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*[http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/longchenpa.htm Longchenpa's Great Chariot], by [[Ives Waldo]]
*[http://www.buddhistinformation.com/tibetan/longchenpa.htm Longchenpa's Great Chariot], by [[Ives Waldo]]
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id96.html Longchen Rabjam Series on Lotsawa House]
*[http://www.lotsawahouse.org/id96.html Longchen Rabjam Series on Lotsawa House]
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Longchenpa (klong chen pa) 1308-1364
Longchen Rabjam, whose name means "great expanse," was the reincarnation of Princess Pemasal, the daughter of King Trisong Deutsen and direct student of Guru Rinpoche. His birth in the Tra Valley of Southern Tibet was accompanied by miraculous events and auspicious omens. He began his Dharma training at the age of seven, when he received empowerments and teachings from his father, a tantric yogi. At twelve, he took novice monastic vows at Samye monastery.
Longchenpa studied and practiced teachings from a variety of lineages and masters. He received and mastered so many teachings, in fact, that he became known as Samye Lungmangwa, the One of Samye with Many Transmissions. Though he is associated primarily with the Nyingma lineage, he also studied many teachings of the Sarma, or New Schools, including the Kalachakratantra, Chöd, and the Path and Result teachings of the Sakya lineage. He shared a particularly close relationship with the third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje, with whom he studied under the Dzogchen master Rigdzin Kumaraja.
Rigdzin Kumaraja was Longchenpa's most important master. He lived with him for two years, practicing the Dzogchen teachings of the Heart Essence of Vimalamitra under extremely harsh conditions. Rigdzin Kumaraja eventually empowered Longchenpa as the lineage holder for these teachings. Longchenpa also reawakened a connection with the Heart Essence of the Dakinis, the Dzogchen lineage of Guru Rinpoche, and practiced these teachings for years in isolated mountain retreats.
Longchen Rabjam's influence upon the Nyingma lineage is unparalleled. He united and compiled teachings concerning the two main Dzogchen Heart Essence lineages in a work entitled Four Volumes of the Heart Essence, adding three commentaries of his own to the teachings of Guru Rinpoche and Vimalamitra. He also wrote the famed Seven Treasuries, texts that present various aspects of the view, meditation, and conduct of the Nyingma school's nine vehicles.
Longchenpa passed away at the age of fifty-six. He left over two hundred and fifty treatises behind, many of which are still regarded as the most comprehensive and authoritative works yet written concerning the view and practice of the Great Perfection. His most important students include the 3rd Karmapa, Rangjung Dorjé, with whom he exchanged teachings, Özer Kocha, and his son, Tülku Trakpa Özer.
Literary Works
Main Teachers
Main Students
Main Lineages
Alternate Names
- bsam yas lung mang ba
- Drimey Ozer dri med 'od zer
- klong chen pa
- klong chen rab 'byams pa dri med 'od zer
- Kunkhyen Longchenpa
- Longchen Rabjam klong chen rab 'byams
- tshul khrims blo gros
Other Reference Sources
- A more detailed account of his life and teachings is found in Buddha Mind by Tulku Thondup Rinpoche (Snow Lion Publications), 1989.
- Nyoshul Khen Rinpoche's latest Dzogchen history has a long chapter on Longchenpa


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Back in 1990, other stores still had a chance against Walmart. As recalled in Charles Fishman's The Wal-Mart Effect, a great history of the rise of the retail giant, it was that year when Walmart surpassed Kmart in sales. It wasn't until 1992 that Walmart sold more than Sears. But by 2011, Walmart had higher sales worldwide than the combined total sales of the next six biggest retailers: Kroger, Target, Walgreens, Costco, Home Depot and CVS.
That year, Amazon ranked 15th on the list of overall largest retailers. Its sales for the past year, however, are likely to bump it to at least number seven in the rankings, ahead of CVS, and just a few billion behind Target. Amazon is bigger than Lowe's, Best Buy, Safeway, Macy's and Rite Aid, not to mention Kmart and Sears (now both part of the same company). Some Wall Street analysts believe Amazon's sales could yet triple by 2016, which would make Walmart and Amazon the only two true rivals in retail.
The single best precedent for Amazon's rise is Walmart's own, and whether one day Amazon could top Walmart will be interesting to see. In the meantime, if its own experience offers any lesson, Amazon cannot rest. Though the company continues to cement its dominance as the internet's default destination for buying stuff, a small army of little guys are seeking to peel off chunks of Amazon's business, much as Amazon started out by taking aim at bookselling. And if Amazon was able to unseat so many iconic stores in just 15 years, then Jeff Bezos knows that the same could happen to him.
Bezos also knows that, unlike him, the startups biting Amazon's ankles have an ally that sports a huge pair of shoulders on which to stand. Oh, and unlike Amazon, this giant – Google – makes huge profits.
Google's increasingly aggressive effort to steal online retail from Amazon is turning into one of the most intriguing business battles of the year, and not just because of the sight of two behemoths pounding on each other. Google's unique position in the internet's infrastructure means that it can count on more than its own resources to take on Amazon. The search giant also serves as the platform from which everyone else trying to beat Amazon can use to fire their salvos. It's a pretty high perch from which to take aim.
San Francisco-based Inkling is specifically shooting for Amazon's book business. Founder and CEO Matt MacInnis observes that the Kindle isn't especially well suited to the oversized, graphics-intensive layouts of many textbooks. Inkling seeks to overcome this limitation of traditional e-book formats through a layout engine specifically designed to re-envision textbooks for tablets, smartphones and the web.
But elegant design doesn't take you far if most online shoppers are going straight to Amazon to buy books. That's why Inkling has developed an information architecture based on the concept of "cards." Each of the books is divided into chapters, and each chapter is divided into cards. A card contains what amounts to one quantum of useful information. Cards themselves are viewable for free on a limited basis; readers can buy Inkling's books by the chapter. Each card also has its own URL, which means Inkling's cards are what Google indexes.
Inkling is banking on the quality of the information in its cards to rise to the top of Google search results (and generate attention on social media) to get Inkling's books noticed. People aren't going to discover content through Inkling, MacInnis says. They're going to discover Inkling through content.
With Google's search results as a storefront, MacInnis believes his company can unlock the value of knowledge contained in books without arbitrarily tying buyers of digital content to an object in the physical world. "People are looking for knowledge," he says. "They're not looking for books. They never were."
Challengers to Amazon in the broader retail realm are staking their value to an analogous belief. People want their stuff. They want it fast, for the lowest price possible and from someone they trust. And that someone doesn't have to be Amazon.
Bigcommerce CEO Eddie Machaalani says more than 30,000 small and medium-sized business owners are running their online stores via his company's shopping platform, which has processed more than $1.2 billion in transactions since launching in 2009. Machaalani describes Amazon as a "frenemy" to third-party sellers, who have become an increasingly important part of its strategy.
"Amazon can show they're a friend to small and medium-sized businesses by offering them a platform that allows them to sell," he says. "What they don't do is allow you to control your own brand."
Machaalani argues that businesses that rely on Amazon as the platform through which they sell their stuff lose their individual identity. No matter who actually provided the inventory, most customers will just think of what they bought as coming from Amazon. His company's success hinges on businesses building their own strong, unique brand identity to attract shoppers to their own stores. And one of the key places that strong brand becomes visible, he says, is Google.
