text: TAMPA, Florida -- Scandal. Political intrigue. Tricked-out assault helicopters disgorging masked Special Operations Forces. A noisy, smoky mock gunfight. These are just about the last things you'd expect to see at a trade show. But SOFIC -- that's the Special Operations Forces Industry Convention -- had all this and more. That's not to say the show, held in Tampa over three days last week, didn't also feature all the usual trappings of an industry confab. All the big defense contractors, plus plenty of little ones, were there showing off their latest radios, robots, weapons, vehicles and other gear. There were "networking breaks" over coffee and brownies. There were boring discussions of acquisitions processes. There were booth babes -- models hired to lure the largely male attendees into chatting with company reps. But the highlights of the show were the things SOFIC had that countless other confabs rarely do. The simulated battles. The surprise, high-profile speaking guest. The controversy over one general's ill-conceived public remarks. What follows is a visual sampling of the show's people and products, with exclusive photos by Wired's Luanne Dietz. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredA Better, Tougher Robot Small recon robots for U.S. ground troops keep getting better and better. One of the latest developments is iRobot's First Look -- a tracked, backpack-portable, radio-controlled 'bot weighing just five pounds. With a camera on each side and "flippers" allowing it to lurch over small obstacles, the $20,000-a-copy First Look is just the thing for scouting ahead of advancing troops. Plus, Special Operations Command is thinking about dropping them from helicopters or drones. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredSmart Rocket Swarm Even commandos need air support sometimes. But they want to be as discrete as possible even when they're dropping bombs and launching missiles. At SOFIC, arms giant BAE Systems unveiled a new armor-penetrating version of its Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System -- a laser-guided, 2.75-inch-diameter rocket. Helicopters and jets can fire them several at a time, with each rocket tracking a different target. The blast is just big enough to take out an armored vehicle or punch through a wall, but not so powerful it endangers nearby civilians, BAE hopes. "It's very, very accurate," says Kim Unberhagen, a BAE manager. Video: BAE SystemsRobot Playground Some companies had shapely booth-babe models, or chocolates or logo pens to hand out. ReconRobotics trumped them all with a robot playground -- a miniature two-story building and a mock riverbed -- where attendees could play with the company's latest ReconScout XT "throw-'bot." You could toss the 1.2-pound, camera-equipped robot, shaped like a dumbbell with wheels on each end, into the building or simulated river and maneuver it through the obstacle with a handheld controller, pictured. The neatest part: to activate the 'bot before throwing, you pull a grenade-style pin. Cost: $13,000 per copy. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredAirshow in a Can On the show's second day, Special Operations Command and some of its closest foreign allies put on an impressive flying display above the river behind the convention center. The miniature airshow featured a CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor, MH-47 and MH-60 commando copters and a C-130 cargo plane dropping high-altitude parachutists. The CV-22 -- notorious for its finicky engines -- was most restrained, merely making a careful pass over the assembled crowd, but the helicopters went in low, just feet from the water, to drop off swimmers and assault teams fighting in a mock battle. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredDuck and Cover The airshow was just the first act in a loud, smoky simulated battle involving dozens of U.S. and allied special operators. They dropped in from copters, rode in on machine-gun-armed boats or piled out of Humvees, firing blanks at men dressed as enemy troops and wielding unloaded AK-47s. Tampa mayor Bob Buckhorn scored a small role as a pretend hostage, swiftly rescued by the boat crews and spirited away under the cover of gunfire as pyrotechnic charges exploded on the docks. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredPocket Radar All alone deep behind enemy lines, Special Operations Forces could use a little help keeping guard. A little company called Spotter RF is offering a miniature radar system that never falls asleep and can track an approaching human being from half a mile away. The firm's ground surveillance radar and its tripod together weigh 25 pounds, fit in a backpack and can connect to handheld video display via wire, radio or a 3G wireless network. Power comes from any combination of batteries, solar panels and generators. The radar has already seen use by unspecified commando forces, Spotter RF CEO Logan Harris tells Danger Room. Video: Spotter RFMan's Robotic Best Friend While other companies counted on government funding to develop large, wheeled cargo 'bots, Lockheed Martin bet its own money on the Squad Mission Support System. As the Army cancelled other cargo 'bots over the past few years, the Lockheed program survived -- and today an upgraded version is being tested out by Special Forces in Afghanistan under a $1-million Army contract. Essentially a smart All-Terrain Vehicle with cameras, laser sensors, GPS and sophisticated computer algorithms, SMSS is programmed to follow designated soldiers around the battlefield, hauling their equipment for them. "Soldiers basically love them," Lockheed's Don Nimblett tells Danger Room. But he admits the 'bot still has problems moving through tall grass and over ditches. Video: Lockheed MartinThe Host With the Most The trade show was jointly organized by the National Defense Industrial Association and Special Operations Command, but SOCOM boss Adm. Bill McRaven was undeniably its public face. McRaven, who famously oversaw the forces for the May 2011 Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan, gave several speeches and press conferences and introduced the event's major guests. It was a rare bit of public showmanship for a commander who says he prefers to keep his organization's activities under wraps. "Eighty percent of what we do doesn't get publicized," McRaven said. Photo: Luanne Dietz/WiredGeneral Opens Mouth, Inserts Boot One thing McRaven probably would have preferred remain under wraps was Special Operations Command's plan for possible war with North Korea. At an afternoon panel discuss, Brig. Gen. Neil Tolley, chief of U.S. commando forces based in South Korea, said his troops "leap" into North Korea to spy on buried military targets that are concealed from satellites. Tolley's comments clearly implied the spy activities were occurring today, but in fact he was merely describing plans, the Pentagon said later. When I repeated his initial words in all-too-brief blog post for another publication, it sparked a minor international crisis -- something I naively never expected. Tolley initially claimed I fabricated the story until, faced with multiple accounts of his speech, he admitted I had quoted him accurately. "I should have been clearer," Tolley said in a statement. And I should have realized what a big deal the story was from the beginning -- in that case I would have checked with the general's staff before publishing. My apologies, by the way, to readers who tracked two days of updates from me on my own blog and now know way more about my life than they ever wanted. Photo: SOCOMSurprise Guest Comments by another guest were only a bit less controversial. One evening after the show Secretary of State Hillary Clinton swept in behind a wall of security personnel for a surprisingly long and passionate speech. She praised America's Special Operations Forces and called on them to work more closely with State Department bureaucrats and diplomats in the coming era of low-intensity warfare. Clinton also mentioned a recent State Department campaign to counter the online rhetoric of Yemeni extremists. Clinton said her agents countered the extremists' internet chatter with messages of their own. Initial press reports described the campaign as a "hack," though in fact the State Department simply had bought ads on the extremists' websites. Photo: Luanne Dietz/Wired


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Students and staff were evacuated from a campus building after concern was first raised at 10am yesterday and a cordon was eventually established.
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Initially an 18-year-old man was arrested in connection with the incident but now a second 18-year-old man has also been arrested. The police confirmed both men are Russian students studying at Newcastle University and they remain in custody.
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In 2009, I set out to film nature to share with urban dwellers who, like me, have never ventured outside the routines and comforts of cities.
It's now been two years, many amazing trips, and countless incredible experiences. This film is a compilation of the many highlights captured during this time.
Here's the complete list of natural scenes included in this video:
Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest
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Washington (CNN) – A prime seat at the Super Bowl. A flattering documentary. A funny turn on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon." No doubt about it: Mitt Romney has been back in the spotlight recently. But does it all add up to him making a third run for the Republican presidential nomination?
No, according to multiple sources close to the 2012 Republican presidential nominee.
While the ex-candidate is clearly enjoying all the good karma - which comes amid a bad month for Chris Christie —sources close to Romney say the nascent draft-Mitt idea, such as it is, is organic and not coming from him or his wife, Ann, or anyone close to them.
