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Celebrity Then And Now
Posted by Ryan Neal
Celebrity Then And Now
Publication: RidiculouslyExtraordinary. Posted by Ryan Neal
Famous For:
Modern Family
$100 Million
Currently Known For:
Actress, Comedienne, Model, Television Host and Producer
Famous Years:
Modern Family
$100 Million
"Ay, of course, because I'm Latina I have to know everything about gardening and sprinklers!" Best known in primetime as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on ABC's Modern Family, Sofia Vergara is actually a jack of all trades when it comes to the entertainment industry as a talented model, television host, comedienne and producer. However, long before she was ever a household name in Hollywood or secured her spot on Forbes' list of the most powerful women in the world with a net worth of $100 million, she was just another Hispanic beauty growing up in Barranquilla, Colombia.
With her father working as a cattle rancher and her mother a homemaker, Vergara's childhood was far from extravagant as she grew up alongside her four siblings and many cousins. By the age of 17, however, she managed to set herself apart when she was discovered walking on a local beach by a Colombian photographer who couldn't help but capture her natural beauty. Shortly after, modeling and television offers started to pile up leaving the young Vergara to turn to her Catholic schoolteachers for guidance.
Ultimately making her debut in a Pepsi commercial in Latin America in the late 1980s, Vergara still wasn't sure about her future as an actress and enrolled at the University of Columbia to study dentistry. However, in 1998, her world came crashing down when her older brother was murdered during an attempted kidnapping that left her family in ruins. Dropping out of college with only two semesters to go, Vergara left Colombia and moved to Miami, Florida with the hopes of building a better life for herself as a model.
After a few successful modeling gigs, Vergara slowly transitioned to the big screen and enrolled at the Creating Workshops School of Acting to perfect her skills. Before long, she had established herself in the industry and was starting to receive serious offers including major roles in a handful of Tyler Perry films like Madea Goes to Jail and Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns. By 2009, her hard work finally paid off when she was offered her biggest role yet on ABC's newest sitcom, Modern Family.
Thanks to the show's immense popularity, Vergara has found a much broader audience that has not only earned her thousands of new fans but has brought in countless award nominations including four Golden Globes and four Primetime Emmys. Aside from her international fame and many accolades, the 44-year-old Colombian beauty also has Modern Family to thank for her fortune as she brings in a solid paycheck of over $150,000 for each episode. Talk about making bank!
While there's no argument that Vergara makes an absolute killing on the hit sitcom, most of her wealth actually comes from endorsement and licensing deals with high profile brands like Pepsi, Rooms to Go, Synthroid, Kmart, Comcast, Start Farm and many others. She was also the face of Cover Girl in 2012 and appeared in numerous ads promoting everything from foundation to mascara.
Setting herself up financially for the rest of her life by diversifying her income, Vergara proves that the rich only get richer after bringing in nearly $30 million last year alone. So, what does she do with her hard-earned dough? The actress recently purchased a stunning 11,400 square-foot villa in the heart of Beverly Hills for $10.6 million. Boasting seven bedrooms and nearly a dozen bathrooms, the 90210 estate is packed with luxurious amenities including a chef's kitchen, multiple balconies and fireplaces, a gym, sauna, private movie theater and a 3,000-bottle wine cellar. Outside, there's plenty of room for entertaining with exquisite gardens skirting a beautiful pool and spa.
Spending a hefty penny on her Beverly Hills abode, Vergara spent far less on her car collection with a pair of Range Rovers—one black and one white—and a black Bentley that she occasionally uses to run errands. Outside of that, the Modern Family star is actually quite frugal and, according to sources close to the actress, keeps a very tight budget while hustling for the best deals. Of course, considering she grew up incredibly poor in a large family, her views of money haven't changed much even though an insider revealed that her penny-pinching is causing problems at home with her husband, True Blood star Joe Manganiello.
Proving that for every penny saved, she can donate twice as much and still make a difference in the world, Vergara might like to shop around for the best deals but that doesn't mean she's greedy with her fortune. As the highest paid actress in television today, she's also a compassionate philanthropist whose childhood in Colombia has inspired her to give back to dozens of charitable organizations and causes like Stand Up to Cancer, the American Foundation for Equal Rights, Cure Duchenne, Alzheimer's Association and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital that are all thrilled to have Vergara in their corner.

