, and in some cases double the minimum wage, Harris said.
At a time when state government is looking for new revenue sources, regulating and taxing electronic sweepstakes could provide the state with hundreds of millions of dollars that could fund education and other critical programs, Harris said. Gastonia is among the cities that was receiving thousands of dollars in licensing fees, which in turn help fund critical services such as police and fire protection, he said.
�This is going to have a drastic effect across North Carolina if these businesses remain closed,� said Harris. �People don�t realize how far-reaching it is.�
Stepping into the light
The sweepstakes industry�s �loud and proud� stance marks a departure from old trends.
James Mecham works with SweepsCoach, a California consulting agency that develops and supplies sweepstakes software and helps entrepreneurs start sweepstakes businesses.
In October, before the high court upheld the ban, he said North Carolina � and specifically the Charlotte market � likely had the heaviest concentration of the sweepstakes establishments in the nation.
But you wouldn�t have known it by looking at the phone book or doing an Internet search for the businesses, he promised.
Mecham said owners of the machines were weary of becoming too public.
That was because of public perception that they were gambling parlors and because no sweepstakes business owner wanted the competition scoping out their setups, according to the consultant.
In 2012, a business hoping to put together local directories of gaming locations contacted Mecham. His response: �You won�t be able to do that.�
Sweepstakes businesses didn�t want to be that public, he said at the time.
And there�s no trade group, either regionally or nationally, to speak for the industry.
�It�s going to be a long time before it�s completely legitimized,� he said.
Harris hopes that doesn�t turn out to be the case. He still believes sweepstakes businesses should maintain a low profile in many ways � just not in every way.
�We don�t want to entice players,� he said. �I don�t believe in running billboard ads and things like that.
�But by the same token, if you watch TV, they�re advertising the (N.C.) Education Lottery every night.�
You can reach Michael Barrett at 704-869-1826 or twitter.com/GazetteMike.


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After a decade-plus break from filmmaking, Tim Robbins is returning to the director's chair: According to The Hollywood Reporter, Robbins will helm an adaptation of Arthur Phillips' short story Wenceslas Square. A spy romance set in Czechoslovakia near the end of the Cold War, Wenceslas Square was recently featured on This American Life, once more suggesting that—after the recent teaming of Paul Rudd, Errol Morris, and Ira Glass on a "You're As Cold As Ice" adaptation—This American Life is a fertile ground for potential movie ideas. Robbins' film version will be titled City Of Lies, as this is considerably easier to pronounce than "Wenceslas."
Though Robbins has directed a few episodes of HBO's Treme during his downtime (a fact which we recognize breaks the illusion that Treme is even directed at all, and not just a wrenching, life-scaled New Orleans docudrama unfolding in a real-time), City Of Lies marks his first feature since 1999's Cradle Will Rock, which capped off a loose, liberal-minded triptych rounded out by 1992's Bob Roberts and 1995's widely lauded Dead Man Walking. Compared to most of these, a love story set on the dark side of the Iron Curtain could be considered light fare for Robbins.


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TORONTO (AP) Center Andrew Bogut is in the starting lineup for the Golden State Warriors on Monday against the Raptors, his first action since November 7.
The No. 1 overall draft pick out of Utah in 2005, Bogut has been limited to just four games this season while recovering from microfracture surgery on his left ankle.
When he was acquired from Milwaukee last season, the 7-foot Bogut was recovering from a broken ankle. The injury caused him to miss the remainder of the season.
He underwent surgery in April and played in four of Golden State's first five games this season before announcing he was taking time off to strengthen his ankle.
Bogut is averaging 6.0 points and 3.8 rebounds.


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The final World Curling Federation (WCF) championships of the 2010-2011 season get underway on Sunday 17 April when Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA plays host to the 2011 World Mixed Doubles Championship and the 2011 World Seniors Curling Championships.
The two events will run until Saturday 23 April and will be staged simultaneously in the historic eight-sheeter St Paul Curling Club which was originally founded in 1888 and is currently the largest curling club in the United States.
The Mixed Doubles World Curling Championship is now into its fourth year, having been inaugurated in Vierumaki, Finland in 2008 and then held in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy in 2009 and last year in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
Instead of playing in teams of four, mixed doubles curling is for teams of two players – one male and one female (no alternate/spare player is allowed).
- The game is played on the same sheets of ice as "traditional" curling.
- Teams have only six stones each (instead of eight) - and one of those stones, from each team, is prepositioned on the centreline before each end of play starts.
- Player one delivers the first and last stones and player two plays the second, third and fourth stones. If they choose to, the two players may swap positions from one end to the next.
- Sweeping can be done by both team members.
- Each team receives 46 minutes of playing time and games are fixed at 8 ends – compared to 73 minutes and 10 ends for "traditional" curling.
Altogether 24 nations will participate in the Mixed Doubles event in St Paul: Australia, Austria, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Korea, Latvia, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and hosts USA.
Among the competitors this year are Bridget and Sean Becker of New Zealand, the sister and brother team who took silver in Chelyabinsk last year. György Nagy and Ildiko Szekeres return to represent Hungary after taking silver in 2009. And the Spanish duo, Sergio Vez and Irantzu Garcia, will be hoping to improve on their fourth place finish in Russia last year after they lost the bronze medal game to China.