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In fact, the chatter is coming from some Republican donors who understand how much money it will take for a GOP candidate to compete against the presumed Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, if she does run.
If Christie's troubles continue, and former Fla. Gov. Jeb Bush decides not to run, the theory is that Romney could, perhaps, become attractive.
He's been seen in a more attractive light lately with the Netflix documentary "Mitt." But sources close to the Romneys say Ann Romney and the family aren't likely to want to go through a campaign again.
Romney told CNN last June he would not enter the fray again.
"It was hard work. I said it was like a roller coaster. Yes, there are ups and down. But, but you still pay to get on the roller coaster. It's a real thrill and experience that we will never forget. And frankly, I'd do it again."
But when asked that he would, Romney explained: "I would do it again, but it's not my time. Ann might not … but I would love to do it again, are you kidding? I'd love to do it and win. But it's not my time. I've had my chance."
In fact, Romney's generational handover would probably go to Rep. Paul Ryan, his former running mate. Romney often points to Ryan as an example of a legislator who can get things done. And, don't forget, he hired him as his "junior partner" in the campaign.
And while the ex-Romneyites don't want to comment on the record, one source says that while a new campaign isn't happening, all this chatter "must make him feel good."
- CNN Senior Producer Kevin Bohn contributed to this story
Good now get lost!
Was he talking about his poor dog and his ride on the top of an SUV which the family thought was funny . . . . .It's a real thrill and experience that we will never forget. And frankly, I'd do it again."
Just to bring the twit back down to Earth. You will NEVER win the presidency.
I am a life-long Democrat, but I hope Mr. Romney will run again. He will have my unconditional support.
Any doubts? Simply take a quick look at the liar/clueless/vindictive president América ended up with.
That should make our choices clear and easy. "What does at this time matter Hillary" as a choice"? Foe God's sake, she appears to be worst than 0-bama!!!
Since you're not running again, can we see your 2009 tax return? Just sayin'.
I think we have had enough of liberals running for and being in office. The last few liberals McCain, Obama and Romney have not worked out for the nation or the GOP.
stay home and make more $$$ mitt
You kidding? Paul Ryan? Nonsense. He is not even fit to be a cook in WH. Forget GOP. Let me advise you, you come to the planet called Earth. Leave your Greed. Firing people from job is not the solution–think what caused this cause–causa causen., causa sine qua non–cause without which consequence would not have happened. Fix this in your brain, work for America, middle income holder, poor, homeless, women etc. Then try.
Yeah right. He's going to run again. That's what the Netflix movie was about. Along with his appearance on the Tonight Show. He's trying to warm up to average Americans, but it's still impossible to believe this fraud.


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Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 10 min./batch
Makes8 dozen
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup molasses
- 1 cup sour cream
- 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon each ground allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg
- 1-1/2 cups raisins
- 1-1/2 cups chopped walnuts
- In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in molasses and sour cream. Combine the flour, ginger, baking soda, allspice, cinnamon and nutmeg; gradually add to the creamed mixture and mix well. Stir in raisins and walnuts.
- Drop by tablespoonfuls 1 in. apart onto greased baking sheets. Bake at 375° for 10-12 minutes or until the edges begin to brown. Remove to wire racks to cool.
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As of now the speakers will include:
- Coryne Hall on Princesses on the Wards: Links between royal women and nursing
- Margreeth Pop-Jansen on Princess Marianne of the Netherlands
- Neil Rees on The Reburial of King Zog
- Ted Rosvall on The Lesser Known and Hidden Away Royals
- Ian Shapiro on The Hidden Archive of Princess Irene of Prussia
- Christophe Vachaudez on More Belgian Royal Jewels
- John Wimbles on Marie Coburg's Last Visit to England
- Charlotte Zeepvat with one of her magnificent slide lectures on the Nassau family
- Helen Rappaport on her forthcoming book on OTMA, Four Sisters (Emperor Nicholas II's daughters)
- And Richard Thornton who is planning a fiendish quiz
Booksellers van Hoogstraten of the Hague, the Netherlands, will be in attendance, and there will be a bring and buy Royal Ephemera sale.
Cost: for all lectures, tea, coffee and snacks, two buffet lunches & one evening meal with wine:
£110 for those paying in sterling before 28 February 2013.
£115 for those paying with Paypal; or sterling later than 28 February 2013.
Please contact Sue Woolmans at royalweekend[at]gmail.com for more details.
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This is the holy book of Matthew, known as \"The Gospel According to Saint Matthew\". The recording is dramatized, from the King James Bible. This is, in my opinion, the best and most beautiful recording of the King James Bible in existence. Thanks, blessings, honor, glory, and power to the most high God, who is the almighty creator and author of these books. For those who doubt the Biblical Christian worldview, please carefully examine the evidence set forth in the following documentaries: \"Non-Christian Historical Evidence for the Existence of Jesus\" by Chris White, \"The Bible - The Word of God? - Extraordinary Claims Demand Extraordinary Evidence\", \"The Bible on Trial - Beyond A Reasonable Doubt\", which is split into six ~10 minute parts, \"A Lamp in the Dark - The Untold History of the Bible\" (2009), the sequel \"Tares Among The Wheat\" (2012), \"Finger of God\" (2007), and the sequel \"Furious Love\" (2010), and it\'s sequel Father of Lights (2012), \"Darwin\'s Dilemma - The Mystery of the Cambrian Fossil Record\" (2009), \"Secrets of the Bible Code Revealed\", Parts 1 & 2 (1998), \"The Case for a Creator\" (2006), the sequel \"The Case for Christ\" (2007), and it\'s sequel \"The Case for Faith\" (2008), and this next one not from Lee Strobel, \"The Case for Christ\'s Resurrection\" (2007), \"The Privileged Planet\" (2004), \"The Star of Bethlehem\" (2007), \"Unlocking the Mystery of Life\" (2002), \"Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution\" (2000), it\'s sequel \"Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution II\" (2000), and it\'s sequel \"Incredible Creatures That Defy Evolution III\" (2004), \"God of Wond...


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Chandler, Arizona, January 15, 2018: Rogers Corporation (NYSE:ROG) today announced President and CEO, Bruce Hoechner, and Senior Vice President and CFO, Janice Stipp, will be presenting at the Needham Growth Conference in New York City on Wednesday January 17 at 10:00 am EST.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is still pushing for an assault weapons ban, Vice President Joe Biden said Wednesday, even though Senate Democrats all but sealed its fate by dropping it from the gun-control package they plan to consider next month.
Although the ban's sponsor still plans to offer it as an amendment, it is almost certain to fall victim to opposition from Republicans and likely some Democrats, too. In jettisoning the ban Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it fell far short of the amount of support it would need to survive a vote and said including the assault weapons ban could sink the whole bill.
"Attitudes are changing," Biden said in an interview with NPR News. "The president and I are going to continue to push, and we haven't given up on it."
Biden and President Barack Obama have walked a fine line on the assault weapons ban, widely considered the most politically challenging element of the gun-control proposals the administration is pushing. While fully embracing the ban as a matter of policy, the administration has avoided describing it as a must-have, wary of letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Instead, they've argued that at the very least the ban deserves a vote, even if political considerations ultimately place its passage out of reach.
Gun-control advocates have insisted on the ban after an assault-type weapon was used in the massacre of 20 children and six adults at a school in Newtown, Conn., in December, galvanizing a national discussion about efforts to curb gun violence. Soon after the shooting, Obama tapped Biden to spearhead an effort to reduce gun deaths. The legislative proposal Biden developed includes the assault weapons ban, universal federal background checks and limits on high-capacity ammunition magazines.
But staunch opposition from the National Rifle Association and other groups has underscored the political risks for lawmakers who support the measures, and Democrats are eager to pass whatever they can before Americans lose interest in the issue and the window to act closes.
