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When I try to launch it I can set my settings in the launcher, please "Start Trine 2", but then get a black screen and I am kicked by to the desktop.
Here is my terminal outputs:
My question is has anyone gotten this working on the free drivers yet? They are not officially supported by Frozenbyte according to the readme, but that was true of their previous titles as well. If no one has yet managed to get it working, I will take it as red that is the problem and sit on it for a little while and wait for it to start working (it took a little bit of effort to get Trine running initially after all). If someone has gotten it working, I might try to talk with their technical support again.
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Oil slips as US crude and gasoline stockpiles grow
The price of oil slipped below $93 a barrel Wednesday, as a report of rising U.S. crude supplies outweighed a forecast for higher demand this year from aluminum giant Alcoa.
In afternoon trading benchmark oil was down 23 cents to $92.92 a barrel in New York.
The Energy Information Agency said that U.S. crude supplies grew by 1.3 million barrels last week, while gasoline stocks increased by 7.4 million barrels, or 3.3 percent.
Analysts surveyed by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos, forecast a rise of 1.5 million barrels for crude oil, but expected gasoline supplies to rise by just 2.6 million barrels.
Late Tuesday Alcoa opened the fourth-quarter earnings season with a prediction of a 7 percent increase in demand this year, slightly better than the 6 percent increase in 2012. That indicates the company expects a pickup in economic activity, which in turn could boost demand for oil.
But the report from the EIA indicates that the U.S. has plenty of oil in supply. Supplies are about 8 percent higher than a year ago, and daily oil production in the U.S. is at levels not seen since the 1990s.
Brent crude, used to price international varieties of oil, was down 60 cents to $111.34 a barrel on the ICE Futures exchange in London.
In other energy futures trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange:
- Wholesale gasoline fell 3 cents to $2.77 a gallon.
- Heating oil rose was unchanged at $3.06 a gallon.
- Natural gas was down 12 cents to $3.11 per 1,000 cubic feet.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. - When Russ Smith starts off in that offensive zone early, chances are it's going to be a good night for him and Louisville.
It got even better when his Cardinal teammates joined the fun later on.
Smith scored 21 of his game-high 30 points in the first half and No. 3 Louisville made 12 3-pointers to set the tone for a 97-69 rout of Hofstra on Tuesday night.
Louisville's victory in the first of four games in the Hall of Fame Tipoff tournament was its 18th straight dating to last season, tying a school record.
Smith shot 12 of 22 from the field including 5 of 12 from beyond the arc to finish one point shy of his career high set twice in last season's national title run.
"I was able to raise up and get a pretty good look at the basket," the senior guard said. "It was just one of them games; a lot of guys on our team are capable of having games like this."
Wayne Blackshear made three straight 3s that helped Louisville break the game open with a 26-2 second-half run. Luke Hancock returned from a left Achilles injury to hit a couple from long range as well as the Cardinals finished 12 of 31 from deep.
Louisville (2-0) shot 35 of 68 overall (51.5 percent), a big improvement from its 38-percent effort in a season-opening win over the College of Charleston.
Chris Jones added 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting with seven assists for Louisville, while Montrezl Harrell had 19.
"To play at this pace and not have a turnover is really a remarkable performance," Louisville coach Rick Pitino said of Jones.
The Cardinals forced 22 turnovers leading to 32 points and dominated the paint 44-16.
Louisville survived some nervous moments early in the second half as Jamall Robinson made three from beyond the arc, Dion Nesmith added seven points, including a 3, and Jordan Allen scored on a putback during an 18-8 run that brought Hofstra within 54-49 with 15:35 left in the game.
Just as quickly after a timeout, Louisville turned it into an 80-51 lead over the next 7-plus minutes with help from Blackshear, who got in on the act from outside after missing both 3-point attempts in the first half. Smith added seven points during the run.
"It was more so just kind of putting the foot back on the gas pedal," Smith said of the run. "They hit three (consecutive) 3s. Every team is going to make their run. We knew our run was coming, just stick with what we were doing."
Nesmith's 24 points led Hofstra (1-2), which hit 14 of 25 from 3-point range but still ended up being routed.
"We thought we had a chance to win the game," Hofstra coach Joe Mihalich said. "Coach Pitino called a timeout and jumped on his guys. They came out really ready to play. They jumped on us, and they kind of got us on our heels."
Louisville's night began with the unveiling of a banner adding Pitino to the school's list of Naismith Memorial Hall of Famers. On Saturday, a banner recognizing Louisville's 2012-13 NCAA championship was unfurled.
This time, Louisville responded with the improvement their coach sought after Saturday's 70-48 victory over the College of Charleston that was close until the Cardinals closed with a 22-3 run. The Cardinals forced 21 turnovers in that game but barely won the rebounding battle and were outshot percentage-wise by the Cougars.
Hofstra outrebounded Louisville 35-34, but the Cardinals grabbed 13 offensive rebounds and converted 17 second-chance points.
Having a couple of regulars back helped Louisville.
Besides Hancock, Louisville welcomed back junior forward Chane Behanan, whom Pitino reinstated on Monday after an indefinite suspension that lasted 26 days from when it was announced on Oct. 17.
Cardinals fans only had to wait 3:45 to greet Hancock, the Final Four MVP, with cheers of "Luuuke!" as he checked in.
"It felt great, 100 percent," Hancock said. "Felt good. Just trying to play hard and play defense. I felt good about them playing mostly zone so I was going to be able contribute and help out. I was really trying to help out on defense, trying to do the little things."
Behanan came in with 12:09 remaining in the half to cheers as well, putting the defending champions close to full strength.
Junior guard Kevin Ware missed his second straight game after returning last week from last spring's gruesome right leg injury to play 10 minutes in an exhibition win over Pikeville but is expected to be out for several games.
Hancock and Behanan were witnesses to Smith's hot perimeter shooting with help from Jones, the junior college transfer. The backcourt duo accounted for Louisville's first 20 points and five assists as Smith made four of his first seven from long range while Jones added six points as the Cardinals led by 10.


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Drive to Mount of Olives for a panoramic view of the city. Enter the Old City and walk through the Armenian and Jewish quarters to the recently excavated and restored Cardo, the Roman road. See the Jewish Wailing Wall, the Kotel and continue to the Christian quarter. Walk along the Via Dolorosa and visit the Church of Holy Sepulcher.
