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But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
—2 Peter 3:18
Once the Holy Spirit's work in our heart begins, grace, forgiveness, cleansing take on a form of almost bodily clearness.
Prayer loses its unmeaning quality and becomes a sweet conversation with Someone actually there. Love for God and for the children of God takes possession of the soul. We feel ourselves near to heaven and it is now the earth and the world that begin to seem unreal….
Then the whole life changes to suit the new reality and the change is permanent. Slight fluctuations there may be like the rise and dip of the line on a graph, but the established direction is upward and the ground taken is held.
This is not all, but it will give a fair idea of what is meant when the New Testament speaks of power, and perhaps by contrast we may learn how little of the power we enjoy. POM092-093
In every thing that belongs to the excellence of real religion, the true believer is in a state of progression. He seeks and strives, he wrestles and fights. He is ever aiming at the prize….His obedience, though not perfect, is habitual. DTC192, 204
Tozer on the Holy Spirit.
November 3, Establishing the Direction
But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.


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Valhalla Range, Southern Selkirks. The Kootenay Mountaineering Club established a climbing camp at Mulvey Meadows (6600 feet) from August 1 to 8. Dunnage, food and prefabricated hut sections were flown in from Slocan by helicopter. We erected the hut and climbed all the major peaks of the area. First ascents were the main (west) peak of Mount Prestley by the east ridge (Iaian Martin, Frank Tarver and myself), central peak of Prestley via the west ridge (Gerry Brown, Bob Dean and David Parfitt), the Bat via the northwest corner of the west ridge (Marianne Trembley and John Wurflinger). New routes were Gladshiem southeast ridge (Eric Lance and Wurflinger), Gladshiem south face (Tom Chamberlin and myself), Gimli (formerly Gimli II) north ridge (Brown and Tarver). The Valhallas offer pleasant fourth and fifth class climbing with many fine routes yet to be done. There are opportunities for long and difficult aid routes, particularly on Dag (formerly Gimli I) and the eastern satellite peaks of Gladshiem, which rise 4000 feet from Mulvey valley below the headwall separating the valley from the meadows. Thanks to the initiative of the KMC in establishing a trail, trail and road maintenance and building a hut, this area is now quite accessible. Interested persons should consult the KMC or the hut custodian (Bob Dean, Crescent Valley, British Columbia) for information on the area, the route in or use of the hut.
Peter Renz

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Howdy everyone!!
So, Mom reminded me this morning.. <sigh> I've just reached my 11-month mark. I don't like this. It's going WAY too fast. :/ I've met so many great and wonderful people, and the time just flies. I guess time just has no respect for fun. (You know, "time flies when you're having fun"?)
Anyway, besides that, I am fantastic! I can't even begin to describe how many miracles I've seen in this past week! We're teaching around 12 lessons a week now, which is a sight bigger number than 4 or 5 lessons a week. We've been blessed as we follow our mission president's counsel, which was just supporting the auxiliaries and not asking for anything. The wards are giving us lots of work, and we're really pushing to just be involved more and more in the ward activities. The high councilmen in each of the Stakes are SO helpful in motivating the ward mission leaders, and we are super-appreciative of the work they've been doing!
We're working on trying to find more ways of showing our appreciation than just doing the work. Each of them does so much for us, and all of them are constantly keeping the ward mission leaders and us accountable. We've received many assignments, and we're keeping on top of them so that they all continue to see that the full-time elders can be trusted to "get to work". I'm glad that President McCune gave me the counsel to face God rather than man. It's pushed me to be a lot better. I'm working on just removing the fear of man from my mind, and just pushing forward on the work.
Anyway, lots of different things happening! We have lots of activities we're going to, and I can't wait for a lot of the chili cook-offs, although I'm not sure they'll be much like Texas chili! :D
Anyway, I love y'all!
Elder Conrad Hamilton
Keep Smiling!
Markers for John R Moyle in the middle of Alpine.
For the story of John Moyle, it's in the Gospel Library called, "Only A Stonecutter".


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Last week, I stumbled upon a fascinating article suggesting the best way to board an airplane is not from back to front as commonsense might suggest. Instead, the most efficient method is to allow passengers to board 10 at a time in every other row. The advantage of this innovative approach is that people are able to load their luggage more quickly -- thus alleviating the largest source of time congestion in boarding a plane.
The study might seem inconsequential, but I'd like to suggest otherwise. If passengers can board more quickly, not only are they happier (which is something that I would think, but am not always sure, airlines desire), but quicker boarding might allow airlines to either schedule additional daily flights on some of the more popular routes or reduce the number of gates that an airline requires. Although, this might not have a material impact on the profits of airlines, it could improve the customer experience for passengers on Southwest
On a broader level, the finding points to how even more mature industries can perform old activities in new and innovative ways.
Squeezing more oil from corn
For example, this month, agricultural scientists at DuPont
The former could be a boon to the rapidly growing biofuels industry and might lead to a sizeable increase in profit for a company such as BP
Feeling small?
It has been said that the best gifts come in small packages. If so, then IBM's
This is because both industries are in a never-ending quest to develop nanoscale devices, including computer chips and atomic-level storage. To this end, Intel
To succeed in these ventures, it will help greatly to understand how much force is required to move and store individual atoms, and this latest breakthrough from Big Blue might be just the thing to push the semiconductor and data storage industries to the next level.
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So I'm calling Mary to see what she has put into her bag. She's at a standstill as I am. But at least she has her passport, complete with extra pages, but needs to find her tickets.
"Tickets?" I say. "Mine are electronic."
"No" she says, "The intra-Africa tickets they mailed us back in March"
"HUH???" I utter, "I didn't get no stinkin' tickets"
"Yea, you did." she says gleefully. "Remember we said how we wished they had just kept them - so we wouldn't lose them??"
At that time all conversation ceased, and I hurried back home to look for my stinkin' tickets. Yes I found them, but NEVER would have looked for them had she not mentioned them. Now I'm wondering what I'm going to forget, rather than worrying about overpacking. That's a clear signal that it is time to go have a glass of wine. Or maybe a couple of margaritas. That should help wash down the malaria medicine. T
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
OH THE PACKING....... and repacking
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Mary, where are the pole beans again? And what squash is the ever growng Italian we are NOT to pick? Dianne Walters-Butler
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Feliz Navidad! :) I can't believe Christmas is THIS week! Time sure has flown by!
This past week, I hit my one month mark in the field it's been so much fun!
We also got to sing in the estaca (stake) Christmas program anoche (last night) all the wards got to go up and sing a Christmas song! :) it was very fun!
We had a barrio fiesta on Saturday, we went a little early to help make the food and set up the gym and it turned out to be so much fun! I am also getting a lot more used to all the spicy hot foods that people love here, and I'm really coming to enjoy them! Their papusas and enchiladas are the best ever! Watch out family, when I come home that's all I'm going to be eating! :) I also looooooove the rice juice drink they have, and i'm not even going to explain how they make it because you'd all judge, but it's called ochuga (oh-chew-gah) and it is SO YUMMY! I also got to try arroz con leche, which literally translates to "rice with milk" and that is literally all that it is, rice drowned in a cup of warm milk with raisins. Let's just say, it's not my favorite dessert haha
We've also had the opportunity to do some servicio this week, we help out at BTAC, a food place, and we pack bags and fill orders and help people put the bags of food into their cars. It's been very fun to meet people and even use our Spanish! Speaking of which, it's very crazy to use English SO often and then be expected to also know Spanish and how to carry a conversation and use Spanglish at some points or just Spanish, but I love it at the same time! It's hard to joke in Spanish, because my vocab is limited, but I'm getting better! :)
Oh, fun story! We were doing some contacting the other day and knocking throughout an apartment complex. We were about to end for the night because it was getting late, so we said a pray to find the last door we should knock on and hopefully meet our goal of contacts and new potentials....in the middle of the prayer, the number "7" came to my mind. I laughed it off at first, because it only starts in the 100s for the apartment numbers. 7 came again to my mind. After the prayer, I just looked at my companion and said, "number 7" without even thinking. I gave a crazy look because it sounded weird to me too, but we looked around, and there on a door was a number "7," it was missing the 1 and 0, but I thought that was pretty funny! :) We knocked on the door....lots of pressure....and a family answered! They were interested in our message! We shared a short one at the door and got a return cita to meet up with them! Which actually happened the other day, and we got to know them some more. It was very fun!
