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Sugarloaf is far into Maine, about 260 miles from the Boston area, but come here and you'll be skiing without all those beautiful people (i.e., New Yorkers) who infest tonier big mountain resorts like Killington and Stowe. That in itself is worth the trip.
Sugarloaf is far into Maine, about 260 miles from the Boston area, but come here and you'll be skiing without all those beautiful people (i.e., New Yorkers) who infest tonier big mountain resorts like Killington and Stowe. That in itself is worth the trip.
So is the fact Sugarloaf is the state's highest skiable peak and has choice snow conditions well into the month of April.
What you get here is a friendly, family destination with great skiing.
Rising from the Carrabassett Valley, the central Maine resort has trails and glades challenging enough for the best hotshots. Sugarloaf has the only lift-serviced, above-treeline skiing in the East. Ride the Timberline Quad lift for a 360-degree view from the top where you can see as far as Mount Washington in New Hampshire or across to Mount Katahdin, Maine's highest peak. Experts will cherish skiing the ungroomed Snowfields, although they're sometimes closed because of high winds.
Make no mistake, Sugarloaf is a big mountain. There's also plenty of beginner and intermediate terrain to please those just getting started skiing or looking to improve. Easier trails like Timberline give even beginners a chance to ski from the summit. And, unlike mega-resorts where the trails are spread out over several mountains, all 134 trails here lead to the lodge. It's perfect for families trying to reconnect while not necessarily skiing together.
To ski in New England is to be prepared for icy terrain, but the area's snow making (95 percent) and grooming is impressive. The payoff is that lift lines are short or non-existent. And the friendly atmosphere extends to the ``lifties'' who all seemed to have a friendly word when my family of six (four skiers and two snowboarders) visited for a long weekend.
A bit rusty? Take a 90-minute ``Learn to Turn'' clinic lesson, included with many ski-and-stay packages. Veteran instructors like Kevin Casey can teach you how to use your skis' edges to your best advantage. Casey's advice helped build my confidence about skiing on steeper and icier terrain. One exercise, which involved holding your poles in front of you and handing them from left to right and back during a turn, really helped me improve my turns.
Expert snowboarders play and ride in The Yard, opened just last year. At more than 400 feet wide and a half-mile long, it also has a SuperPipe with 21-foot-high walls for Olympic-style contests. Meanwhile, the Stomping Grounds has a MiniPipe and a series of smaller features, rails and jumps that are best for working on the fundamentals of freestyle park riding.
While the resort has traditional hotel rooms, you can also opt for a condo. We stayed in a three-bedroom condo out of the hubbub of the main lodge area. Just yards from the base of the Snubber lift, it was private and had easy trail access. And the condo came with a fireplace in a cozy living area and a well-equipped kitchen where we made some of our own easy meals, like spaghetti and chili.
But don't miss eating at one of the resort's restaurants. The Shipyard Brew Haus (207-237-6837; main courses from $9.95 to $20) has seating with comfy upholstered armchairs in the ``Living Room'' or at picnic tables near the bar. When we dined, folk musicians Uncle Al and Kenny were performing songs by Dylan and Simon and Garfunkel. Try the Sesame Seared Beef with Spicy Thai Orange Ginger or a burger sprinkled with Montreal seasoning, and accompany it with a beer brewed in Portland. Desserts, like Peanut Butter and Chocolate Ooey Goooey Cake, were as good as they sound and large enough to share.
In the main lodge in the Village Center, have lunch in the Narrow Gauge Cafe, which has hearty choices like pulled pork and chicken sandwiches and broccoli cheddar cheese soup.
The dress code at Sugarloaf is casual, but at The Rack, flannel shirts might be required. Located on the access road just as you enter the resort, it's a fun spot with some of the best pork ribs (207-237-2211; a half-rack is $14.95) I've tasted. If ribs aren't your thing, try one of several Angus beef burgers, chicken dishes or the standout nachos piled high with chili, cheese and veggies. After the lifts close late Sunday afternoon, the entertainment starts with The Steves, made up of a bunch of guys named Steve, who play until about 7:30. When was the last time you heard the '70s country anthem ``Up Against the Wall Redneck Mother''? Yep, it's that kind of rockin' place.
You can also get into the center of the action by taking the free shuttle to the Village Center where there's food and nightly music in the Widowmaker Lounge.
Find time during your stay to take a swim and a soak in the condo's neighborhood recreational center (for condo residents only). With a warm indoor pool, three hot tubs and a Swedish sauna, it was a relaxing retreat for the adults in our group after the drive from Boston and a great way for the kids to blow off steam.
As another water option open to everyone, the Sugarloaf Fitness Center in the Village Center has a large pool and indoor hot tubs (as well as up-to-date weight training equipment, saunas and, on the lower level, racquetball or wallyball for $15 an hour). But the real treat is to soak in one of the outdoor hot tubs at night and see the stars sparkling like diamonds in the black sky.Slidin', glidin' and jumpin'
Tubing: Not a skier or rider? For $15, try slidin' downhill on a cushioned doughnut. With its own handle-tow lift, the Turbo Tubing Park has four 1,000-foot shoots off the lower mountain. It's open 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Saturdays.
Cross-Country: Trek through the woods on the cross-country trails at the Sugarloaf Outdoor Center. Trade in your same-day downhill lift ticket for a free Nordic trail pass and equipment any time before 3:30 p.m. Otherwise, Nordic passes cost $17 for adults, $10 for kids 6-12 and free if you're 5 or younger.
About a mile from the main resort area, the center has both classic Nordic and the newer ski-skating style equipment that takes a bit more skill. For novices, there's plenty of easy beginner trails that offer a great aerobic workout. With 105 km (about 63 miles) of groomed trail loops, the area also attracts advanced Nordic skiers. A hawk may fly across the trail as you ski through quiet woods.
Snowshoes and skates: Snap on snowshoes ($20 rental) and take one of the Nordic trail loops at a slower pace. If it's cold enough for hard ice, take a spin afterward on the new outdoor rink. Skate rentals are $7.
Antigravity: The Carrabassett Valley Antigravity Complex (207-237-5566) has nothing to do with NASA's space program but everything to do with family fun. The facility, near the access road to Sugarloaf, was developed by the town of Carrabassett Valley and Carrabassett Valley Academy, whose alumni includes Olympic skier Bode Miller (Class of 1996). Challenge yourself on the rock-climbing wall, jump on the two Olympic-size trampolines or run on the indoor track. There's a weight room, fitness classes and a skate park with a 10-foot-deep bowl as well. Although the hours are limited (be sure to call ahead to make reservations), most activities cost $5 for kids and $8 for adults.If you go
Getting there: Sugarloaf is near Kingfield, Maine, about 4-1/2-hours from the Boston area.
Staying there: Ski & Stay packages, which include lodging and lifts but not downhill rentals, start at $99 a night per person.