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"The real way an industry moves politicians is by moving blocks of voters to align with their interests.
Francesco Trebbi
Assoc. professor, economics, UBC
Four of the five companies engaged in the most lobbying in B.C. are in the oil and gas sector, according to an analysis of lobbyist registry data by The Vancouver Sun.
At a time when pipelines, liquid natural gas terminals and hydraulic fracturing are key election issues, The Sun's analysis reveals the province's biggest energy companies are also its most active in lobbying government officials and politicians.
Spectra Energy, which operates a network of natural gas pipelines in the province, is the most active lobbyist in the province, according to the data. Natural gas producer Encana, gas supplier FortisBC and pipeline operator Kinder Morgan also made the top five.
The only non-energy company in the top five is Siemens Canada, whose lobbying primarily focuses on marketing products like MRI machines to health authorities and hospitals.
Lobbyists in B.C. are required to register with the Office of the Registrar of Lobbyists whenever they have lobbied, or intend to lobby, a politician or government official. That registry is searchable online in various ways, such as by lobbyist name, organization or the person being lobbied. However, there's no simple way to see which organizations are doing the most lobbying in B.C. or which politicians are being lobbied the most.
To help answer those questions, The Sun asked Registrar Elizabeth Denham for a copy of the raw data behind the registry, which she provided earlier this month.
A detailed analysis of that data reveals that, among lobbyists active in B.C. on April 1, Spectra does more lobbying than any other company or organization within the province.
Gary Weilinger, Spectra's vice-president of external relations, said he wasn't surprised, noting his company makes a point of keeping in touch with MLAs from across the province. "Our (pipeline) system runs from north of 60 all the way down to the border," he said. "We cover a tremendous amount of territory, so there's a lot of opportunity for contact."
Weilinger said Spectra is the single largest taxpayer in the province, at $145 million last year, which means even small changes in government policy can have a big effect. "When someone says let's tweak the tax regime, that has a huge impact on us and we want to be involved," he said.
As part of the registration process, lobbyists must indicate what the "intended outcome" of their meetings with government officials are.
Spectra's registration indicates a range of topics, including harmonization of greenhouse gas reporting, development of carbon capture projects and the impact of the carbon tax on the industry.
Encana, the third most active lobbyist in the province, lists LNG terminals, the carbon tax and fracking regulations among its key concerns.
"Lobbying is important to this company, this industry and to our operating communities," Encana spokesman Doug McIntyre wrote in an email. "We maintain open lines of dialogue with provincial policy-makers on fiscal and environmental policy matters that promote responsible development and the economic competitiveness of [our] industry."
FortisBC, the fourth most active lobbyist, has focused its lobbying efforts on issues such as securing thermal energy contracts with schools and hospitals and promoting natural gas as a fuel for commercial vehicles.
Last year, the B.C. government made a regulatory change that allows companies like Fortis to offer financial incentives to companies that switch their vehicle fleets to natural gas.
Kinder Morgan's lobbying efforts have been focused primarily on gaining approval for the proposed expansion of its Trans Mountain oil pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby.
Similarly, Enbridge — the sixth most active lobbyist — has focused on its Northern Gateway pipeline proposal.
The Sun ranked companies based on the number of "contacts" they declared in the lobbyist registry. A contact occurs whenever a company records its intent to lobby a specific politician or agency. If a company has multiple lobbyists, the same politician may be listed several times — and each time is considered a separate contact. As well, if a lobbyist plans to lobby the same person on more than one subject, that shows up in the registry as multiple contacts.
Of the 10 organizations with the most contacts, most are large, well-known companies like railway giant Canadian Pacific and forestry company Domtar.
The one exception: Kingswood Crescent Developments.
Kingswood's lobbyist John Moonen said he has met with several MLAs over the past few years in hopes of securing provincial funding for a destination rock-climbing centre in Squamish. Kingswood wanted the centre built to make one of its residential developments more attractive. Moonen said the effort was unsuccessful.
The Sun's analysis reveals surprisingly little overlap between the companies doing the most lobbying in B.C. and those that have given the most money to the province's political parties.
Indeed, of the top 20 organizations doing the most lobbying in B.C., only one is among the top 20 donors to the B.C. Liberals: Encana, which has given the party nearly $800,000 since 2005. None of the top lobbyists are among the top 20 donors to the NDP.
Many of the most active lobbying organizations have donated some money to the B.C. Liberals over the years, but not large amounts. Spectra and Fortis, for example, have each given the Liberals about $60,000 since 2005.
Francesco Trebbi, an associate professor of economics at the University of B.C., said observers sometimes give too much weight to the role of money in politics and not enough to the role of lobbyists, who often try to convince politicians that voters are on their side.
"A special interest group or corporation is going to give money to a politician. But the real way an industry moves politicians is by moving blocks of voters to align with their interests," Trebbi said. "By looking at money by itself, you're missing a lot of the picture of how political influence works."


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NEW YORK -- Meryl Streep has donated $1 million to The Public Theater in honor of both its late founder, Joseph Papp, and her friend, the author Nora Ephron.
The announcement was timed to Thursday's unveiling of the nonprofit's $40 million face-lift to its 158-year-old headquarters in Astor Place.
Streep has performed for the Public for decades, starting in 1975 and including "Henry V" in 1976 and "Mother Courage and Her Children" in 2006. This summer, she played Juliet opposite Kevin Kline as Romeo in a benefit reading of "Romeo and Juliet" in Central Park.
Ephron, who died in June, directed Streep in her portrayal of chef Julia Child in 2009's "Julie & Julia." And Streep played a version of Ephron herself in 1986's "Heartburn."
"Meryl is as great a citizen as she is an actor," said Oskar Eustis, artistic director of the theater. "Joe Papp founded The Public in the belief that great theater belonged to all the people. It means an enormous amount to us that the greatest actor of our time supports that mission."


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Lindenwood University is launching a new Doctor of Instructional Leadership program in cooperation with Ozarks Community College in Springfield, Mo. The new program, which has an emphasis in higher education administration, will be offered on the Ozarks Technical Community College campus and on the main Lindenwood University campus.
"Officials at the Ozarks Technical Community College were aware of the need for this kind of program in the area, and they were interested in having a relevant doctoral program readily accessible for their employees," said Lindenwood University President Jim Evans. "We are confident that locating this program in Springfield, where there are multiple major colleges and universities, will attract quality people who are dedicated to the importance of higher education."