For this Championship, the 24 Mixed Doubles teams have been divided into three groups. Each group will play a round robin before quarterfinals on Friday 22 and semi-finals and medal games on Saturday 23.
This is the tenth edition of formally-sanctioned WCF World Senior Curling Championships. Altogether 21 senior men's teams and eleven senior women's teams will be competing in games that are limited to eight-ends. To be eligible to play in the senior championships players must not be less than 50 years of age by the end of the 30th day of June of the year immediately preceding the year in which the WSCC is to take place.
The nations represented in the men's event are: Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Wales. The senior men will play in the same competition format as the Mixed Doubles.
The nations involved in the women's event are: Canada, Czech Republic, England, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland and USA. These eleven teams will be in one group and will play a single round-robin series.
As with the Mixed Doubles – quarterfinals for the seniors will take place on Friday 22 with semi-finals and medal games being staged on Saturday 23.
Last year's Mixed Doubles and Senior World Championships in Chelyabinsk, Russia, were affected by the Icelandic volcanic ash cloud with a number of teams not being able to make it to compete in the events.
Russia (Yana Nekrasova and Petr Dron) won the 2010 mixed doubles world championship title with New Zealand (Bridget and Sean Becker) taking silver and China (Zhipeng Zhang and Yue Sun) winning bronze.
USA (skip Paul Pustovar) won the senior men's title, Canada (skip Bruce Delaney) took silver and Australia (skip Hugh Millikin) won bronze.
Canada (skip Colleen Pinkney) won the senior women's gold medal, Switzerland (skip Renate Nedkoff) took silver and Sweden (skip Ingrid Meldahl) won bronze.
For information about tickets for the event visit: http://www.2011worldcurling.com/ticket-announcement
Live Scores: http://www.2011worldcurling.com/draw--scores
Scores mirrored on: http://results.worldcurling.org/default.aspx
Event websites for news & photos:
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WorldCurlingFederation


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Pick of the Week:
Top of the Lake
The, ah, remarkable scenery around Queenstown has provided plenty of backdrops for plenty of productions over the years - from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films, to Wolverine and Bollywood musicals. But now the area is ready for its very own close-up.
Jane Campion's BBC-backed crime miniseries actually goes into, and uses, the name of the tourist-trap town. Though it also uses some poetic licence with the local geography - the settlement at "Paradise" is shot at Moke Lake over the hill from Queenstown, not the Paradise near where Campion has a cottage on the northern reaches of Lake Wakatipu. And Glenorchy is renamed "Laketop" and is a far edgier place with far edgier residents than the actual quiet hamlet where some of the series was shot. As Campion told canvas magazine: "It's not located geographically realistically. It's more about community at the end of the line. At the edge of things."
But Campion and co-director Garth Davis' use of the the landscape suggests the series may do for the area what her The Piano did for Karekare, even if it's a setting for an unsettling story about a missing girl and warring local factions.
"It's another character," says series lead Elisabeth Moss of the setting, "and possibly the most important character in the project. Not to mention the fact that you put the camera anywhere in this place and it's stunning.
"Jane obviously has a passion for her country and she brings that into the project so much. She's got a love for this environment which is just so palpable and you can see it in the story. Even in the uglier bits of this story ..."
As it hits screens in the US, Australia and New Zealand, the series has been compared to David Lynch's television saga Twin Peaks for its setting and off-kilter approach to genre. "I thought of Twin Peaks at first but real- not surreal, but real," says Australian actor David Wenham, who plays the local top cop in the show. Though as the series progresses, it gets even more Peaks-esque, says Peter Mullan, who plays Matt Mitcham, the father of the missing girl.
"We're plenty close to dancing midgets. There's dream sequences towards the end and stuff."
For Campion, though, who co-wrote the series with Gerard Lee, she had something in mind that might intrigue fans of the Scandinavian crime wave of recent times, only strained through her own idiosyncrasies. "I think Scandinavian crime fiction is exciting for people because it's a really interesting and particular environment and I think New Zealanders are also interested in that."
And so far as Queenstown goes, the local coroner in the show grumbles, "Queenstown is a millionaires' playground. What they want they get."
Campion wrote the line. Does she agree? "I think you could say that. I think he's got a slightly sour view But, yes, beautiful places attract money and people who want to buy a bit of it ... it attracted me."
When: 8.30pm, Monday
Where: UKTV
What: Campion's Southern saga
Lifestyle pick: Country Calendar
In its 47th year on screens, Country Calendar returns with more insights into the lives of our nation's farmers, producers and rural innovators against a backdrop of heartland scenery. In the first episode, the crew visits John and Pauline Blaikie on their northern Manawatu farm. When John was young, his father made him work on the family poultry farm in his spare time, and he ended up hating chooks. But decades on, things have come full circle, as the couple now produce 4000 eggs a day from their free-range and organic operation on 150ha in Rewa, north of Feilding. When they bought the property 20 years ago, they made most of their income through sheep, bulls and growing crops, and although they still have livestock (also organically farmed), their primary source is now the chickens that roam free during the day and roost in purpose-built houses.
When: Saturday, 7pm
Where: TV One
What: Still a Kiwi classic
Current affairs pick: The Vote
There will be teams of three, team leaders and a referee, but TV3's new current affairs show will be quite different to 7 Days. In the style of a debate, the show will address one issue each episode, and the debate will be held in front of live audiences.