Okay, some other fun stuff, aqui estan algunas historias chistosos de esta semana pasado:
· there have been these crazy birds, with weird beaks and colors, flying alllll round Burbank, VERY loud and actually kinda annoying. sometimes their groups fill up the whole tree and they just stare you down as you walk by, sometimes they even swoop very close to you....in a contact the other day, we learned that these birds are actually parrot, What!? They come to this area around this time every year! Crazy, right!? We heard a story that it's because one time a pet shop burned down and the parrots got lose and so now they just hang out in warm Burbank, CA for the winter! :)
· In CA, people here are wearing big poofy winter jackets, like ones I don't even use for playing in the snow! Needless to say, I am in a t-shirt still! Walking with the palm trees and having people ask me if I'm cold. I've started having to carry around a cardigan just so that they don't worry about me! The culture here is very friendly and they are concerned with others, so much that they will literally give me a jacket so that I don't freeze, because they don't believe me that it's not cold haha. The other day, in a contact with a random guy, he took his sweatshirt off and tried giving it to me; it was very funny, so from now on I promised my comp would take a cardigan so I can at least show them I have a jacket if I need it. Okay, point of the story, they're all afraid of "la gripe" (gree-pay), AKA..... the cold....it's very funny to see them all worried about slightly runny noses or the sniffles or just feeling cold and thinking it's "la gripe." But they also call the flu "la gripe" and pretty much every sickness, so we can't always tell if our investigators/potentials are actually sick or just feeling cold haha :)
· I've learned some good Spanish lessons this week! One is, when you eat faster than your companion, you get seconds! ...and then thirds! Ahhh! Also, when they ask if you want more, if you say "esta bien" it actually means "yes please, more food!' (even though it translates to and is also used for "oh it's okay, don't worry about it), which I've been saying...oops...haha but now I say "estoy bien" (i'm fine, no thanks) and they still put thirds on my plate, so maybe that doesn't work either haha :)
ITS CHRISTMAS WEEK! the culture here celebrates Christmas on our Christmas Eve! Very fun! :) I'm excited to try their Christmas meals also! And this Christmas will be very different as a missionary but I am very excited because there are so many missionary miracles in store this week and so much love from the ward, my family, my friends, the other missionaries, and of course from the Savior, surrounding this work! :) <3


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Ohio State's Dre'Mont Jones ejected for targeting, pumps up fans on way to locker room
Ohio State defensive tackle Dre'Mont Jones was ejected for targeting late in the first half of his team's win over Michigan State, but still took it upon himself to get the crowd pumped up as he left the field.
As Jones jogged back to the Buckeyes' locker room, he did Ohio State's famous O-H-I-O signal to the fans.
Jones' ejection came on a hit on Michigan State quarterback Brian Lewerke with the Buckeyes already up 35-0.
Dre'Mont Jones' day comes to an end on this hit. pic.twitter.com/SKOfZ4CgEB
— Eleven Warriors (@11W) November 11, 2017
It didn't look like a big hit, but Jones' helmet hit Lewerke in the head just after the MSU QB delivered a pass. After a replay, the targeting was upheld, likely because Lewerke was deemed a "defenseless" player.
Because the penalty came in the first half, Jones will be able to return for the start Ohio State's game against Illinois next week. If he was ejected in the second half, he would have had to sit out the first half against the Illini.
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After Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, Hebron is the fourth holiest city for Muslims. The Haram Al-Ibrahimi - Mosque of Abraham, which houses the tombs of the Patriarchs, dominates the city center's landscape. Inside the mosque, stunning stained-glass windows soften and transform sunlight falling upon the marble floors and stonewall. The huge symmetric stones in the walls of this mosque are in the style of Herod the Great.
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The Rockville Community Alliance will host RockvilleFest 2017 on Saturday, September 16 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in downtown Rockville. This year's family-friendly event is actually three fun fairs in one: a classic car rally, craft expo and baby fair. Admission is free. Plenty of free parking will be available in downtown parking lots and on adjacent streets.
Main Street will be closed and turned into a nostalgic Classic Car Rally with hundreds of cars provided by the Central Connecticut Car Club. There is a $10 entry fee for car owners who wish to display their cars. Awards and prizes for best cars in various categories will be given. Central Park and Park Place will be transformed into a Craft Expo full of displays by crafters, home party vendors, artisans, businesses, local organizations and food vendors. The Vernon Community Network will sponsor a Baby Fair with free items for expectant and new parents and grandparents, tips on raising healthy children, advice about programs for infants and toddlers, and fun activities and games for all kids including a foam machine and inflatables. The Rockville Downtown Association (RDA) will open its Citizens Block storefront office and show new segments of The Rockville Beat television show on a big screen.
Downtown Rockville is a very scenic venue for an outdoor festival, with rich and historic architecture, attractive landscaping and patriotic memorials in Central Park, and a panoramic view of Memorial Tower on Fox Hill. Rain date for RockvilleFest 2017 is Sunday, September 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year's co-sponsor is Keep In Touch, a marketing and media business located at Lafayette Square. Festival sponsorships and display table space are still available. For details, call event chair Tom DiDio at 860.646.5320 or visit www.RockvilleFest.org.
The Rockville Community Alliance (RCA) is a non-profit group of concerned citizens dedicated to improving the Greater Rockville community. RCA partners with the Town of Vernon and other groups to host events throughout the year, including Miss Greater Rockville Scholarships, the Spring Fling Fair at Maple Street School, July in the Sky, National Night Out, and the Holiday Decorating Contest.
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12124 RR 620 North, Austin, TX 78750
Most Direct Route:
RR 1431 through Lago Vista, Jonestown, and into Cedar Park
Right on N Lakeline Blvd
Follow Lakeline Blvd several miles to intersection of Lakeline and Little Elm.
Turn Right on Little Elm
Follow to Hill Country School.
Direction Friendly, though further.
RR 1431 through Lago Vista, Jonestown, and into Cedar Park
Right on Hwy 183
Right on RR 620
Right on Little Elm
Foundefinedllow to Hill Country School
Take FM 1431 to Hwy 281
Take Hwy 281 to Hwy 71 East toward Austin
Turn left at TX-71 E/US-290 E
Take the ramp onto TX-71 E/US-290 E
Take the exit toward TX-275-LOOP/S Congress Ave
Merge onto W Ben White Blvd
Turn left at S Congress Ave
1102 S Congress Ave, Austin, TX78704 ( Enter off Elizabeth St after 5:30)
Directions to Austin Regents
3230 Travis Country Circle, Austin, Texas
3000 Barton Creek Blvd, Austin, TX 78735
8700 S. View Road, Austin, Texas
(512) 288-5942
901 CC Woodson, Brownwood, Texas 76804
(325) 641-2223
Take HWY 281 to Lampasas
then 183/84 to Lometa/Golthwate/Early
then 84/67/377 to Brownwood.
Take a left on CC Woodson Road
Victory Life Church is on the left
203 S. 10th Street, Buckholts, Texas 76518
(254) 593-2744
2425 N Park Street, Brenham, Texas 77833
670 Old Boerne Rd. Bulverde TX 78163
Take Hwy 281 South and exit Hwy 46. Go right (towards Boerne) and take the first immediate left, Old Boerne Rd. The school is ~1/4 mile on the right.
Football Games ONLY/Leander Campus
1303 Leander Dr. , Leander TX 78641
1431 to 183 North,
183 N to Crystal Falls Pkwy,
Right on Crystal Falls to Leander Dr.
Left on Leander Dr,
School will be a couple blks up on the Left.