It was that sentiment that led Reid, D-Nev., to drop the ban from the bill the Senate plans to debate in April. But Biden insisted that the ban's failure is not a foregone conclusion. He pointed to the original, 10-year assault weapons ban that Congress passed in 1994, noting that it too had been written off long before it eventually was adopted.
"I don't see this as there's an automatic endpoint, that, OK, there's one vote, this is it, fails, now we move on," Biden said. "We are going to continue to push for logical gun-safety regulations."
Still, Biden acknowledged that if Congress expanded background checks but failed to adopt the assault weapons ban, the White House would not consider the broader effort a failure.
"That would be gigantic," Biden said.
The fate of expanded background checks is also uncertain, with the NRA arguing that they could open the door to a national gun registry. Biden said the notion of registering guns crosses a cultural line, noting that unlike cars, which must be registered, guns are explicitly protected by the Constitution.
"When you go to registration, it raises all the 'black helicopter' crowd notion that what this is all about is identifying who has a gun," Biden said, using a term referring to conspiracy theorists, "so that one day the government can get up and go to the house and arrest everyone who has a gun, and they'll cite Nazi Germany and all that."
In the Republican-run House, GOP leaders have said they'll wait for the Senate to act before considering legislation. But they've not expressed support for an assault weapons ban and have shown little enthusiasm for most of Obama's proposals.


text: Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – Etihad Airways, official airline partner of the Special Olympics and national airline of the UAE, and the Al Fursan aerobatic stunt team performed a spectacular show in the sky to mark the Opening Ceremony of the Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019. Etihad's flagship Airbus A380 performed a low-level flight above Zayed Sports City Stadium at 6pm on Thursday 14 March, in synchronisation with Al Fursan's jets which produced a vivid smoke flume in the Special Olympics colours.The A380 flight was piloted by Captain Richard Dyson and Captain Adel Al Zubaidi, with Captain Kian Siew Beh performing the challenging task of maintaining flight timings to the second.Al Fursan's team of seven Aermacchi aircraft are each flown by a single pilot, in a V formation. Two miles from the stadium, the aircraft descended to 800 ft and maintained a stable flight level for 30 seconds for the flyover, travelling at 220 knots, 407 km per hour.Hundreds of volunteers from Etihad Airways supported the Opening Ceremony and the airline's Cabin Crew walked in the parade with the VIP dignitaries in attendance while Chief Commercial Officer Robin Kamark walked alongside Team Norway.Etihad Airways has ferried athletes, equipment, coaches, dignitaries, and media to Abu Dhabi from all over the world for the event. The athletes are accompanied by 2,500 coaches and delegates.The Special Olympics World Games Abu Dhabi 2019 takes place between 14 – 21 March and you can find further information here: https://www.meetthedetermined.com/ Get in touch with us. Contact us Let us know what you think Send feedback Join our community Etihad Facebook Watch our latest videos Etihad YouTube Follow us Etihad Airways


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Introduktion, problemstilling og analysetilgangLyck, Lise (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
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Understanding the Influence From Web-shop Design on Consumers' Visual Attention and Product EvaluationClement, Jesper; Kokkoli, Maria (Frederiksberg, 2014)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Buying behaviour theory goes back to the start of the 50's and over the years different models have been developed influenced by different sociological views and trends. In the age of digitalization and e-commerce these theories seem to be less useful and need revision. In the early days of the Web, research argues for a broader view on the complex decision process (Bettman et al., 1998; Hansen, 2005) and regards consumers having constructive decision processes. In the light of on-line sale additional perspectives on decision-models are still needed and recent research emphasizes the important in studying relations between human visual attention and intention to purchase (Clement, 2013). Several companies have found an additional market place on-line, whereas the appearance of the products is often very similar to the physical shop. This goes especially for pharmaceutical products, where pictures of the product package together with pictures of the pills are used as eye-catcher on-line. The market for e-health is increasing (Usher and Skinner, 2010) and distribution of consumers purchasing on-line health products looks similar to the distribution in average populations. As the on-line drug store goes across culture and national borders it also challenges marketer to make the right set-up for a web-shop. In this paper customers' visual attention during search for drugs on-line is investigated, relating visual attention and evaluation to a particular web-design. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/9109
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Case Study: the landscape architecture for people in CopenhagenYang, Binzhang (Frederiksberg, 2013)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: Urban green spaces have a significant impact on the balance of urban ecosystem, the adjustment of urban environment and especially the enhancement of urban citizens' life and work quality. A city's image and its citizens' health and well-being is to a certain extent directly affected by whether the quantity of urban green spaces is sufficient, whether the distribution is reasonable and whether the functionality is complete. Therefore, the planning and construction of urban green spaces are already being viewed as a city's green infrastructure as well as the guarantee of a city's sustainable development. Currently, China is on the fast track of an urbanisation process. How to handle environmental protection and how to maintain the relationship between ecosystem, urbanisation and city construction are crucial projects China is facing. In this respect, developed Western countries is one step ahead of China and have aggregated massive valuable experience which China can learn from. With this as aim, this Ph.D. research discusses the relationship between urban green spaces and citizens' life by studying the creation and evolvement of green spaces in Copenhagen. The research focus is to discuss the development situation of this city's urban green spaces and what can be learned by China. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8795
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Competitive paper, IMP ASIA Conference, December 6-10, 2009 Kuala Lumpur, MalaysiaEllegaard, Chris; Geersbro, Jens; Medlin, Christopher J. (Frederiksberg, 2009)[More information][Less information]
Abstract: This paper explores the interplay between value creation and appropriation of value by firms within a business network context. These two value processes are inter-linked. Collectively firms create a product of value to an end consumer and a part of that value is appropriated by each firm in the network. Value appropriation is composed of a number of different negotiation processes, value and cost moving between exchange parties and price making and taking spread across time. Value appropriation is a process. Value appropriation is important to a firm's survival. Firms that appropriate a greater proportion of the value captured by the network, relative to their resource base and costs, will be more profitable. These firms are able to invest in new technologies, resources and business relationships to continually develop their network positions. Value creation in a business network is a result of individual firm efforts, either independently or in relationships. Equally, firms work alone and in groups to appropriate value. Understanding the dynamics and linkages between value creation and appropriation allows a better understanding of how value is created by business firms and by value nets. In the final sections of the paper we present propositions for further research and make recommendations for managers. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8231
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Capshaw goes Loco: Another eatery joins the dynasty
The word is still out on Station, but Dish knows for certain that Barbara Shifflett's other restaurant, Mono Loco, is now in the possession of Dave Matthews Band manager Coran Capshaw. Shifflett sold the popular Cuban-flavored bistro on Water Street (next door to the soon-to-open eatery in the old Metro location) in order to work fewer late-night hours and devote more time to her new catering company, Hot Stuff.
"I was looking for less overhead and more freedom," Shifflett told Dish.
Good-byes are never easy, though.
"I want to thank my employees and customers for eight years of happiness," she called me back to add, "without great employees, you're nothing."
As for Capshaw, his group officially takes over on February 1. Few major changes are planned at present.
"We think Mono Loco is such a great restaurant, and we really want to preserve its unique flavor," says Michael Keaveny, director of operations for all of Capshaw's restaurants which include Blue Light, Mas, and Starr Hill.
Keaveny also stressed that the new management will work with the existing staff to preserve the basic look and taste of the menu. Plans are to close for a few weeks in early February in order to assess the equipment, tweak things a bit, and give the place a thorough cleaning.
Dish will keep you posted on any new monkey business on Water Street.
Eat Thai, Help Tsunami Victims
Pikke Inthisen, the owner of Downtown Thai at 111 Water Street (formerly Thai Thip), was compelled to act as soon as she saw the images of Tsunami victims on television. A native of Bangkok, Pikke didn't actually know any of the thousands of Thais (children, in particular) affected by the natural disaster, but she nonetheless wanted to do what she could to help. For the entire month of January, 20 percent of Downtown Thai's sales will go towards Tsunami Relief.