Taking over the 3rd Degree timeslot once every four weeks, hosts Duncan Garner and Guyon Espiner will lead each team, while broadcaster and lawyer Linda Clark will referee.
They aim to present lively and informed arguments around some of New Zealand's more crunchy topics, and at the end of each show the audience will vote on the issue, and viewers can have their say via text, Facebook, Twitter and online, giving a snapshot of the nation's opinion. TV3's director of news and current affairs Mark Jennings says The Vote "has the potential to deliver an instant message to politicians and decision-makers".
When: Wednesday, 8.30pm
Where: TV3
What: Debating the issues
Kids' pick: Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards 2013
If you want to be down with the kids then check out these awards. It's like a survey of where kids - okay, so mainly American kids - are at in 2013.
Although it hands out gongs for favourite movie and favourite actress (expect Jennifer Lawrence to feature prominently), the kids also vote for everything from their favourite book and video game to favourite cartoon and app (the possible winner of the latter is likely to be Minecraft, one imagines).
And there certainly isn't any sliming of celebrities at the Oscars like they dish up here, with some of Hollywood's biggest stars the victims.
Hosted this year by Transformers' star Josh Duhamel, the ceremony screens in New Zealand just a day after it is held in the US, and will feature performances by Pitbull, Christina Aguilera and Ke$ha.
When: Sunday 6:30pm
Where: Nickelodeon
What: Slime time
Comedy pick: The New Normal
Unsurprisingly, the new sitcom from Nip/Tuck and Glee's Ryan Murphy involves a non-traditional family set-up. Gay couple David (Justin Bartha) and Bryan (Andrew Rannells) want to adopt a baby. Goldie (Georgia King), the single mother of 8-year-old Shania (Bebe Wood), is looking to start a new life away from her cheating boyfriend and her controlling mum, Nana Jane (Ellen Barkin), a likeable bigot with her racial slurs and homophobic insults. Murphy hopes the show will resonate with viewers.
"I think everybody has people in their family who are hopefully representative in all of these characters. The most controversial will probably be Ellen Barkin's character.
"But when I was growing up my grandmother would actually say these jaw-dropping things ... So it felt very familiar to me and I think it will feel familiar to other people."
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Next week, the United Nations will take over the Internet. Or, actually, it won't take over the Internet, but it's going to let the Russians take over the Internet. Or maybe it's just going to poke the Internet with a stick. No, no, wait, that's not right either… Nobody's going to take over the Internet, but a bunch of "important people" from around the world are going to pretend like they know what's best for the Internet, and all we can do is sit around hoping they don't screw it up.
Yeah, that sounds more like it.
I'm talking, of course – of course – about the 2012 World Conference on International Telecommunications, or WCIT, which kicks off in the fun-loving city of Dubai on Monday, December 3, and runs through December 14. During WCIT (pronounced "wicket"), member states of a UN agency called the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) will talk about a whole bunch of complicated stuff that could, somehow, affect the Internet we all love so much.
Problem is, the whole shebang is a giant mess. Worse, most of the filth is a secret – one of the many reasons people, Internet advocacy groups, governments, and companies are freaking out.
Enough dilly-dallying: Here's what you need to know about the UN Internet takeover that isn't.
This is all about a treaty
At this year's WCIT, member states of the ITU will vote on changes to an old treaty called the International Telecommunication Regulations (ITRs). This treaty is what gives the ITU power over things like long-distance calling rates and other aspects of telecommunication.
Because the ITRs was established in 1988, before the Internet was the all-encompassing colossus it is today, its language is vague enough that everyone is bickering over whether the ITU has any power over the Internet. Some say yes. Others say no. So the purpose of WCIT 2012 is to clarify what types of rules the ITU can make concerning the Internet.
Everything was a secret – but not anymore
Over the past year or more, governments and groups of governments – the "Arab states," the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity Administrations, etc – have been hard at work crafting proposals for how to change the ITRs. A big part of the controversy is that most of these proposals were kept secret – that is, until some rascally researchers at George Mason University's Mercatus Center created a document leak website, WCITLeaks.org. Because of the documents leaked to this website, we now know far more about what might go down in Dubai.
All hell could break loose
Like all treaties, the ITRs can be adopted by countries, or not. Because of this, WCIT will be a consensus-building event, with a version of the ITRs that most member states will agree to sign. But it's entirely possible that some countries (like the U.S.) will choose to not sign the new ITRs. In which case, all hell will break loose – at least, that's my understanding of the situation.
Many countries think the U.S. has too much power
One thing that could turn WCIT into some type of apocalyptic, Mad Max free-for-all is the fact that most countries think the U.S. currently holds too much sway over the global Internet. That's because Uncle Sam has a whole lot'a sway. Mad sway.
See, the primary governing body over the Internet is the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN. This is the entity that controls things like IP addresses and domain names – the key components to the Web. ICANN is heavily influenced by the U.S. government, which maintains key powers over the non-profit organization.
Not only is the headquarters of ICANN in Los Angeles, but the U.S. Department of Commerce has ultimate control over the underlying infrastructure of the Web: something called the DNS root zone, which includes the clusters of servers that make it possible for you to go to Google when you type google.com into your Web browser.
In other words: The U.S. has the power to control the Internet at its most basic levels.