Basketball & Volleyball Games ONLY/Cedar Park Campus
2121 Cypress Creek Road, Cedar Park, TX 78613
(512) 250-1369
Christian Academy of San Antonio
325 Castroville Road, San Antonio, Texas 78207
(210) 431-7355
3407 Red River, Austin,TX 78705
Take Hwy 71 to 290 to I-35, go North on I-35 to 32nd street exit, take a left on 32nd and you will pass St. David's hospital. Take a right on Red River, and campus will be on the right. You will see signs for St. Paul Lutheran – they share a campus!
200 Hi Circle North, Horseshoe Bay, TX 78657
310 Smokehouse Rd Fredericksburg, TX 78624
Please note: games are generally played at other campuses or churches so please check calendar for more details
401 CR 970, Florence, Texas 76527
**(Please note – on google maps, it is a farm-to-market road vs. a county road)
4141 FM Road 93, Temple, Texas 76502
(254) 939-5700
3700 Convict Hill Rd, Austin, TX 78749
512 414-3276
620 S. Commerce, Coupland, Texas 78615
(512) 856-2422
Our Lady of the Hills
235 Peterson Farm Road, Kerrville, TX 78028
(830) 895-0501
4501 Bridge Street, Ft. Worth, Texas 76103
101 WL Walden Drive, Georgetown, Texas 78626
1511 Pony Drive, Marble Falls, TX 78654-4964
(830) 693-4439
4001 Trimmier Rd.
Take 281 North to Lampasas
Take 190 East to Killeen (Do Not take Business 190)
Exit Trimmier Rd.
The school and church are on the right. The church is Memorial Baptist Church.
1100 E. Lakeshore Drive, Waco, Texas 76708
4600 Sanger Avenue, Waco TX 76710
4220 Monterey Oaks Blvd., Austin, Texas 78749
(512) 891-1673
6608 W. Adams Avenue, Temple, Texas 76502
(254) 771-0787
1017 South 7th Street Temple, TX 76504
You will take I35 North until you reach Exit 300, you will take this exit and stay on the service road till you come to Ave. H.
Here you will take a right onto Ave H, you will go down Ave H through 2 red lights.
After the 2nd red light you will go 9 more blocks till you get to 7th Street here you will take a right.
7th Street will dead end and there you will take another right into the school and church parking lot.
The gym is inside at the Parish Hall which is straight in front of you when you take the right into the parking lot.
5901 SW Parkway in Austin.
Hwy 71 East to Bee Cave
After Bee Cave, turn left onto Southwest Parkway (blinking yellow light)
St Andrews is the school on your right before you get to Mopac.
521 South New Braunfuls Ave., San Antonio, Texas
18104 Babcock Road, San Antonio, TX 78255
Directions to San Antonio Trinity
5401 N. Loop 1604 E. San Antonio, TX 78247
19202 Redland Road, San Antonio, Texas 78259
301 N. Lake Creek Dr., Round Rock, Texas 78681
From FM 1431:
Take FM 1431 to I 35. Take I 35 South. Take exit 252B-A toward RM-620/McNeil Rd.
Turn right at RM-620/Round Rock Ave/RR-620. Go on RM-620 for about half amile until you get to N. Lake Creek Dr.
Turn left on N. Lake Creek Dr.(this will be just before Round Rock High School).
Pass the strip shopping centers until you get to Central Baptist Church.
Take the 2nd entrance to the church. The gym is in the middle of the campus.
From Hwy 29:
Take Hwy 29 to I 35. The rest of the directions are the same.
13780 SH 16 N, Priddy, Texas 76870
Take highway 71 East past I35
Take 183 South to Luling
Turn right on highway 80, go 8 miles and you're there
Prairie Lea is a one blinking light town!


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text: Now to be completely honest i went into this book thinking that i would most definitely not like this book because first of all im not really a history person and it sounded pretty boring honestly! but what a surprise this book was from beginning to end and i loved every minute of it i thought that i was really cool to read from Alex's diary i thought it was so interesting that i found myself thinking about as a totally different book all together, i thought Alex was at first just a girl trying to survive in the horrible state that Paris was at during the time of the revolution, then i found myself thinking that she was a little mean for using Louis Charles as a way to be in the queen's favor but when she started to love him and wanted to protect him i found myself completely sad for her when he was taken away, what overall made me love her the most was when she refused to leave Paris, refused to leave Louis Charles. I got so wrapped up in the writing of this book that it actually brought tears to my eyes and believe me that's something that very hard to do! But when it comes to Andi loved just as much as Alex i loved her i felt so much empathy for her and her situation i felt myself feeling sad for her and i felt how much she blamed herself for what happened to Truman and how much she wanted to fix her mom i felt so much for her that it hurt to see her try to kill herself. i felt so much her that it was almost overwhelming but i loved Virgil and i hoped he would be the reason to save her and he was and he wasn't the only one and i loved that more than anything else in the world what really saved her in the end was Alex and much and Amade. i thought this book was simply amazing the writing was so good and descriptive and engaging the characters were realistic and honest i loved the alternating perspectives and everything this book brought out i loved the lyrics that were written. and i also loved all of the things that i ended up learning in this book, if only school were as entertaining!


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Season 1
Rockers & Writers
While trying to play a harmonica through a sousaphone, the harmonica gets stuck in an old lady on the other side of the room, but Dez is able to perform the Heimlich maneuver on her. When Austin is apologizing to Ally, Dez says that he has attempted to "text the dog", an example of his craziness. Later, Dez records a music video of Austin singing a song Ally wrote. He's a good friend to Ally, Trish,and Austin.
Kangaroos & Chaos
Dez, along with Trish, gather props for Austin's music video, but they misinterpret the writing Ally wrote down. Dez thinks that she wrote "I like it when you kangaroo" and orders a kangaroo. He later gets into a game of tug-of-war with the kangaroo over a jacket, which ends up in a large container filled with caramel. Dez explains that he didn't know whether some other lyrics said "camel" or "caramel," and just got both. When the practice room's door opens as a person comes in to deliver the camel, Dez quickly closes it. Afterwards, when Face Puncher comes to get his jacket, Dez autographs his shirt with ketchup assuming he wanted one, and Face Puncher begins to chase him.
Secrets & Songbooks
Dez finds Ally's songbook and diary in the fridge, having used it as a roof for his gingerbread house. Then Dez and Austin come up with ways to read it, even thinking of putting it on the ceiling using kinds of jam. Austin thinks there won't be time to go to the store, but Dez already has multiple jams in his backpack. When they don't go with the ceiling plan, Dez eats all of the jam, saying he can't believe he did. Dez is later revealed to either be a terrible liar or scared of telling Ally and Trish that he and Austin read Ally's diary.
Zaliens & Cloud WatchersWhile Austin and Ally get to know each other better, Dez and Trish find out they too have more in common than they thought; having the same favorite number, and horror movie in common, and decide to become friends. However, when they disagree on a favorite pizza topping, they go back to "not being friends".
Bloggers & Butterflies
Dez and Trish got a job at Pirate Frank's Fish Fry, where Dez has an obsession with deep frying objects (his shoes, Trish's purse, Trish's cell phone), and later the entire restaurant in order for he and Trish to get fired. He is the one that gave Tilly Thompson, the evil blogger posting bad stuff about Austin, pictures to use for her site because her promised to bring them and never breaks a promise, but also the one to catch her when tries to run away dressed as a catfish. He accidentally gave Tilly Thompson an idea to use Ally's stage fright to embarrass herself.
Tickets & Trashbags
Austin gets invited to the Miami Internet Music Awards and has only one ticket for an extra guest, of course, Dez wants to be the one to go with. He convinces Austin that he has been there with him throughout the years as not only his video director, but additionally, his best friend, and he can't imagine them not going to their first award show together. However, later on, Dez, Trish, and Ally argue about all of them being told they were able to go with Austin and find out that Austin does not decide to take any of them. This upsets the three, making them realize that the night is not about them, but about Austin. So, they sneak into the show, but accidentally wound up performing the gig with Austin. Trish and Dez unintentionally ruin Shiny Money's and Austin's performance by not catching Shiny Money when he said to catch him during the performance. Though, Austin does forgive Dez, as well as Ally and Trish too.