Big retailers seeking to play that same Google game don't need online stores, which they already have. They need better online stores that get noticed. Silicon Valley startup Bloomreach does search-engine optimization on what CEO Raj De Datta describes as a big data scale. His company's analytics engine crawls billions of webpages and parses a similar number of search queries and clicks to learn what webpages draw shoppers seeking particular products — and how Bloomreach's clients can become those pages. By that measure, success means shoppers clicking through from Google to Bloomreach-powered sites like Williams-Sonoma and Nieman Marcus instead of Amazon, of course assuming they didn't start out on Amazon in the first place.
"In order to aid that Google experience," Datta says, "it's really important that the websites behind Google provide a compelling experience."
Getting shoppers to those individual retailer sites appears to have helped another Amazon rival. For $79 per year, ShopRunner offers unlimited two-day shipping from dozens of retailers you'd typically find at the mall. It's a kind of Amazon Prime-in-a-box for stores like Toys"R"Us, PetSmart and Radio Shack. ShopRunner recently said that orders across its network more than doubled last year from the year before.
The company is wary of giving Google too much credit, however. Since converting its product search results to all-paid listings last fall, Google appears to be driving a lot more traffic to its advertisers' sites. But Google's bid to become the anti-Amazon destination for online shoppers cuts both ways, says Fiona Dias, ShopRunner's chief strategy officer.
"Google will likely evolve from a friend of retailers to a foe," she says. "Google Shopping just needs a 'buy now' button to become a retailer rival."


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The 2011 Macau Millions came to an end over the weekend with China's Hung-sheng Lin claiming victory after outlasting a record breaking field.
The unique format for this tournament allowed players to repechage over seven opening flights, potentially cashing on each of those flights. Each day runners were required to play down to the top 7% of the field, with each player guaranteed a HK$8,000 pay day and a Day 2 berth.
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I am supporting Ben McGorty for state representative in the upcoming Republican primary. As chairwoman of Shelton's Tax Board, I know the importance of keeping taxes low for all in our community. I support Ben McGorty because he shares that commitment to low taxes. Ben's plan to eliminate the state income tax on social security and pensions is exactly the type of relief that Connecticut seniors need.
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Arthur Less is about to turn 50, right around the same time as his ex-boyfriend of 9 years gets married. So what's a failing novelist to do? Well, accept every invitation he's been given in the last few months and travel around the entire world, of course.
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After driving nearly 4500 mile in 2 weeks from ny to san francisco, here's some thoughts during and after cross country trip. I like to ask questions to myself 'what is life?' and I guess whenever I traveled or meet people or read books, I always go back to my main question. What is life?
Life is like road trip
Road trip, we make destinations and routes we want to take although it changes at times. From point A to B, sometimes there's nothing to see but keep driving for 10 hours because we didn't want to waste time in some places just for sleeping. Sometimes driving at midnight can be tiring but we kept pushing and driving. When we get to the next destination, we feel relieved that we arrived safely and being on schedule. Then, we feel good for a few days and be ready to drive to the next destination and have another a long drive.
I was thinking it was like life we have. We work hard to reach a goal. Not after too long we reached the goal, we create another goal to achieve. We push ourselves to get to the next destination as soon as possible and if we are not on schedule, we would be worried and stressed out.
Is it worth the push and the stress? Was it worth to get to each destinations a few days early? maybe? Or maybe not. it's better to take a little more time and find ways to enjoy what we are doing now and can be late a little for next destination. Like road trip, I feel like it is not all about each destinations but driving was part of the important journey and we take most of our time into this. The road trip made me think of this part.
2. Dreams and Reality
I dreamed about this cross country trip for a long time. i was thinking about I would feel totally free in beautiful nature and places and everything will be great.
When I actually did it, I saw and experience more than the abstract dream and images I had. Everything was real – every states, food, streets, building, landscape, atmosphere and people. and not everything was what I imagined like what a long driving would be like, and what things I can expect.
I felt like this also happens to us many times in life. Gap between dreams and reality. We feel like everything will be great if we have this, or that. But is this true? When you make the dream come true, would everything would be fine?
3. Different people and life
Coming from city life as a foreigner, it was interesting to see different lifestyles in America. Big houses, driving cars, surrounding nature, shops, and lifestyle in suburb/small towns. I feel like I'm looking at different part of life there. In order to get to restaurants, you need to get into a car and drives miles away. Well, it did feel nice to have some space but felt a little weird at first. Almost too quiet and less people. Where's everyone in this town!
Every towns, people have different attitude too. I felt like southern part, people were very kind and more friendly. Overall, in this one country, looking at different people and lifestyle made me think again about what is america made of? where's all the culture coming from? how the history has infused in the country and people's mind in different states?
I don't think there would be any right answer for the question 'what is life?' but the road trip made me think about the question again and see different America with wider views. I might want do cross country trip again in the future. 😉 (but definitely not in summer)


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|This article is about a/an ranger in Himitsu Sentai Gorenger.
- "Momorenger!"
- ―Momorenger's roll call[src]
Peggy Matsuyama (ペギー 松山 Pegī Matsuyama) is Momorenger (モモレンジャー Momo Renjā, Pink Ranger) of the Gorengers, with the designation number "4". She is an Eurasian beauty. Her father was a Swiss national and her mother was Japanese. She was assigned to EAGLE's Hokkaido branch as a chemical analyst and special weapons engineer specializing in explosives. She also had equestrian training.
- 1 Biography
- 2 Personality
- 3 Video game appearances
- 4 Personality
- 5 Momorenger
- 6 Ranger Key
- 7 Behind the scenes
- 8 Appearances
- 9 See also
- 10 References
- 11 External links
When the Black Cross Army launched an assault on the EAGLE bases in Japan, a force led by Jade Mask attacked the Hokkaido base, slaughtering everyone with only Peggy surviving. Along with the survivors of the other bases, Peggy was summoned to Snack Gon, the secret gateway to EAGLE Japan's main command center by Japan's EAGLE Commander Edogawa Gonpachi. There they were given special formfitting electronic battlesuits, which empower its wearer with various superhuman abilities. Edogawa told them that they are the Secret Squadron "Gorenger", the world's best chance against the forces of the Black Cross Army. Their first battle was with Gold Mask, who they destroyed with the Gorenger Storm. Ep. 1: The Crimson Sun! The Invincible Gorengers
J.A.K.Q. vs Gorenger
to be added J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger
Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai
Momorenger is among the Sentai warriors seen in clips when Miku Imamura (MegaPink) lectured Sae Taiga (GaoWhite) about the past female Super Sentai warriors and their shared mastery of disguise and habit of changing their clothing in the blink of an eye, something that Sae had never done before. Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs. Super Sentai
Gaoranger vs. Gorenger
to be added Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger vs. Himitsu Sentai Gorenger
Legend War
Many years later, Peggy fought alongside not only her own team, but every single Sentai ranger in existence, against the Empire of Zangyack when it attacked the Earth in the Great Legend War. After fighting against hundreds of Gormin and their Zgormin commanders, her team's leader, Tsuyoshi Kaijo noticed the fleet moving towards them. He then gathered all the Rangers together and gave them the order to sacrifice their powers to wipe out the first invasion's armada. The Momorenger powers are later utilized by Ahim de Famille via the Ranger Keys. Ep. 1: The Space Pirates Appear Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle
Farewell Space Pirates
After the defeat of Ackdos Gill, Marvelous returned the Ranger Keys to their original owners. Peggy's leader, Tsuyoshi saw them leave Earth as he got his key back. It is assumed Peggy and her teammates have their powers back as well. Final Ep.: Farewell Space Pirates
Super Hero Taisen
Peggy, alongside her team, among the majority of the Super Sentai heroes, was caught up in the "Super Hero Taisen" incident which eventually resulted in the Super Sentai teams and Kamen Riders joining forces to defeat both Dai-Zangyack and Dai-Shocker. In the background of the second aerial attack scene, she was seen in the background fighting Buramudo. Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Super Hero Taisen
Super Hero Taisen Otsu
to be added Kamen Rider × Super Sentai × Space Sheriff: Super Hero Taisen Otsu: Heroo! Answers
Zyuohger vs. Ninninger
Momorenger appeared with her team among the first 38 Super Sentai whom collectively empowered Wild Tousai Shuriken King in its fight against the titanic Gillmarda, granting the Ninningers and Zyuohgers the power to perform the Zyuoh Ninnin Super Sentai Burst which destroyed Gillmarda with the combined power of all 40 Super Sentai. Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger vs. Ninninger: Message from the Future from Super Sentai
Chou Super Hero Taisen
An iteration of Momorenger fought in the Game World's Chou Super Hero Taisen tournament as part of Kamen Rider Genm's Team Genm, competing for the title of Kamen Sentai Gorider with Momorenger serving as candidate for Momorider. Team Genm ultimately made it to the final round, however, while Momorenger defeated Den-O Sword Form, Team Genm was beaten by Team Ex-Aid as Ex-Aid bested Genm. Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen
Super Sentai Strongest Battle
Video game appearances
Super Tokusatsu Taisen 2001
Momorenger appears with her team in Super Tokusatsu Taisen 2001, which features characters from various tokusatsu series.