Given that the Internet is a global network that has become crucial to virtually everyone on the planet, it's not really surprising that most other countries would want to have greater say in how it works. WCIT is their chance to do so.
Everyone in the U.S. is opposed to giving anyone else more power
This is one of those rare instances where nearly all interested parties in the U.S. want the same thing. Both the House of Representatives and the White House have vowed to oppose giving the ITU or any other governments more power over the Internet. So has the Internet industry, especially Google. And even many Internet advocacy groups, like the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Knowledge, and the Center for Democracy & Technology think the ITU should keep its nose out of the Internet's business.
U.S. organizations aren't the only ones opposed to changing the status quo; earlier this month, the European Parliament voted on a resolution that directs EU member states to oppose any attempts to give the ITU or other governments more control over the Internet.
Governments, not the ITU itself, are what matter
The ITU is made up of world governments. So whatever happens at WCIT, it will be up to the ITU member states – all 193 of them – to decide which proposals make it into the ITRs, and which don't. The ITU is at the mercy of these governments. Whatever Frankenstein they dream up will be the monster that crawls off the operating table.
Censorship is a real concern
Not only do they decide on what changes to make, but the governments of ITU member states could also end up with far greater power to control the Internet – both outgoing traffic and incoming traffic – in their respective borders. Critics of the ITU proposals, like Google and others, say that proposed changes to the ITRs could allow repressive regimes, like China, Iran, or Russia, to censor Web content, and otherwise make the global Internet less open.
The ITU itself says these fears are overblown.
Russia is a pain in the rear
Of all the proposals ready to go on the table at WCIT, Russia's (PDF) is causing the most outrage. (U.S. Ambassador Terry Kramer called the Russian proposal "shocking.") That's because Russia wants to take the powers of Internet governance and give it to the governments of the world – a radical change from the way things work now (i.e., the U.S. is effectively in charge of how the Internet works, at least on a technical level). Many of the concerns about what will happen at WCIT stem from the Russian proposal.
The whole thing is really just about money
In addition to concerns from U.S.-based Internet companies, like Google, that changes to the ITRs could result in more rules and burdensome regulation, the real worry is money. Some African and Asian nations, as well as the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO) want to impose something called "sender party pays," which would require Web companies to pay local Internet operators around the world for the data-heavy traffic they send through their system. As former U.S. Ambassador David Gross told me earlier this year, the ETNO proposal would impose "a radical change" on "the economics of the Internet."
According to Amb. Gross and others, the establishment of "sender party pays" could, at the very least, result in companies like Google deciding that it is not worth it financially to operate in developing nations that generate little in the way of advertising revenue. This in turn could result in these countries being kicked further behind due to a lack of access to the open Web we enjoy here in the U.S.
Columnist Michael Geist concurs that "sender party pays" would "create enormous new costs for major content providers such as Google or Netflix."
"The long-term impact would be to either shift significant new costs to consumers or lead to a global digital divide in which the large content companies stop sending traffic to uneconomic countries where the financial return from sending traffic is outweighed by the new transmission costs," Geist wrote.
We don't know what will happen
At this point, nobody seems to know what is going to happen at WCIT. It really could go either way – and that seems to have companies like Google mighty worried. So if you oppose changing the way the Internet works right now, you can sign Google's petition here, or the Center for Democracy & Technology's anti-ITU letter here.


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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Golden State's Double Elbow Set
This is definitely a complex set, but not one without its merits. There are so many options the defense has to defend that eventually a mistake will be made. Now, just imagine the great passer Andrew Bogut surveying the floor from the elbow and Steph Curry coming of the down screen. The Warriors versatile personnel can be used in some really interesting ways that will hopefully eventually lead to the P word.
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Really appreciate this post, very clear explanation. Been wondering how they would run the O through their big men.ReplyDelete
Is there any indication as to what type of offensive system they are going to run this year? Princeton, Flex, Motion? Equally important, what about last year, as an indication for this year? I don't have a discerning enough eye, knowledge or ability to watch enough games to figure these two questions out.
Further, we've known for months, for instance, about Lakers and the princeton O, but I feel in all the Warriors coverage this hasn't been discussed. I really hope MJax/Malone has installed an offensive identity to go with all the talk of defense.Replies
Thanks for reading. I wish I could answer your question about what they are gonna run, but that is what I'm trying to figure out myself. This set uses some flex concepts and basic high post stuff (both of which I'm really hoping they use more). Throughout the the season I'll be figuring out the sets and stuff so lookout for more stuff like this.Delete
good stuff. i love "film" study. please keep it coming.ReplyDelete


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Alongside hover boards and jet packs, watching live TV on your travels is one of technology's Holy Grails, which is why Toshiba has potentially hit pay dirt with a machine that not only allows you to watch Lorraine Kelly on your morning commute, but also plays DVDs when you're in the mood for a movie.
That's right; the SD94DT is a portable DVD player with a built-in Freeview tuner, both of which are viewed on the unit's integrated 9in, 16:9 screen. It's a great idea, giving you more choice of stuff to watch on long journeys as well as giving the kids their own little screen if (ok, when) Mr Tumble and Ben 10 start driving you round the bend in the living room.