Managers & Meatballs
Demonica Dixon wants to replace "Team Austin" with her own director and songwriter, and he is the one to suggest his favorite director, Spike Stevens, to replace him as the director of Austin's videos, which Demonica does. Dez takes being replaced the hardest, and is the second to be replaced in "Team Austin".
Club Owners & Quinceaneras
Trish is having a Quinceanera (Mexican party celebrating a girl's 15th birthday), and he suggests a couple grand entrances for Trish (which she refuses), and a grand entrance for Austin (swinging in on a jungle vine). After seeing Trish's poofy dress, he too mistakenly wears a poofy suit to the party (he being the only one, not including Trish). But later he uses the poofy pants to put shrimp in. He is also the one to ruin Trish's party by swinging in on a jungle vine himself, knocking over the table full of presents, and ruining the stereo station.
Deejays & DemosAustin overhears Ally singing a song she's made up for herself, so he goes and demos it over the radio while he is interviewed by Miami Mack. When Miami Mack wants him and Ally to do a duet, Austin comes up with a plan to get her over her stage fright; Dez to hypnotize her, however, he ends up putting himself into a deep sleep, and Trish takes advantage of this, telling him that whenever he hears the word "song", he will jump around like there's a mouse in his pants. While Ally is singing through a transmitter (while Trish lip sincs) Dez (having overheard Austin say "song") jumps around wildly, knocking over the transmitter, cutting off Ally, and leaving her to flip through the channels trying to find the right station, as Austin and Trish try to go along with the changing genres..
World Records & Work Wreckers
Dez and Austin try to get into the Book of World Records by seeing how long they can spin a basketball on their fingers. When the girls reveal only one can get their names in the book, they compete to see who will get in, even beginning to fight over the title, trying to get the other to drop the ball. They both end up forfeiting for the other to win.
Songwriting & StarfishDez, Trish and Austin take Ally to the beach to try to show her the beach isn't as bad as she thought. However, it turns out badly as Dez ends up with a starfish on his face, which he keeps after Austin pulls it off, and he also ends up bringing glue to the beach (to stay up on his surfboard) which Austin mistakes for sunscreen, causing sand to stick to him, and Ally's songbook ends up closing on his gum. He must come save Austin, Trish and Ally when they get stuck in the freezer at the ice cream shop, mistaking Austin's call for help with him wanting him to come "shave Gus".
Soups & Stars
Dez is hired to film commercials for some stores in the mall, and after Ally mistakenly ruins Ms. Suzy's Soups by posting her "Spider Noodle Soup" picture on Tweeter, Ally has him make a commercial but Ally becomes obsessive over it, and ends up in a giant bowl of soup. Dez re-edits the commercial he, Austin and Trish shot and posted it on her Tweeter, saving Ms. Suzy's Soups. He calls himself her BFF - "Best Freckled Friend".
Burglaries & BoobytrapsAustin feels bad for always being late for practices with Ally, and Dez suggests getting her a gift, which happens to be the new guitar at Sonic Boom. He is in on Austin taking the guitar, which he promises not to tell anyone about taking, running out screaming when Ally comes to accuse Austin of being the mall thief. He also mistakes the angry mob of the Mall Association for "a happy mob that wants to hear Austin sing". They decide to try and catch the thief by setting up a trap, Dez setting up his own trap of a giant glue trap, which he traps himself in instead.
myTAB & My Pet
It is revealed that a mean girl, Mindy, has a massive crush on Dez and bullies him into dating her. When Austin accidentally lets Ally's pet bird, Owen, out of his cage, Austin, Dez and Trish come up with ways to try and get Owen back without Ally knowing. Meanwhile, Ally gets booted to the back of the long line for the new myTABs, and Dez fakes being a TechTown employee, tricking the people in line to find a golden horseshoe hidden in the mall to win a free myTAB. When that doesn't work, they fake a hail storm, Dez using cheese balls when he can't find "golf ball-sized hail".
Filmmaking & Fear Breaking
Dez films his first big movie,Claws (Dun Dun Dun), and hires Trish as Girl #2, Austin as Troy the Lifeguard and Ally as the cute songwriter after he couldn't get Selena Gomez. After she declines, he rewrites the part so Austin saves a pretty girl from drowning, Mildred. The scene calls for Austin laying the girl in the sand under an umbrella and giving her mouth to mouth, but because of Austin's childhood fear of umbrellas, he says he can't do it. Dez suspected that Austin has caught stage fright from Ally after Austin told him he can't do his movie. Austin later conquers his fear and Dez finishes his movie, praising his work and revealing he had always known of Austin's fear. Since Dez is Austin's best friend, he knows all of Austin's secrets without him knowing. He had not used Ally's props, kept changing Trish's scenes, and put umbrellas all over the set of the movie (to scare Austin), to get true emotions out of people.
Diners & Daters
Mindy is a new manager at Melody Diner, she was first shown in myTAB & My Pet. She tricks Dez into falling for her by giving him some of the Melody Diner's famous Cha-Cha Chicken Pot Pie. Dez figures out that the Cha-Cha Pie had starting taking over his life. He refused to eat anymore; then again, Mindy tricked Dez with the famous egg salad. In this episode it is shown that Dez can sing. Whenever he likes something he sings, "Me likey!"
Everglades & Ally-Gators
Dez learns about that the famous alligator in the Everglades named "Big Mama" that has never been filmed on tape. Dez decided to go looking for Big Mama with Trish. He finds a small alligator that he names "Baby Gator". Baby Gator follows Dez to the house boat because he had chicken and steak in his pants to keep his pants cool after the power outage. A larger alligator shows up and scares everyone. Dez figures out it's Big Mama, and tries to film her, but fails. At the end, Dez shows everyone the film he had made for film class. Trish found out that it was a monster movie about her, and she loved it. Trish and Dez shared their first hug in this episode. The hug made Austin and Ally walk away in fright.
Successes & SetbacksAfter Austin's surgery, Dez tries to help with Austin not talking. He even goes to the extent of screaming for him after hot soup spilled on Austin's lap. Yet, the handshake between the two cause Austin to speak too soon.
Albums & Auditions
Dez, along with Trish and Austin, audition Ally for MUNY by editing footage of Dez's piano lesson with Ally and sending it to the online auditions. Dez is the only person who knows that the music school Ally was accepted to is in New York. At the very end of the episode, when Austin's album came out he stood in line, handed out every CD and said, "Make this one out to Dez, this one out to Dez, etc."


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So, a couple of weeks ago, a bunch of us drove up to the Finger Lakes for the weekend. One of my best friends goes to Cornell, so my husband and I stayed with him in Ithaca. Our trip coincided with the fateful evening of the first presidential debate of 2008, on September 26th.
When we reached my friend's place at 1a.m., he looked wired—full of fretful energy. If he was a teenager, I would have assumed that he had inhaled paint fumes; since he is an adult, I gave him the benefit of the doubt. My dear friend had consumed politics a little too personally. He seemed agitated that evening because Barack Obama was declared the winner of the debate. Just so you know, my friend is more passionately anti-Obama than he is pro-John McCain. He's on a mission to open people's eyes about "Obama's lies and deceit." My cheekiness didn't help things either. I kept saying, "I can see Russia from my house," in an Indian-Prairie accent. It hurt more than when the vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin said it.
Anyway, the weekend, aside from wine tasting and gormandizing on food, involved discussions over the current election scenario in the US and the perfect choice for the presidential candidate. Amazingly, all the participants (my friend, my husband, my friend's French roommate, and I) in the room were ineligible to vote. It goes to show how much these elections matter to each one of us regardless of our status in the country.