Super Sentai Battle: Ranger Cross
Momorenger appears with her team in Super Sentai Battle: Ranger Cross.
Super Sentai Battle: Dice-O
- Profile
- -Peggy Matsuyama/Momorenger: Has a strength of using bombs while being a female of kind personality. Whether its the ball-shaped bomb that is used for the special technique Gorenger Storm that is used by the five or the ball-shaped football used for the Gorenger Hurricane, both of which were items that were developed by Momo.
Super Sentai Battle Base
Momorenger is among the vast pantheon of Rangers which are available in the mobile game Super Sentai Battle Base.
Super Sentai Legend Wars
Momorenger appears with her team among all Sentai in the mobile game Super Sentai Legend Wars.
Fashionable, she often wore go-go boots and short hip-hugging "hot pants". She can also be a dirty fighter as she kicked Momotaros as Kamen Rider Den-O in the crotch in Kamen Rider × Super Sentai: Chou Super Hero Taisen.
As Momo Ranger, she was armed with an assortment of uniquely "feminine" weapons. Her heart-shaped earrings doubled as high impact bombs which she would hurl with a curt taunt -- "Are you ready?... Here we go!" (Ii wa ne... Iku wa yo!). She also carried heart-shaped "Momo Card" throwing shurikens, and a "Momo Mirror" jamming device which would confuse and confound her opponents.
She also had the "Momo Ceceli" which could be used to track down and spy on opponents. And ultimately, she carried the "Ranger Ball", the Gorengers' ultimate finisher weapon that would destroy the Masked Monster of the day, which the team members would pass around to each other like a soccer ball before AkaRanger would deliver the finishing kick to the Masked Monster causing it to explode. She rides in the "Green Machine/Green Star" sidecar.
- Gorenger Charge - Transfers energy to charge up a weakened fellow Gorenger, to the point of being able to restore a heartbeat. Used alongside Akarenger, Aorenger and Kirenger to recharge an injured Midorenger. Ep. 5: Green Anger, Immortal Gas-Person
- Kick Ep. 74: Freezing Blue Wave!! The Plan to Freeze Earth
Momorenger wears a pink spandex-like suit with four red "V" shapes across her chest. She wears white boots and gloves. Her uniform also sports a pinup collar, a pink cape, and a black belt, with the team's "5" symbol as a belt buckle. Her helmet is pink with a red, heart-shaped visor, matching earrings, and a red "4" on the forehead.
Ranger Key
- "Gorenger!"
- ―Mobilates' Gokai Change announcement[src]
The Momorenger Ranger Key (モモレンジャーレンジャーキー Momo Renjā Renjā Kī) is Peggy Matsuyama's personal Ranger Key and what became of her powers after she along with the rest of the 34 Super Sentai sacrificed their powers to end the Great Legend War.
This key along with the majority of the Ranger Keys were collected by the Red Pirates and later used by the Gokaigers. The Momorenger Ranger Key was mainly used by Ahim de Famille (Gokai Pink), who used it to fight as Momorenger.
- The Gokaigers became the Gorengers in their first ever Gokai Change on Earth. Ep. 1: The Space Pirates Appear
- Ahim also became Momorenger, this time on her own, while fighting Action Commander Zaggai. Ep. 13: Tell Me the Way
- The Gokaigers became the Gorengers in their baseball match with resurrected Black Cross Army monster Baseball Mask. Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger the Movie: The Flying Ghost Ship
The Gorenger keys, along with all the Ranger Keys of the first 33 Super Sentai, were briefly taken by the Black Cross King and turned into Ranger puppets that were fought by the Gokaigers and the Goseigers. At the start of the battle, the Gorengers had a brief skirmish with the two teams alongside the keys of three recent teams, the Gekirangers, Go-Ongers, and Shinkengers. The Gorengers appeared again after all the other puppets were defeated, with a Gorenger Hurricane ball being kicked at Gokai Red and Super Gosei Red. The Gorengers stood behind the three recent teams who fired their cannons at the Gokaigers and Goseigers, who countered with their team finishers, taking down the three teams as Gokai Red and Super Gosei Red finished off the fake Gorengers. Gokaiger Goseiger Super Sentai 199 Hero Great Battle
After Zangyack were finally defeated, the Gokaigers gave the Ranger Keys back to their rightful owners. Peggy received her key and became Momorenger once more. Final Ep.: Farewell Space Pirates
Behind the scenes
Peggy Matsuyama was portrayed by Lisa Komaki (小牧 リサ Komaki Risa). As MomoRenger, she had several suit actors: Midori Naitō, Kōji Ueda, Ryōji Kurihara, Shōji Ozawa, Maki Kiyota (Episodes 1-60), and Minoru Yokohama (episodes 61-84).
In the video game Super Sentai Battle: Ranger Cross, Momorenger was voiced by Kumiko Izumi (泉久 実子 Izumi Kumiko), who also voiced Vuiserasu of Devil Jark.
Musical Themes
Momorenger has one leitmotif, entitled "Hana no Momorenger".
Momorenger is featured as #52 in the 1986 archive compilation video Toei 100 Great Heroes Super Fight.
- She's the only Gorenger to appear untransformed in J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger.
- Though the first female Sentai hero, Peggy did not wear a skirt in combat. With later standards, very few female heroes would follow her example.
- Those that did include Battle Fever J, Goggle V, Dynaman, Bioman, Changeman, Flashman, Fiveman and Dekaranger.
- Strangely, Momorenger is seen in a Pink Megaforce Ranger card in previews for the Power Rangers Action Card Game Series 3, Universe of Hope.[1] [2] Her appearance is unexplained.
See also
- Momorider, Momorenger's Kamen Sentai Gorider counterpart who inherits her design.
- Kimberly Ann Hart - The first Pink Power Ranger.