The program is a new emphasis area to the Doctor of Education degree launched by Lindenwood in 2007.
"While there are a number of doctoral programs in the Springfield area in elementary and secondary education, we are excited to finally have a program that focuses on higher education," added Dr. Hal Higdon, president of Ozarks Technical Community College.
Classes in the doctoral program will begin in January of 2011. For more information or to apply, contact Dr. Terry Reid at email@example.com.


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A year ago when we bought the house there was three ugly bushes, and some dirt. We would like to redo the deck get rid of the diving board and add rock, maybe a few walkways. All takes time and money, we will get there.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Although many people begin running as a practical path to weight loss or fitness, for many it becomes a love affair as the miles increase. Tom Holland, running coach and author of "The Marathon Method," tells his clients that running for 3 miles was horrible for him too, but farther down the road things changed. "It happens for different people at different times and different distances: that runner's high," he said in an interview. Holland calls it a cardiovascular turning point where the run becomes exponentially easier.
"There's a point where the run becomes enjoyable," he said. "Whether this happens at 8 or 10 or 12 miles down the road, it will happen," he said. A veteran of 60 marathons, Holland was set to run his ninth New York City Marathon earlier this month, until the 26.2-mile (42.2-kilometer) race was canceled in the wake of Superstorm Sandy.
"Over 100,000 people apply to the New York City Marathon each year," he said. "There must be something there that people want."
Gregory Chertok, a sports psychologist with the American College of Sports Medicine, said many people are drawn to running because it's an uncomplicated activity. "Put one foot in front of the other and when you work hard, you improve," Chertok said. "Not everything in life is so simple. You could spend 10 years in a ballet studio and not become a ballerina." Few runners enter a marathon to win it, he said.
"It's so rare in sporting culture for those who aren't physically or aerobically gifted to feel included in something that's competitive but not exclusive."While it's tough to categorize athletes, Chertok said, long-distance running seems to be appreciated by those who enjoy solitude - or periods of solitude - and are OK with monotony.
Chertok differentiates external from internal motivation and said studies show that people who set goals based on intrinsic motivation are more successful.
"People run with the initial goal of losing weight or getting fit, which are external goals, but during training they realize they love running, so they end up running for internal reasons," he said. Qualitative evidence for the runner's high suggests that for those prone to its euphoria, it probably contributes to running's addictive quality. "Those that have it swear by it," he said.
Most sports medicine practitioners would agree that people are born to be mobile, he said, but not necessarily to run long distances.
"Physicians will deter people from running marathon distances, but it's such a powerful allure that it becomes greater than risk of hamstring injury," he said.
Richard Finn, spokesman for New York Road Runners, organizers of the New York City Marathon, agrees that long distances do not suit everyone. "Running 26.2 miles is a big, bold brash undertaking," he said. "You've got to put heart, soul, mind, body in it for months. It's like climbing Mount Everest. Not everybody should be doing it."
He said a runner is a runner whether you're doing a marathon or a five-kilometer (3.1-mile) race. "We do running 365 days a year, since 1959," Finn said of the New York Road Runners. "Get those sneakers on and run, even on a treadmill. We're not elitist. We think running is good for you."
Holland believes running also exposes our weakest link so he urges novices to start slow. "Running is an amazing cheap thing that can make us feel great about ourselves," he said. "But the secret to running is balance. We're born to run but we're not born to run six days a week at the start."
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Media Appearances
Yes, it's true. Wicked Plants made an appearance on TLC's Cake Boss. Buddy made a cake with a botanically poisonous (and carnivorous) theme, and then I ate it, with a couple hundred of my closest friends.
We don't have video of that, but we do have clips from CBS Sunday Morning, the PBS documentary The Botany of Desire, and more. You can also tune in to appearances on Fresh Air, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and the Diane Rehm show.
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An appearance on the PBS documentary The Botany of Desire.
A journey through the global flower trade with Martha Teichner on CBS Sunday Morning.
A chat about Wicked Bugs with Warren Etheredge at The High Bar
In which I share some very bad news.
I'm afraid there's more unfortunate news.
Flower Confidential: The Trailer.
Wicked Plants on Central Texas Gardener.
A visit to my own poison garden and more--on CBS Sunday Morning
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From Page to Screen: Girl Waits with Gun in Development for Television Series, Eureka News Channel 3, April 2018
The Science of Booze with Adam Rogers, Bay Area Book Festival, June 2015
The Drunken Botanist on The Morning Blend, Milwaukee, April 2013
Wicked Bugs on the High Bar with Warren Etheredge, 2011
Wicked Bugs on Garden Time, Portland, June 2011
Wicked Bugs on The Morning Blend, Milwaukee, April 2011
Wicked Bugs on ABC-7 in Chicago, April 2011
Wicked Bugs on NBC-9 in Denver, April 2011
Conservatory of Flowers Exhibit Stars Wicked Plants ABC News 7, April 2011
Wicked Plants on CBS Sunday Morning on YouTube, August 2009
Wicked Plants on CBS Sunday Morning, part two on YouTube, August 2009
Wicked Plants on TLC's Cake Boss, October 2009
Botany of Desire PBS documentary, October 2009. (Tulip segment)
Wicked Plants on Central Texas Gardener (minute 7)
Amy Stewart at Google on YouTube, June 29, 2009
Amy Stewart at California Center for the Book April 2009
The Wicked Plants Video on YouTube, 2009
The Flower Confidential Video on YouTube, 2007
Wicked Plants on CBS Sunday Morning August 2, 2009
Flower Confidential on CBS Sunday Morning February 11, 2007
Good Morning America February 14, 2007
National Radio Interviews
"Where Valentine's Day Flowers are Grown" on Here & Now, February 2017
"Novelist Amy Stewart Turns 1914 Traffic Accident Into 'Girl Waits with Gun'" on NPR's Morning Edition, August 2015
The Drunken Botanist: "Your Cocktail Glass, Where Booze and Botany Intersect" on The Splendid Table with Jennifer Russell, July 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "Harvesting Cocktails from the Garden" on Here & Now, June 2013