Skiing there: If you're staying elsewhere, a full-day alpine lift ticket at Sugarloaf (Feb. 16-March 30) is $72 for adults 19+; $61 for ages 13-18; $49 for ages 6-12; and free for children 5 and younger. After March 30, lift ticket prices are reduced.
Summer Fun: Sugarloaf is a four-season resort. The resort's golf course has been ranked No. 1 for the past five years by Golf Digest magazine. In warmer weather, try fly-fishing, take a moose tour, hike or go mountain biking. The resort is just off the Appalachian Trail.
For more information, go to www.sugarloaf.com or call 800-THE-LOAF.


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European Union postpones women quota on boards plan
EU commissioners have postponed plans to impose quotas for women on company boards.
EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding was pushing for a vote on Tuesday to make it mandatory for companies to keep 40% of seats for women.
But the proposals will now not be debated until November.
The quota had already run into problems after EU lawyers said the proposed law might go too far and countries could not be forced to meet the target.
Several countries, including the UK, are opposed to Ms Reding's plans.
"Gender balance directive postponed," Ms Reding said on Twitter.
"I will not give up. [Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso] will put this on the Commission agenda again before the end of November."
On Monday, the European Parliament criticised the lack of female candidates for the European Central Bank (ECB).
A parliamentary committee - in a resolution passed by 21 votes to 12, with 13 absentions - called on the European Council to withdraw the candidacy of Luxembourg's Yves Mersch for the ECB executive board, saying his appointment would mean that the board would be all male up until 2018.
'Time is now'
The debate on Ms Reding's plan was due in Strasbourg on Tuesday, which could have led to a vote in the European Parliament to make gender quotas mandatory across the 27 countries in the European Union.
But lawyers told the Commission that the 40% quota plan, including hefty sanctions on companies in EU countries that did not meet the target, could not be enforced under EU treaties.
Earlier reports had suggested the directive was being diluted, before a decision was made to postpone it.
At the moment, less than 15% of board positions in EU member states are currently held by women, according to the Commission.
Ms Reding's proposals on compulsory numbers of women come after France, Spain, Italy, Iceland and Belgium introduced quota laws. Norway, which is not an EU member, has had a 40% quota since 2003.
Her opponents argue that voluntary targets and increased efforts to change attitudes would be more effective in the long run.
UK Business Secretary Vince Cable is leading a campaign against the quota proposals, backed by ministers from eight other countries.
In the UK, the percentage of women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies has risen over the past year to a record 16%, but the UK government wants the biggest listed companies to have a minimum 25% of female directors by 2015.

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Terry Gilliam still has windmills in his mind, and though the impossible might happen, the unfinishing of this movie with sorrowful countenance is all too common – Orson Welles unfinished one, Gilliam has tried about four times, with Paul Rochefort, Johnny Depp, Euan McGregor, Michael Palin and Gerard Depardieu all unfinishing roles in various versions. There is a great filmed sequence of Depp debating with a fish in 'Lost in La Mancha' (2002). I hope this eventually gets on its horse – Rocinante – but not just as a rush job.
This article suggests it is back on, and if there was a way to check bookings on the Canary Islands in October, I would. My unfinished Quixote awaits a second versioning, after the first one got a Melbourne Uni theatre writers grant way back in 1989. I do not see this as pressing I suppose, but the article below previews some new art (main image) done for Gilliam by Dave Warren, which is seemingly suitable for parabalizing interpretation with contemporary political reach. Not that Gilliam will necessarily see it that way, but if he is prepared to consider Palin as the knight, I think radical detournement of his bumbling white supremacist/national treasure role is required.
While those who fervently hope Terry Gilliam finally, actually manages to get his dream/nightmare project The Man Who Killed Don Quixote made have had their hearts broken before, the driven director announced last October that he was dreaming the impossible dream once again. To keep us all excited, Gilliam has now released the first piece of concept art for the latest gambit.
Crafted by Dave Warren – who worked with Gilliam on 'The Zero Theorem' and 'The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus' – it's certainly a compelling image, and comes complete with a Facebook message from the director: "Dreams of Don Quixote have begun again. Dave Warren has started doodling. Will we get the old bastard back on his horse this year? Human sacrifices welcomed. Stay tuned." Hopefully it won't quite need that much in the way of good fortune.
"We'll see if it happens," Gilliam said back in October. "This is kind of my default position, going back to that. I actually just want to make it and get rid of it. Get it out of my life! I don't know if it will be good or bad. The dangerous thing is that a lot of people are waiting for it, so I can disappoint a lot of people maybe." ….


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text: LadyTargaryen1 #1 Posted December 22, 2018 By the time of ADWD, the Baratheon family is at its whits end. Tommen is male, has the name, but not the blood. Myrcella has the name but not the blood. Stannis could possibly die in battle, leaving only a scarred girl as his heir. Any child born of Shireen would take her husbands name. But what if there were others? We learn of Orryn Baratheon, younger brother of Lord Rogar, and his true born daughter with a Tyroshi woman. Could her descendants Press their claim to the Iron Throne? What of Cassana Baratheon and her children with the Brownhill Knight, would they be suitable? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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He's dated a bevy of Hollywood beauties, pulled pranks on the paparazzi and has said some outlandish things on Twitter – but John Mayer insists none of it is ever done just to enhance his image.
"I've never done anything because I thought it would look cool," the singer said in the new issue of Details magazine. "It's always been a pursuit based on curiosity – never a war-room strategy for my career."
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In fact, when it comes to his fascination with Twitter – and the Twitter world's mutual admiration of him (Mayer currently has over 2.6 million followers) – he doesn't want people to think it takes away from his time spent on his music, but rather a new opportunity to connect with his fans.
"If I see something like Twitter, my brain looks at it from all angles," he told Details. "How am I gonna make this work? I'll use whatever means I can to stay in touch."
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Of course, like most pop culture stars, Mayer has encountered his fair share of negative feedback. But the "Who Says" singer thinks most people with bad things to say about him are more bark than bite.
"What if I had a booth on the street and I said, 'Attention, everybody who hates me: If you have a problem with me, I'm ready to hear your gripes!… I will not be speaking to fans. I will only be speaking to people who do not like me. Come out and let me have it. I will not speak back,'" he said.
"How many people do you think would be standing there? I'm talking about the chance to tell me directly, 'I think you're a douchebag.' You know how many people would do it?" Mayer asked the Details interviewer. "Ze-ro. You know what they'd do? They'd walk up and say, 'I'm just messin' with ya.' And you know what I'd say? I'd say, 'You're a douchebag.'"
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As far as his track record for dating fellow Hollywood stars, from Jennifer Love Hewitt to Jennifer Aniston and Jessica Simpson, Mayer is quick to dismiss the notion that it's all done to help bolster his celebrity status.
"You just never know who's going to come into your life," he explained. "To my mind, the only thing sicker than saying, 'Wow, you're a famous person and it would do a lot for my career to go out with you,' is to say, 'Wow, you're a famous person and I like you and all, but I can't do that to my career.' I don't think either of those is a good option."