- Delphine - The first Power Ranger to be the only female on a ranger team.
- Tori Hanson - The first Power Ranger to be the only female ranger on a team from Earth.
- Trini Kwan - The first Female Ranger did not wear a skirt in her suit.
- Sydney Drew - The first Pink Ranger did not wear a skirt in her suit.


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Alma House
This quiet secluded 5 bedroomed home with beautiful gardens ideally situated in the heart of Fremantle.
The house features, beautiful wood floors, leather sofa's, 5 bedrooms, 1 bathrooms, Additional outdoor shower and additional outdoor Toilet beautiful gardens, luxurious furnishings - this is a wonderfull house to relax and explore the laid-back lifestyle of Fremantle.
The house is ideally suited for 1 or 2 families, it is totally child-friendly and perfect for overseas and long-distance visitors to have all the comforts of home.
Downstairs features 4 large bedrooms, open plan living room with a fully equipped rustic kitchen.
the living room has catherdrall roof giving the house a feel of space with gorgeous brown leather sofas and french doors opening to a relaxed patio/breakfast area. There is large outdoor dinning area and beautiful gardens to sit and relax in great Fremantle sun.
Upstairs there is an additional bedroom with two single beds
Off street parking
Pets allowed if agreed in advance
A cot and high chair can be provided if requested.
This is house is located in the heart of Fremantle, a stone's throw from the famous cappuccino strip, Markets, boutique shops, cafes, bars, restaurants are just around the corner.
You can catch the FREE CAT buss at the bottom of the street, this will take you to South beach and all the historic sites in Fremantle
Day trips include the beautiful Swan valley were you can drive round and have a nice lunch at the local winnery's, boutique breweries and resturants,
Margaret River is a 2.5 hour drive south - which is home to WA's famous wine region and surfing spots!
Feature List
Freshly laundred linen and towels are provided on arrival, Fully equiped rustic kitchen, Air Conditioning, CD Player, DVD Player, High Chair available on request, Local Telephone, Barbeque, Microwave, Refrigerator, TV Reception, Wheelchair Access, Non-smoking, Clothes Dryer, Iron, Stereo, Washing Machine, Wireless internet, Enclosed gardens, High speed WIFI internet, .
Accommodation Rates
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Every Leader has at one stage been a dumb leader
The Dumb Leaders Handbook shares the train-wrecks, the mistakes, and the errors of judgement that inhibit many leaders in their quest for success. The Dumb Leaders Handbook dissects these dumb leaders mistakes and provides you the benefit. The structure behind each post reveals the learning through STORY, SCENARIO and STRATEGY. We share a story, provide the scenario that happened (or may happen) and detail a three-step strategy to help you not make the same mistakes.
Become a better leader by learning the lessons from the dumb.
If you have a Dumb Leader, been the victim of a Dumb Leader, share your story with us and we will dive into it for you and provide you a strategy. There are some things you need to know before sharing your story, but it's all laid out here. We look forward to hearing from you.
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- Roberto's worship of Johan in Monster drives past Battle Butler loyalty and straight into some major Ho Yay when he, under the pretense of a new patient, starts telling Dr. Reichwein about his "affair":
"Then I met him... A beautiful young man with blond hair. No matter how many I've killed, no matter that I've lost my country, It was all like a dream. But...it's been different since I met him. Everything seems real...I'm not lonely anymore."
- Also, Johan and Tenma. "My Dear/Favourite Doctor Tenma", indeed.
- Johan is basically a walking HoYay generator. Throughout Monster we meet several different men with fanatical emotional attachments to him, whom Johan Mind Raped into killing people for him and then either killed or drove to suicide. These men tend to describe Johan as "beautiful" and as having given their life meaning. It's never explicitly stated how Johan gets their undying loyalty, but what he does to Jan Suk in canon proves that he's nothing if not resourceful.


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I'm installing an RPM on RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 and it fails with the following error:
error: Failed dependencies:
rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by vspd-1/43-rsmu.i586
Which package contains rpmlib? I've tried:
yum install rpmlib //didn't exist
yum install rpm //already installed
yum install rpm-devel //not the right one
I've looked around for the answer to this question and all I've found is...
...people looking for the answer to this question!
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Make It: Lacy DIY Cement Candle Holders
I know, I know. Cement and lace? These aren't exactly materials you normally associate together, which makes this cool DIY project that much more intriguing (and a great jumping off point)!
Using lace-patterned tape, Liz from Say Yes to Hoboken created these fabulous candle holders. It's an interesting study in contrasts, don't you think? What other materials or patterns do you think would be fun to try?
Check out the full tutorial over on Say Yes to Hoboken!


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Monday, November 2, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Last week I was flattered to be interviewed by one of my favorite blog moms, La Fuji Mama. It was a fun chat and I really enjoyed talking with her about my passion for good, local food and how it led me to my work at the Ballard Farmers Market.
This mama is a wonder... let me tell you. I have a hard time getting things done with my one toddler, and she has two kiddos under three yrs. Amazing! And she can bake. That in and of itself is awe-inspiring to me. My house is the place where bread comes to die. I hope that you can take the time to check out the interview and her other amazing posts. Enjoy!
BTW This is the cartoon I was refering to in the interview:
I think it shows the choices quite nicely. ;)
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Sweet Potato Stew
4 large sweet potatoes
Water to cover
2 Tbs sliced (or 1 Tbs grated) fresh ginger
1/4 tea cayenne pepper
1/2 tea cinnamon
1/2 c peanut butter (crunchy or creamy, really doesn't matter... just don't get the kind with added sugar)
Peel and slice sweet potatoes into small chunks. Put in a large pan and cover with water. Boil (with lid on so it doesn't reduce much) until potato pieces are falling apart into tiny chunks. Mash the sweet potatoes (without draining the water, leave the water in the pot) until you have a thick sauce like consistency. Add in all other ingredients, and salt to taste.
Serve topped with sour cream or whole milk yogurt (not flavored), with salted peanut pieces and chopped cilantro.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
The end of summer
It is official. The summer has come to a close. I pulled the tomatoes today. This is the last of them. It was warm as I was gathering. About 60 degrees... drizzling slightly. Just enough to put droplets on my glasses. I pulled and prodded to see if there were any left that would be worthy of a meal. As you can see I found quite a few.
The kittens were out there with me. Not really kittens anymore. Little Bo is still tiny for a cat, but she is almost 5 lbs. Samson is over 7 lbs and only looks small in comparison to Taio (our 20 lb main coon). They played around me as I worked, systematically pawing at things as they saw fit.
I love fall. I will miss the light however. Here in the Pacific NW, with the rain comes the clouds... and with the clouds comes the darkness. It is time to think about taking Vitamin D again. Time for tea and warm drinks and opening your curtains for every daylight hour you can. Soon we will have 6 hour days.
But then, comes Christmas crafting. ;)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Market Days
Carrots, celery, curly kale, corn, Choggia beets (sweet) and golden beets, parsley, dill, cilantro, and mint, garlic, Rose Finn and Ozette potatoes, broccoli, parsnips, rutabagga, and a whole pound of chantrelle mushrooms. Traded for: bell peppers, raspberries, pears, chicken legs, chicken wings, and farm fresh eggs.
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Friday, October 9, 2009
Preserving Food ~ Dried Apple Chips
Store in an airtight container and enjoy!