"'Drunken Botanist' Takes a Garden Tour of the Liquor Cabinet" on NPR's Morning Edition, March 2013
Wicked Bugs on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, April 2011
Wicked Bugs on Weekend Edition with Linda Wertheimer, April 2011
"Wicked Plants Creep Through Brooklyn Garden" NPR's Morning Edition
The Osgood Files with CBS's Charles Osgood Radio stations nationwide
All Things Considered Commentary on Lady Bird Johnson NPR
Diane Rehm WAMU, Washington, DC
All Things Considered Commentary on Flower Shops NPR
Diane Rehm Show on The Earth Moved
Flower Confidential on Planet Money: Morning Edition and podcast February 2015
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Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit on the Behind the Bookshelves podcast, August 2018
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions on KHSU's Through the Eyes of Women, October 2017
Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions on the Larry Meiller Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, September 2017
Lady Cop Makes Trouble on WBUR Radio Boston September 2016
Creating Memorable Characters on KERA's Think May 2016
Girl Waits with Gun on Good Life Project with Jonathan Fields, October 2015
Girl Waits with Gun on The Mike Nowak Show on WCPT, September 2015
Girl Waits with Gun on The Avid Reader on WCHE, September 2015
Girl Waits with Gun on Book Talk with DJ Kory on BreakThru Radio, September 2015
Girl Waits with Gun on Writers LIVE at Enoch Pratt Free Library, September 2015
Girl Waits with Gun on Mysterypod Book Talk with Stephen Usery, September 2015
"Cocktails with 'The Drunken Botanist'" on The Kojo Nnamdi Show, October 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "The Herbs and Shrubs That Make Up Your Gin and Tonic" on KCRW's Good Food, August 2013
"'The Drunken Botanist' and the Plants Behind Your Favorite Drinks" on KPCC's Take Two, May 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "Agave: A Botanist's Perspective on Tequila, Mezcal and Pulque" on KCRW's Good Food (MP3), May 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "The Botany in Our Booze with Author Amy Stewart" on Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, April 2013
The Drunken Botanist on Wisconsin Public Radio with Larry Meiller (MP3, WMP), April 2013
The Drunken Botanist on The Jefferson Exchange, April 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "A Plant Walks into a Bar" on Garden Confidential with Andrew Keys, March 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "Where Botany and Alcohol Mix" on KCUR's Up to Date, March 2013
The Drunken Botanist: "Botany and the Bar" on Think with Krys Boyd, March 2013
The Drunken Botanist on NPR's The Salt December 2012
Wicked Bugs on KHUM with Mike Dronkers, May 2011
Wicked Bugs on Please Explain with Leonard Lopate, WNYC, May 2011
Wicked Bugs on RadioGarden, April 2011
Wicked Bugs on the Mike Nowak Show on WCPT Chicago, April 2011
"The Dark History of Wicked Plants" KUOW Seattle
"Wicked Plants" The Splendid Table
Public Radio's 'To the Best of Our Knowledge'
Interview with Rick Kleffel's Agony Column
Chemical Heritage Society 'Distillations' podcast
Marketplace, interview on Flower Confidential on American Public Media
Marketplace, interview on gardening on American Public Media
Here on Earth Wisconsin Public Radio
The Doug Fabrizio Show KUER, Salt Lake City, UT
Heresay With Cathy Lewis WHRO, Norfolk, VA
The Beat KUOW, Seattle
Live From Prairie Lights on WSUI, Iowa City (February 2, 2007)
The Exchange on WSUI, Iowa City (February 8, 2007)
Your Call on KALW San Francisco
Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn, WILL Chicago
KSFR Santa Fe: Listen now or go here for the Oct. 21 broadcast.
The Santa Cruz Sentinel Garden Podcast
The TypePad Podcast
The UK's notorious Wiggly Wigglers podcast (listen to Podcast 47.)
KQED's Forum
Something You Should Know
To the Best of Our Knowledge
Cover to Cover on Berkeley's KPFA with Denny Smithson
Talk of the City (Los Angeles), July 20
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"Amazon Developing 'Girl Waits With Gun' Drama Series, Deadline, April 24, 2018
"Girl Waits With Gun" Tells Tale of the Charlie's Angels of a Bygone Era, New York Times, September 17, 2015
Author Unearths Once-Famous Bergen County Sisters in New Book, NorthJersey.com, August 30, 2015
Author's Obsession with Wyckoff Sisters Continues to Fans' Delight, NorthJersey.com, September 15, 2016
'Lady Cop Makes Trouble' trails trailblazing deputy sheriff into Rutherford, NorthJersey.com, September 22, 2016
Finding Fiction in Facts: Amy Stewart, Publishers Weekly, August 21, 2015
Berry Patch Cocktail Recipe, O, The Oprah Magazine, June 2013
"The Drunken Botanist": Author Amy Stewart Explores the Plants We Love to Drink, Postmedia Network Inc., May 31, 2013
Fresh and Flavorful: Use Herbs to Kick Up Your Cocktails, TODAY, May 1, 2013
Think Glass Rather Than Plate when Planting This Year's Garden, The Kansas City Star, April 30, 2013
How Bookselling Is Like Bartending, Publishers Weekly, April 26, 2013
"Drunken Botanist" Author Explores the Plants Behind Our Favorite Cocktails, The Miami Herald, April 11, 2013
How to Grow a Cocktail with Amy Stewart, the Drunken Botanist, Modern Farmer, April 9, 2013
Liquid Diet: Q&A with Author Amy Stewart, Boston magazine, April 9, 2013
A Chat with Amy Stewart, The Drunken Botanist, Chicago Reader, April 5, 2013
Gardening for a Well-Stocked Bar, Times Media Company, April 4, 2013
Are You Ready for Cocktails? Take the Quiz, Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2013
The Botany of Booze, Discover, March 2013
Booze and Botany - Yes, They Do Mix, Los Angeles Magazine, March 25, 2013
Amy Stewart and Brad Thomas Parsons on the History and Future of Botanical Mixology, AmazonBlogs: Omnivoracious, March 25, 2013
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Enjoying That Margarita? Thank a Botanist, Kirkus Reviews, March 21, 2013
"Drunken Botanist" Explores DIY Cocktails, San Francisco Chronicle, March 17, 2013
8 Things You Can Turn into Alcohol, The Huffington Post, March 17, 2013
Exploring Plants' Tipsy Role over the Centuries, San Francisco Chronicle, March 15, 2013
Talking with Amy Stewart, ShakeStir, March 15, 2013
The Drunken Botanist: A New Book from Amy Stewart, Leaf Magazine, Spring 2013
High-Spirited Gardeners Transform Plants Into Cocktails, Beers, Liqueurs, Associated Press, March 12, 2013
Literary Pitches, United's Hemispheres Magazine, March 2013
Talking Botany & Booze with Amy Stewart, Imbibe Magazine, Jan/Feb 2013
Garden to Glass, Sunset Magazine, Feb 2013
Q&A with Amy Stewart, Portland Monthly, Feb 2013
"At Home With Amy Stewart" New York Times
"Can You Dig It?" Wall Street Journal
"To Pull a Thorn from the Side of the Planet" New York Times
"Stink Bugs: It Could Be Worse" New York Times
"Amy Stewart's Wicked Plants at SF Conservatory" San Francisco Chronicle