But regardless of what's said – or written – about the star, Mayer hopes it's his music and not the media that will provide the foundation for his legacy.
"What do you think is stronger: a dozen press articles that say I'm this guy, or a record with 10 songs on it that you enjoy? Which has greater staying power?" he asked. "At the end of the day, all I owe the world in exchange for my dumb face being in their lives are 10 songs every couple years that are hopefully of greater magnitude than somebody's press story about me… you'll walk away from the record liking me a hell of a lot more than you would walking away from an interview."
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mazda is an excellent Japanese based auto manufacturer. mazda produces high quality cars that last years & years. mazda is not as popular as Toyota orHonda, but their quality is just as good!
by Anonymous July 13, 2003
The only japanese car company to win at LeMan's 24 hour race. Producer of fine rotory cars, such as the RX-7. Make some of the best handling factory cars.
The mazda 4-rotor 787b could run for longer than a week with out blowing up, isn't that cool.
by Mazda Owner January 28, 2004
A Japenese car company that is well known for their rotary cars. Makes muscle loving piston fucking douchebags (see above me) very angry when 1.3l (40ci x 40ci) smokes their 5.0l cars. With only 3 major moving parts in a rotary engine, and less friction than a reciprocating motor they can rev up to 12,000rpm with a bridgeport. It is the replacement for displacement.
- The 13B rotary engine in the 1989-1991 RX-7 has the highest power to displacement ratio of any naturally aspirated engine produced.
For anyone who disagrees with the rotary, go ahead and search youtube.com for mazda 787b.
- The 13B rotary engine in the 1989-1991 RX-7 has the highest power to displacement ratio of any naturally aspirated engine produced.
For anyone who disagrees with the rotary, go ahead and search youtube.com for mazda 787b.
Hoze: "I dont like mazdas and their rotary cars"
guy: "That's funny because you don't like vagina either."
guy: "That's funny because you don't like vagina either."
by JaredCarpenter October 27, 2007
Very nice high quality vehilce, that handles exceptionally well. Very difficult to have sex with your girl in. The back seat is akward to fuck in if your 6' of taller.
Damn my back hurts, sex in the mazda is challenging. FUCK i was having intercourse in the mazda and i set the touchy alarm off
by KUPRES March 08, 2006
Mazda, a Japaneze based car company that is all around a great car maker. Common, I'd like to se an American based company make a rotary engine with as much HP as the RX7
by Chris the Jap car lover August 07, 2003
Producer of the renesis rotary engine that's 1.3 litre and produces a massive 280 horsepower.
Wow look at that 1.3 litre 280 horsepower mazda taking out my 5.0 litre mustang with 600 horsepowa!
by Domestic Killa! March 02, 2004
A Japanese Company which pioneered the Rotary engine, and is responsible for producing the most sporty cars in the 21st Century.
Popular Mazda's: Mazda2, Mazda3, Mazda6, RX-7, RX-8, Miata MX5.
Popular Mazda's: Mazda2, Mazda3, Mazda6, RX-7, RX-8, Miata MX5.
Man, Mazda are soo cool because of the Mazda RX-8, which was the Australian 'Wheels' sportscar of the year. That rotary engine can kick the shit out of any WRX.
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Bloggers Quilt Festival
I'm excited to be participating in the first annual Bloggers Quilt Festival, hosted by fellow SewConnected quilter Amy (who blogs at Park City Girl). There will be loads of great prizes, so be sure to check it out!
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My name is Hassan F. Johnson and I believe that independent music artists are entrepreneurs that often produce high quality music that rivals their more popular counterparts. The problem is that these artists rarely have the infrastructure to reach an audience greater than their local neigherborhoods. My goal is to change that starting with Hip Hop.
The name, "ThaTrunk", is derived from the term "Out tha Trunk", which is a colloquial term often used by independent hip hop artists who distribute their CD's from the "Trunk" of their cars and at local shows.
Our goal is to provide these creative entrepreneurs with an outlet for their music to reach a much larger audience, to help build their brand value as marketable hip hop artists capable of commanding a national/international fan base and to improve their knowledge of who is and where are their most lucrative audiences in the early stages of their career.
The target customer of ThaTrunk.com is underground Hip Hop artist who believe in their music and want to genuinely reach a larger audience in order to develop their marketability as a professional.
When I envision the logo for ThaTrunk.com I think of the rear of a classic 1960s or 1973 candy paint Cadillac with the trunk propped open with two gigantic overly sized speakers on both the left and right side of the rear of the vehicle With a stack of CD's filling the trunk of the car, keeping it from closing. I see a retro rendition of the Cadillac symbol. The image needs to flow together and not appear to be misshapen. Feel free to let your creative juices flow here.
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I try to stay out of these debates in the WoW community because they're exhausting and (I know this is in direct contradiction of my conclusion!) they lead nowhere. Extremists remain extremists and moderates remain moderates. But, I guess you could call me a philologist. I love words. I find them fascinating. My background in psychology, my passion for travel and my interests in anthropology and linguistics have created a monster: the relationships between language and cultures is something I could discuss for days and days and days. (And days and days.)
I'll do my best to respect my energy levels and keep this short, though.
I'll also start off by saying that I'm a moderate and that I'll be playing with both sides of the discussion. My message in 4 words would be "reflect and be kind".
When I was a teenager doing teenager memes on Livejournal, one of the "survey" lines became etched in my memory: "What would you do if your boyfriend called you fat?"
The obvious responses would be to ditch him, to yell at him, to make him apologize. But not me. I'd probably burst out laughing and give him another joke as a response. Why? Because when I was 16 I got sick, my weight dropped and ever since my BMI rarely creeps above 20. As a result, no matter where I go, I get the "oh you're sooooooo fat" line. My weight isn't low enough to be worrisome, and though, like anyone, I dislike lumps showing up where they shouldn't be, I'm not conscious at all about my weight. Putting "fat" and me in the same sentence can only be humorous.
Where I'm going with this is that the word "fat" doesn't SPECIFICALLY mean the same thing to me as is does to someone who is struggling with their weight. Just like it wouldn't mean the same thing to someone in a culture where being overweight is a sign of wealth and social status. It has a very personal and a very cultural meaning and person and culture are relative.
Intent and effect
Does that mean it's ok to insult people's weight, and when they are hurt, tell them that they should just change their view of the word "fat"?
I hope you find that as ridiculous as I do.
Saying things, KNOWING that you're upsetting someone (or that you have a very high chance of upsetting someone), is just being a jerk.
We can debate until we're blue in the face about which words we should ban (why do I always get flashbacks to Harry Potter and He-who-must-not-be-named whenever these "word ban" topics resurface in the blogosphere?). The fact that these discussions get so heated is proof enough that the meanings of these words is indeed dependent on the beholder.
However, you can't go into the beholder's head and change their past experiences, their beliefs, their thoughts, their feelings. What you can do, however, is not be a jerk.