Monday, October 5, 2009
Preserving Food ~ Apple Peel Jelly
I got this idea from Callista, who made what sounds like the best jelly ever! For our family though, I can not add that much sugar in jelly, so I decided to try out an old fashioned recipe from the Ball Complete Book Of Home Preserving instead, but use her apple peel juice method, and tweak the seasonings. It turned out so wonderful and I have to share:
Old Fashioned Apple Peel Jelly
Step 1: Make the juice
First, boil the apple peels. I had a 9 quart pot filled to the brim. I added enough water so when I pushed down on the peels I could see it, and boiled. I let that simmer on low for over 3 hours once it got to a boil. I just left it there all of nap time. Then I took a colander, and set it on top of an upturned cereal bowl in my largest bowl (HUGE metal mixing bowl that I keep for canning). I don't have any cheese cloth. I didn't think that the people at the store would want me bringing the plague to them, so I figured it could drip sufficiently while I made and ate dinner. I ended up with 10 cups of liquid.
Step 2: Recipe
I then used the juice for this recipe:
4 cups apple juice
2 Tbs lemon juice
3 cups granulated sugar
(I used raw, organic sugar and it worked just fine)
Prepare lids and jars. (Here for info on how to do that)
Bring juice and lemon juice to a boil and add in sugar, stirring until dissolved.
Step 3: Season the Jelly
For Apple Pie flavor add in: 1 tea cinnamon and 1/2 tea nutmeg
For Apple Cider flavor add in: 1 Tbs whole allspice, zest of one orange, 1/4 tea cinnamon, 1 tea whole cloves (strain out at the end)
Step 4: Cooking and canning
Boil hard, stirring frequently, until mixture begins to sheet from a metal spoon. (For me it took nearly an hour... and I didn't stir it much). You do not need any added pectin for this recipe. The pectin in the apple peels will work fine. I added a pectin box the first batch I made and it make it more like jello! LOL! It still tastes great though.
Pour into prepared jars leaving 1/4 inch head space.
Process jars for 5 minutes in rolling boil, then shut off heat, and leave for 5 minutes.
Remove jars, cool, label and store.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
Preserving Food ~ Apple Pie Filling
Getting sick really isn't a mother's prerogative. It seems as though it should be, but when I actually get sick, it is more like something I have to push through than 'recover from'. This week was no different. The worst day of my cold I was delivered 5 boxes of beautiful apples.
No stopping apples. So no stopping applesauce and apple pie filling. Being in Washington, I have honestly never bought apples for canning before. I have always had trees, or known people that have had trees. So this is the first time I have ever paid for boxes of apples and I wasn't about to let them go bad as I sat conversing with my tissues.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Preserving Food ~ Canning Labels!
Last week I was so frustrated by my pantry collapse that I had decided I wasn't going to can anymore for the year. That lasted for about two days... or until I got two boxes of apples from the market. And then bruised peaches for free, and then corn. Sigh. It really is part of the pioneer in me to put up food when it is abundant and put by as much as possible. I just can't refuse amazingly good, organic food.
So this week was dedicated to peaches, and then corn, and now applesauce. But it was also dedicated to falling in love with my pantry again. To being in love with the process of putting food by and stepping back just enough so that I could see the beauty in my pantry that everyone else saw.
This led me to look for pretty labels for the tops of my jars:Inspired by Bitter Betty and her wonderful canning labels (which are on all of my green beans) I set out to make my own. The process turned out to be MUCH easier than I thought it was. Although to figure that out, took about 3 hours, a Word savvy best friend, and a very patient husband. ;)
It is a simple process, and once you get the hang of it, it becomes quite addictive. All my jars have pretty labels now... even the ones for the applesauce currently simmering in my kitchen. My pantry love is back.


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October 20-22, 2016, "Crime and Punishment at 150," an international conference bringing together scholars, students, and members of the public interested in Dostoevsky's 1866 novel, will take place at Green College on the campus of the University of British Columbia. The conference is dedicated to exploring new ways of thinking about, understanding, and seeing Crime and Punishment.
The original call for papers is available here.
The program is online here.
There will feature two days of panels with speakers from Canada, the US, the UK, Australia, and Cuba, as well as a keynote address from Prof. Carol Apollonio (Duke), a special plenary panel contextualizing the novel with papers by Louise McReynolds (UNC-Chapel Hill), William Mills Todd, III (Harvard), and Elena Baraban (Manitoba), and a closing roundtable reflecting on Dostoevsky's importance today. A panel featuring Sarah Hudspith (Leeds) and Oliver Ready (New College, Oxford) taking place at the University of Bristol on October 21 will be video-linked in to the Vancouver conference.
The conference will also include a screening of a new Australian adaptation of the novel: Crime and Punishment (Apocalypse Films, 2015) on October 20 at Vancity Theatre (1181 Seymour Street).


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The Archers: Pip and Jill have a slanging match about a tin of FLAPJACKS
A BITTER argument took place on tonight's instalment of The Archers, as Pip and Jill came to blows over Toby - and some homemade flapjacks.
Following an intimate dinner with Toby, Pip decided to rummage around grandmother Jill's kitchen in search of some dessert. This was thanks to Toby himself, who whined about being given a small serving of pasta and the fact that Pip only offered him canned pineapple for pudding.
Knowing her granny had been baking, Pip presumptuously sought out a tin of homemade flapjacks and informed Jill she would be taking them for their dessert.
But Jill was having none of it, telling her she couldn't take the flapjacks; nor could Pip help herself to her fruitcake as an alternate option.
Instead, Jill decided the time was ripe for her to advise 23-year-old Pip that she shouldn't live off other people and that she should learn how to take care of herself.
The Archers: Pip and Jill have a slanging match about a tin of FLAPJACKS
I'm never eating your cake again
Pip was left fuming at this, accusing her grandmother of using the situation with the cakes as an excuse to argue about her choice of boyfriend, Toby.
This then turned into some home truths being thrown across the kitchen by each of the ladies. Jill let her feelings about Toby become perfectly clear, while Pip accused Jill of still being jealous of her husband's first wife, who died in the 1950s.
The result saw Pip storm out, declaring she "will never eat any of your cake ever again" and marching straight back to Toby where she drastically suggested he move in with her - which he agreed to.
Listeners of the Radio 4 soap were left exhausted by the altercation, with half of the fans cheering on Jill and half of them rooting for Pip.
The Archer family HATE that Toby is romancing Pip
"Pip will not win this battle. #teamJill #thearchers," wrote one tweeter, countered by another who posted: "I was on Pip's side in that little spat. #thearchers."
"Jill's drawn a line & it's made of flapjack," came a third tweet, as a fourth person typed: "Oh I do like a good flapjack spat!"
Even a hashtag materialised for the tiff, with someone tweeting: "Oh gawd... #flapjackgate."
Elsewhere in the episode, Joe's beloved pony Bartleby was diagnosed by the vet with arthritis - despite listeners presuming yesterday that he was about to drop dead.
The Archers continues tomorrow evening at 7pm on BBC Radio 4.


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In recognition of Animal Pain Awareness Month in September we want to highlight this condition in Magnolia, TX. At Paws to Claws Veterinary Care, we help all kinds of pets when they are suffering from chronic pain, internal pain, or pain from a traumatic injury. If you are concerned that your pet is suffering from pain, read on to learn more about animal pain awareness.
Understanding Animal Pain Awareness
Animal Pain Awareness Month was designated by the International Veterinary Academy of Pain Management (IVAPM) to bring light to pets in pain. Animal pain differs from human pain, in that if your pet is in pain they are predisposed to hide this condition.