"I wanted to give 50 percent at first," Pikke shared, "but then my son reminded me that I needed to keep enough to pay our employees!" She estimates that her family-run restaurant will collect between $20-30,000 from meals and a separate donations box. Thousands more could be earned on Sunday, January 23, when Downtown Thai will host an all-day Tsunami Relief Fundraising Event.
From noon until 8 pm, the restaurant will come alive with music and dance (performers will include Corey Harris and Thai singer/dancer Pikke herself) and a bountiful buffet featuring pad thai, chicken barbecue, and curries.
She says all donations will go directly to the Archbishop Lawrence Khai Saen-pho-non's Tsunami aid project in Thailand. Pikke hopes to travel to Thailand with a group of locals in early February on a relief mission, so those interested in helping out now know where to go.
Big Mouth mystery
For a restaurant that boasts a wide-open mouth as its logo, Big Mouth Pizza sure is hush-hush these days. The glass door has been locked since late December without a word of explanation. The phone rings and rings without an answer. Signs still list opening hours that never come. Menus and flatware sit patiently on the dust-coated tables, and computers and game machines flash on and off in the otherwise dark dining room. Kind of creepy.
Opened by Frank Cramblitt in December, 2003, this petite little space brought thick-crusted pies to the renovated brick building at 909 West Main Street, next door to Asian Express. The dough recipe was a Cramblitt family secret, shared only with Albemarle Baking Company, the bakery that par-baked all of the pizza dough for Big Mouth (per Cramblitt's specifications).
Bakery owner Gerry Newman confirms that Big Mouth paid up and stopped orders in late December. Though he's not sure who's in charge at the restaurant now, Newman suspects that Cramblitt is no longer a part of the picture. Karry Yan-Cao, the ever-present owner of Asian Express, seconds this assumption: she told Dish she hasn't seen Cramblitt around since late November, and cell phone messages we left were not immediately returned. Let's hope next week brings fresh clues to help Dish solve this Big Mouth mystery.
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The Downtown Thai restaurant is raising tsunami relief funds during January.


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When Mob "Justice� Prevails
When police officers are shot New York City spares no measure to apprehend the offenders.
Two cops were shot in Brooklyn when they stopped a car with three occupants. One later died. Put aside the cops' reason for checking the license plates though that's germane. Disregard the importance of how they approached the car. But remember all the innocent Black blood spilled by cops, and the continued illegal stops of our youth.
Ponder whether this climate exacerbated by Police Commissioner Ray Kelly bore fruit that fateful night. After those cops were shot, racism and inhumanity took center stage.
Kelly's marauders brought Robert Ellis and Dexter Bostic, two of the alleged offenders, to the 71st police precinct through a phalanx of blue. The world saw their hands and feet shackled, probably so tight blood refused to flow to those extremities for fear it could not return to their hearts.
They ambled with restricted gaits through the gauntlet on asphalt that conjured images of yesteryear's dirt paths; a past century's spontaneous raucous mob transformed into an orchestrated blue assemblage of hate.
Later they compelled Lee Wood, the last of the three, to hold his jaws ajar as they swabbed his inner cheek for DNA cells. They did this in open court. A platform and auctioneer would have been apropos.
A City that always implores Black victims to be patient and not prejudge revealed its racist hypocrisy. There were immediate calls for the death penalty. There were no calls for allowing the legal process to work; no calls for a fair trial or not tainting the jury pool with publicity. At press conferences the usual police apologists called the alleged offenders "mopes," "animals," and "sub-human." Indeed Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes reflexively referred to them as scum and mutts. It was a veritable orgy of venom.
Why all this hate? To be sure it is not new. We have historically been the objects of vile invectives. We've seen it on the pages of books and in D.W. Griffith's racist film "The Birth of a Nation." It is how those with "power" construct reality to maintain the status quo. Any challenge- and a dead cop is a challenge- will be met with tools to humiliate, intimidate, and dehumanize, if only into silence.
These repeated images do immeasurable violence to our community; violence at once insidious, yet familiar as it permeates the air we breathe. This whole episode must have stirred the ancestors; not from shame but a desire to rekindle their defiant spirit in us. We must not let others denigrate those perceived as the least among us thus robbing our entire community of its humanity.
While some of us seek to outlaw "nigger" from contemporary vernacular, let us speak out against the horrific treatment of Ellis, Bostic and Wood lest by our silence we condone it.
Mr. Mitchell is a Manhattan-based attorney.
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The Bill Simenson Orchestra is a 17 piece big band (5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, guitar, piano, bass, and drums). The orchestra is available for concert and club performance as well as artistic and educational collaborations.
Bill Simenson (trumpet) has been performing professionally in the Twin Cities for nearly thirty years. He has his degree in Music and Political Science from Augsburg College (Minneapolis, MN 1980). From 1981-83 he attended the University of Trondheim (Norway) where he studied music at the graduate level. While in Trondheim he also directed Kjellerbandet; a big band made up of university students from the various institutions in the city.
Upon his return in 1983 he began performing in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. He has performed regularly with such groups as the Wolverines Classic Jazz Orchestra, Latin Sounds Orchestra, the Cedar Avenue Big Band (founding member), the Jazz Composers' Art Ensemble, the Jerry O'Hagan Orchestra, Salsa Blanca, and Seven Steps to Havana. He worked with David Byrne of "Talking Heads" on the the Robert Wilson production of "The Knee Plays" at the Walker Art Center and has also performed at Mixed Blood, Guthrie, Cricket, and Children's Theaters; with groups and artists such as the JazzMn Big Band, Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Ordway Big Band, De Stiljistics, the American Classic Jazz Orchestra, the big band for the Minnesota Vikings, and Jack McDuff; as well as with his own ensembles. He also led the band for the Minnesota North Stars hockey team and has backed such artists as Cab Calloway, Steve Allen, Tony Sandler, Maureen McGovern, Joan Rivers, Mitzi Gaynor, the Temptations, and the Four Tops. He remains active as a freelance performer and has played in styles ranging from classical to rock and R&B to polka.
He has studied trumpet with Michael Hesse (Norwegian Opera, Oslo, Norway), Reidar Bye (Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway), Dag Tunaal (Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, Norway), Michael Brand (St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, MN), Greg Lewis, (Minneapolis Jazz/Studio Trumpeter, MN), and Ron Hasselmann (Minnesota Orchestra). In addition he has taken lessons with Charley Davis (Los Angeles, CA), Lew Soloff (New York, NY), John Ridgeon (Leicester, England), Robert Baca (University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire), Bobby Shew (Los Angeles, CA), Harry Kvebaek (Oslo, Norway), Steve Wright (Minneapolis, MN), and Kenny Wheeler (London, England). Currently he studies with Laurie Frink (New York, NY).
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Trumpets – Paul Stodolka, Bill Simenson, Elizabeth Stodolka, Jake Baldwin.
Trombones – Pete Enblom, Ryan Christianson, Matt Hanzelka, Derek Crosier.
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Summer School in the Pac-10Posted by Brian Goodman on August 24th, 2010
Andrew Murawa is the RTC correspondent for the Pac-10 and Mountain West Conferences.
Around the Pac-10:
- Down Times: Last season was clearly one of the low points in Pac-10 basketball history. It took a late-season run out of Washington to ensure two NCAA Tournament bids from the conference, with California earning the other after a strong but somewhat disappointing season. The conference had just one player (the Huskies' Quincy Pondexter) picked in the first round of the NBA Draft, and just two players picked overall (with Stanford's Landry Fields somewhat surprisingly being drafted by the Knicks, much to the chagrin of New York fans in attendance, with the 39th pick). The two total players drafted were the lowest total for the league since 1986.