"Saying It With Flowers and Saving the Planet" Scripps-Howard News Service
"I Love You So Much, I Saved the World" Associated Press
"Stop and Smell the Cut Flowers" Los Angeles Times
"Author's Hard Look at the Cut Flower Industry" Santa Cruz Sentinel
"Bloom for Improvement" Fort Worth Star-Telegram
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Weeds, Washington Post, July 8, 2011
The Intimate Garden, The American Gardener, March 2005
"The Lost Art of Custom-Illustrating Your Favorite Books", LitHub, August 2016
"Plant Scandals", Sunset, April 2009
"Flower Power", Foreign Policy Magazine, July 2007
Fortune Small Business (cover) , (article), December 2006
"Organic Nurseries Budding", San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2007
"Garden Walks a World Apart", San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2007
"A Year-Round Source for Cut Flowers" San Francisco Chronicle
This Valentine's Day, Green is the New Red San Francisco Chronicle
"Wiggly Wigglers Podcasts Dish the Dirt on Gardening", San Francisco Chronicle, September 2006
"Southwestern Look in Bay Area Gardens", San Francisco Chronicle, August 2006
"Incorporating culinary elements into the perennial border", San Francisco Chronicle, May 2004
"Harvesting Art from the Garden" San Francisco Chronicle, May 2005
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The Minnesota Vikings stadium plan is still in play.
The state House Rules Committee on Thursday granted the bill special clearance to keep moving through the committee process, a necessary step because the financing proposal missed normal deadlines.
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Gov. Mark Dayton has made authorization of a $975 million stadium in Minneapolis a top priority this session. It faces long odds, however, in the GOP-controlled Legislature.
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Minor trade today, as the Pirates re-acquire Josh Rodriguez.
This seems like a depth move more than anything. He's coming off of an injury so he'll play everyday at Indianapolis while he gets his timing back.
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Chortitz Rudnerweider Church (Chortitz, Saskatchewan, Canada)
The Chortitz Rudnerweider congregation in Chortitz, Saskatchewan began services in the 1930s, and formally organized in 1944. The first building was occupied in 1939. The congregation originated through division from the Old Colony Mennonites and outreach by the Manitoba Rudnerweider churches. The congregation was independent and unaffiliated for the first four years. In 1962 Pastor John Neudorf served as a congregational leader. In 1962 there were 30 members. It merged with the Hague Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference church in 1963. It had been affiliated with the Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference.
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Heppner, Jack. Search for Renewal: The Story of the Rudnerweider/EMMC 1937-1987. 1987: 101ff.
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Epp, Marlene. (August 1986). Chortitz Rudnerweider Church (Chortitz, Saskatchewan, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 October 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Chortitz_Rudnerweider_Church_(Chortitz,_Saskatchewan,_Canada)&oldid=86702.
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There's an article in today's Guardian asking Can a feminist really love Sex and the City? The short answer: yes. A woman's pop cultural affections often have very little to do with her belief system. But the other question implicit in this article would be "Is Carrie Bradshaw a proper feminist icon?" That question is more difficult to answer. One passage, where author Alice Wignall is making the argument against Bradshaw's feminist status, stood out to me: "[The] central relationship is clearly problematic. Mr Big is arrogant, egocentric and apparently unable to see a good thing when she is standing in front of him in four-inch heels. Carrie's own inability to wake up and realise what a terrible cliche she is dating renders her, at best, pretty dumb and, at worst, passive and weak." In some ways, Carrie's "problematic" love for a terminally egotistical man makes her very similar to a lot of the women in the feminist pantheon, specifically Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, and Rebecca West.
Beauvoir had a famously open relationship with Sartre, but, as Lisa Appignanesi pointed out in the Guardian, Sartre was the one who insisted on sleeping with other people, and Beauvoir was the one who went along with it. According to Appignanesi, "In this lifelong relationship of supposed equals, he, it turned out, was far more equal than she was. It was he who engaged in countless affairs, to which she responded on only a few occasions with longer-lasting passions of her own. Between the lines of her fiction and what are in effect six volumes of autobiography, it is also evident that De Beauvoir suffered deeply from jealousy."
Sylvia Plath famously killed herself after fellow poet, husband Ted Hughes, left her for another woman. Plath had a history of mental illness and one prior suicide attempt, but her obsession with Ted and his betrayal arguably hastened her demise. Although she pursued her own career with vibrant ambition, she still typed his manuscripts for him.
Rebecca West was a 20-year-old, up and coming critic and journalist when she met H.G. Wells. They began a passionate love affair that would last a decade. What's the problem with that? Wells already had a wife, and several children. When West became pregnant out of wedlock with Wells' baby (a big deal when it happened in 1913), she decided to keep the child. According to the book, after she told Wells she would bear their child, An Affair To Remember: The Greatest Love Stories of All Time, "Most of the adjustments were made by Rebecca. She moved from rented house to rented house. She had nothing but Wells — from time to time — and her writing." Most of the time, Wells remained at home with his wife.
The moral of this story is, many great feminists were not so "feminist" in their love lives, and no one can be a shining example of any -ism 24/7. (The verdict is still out on whether or not Carrie's a "feminist" considering the entirety of her "self" is constructed around her love life. Her shoes remain fantastic, though.)
Can A Feminist Really Love Sex And The City? [Guardian]
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Why do you need a license to get married?
During the ongoing debate about same sex marriage, in New Jersey and throughout the country, there have been those who have called for government to get out of the marriage business all together.
In New Jersey it is a crime to solemnize a marriage without a license. Anyone who presides over a marriage ceremony for a couple who does not have a license is subject to a $500 fine and up to six months in jail.