As a result, the animal may not show symptoms of pain until their condition has reached a critical point. At this time it can be difficult to treat. Healing and recovery take even longer than it would if you were able to start treatment sooner. The best route is to learn how to tell when your pet is suffering from pain.
Common Signs of Animal Pain
When your animal is in pain they cannot ask for help like humans can. That is why you have to be alert for signs and signals that your pet is suffering. The most common sign of pain in pets includes a decrease in activity. This prevents them from walking, climbing, jumping, or being their normal active self.
When this happens there is clearly something wrong, and most likely it is too painful for your pet to have normal mobility. If the pet has a decrease in appetite or is over grooming in a certain area of their body, these are also signs that the animal is in pain.
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The best way to treat animal pain is to visit our veterinarian in Magnolia, TX. We use state-of-the-art equipment including digital x-rays, ultrasound, and radiology to diagnose your pet's condition. All of this is handled at our in-house laboratory so we can expedite your pet's test results.
If your pet has internal damage or blockages that are causing pain, we can perform pet surgery here at Pets to Claws Veterinary Care. Our vets are also skilled at pet dentistry, in the instance that your pet is suffering from dental pain. We also have a fully stocked pet pharmacy where we can prescribe pain-relieving drugs for animals.
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- Member: WalterScott
- Studio: Graven Image
- Title: Undiscovered Countries
- Premiered: 2006-09-23
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- Peter Gabriel More Than This
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Winner of Best Dramatic, Best Sentimental, and Grand Prize at AWA 2006 Pro contest
Judges Award, Best Drama, Anime USA 2006
Wow. I am really moved by the positive reception this video has gotten, not to mention the awards. Four awards is plenty so I don't plan to send it to any more conventions unless as non-competing.
Undiscovered Countries is hard to explain or sum up in just a few words. I'll try a few now and then the intrepid among you can read the blow by blow further down.
The core of it to me is essentially Buddhist: the idea that you if you can let go of your ego and just feel connected to everything and everyone around you, then you will not even fear death, because you and the world are inseperable and the world is eternal. The video is a tribute to two genius creators who explored these ideas in their lifes work, which were then the basis for several anime.
If you enjoyed it then I encourage you to do two things:
First, buy the original sources! I called it Undiscovered Countries because the sources are so huge in Japan but relatively obscure in English speaking fandom. The Galactic Railroad and Spring & Chaos R1 DVDs are still in print. The Phoenix TV series is supposedly licensed by Media Blasters but isn't out yet. However several volumes of the manga have been translated and put out by Viz. The music is from a recent CD of another creative genius: Peter Gabriel, who is better known for songs he put out twenty years ago.
Second, please give me feedback - op, star, pm, im, email, whatever - this video in particular is so subjective that I'm really curious as to what people got out of it. And constructive criticism is also fine!
Fair Warning. This is possibly even more non-linear and conceptual than my usual. If you don't care for non mainstream anime and/or "artsy" videos then this is not the amv you're looking for. Move along!
The impetus to U.C. was actually rather dark. I had a bad health scare last year which got me onto the Up CD, which is basically a song cycle about the fear of death. "More than this" is a kind of mystical song in which, to me, Gabriel seems to be trying to convince himself of an afterlife. So there were two sets of anime source, that I had been wanting to use for quite some time, which I saw as tying into this theme, and in the end I used both:
- Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix cycle. This is a set of interrelated, often epic stories set in historical Japan and in the future, with characters being reincarnated from one story to another, and the immortal Phoenix watching over all and occasionally intervening in the characters lives. The general themes are of humans pride, lust, and vain desire for immortality, as well as the beauty and interconnectedness of all life.
My love for this series goes back to seeing Fred Schodt's excerpt translation from Karma in Manga! Manga! more than 20 years ago. I've been following the Viz translations and recently discovered that several volumes had been adapted to anime - some in a recent TV series, and others in various films and OAVs back in the 70's and 80's. I got hold of R2s of the TV show and of the Space and Karma OAV - the latter didn't have subtitles, but they hew close enough to the manga so it doesn't matter. Karma is my favorite part of the series, and Rintaro's movie, while condensing the story quite a bit, is still beautiful looking and quite powerful.
- Anime inspired by the life and work of Kenji Miyazawa, an early 20th century writer of children's stories and mystical poetry. I used the anime of his short story Night on the Galactic Railroad, which is a surrealist journey beyond death, and Kenji's Spring (aka Spring and Chaos), which shows part of Miyazawa's life. Both of these anime are easy to spot in the amv because the main characters are depicted as cats.
So the other meaning of Undiscovered Countries is, naturally, Hamlet's "fear of something after death". But a funny thing happened as I planned and developed this video. It became a lot more about wonder and appreciation of life ... seeing the ordinary in an extraordinary way. Partly because the song is ultimately an optimistic one, and also because there was so much that was strange but beautiful in the anime sources that I wanted to bring out.
In case you're still totally confused, here's a bit of a walk through the video and some of the images I used, and the themes I was trying to bring out.
0:01 - 0:10 - (title) - going clockwise, we have Giovanni, the protagonist of Railroad; the Phoenix; and a vision of Toshiko, Kenji's sister who died of tuberculosis, who is shown in Kenji's Spring.
0:10 - 0:26 - (night) - I woke up... - Miyazawa lies under a lamppost in an epileptic trance, thinking about his character Giovanni, whose spiritual journey begins at night. So I'm blending images from Railroad and Spring.
0:27 - 0:52 - (ascent) - I walked... - In Railroad, Giovanni walks out of town and up a hill to get a spectacular view of the milky way at night. Kenji's Spring shows this to be based on Miyazawa's personal experience, and shows him making this ascent first with his best friend, then later on with a young student. I interweaved all these scenes and also pulled in a similar scene from the beginning of Karma where the sculptor Akanemaru beholds a great cherry tree atop a mountain.
0:53 - 1:20 - (vision) - So much more ... - mostly scenes from Spring here. The psychedelic shot of Kenji the cat's face is where to me this video really gets going. Miyazawa is shown as an eccentric visionary who can quite easily 'trip out' in broad daylight when observing a tree and some birds. We see more foreboding visions of his sister Toshiko also.
1:20 - 1:29 - (friendship) - I'm all there ... - the reddish cat is Giovanni's friend Campanella (cute, aren't they?). Here I'm relating their bond to Miyazawa's closeness with his sister and with his best friend.
1:30 - 1:53 - (portents) - It started ... - more awareness of death creeps into the song lyrics and into the images. This is all from Galactic Railroad. The train arrives and carries Giovanni and Campanella on their metaphorical journey. Miyazawa wrote the story around the time of the Titanic sinking and he weaves the event into his story. Then I show Campanella saying goodbye to Giovanni....
1:53 - 2:13 - (pride) - Now we're busy ... - these lyrics seem to match Phoenix very well so we shift to that now. We start with images of human pride and denial of death, as Akanemaru works on his sculpture and supervises construction of an enormous Buddha statue. Then we see the end results of pride: destruction and death. The nuclear war scenes are from the Future chapter. I also overlay the crying Buddha from Karma, and also a burning village from Dawn.
2:13 - 2:46 - (wonder) - More than this... - Now I go through several Phoenix stories and show people encountering the Phoenix herself. Akanemaru sees her just at the end of Karma as his body disintegrates in a fire, and the Phoenix is herself reborn in fire. I run through scenes from Dawn, then Space, then Future. The old fellow with the beard (not Gandalf!) is from Future.