Sure, in the moment of passion, I was expressive in my satirical humor towards Sarah Palin. Why wouldn't I be? Her ridiculous attempts to prove her familiarity and credentials with foreign policies were almost blasphemous. In India, I can see dogs and cows from my house. That doesn't make me an expert veterinarian or a zookeeper. Not to forget, her classic interview with Katie Couric. Palin couldn't answer Couric's one basic question (repeated thrice with exasperation) about quoting specific examples of when McCain pushed for regulation in his political career of 26 years. Her response was, "I'll try to find you some and I'll bring them to you." Did Palin believe that she was a polite, diligent employee in a suburban store and Katie was a customer asking for gourmet ham? What kind of response was that? I guess her overall choice for words, "Doggone it," and "betchya," aren't too classy either.
My friend thought I condemned Sarah Palin because I am different from her. My inability to relate to her "hard life," middle-class vocabulary, and mannerisms made be skeptical of her. He felt I didn't understand what Palin represented—a self-made woman who was the first from her family to go to college and work two jobs while I got to travel to Europe as a child and study at an Ivy-League.
He couldn't be far from the truth. No one knows hardships better than an Indian woman. We are torn between two extreme cultures, demanding roles, societal obligations, and our split personalities (one for the older generation, one for our friends, one for our coworkers, and one for the generation younger than us). We constantly struggle to let all these personalities coexist in one body and that too with a smile. So just because Palin chose the life she did, I don't think I need to "understand" where she comes from. She made her choices; our choices are made for us.
I am not appreciative of Palin because she seems unfit for the position. She lacks the experience and the diplomacy required for the job. Sure she looks hot, but we aren't talking about vice-presidential candidate for Playboy here! Do we want another person like President George Bush to learn on the job at our expense? While these politicians decide our fates with their experiments, we, the public (pawns), spend sleepless nights fearing our jobs and mortgage payments. People who live in New York can relate to my plight as it's a truth we deal with on the subway, at work, at home, and on the streets.
Why just deride Palin? Vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden has been unkind to Asian Indians with his racial slip. No amount of apology can convince me that he is not a bigot. Call me arrogant, but Asian Indians are one of the most influential minority communities in the US, and I am proud of it. We work hard to go to an Ivy-League or travel to Europe for that matter. Who cares if Biden won the vice-presidential debates! The democrats lost a few Asian Indian votes because of Biden's insensitive sense of humor.
The November elections in the US have become a global point of anxiety and concern. I am not a political fanatic. I base my opinions on candidates depending on their viewpoints on the issues that matter to me. I have to say, Obama's unconfident stutter and McCain's excessive use of "My friends," at the second presidential debate made me nervous.
Honestly, if I had my way, Bill Clinton would still be the president of the United States. Since that won't happen, I got to pick from the available line up. I have been invited to several informal fund-raisers, and I have attended none of them --maybe because I don't support any of the candidates totally. I wonder if I am relieved because I can't officially vote. From my perspective, the choices available are a compromise. That said, I am curious, who are you rooting for?
More until next time.
Copyright © 10.09.2008
"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it." ~Clarence Darrow
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Whose side are you on?
Posted by My two cents at 9:15 AM
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Obama all the way babby!
- October 10, 2008 at 12:43 PM
tunak tunak dhun obama ga gao gun J
- October 10, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Manni said...
Definitely Obama has got this game under control there is now no stopping for him. I am not sure why many are looking with suspicion upon Palin as for me she is intelligent and is charismatic , give her a change to prove it. So far She has proven to a successful leader in Alaska.
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- October 13, 2008 at 12:13 AM
Well, the election is about issues and the plans both the candidates support. I agree with Obama on domestic and foreign policy, fiscal policy and health care. John McCain is a big liar.
- October 21, 2008 at 4:27 PM
obama is no less. he a liar too.
- October 29, 2008 at 2:00 PM
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The New Flesh/Pinion
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The Day the World Went Away
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Beast most fowl: Ancient flying turkey was 'as big as a kangaroo'
Scientists at Flinders University in Adelaide compared fossils found in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia, and identified five different types of the previously unknown bird dating back to the Pleistocene period.
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"These discoveries are quite remarkable because they tell us that more than half of Australia's megapodes went extinct during the Pleistocene, and we didn't even release it until now," Flinders researcher Elen Shute told the university website.
"Given several of the largest birds to have lived in Australia in recent times have escaped detection in the fossil record until now, our research shows how little we know of Australia's immediate pre-human avifauna."
Giant 8kg flying turkeys once roamed Australia. https://t.co/U6ZtlSUNvf— Flinders University (@Flinders) June 14, 2017
One of the creatures, dubbed 'Progura gallinacea', was as tall as a grey kangaroo, which can grow to over six feet in height.
The ferocious fowl is said to have weighed up to 8kg (18lbs) and it is a distant relative of the dark brush turkeys common to scrub land in New South Wales. Strong wing bones suggest they creature could fly, and probably nested in trees
'Progura gallinacea' would have roamed parts of the Australian continent during the Pleistocene era, which ended around 11,700 years ago.
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The assessment of the turkey bones has changed the thinking of scientists who have admitted that the discoveries suggest that much of pre-inhabited Australia remains as mystery.


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Caucher Birkar, Professor of Mathematics in the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics, has been awarded a Fields Medal at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro. Birkar has been awarded the highest honour in mathematics for his contributions to algebraic geometry.
Exploring algebraic geometry
This area of mathematics does exactly what its name suggests: it tries to understand geometric objects using equations that describe them. It's an idea you might be familiar with from school. For example, the equation
$$y=2x+1$$ describes a line of slope $2$ which intersects the vertical axis of a standard Cartesian coordinate system at the point $(0,1)$. Similarly, the equation $$x^2+y^2=1$$ describes a circle of radius 1 around the point $(0,0)$ in our coordinate system. (This follows from Pythagoras' theorem, see the figure below).
The circle and the line are both examples of algebraic curves in the Euclidean plane: curves that are defined by algebraic equations. Going up a dimension, we can also consider algebraic surfaces. The sphere in 3D Euclidean space that is centred on the point $(0,0,0)$ and has radius $1$ is an example. In analogy with the circle in the dimension below, it's given by the algebraic equation $$x^2+y^2+z^2=1.$$ As you might already expect, a plane in 3D space is another example of an algebraic surface.
But we don't need to stop here: more complicated polynomial equations, perhaps defined over a wider class of numbers called complex numbers, give rise to the general notion of an algebraic variety. Algebraic curves and surfaces are examples of algebraic varieties, but in general algebraic varieties can be much more complex: they can even exist in higher dimensions which can't be visualised. That's not something that deters mathematicians, however, because they've long developed a way of doing geometry even when there are too many dimensions to imagine.
Classifying the infinite zoo
Given the infinite zoo of algebraic varieties that exists, a good idea is to try and classify them into families, just as one would classify a collection of butterflies. Going back to our simple example above, you might want to classify them according to the type of their shapes: things that are like planes go into one family, things that are sphere-like go into another, and so on.
The stereographic projection relates each point of a sphere (apart from the one right at the top) to a point on its equatorial plane: for each point p on the sphere (apart from the one at the top) draw the line that connects it to the point right at the top. That line will intersect the equatorial plane at some point q. Image: Jean-Christophe Benoist.
But you might also allow yourself a little more flexibility. The projection shown in the figure shows how a sphere minus a point can be turned into a plane: essentially, you remove one point, then press the rest of the sphere flat and stretch it infinitely in all directions. It seems that the plane and the sphere are distantly related after all, and we might keep this in mind when classifying algebraic surfaces into families.
The projection we've just considered is an example of a birational map. Birational maps are defined in a much wider context and can be used to link up more complicated algebraic varieties than just spheres and planes. And there are good reasons for why we might link them up in this way. One is that not all algebraic varieties are as nice and smooth as the planes and spheres we thought about above. Some have singular points; loosely speaking pointy cusps. At least when you are dealing with algebraic varieties of a certain type (technically over a field of characteristic 0), the flexibility of birational maps allows you to link such a singular variety to a smooth projective variety without any singular points. Being able to "resolve" varieties in this way is a very useful tool, so there really is some sense in considering varieties that are birationally related as being part of the same family.