Government did not always control marriage, according to Stephanie Coontz, an author who teaches history and and family studies and Evergreen State College in Olympia, WA.
In a November, 2007 OpEd piece published in the New York Times, Taking Marriage Private, Coontz said that for most of Western history, the government was not involved in marriage. Rather than an 'institution," marriage was a private contract between families. If parents approved on a marriage, it was valid. Church or State had nothing to do with it.
For 16 centuries the Catholic Church deemed a couple to be married if they said they were. Not until 1215 did the Church deem that a marriage ceremony had to take place in a church in order for a union to be "licit." Yet couples married illicitly had the same rights and obligations as those who went to the chapel.
Government didn't get involved until the 16th century in Europe. Coontz says the European laws were, in part, to protect parental control of marriages.
The American colonies required that marriages be registered, but in the mid-19th century state supreme courts ruled that public cohabitation was evidence of a valid marriage. (Who knew that people cohabited publicly back then?)
In the late 19th century the United States began to nullify common-law marriages and control who could be married.
Marriage, and the laws governing it continued to evolve during the 20th century. Interracial marriages were prohibited for whites, then they were allowed again.
As the entitlement culture emerged, marriage licenses became a determining factor in the distribution of benefits, inheritance, and health care. Coontz said this made sense in the 1950's because almost all adults were married.
But that is no longer the case. When Coontz wrote her OpEd piece in 2007, she said that half of all adults ages 25-29 were unmarried and 40% of American children were born to unmarried parents. Last week, The New York Times reported that as of 2009, 53% of births to American women under 30 were out of wedlock.
As out of wedlock births have become more common the stigma of "illegitimacy" has faded. That's one reason sited as a cause of the surge in births outside of marriage. Another major reason sited by the mothers The Times interviewed is the government "safety net."
The Times reporters Jason DeParle and Sabrina Tavernise spoke to dozens of people in Lorain, Ohio, a blue-collar town west of Cleveland where the decline of the married two-parent family has been especially steep, with 63 percent of births to women under 30 occurring outside of marriage. The young parents of Lorain saidtheir reliance on the government safety net encouraged them to stay single and that they didn't trust their youthful peers to be reliable partners. Many said they would like to be married — just not right now, and not to each other.
It seems pretty clear that government regulating marriage hasn't worked. It also seems pretty clear that government entitlement programs have taken a massive toll on both the institution of marriage and the institution of family.Posted: February 21st, 2012 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Gay Marriage, Gender Equality, marriage, Same Sex Marriage | Tags: marriage, New York Times, Same Sex Marriage, Stephanie Coontz | 10 Comments »


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Colin Farrell confirmed that he is about to welcome his second child, Us magazine reports.
The gorgeous Irish star confirmed what we've been talking for a few weeks now: He and girlfriend polish actress and costar Alicja Bachleda are expecting their first child together. The Phone Booth star confirmed the rumors at the Toronto Film Festival on Saturday night (September 12) as he promoted his new film Triage.
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2011 Previews: AL Central
With the fans of the 0-2 Red Sox and 2-0 Yankees having all taken the wrong instructions from these starts, let's move into the Central:
Chicago: There are a lot of good players on this team. In fact, in a remarkable evenness ranging all the way from the bullpen to the outfield, the average White Sox player is above-average or better. Just – with the exception of Adam Dunn and Paul Konerko – not very much better. There are two men, coincidentally the team's doubleplay combination of Gordon Beckham and Alexei Ramirez, who are on the verge of stardom. If they achieve it, if they take the cliched next step, the White Sox can compete in the division. If not, this is a team that is indeed just above-average, and bound for nothing better than second place.
Cleveland: Three unheralded stars (Carlos Santana, Shin-Soo Choo, Chris Perez), the very good Asdrubal Cabrera, and filler. Quite awhile ago the Indians stopped taking competing seriously. The '90s saw the Kenny Loftons et al locked up early and often (in the model since successfully copied in Tampa), but the '00s saw ownership refuse to spend the money early enough to keep the Cliff Lees and CC Sabathias, and to have clearly also not spent it on careful study of the prospect yields when that talent had to be moved (quick: who besides Matt LaPorta did they get for Sabathia? Who did they get for Lee? And it's not enough to say, 'yeah but they got Santana, Choo, and Perez for almost nothing' – Lee and Sabathia should have produced at least two blossoming stars each). And this decade seems to be the time of refusing to promote prospects when the season was still fresh and up for grabs. Even when placeholder Jason Donald went down with injury, the Tribe refused to promote third base stud Lonnie Chisenhall. And an approach like that gets you not just mediocrity now, but mediocrity later – when Chisenhall leaves anyway, by trade or free agency.
The answers, by the way? Sabathia produced LaPorta, Matt Jackson, Rob Bryson, and Michael Brantley. For Lee it was Donald, Carlos Carrasco, Jason Knapp, and Lou Marson. Not acceptable.
Detroit: The Tigers should have as much pitching as they have confidence. Brad Penny is the Number Two Starter? Brad Penny, who had a 5.61 ERA in his 24 starts in the AL in 2009? One also has to doubt Phil Coke's ability to return to starting (the Yankees traded him because lefty hitters – especially those who saw him more than once – seemed to solve him), and there is the continuing non-afterglow of Rick Porcello. Justin Verlander and Max Scherzer are studs, but Penny's placement at #2 implies some lack of confidence in Scherzer, who might still be one of baseball's best starters. There is also a certain creakiness here: Carlos Guillen is hurt, Magglio Ordonez is a question mark, and the major investment in the off-season was in a catcher who cannot catch: Victor Martinez. I am not excited by the Tigers and in the first two games in New York there was a certain sloppiness to their play in the field – particularly by shortstop Jhonny Peralta and sub second baseman Will Rhymes – that must have Jim Leyland ready to break up the furniture.
Kansas City: If lightning were to strike and present the Royals with some kind of Cup-A-Soup Five-Pack of instant starters, they might actually be competitive. There is a decent infield with improvements coming up at the corners by mid-season, and the all ex-prospect outfield of Alex Gordon, Melky Cabrera, and Jeff Francoeur. But there are no Cup-A-Soup Five-Packs of instant starters (even if Aaron Crow and Mike Montgomery were to step into the rotation tomorrow).