2:46 - 2:54 - (cycles) - I'm all there ... - It wouldn't be a Tezuka story without some fellow with a big nose, would it? In this case, the big nose character is Saruta, who is reincarnated across the cycle of Phoenix stories, from Dawn to Future and nearly everything in between. This is illustrated with these terrific manga scans, which were not done by me -- I took them from a very nice television documentary on Tezuka and Phoenix that came as a bonus track (with subtitles!) on a Hong Kong DVD edition of the Phoenix TV series. (The rest of my Phoenix footage is all from R2 DVDs, but the documentary isn't included in them!)
2:55 - 3:23 - (karma) - and it's all right ... - For the bridge section I wanted to linger a bit on Gao, the one armed sculptor who is the incarnation of Saruta in Karma and Civil War. I really only hint at his story here, which is one of great suffering but also of enlightenment. [Just go read the manga already!] The images are either from Rintaro's OAV or from the borrowed scans of the original manga. It looks like Gao is under the same cherry tree that Akanemaru came to at the beginning of Karma....
3:24 - 3:47 - (mystery) - much more ... - still in a kind of quiet section of the song so I show some mysterious and strange images - first from the Space OAV, where the Phoenix has resurrected an astronaut inside a space capsule, which is now serving as a kind of womb... (if you read the manga you'll see that the story is even weirder than the image.... the astronaut is fated to grow old, then regress back to infancy and back again, in an endless cycle...)
then Giovanni stares at a crystal showing the constellations (see! I didn't forget the cats)... and Miyazawa is lying in a field hallucinating... again....
3:48 - 3:57 - (connection) - I'm all there .. - another borrowed manga scan, showing how the Phoenix story cycle spans many centuries... with images of romantic or maternal love from various chapters. The fear of death makes another visit, though, with another vision of Miyazawa's (the floating skeletons).
3:57 - 4:26 - (struggle) - So much more ... - now that the music is building up I try to make the images more dynamic. Just as a band will introduce its members as they near the end of a set, this seemed like a good place to label the sources, so that the viewer can get clued into what they have been seeing. A key bit of context that I don't really get across is with the Dawn scene, where the character Takeru climbs out of the pit. He has actually been living at the bottom of that pit his entire life and is seeing the world for the first time.
4:26 - 4:46 - (nature) - More than this... - now the intensity goes up further - I show a lot of primal forces of nature from Dawn and from Future.
4:46 - 5:21 - (synthesis) - More than this ... - so here's the big finish. I'm trying to suggest that the visions of Miyazawa and Tezuka encompass both a religious/spiritual as well as a scientific/humanist view of reality. Both had something of a scientific background - Tezuka was a doctor before turning to manga, and Miyazawa studied geology. The crucifix scene is from Railroad, where the train makes a stop for all the Christians to get off and go to their own heaven. Then the train moves on to the "true" Buddhist heaven (!). The Buddha statue is also an ironic image. In much of Phoenix, Tezuka disparages the statues and much of organized Buddhism as a tool of state power and domination.
Now I show images of life's evolution from the end of Future, overlaid on images from the TV show opening, which could be interpreted as showing evolution or a cycle of reincarnation, or both. Then we see Kenji's vision of the galactic railroad from Spring, here imagined as a foreshadowing of human space travel and also as a DNA spiral ascending to heaven. To close out this vision of human destiny and possibility I then put in the final image from Space where the reincarnated astronaut, now a baby, makes its home on another planet.
So we end on a note of optimism. Individual lives are short, even civilizations may die and be reborn, but all lives are connected, and just as Takeru escaped his pit, we may as a species be able to climb out of the cradle of Earth and reach the stars. Damn that sounded like a term paper didn't it? Sorry.
The end credits show photos of the real Miyazawa, then the anime depiction of him. The footage of Tezuka is also from the TV documentary.
Of course, you're free to form your own interpretations and associations. I mean, I only made the video. It's out of my hands now. Hope you enjoy it!
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@Ulthakptah: Why ranger, if crossbow? Why not rogue or fighter? you cant still manage to get multiple shots with it.. unless you have Van Helsing automatic rapid fire crossbow-thingy .)Ranger would be great addition me thinks..
Crossbow ranger would work and ranger would be very good overall. Just be careful with favored enemy and check can you approve some PHB II feats which improve crossbow use.If you want to be wilderness guy but not ranger, scout is viable choice and it works also well with crossbow guy thanks skirmish feature.
Anyways PrC's which I thought would fit; Sanctified One, Pious Templar and Legendary Leader (with later case the commander aura and double commander aura could be replaced simply continue marshal aura progression and allow have two minor or two major auras active in 5th level). Also if ignore racial requirement (replaced with; exiled from homeland or other feat), Outcaste Champion.Also can I through my background get access to Dreadful Wrath feat? As marshals overall are not power houses in melee combat anyways, so I thought it could be cool make 'frightening shout while charging in' to shake foes up.Another idea is that I multiclass later as barbarian, but then I would prefer use alternative class feature; spirit totems, from Complete Champion supplement (thinking mostly get a Lion spirit totem).Edit; Forgot mention Dragonlord (choose mimic other mythical beast considering Kord is known also as wyrmslayer), and devotion line of feats. Mostly thought pick one following; Strenght, Good, Luck or Chaos
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Britains Contribution In Europe To The Winning Of The Second World War. It was stated by the President of Russia at the time that there where three factors of Britain winning the Second World War, the first was America who provided the money, next was Britain who proved the time and last was Russia who provided the Blood. President Stalin, the Russian president commanded Russia through the Second World War. He was thought to be a excellent war-time president, as was Churchill. During the war Russia lost 25 Million men and woman to the war effort. This is where the 'BLOOD' came from. The main contribution to the war effort was between the time when we evacuated from Dunkirk until Russia entered the war in early 1941. ...read more.
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Without this D-Day would not of been able to happen, especially onto the Normandy beaches. Another reason that the link was vital for the war effort, especially Britain, was the supply of food and raw materials into Britain. Without the constant inflows of food we would of lost the war or at least we would have been forced to surrender. This is why the Battle of the Atlantic and the efforts made by the Royal Navy towards keeping the inflow of raw materials and food into Britain was a big contribution to the war effort. All in all I believe that we did contribute greatly to the war effort and that our main asset in this was the time we made for the preparation of weapons, the entrance of Russia into the war and the preparation for America to enter the war. ...read more.
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Elevate Readers! It's my favorite month of the year, in November we celebrate family, loved ones, gathering together and of course, FOOD! Obviously the best dessert at any Thanksgiving table is the pie. It's a dessert that is very dear to us over at twocarolines.com, we make a lot of delicious things, but pie is what we are best known for and this is because we come from a rich family tradition of pie making, and eating….so much pie eating, I can't WAIT for Thanksgiving! If you click on our pie category on twocarolines.com there are TWENTY ONE tried, tested, and guaranteed delicious pies. We've posted so many that it's sometimes hard to figure out an awesome pie we haven't already made, but for now let's talk about Nutella Pie.
I'm happy to say, this Chocolate Nutella Pie is not only a brand new pie, but it's an absolute game changer – at first taste it shot up to the top of my favorites list. It's got such incredible chocolate flavor, with that mouth flooding bit of sourness that comes from the cream cheese in the filling and the rich dark chocolatey ganache layer just sends it over the top.