But I don't know what other people don't like!
What fuels these heated topics is that among English-speaking Westerners (which, I'm guessing, is the general demographic engaged in the debates I witness), there are certain words and topics that are generally demeaning.
We have to differentiate specific meanings from general meanings. Specific meanings are personal, but general meanings are usually pretty constant. Whether you've experience homophobia or not, the term "faggot" (when not talking about cigarettes) has a negative connotation. It is the degree of negative connotation that differs from person to person.
Now, the Western world has a painful and not yet completely resolved history of racism, sexism, homophobia and violence.
Thus, when using "rape" out of context, when using racism and sexist terms, you are being disrespectful. There is a high chance that one or more individuals in your audience will feel attacked, or hurt, or disregarded.
Now, I differ from the extremists in that I believe that what you joke about or the vocabulary you choose among close friends where no one else can hear is your own business. However, as soon as you take your words outside and use them in a way that is very likely to bother others, you are being a jerk.
As a side note, there are individuals who have unusual aversions to certain words or topics. I wouldn't expect anyone to guess that "banana" could trigger an emotional response in another. However, if the aversion is known, I would expect others to respect it.
I'll insert here that jokes about rape, about suicide, about mental health, etc. are extremely touchy ground. These are very devastating subjects. Joking is a defense mechanism that allows us to avoid feeling something that we have trouble accepting. Joking about rape, about suicide, about mental health happening to others protects us from the pain of empathy. As as painful as it is, empathy is what we need to build a better society. So, in addition to be cruel to the individuals targeted, joking about these topics prevents us from growing as a society.
Note the emphasis on "happening to others". Sometimes joking about ones own experiences can be a crucial part of the healing process – it offers a distraction and it helps others relate. I wouldn't have learned to accept myself as I am if I hadn't written a number of comedy posts about my social anxiety. Joking to heal yourself and joking to avoid feeling empathy are completely different stomping grounds.
Hate and cruelty, it wears on you
I gotta fit WoW in here somewhere!
I don't have any strong feelings about "slut" plate (I grew up in a very sexually liberated part of the world) but I do have something else to share.
I was in a guild once where the, um, quality of conversation went way downhill. Had I taken a shot every time someone said "fag", I would have been finished 15 minutes into the raid. And that wasn't the only hate term that was used abundantly.
No component of the vocabulary hit any nerves on me, personally. So it wasn't a question of hurt feelings, or fear or anything like that. It wasn't a question of attributing extreme meanings to words either.
Yet, I got exhausted. Trying to remain positive, cooperative and team-minded while being bombarded with symbols of hate, of violence and of ignorance took a toll on me.
(Not to mention that it all felt very immature. As if my teammates were saying "HEY! LOOK AT ME! I'M USING A BAD WORD! AREN'T I BADASS?" I dunno about you, but if I'm going to babysit 12 year olds, I expect to be paid. In money.)
I understand the need of an outlet for aggression. But I think there has to be a balance between positivity and negativity, there has to be a proper time and place to be aggressive, and there has to be a consideration for those who aren't currently feeling a need to let out some aggression.
As my grade school moral teachers used to repeat over and over again: "Your freedom ends where someone elses freedom begins."
Words vs Meanings, Messengers vs Messages
Now that I've insisted on "if you knowing hurt people, even with words, you're a jerk", I'll switch over to how I feel about outright banning words.
In her post, Cider Apple Mage uses the following example:
A woman is walking home from work in a big city. A car of young men drives by and shouts "SLUT!" at her. It feels scary.
This is a good springboard for my own thoughts because her and I (though we agree on some points) differ on how we view words.
The above situation has happened to me a lot (I doubt it's anything personal…it happens even when I'm wearing winter clothes that show no skin at all). It doesn't scare me, but I do get a little insulted. If I'm feeling sensitive that day, I might even be hurt.
Not from the choice of words. The young men could have easily said "dorkface", "poopyhead" or something equally ridiculous and have trigger the exact same feeling in me. What bothers me is that strangers went out of their way for no other reason than to attempt to cause me pain. The word "slut" doesn't faze me. Cruelty, however, saddens me deeply.
I find that in the crusade against words, the very people pushing to ban certain words forget why those words cut in the first place.
Perhaps I'm just a dreamer, but I think words are not the right battle to fight. Words are messengers. Killing the messengers won't change the message. Ban a word and another will appear. It's a never ending battle. Whenever I see a statement of "ban words X, Y and Z because I can't stand them" I imagine that the person making the statement must lead a very draining and painful life. I get heck from my fellow bloggers about this, but I feel that if I burn myself out trying to correct everything others say, then they'll win. They're wrong in being jerks, but if I allow myself to be hurt or burned out because they're jerks, then the person who is punished is me.
However, fight cruelty, fight disrespect, fight ignorance, fight hate – and the words will vanish on their own.
Summing it up
Well, this wasn't really short, but it could still have been much longer.
I think these discussions are important. Regardless if whether you agree with a text, it's important to read it, absorb it, criticize it. A part of social consciousness is instinctive (otherwise societies wouldn't exist) but it needs to be refined through discussion and reflection. There are no black and white answers for what's "best" and "right". To build a better society, you have to look at all the angles and make your own personal judgements.
And take action. Discussion is the beginning, but it isn't the end. Join advocacy groups, volunteer, teach children. Ignorance is fought with knowledge, hate is fought with love, oppression is fought with liberation.
You want to make a difference? Do it through positivity. Make society grow instead of repressing it.
That goes for the hate-speakers and the word-banners and all of us in between.


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The Transition movement coaches us to "begin in your own backyard." But what if your backyard happens to be one of the biggest megacities in the world?
From the very beginning -- even before the December 2008 Open Space circle that resulted in the formation of our Transition Los Angeles city hub, and even from people who really ought to know better -- I have heard the doubts. Los Angeles is too big. You can't hope to fix it. It can't be done.
But at the same time, there's that old adage about "a journey of a thousand miles ..." And the basic necessity of it: what else are we supposed to do, simply do NOTHING?
To those of you who are reading this who also live in big cities, I say: carry on. Keep on working for change. Any bit of progress helps. As a personal survival mechanism, it helps to ignore the nay-sayers. Believe it can be done, begin the baby steps, allow progress to build, celebrate victories no matter how small. Yes, do look at the big picture, but don't let it get you down. Don't think too hard about how very big it is, just get positive progress started.
And with that attitude, we in Los Angeles have accomplished quite a lot in a very short period of time!
The question of scale has been with us at Transition Los Angeles (TLA) since our inception. The December 2008 Open Space circle that resulted in the formation of our city hub was on the concept of scale: how do you divide the big city into manageable portions to begin the Transition process?
Let's face it, Los Angeles is huge. Wikipedia calls it a "megacity," and lists it as the second largest city in the U.S., and the 46th largest city in the world. Both of these calculations are flawed, and I'll tell you why in a minute, but let me suffice to say, we're one of the biggest, if not the biggest, metropolitan area in the world that is working with the Transition model.