All of this tasty tech is wrapped up inside an attractive fold-up casing, styled from top to toe in a glossy white finish. When folded up it's remarkably slim and light even with the ultra-thin battery attached – always a bonus with portable products – and when you whip open the lid you'll see the black-framed screen with a speaker down either side, and a bevy of buttons running below it. These control everything from DVD playback to menu navigation and are clearly labelled for their intended purposes. The screen can be swivelled 180 degrees and bent back to rest on the base for 'tablet' style viewing.
The lower section houses the disc tray, which pops up unceremoniously when you hit the button on the right. Overall the unit feels a little plasticky and doesn't feel like it could withstand more than a few rigorous knocks and bumps – as an owner of a beautifully built, still-working Toshiba portable from about six years ago, I'm a little disappointed by the gradual drop in portables' build quality over the years, but then again how else would Toshiba have continued dropping prices?
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For This '56 F-100, the Next Stop is the Old Days
John Berizzi was born in Sonoma County, California, in the very small town of Geyserville. He still lives there today. In the mid '50s, when John was at the age when guys start getting interest in cars and trucks, he started helping some of his older friends with their projects. Like many of the people in Geyserville, the Berizzis raised fruit—so John grew up around farm equipment and learned to make mechanical repairs.
"Soon I was 'fixing up' the family car, a '54 four-door Ford. My dad didn't say too much, so I proceeded with my plans. Even before I had my driver's license, I could go to Santa Rosa with my older friends to cruise Main Street and drive by my girlfriend Rochelle's house."
In time, John was fixing up his own cars and frequenting the Cotati dragstrip—and coming home with trophies. "Finally my dad made me an offer. If I got rid of all my old cars, he'd buy me a new car…which I lowered and hopped up with a set of mag wheels."
When John and Rochelle got married in 1963, they needed a second vehicle, so John bought a '56 Ford F-100. They didn't have much extra cash, but they did have a neighbor who owned a '57 Chrysler New Yorker with a 392 Hemi and push-button Torque Flite, which he gave to John. The Hemi and transmission ended up in the '56 pickup.
John continued to build and drive the truck for a few years, and then sold it to "get more practical." But for anybody born with the hot-rodder gene, practicality can only be maintained for so long. When John retired in 2004, he started looking for a '56 F-100. A friend found this one for him. It had no drivetrain, but that didn't bother John because he had plans for that. And it looked good—at first glance anyway.
John started the project with his son-in-law Todd Matheson and a good friend named Bob Breazeale. Putting in a 350 small-block crate motor was step one. The engine is a 385-horse ZZ4 with GM Fast Burn heads. Valvetrain goodies, including the Comp cam and valvesprings, were installed at Zootis Performance. That tall K&N air cleaner crowns the Holley dual-pump 750 four-barrel, and Moon finned valve covers bounce a little more brightness around the big black engine compartment. The headers are from Sanderson—mufflers are Flowmasters. Highway driveability is improved by the overdrive Fourth gear in the 700-R4 assembled by Eric's Performance Transmission in Cloverdale, California.
The rearend is a Fab 9 with Strange Engineering 4.11 gears and limited slip delivering torque to Dutchman axles. The rear is suspended by a Pro Street four-bar and Bilstein shocks. Bilsteins were also added to the A-arm front suspension, which features an Art Morrison sway bar and spindles from a '72 Nova.
A pair of 12-inch drum brakes stops the 15×15-inch Weld five-spokes rolling on massive 31×18.5×15 Hoosier meats. Wilwood discs slow the front 26×7.5 Hoosiers on 6×15 Welds.
John started the exterior restoration by taking the body down to bare metal. That's when he found rot and rust along the bottom of both doors and several other places. It was a disappointing discovery, but nothing that couldn't be cured by some sheetmetalwork and readily available '56 Ford reproduction parts. Stock headlights, taillights, mirrors, handles, and other pieces were provided by Sacramento Vintage Ford, and one-piece power windows from Nu-Relics replace the original wing window door glass. The body line was not altered, just shaved and cleaned up. The bed is a different story, completely refabricated to include tubs for those enormous tires and to hold the extra large gas tank.
It took a couple of years and an expert bodyman named Terry Richardson from Windsor, California, to get the sheetmetal straight enough for paint. The PPG Black, shot by Joe Mariani and sanded and buffed by Terry, combines the elegance of a tuxedo with the defiance of a leather jacket—and shows off the quality of the bodywork.
The last job to be tackled was the upholstery. John explored interiors at car and truck shows, and met with Chris Plante at Aces High Auto Trim in Santa Rosa before deciding on the low-key, high-quality look. Chris used top-shelf Mercedes vinyl to upholster the original bench and door panels, and covered the floor and kick panels in Mercedes carpet. Dakota Digital gauges add an up-to-date appearance to the '56 dash. A Gen II A/C unit from Vintage Air was mounted below the dash. Bob Breazeale wired the '56 with a Painless wiring system.
According to John, the most memorable experiences during the build were the conversations among the people helping him work on the truck. Throughout the project, Rochelle provided lunch at the shop—spaghetti, salad, garlic bread, coffee, and biscotti. John and Rochelle have been married for 46 years now, and the truck has been finished for a little while—until John thinks of something else to do to it. Until then, maybe it's time for another drive down to Santa Rosa to see who's cruising Main Street. CCT


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WASHINGTON — The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) today published a Community Developments Insights report that looks at bank participation in the USDA Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan Program. By reducing lender risk, this program helps banks supply loans to businesses across rural America. The report highlights how banks can make loans through this program to support businesses, expand employment, further economic development in rural areas, and help meet their Community Reinvestment Act goals.