- Returning Fire: Despite the lack of players picked in the NBA Draft, just nine of the league's top 20 scorers from last year return, although Rihard Kuksiks is still uncertain whether he will return for his senior season at Arizona State. Likewise, just 11 of the league's top 20 rebounders return.
- Fresh Blood: But not to worry, plenty of excellent new talent is headed the Pac-10's way. Or not. Actually, out of Scout's Top 100 list, just ten players (and just four out of the top 50) committed to Pac-10 institutions, with the highest ranked player, Washington's Terrence Ross, checking in at #26. According to ESPNU's projections, the outlook is slightly rosier, with the Pac-10 accounting for 12 of the top 100 players, five of the top 50, and UCLA's Josh Smith checking in at #20. Either way, while there is some new talent, it is not of the caliber of the other BCS conferences. There was some intrigue here, however, as Enes Kanter (Scout #3 overall recruit, ESPNU #25) originally verbally committed to Washington before backing out and heading to Kentucky. Additional salt in the wound came when Washington's top recruit, Terrence Jones (ESPU #9 overall, Scout #8) announced at a press conference that he would be committing to Washington, but then failed to sign a letter of intent and wound up changing his mind and committing to Kentucky as well, giving Husky fans an entirely new Cal to dislike.
- Head Honchos: While a lot of familiar players have moved on, there is consistency in the hot seat for all but one team: Oregon ended the Ernie Kent era and will welcome new head coach Dana Altman, formerly of Creighton. While Altman wasn't the sexy hire that Pat Kilkenny and Phil Knight wanted to start the new era in Oregon basketball, he is an excellent coach who will likely have the sleeping giant in Eugene back in the thick of things in the Pac-10 very quickly.
- Home Cooking: The coaching change isn't the only big news in Eugene, as the Ducks will break in a new arena this season, when the brand-new gleaming Matthew Knight Arena (named after Knight's son who died prematurely in a scuba-diving accident) replaces the venerable old McArthur Court in January. The Ducks had planned to kick off the Pac-10 season in the new venue, but the move-in date has been pushed back for a variety of reasons.
Power Rankings:
- Washington: The Huskies lose last year's lone Pac-10 NBA first rounder in Quincy Pondexter, but just about everyone else of consequence returns. Pint-sized point Isaiah Thomas (no, not the suspiciously crazy one who ran the Knicks into the ground) leads the way in a talented backcourt, with energetic pace-setter Venoy Overton back for another season of annoying opposing guards. Also keep your eye on sophomore Abdul Gaddy, who was at one time considered the second-best point guard in the '09 high school class. He struggled as a 17-year-old freshman, but Lorenzo Romar will certainly give him plenty of chances to earn more playing time this season. Up front, senior Matthew Bryan-Amaning will need to take a big step forward as the frontcourt scoring threat for this squad, with Tyreese Breshers and Darnell Gant doing the dirty work in the paint. Additionally, Romar welcomes three freshmen, including Terrence Ross to add some more talent to the backcourt and 7'0 juco transfer Aziz Ndiaye to add size, if not a polished offensive game, to a relatively small frontcourt. Senior Justin Holliday and junior Scott Suggs will add depth at the wings. The Huskies suffered from lapses in concentration last season, but an additional year of experience for a veteran roster should fix that problem.
- Arizona: The Wildcats are on their way back from their struggles at the end of legend Lute Olson's regime. But while I'll nab them as my number two team here, this is not a Wildcat team that is going to make any McKale denizens forget the 1988 or 1997 teams – this ranking is more of an indication of the conference's weakness. However, sophomore forward Derrick Williams is the conference's fourth leading returning scorer and second-leading returning rebounder and an absolute beast in the paint. Senior Jamelle Horne will start alongside Williams, and he'll be called on to improve on the nine points and six rebounds he provided nightly last season. Shooting guard Kyle Fogg displayed some nice offensive punch last season, and he'll be asked for even more, but the most pressure will be felt by sophomore point Lamont "MoMo" Jones, who will be tasked with taking over for departed fixture Nic Wise. The development of frontcourt sophomores Solomon Hill and Kyryl Natyazhko and incoming freshman guards Daniel Bejarano and Jordin Mayes will be important for team depth. This is still an undersized team, which hurts them a bit on the boards and on defense, two areas where they will need to improve from last season.
- UCLA: While the 2009-10 season was a nightmare for the Bruins, the cupboard is not completely empty in Westwood. There are a lot of unanswered questions here, however, and the biggest one is at the point. Malcolm Lee got plenty of time there last season, but he is more ideally suited to play on the wing, and if all goes well for the Bruins, that's where he'll be this season. With the Jerime Anderson era justifiably considered a failure to this point, Ben Howland has brought in juco transfer Lazeric Jones to man the point, with any positive contributions that Anderson might provide just being bonus. Sophomore Tyler Honeycutt is a skilled ball handler and passer at the three, so he'll be around to add an additional guard when necessary. Up front, Reeves Nelson was perhaps the biggest bright spot for UCLA in his freshman season, when he averaged 11 points and six rebounds a night in just over 20 minutes per game. He'll need to keep out of foul trouble to gain additional minutes, and he'll need to improve his horrid free throw shooting as well, but he looks ready for a big leap forward, especially considering he'll be joined by UCLA's big (and I do mean big, once listed at 320, now working towards approaching 270) freshman Josh Smith, a skilled and soft-handed center. Freshman wing Tyler Lamb will also get some early run. But the fact is, there is plenty of talent here, and if the Bruins get nothing more than a caretaker at the point, Howland will win games in a weak Pac-10 with this team. Read the rest of this entry »


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A hush fell over the home fans as A Seleção made an uncharacteristically faltering start to their FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 semi-final against old rivals Uruguay, the first time they had been largely silent since the competition began.
That opening set the tone for what would be an evening of suffering for Brazil and their supporters, whose first real chance to cheer came not from a home goal but when the Uruguayans missed a gilt-edged opportunity to take the lead themselves.
Fifteen minutes had elapsed when Julio Cesar dived full length to his left to push away a penalty kick taken by his former Inter Milan team-mate Diego Forlan. As he celebrated, the keeper pointed to his head, reminding his colleagues exactly where the game would be won and lost.
"Obviously the pressure was on, and if you're going to handle the pressure, you need to keep your nerves under control," the keeper told FIFA.com. "In the years I've been playing for the national team there have been times when we've won like that, with a bit of drama thrown in and when we've not necessarily played nice football. And if there's one thing I'm sure of, it's that it can be a good thing sometimes. It does you good and it definitely helps you mature."
It does you good and it definitely helps you mature.
In their group-phase wins over Japan, Mexico and Italy, the Brazilians began each game by hemming their opponents back in their own half, with the front three of Neymar, Hulk and Fred setting the tone by closing down rival defenders fast. Against the Uruguayans, however, there was little pressing high up the pitch by the men in yellow.
"The Brazilians play an attacking game and they always try to overpower opposing sides. You could see that against Italy especially," said Uruguay coach Oscar Tabarez in his post-match press conference. "They didn't let the Italians get out of their own half and they pushed a lot of people up, including the two full-backs, who were even further forward than the midfielders. I don't think today was a case of Brazil not wanting to do that. It was more that they weren't able to because we were determined to close them down up front.
"You can see that Brazil are taking shape," he continued. "They came through a very stiff test today, but they'll have more tough games in the future because other teams will get to know them better."
* Bearing the pain*With their committed performance, the Uruguayans forced the hosts to get to know themselves better as well, pushing them every inch of the way, causing them several scares and only succumbing to Paulinho's 86th-minute header.
"We're still new at this," Luiz Felipe Scolari told the assembled press after the game. "I think the important thing was to see that we've still got things to learn."
The question is, what exactly is the lesson? Speaking separately to FIFA.com, Neymar and Marcelo both described the manner of Brazil's hard-fought victory in the same terms.