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text: Distort the Box Part 1 Project 2011 Rebecca Muirhead University of Portsmouth, UK From 1791 a workhouse could be found on the site of Tanner Street Park in Bermondsey. Its strong and functional form has been the point of departure for my proposal – the functional 'box' of the Workhouse is distorted to accommodate its new use as a Sports Facility:• The perimeter is shifted to complement the topography of the site.• A central space is enclosed by the wrapping form – giving a courtyard back to the community and acknowledging the original workhouse.• The corner of the form is lifted to facilitate movement towards the central public space.At first glance this was such a simple and poetic solution. In many ways a well functioning workhouse and sports hall are just simple boxes – indeed our brief included the tag "a beautiful box". This proposal should not be dismissed for its simplicity however, since the concept to 'distort the box' was a strategy that emerged from a significant amount of research into the sociological and contextual setting of the site and an in-depth study of the details and architectural technologies that make successful contemporary sports facilities.For me public space is invaluable in dense urban environments. It was important that whilst serving the primary users faultlessly, the architecture also facilitated other uses and gave beautiful space back to the public. By pushing the intimidating mass of the main hall beneath the earth, a green space could be given back to the park. Windows that allowed views down into the hall enabled passersby and non-participants to interact with the sports without being overwhelmed.At its basic functioning level the submerged sports hall utilised a geothermal system and rammed earth walls incorporating soil from the site, reducing the requirement for mechanical heating and cooling. Above all else the proposal sought to engage positively with its context. 158 Bermondsey Street, adjacent to the site, is noted as being one of the first concrete framed structures in London. In a city that still bares the scars of the misuse of concrete, I thought it appropriate to reengage this infamous material with new public space. Rebecca Muirhead Tutor(s)Ms Kate Baker


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This independent TEDx event is operated under license from TED.
The first-ever TEDxTheWoodlands launched on September 24th, 2011.
The event ended with an invitation to build a community of curious, open-minded, and collaborative learners.
In the movie "Field of Dreams", the recurring voice was something to the effect of "if you build it, they will come".
Our voice is similar – "If you envision it they will come, if they come we will build it".
Photos (main album) and photos (supplemental) from TEDxTheWoodlands
Segment on NPR's Engines of Our Ingenuity
Article on Culture Map Houston.
Videos of all the speakers and performers.
In the near future, we will announce the first in a series of regular meet-ups for alumni and friends of TEDxTheWoodlands to continue learning, laughing and living with authenticity.
Warm regards,
Fabian and Peter
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Kaleidoscope Mind – How Did We Select This Theme?
The term "Kaleidoscope Mind" was created by Ester Fernandez (Peter's wife and Fabian's mother) during a conversation in January, 2011 regarding our theme for TEDxTheWoodlands. We wanted to celebrate and (hopefully) cultivate a type of mind that is agile, flexible, self-aware and informed by a diversity of experiences. This mind is able to perceive any given situation from a multitude of perspectives at will – selecting from a rich repertoire of lens or frameworks and suspending judgement while doing so. To accomplish this, this mind needs to be playful. For it is in the intrinsic joy of play that judgement, desire, fear are replaced by wonder, curiosity, imagination.
As soon as Ester suggested "Kaleidoscope Mind" we loved it! The metaphor is so apt.
The colorful shapes and materials that constitute the small "elements" in kaleidoscopes represent the perceptual symbols that the mind constructs from experience.
These perceptual symbols represent objects, concepts and the different ways they can relate to each other. The Kaleidoscope Mind "sees with naive eyes" and thus is able to capture many more varied kinds of "elements" from even the most quotidian experiences. The act of rotating these elements in a kaleidoscope represents the agile Kaleidoscope Mind selecting different lens/frameworks from its rich repertoire to create a spectrum of different ways of perceiving its collection of "elements".
The different kinds of lighting in which one views a kaleidoscope represents the different emotional states that the Kaleidoscope Mind experiences. The Kaleidoscope Mind appreciates that the same elements and lens/frameworks might create different patterns when the mind is under different emotional states – just as the same oil color paint on the same canvas takes on different hues under different lighting conditions.