"Job creation and improving the economic climate in rural America are among this program's primary goals," said Comptroller of the Currency Thomas J. Curry. "The USDA program enables lenders to help mitigate risk and assist rural businesses with their financing needs."
The Insights report highlights the potential benefits and risks posed to lenders by the USDA Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan Program, describes the program's regulatory requirements, and outlines the program's processes.
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Since I have been getting close to completion on my wife's Zam and there has been a little bit of interest in the stuff I made for her and offer to others that I would show some of the finished/almost finished parts. So here's what we've got done so far. There are a few parts not shown that are finished, like I have MonCal's aluminum barrel blaster.
In terms of breakdown of who made what -
Foot armor - my sculpt
Toe armor - my sculpt w/ screen cast toe spikes
Handplates - Left is screen cast, right is my sculpt
Thumbguards - my sculpt
Misc colored greeblies - my sculpts
Chest armor - my sculpt
Hose Connector - ZamIAm
Stomach Armor - my leatherwork
Crescent moon - screen cast
Horseshoe - ZamIAm
Ovary Bits - screen cast
Hose - from a Spot Bot carpet cleaner (bought a replacement hose online)
Shins - my sculpt
Gauntlets - my sculpts
Helmet - from original DCB run but I had to resculpt/cast the binoc bridge
Skirt - My leatherwork w/ wife's help for lacing
Holster - My leatherwork, formed to MonCal's awesome aluminum blaster
For the bodysuit we have ZamIAm's custom neoprene. We have the boots with correct sole, though they are not finished, and we have the leather for the remaining pieces like the vest, cummerbund, and veil. We are trying to get everything done by SDCC this year.
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Email. Integrated Marketing Communications
Email marketing is a marketing method that uses emails to promote to customers. To some, this can sound a bit difficult, but it really isn't. Using email marketing to reach your customer base isn't as hard as you might think, especially if you pay close attention to the tips in the following article.
Do what you can to make your email go into your customers' inboxes. You must work to get your email to pass ISPs and not get tagged as spam messages. If they get tagged as spam messages, your recipient may never see them. Check with customers to see if they are getting your emails, or if they're no longer interested.#Integrated Marketing Communications
While extra graphics and other things that can easily be blocked by filters are unnecessary and detrimental to your campaign, your company logo does need to be included in order to make things' consistent, familiar, and professional when you are in contact with prospective customers. Failure to do this will harm your email marketing campaign immensely.
For maximum accessibility, send your email marketing messages as multipart format. Any email clients that support HTML or have it user-enabled will show your content in HTML format. However, if someone receives your email and only allows text content, that is what they will see. Doing this allows everyone to see your message, regardless of their client or settings.
Beware of including attachments to your email marketing! Mass emails with attachments are instantly suspected as spam by most spam filters. As well, these days many types of computer malware and viruses are carried in email attachments, and people are aware of this. Your email is in jeopardy of being immediately deleted when they see an attachment without even being read.
Use plain text. Plain text emails will be received as more personable and HTML can be more difficult for some people to read. Some email readers may even prevent the delivery of HTML, depending on user settings. Plain, simple text will always be easy to read and very well received.
When following up with clients, you might want to consider sending a follow-up email to them that provides a rebate offer. Try attaching a comment onto your email that tells them to call right now. The end of this email can claim to take a position on this offer immediately.
If you are going to incorporate graphics into your e-mails, you should make certain that the e-mails are still readable if the recipient chooses not to display those graphics. A great way to do this is to utilize ALT tags so that replacement text will be displayed when the images cannot be displayed. It might also be a good idea to place the bulk of your images near the bottom of the e-mail.
Hopefully now that you have read this article, you are a little less intimidated by email marketing. The widely used marketing practice is fairly simple to implement and can be adapted in no time at all. Simply remember all of the tips that you read here and you will be on your way to using emails for marketing.
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Sound familiar? That's because Benjamin Franklin said the same thing, most famously in his 1758 essay "The Way to Wealth," an essay which is basically a compendium of Poor Richard's sayings strung together. This implies that there is an earlier instance of the phrase in the Franklin corpus, but I don't feel like doing the research to find it.
So does this mean that Benjamin Franklin read the Talmud? Of course not. It doesn't even imply that his use of the phrase has any connection to the Talmud. A clever phrase like that can be invented multiple times, because people are clever. Almost makes you believe in universal human nature, don't it?
I tried to find the Talmudic instance of the phrase and failed, which I don't feel too bad about; after all, the Talmud is traditionally compared to the sea, meaning basically that it is huge. In my search I employed a clever technique, which, though ultimately unsuccesful, led me on an interesting journey, the highlights of which I will now share.
My clue in this search was a bit of information given to me by me colleague Naomi Kadar - "Whoever passes on a teaching in the name of the person who said it brings freedom to the world" - Pirke Avot 6:6. (Ironically, this saying isn't attributed.) She said that the maxim in full is "A word to the wise is sufficient, but for a fool not even a stick helps," and that the word for stick is קונדס, which has come to mean "prankster" in Yiddish. One of the two rival American Yiddish humor magazines in the early twentieth century was called דער גרױסער קונדס, "The Big Prankster," but the English title on the masthead was "The Big Stick," which I always found puzzling, but which this bit of information clarified.