"It was tough, a typical semi-final and the first one for this team," said the No10, who failed to find the back of the net for the first time at Brazil 2013. "We suffered, but you also find out a lot of things when you suffer. We'll be going into the final feeling even more confident now."
The team is learning with every game and today we learned to suffer, which is something you come to expect in football.
There were times on Wednesday evening when Brazil's confidence seemed to waver, one example of that being provided by left-back Marcelo, who was given little opportunity to showcase his usual skills. On one occasion, after beating an opponent to a loose ball by the touchline, he was reduced to clearing it with great force straight into the crowd, a last-ditch piece of defending that prompted him to apologise to the fans in the lower ring at the Mineirao.
"As we say in Brazil: bola para o mato que o jogo é de campeonato (which translates as, 'the bigger the game, the bigger the clearance')," joked the Real Madrid man in conversation with FIFA.com.
"It was a different kind of day," he continued. "We're used to playing closer to each other, to playing quick passes and dominating opposing sides with our skill.
"Even before we went out today, though, we knew it was going to be different. It was a derby after all. And while we've been playing well in this competition, you have to remember that this side is only just coming together in many different areas. The team is learning with every game and today we learned to suffer, which is something you come to expect in football."


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Prominent businessman and philanthropist Max Kupferberg passed away in January. He was 97 years old.
Kupferberg was raised in Flushing and studied physics at Queens College, where he was a member of the first incoming class, graduating in 1942. The institution would always hold a special place in his heart.
He and his wife Selma funded cultural programming and refurbished performance spaces and museums at the school. The Colden Center at Queens College was renamed the Selma and Max Kupferberg Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in their honor.
"He was a dynamic presence on campus," said Queens College President Félix V. Matos Rodríguez. "His family's transformational gift was instrumental in revitalizing the arts at Queens College, making the campus the cultural epicenter of Queens."
The couple also lent their personal and financial support to nearly 50 organizations, including the Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing YMCA, and the Queens College Foundation.
Kupferberg worked on the Manhattan project, and following World War II founded electronic parts supply company Kepco, Inc. with his three brothers.
Helen Marshall
Queens lost its first and only African-American borough president this year. Helen Marshall, who led the borough from 2001 to 2013, passed away at age 87 in California in March.
Marshall was remembered for her long tenure in public service, including 10 years in the City Council and eight years in the Assembly. A former teacher and library director, Marshall championed education, libraries and diversity.
"Helen Marshall was a larger-than-life figure in the civic life of Queens and the State of New York," said Borough President Melinda Katz.
Since her passing, a stream of tributes and dedications have honored her legacy of civic leadership. Last year, Borough Hall's cultural center was named after her.
In December, the Corona community renamed a street after Marshall. Weeks later, local education officials voted to name an East Elmhurst school in her honor.
Her legacy will be felt for years to come. Projects that began under her leadership are now coming to fruition, and will have an impact on the next generation.
"Our borough lost one of its biggest champions, but she will continue to live on in our hearts," said Congressman Joseph Crowley, "and her presence will continue to be felt throughout the countless communities she touched."
Julia Harrison
Julia Harrison, who represented Flushing in the City Council from 1986 to 2001, passed away in August. She was 97 years old.
Active in civic life, Harrison began her political career in 1972 when she was elected district leader. She would run unsuccessfully for the State Senate in 1978, but would taste victory just five years later when she was elected to the state Assembly.
Three years later she was elected to the City Council, the first woman to hold that post in the 19th Council District. She left office in 2001 when term limits forced her out.
Over the next few years she would mount failed runs at State Senate and Assembly seats.
Harrison will be remembered as an outspoken representative. She considered herself a maverick and often bucked party leadership.
In 2011, Harrison was elected to her former district leader post at the age of 97.
Michael Simanowitz
Queens lost a beloved elected official when Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz passed away suddenly on September 2 at the age of 45 after battling cancer for several years. He is survived by his wife Jennifer and their four children.
"Words are not adequate to express how heartbroken I am that he is no longer with us," said Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie at the time. "I will especially remember Mike for his quick wit and intelligence. I am proud to have called him my friend."
Simanowitz, who grew up in Forest Hills, was first elected to the Assembly in 2011. He represented the neighborhoods of College Point, Whitestone, Briarwood, Pomonok and Kew Gardens Hills.
Prior to elected office, Simanowitz served as chief of staff to his predecessor, former Assemblywoman Nettie Mayersohn, for 15 years. He was involved with the NYPD's auxiliary police unit in the 107th Precinct. He also worked for the city's Department of Housing Preservation and Development.
"Mike was a wonderful human being," said Congresswoman Grace Meng. "He had a heart of gold and was among the warmest, friendliest and most down-to-earth individuals I have known."
Paul Narson
Former Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 32 president Paul Narson passed away in September. He was 74 years old.
Narson served as Chapter 32 president from 2008 to 2014. He has been a member since 1989 and became a Life Member in 1992.
After the events of 9/11, he participated as a member of the chapter honor guard in the renaming of streets in Queens to honor members of the community who perished in the terrorist attacks.
As vice president, he assisted then-president Pat Toro in establishing the chapter as an Organizational Friend of Indigent Veterans. Chapter 32 buried 108 indigent veterans, with Narson participating in over 45 of them.
When Toro became ill due to side effects cause by exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War, Narson started a blood drive that resulted in 60 units, which allowed Toro an unlimited supply of blood
Narson was installed in the State Senate Veterans Hall of Fame for his work on behalf of all veterans in New York, and has received numerous plaques and certificates for his work on behalf of veterans in Queens.


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The Hand Cut Paper Art of Lisa Rodden
Australian paper artist Lisa Rodden cuts, slices, and folds thick layers of white paper on top of acrylic painting that is occasionally accompanied with text. The small geometric cuts reveal windows of paint creating a strikingly precise interplay of color and shadow. You can see many more examples in her paper gallery, and if you're in Sydney you can stop by Art2Muse gallery from August 8-21 to see it in person. (via yellowtrace)


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Micro Focus has announced a new tool for migrating business processes from the mainframe onto the Windows platform, thereby re-using the enterprise applications running the business today. Micro Focus ReUZE offers organizations a route to utilizing mainframe application functionality on Windows and within the .NET framework. It is specifically designed to integrate with the breadth of development and deployment softwarea available from Microsoft, operating as the platform for further modernization and cloud-based initiatives.
"This solution is targeted at customers that have already made the decision to use Windows as their primary platform for business processes, yet have mainframe COBOL applications that deliver significant value and competitive advantage today," said Micro Focus's Stephen Kelly. "Micro Focus enables those investments to continue to add value at very low cost, optimizing the benefits in the shortest amount of time and avoiding the risks associated with rewriting or replacing critical business systems."
Micro Focus ReUZE Developer will let organizations take advantage of improved developer productivity, cross-team collaboration, and improved application lifecycle management with integration with Visual Studio Team System. Building on this framework, Micro Focus ReUZE Server is designed to exploit 64-bit Windows architectures, while supporting compatibility with existing application platforms. Unlike solutions which insist on rewriting mainframe application data sources for SQL Server, or removing mainframe syntax from programs, ReUZE Developer typically leaves the source code unchanged.


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Here is the second post in my mini road trip series. JP and I had an amazing time at Writing-On-Stone Provincial park. The views were spectacular, and it was so much fun to explore the hoodoos. We went on a short hike (it was over 40 degrees Celsius!!) and there were so many paths you could take, each one ending up with a even more beautiful view of the coulee. We also signed up for a tour of an archeological preserve where we got to see First Nations engravings in the sandstones, some that were done over 3000 years ago!
|petroglyph of horses
|cacti in Alberta!!
|this petroglyph is thought to depict a ceremony and the round objects are shields


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Blessing Your Child
Kids today thirst for parental acceptance — they long for their mother and father to reinforce their worth.