Thus, the playful Kaleidoscope Mind manipulates its own internal workings to see patterns, connections and relationships that more rigid minds miss. Compared to a conventional mind, the Kaleidoscope Mind has vastly more "elements" and a vastly larger repertoire of lens/frameworks through which to perceive the elements. The Kaleidoscope Mind plays with these elements as an intrinsically joyful pursuit.
The Kaleidoscope Mind sees with many different eyes, hears with many different ears, touches with many different fingers, tastes with many different tongues, smells with many different noses, and feels with many different hearts. The Kaleidoscope Mind gains deeper understanding, derives richer meaning and produces more novel creations. The Kaleidoscope Mind engages hand, heart and imagination as it searches to understand the way others perceive the world.
Play is critical to the Kaleidoscope Mind. Rather than pursuing a preconceived goal, the Kaleidoscope Mind engages in playful exploration that flies across boundaries and indeed defines new boundaries as it goes. This mind frolics in the type of analogical, "combinatory" and "bi-associative" play which the giants of creativity such as Einstein, Picasso, Fleming have credited for their insights.
We added the tag-line "pattern-seeking, playful, multifaceted" to "Kaleidoscope Mind" and launched TEDxTheWoodlands in January 2011. We have returned to it again and again to guide our decisions as curators of TEDxTheWoodlands 2011. We hope you will find TEDxTheWoodlands enjoyable and meaningful.
Peter and Fabian
curators of TEDxTheWoodlands 2011


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#20 - JRL 8411 - JRL Home
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004
From: "Gordon Hahn" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Subject: The Battle of the Letters/JRL, #8409, 14 October 2004
Recently, I (as were, I assume, many others) asked to sign a letter (anti-OL letter) opposing the ōOpen Letter to the Heads of State and Government of the European Union and NATOö dated 28 September 2004 (OL). I was not asked to sign the OL, some of the reasons for such a non-invitation might be publicized in the future, but I may have not signed it regardless of the extenuating circumstances. Having thought long and hard about signing the anti-OL letter and having decided not to sign it, I would like to explain the reasons for my decision as a vehicle for explaining my views, first, on where Russia is and might be heading and perhaps, second, on some problems in our field of æRusologyÆ as well.
At the outset I would like to say that I am loath to sign any letter that I did not have a hand in writing. It is unlikely that any such a letter can accurately reflect a sufficient approximation of my views for me to feel comfortable in signing it. Summarizing my view regarding the two letters, I agree with the concern of the authors of the æanti-OLÆ letter about ō(l)opsided assessmentsö that often appear in our field, and I am one who agrees with the views of several of the key signatories of the anti-OL on such as issues as the detriment to RussiaÆs democratic transformation that was NATO expansion and the distortions (lopsided assessments) about the post-Soviet Russo-Chechen wars that often appear in our field.
However, I also agree with the Open LetterÆs assessment regarding the direction, though not necessarily the destination, Putin is taking Russia, that is, as the OL states, he ōhas systematically undercut the freedom and independence of the press, destroyed the checks and balances in the Russian federal system, arbitrarily imprisoned both real and imagined political rivals, removed legitimate candidates from electoral ballots, harassed and arrested NGO leaders, and weakened RussiaÆs political parties.ö
Let me address each of these through the prism of the anti-OL. On undercutting the freedom and independence of the press, the anti-OL letter states that the end to independent national television ōis not the whole story.ö However, it is most of the story as far as truly mass media in Russia goes. The overwhelming majority of Russians get their political information from nationwide television channels and they are all now controlled by the state. The 10% increase in the publication of newspapers, magazines, and books under Putin means little, since most of that material is not related to politics in any way. The same is true of the 40,000 magazines and newspapers cited by the letterÆs drafters. The 200 local television stations have not national impact, are often controlled by regional governments who in turn are now under the KremlinÆs thumb.