It was clear from the start that for Transition purposes, we would have to break it down into manageable chunks. But how do you go about doing that?
One of the immediate issues with Los Angeles is: WHERE DOES IT END? A quick search on Google for "Los Angeles map" gives a visual of the problem. You see, there is the official City of LA (3.8million people and 498.3 square miles). And then there is the broader county (10.4 million people, 88 incorporated cities, 4752 sq miles). Then there is the geographic basin (35mi long and 15mi wide). And then there is the continuous development (urban area 12.9 to 17.8 million people, depending on how you cut it).
Los Angeles flows. It doesn't end. One neighborhood merges into the next, with the only delineating factor being that the color of the street signs changes. Los Angeles county merges into nearby counties of Orange, San Bernardino, and Ventura without any gap in development. It flows over creekbeds, it flows over the river, it flows across mountaintops. The only thing that doesn't flow is that which is supposed to flow: the freeway system.
At the time we formed TLA, we were reading Hopkins' materials and all of them described models of pure localization: live, work, play all in the same small UK town with very little need to travel. UK towns are apparently (I've never been there) separated from one another by farmland. Wow, what a concept. We have nothing like that here, no natural separaters which would help delineate between say, Transition Culver City and Transition Mar Vista. Natural geography is of little help in dividing the city into manageable chunks for Transition work.
Most Los Angelenos are very accustomed to driving. This city grew up -- entirely -- during the age of the automobile. Thus people live in one neighborhood, drive their kids to school in another neighborhood (sometimes different schools in different neighborhoods for the kids in the same family). After school/work activities might be anywhere, and people think nothing of taking off across town for a shopping errand.
People who work in the same office live in vastly scattered geography. Small businesses might serve clients across the basin. Friends live all over the place; family might not even live here, because so many Los Angelenos are newcomers to this city.
We even encounter it on our sign-in sheet at Transition events. When we ask for zip code, people ask us right back: would that be work or home? mail or physical address? As far as a "sense of place," everyone here seems to have too many places and no real Place.
In the December 2008 Training for Transition that included the Open Space discussion, Sophy Banks brought up the subject of Belonging. Where do people feel they belong? Where do they feel a strong sense of connection? The budding Transition Los Angeles team decided to go with that.
In our initiating team, we had people who felt connected to a community garden in the Venice area. We had people who felt connected to a garden and meeting site in the Westchester area. We had people who were from a church in the Culver City area. That meant we had at least three sites to start with, where people felt a sense of connection. Regardless of whether attendees drove to get to those meeting sites, we decided to start with multiple local sites.
It took us some time to feel really solid about building upon "Belonging sites" rather than pure localization. And it took a lot of explaining. We have continually been faced with explaining our unique solution to the problem.
We came up with a diagram to describe it. The first version was a pyramid -- pods below and city hub above -- like a corporate org chart. But that didn't feel right.
Then we hit upon the umbellifer flower form. We flipped the pyramid upside down and had a diagram that looked like fennel, which grows wild on our L.A. hillsides, or yarrow, a native California plant.
The local T.I. sites - our L.A. pods - are like the flowers themselves. They're very visual, showy, and get all the attention. And behind those flowers, supporting them, holding them up, there is a seemingly delicate structure: the City Hub. The TLA city hub doesn't direct or regulate the pods; it supports and encourages them. They are independent, and each has a unique tone or flavor all its own.
One of the primary functions of the city hub is to coordinate communication between the pods, which basically means the city hub keeps the pods talking to each other. Within the busy-ness of trying to run a T.I. while you're still maintaining a conventional job & family life, it's easy to forget about other pods in other neighborhoods of the city. But our monthly city hub core team meetings, and our core team leadership email list of shared resources and discussion keeps the "cross-pollination" going.
Another important function the city hub serves around here is outreach. A few months back, we began plotting our pod sites and our attendees onto Google Maps . This highly visual resource reveals the reality of our initial 18 or so months of Transition action: it's all in a very limited geography. Right now (at 18 months of age) we're very coastal, we have very little penetration into the interior portions of the city.
Outreach is hugely important. In a city like ours (well, in my opinion, in a city of any size) you're kidding yourself if you think you can somehow Transition just your own little neighborhood and call it "done." No way. No matter how many veggie gardens, water barrels, bicycles we set up in one small neighborhood, if we don't help nearby neighborhoods to do similar, then when shocks come to the System, the unprepared people will simply walk over and help themselves. Any one neighborhood is only as Transitioned as the whole.
We are interconnected. We are interdependent. Rob Hopkins said in a recent video that Transition is a compassionate response, either we all do it or it doesn't work. Thus when we introduce newcomers to our city hub, we use materials which include this paragraph:
"OUR COMMON GOAL is growing local community resilience and self-sufficiency throughout the Los Angeles basin. We realize that we cannot succeed alone; our individual security during energy descent within this massive LA basin is entirely dependent upon the degree to which we have prepared the whole area."
Outreach for us means speaking engagements all over the city. It means making space for the ones from other areas, outside the geography where we're already active. It means balancing the priority of helping new areas launch, versus deepening existing areas. We get so many speaking requests right now that we can hardly handle the volume which comes on its own. Even so, we're actively seeking to reach out into those new neighborhoods, to help them get started in the Transition journey.
Right after we did the map, one of the first things we realized was, we were unprepared. We didn't have contacts in those areas. We needed to meet the people who could gain us the connections to get us the speaking engagements to meet the people who could get Transition action started there. So our first step was to make a conscious effort to make those connections.
It will take a lot more than connections. As I've written about in articles about Diversity, our initial core team in Los Angeles isn't very ethnically or racially diverse. In order to gain credibility in ethnic neighborhoods, we will have to gain at least that first person of color who is able to speak on Transition ideas.
We will have to tackle language barriers -- I heard once that the City of LA distributes its materials in something like 18 languages. To handle that, we will need to grow our core team to include people who have the skill set we lack.
But I'm a firm believer that awareness is the beginning. We're aware of our shortcomings, and that means we're looking out for solutions. We're also aware of our new-ness, and we trust that as our organization gets known around town some of these problems will work themselves out. We don't have to do it all ourselves (see "threading the beads" concept).
So which comes first, the city hub or the local sites? My answer is, "it depends." At what scale do you feel you could make a difference?
Here in LA, our initiating circle was made up of people from widespread geography. Some of them were veterans at community organizing. Each of the people in that initiating circle fully realized that eventually we would need local Transition sites all over L.A., each covering a walkable or bike-able radius. Eventually we would all have to have our own groups.
But in that Dec 2008 circle we also realized that we -- the initial leaders -- needed lots of mutual support as we began this process. We had gone through the Training together; we had a bond. We had a common mission and a common understanding which was considerably different from the mainstream. We needed each other. So we formed "Transition Los Angeles" as that gathering place. Its initial purpose was to keep the leaders going.