So using this information, I went to Jastrow - that is, to Marcus Jastrow's legendary Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature, hoping to get what is known in the yeshiva as a Jastrow Double - a citation of the very passage that sent you to the damn dictionary in the first place. No luck. I learned, not surprisingly, that this is one of many words of Talmudic Aramaic that are not Semitic in origin, which you can tell from the word itself. It comes from the Greek κοντός, which refers to a cavalry lance used particularly on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire. Cognates exist in Latin, Hungarian, Turkish and Arabic. All of Jastrow's citations, however, seemed to have to do not with lances, but with poles, and specifically poles used to hold things up, such as wedding canopies and eruvin (boundaries used to turn large areas into "homes," within which the Sabbath restriction on carrying is looser) and in one instance some unfortunate individual's head and hands. It seemed a little odd, though not impossible, that the sense would be so different in the Talmud, but then I remembered that Naomi said that the form of the word was קונדסא, which made sense, since in Aramaic a א at the end of a word is often a definite article. Jastrow does indeed have the word קונדסא, but it is a unit of measurement used for artichokes. Seriously.The word is a corruption of קינרס "artichoke," from the Greek κινάρες (accusative plural), cognate with the word for 'artichoke' in many languages, and familiar to me from my days working in a liquor store, where we sold (though no one bought) Cynar, an Italian apero (bitter apéritif) flavored with artichokes.
At this point I'm tempted to say something flaky about the journey being more important than the destination, although I generally hate stuff like that. So instead I'll quote the Franklin aphorism in full, which like its Talmudic counterpart, has a rarely quoted second part:
"A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel."
And on that note:
"Of making of books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Ecclesiastes 12:12.
A Postscript
Wikipedia gives the following Latin versions of the saying:
Terence Phormio, IIII.3: Verbum sat sapienti.Franklin could have gotten it from any of these. Or made it up himself. In fact, the Talmud could have gotten it from either of the first two. Goddammit. I wrote my damn BA thesis on the possibility of Greco-Roman influences on the Talmud, and I never knew about this. Just goes to show you: you can't spell "blah blah blah" without BA. Or "a bad grad student" without ABD.
Plautus Pseudolus, Act I.1: Dictum sapienti sat est.
Thomas à Kempis Imitation of Christ (c.1481), 3.34: Intelligenti satis dictum est.
On the other hand, this supports a pet theory of mine that most famous quotations usually have countless antecedents. I have a number of other theories about famous quotations, which will be the subject of my next post, unless anyone has any requests.


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VIII.5 Concerning the site of the Aeolian Islands (Italy), the Committee noted that the Bureau at its extraordinary session had deferred the site. The Delegate of Italy informed the Committee that there had been a misunderstanding in the information provided, and that management plans and regulations for the site exist. Several delegates highlighted procedural matters in particular paragraph 65 of the Operational Guidelines, and stated that deferred sites are not presented for consideration by the Committee. Other delegates underlined the sovereignty of the Committee in its decisions. Following a considerable debate, the Delegate of Italy withdrew the request to discuss the site at this session. The Chairperson thanked the Committee for the debate and expressed his wish to avoid lengthy legal debates. He noted that Italy and IUCN will clarify the management issues and concluded that the site will be presented to the twenty-fourth Bureau session.


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Songs and music from "Rocketman" movie
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Potential of Rotorua's pure hot water seen for centuries
With steam, geysers, mud pools and silica terraces on display at every turn, visitors to Rotorua are well aware they are in NZ's geothermal heartland.
With steam, geysers, mud pools and silica terraces seemingly on display at every turn, visitors to Rotorua are well aware they are in New Zealand's geothermal heartland. Travelling south from Rotorua on SH5 the activity disappears and reappears at various thermal 'hot spots'. Nearing the turn off to Waikite Valley Thermal Pools, drifts of steam – which at times become billowing clouds covering the highway - indicate that this area is rich in geothermal activity.
These signals are reinforced approaching Waikite Valley Thermal Pools, 6km along Waikite Valley Road, where columns of steam drift upwards from the Te Manaroa Spring. Discharging a massive 1800 litres of pure 98°Celsius water per minute into the Otamakokore Stream, this spectacular spring is New Zealand's largest source of boiling water and the basis of thermal bathing pleasure for thousands upon thousands of visitors over the past four decades the Waikite Valley Thermal Pools have been operating.
The history of the thermal bathing in the Waikite Valley goes back to early Maori occupation. The local Ngati Kahu Upoko and Tuhourangi sub-tribes were the first to value the curative properties of these and other geothermal waters in the surrounding areas, and named them Paparata – earth doctor.
Famous Austrian geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter is one of the first Europeans known to have visited the Waikite Valley thermal area. Appointed geologist to a three-year, around-the-world scientific mission under the Austrian flag, von Hochstetter arrived in Auckland aboard the sailing frigate Novara in December 1858. The Novara Expedition's presence in New Zealand was due to Cape Colony Governor George Grey (also New Zealand governor 1845-53 and 1861-68) who, on meeting the frigate's commodore in Cape Town, encouraged him to visit New Zealand to allow scientific examination of the North Island's volcanic regions.