I have addressed here and elsewhere my views on PutinÆs dismantlement of the checks and balances in the Russian federal system. On Putin ōarbitrarily imprison(ing) both real and imagined political rivalsö, it seems that the OL here should have noted that ōwhile the number of these political prisoners is in the single digits, the trend toward the arbitrary use of the law and police and security organs against political opponents is a particularly dangerous one for Russia given its political history and on the background of the other trends noted herein.ö
On removing legitimate candidates from electoral ballots, there is absolutely nothing overstated here. In fact, this critique could have been broadened to include ōthe willful, illegal, and broad use of state administrative resources to interfere in elections at both the federal and regional level in favor of the Kremlin and its allies.ö On harassing and arrested NGO leaders, again here the number of NGOleaders arrested is not high and for the sake of accuracy in Rusology could have been mentioned. On weakening RussiaÆs political parties, the critique again could also have been enlarged and strengthened pointing to the use of various administrative resources to construct and deliver political hegemony to PutinÆs party æYedinaya Rossiya and to weaken opposition parties. This direction, whether Putin intends it or not, can bring Russia to the rather undesired destination of dictatorship for Russia. President Putin was fond of saying that Russia has had enough of revolutions. Unfortunately, it will likely not survive yet another counter-revolution in its present form.
Dr. Gordon M. Hahn, MA, Ph.D.


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Almost three months after Christian charity organisation Compassion International had to shut its operations in the country after a directive from the Centre, the US may ask some tough questions to the Indian side on the crackdown on NGOs.
Narendra Modi US visit: Almost three months after Christian charity organisation Compassion International had to shut its operations in the country after a directive from the Centre, the US may ask some tough questions to the Indian side on the crackdown on NGOs during Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit in US. US Congressman and chairman of the House Foreign Affairs committee, Ed Royce, was quoted as saying by Indian Express, "The US-India partnership is critically important, and that's why I hope Prime Minister Modi will take time to listen to those who are concerned about crackdowns on non-governmental organisations, including the shuttering of Compassion International that was providing critical tutoring, nutrition and medical services to more than 145,000 Indian children."
He was among those critical of Narendra Modi government's actions against NGOs, mainly Compassion International. With the Donald Trump administration has a strong base in the conservative constituency in the US, the visit of the prime minister may give an opportunity for the administration to raise the issue. President and CEO of Open Doors USA David Curry, wrote in The Hill, a news outlet on American politics, on Saturday that a question is looming from PM Narendra Mosi, who is on visit as to what Donald Trump would say "about the rise in brutal persecution of Christians, Muslims and other religious minorities in India? "
"Having recently returned from India, I witnessed firsthand accounts of pastors imprisoned and churches attacked by mobs of Hindu radicals, not to mention the abysmal saga of Compassion International, wherein the Indian government's crackdown-on this and other organizations-has led to tens of thousands of children throughout India losing access to medical care, meals and tuition," he wrote further. There has no meeting scheduled so far between US Congressman Royce and PM Modi. Officials maintained that both PM Narendra Modi and President Donald Trump will focus on "big picture".
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Earlier this year, Royce and some other members of the US Congress had written to Home Minister Rajnath Singh, urging him to grand permission to charity organisation Compassion International to continue its work in India.
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- May 6:
- Austin Holford sentenced to 56 years for murder of Aaron Tuneberg
- Mar 13:
- Defense attorney: 'High likelihood' of plea deal for 2nd suspect in Aaron Tuneberg murder
- Mar 12:
- Boulder judge: Luke Pelham, suspect in Aaron Tuneberg murder, competent to stand trial
- Feb 13:
- Austin Holford pleads guilty to murder of Aaron Tuneberg in Boulder (video)
Luke Pelham, one of two men accused of murdering Aaron Tuneberg in Boulder last year, was scheduled Friday to stand trial in October, although his attorneys indicated a plea deal is likely to end the case before then.
Pelham, 19, is charged with first-degree felony murder, second-degree murder with a deadly weapon, first-degree assault on an at-risk victim, aggravated robbery and first-degree burglary.
At an arraignment Friday morning, Ben Collett, Pelham's attorney, said the prosecution had offered a plea deal, but he needed more time to talk it over with his client.
Collett said in March that he felt a plea deal could be reached, and reiterated that belief.
"Again, I do think a resolution is likely," Collett said.
But Boulder prosecutor Sean Finn asked that the case still be set for trial because of the time that has elapsed since the killing.
"It's obviously a case that has been around for a while," Finn said. "I don't see the value in delaying it at this point."
Boulder District Judge Patrick Butler agreed that the case should be set for trial even if a plea deal is likely.
"The case is over a year old, and I'm confident counsel has been working on it," Butler said. "I don't really understand why this can't be set within the next 6 months."
Pelham's case hit significant delays after his attorneys raised issues of his competency last summer at a preliminary hearing.