Minnesota: The Twins' main competition in this division is their own health. If Justin Morneau and Joe Nathan do not fully relapse (and a Nathan partial relapse would be neatly covered by Matt Capps) and no other star comes acropper, I don't see Minnesota being severely tested. The infield is stronger with Danny Valencia at third and the guy I'd bet on as of tonight for ROTY (Tsuyoshi Nishioka) at second, and the rotation deep enough to move the aptly named Kevin Slowey to the bullpen. There is much more of a gap between the Twins and the rest of the division than conventional wisdom suggests.
OVERVIEW: 1. Minnesota (in a comparative romp); I'll go for the Beckham-Ramirez growth spurt to make it 2. Chicago and 3. Detroit. The Royals will put up a valiant fight, but it's got to be 4. Cleveland and 5. Kansas City.
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oh and two twins. No hitting twins. Balk error and beam in one inning twins. Gave up 15 runs in two games. One hitter had two homers and a triple. We still have no teeth I fear. Toronto is no slouch but liriano and pavano didn't make it to the 5th inning #WorriedTwinsFan
As a Twins fan, I hope you're right. However, they don't have starters that can go beyond five innings. Look at their first two games. Their hitting is too streaky. They lost all their best middle relief pitchers to free agency: Guerrier, Crain, and Rauch. They don't have enough good pitching to get to their closers. I see second place behind the hated White Sox. As a long-time suffering Tribe fan, I say your analysis of their boneheaded mangement is spot on.
What happened the first two games in Toronto tells us nothing about the Twins. But their 2010 playoff performance does.
The 2007 brought back a reigning MVP in Morneau and batting champ in Mauer, in addition to Torii Hunter and Johan Santana. But they couldn't get past contract distractions and the lingering effects of a crushing 2006 sweep at the hands of the Oakland A's. (Oakland A's!)
2011 will turn out the same as 2007. Deep in their subconscious, the Twins know there's no point to winning the division because they get burned in the postseason every year.
FWIW, I don't think the Tigers see Penny as the #2, even though they pitched him in game 2 against the Yankees. I believe they lined up their rotation so Scherzer could get the start at their home opener. I sure hope they show better than they have in games 1 & 2, otherwise we Detroit faithful are in for a long year.
Keith, I think you underestimate the White Sox rotation vs. the Twins' and Tigers' offerings. Combine that with a solid 1-7, good enough fielding (Ramirez was cheated out of a gold glove last year, the rest of the lineup is average) and I think the Sox come out with 93 wins this year.
That said, Ron Gardenhire could put a bunch of 12-year-olds on the field and manage them to a 90-win season. I think they're you're wild card squad
Tigers have young stud pitchers ready to "step up"
if anyone in the rotation falters: Jacob Turner, Furbush, Oliver.
Carlos Guillen and Zumaya should be released.
Magglio should be part time DH and pinch hitter off the bench.
The key to the Tigers this year is can Leyland and GM Dave Dombrowski let go of washed up veterans and let their promising young OFs and position players play??!!
Worth won the SS job in Spring training by performance and was sent to AAA in favor of Peralta.
Wells, Boesch, Raburn, Jackson and Dirks should be
rotating in the OF and not Magglio.
Sizemore and Rhymes should be sharing 2B duties.
Tigers had one of the best records in MLB playing their
young players. As in the last few years, as soon as they
insert some of their high priced declining veterans,
the team does not perform as well.
Get a clue Leyland and Dombrowski!!!!
Thank you for picking the Twins to take the AL Central. If I'm not mistaken you picked the Tigers and they ended up third. I'm hoping for the same result this year with your pick. With the Tigers at the top this year. (crossing fingers)
Penny started #2 b/c Leyland wanted Scherzer to get the home start. A quick check on a number of different websites would have shown you the actual Tigers rotation.
If the Indians win a home game and nobody is in the stands, who will verify the results?
Yeah, you kinda skipped over arguably the best pitching rotation 1-5 in the MLB, if and when Peavey gets healthy.
Peavey, Buehrle, Jackson, Danks, Floyd – those are some pretty dang good pitchers.
Keith, the Tigers aren't looking too bad as the season starts to settle down a little. Getting timely hitting and pitching now. 20 straight scoreless vs. the Sox. 🙂


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Brought together by the events of 9/11, three friends from different faiths reflect on what it will take to reach the other side of hatred.
by Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, Sheikh Jamal Rahman
posted Sep 10, 2010
Following the events of September 11, 2001, Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman became colleagues and friends, brought together by a desire to confront fear and hatred with earnest interfaith dialogue. Known collectively as the "Interfaith Amigos," they blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
Rabbi Ted Falcon: A Time to Honestly Examine Our Intolerance
Some months ago, considering the approach of 9/11, we imagined that the activities of commemoration would largely defer to 2011, the year that will mark the 10th anniversary of the event that changed all of us forever. But our imaginings have been rudely shattered by the events of these past weeks.
Our country, and much of the world, is now focused on threats made by the pastor of a small church in Florida to publicly burn the Quran. The plan to construct a Muslim Cultural Center two blocks from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan—emphasizing interfaith facilities and announced months ago to little or no notice—has become a major issue of political and religious contention. And angry voices raised against new and existing mosques in various parts of the country are not possible to ignore.
Amidst it all, the ninth anniversary of 9/11 is upon us. The increased level of interfaith intolerance and fear is drawing responses from all those interested in pursuing peaceful, interreligious relationships and with preserving the basic freedom of religious expression at the heart of our Constitution.
The Torah, the New Testament, and the Quran all contain exceptional teachings instructing us to love God, to love one another, and to care for all people. And in each of these traditions, there are teachings promoting an exclusivity that belies these very universal teachings.
I share their concerns and support their actions, but I must admit that I am actually glad to see this intolerance surfacing. For too long, we have wanted to believe that we are beyond such difficulties; we have imagined ourselves at home in a multireligious society with mutual respect and support. When the distrust, suspicion, and even hatred of another faith are hidden, there is no way to enter into a healing dialogue. Once revealed, there is at least the possibility for change. I am not glad for the intolerance, but I am relieved that it is no longer so hidden. I am glad that at least some of the pretense has been torn away.
In Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, there are teachings of great beauty, and it is crucial that we become more aware of such precious verses. The Torah, the New Testament, and the Quran all contain exceptional teachings instructing us to love God, to love one another, and to care for all people. And in each of these traditions, there are teachings promoting an exclusivity that belies these very universal teachings. In the years that we have been working together, Imam Jamal Rahman, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and I have learned how crucial it is that we honor both the universal as well as the particularly exclusivist teachings of each of our faith traditions.