It was only when we went to apply to Transition Network for official status that the question came up: did you intend for that to be a city hub? Hmmm, actually we didn't. We didn't set out to form a city hub; we kind of backed into having created one. By the time that question was on the table, Mar Vista was already planning how to create Transition Mar Vista. Culver City was already looking for people to fill out a steering group.
"Let it go where it needs to go," our early Transition principle says. The structure in Los Angeles developed on its own evolvution.
Part II of this article will continue with "Operations" at Transition Los Angeles.


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Patch up warmly this winter if you're running Java. That's the advice from .NET shop Microsoft, which reckons Oracle's platform is the single biggest target for hackers.
Java proved the single most popular target in the 12-month period to the end of June, according to Microsoft's latest Security Intelligence Report has found here (warning PDF).
Microsoft blogged about the findings here.
And hackers were targeting vulnerabilities that are not only several years old but are known about and have been patched by Java's owner, Oracle.
The number-one exploit was CVE-2010-0840, affecting the Java Runtime Environment (JRE), disclosed in March 2010 and addressed with an Oracle update the same month.
Hacks on this hole surged tenfold in the first quarter of 2011 up from "a low level" in the fourth quarter of 2010.
The advice of Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing director Tim Rains was simple: "If you haven't updated Java in your environment recently, you should evaluate the current risks. Note: you might have multiple different versions of Java in use in your environment and should evaluate with this in mind."
He continued: "Keep all software in your environment up to date, not just Windows; assume attackers are targeting vulnerabilities in all prevalent software.
The JRE contained some of the most common exploits, he said. Vulnerabilities in the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) and Java Development Kit (JDK) for Java SE were also popular targets.
Between a third to a half of all exploits detected by Microsoft's anti-malware were Java exploits – in every quarter in the year between Q3 2010 and Q2 this year. "Attackers have been aggressively targeting vulnerabilities in Java because it is so ubiquitous," Rains said. ®
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Sunday January 2 is The Second Sunday after Christmas – Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord
January 2 2011 – (1/2/2011) – Readings
Is 60:1-6
Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13
Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6
Mt 2:1-12
The light of faith shines forth
Lift up your eyes and see
The Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light
All kings shall pay him homage, all nations shall serve him
The wise men seeing the star rejoiced, adored the child and offered gold, frankincense, and myrrh
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First Reading
Is 60:1-6
Rise up in splendor, Jerusalem! Your light has come,
the glory of the Lord shines upon you.
See, darkness covers the earth,
and thick clouds cover the peoples;
but upon you the LORD shines,
and over you appears his glory.
Nations shall walk by your light,
and kings by your shining radiance.
Raise your eyes and look about;
they all gather and come to you:
your sons come from afar,
and your daughters in the arms of their nurses.
Then you shall be radiant at what you see,
your heart shall throb and overflow,
for the riches of the sea shall be emptied out before you,
the wealth of nations shall be brought to you.
Caravans of camels shall fill you,
dromedaries from Midian and Ephah;
all from Sheba shall come
bearing gold and frankincense,
and proclaiming the praises of the LORD.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 10-11, 12-13(cf. 11)
Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king's son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more. May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
The kings of Tarshish and the Isles shall offer gifts;
the kings of Arabia and Seba shall bring tribute.
All kings shall pay him homage,
all nations shall serve him.
R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
For he shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.
R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
Second Reading
Eph 3:2-3a, 5-6
Brothers and sisters:
You have heard of the stewardship of God's grace
that was given to me for your benefit,
namely, that the mystery was made known to me by revelation.
It was not made known to people in other generations
as it has now been revealed
to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:
that the Gentiles are coheirs, members of the same body,
and copartners in the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Mt 2:1-12
When Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea,
in the days of King Herod,
behold, magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, saying,
"Where is the newborn king of the Jews?
We saw his star at its rising
and have come to do him homage."
When King Herod heard this,
he was greatly troubled,
and all Jerusalem with him.
Assembling all the chief priests and the scribes of the people,
He inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
They said to him, "In Bethlehem of Judea,
for thus it has been written through the prophet:
And you, Bethlehem, land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
since from you shall come a ruler,
who is to shepherd my people Israel."
Then Herod called the magi secretly
and ascertained from them the time of the star's appearance.
He sent them to Bethlehem and said,
"Go and search diligently for the child.
When you have found him, bring me word,
that I too may go and do him homage."
After their audience with the king they set out.
And behold, the star that they had seen at its rising preceded them,
until it came and stopped over the place where the child was.
They were overjoyed at seeing the star,
and on entering the house
they saw the child with Mary his mother.
They prostrated themselves and did him homage.
Then they opened their treasures
and offered him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh.
And having been warned in a dream not to return to Herod,
they departed for their country by another way.
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11 Madison Avenue
Thermal Storage Saves Energy, Focuses On Environment
Built in 1932, 11 Madison Avenue in New York City is a 2.2 million square foot office building that serves as the national headquarters for Credit Suisse. As one of the world's leading banks, Credit Suisse provides clients with investment banking, private banking and asset management services worldwide. Here's how Trane partnered with Credit Suisse to meet their air conditioning, energy and environmental challenges.
Faced with replacing an outdated chiller plant at the end of its life cycle, Credit Suisse explored the prospects of a high performance building that addressed the overall goals of energy savings, improved plant resiliency and environmental consciousness.
As part of the plan to improve the building's energy performance, Credit Suisse brought in Trane's New York/New Jersey Energy Services Group to develop a solution. After completing a detailed building analysis, the Trane Energy Services Group proposed a thermal storage solution that would shift electric load from daytime to night when electricity is more plentiful, less expensive and generated more efficiently. The plan also called for replacing three of the building's aging chillers with new, more efficient and inherently more reliable non- CFC chillers.
Trane installed three 800-ton CenTraVac™ chillers, 64 CALMAC thermal
storage tanks and related thermal storage equipment.
The thermal storage system works by using one of the new chillers to make ice at night during off-peak, reduced-rate hours — reducing peak electric demand by nearly one megawatt and reducing on-peak energy consumption by over 2.15 million kWh per year. These energy savings, combined with a substantial subsidy incentive from NYSERDA, delivered an attractive financial return for Credit Suisse while enhancing chilled water plant resiliency. Off-peak power used to make ice is generated by more efficient, cleaner natural gas power plants rather than older, dirtier oil-fired plants, providing a distinct environmental advantage.
The new chillers also use environmentally responsible HCFC-123 refrigerant. All work was completed without disrupting operations of Credit Suisse or other building tenants.
About 11 Madison Avenue
Featuring art deco styling, 11 Madison Avenue was constructed in
1932 as part of the headquarters for the Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company. The building was originally designed to reach 100 stories
which would have made it the world's tallest building during that
time. The Great Depression, however, limited construction to its
current 30 stories. 11 Madison Avenue currently serves as national
headquarters for Credit Suisse, a global banking firm that operates in
more than 33 countries on five continents.