Pelham — who his attorneys say suffers from Klinefelter syndrome — went through several months of evaluations with several different psychiatrists and attorneys argued over his competency over the course of several different hearings this year.
Butler finally ruled in March that Pelham was competent to proceed to trial, allowing the case to move forward.
Butler initially wanted to schedule the two-week trial over the summer, but conflicts forced it to be set for Oct. 19. Pelham waived his right to a speedy trial through the end of October.
The other suspect in the case, Austin Holford, 19, already pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and three other felonies and is set for sentencing in May. As part of the plea deal, he will be sentenced to 48 to 70 years in prison.
Pelham and Holford are accused of beating Tuneberg at his apartment in the 5600 block of Arapahoe Avenue in Boulder on March 31, 2014, while trying to steal his Xbox.
Tuneberg, 30, died of his injuries a week after the assault.
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David Murphey
David Murphey has been involved in photography in Hawaii for over 20 years. His extensive experience ranges from his work in advertising, graphic design, and working with various PR firms. David has shot lifestyle assignments, resort advertising, as well as many weddings.
Recently, David just completed a fun personal project – Space Wars, a photo collection various bootleg Star Wars toys.
Another very personal and inspirational opportunity was a recent project for the Institute for Human Services where David photographed the staff and volunteers providing hot meals for the homeless, medical treatment and employment training as well.


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(Jan. 11/17) To help reduce its deficit, Saskatchewan is toying with the idea of removing some PST exemptions – and the restaurant meal exemption is on the chopping block.
A new 5% tax on restaurants meals would raise $74 million more in PST revenue for the province, but would drastically hurt the restaurant industry, especially in this economic downturn.
Why this hurts restaurants
A new meal tax would increase costs for restaurant guests and eat into foodservice sales. It would also make our segment of the food industry less competitive, as our closest competitors – grocery stores with prepared meals – remain tax-exempt.
The introduction of GST in 1991, and B.C.'s short-lived HST experiment from 2010 to 2012, prove just how hard a new meal tax can hurt restaurant sales growth and job creation.
What we're doing about it
We wrote about our industry's concerns with this proposal to Premier Brad Wall. We'll meet with the Finance Minister before the 2017 budget, and urge him to keep treating all food equally.
You can help: Say 'no' to a new meal tax
Restaurants Canada has successfully kept the PST off the menu in the past. With the help of our Saskatchewan members, we ran two successful meal tax campaigns that made the previous government change its mind twice about adding the PST to restaurant meals.
Help us spread the word again. Contact your local MLA to share your concern with a possible new meal tax.
To learn more , contact Restaurants Canada's Western Canada VP Mark von Schellwitz.


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This article appeared in Wired Magazine (UK Edition), February 2015.
Ecover announced in April 2014 that it was replacing palm oil with algal oil in its laundry detergent, a move that was in line with its sustainability vision. The ensuing furore took many by surprise: faced with articles in mainstream newspapers such as The Guardian and The New York Times, fierce blog debates, petitions from activists and environmental NGOs, Ecover hit pause and announced a six-month review, which is now under way.
Algal oil is produced by Solazyme, a San Francisco-based biotech company. Solazyme genetically engineers algae to produce, in this case, lauric acid. Fed on sugar from sugar cane, the algae secrete the chemical in huge vats. Algae are also being designed to make vanilla flavouring, fragrance and even face-cream ingredients. Ecover explained that it thought algal oil was "better" than palm oil, which is farmed in a way that damages the environment.
All well and good, except Solazyme is a synthetic-biology company, and Ecover seems an unlikely pioneer in the consumer use of synthetic biology, an emerging approach to genetic engineering. For 15 years, synthetic biology has been borrowing concepts from engineering in its attempt to build biological systems to make things for us to consume, cutting and pasting sequences of DNA into organisms. Drawing from biology, engineering and computer science, the aim is to tame the complexity of biology and make it more like digital technology: programmable and easy to engineer. Its pioneers imagine a future where our machines have come to life.
Continue reading at Wired.


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We had a missionary at our church last Sunday and he shared with us that when he was finishing college he wanted to get away with God to ask him what to do with his life. Use the degree he'd just earned or heed God's call to mission work.
He did get away. He went backpacking in another country.
Later, as I recalled his account of wanting a getaway with God, my mind started dreaming of such a place.