Birkar works in the area of birational geometry which is all about classifying algebraic varieties in this way. In particular, mathematicians hope to show that every (projective) algebraic variety is birationally related to a particularly nice kind of variety that is made up of three basic building blocks. For the simplest types of varieties (of complex dimension one) this was already shown by the mathematician Bernhard Riemann at the end of the nineteenth century. Dimension two was sorted out the beginning of the twentieth century. Dimension three only followed suit along time later, between the 1970s and the 1990s. Dimensions four or greater still pose major problems, however, and it's in this area that Birkar has made major contributions. The aim is to show that something called the minimal model programme, an algorithm designed to transfer a variety into one of the three nice building blocks mentioned above, really does work.
Birkar was born in 1978 to farmers in the Kurdistan Province of Iran, and went to school during the turmoils of the war between Iran and Iraq. "[War-ridden] Kurdistan was an unlikely place for a kid to develop an interest in mathematics", commented Birkar in his acceptance video shown at the ICM opening ceremony in Rio. It was his brother who taught him higher level maths that he didn't encounter at school, and eventually he studied maths at the University of Tehran. In 2000 he moved to England where he was eventually granted refugee status and completed his PhD. He is now a Professor at the Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge. Congratulations Caucher Birkar!
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The film, "The Good Lie" which is rated PG-13, is about a group of Sudanese refugees given the chance to resettle in America. They arrive in Kansas City, Missouri, where their encounter with an employment agency counselor forever changes all of their lives. The cast includes: Reese Witherspoon, Arnold Oceng, Emmanuel Jal.


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This is an incredible and beautiful post. I can't even say how good it is. Wow!
Pumpkin Spice Lattes and Gingerbread Cookies
The leaves are turning, changing, and falling. Acorns litter the sidewalks and the air smells crisp. The mornings come a little bit later and the evenings a little earlier this time of year. Fog shrouds the mountain that I call home keeping its beauty a secret just for us. Everything this time of year tastes like Pumpkin Spice, it's finally sweater weather, and boots, infinity scarves, and flannel once again become staples as they make their yearly comeback. Football is back, baseball is ending, and scare crows and Jack-O-Lanterns decorate most doorsteps.
It looks, smells, tastes, feels, like, well…
Let me explain that a little bit. I work with Operation Christmas Child, so Christmas is something of an everyday thing for me. Everyday I see red and green, I pack shoebox gifts, and think about Christmas.
You know how growing up, parents used to tell their kids that if Christmas came everyday, it wouldn't be special anymore? It was only special because it was confined to a season, one season. Twinkle lights up for more than a few weeks would get tacky, the tree would die and dead pine needles are never fun, and Gingerbread and Peppermint aren't really great go-to flavors. Quite simply, the magic of the season would very quickly become the mundane.
Now that I am living in this Christmas everyday reality, I'm realizing, those warnings simply aren't true.
I think about Christmas every day. But I don't think about Santa or Rudolph or chimneys or snow. I don't think about kitchens that smell like sugar cookies or mistletoe or sleigh rides. I don't think about hot chocolate or ornaments in the shape of bells or holly leaves, and I certainly don't think about a grinch with a heart three sizes too small or an Island of Misfit Toys or a holiday ham. For the sake of my waistline, those things are best left confined to December.
But the Christmas that I think about, the real Christmas, has none of those things.
Because when I think about Christmas, I think about Creation. I think about a creator God who created light from an eternal darkness just by opening His mouth. I think about six days and all living things under Heaven and it being good. "It was good."
But then I think about the fall. I think about how the finite created thought that they knew better than the infinite Creator and how they gave up paradise to know evil. The knowledge of good and evil sounded great, until they learned knowing evil meant experiencing evil. I think about self indulgence and overpowering, rotting filth that needed to be washed away by a cleansing flood of righteous judgment. I think about a promise marked by a rainbow of "never again". I think about promises made and promises kept.
I think about a futile, human attempt to reach Heaven through the construction of a great tower. I think about how this prideful attempt at self deification led to the creation of people groups, of languages, and with it, the need to reach the nations. The need for missions. And how the very first verse of the very next chapter in the story of humanity records God's sovereign plan for reaching the nations and for bringing them back to himself. And in that, I see an invitation to join Him on His mission.
I think about a long and rich history of sin and forgiveness and rebellion and reconciliation, bookended by a 400 year long captivity in Egypt and a 400 year long silence.
But then, as a newborn's cry blended with the braying of donkeys and the bleating of sheep, God spoke again. I think about angelic proclamations that go something like this:
"Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the Messiah, the Lord. This will be a sign to you: You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger… Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests."
I think about a perfect life followed by an atoning death followed by a victorious resurrection and how with the lash of a whip, the pounding of a hammer, the tearing of The Veil, and the echo of a once again empty tomb paradise lost became paradise restored.
I think about a call to action. To go and make disciples. To take the Gospel to Jerusalem first, and then to Judea and Samaria the ends of the earth. And I think about a promise.
He's coming back.
And it's these things that I think about. Christmas isn't just December 25th. Its Genesis to Revelation.
This is why I pack shoeboxes, and this is what I pack inside shoeboxes. Because a little cardboard box takes not just toothbrushes and match box cars and erasers, but this message, the message of Christmas, to Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
This is the Christmas that I celebrate on a daily basis. Emmanuel. God with us. In us. And something this great, that I meditate on day and night, becomes more than what defines my thoughts. It defines me.
Good News. Great Joy.
I wouldn't want to be defined by anything, or anyone, else.


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Despite all I had to do (or at least what I should have done) this weekend, I joined in the celebration to bid good luck to 2010 Winter Olympic-bound U.S. pairs figure skaters Caydee Denney and Jeremy Barrett (pictured: doesn't Caydee look like America's next sweetheart? And I'd much rather sport a Caydee Denney hairstyle than a Dorothy Hamill wedge although my hair probably can't do either) and Amanda Evora and Mark Ladwig yesterday at the Ellenton Ice and Sports Complex in Ellenton, Fla.
Yes, Florida is producing figure skaters for the Winter Games in Vancouver which in part is due to the coaching team of Jim Peterson, Lyndon Johnston and Alison Smith and to the excellent training facilities in Ellenton.
Amazingly, I've uploaded some photos on Flickr and someday I'll post at least one video (although it's evident I need better cameras!!!) but enjoy this recap in my article titled, "Florida Skaters Heading to 2010 Winter Olympics: Pairs Skaters Denney & Barrett and Evora & Ladwig Represent Team USA." Be sure to check out which skaters are dating!
The above photo are skaters for the silent auction which were autographed by the Olympians. Proceeds of the silent auction and raffle benefit the skaters' families so they can make the trip to Vancouver and the Southwest Florida Figure Skating Club.
Go for the gold!
Welcome to my view of the world. I dabble in writing, travel and anything promising bragging rights. Every so often, I have something profound to say.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Bidding Florida Skaters Good Luck in 2010 Winter Olympics
2 comments:
- nanlmille said...
Hi J.A. Huber! I am Nancy Miller, a writer for AC and an avid figure skating fan. I really enjoyed reading about the sendoff for the Florida-based pairs skaters. I saw Denny and Barrett win at the U.S. Nationals on TV and I thought they were spectacular. Nice to "peak" at just the right time... Cool that Florida is starting to produce top figure skaters. Can't wait for the Olympics. Great article/blog entry--Nancy
- February 08, 2010 5:48 PM
- JA Huber said...
Hi Nancy. Thanks for stopping by. I'm excited to watch the Florida skaters tonight in Vancouver. Fingers crossed for them!
- February 14, 2010 7:52 PM
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Planning Your Urban Garden Carefully
By Vanessa Richins
One of the most important parts of planting a garden is planning ahead.