This turnkey project shifts nearly 1 megawatt of peak electric demand and reduces annual on-peak energy usage by more than 2.15 million kWh.


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Madiba: warrior son of Africa
For a man who gave away 27 years of his life
So that his people could be free
For the man who gave away 27 years of his life
So that his nation could be free
For the man who could have been a king
Ruling over an adoring and submissive subjects
For the man who could have been
Another brutal African dictator killing his people
For any or all reasons imaginable.
For the man who voluntarily gave up power
To become an elder statesman In the continent ruled by ruthless big men
Who rather stay and die in power
Such a man is a rare breed of leaders
On the continent that has seen the worst leaders.
As he came to the end of earthly journey,
There's question in the air everywhere
Who to step in his big shoes
Who to become the next moral leader
Since the grand old man is no longer around?
They killed Patrice Lumumba
They killed the dream of Kwame Nkrumah
They killed Thomas Sankara and Steve Biko
They killed Modibo Keita, Ken Saro Wiwa
They killed Malcolm X, Martin Luther King
But they could not kill the people's president
27 years of apartheid's ruthlessness could not kill his spirit.
His spirit was too black, too strong and indomitable.
The apartheid regime could not withstand the pressure
It had to crumble just like the Berlin wall
The spirits and legends of Africa stood by
This great African warrior leader called Madiba
Who maintained great strength and courage to the very end.
For too long Africa has suffered defeat and humiliation
For too long Africa has known hunger and starvation
For far too long Africa wants to be free
Our desire to be free lives in our memory
Of the great Madiba, Nelson Mandela.
For too long they killed all our heroes
But they could not kill this one, this warrior son of Africa.
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In dispraise of blogging
3 comments:
- Anonymous said...
Indeed, why are you blogging? And why am I responding to ancient posts?
I'd be interested to hear you revisit the the dispraise of blogging, now that you are 6 months into the project and have been extremely prolific in your writings/postings.
Your revisit of dispraise of blogging will answer my first question. I am left to answer the second question, myself.
- February 12, 2007 3:28 PM
- Froog said...
Well, I think I largely answered this self-posed question in the next two posts.
I am a little surprised (and horrified!) at myself that I have got so "into it" - but I'm still in control, I think; not REALLY a blogger yet!
And we're still 3 or 4 weeks shy of the 6-month milestone. And I have been substantially curtailed over the last 4 weeks. So, I don't think I will be ordering the half-anniversary cake for a while yet.
- February 15, 2007 12:50 PM
- Anonymous said...
"not REALLY a blogger yet!"
I disagree!
(but I'm too tired to back my disagreement with facts and analysis. So, I'll just leave it at that.)
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MIDLAND, Texas - A brutal storm system that brought 19 inches of snow to some areas of West Texas has delivered something entirely different to one homeowner.
Winds in excess of 60 mph that accompanied Monday's blizzard pushed hundreds of tumbleweeds against a Midland home.
KWES-TV of Odessa and Midland reports (http://bit.ly/YYtSt2) one side of Josh Pitman's home is obscured by tumbleweeds stacked one atop the other, blocking some doorways.
Pitman says he recently tore down a fence that would have protected his home from the rambling weeds.
In his words, "Most ridiculous thing I've ever seen."
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Emilia Czyszczon (pictured at right), a sophomore bioengineering student at Purdue University, made her unlikely discovery while collecting samples of mud for a science project. Unlike other members in her class, who took their samples at or around campus, Czyszczon decided to scour for her sample in a far-away cave she had remembered passing by on a recent family trip to Bedford, Ind.
Little did she know at the time, but her journey would lead her on a genuine scientific odyssey with unexpected results. After traveling for more than three hours to the cave, Czyszczon and a friend rode a small aluminum boat along an underground river before settling upon a sufficiently remote spot to scrape a sample of wet muck from the cave wall.
Czyszczon's efforts paid off after she brought the sample back to the lab for analysis. It turns out the cave was no ordinary cave; the sample she chose was actually glacial mud, largely untouched since the ice age.
"I couldn't believe it," Czyszczon said. "Mine was so unique that my professor really wanted to see what would come of it."
Further analysis proved to be even more remarkable. Lurking in the dank sample of cave mud she collected was a virus previously unknown to science — a bacteriophage that attacks bacteria from the same family as those that cause tuberculosis.
In other words, despite the usual connotation associated with the discovery of a virus, this virus is not harmful to humans. Rather, just the opposite: it is a virus that attacks bacterial strains that could be harmful to humans. The discovery has prompted the adventurous young Czyszczon to look ahead in her career; she has already received grant money to probe into the DNA of the virus to help find alternative cures for debilitating diseases like tuberculosis.
"We're looking at an alternative medicine, basically," she said. "Some strains of tuberculosis are getting resistant to antibiotics. So maybe this leads, in some way, to other treatments."
Czyszczon was also honored by having the virus she discovered named after her: it's called Czyszczon1 (the "1," perhaps, in case this virus is just the first that the aspiring scientist discovers). The naming of the virus also honors her father, who she credits with bestowing her with the perseverance it took to make her unique discovery.
"She was explaining to me these tiny things, how they work," Andrew Czyszczon, her father, said. "It's amazing. She tries to explain what she's doing, and I don't completely understand. But we're very proud of her."
Czyszczon is also thankful for the national program created by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which sponsored her project, as well as hundreds of similar projects currently being carried out by students across the country. Called the National Genomics Research Initiative, the program's purpose is to build a massive database of bacteriophages that can be used by the scientific community to conduct medical and evolutionary research.
"Everyone had told me the class was boring," joked Czyszczon. "But we got in and they said we'd have a chance to discover a virus. Of course I'd want to discover a virus and give it my name. Who wouldn't?"
You can learn more about her research in the video above.
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Welcome to the Wood Tattoos website! Wood Tattoos is the name for my decorative pyrography crafts, available as gifts for all occasions. Handcrafted gifts are often unique and can make a special occasion more personal and memorable. I make a range of gifts which will be shown on this site, and also will work with you if you wish to make a personal commissioned order.
This site features a gallery with a range of images, showing my recent creations. It also features the latest information on my first pyrography book, "Woodburning with Style" (Fox Chapel Publishing), which is available now through this website and many other retail outlets. It also contains the latest details on my second book which is due out in early 2013, called "Learn to Burn". Go to the "My Books" link in the Menu for more details on availability of these books.
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With the release of ZBrush Bridge to SimLab Composer, ZBrush designers have access to the complete power of SimLab Composer, including rendering, animation, creating VR experiences, and generating 3D PDF files.
The new bridge allows easy integration path between the two applications, the new version of SimLab Composer now includes a GoZ importer.
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Pragda necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 46 diseños de 14 diseñadores freelance.