My thoughts raced to a mountain hideaway, a cabin by a pristine lake, wildflowers, and a breeze so fresh you can't breathe it all in. Oh how I could use a getaway.
I want to know more clearly what to do and I want inspiration so the words will flow like a mountain waterfall in the spring after a snowy winter.
We know we don't have to get away to a mountain hideaway to hear from God.
But there are times when solitude is the best prescription for what ails the heart that longs to hear in more detail how God desires to lead in a certain area, whether we are facing a crossroads or in a situation where nothing is happening.
I have been craving my own retreat but it hasn't happened.
The next best thing is quiet moments alone with Him, by a window, on a garden bench, on a leisurely walk when no one is around.
I am not going away on a special trip or retreat to find what God has for me next, but I am perpetually asking God to show me what He has for me and I cling to verses that tell me He directs my path…and day by day I am taking the steps He has prepared for me.
And while I sit on that garden bench, or gaze out the window, I will let my thoughts drift away to the glittering sun on the pristine lake and imagine God and I together there.
Proverbs 16:9
Proverbs 16:9
A man's heart plans his way,
But the LORD directs his steps.
But the LORD directs his steps.


text: For years the idea of a reverse mortgage has been taboo to most people. Financial advisors didn't discuss them with clients and clients were afraid they were losing their home. Over the past handful of years, this stigma has started to change. As well respected financial advisors, like Dr Wade Pfau, have conducted research into the benefits of reverse mortgages the mindset of advisors has started to shift. Review the attached white paper by Dr Pfau which discusses the potential benefits of using a reverse mortgage line of credit. The research that he completed is well documented and gives great insight to the potential usefulness of this tool. As with any financial tool, it only has benefits when used in the proper situation. Please consult myself or another advisor to determine if this tool might be beneficial to you. If your current advisor isn't discussing all your available options with you those of us here at MBI would be happy to!


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Trump's Cronies Feed at Public Trough as He Disses Puerto Rico
Trump's petulant tweet storm on Saturday accused Puerto Ricans of wanting everything done for them.
He expressed these sentiments as his secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, was forced to resign for flying around on expensive government airplanes or charters, costing tax payers over $1 million, even though many of these flights could have been replaced by inexpensive train rides or economy seats on civilian airliners.
So who is it again who has things done for him by the Federal government?
The whole point of the Trump cabinet is to allow filthy-rich groups and individuals to feed at the public trough.
Rick Perry wants artificially to use government to make consumers buy electricity generated by coal and nuclear plants. This is a way of deploying the state to benefit one narrow sliver of the wealthy, while harming everyone else.
Scott Pruitt has turned the Environmental Protection Agency upside down, using it to increase corporate profits by allowing the pollution of public spaces, including the sources of our drinking water.
In contrast, San Juan mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz has been out in the water with a bullhorn trying to find people still trapped by the flooding.
The illegitimate POTUS dares to call Carmen Yulin Cruz "Nasty"? He plays golf all day, she wades through sewage trying to help her people! pic.twitter.com/aABj4Q9iiq
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Leicaflex - worth buying?greenspun.com : LUSENET : Leica Photography : One Thread
I came across an original Leicaflex the other day, and I'm wondering if I should buy it. I currently shoot exclusively 10x8" and 5x4" B&W, but may like to have a 35mm camera for shooting slides, mainly when I don't have my large format cameras with me.
The Leicaflex seemed reallly good to use - smooth film advance and shutter, and simple controls. From what I've read it doesn't have TTL metering, and it also has an obscure focussing system (that I didn't notice at the time, probably because I'm not used to 35mm cameras).
It had a 50mm f2 lens, and the glass looked in excellent condition, with only some wear on the black barrel. The camera looked in very good condition as well. The dealer was asking about $280 for body and lens, and I'm not sure if this is a reasonable price.
Also, there was a lever next to the lens that I wasn't sure about. It was underneath the self timer, and it seemed to stop down the lens under certain conditions, but it then wasn't possible to open up the lens until the shutter had been pressed. Any ideas about what it's meant to do?
Any experiences of this camera, and advice on whether I should buy it, would be most welcome.