Meeting your child's need for affirmation doesn't have to be difficult. One way is to do what I call "the blessing." This blessing has five distinct elements to build up your sons and daughters and help them understand their worth in your family and before God. Those elements are appropriate and meaningful touch; words of love and acceptance; value placed on the child; acknowledgement of a special future; and genuine commitment.
Although there are five elements to this blessing, each child is unique and will interpret those five elements differently. Age is also an important factor in how a child receives a blessing. As your child grows, he or she may require a different type of affirmation. Part of showing children your approval and their value is figuring out how to affirm them in a way they can understand.
The Blessing Challenge
Would you like to change the lives of your children? If so, be a part of The Blessing Challenge — that's one million parents choosing to change the lives of children, one child at a time, by taking a simple, yet powerful first step: writing down and reading a blessing to their children.
Set Your Child on a Positive Path
If we want to help our children move toward warmth and light and love, blessing them is the best way to do that.
There are times in our lives when being able to see a clear path is crucial. That was certainly true on a rainy August day a number of years ago, when two young adventurers decided to scale Mount Dom, the highest summit wholly within Switzerland at 14,942 feet.
Even though these American tourists were young and inexperienced mountaineers, they felt confident that they could make their climb with ease. After all, their first-day goal was only to go halfway up the mountain to the "high hut," which was staffed that time of year by the Swiss Alpine Club.
Despite a late start and deteriorating weather conditions, they set out enthusiastically, moving up the forested trail toward the halfway house. Because they hadn't planned on being out all night, they hadn't bothered to bring any cold-weather gear. They soon regretted that fact when the clouds started spitting drops and then a steady rain began to fall. What's more, as they climbed higher and crossed the timberline, the temperature fell dramatically.
By that evening, when the cold rain began to turn into snow, they were still climbing. They had long since crossed the timberline, and the trail before them had become increasingly difficult to follow. When darkness had fallen, they both began to realize they weren't just lost — they were in life-threatening trouble. They were soaked, shivering and at risk of hypothermia, and darkness was swallowing the path.
Just when their situation was most desperate, a tiny light began to flicker. Even at a distance, the glow looked as bright as a lighthouse beacon to those two shivering, frightened young men.
Before retiring for the night, the keeper of the high hut had decided to step outside and place a kerosene lamp next to the door — just in case a beacon might be needed by anyone caught in the worsening storm. That light drew the boys out of the life-threatening cold and darkness and into a place of warmth and safety.
That story provides a context for the importance of a clear path in times of increasing darkness — like these times in which we live. If we are serious about helping our children move toward warmth and light and love, we need to light their footsteps on just such a positive path. The blessing is the best way I know to provide such a light.
How to Bless Your Child, Part 1
There are five actions and attitudes involved in giving your child a blessing; here are the first two.
But what exactly does it mean to give a blessing? What actions and attitudes combine to make this biblical tool so uniquely effective?
The blessing as described in Scripture always included five elements:
- Meaningful and appropriate touch
- A spoken message
- Attaching high value to the one being blessed
- Picturing a special future for him or her
- An active commitment to fulfill the blessing
Let's take a quick look at each of these.
Meaningful Touch
Meaningful touch was an essential element in bestowing the blessing in Old Testament homes. So it was with Isaac when he went to bless his son. We read in Genesis 27:26 that Isaac said, "Come near now and kiss me, my son." This incident was not an isolated one. Each time the blessing was given in the Scriptures, a meaningful touch provided a caring background to the words that would be spoken. Kissing, hugging or the laying on of hands were all a part of bestowing the blessing.
Meaningful touch has many beneficial effects. The act of touch is key in communicating warmth, personal acceptance, affirmation, even physical health. For any person who wishes to bless a child, touch is an integral part of that blessing.
A Spoken Message
The second element of the blessing involves a spoken message — one that is actually put into words. In many homes today such words of love and acceptance are seldom received. Parents in these homes assume that simply being present communicates the blessing — a tragic misconception. A blessing fulfills its purpose only when it is actually verbalized — spoken in person, written down or preferably both.
For a child in search of the blessing, silence communicates mostly confusion. Children who are left to fill in the blanks when it comes to what their parents think about them will often fail the test when it comes to feeling valuable and secure. Spoken or written words at least give the child an indication that he or she is worthy of some attention. I learned this lesson on the football field.
When I began playing football in high school, one particular coach thought I was filled with raw talent (emphasis on raw!). He was constantly chewing me out, and he even took extra time after practice to point out mistakes I was making.
After I missed an important block in practice one day (a frequent occurrence), this coach stood one inch from my face mask and chewed me out six ways from Sunday. When he finally finished, he had me go over to the sidelines with the other players who were not a part of the scrimmage.
Standing next to me was a third-string player who rarely got into the game. I can remember leaning over to him and saying, "Boy, I wish he would get off my case."
"Don't say that," my teammate replied. "At least he's talking to you. If he ever stops talking to you, that means he's given up on you."
Many adults we see in counseling interpret their parents' silence in exactly that same way. They feel as though they were third-string children to their parents. Their parents may have provided a roof over their heads (or even a Porsche to drive), but without actual words of blessing, they were left unsure of how much they were valued and accepted.
Abraham spoke his blessing to his son Isaac. Isaac spoke a blessing to his son Jacob. Jacob gave a verbal blessing to each of his twelve sons and to two of his grandchildren. When God blessed us with the gift of his Son, it was his Word that "became flesh and dwelt among us" (John 1:14). God has always been a God of words.
"But I don't yell at my children or cut them down like some parents," some may say. Unfortunately, the lack of negative words will not necessarily translate into a verbal blessing.
To see the blessing bloom and grow in the life of a child, we need to verbalize our message. Good intentions aside, good words — spoken, written and preferably both — are necessary to communicate genuine acceptance.
How to Bless Your Child, Part 2
Three more elements in blessing your child
Attaching High Value
Meaningful touch and a spoken (or written) message — these first two elements lead up to the content of the words themselves. To convey the blessing, the words must attach high value to the person being blessed.
In blessing Jacob (thinking it was Esau), Isaac said, "Surely, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field which the Lord has blessed. … Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you" (Gen. 27:27, 29).
That pictures a very valuable person! Not just anybody merits having nations bow down to him! And while we might think that calling a person a field would be criticizing him, that is not the case. A blessed field was one where there was tremendous growth and life and reward. Just ask a farm kid what a record crop, all ready to harvest, means to his or her parents. That's the picture Isaac gives his son.
As you may have noticed, Isaac uses a word picture (the field) to describe how valuable his son is to him. Word pictures are a powerful way of communicating acceptance. In the Old Testament they were a key to communicating to a child a message of high value — the third element of the family blessing.
Picturing a Special Future
A fourth element of the blessing is the way it pictures a special future for the person being blessed. Isaac said to his son Jacob, "May God give you of the dew of heaven, of the fatness of the earth. … Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you" (Gen. 27:28–29).
Even today, Jewish homes are noted for picturing a special future for their children. One story I heard illustrates this activity very well.
Sidel, a young Jewish mother, was proudly walking down the street, pushing a stroller with her infant twins. As she rounded the corner, she saw her neighbor, Sarah. "My, what beautiful children," Sarah cooed. "What are their names?" Pointing to each child, Sidel replied, "This is Bennie, the doctor, and Reuben, the lawyer."
This woman believed her children had great potential and a special future before them. Isaac believed the same about his son and communicated that in his blessing — as we should communicate to those we seek to bless.
One distinction should be made between Isaac's blessing and the act of picturing a special future for a person today. Because of Isaac's unique position as a patriarch (God's appointed leader and a father of the nation of Israel), his words to Jacob carried with them the weight of biblical prophecy. We today cannot predict another person's future with such biblical accuracy. But we can help those we are blessing see a future that is full of light and opportunity. We can let them know we believe they can build an outstanding life and future with the strengths and abilities God has given them.