Apparently this feast of volcanic possibilities intrigued von Hochstetter and it wasn't difficult for the provincial government of Auckland to persuade him to remain behind (to carry out extended geological surveys on their behalf) when the Novara left Auckland in January 1859. The resultant sojourns in the North and South Islands earned him the title of father of New Zealand geology but he was also a botanist, zoologist and ethnologist. Venturing as far as south as the Central Plateau's three volcanoes during his North Island survey, von Hochstetter recorded all he saw as they travelled by foot, horseback and canoe in the volcanic zone. The party's travels took them to the thermal 'hot spots' of Rotorua, Tarawera, Rotomahana, Orakei Korako and Waikite Valley where von Hochstetter noted "vast quantities of crystal-clear boiling water" at the Te Manaroa Spring.
Dr. Hochstetter's descriptions of his travels in the North Island's volcanic zone in his book Neu-Seeland, published in 1863, are of special interest as they provide an excellent basis for comparison with present conditions in what is popularly known as Geyserland. Another book, The Natural Wonders of New Zealand and Maori Land, published in 1870 predicted that "one of these days (Waikite Valley) will be selected by some members of the lost tribes as a central sanatorium for restoring the health and reinvigorating jaded mortals from all parts of the world."
The speculation by that long-ago author hasn't yet unfolded as predicted, however some forward-thinking Waikite Valley locals did band together in 1972 to build a single thermal pool using voluntary labour. Forty years later their vision continues to be enhanced by long-term leaseholders Mark and Lisa Bowie who have developed a further nine pools (including four private spas) utilising the 100% pure natural calcite-laden waters to "reinvigorate jaded mortals."
Mark also did some bush bashing to uncover the Te Manaroa Spring and restore it to public view in 2004. Working alongside the Department of Conservation and Environment Waikto, he formed a fenced track with comprehensive interpretation panels, and opened an Eco-Trail walk to bathers and campers. It's interesting to note that a Rotorua Museum supplied photograph featuring on one of the panel's shows a view of Te Manaroa Spring taken in 1897 and is a clear reminder that some aspects of the Waikite Valley thermal area have changed little in more that a century.


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It was the buy signal that markets were waiting for.
When European Central Bank president Mario Draghi vowed to "do whatever it takes" to keep the continent's monetary union intact, stocks were off to races in the U.S. and Europe.
The Dow Jones industrial average on Thursday jumped 212 points, or 1.7 percent, to 12,888 following big gains in European markets. Benchmark stock indexes in Spain and Italy surged 6 percent and 4 percent in France.
Draghi's comments at an investor conference at the Olympics raised hopes that Europe's central bank might intervene to bring down the cripplingly high borrowing costs for struggling European countries like Spain and Italy.
After insisting for months that it was up to European governments to restore confidence in the currency shared by 17 nations there, Draghi pledged that "the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro."
That commitment gave a big boost to global markets. "The No. 1 problem in the world now is Europe's finances," John Fox, director of research at Fenimore Asset Management, said. "When the head of the ECB comes out and says he's willing to do anything, that's code for 'We are going to agree to resolve this issue.' "
In other signs that investors were becoming more confident that Europe's financial crisis would not spin out of control, borrowing costs for Spain and Italy fell sharply, the euro surged a penny to $1.23 against the dollar and the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 1.43 percent from 1.40 percent late Wednesday. Investors tend to sell low-risk assets like Treasurys when they're less fearful about global markets and the economy.
As earnings reports this week from Caterpillar and Ford have shown, Europe's troubles can have a big impact on the results of major U.S. corporations.
"Close to 20 percent of the S&P 500 companies' revenues comes from Europe," said Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors. "We're in a global, interconnected economy and Europe's troubles are our own today."
The broader the Standard & Poor's 500 index rose for the first time in five days. It was up 22.13 points, or 1.7 percent, to 1,360.02 The gains in the U.S. stock market were broad. All 10 of the industry groups in the S&P 500 index rose, led by telecommunications companies.
In other trading, and the Nasdaq composite index rose 39.01 points, or 1.4 percent, to 2,893.25, despite more disappointing news from technology companies including the online game maker Zynga.
Several U.S. companies were also rising sharply after reporting stronger earnings. Sprint Nextel jumped 68 cents, or 20 percent, to $4.05. The country's third-largest wireless carrier was successful in convincing smartphone subscribers to pay up for "unlimited data" service, and its service revenue zoomed higher, beating analysts' estimates.
In Europe, Draghi's comments came after days of uncertainty in Europe and rising concern over Spain's recession and the country's banks, which are reeling following the implosion of a real estate bubble. As borrowing costs for both Spain and Italy rose in the past week, investors feared that both countries might need to be rescued, like Greece, Portugal and Ireland had been in the last two years.
Borrowing costs for Spain's government plunged following Draghi's comments as investors anticipated that the European Central Bank might step up its purchases of Spanish government bonds.
The yield on Spain's benchmark 10-year bond dropped almost half a percentage point, a huge move, to 6.89 percent. That rate surged as high as 7.54 percent this week as investors dumped the country's bonds and lost confidence in Spain's ability to manage its debts.
Technology companies continued to report disappointing earnings following industry leader Apple's rare earnings disappointment earlier this week.
Zynga, which produces popular social network games "CityVille" and "FarmVille" posted poor quarterly results and cut its outlook, prompting a number of analyst downgrades. Its stock fell $1.90, or 37.5 percent, to $3.17.
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