David Nash
-- David Nash (firstname.lastname@example.com), September 06, 2001
I have an original Leicaflex with which I bought 10 years ago due to a fair price at that time. Two lenses included 2/50 and 2.8/90. Later I also bought a 2.8/180 (old type). Mostly I use my M4 and M6 but I must say that at that price ($280) I think it is a good investment. I mean the lens is quite good and you can buy extra lenses at reasonably fair prices. A Leicaflex without lens is about $200 here in Sweden today. The lever is for locking the mirror. At some circumstances this may be a good idea. The metering i none TTL. Just a simple meter. Not so good in my opinion. I prefer a handheld meter also when I use my M6 TTL. But I think you have better be sure about the function. Ask about shutter speeds and so on because the repair cost is about the price for the camera. The quality of the lenses at those days don't differ to much from todays lenses. I is not always easy to see the difference between prints from my old 2.8/90 Elmarit-R (Leicaflex) and new APO 2/90 Summicron-M (M4,M6). Good luck! /Lars
-- Lars Kristensen (firstname.lastname@example.com), September 06, 2001.
Only US$280 for a Leicaflex with a 50mm/f2 lens is an incredible deal! You are right about the strange focusing system though. For more information about this camera, check this out: http://www.wildlightphoto.com/leica/STD.HTM
If you decide not to buy this camera, can you email me the dealer's phone number? :-)............
-- Muhammad Chishty (email@example.com), September 06, 2001.
The original Leicaflex is a beautiful camera and will fit most Leica lenses (although you can save piles of money by buying single cam (unusual) or 2 cam only lenses (common)). The original 50mm Summicron is a superb lens too.
The screen is superbly bright - I think it is probably the brightest of the Leica reflexes. Part of the reason for this is that there is a fresnel lens instead of a ground glass or microprism screen. This means the image is very bright, but also that it is an aerial image - the upshot of this is that you cannot use it focus the lens - it is always sharp. Focussing is carried out using the microprism part in the center.
There is no TTL metering - the meter has a 90mm lens view (like the MR meter for the M3 to M4-P), but is more sensitive than the TTL metering in the next model the SL. I doubt this is any impediment to any photographer who knows what they are doing - but macro or extreme telephoto photography metering would be harder.
You also have real mirror lock up (won't find that until you get to the R6 +and even theirs is prerelease-type). This is probably what you were fiddling with. I have a feeling that you can get the mirror to lock up, flip up on exposure but not return, or give full instant return, selected using the three way switch on the front. As it has full mirror lock up you could use the original f3.4 21mm Super-Angulon which is a non-retrofocus lens if you are interested.
Shutter speeds are continuosly variable by the way.
Disadvantages are no TTL metering (not much of one really), aerial image (could be, but screen brightness is superb), heavy ("diesel-Leica", true - but feel the quality). No real depth of field preview due to aerial image.
I think that $280 is a reasonable price for this. I have always rather wanted a Leicaflex Mk 1, but I have an SL already. The lenses for the Leicaflexes and the Rs are very good and expensive, but not as expensive as M equivalents.
It is still fully repairable by Leica.
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I could not resist buying a leicaflex with a summicron-r 50 a few weeks ago. I made realy great slides with it and the lightmeter which is not ttl is not a real disadvantage for me. Since that 50mm lens focuses up to 50 cm, it can be used even for portraits. It needed service since I did not get all the frames exposed (due to the shutter which wasn't used since decades ?)which is not a surprise for a camera of about 35 years old. I am completely satisfied with that camera.
-- Frederik Boone (firstname.lastname@example.com), September 06, 2001.
David, as other have mentioned, this is a great price. If you can live with its quirks it's well worth the cost, and if you don't like it, re-sell it for a profit. It's a no-lose deal.
BTW the lever you're not sure about is the mirror lock-up. Turn it so it points down and it locks the mirror up. Turn it to horizontal and the mirror doesn't return until you advance the film (I think - I haven't tried it lately).
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Saturday, June 25, 2011
Video: Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe give their farewells
Posted by thereel at 1:23 PM
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4 comments:
- maculae said...
Wow, at least this time they got to say a proper goodbye.
- June 25, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- havers said...
Even with that perspective I want to hug Kathryn so much at the moment.
- June 25, 2011 at 2:05 PM
- thereel said...
Me too, she's so sweet.
- June 25, 2011 at 2:27 PM
- Michelle said...