Our Lord himself speaks quite eloquently about our future in the Bible. In fact, he goes to great lengths to assure us of our present relationship with him and of the ocean full of blessings in store for us as his children.
We need to picture just such a special future for our children if we are serious about giving them our blessing. With this fourth element of the blessing, a child can gain a sense of security in the present and grow in confidence to serve God and others in the future.
An Active Commitment
The last element of the blessing concerns the responsibility that goes with giving the blessing. For the patriarchs, not only their words but God himself stood behind the blessing they bestowed on their children. Several times God spoke directly through the angel of the Lord to the patriarchs confirming his active commitment to their family line.
Parents today, in particular, need to rely on the Lord to give them the strength and staying power to confirm their children's blessing by expressing such an active commitment. They, too, have God's Word through the Scriptures as a guide, plus the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Why is active commitment so important when it comes to bestowing the blessing? Words alone cannot communicate the blessing; they need to be backed with a willingness to do everything possible to help the one blessed be successful. We can tell a child, "You have the talent to be a very good pianist." But if we neglect to provide a piano for that child to practice on, our lack of commitment has undermined our message.
When it comes to spending time together or helping develop a certain skill, some children hear, "Wait until the weekend." Then it becomes, "Wait untilanother weekend" so many times that they no longer believe the words of blessing.
The fifth element of the blessing, an active commitment, is crucial to communicating the blessing in our homes.
At Home with the Family Blessing
That's a brief overview of the five elements of the blessing that can become a life-changing part of how we do family. Provide the five basic ingredients of the blessing — meaningful touch, a spoken (or written) message, attaching high value to the one being blessed, picturing a special future for him or her, and confirming the blessing by an active commitment — and personal acceptance can thrive in a home.
A Written Blessing
Why you should write down a blessing, and how to compose a written blessing
Take your first step of the blessing challenge by first writing out a formal blessing for your child and then sharing it with him or her.
Why Write?
Both the spoken word and the written word are important in giving the blessing. For several reasons, however, we are suggesting that you put your words of blessing into written form first, before you share them out loud with your child.
First of all, ideally, your written blessing will also be spoken — we will include ideas for doing that below. But writing your words out first can take away a lot of pressure. You have the opportunity to put the words together at your leisure. You can double-check that you have included all the elements of the blessing and that your words convey exactly what you want. And if your words have been chosen ahead of time, when you do speak your blessing, you can concentrate on connecting with your child.
Another reason to write out your blessing, though, is that a written blessing can be saved. The words can be read and reread, and the paper it is written on can be tucked away as a keepsake. Written blessings can also be sent by letter or e-mail and thus cover great distances. A written blessing has the capacity to bring warmth and light and love to your child again and again throughout his or her life — far beyond the mere ink marks on paper.
What Do I Say?
Keep in mind that there is no wrong way to craft a blessing, and there are lots of creative right ways. And whether it comes out all at once in a rush of words or takes you a few tries and several evenings to outline and polish what you want to say, your child will cherish both what you write and what it represents about your relationship.
How you actually do the writing depends on what you are comfortable with. Some people work best in pencil on a yellow legal pad. Others can't even think without a word processor. You could even talk into a voice recorder and then transcribe your words.
And what should you say? Your words can be plain or poetic. They just need to carry with them a picture of your blessing that can help your child know that he or she is of high value to you.
Sharing Your Blessing With Your Child
Once you have written your words of blessing, we encourage you to talk with your spouse (if you're married) and pick a special time and place to share these words with your child. If at all possible, do it face-to-face. Pick a meaningful time, place or event — a family affair with lots of friends and relatives, a milestone celebration such as a birth or graduation, or a quiet dinner with just the two of you. Just make sure that it is at a time and place that allows you to be quiet long enough to read or recite the blessing you have written to your son or daughter.
Don't forget to include the element of meaningful, appropriate touch along with your blessing — a hand on the head, an arm around the shoulder and hopefully a big hug. You might even want to snap a picture of the two of you together or give the child a keepsake copy of your blessing done in a special font, calligraphy or just your best handwriting.
What if you can't be physically present — if you are deployed overseas, for instance, or divorced and living across the country? If you will be together soon, why not write out your blessing now and wait until you are together to deliver it? But don't wait too long. You can always write out your blessing in your best handwriting or format it on the computer and put it in the mail. You could even do a video of your blessing and e-mail it to your child or do the whole thing via Skype.
Keep in mind that there is no wrong way of giving a child your blessing. Even if you choose to do a special dinner and burn the hamburgers, if it rains on the one night you have counted on a starlit sky, if the dog decides to throw up just before the special event or the camera batteries fail, it doesn't really matter. If you will write down your words and make your plans, I believe you will find that God just works it out!
The fact that your child receives your blessing is far more important than any challenges you face in delivering it. It is your blessing, prepared just for him or her. And however you choose to deliver it, make sure your child has a copy of your written words.
Don't Leave the Blessing to Chance
How you decide to bless your kids isn't as important as deciding to be intentional about blessing them.
Before you actually get to work on your written blessing, there are a few more things I would urge you to keep in mind. First, don't assume your children will automatically know your heart or "just figure out" what you think about them. How you choose to bless a child is not nearly as important as making that choice — being intentional about the blessing.
A Lifetime of Blessing
But don't stop there.
The kind of planned, formal blessing we have described can be wonderful and life-changing, but if you really want your child to thrive, you will not only give the blessing but also live it, seeking out ways to include meaningful touch, spoken and written words, messages of high value and a special future, and evidence of active commitment in every day you spend together, every moment.
At the breakfast table and over bedtime prayers, some parents memorize a little blessing to say or sing to their children at these moments.
In the car on the way to school (that can be the perfect time for an offhand conversation with a teen).
While on the soccer field, in the movie theater, at church, at the park or in the backyard, look for ways to inject little words of blessing in everyday conversation.
Make it a habit, and the blessings will flow through your life.
Next Steps/Related Information
Additional information on blessing your children
Popular questions on this topic:
- What can I do to foster and encourage positive spiritual growth in my children?
- What are the major components of solid Christian character? How can I instill these qualities in my child?
- How do I help my teen find God's will for his vocation?
- I grew up in a dysfunctional home but don't want my experiences to affect my own parenting. How do I break a negative cycle of parenting?
Related Resources
- The Blessing: Giving the Gift of Unconditional Love and Acceptance (Paperback)
- Bedtime Blessings: 200 Bedtime Stories and Activities for Blessing Your Child (2 Book Set)


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Once in a lifetime walk the Way of St. James
Dry gravel crunches underneath my feet. On my right, a gentle breeze ripples a field of nearly ripened wheat while on my left, sunflowers crane their necks toward the setting sun. This would be a beautiful moment if it weren't for all the other people marching along behind, beside and in front of me – chatting, sweating and breath-ing hard from the exertion. It's August, and the Way of St. James between Pamplona and Santiago de Compostela is like a busy human highway.
The Camino Francés or French Way across northern Spain is the most popular pilgrimage route. It ends at the shrine of St. James the Apostle in Santiago. I had hoped for a chance to reflect and turn inward on this journey, but the hostels en route all fill up by noon, and in their rows and rows of bunk beds, the pilgrims cough and snore the night away.
Luckily for me, I meet Markus, a man in his early thirties who has quit the rat race although he's still young. Markus advises me to get up before dawn, which I happily do, and so I finally have a chance to spend some time with myself. I stumble through the fog with my headlamp on, tramp up green hills against the steady rain and stop at tiny sandstone chapels that most other people overlook or ignore. In one of them, an old priest in a dark robe and a bushy beard gives me a second piece of advice: "Come in the spring next time and you will find far fewer people on the road."
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