I went all out and topped my pie with toasted hazelnuts and homemade chocolate sauce, but you'll enjoy this pie plenty even without these little extras, so don't be freaked out when you look at this recipe with all it's ingredients and instructions – you can scrap half of those if you skip the toppings.
A fun bonus is that I made this with a chocolate pat in the pan crumb crust – so there's zero intimidation factor that can come with a traditional pie crust. Crumb crusts are so easy and forgiving and they are begging to be messed with.
I often add nuts, oats, ancient grains, coconut or all manner of fun flavors and textures to my crumb crusts. I used chocolate graham crackers for this one, but you could also use chocolate wafers or even graham crackers and have a delicious result.
I wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving and I strongly recommend a minimum of 1/2 pie per person so get baking party people!
Chocolate Nutella Pie Recipe
For the Crust:
8 ounces chocolate grahams, chocolate wafers, or graham crackers
2 tablespoons light brown sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter melted
1/4 teaspoon coarse salt
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1/3 cup heavy cream
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1 cup cold heavy cream
8 ounces (1 brick) cream cheese
4 tablespoons powdered sugar
1/4 teaspoon kosher salt
Chocolate Sauce:
1 cup chopped dark chocolate (you can also use chocolate chips or semi-sweet if you want your sauce sweeter)
3/4 cup miniature marshmallows
One 5 ounce can evaporated milk
Toasted Hazelenuts:
1/2 cup filberts
3 tablespoons baking soda
- Preheat oven to 400. For the crust, put the grahams or wafers, sugar, and salt (plus anything else fun you want in your crust – mine has some oats which was delicious) into the food processor and once you've made fine crumbs add butter with food processor on low. Press crumb mixture into the bottom of your pie plate. A standard pie plate is fine, your pie will just be nice and high with a full round top. I used a deep dish and it was great, left a little room on top for some whipped cream. Any dish will work. I often use a glove to make sure I really get my crust into the corners in an even layer without getting my hands too greasy. Once you've pressed your crust into the pan, bake it at 400 for about 10 minutes. Take out and let cool while you make your ganache and filling.
- For the ganache, chop 1 cup of chocolate or use 1 cup chocolate chips. I find it works best for this small amount if I heat the chocolate first on defrost in the microwave or for small increments so it's starting to loose it's shape. Then heat your cream on the stove or in the microwave and pour hot cream over the chocolate. Let sit for about 3-4 minutes then whisk until smooth. Pour ganache into the bottom of your mostly cooled crust and put it in a cool place so it can set while you make your nutella filling.
- Place softened cream cheese, Nutella, powdered sugar and salt in a large mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until smooth. Slowly drizzle in the cold heavy cream, continuing to beat on medium speed. When all the cream has been added turn the mixer up to high speed and and beat for just a few minutes until the mousse is nice and fluffy. Transfer the filling into your pie pan into your prepared pie shell right on top of the ganache layer and refrigerate for at least 2 hours or overnight.
- To make the chocolate sauce put the chocolate, marshmallows and evaporated milk into a saucepan and melt over medium heat. Once all is combined let cool and drizzle over your pie. Refrigerate leftovers in a glass jar, it's wonderful on ice cream, cakes or any dessert that needs a drizzle of chocolate.
- Toasting hazelnuts takes some time, but it's not difficult. First preheat oven to 350. You buy them with skin on as "filberts" – there are a few methods for getting the skin off of them. My recommendation is to use the method in the video below with Julia Childs. They put the filberts into a saucepan with a few cups of boiling water then add 3 tablespoons of baking soda, don't be alarmed when it bubbles up a bit. Let them boil for about 3 minutes while you prepare an icy cold bath for them to put in when you're done. Once they've been in the cold water for just a minute the skins are easy to peel off. Pat them dry and put them on a baking sheet in a 350 oven for about 12-15 minutes until they are fragrant and brown. Once they've cooled chop them up and sprinkle on your pie.
Hope this Nutella Pie is a star at your Thanksgiving table this year!
Recipe adapted from Baking a Moment Nutella Pie and chocolate sauce from Mrs. Rowe's Little Book of Southern Pies
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One of the aspects of ZwillGen that regularly draws clients to our firm is our alternative billing philosophy. As explained on our billing philosophy page, we believe in billing clients the way they want to be billed – whether on an hourly, flat-fee, monthly retainer, or success fee basis. We know clients have different preferences in billing arrangements, and we try to be relatively indifferent. As long as we receive fair compensation for our efforts, we want to present the broadest range of options we can. But what we've learned, over and over again, is that clients prefer the hourly billing method over all other methods… at least until they try the monthly retainer method. Once they try a retainer arrangement, clients rarely go back to hourly billing. We thought it was worth a blog post to discuss this phenomenon, and to share what we've learned from 7+ years of experimentation with fee approaches.
First, why do clients regularly choose hourly billing when given the chance to pick their method of billing? We think it's a combination of three factors: (1) familiarity; (2) internal procedures require expenditures to be justified by backup, where only hourly timesheets provide adequate backup (in the view of their accounting departments); (3) fear of making a bad deal. The third of these factors is the most curious, but we find it to be a very potent discouragement for many of our clients. For those clients who do choose an alternative billing method, they generally feel comfortable that the value of a "deal" should be ascertainable based on the cost and the quality or complexity of the deliverable (i.e., the memo, the privacy policy, the launch of a new product). They don't worry that the only way to measure the value of the services purchased is through the number of hours applied to the project. This makes sense, because when purchasing other products in the market, there is not as tight a correlation between the amount of labor and the price of the product. Indeed, especially in law, the hours spent on the work is not always a good indicator of the value the work brings to the enterprise. While you would think that legal services providers should be more worried about a "bad" deal in this regard, we find the greater fear to be on the client side. Thus, we enter into arrangements where a client will gladly agree to pay anywhere between $5,000 – $10,000 for a project depending on the amount of time it takes us, but won't agree in advance to pay $7,000 for the same project, out of fear that the hourly charges may only amount to $5,000 worth of time. Given that the number of hours that are spent on the project can vary considerably by lawyer, you would think the flat fee solution would be a clearer choice. But that has not been our experience. Despite our efforts otherwise, hourly billing is still the most popular selection.
Second, while it often takes months for our clients to consider a shift from an hourly billing arrangement to a monthly retainer structure, our experience is that clients almost never go back to hourly billing once they make the switch. The reasons for the general satisfaction with these arrangements are worth discussing. Rather than creating marginal costs for each additional piece of work, a monthly retainer arrangement allows the outside law firm to be treated like internal lawyers, who are rarely paid or judged on the value per hour of their work, but rather on the basis of overall satisfaction with the quality and quantity of projects completed. This is the same way that internal employees are evaluated – over the course of time, rather than on a per project basis. These arrangements also remove artificial barriers between the law firm and the client, allowing the lawyers and the client to have a more natural give and take without concern that the "meter is running," on every call and interaction. Of course, the more time a good lawyer spends with the client, the more effective and useful the advice will be. These arrangements foster greater connection between attorneys and their clients and usually result in more frequent, practical advice for the clients. Moreover, in tighter fiscal times it provides the client with incentive to push more work to the law firms that are on monthly retainers and away from firms that are charging by the hour because it helps them better manage their budgets. This predictability can be invaluable in managing an internal legal budget. Again, you would think that law firms would be more reluctant to enter these arrangements out of fear that their workload will double without a concomitant increase in income, but again, we find that it is the clients who are more reluctant to try it.
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