Pragda (Pragda.com)
We are a cultural initiative promoting films in Spanish. We work with the most reputable venues in the world developing stimulating programming. We scout films at venues such as Sundance, IDFA, Cannes, Toronto to create our own film series and commissioned programming. We do work with major US film centres including New York MoMA, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Tribeca Cinemas, and Harvard Film Archives.
Pragda has two primary target audiences: -- an educational market. As a distributor of films to educational markets, we are interested in educators, film scholars, historians, and students. -- a filmgoer market. As a curator and organizer of film festivals and retrospectives, we hope to reach moviegoers with an interest in Spanish cinema, international and independent film, documentaries, history, and the avant-garde. But our broader goal is to reach new audiences with our material, and we hope our new design help us do this.
The main objective is to support modern wider browsers and allow for some new features to be added to our site. Our site is outdated according to modern web trends, and we have several new features we'd like to launch, including:
A sidebar for related/new content
Wider video embeds
Other elements to be included with a wireframe (link below)
It will not be a full content or system redesign.
The design refresh should take into account Pragda's printed material and preferred branding, which you can download from the link below. We'd like someone who can focus on information design as well. Our highest trafficked pages include a jumble of information with featured content too far down on the page. We hope to achieve a design that is corporate enough to put in front of sponsors, but artistic and beautiful enough to capture the imagination of our users.
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Eli's Cheesecake Congratulates Melissa Raney, Angel Lira and Eli's Santillan- Students at Wright College who were selected to receive the SGA Café Scholarship from Wright College's Student Government Association.
The students will receive the equivalent of 12 credit hours tuition from the SGA Café for their Spring Semester at Wright College.
The SGA Café opened in April 2007 and is fully funded by product donations from The Eli's Cheesecake Company and Stewart's Private Blend Coffee. All profits from the café are use to benefit students.
The Eli's Cheesecake Company is proud to donate goods and desserts for the SGA Café at Wright, a terrific entrepreneurial initiative.


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In one of the most seamless reality show two-steps ever, Jake Pavelka went from proposing to his choice on "The Bachelor" to accepting the challenge of "Dancing with the Stars" faster than you can say commercial break.
Easy right?
The fun likely stops here for the six-packed model of sincerity. He started off his wild ride in a room where 25 women at least pretended he was the most fascinating man on earth and where even the lamest joke brought guffaws from his female admirers. True reality in the form of three actual judges is one spinning mirror ball away. And it's not going to be pretty.
U.S. & World
We're ready to be surprised, but even the few bits of dancing we've seen from Jake on his current non-dancing show have been carefully edited. And yet they have still not been pretty.
Melissa Rycroft, who ushered in the new "Dancing" picks on Monday, came from "The Bachelor." But she had extensive dance experience and rocked it when she hit DWTS. The combination of skill, personality and a loyal existing following makes a contestant like this exceedingly formidable.
Jake's patented sincere/hopeful look (head slightly down, forehead wrinkled) isn't likely to work on a panel of unforgiving judges. The pecs could help with the right costume and choreography, though. In the end, the guy who broke two dozen hearts on his first dance with reality TV is likely to find out it's his on the line this time.


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I love a perfectly poached egg with a runny center. It makes for the perfect topping on hash, breakfast sandwiches, asparagus, and certain salads. It's also, of course, much healthier than scrambling or frying eggs in butter and oil. However, those were my methods of cooking eggs because I was so intimidated with the process of poaching eggs for a very long time. In fact, I was horrible at poaching eggs. My eggs would separate as soon as I dropped them in a vat of boiling hot water. I realized recently that I was doing it all wrong… ditch the big pot of water and don't crack the eggs into the water!
Prescription on how to make a perfectly poached egg:
Medium-sized skillet (1o-inch diameter) with a lid
4 eggs
1 tablespoon vinegar
Fill the skillet with about 4 inches of water, and put the skillet on high heat. Cover the skillet with the lid to speed up the boiling time. Meanwhile, crack the 4 eggs into four small cups or bowls.
When the water boils, remove the lid, and add one tablespoon of plain vinegar and a dash of salt to the water. The vinegar helps hold the shape of the poached egg. Without it, I've learned that the eggs will become threads of protein tangled up in the water. The salt helps flavor the eggs, but also raises the temperature of the water.
Swirl the water with a spoon, then tip the bowl or cup containing the egg just above the water and let the eggs flow out. I don't know why swirling the water, but it's just a technique that I've come across through several food blogs. I think the process also helps create/hold the shape of the poached egg. Immediately return the lid to the pain and turn off the heat. Set a timer for exactly 3 minutes for medium-firm yolks. Adjust the time up or down for runnier or firmer yolks. Remove the cover when the timer goes off. Remove each poached egg from the water with a slotted spoon, and allow some of the water to drain off the egg. Gently lay each egg on whatever is the desired end product.
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Do you have achy face? Do you stare out of windows or wear sweatpants? You must be ill. Sarah Haskins knows what will help:
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If you stand along the marina and use a little imagination, you can almost picture the famous Gold Coast white-shoe brigade who put Sanctuary Cove on the map during those crazy, hazy 1980s.
While that kind of excess has long departed, the style synonymous with Sanctuary Cove remains in this exclusive master-planned community. This AUD2 billion sanctuary for the rich and famous was built in 1986 and offers a resort lifestyle with two championship golf courses, a marina, a swanky retail precinct with boutiques and restaurants and the five-star InterContinental Sanctuary Cove Resort.
An impressive 300-plus berth Marina sits at the centre like the top of a wedding cake, and is considered a world-class facility with its capacity for super yachts. But you don't need the big bucks to enjoy a visit here with everything from houseboats, to party pontoons and luxury sailing boats on hire here. Cruise up the river and see how the other half lives as you sail past waterfront mansions. And if you're lucky you may even spot a pair of white shoes, or two.
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Scientists have a new tool to edit genes in human cells to repair mutations. What is it?
To make their delivery schedule, how quickly must Santa and his reindeer travel the world?
Could a safety technology have prevented a train crash in Washington that killed three?
In honor of the New Year, we bring you a NOVA retrospective on ballistics.
How Much Does a Thought Weigh?
Even in your mind, energy goes with it—bottle up that energy and it has mass.
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Climate Action Without the Feds?
Can states, cities, and companies fulfill US obligations to the Paris Accord on their own?
What's Inside the Great Pyramid?
Cosmic particles reveal a previously hidden void in the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt.
What makes a brain or machine conscious? This theory is beginning to provide some answers.
If a neuroscientist designed a haunted house, would you dare to enter?
What's behind the recent surge in home runs in baseball?
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Scientists saw and "heard" a dramatic cosmic explosion simultaneously for the first time.
Experts drill into the impact crater of an asteroid that created a worldwide cataclysm.
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Experts reconstruct the Great Hurricane of 1780 to help predict the risk of future storms.
Scientists hunt for a mega-eruption that plunged medieval Earth into a deep freeze.
How has China's magnificent Forbidden City withstood centuries of earthquakes?
Archaeological research uncovers provocative new clues about Stonehenge.
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