Your garden will look much better and you will save money and keep yourself from getting frustrated.
Here are a few suggestions you should consider when planning out your garden.
1. Size is everything! One of the most important parts of proper planning is considering the size of your garden in comparison to the size of the plants in it. When you are designing your garden, you should draw up your garden complete with accurate measurements. This will help you pick the proper plants.
In a forum I moderate, someone said they had a tree that was growing way too fast, and they found out that the eventual size would be 60=70′. They were asking if there were ways to prune the tree so it would only stay around 25′, because of neighboring houses. The best solution for this would be moving this tree to a location that can handle its size.
Many garden design problems stem from choosing the wrong plants for your garden. When you are considering plants, ALWAYS be sure to find out the size that the plant will be at maturity.
2. Group plants together that have similar requirements. For example, some plants require much more water than others. You can conserve water and make watering much easier if you group plants together. Other requirements may include pH and sun.
3. Watch your zone and know your plants. The USDA has produced a map that splits the country into 11 zones. Each plant will have a certain set of zones that it will grow well in. While these are not absolute, they are a good guideline to follow.
At a local home improvement store here in Zone 5, I found Princess Flower (Tibouchina urvilleana). The problem is…this plant is tropical, and grows best in the warmer zones of 9-11. It can grow in Zone 8, but will die back in the winter until warmer weather returns.
If I was to plant this outside here in Zone 5, it wouldn't survive. Don't trust that the plants available locally will really grow in our area. (However, if you want an adventure and know the facts, be my guest! Many plants such as citrus, princess flower, and banana trees make great houseplants.)
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Question about SanDisk Sansa e250 MP3 Player
One day i had noticed that the Sansa E280 that i had purchased was FAT based. Realising this i used the Command Prompt for windows to convert the volume to a ntfs drive from FAT. However in doing so the device and the firmware probably doesn't recognise it as such and it has started to function as normally.
Whenever i turn it on I get a DB Error that says i need to have 6mb free to run it. When i connect it to my PC i get 2 drives that say removeable hard disk (g/h) and when i try to access it, it asks for me to insert a disk into the drive. Under the properities there is no space or room in it and the file system is unknown and that there is no space on the drive and therefore none free. Confirmed on the device under system>Info it says the memory is 0mb and that the version is now 01.01.11p.
Under hardware it lists sandisk sansa e200 usb device twice and also has something called ST3120827AS. Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} Under device manager I get all 3 listed there as well under disk drive.
Now also Window Media Player 11 does not register the device at all under any sync. Right-Clicking and selecting format doesn't do anything since there apparently is no drive present to format. The automatic sansa firmware updater does not register any updatable Sansa related product connected at all. The sansa media converter detected the sansa player under removable disk (g) with available and total space both 1KB with no media on it.
Prior to the change I had made a copy of whatever was on the mp3 player before i made the conversion and i'll post what seems to be the relevant details on it before the change was made. Also the device itself seems to be in fairly good working order. I can still change the date/time, language, music options, says goodbye when you off it, usb mode (etc) and still accesses the radio.
This is all done under MSC. Under MTP, Windows XP just continually says found new hardware - MTP Device nonstop with no new drive or disk under my computer. Under device manager there is still the ST3120827AS drive.
From the file version:
Version Info: Product Rev.: PP5022AF-05.51-S301-01.11-S301.01.11P-D
Base Code: 05.51-S301-01.11-S301.01.11P-D
ODM Ver.: S301-01.11-S301.01.11P-D
OEM Ver.: S301.01.11P-D
Build Type: -D
Build Date: 2006.07.14
Build Number: (Build 169.31)
If you require any other details or alternate email address (etc) ask and I will provide what i can.
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Well i just realised i posted this in the wrong section. Also part of the post is garbled up it seems so i'll just repeat it here. Basically both drives have a total and available space of 0mb.
Also i've updated the firmware by adding the files for my v1.0 sansa280 to 01.02.24P by directly copying the files to the 16MB drive in recovery mode. It still has the same error/problems and when i rebooted under recovery mode the files i copied across has gone.
Here is the updated details from the version.txt under the 16mb-FORMAT Recovery Drive.
Version Info: Product Rev.: PP5022AF-05.51-S301-02.24-S301.02.24P-D
Base Code: 05.51-S301-02.24-S301.02.24P-D
ODM Ver.: S301-02.24-S301.02.24P-D
OEM Ver.: S301.02.24P-D
Build Type: -D
Build Date: 2007.12.24
Build Number: (Build 32.10)
That's the problem though. I am unable to reformat it to Fat32. I've tried several different utilities and programs and they all end up with the same error that the detected drive has a total capacity of 0mb and thus cannot be formated as there is no space on the volume. When chkdsk is run on the drive it cannot open the volume since there is 0mb of total space and thus 0mb of free space.
Thanks for trying, every day i'm spending an hour just looking around for a way to fix it and learning more.
Well i'm a really happy guy. Finally after countless hours of trawling i managed to format it by using the method normally used for the sansa rhapsody. By creating a new folder called sansa.fmt in recovery mode it automatically reformatted it and now i have all 8gb of glorious memory back.
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In a study published in the journal Biological Reviews, researchers point to the conclusion that parts of the human skull had evolved in such a way as to protect a person from interpersonal violence since the face tends to be a primary target during hand-to-hand combat. This research also may explain why male and female faces evolved differently, with the jaw adductor muscles in males being 34% stronger than in females as well as the sexual dimorphism of neck muscles in modern humans. Previous research had suggested the changes in facial structure were related to changes in diet; however, the protective buttressing hypothesis provides a different explanation for the strong facial features, an adaptation to surviving a fist fight.
Researchers at the University of Utah observed that the fossils of australopiths—bi-peds that lived 4-5 million years ago and directly preceded the human genus Homo—had robust cheek, jaw, eye and nose features. David Carrier, the lead researcher in the study, told the Guardian that the australopiths' hands had adapted to form a fist, allowing them to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
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An interesting opinion piece by Douglas Murray, author of "The Strange Death of Europe"
Why Australia needs to stand firm and protect its borders
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The Australian government should ignore these howlers. For it is not the government of Malcolm Turnbull, or those in Hungary or the US, that is wrong. It is the UN, which keeps trying to push mass migration on to nation-states and whose officials imagine that the answer to the existence of some porous, poor and failed states is to make the world one great porous, poor and failed state. Nation-states have the right to resist this pressure, and they should.
Yet one of the most startling facts about migration in recent years has been that the greatest plaudits continue to go to those who are most reckless in their policies, while the most abuse goes to those who are most prudent. Perhaps this is because grandstanding and virtue-signalling are cheap. You can almost always get other people to pay for them.
Nobody in recent years has made so impulsive and catastrophic a decision as German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Her 2015 decision to open the borders of Europe to anyone who made it there is having consequences that will roll out for years to come. Yet even as the German public turns against her and her party, she continues to be lauded across the international opinion-forming classes. Despite unleashing social and security problems across an entire continent, organs of international elite opinion and Merkel's fellow world leaders continue to give her an easy ride. At worst she was "well-intentioned" and "naive", they say. By contrast, the leaders of countries that refuse to accept open-borders, mandatory migrant quotas and the like are the ones that come in for execration and attack.
Nevertheless, the rule of law and the protection of the social stability and security situation in countries such as Australia are worth defending, whatever the pushback. The Australian delegation at the UN in New York was right to state that the UN had "failed to make clear distinctions between regular and irregular migrants and between refugees and migrants". These distinctions matter. Indeed they are vital. For they are not only a defence of the law but also a prudent response to a challenge that is only going to grow. For countries that fail to secure their borders in the end cannot secure their people either.