In the past, interfaith dialogue has largely focused on sharing the wonderful and beautiful teachings in each faith. Yet such a focus does little to foster the kind of understanding that leads to true mutual trust and support. We cannot count the number of groups we have spoken with during this past year who report to us their wonderful interfaith activities. Of course, they add, they stay away from discussions of the "problem areas."What is far more usual is for us to be aware only of the exclusivities of another's faith, and the universals of our own. We see faults in another's texts, but fail to notice how our own texts mirror the same faults. This is the challenge that now meets us, and the way we handle it will determine the degree to which we will survive in a multicultural, multireligious community.
The current explosion of distrust is evidence that this kind of dialogue will never allow us to confront the issues that we perceive dividing us. It's time to begin a much more profound dialogue in which we share not only the powerful universal teachings in each of our traditions, but also the ways in which each tradition frames its claims of exclusivity.
The time for covering up and ignoring the difficult conversations has passed. It's time to get real with one another.
Pastor Don Mackenzie: From Conflict to Creative Solutions
Among the many themes being played out in the controversy in New York surrounding the approval to build a mosque near Ground Zero is the assumption that Islam is a religion of violence and hatred. Therefore we should fear it, the argument goes. We should oppose not only that project but mosques everywhere in the United States.
Islam is no more a religion of violence and hatred than Christianity and Judaism have been at various times in their histories. My interfaith colleagues, Rabbi Ted Falcon and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, and I have found that religion, because of the authority it commands, is often summoned as a cover for other concerns. In the case of the acts of terrorism that destroyed lives and property in New York and Washington D.C., it is true that the people who were responsible for those acts were Muslims. In fact, they were angry Muslims. So while the events of September 11, 2001 might seem to be about religion, they were really about anger—anger coming out of a history of colonialism and the subjection of Muslims by the powers of the West. It is anger that concerns power, self-worth, and money. It is clothed as religion. Most of the world's Muslims do not have full access to human and civil rights. They are part of that vast portion of the world's population sharing that reality.
If each religion in the world contained only its core teachings and the blessings that flow from those teachings, and if religious institutions were not vulnerable to losing their spiritual substance, it would be far more difficult to use the authority of religion for violent and hateful purposes. But, in addition to the core teachings and the blessings that flow from those teachings, each religion also contains verses that are inconsistent with the core teachings. Those are the verses that can be invitations for thoughtful dialogue about how the substance of religion, spirituality, can serve the common good. We would ignore the shadow sides of ourselves and our institutions at great peril. They are part of the truth of our beings.
The enemy is not out there. We need each other's help to move up and out of the abyss of numbness that imprisons us now. Through interfaith dialogue and collaboration, we believe it is possible to create a new vision of what our world could be like. It would not be a world without conflict. But it could be a world in which conflict leads to imaginative, creative, and positive consequences, instead of evoking violence and hate. We believe this.
Sheikh Jamal Rahman: Three Cups of Tea
The Quran has an insight about the way that chronic anger, fear, and suspicion can fester inside: "Truly, it is not their eyes that are blind but their hearts" ( 22:46). How do you open such hearts? The holy book offers a suggestion: Strive to get to know the other (49:13). In modern idiom, popularized by Greg Mortenson's best selling book, we are asked to practice "three cups of tea:" listen, respect, and connect.
Can we bond with the Other at a human level? Can we do this with persistence, humility and sincerity? Though the task is simple, it is far from easy. But it will yield real results. Little by little, the encrustations around the heart will dissolve. Then, no matter how severe our differences are with the Other—theological, political, or cultural—these will no longer loom as a threat.
There is the remarkable story of the former mayor of Amsterdam, Job Cohen, a Jew, who regularly made time to drink tea at mosques where the imam and congregation were considered "radical." At a time when the public was outraged because of the brutal murder of Theo Van Gogh by a young Muslim terrorist, his tea drinking was derided and castigated by opponents. Later, praises were heaped on the mayor. An official report by Professor Jean Tillie of the Institute of Migration and Etnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam said that while incidents of racial and religious violence occurred around the Netherlands following the 2004 murder of Van Gogh, Amsterdam itself remained quiet. TIMEmagazine called the mayor a "European hero" and "hate buster."
My abiding friendship, since 9/11, with my Interfaith Amigos, Rabbi Ted and Pastor Don, has truly helped me to learn the art of listening, along with what it feels like to be the Other. I have been inspired to reach out and apply the three cups of tea approach to more difficult situations. I am thinking specifically of two evangelical Christians whom I can truthfully describe as having been allergic to Islam.
Over the years, I have made conscious and persistent efforts to get to know these people simply as friends, without any particular agenda, and two remarkable changes have occurred. The first is that my two friends are no longer anti-Islamic, and although we continue to disagree on scriptural matters, our disagreements no longer threaten our friendship. The second and more remarkable change is the way I have been transformed. I now realize that I had my own prejudices and stereotypes about right-wing Christians, and I have come to see that they have a deep sense of commitment and dedication to social justice and earth care. There are concrete and deeply meaningful projects we can collaborate on together.
This practice of three cups of tea is essential and this labor of love was not meant to be easy. The Quran, tongue-in-cheek, says, "We have created some of you to be a trial for others. Will you have patience?"( 25:20).
The Interfaith Amigos—Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman—blog weekly for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas with practical actions. Rabbi Ted Falcon is the co-founder of Bet Alef Meditative Synagogue in Seattle, where he served as rabbi for sixteen years. Pastor Don Mackenzie retired in June of 2008 as minister and head of staff of University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle. Sheikh Jamal Rahman is co-founder and Muslim Sufi minister at Interfaith Community Church in Seattle and adjunct faculty at Seattle University. Together, they are the authors of Getting to the Heart of Interfaith: The Eye-Opening, Hope-Filled Friendship of a Rabbi, a Pastor, and a Sheikh.
- Read more from the Interfaith Amigos' blog.
- 8 Ways to Confront Extremism on 9/11
How to further tolerance and healing on this September 11th, an especially important time to speak up.
- An Invitation to Sacred Intention
Three friends from different faiths offer guidance for forming intentions that focus not on what we do or have, but on who we are.


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