Take my own country, Britain. More than a year has passed since it was rocked by three Islamist terror attacks. The first attack, on Westminster Bridge, claimed the lives of five innocent people including a police officer who was stabbed to death by the attacker inside the gates of Parliament. The second attack, at the Manchester Arena, killed 22 mainly young people and maimed and injured hundreds more. They were victims of a young suicide bomber who waited for them in the lobby as they streamed out of an Ariana Grande concert. In the third attack, a fortnight later, three men rampaged across London Bridge in a van and then ran through Borough Market slashing at the throats of passers-by, targeting women. While doing this they were heard to shout "This is for Allah". Their attack injured 48 and stole the lives of eight people.
The dead that night included two Australians. Sara Zelenak, 21, was stabbed through the neck. Kirsty Boden, 28, a nurse, was stabbed through the chest as she ran to help other victims of the attack. After the third attack British Prime Minister Theresa May announced that "enough is enough". But the truth is that she is incapable of acting because like the rest of us she is a hostage of the asylum and migration policies of her predecessors.
One year on from those attacks and that statement, the government's only initiative has been the appointment of an "extremism commissioner". After half a year that appointee (anti-extremism activist Sara Khan) has announced that her first priority is to gather evidence about "all forms of extremism in the UK". So "enough is enough" turns out to mean: "We will appoint a commissioner who will appoint a board to look into unrelated issues."
Of course one wishes Khan well. But here is one bitter truth that I bet Khan's commission will not look into. Among last year's attackers, most should never have been in Britain in the first place.
The Westminster Bridge attacker, a convert to Islam, was indeed born in Britain. But the Manchester Arena bomber should never have been there. His father was a member of the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, an al-Qa'ida affiliate. Back in the 1990s the LIFG was opposed to Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, and he returned the favour. So when the situation in Libya got too hot for Ramadan Abedi and his wife they decamped to Britain, where they were given asylum. Weeks later their son Salman was born in Manchester.
Twenty-two years later he would repay the country that gave his parents sanctuary by detonating an explosive packed with nuts and bolts to cause maximum damage to the young skulls and spines into which they ripped.
Just this past week a British newspaper revealed that in 2014 the Royal Navy saved Salman Abedi along with other British nationals from the civil war in Libya. HMS Enterprise rescued him and 100 other British nationals when the security situation in that country deteriorated. What was he doing there? Why were he and his family ever in Britain? And why did Britain keep paying the family's travel expenses whenever they felt like visiting the country they allegedly had fled?
An even clearer story emerges from the London Bridge attackers. And it has been even less dis*cussed. The three perpetrators that night were Youssef Zaghba, 22; Khuram Butt, 27; and Rachid Redouane, 30. Zaghba and Redou*ane were born in Morocco, an entirely peaceful and pleasant country. An inquest after the attack found that Redouane had entered Britain using a false name, claiming to be Libyan, and he was five years older than he had pretended. He had been refused asylum under his false Libyan iden*tity, exhausted his further appeals, absconded and lived under his Moroccan identity instead. So again, why was he in Britain? What was he doing for us? What did Britain get out of this deal?
The case of Butt is even more shameful. He had been born in Pakistan and was described as having arrived in Britain as a "child refugee" in 1998, his family having moved to the UK to claim asylum based on "political oppression". What nobody has been able to explain since is why, other than saving al-Qa'ida fighters from Libya, Britain's immigration services in the 190s were still giving "asylum" to people from Pakistan.
Pakistan in the 90s was not in a state of war. The country is — for good or ill — an ally of Britain and about as stable a country as you get in that region. His family does not appear to be among the numerous religious minorities so eagerly persecuted by the Muslim majority in Pakistan. So why was Butt in Britain? What exactly did he bring to Britain in the years that followed?


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One of my favorite cookbooks is Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons by UK food writer and TV chef Diana Henry. As delicious as everything I have made out of it is, it is more delicious to just curl up with and read it like any other book. It is arranged by flavor in a most enticing way. It is peppered with wonderful foodie quotes and proverbs. Her introductions to each section are wonderfully evocative and sensual. My favorite passage is: "Cardamom seeds, when released from their pods and ground, smell of roses and licorice. When I'm cooking with cardamom I visualize it as a misty vapor wafting through food.... Cardamom's a flavor best yearned for. Add it in whispers." Good golly, I can only hope to write as well someday.
When I was looking for an orange cake to put on my dessert menu, I did not want just a cake flavored orange. I wanted a cake that is what an orange is. I remembered a recipe from Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons that used an entire puréed orange. I was debating between that recipe and a very similar recipe in Claudia Roden's brilliant book, The Book of Jewish Food (which is equally curlupwithable). The only difference between the two is that Ms. Henry's uses flour (thus more cake-like) and Ms. Roden's is flour-less (thus more pudding-like). Since I already have a pudding-like cake on the menu, I opted for Ms. Henry's recipe this time. While she calls it a Middle Eastern orange cake, Ms. Roden gives a bit more insight to it being of Judeo-Spanish origin, pointing out "its importance in Sephardi culture." A coworker told me that it tastes just like his mother's Moroccan orange cake; another coworker said it tastes like a cake at a Greek restaurant she worked at. While it seems clearly ubiquitous in Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine, I lean towards it springing from the ovens of the Anusim (perhaps a more polite term than Marranos) in Spain. The idea of using the entire orange, indeed transforming even the bitter and inedible part, seems a very Jewish concept.
On the menu, I am calling it a Sephardic orange cake in order to key people in that this is something different than just your mama's orange cake (unless your mama is a Sephardic mama, and then, yeah, it's probably the same). The cake is moist and sweet. It is unmistakably orange in flavor and perfume, and only hints of a pleasant bitterness— a gentle reminder that as hard as you try to transform something, part of it still remains.
Middle Eastern (or Sephardic) Orange Cake
(makes one 8" round cake, eight servings)
1 small orange
3 eggs
9 oz sugar
2 oz all-purpose flour, sifted
1 tsp baking powder
7 oz almonds, untoasted and finely ground
Put the orange in a saucepan, cover with water and simmer for an hour. Grease an 8" round cake pan and line with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 350º. Remove the orange from the water, cut it open and remove any seeds. Transfer the orange to a food processor and purée it well, scraping the bowl down to evenly purée. In a mixer with a paddle, beat the eggs and sugar until light and thick-looking. Fold in the orange purée, flour, baking powder and almonds. Pour the batter in to the pan and bake for about an hour, or until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean. Remove the cake from the oven and let it cool in the pan on a rack.
I serve the cake with a salad of oranges, grapefruits, Meyer lemons and blood oranges dressed in fennel fronds and a fennel simple syrup.
Remember this recipe comes from a UK-based author where they have normal-sized produce. I know it can be hard to find oranges that aren't the size of Carnegie Deli matzah balls, but do use a small orange. My first test used the smallest (but still on the larger size) Cara Cara orange and the cake was a too gummy after a day. At work we use the smaller juicing Navels which work much better. To obtain a fine grind on your almonds use a (well cleaned) coffee or spice grinder. A food processor cannot get them fine enough. But do not grind them too long or you will get quickly get almond butter. Also, we tested this with toasted almonds and much prefer the almonds untoasted (they interfere with the orange flavor otherwise).


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The most important rule for bridal make up is to make sure it does not clash with any of the wedding colors or jewelry in the wedding party. If you have, as your something old or borrowed, a pair of your grandmother's green emerald bridal earrings – don't wear bright blue eye shadow that will clash with those earrings.
Have you been shopping for beautiful wedding veils to wear as you walk down the aisle? Choose your wedding makeup looks so you don't end up with sticky lip gloss or brigtly colored lipstick on your veil you can't get off.
When you know you're going to have pictures taken, the temptation is to wear a little more eye makeup than usual to make sure your eyes "pop" in the photos. Wedding makeup looks always emphasize the eyes, and you may be tempted to put on more eyeliner or eyeshadow than you normally would. Remember that the eyes are emphasized in photos because when you're getting married your eyes will show a wide array of beautiful emotions – magazines need to put more makeup on the models because that emotion is hard to duplicate in a magazine ad. You will have amazing eyes because you will be experiencing beautiful emotions during your wedding. You don't have to put on all the eyeliner in your collection.
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|Susan Sayour