Was it just me or did Kathryn say something about everyone meeting again "whether it's on this show or another show"? Does anybody know if this is the definite, confirmed end? Everything I've read has sounded pretty loose, as though the actors and USA were leaving things rather open.
- June 25, 2011 at 5:34 PM
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Alexandra Sokoloff On the 'Price' of Success
By, Vince A. Liaguno
Try not to hate Alexandra Sokoloff too much. Yes, she's a talented writer whose debut novel - 2006's The Harrowing - garnered widespread acclaim and enjoyed cross-genre appeal. Yes, she's an equally gifted screenwriter. Yes, she can act, sing, dance, and play the piano. And, yes, she's got some serious blond locks most women (and a few men) would kill for. But at the heart of all that talent and beauty lies a dedicated artist whose passion for the craft of writing is contagious.
On the eve of the release of her eagerly-awaited second novel, The Price (St. Martin's Press), DSM caught up with the fiery dark scribe who shared her insights on everything from genre labels to the writers strike and shared her thoughts on what's needed to give fiction the shot of adreneline it needs to attract younger readers.
Dark Scribe Magazine: Tell us something about your new book, The Price.
Alexandra Sokoloff: It's set in what must be the spookiest hospital ever built – a maze of six hospitals interconnected by glass bridges, underground tunnels, indoor and outdoor gardens – truly the Twilight Zone - which a hospital always is anyway, right? The protagonist is a Boston District Attorney who's the top contender in the governor's race – but his life is shattered when his five-year old daughter is diagnosed with an inoperable tumor. Now the DA and his beloved wife are living in this hospital, basically waiting for their daughter to die. Then a mysterious and charismatic hospital counselor takes special interest in their plight, and when the daughter miraculously starts to improve, the DA suspects his wife has made a terrible bargain to save their child.
Dark Scribe: How is the new book different from The Harrowing?
Alexandra Sokoloff: The Price is much more adult, and I think much darker – so dark it was kind of excruciating to write. It's also much more internal than The Harrowing… there's a level on which none of this is happening at all, except in Will's mind – a descent into madness under the most extreme grief and stress. It's both more overtly supernatural and more completely psychological. And it's also very much a love story – about the unspoken dynamics of a marriage and what we are and aren't willing to do for those we love.
Dark Scribe: What was the inspiration behind The Price?
Alexandra Sokoloff: It's a sad story. A friend of mine and his wife had just had their first child, and she was born with a hole in her heart. She lived the whole of her two months of life in the children's ward of a Boston hospital, and her parents moved into the hospital, to be with her. When she died, her parents were too distraught to come home to all the unused baby furniture and clothes, so a bunch of their friends packed everything up for them, and because I have a huge attic, we put it all upstairs in my house. That night I started having dreams of a beautiful little five-year old girl who was not alive but not dead, either – somewhere in between. And that was the beginning of the book.
But I've always had a fascination with the concept of a deal with the devil – the things we have in the back of our minds that we would do for what we most desire – fame, fortune, love. What would we really do? What is the one thing that we would do that we would never confess to a soul? So that's what the story is about.
Influences – definitely the late, great Ira Levin: Rosemary's Baby. The Omen - although I hope I'm a little more subtle!. An author I really admire compared the book to Thomas Tryon's The Other. And fairy tales, definitely fairy tales...the dark and bloody ones in Lang's The Blue Fairy Book. I love the way Thomas Harris used fairy tale imagery throughout Silence of the Lambs, one of my favorite books ever.
Dark Scribe: The Price is set in a creepy labyrinthine Boston hospital. What kind of research did you do to capture the setting?
Alexandra Sokoloff: I went and lived at the hospital, of course! In one of those mindblowingly synchronistic writing moments, when I started doing research into the Boston hospital I was going to use, I found out that my cousin was going to be doing his surgical residency there and one of my best friends from high school was already there as a surgical resident. So I had total access to the "backstage" of the hospital. One interesting thing I learned right away is that I wouldn't have needed that kind of personal in. It is frighteningly easy to walk around a hospital and never have anyone stop you.
The hospital I used really is six hospitals which have grown together in a kind of living tumor of glass bridges, underground walkways, interconnecting elevators. You can literally walk in these hospitals for miles without even getting out, and you have no idea where you are half the time. The first moment I walked into the place I just couldn't believe that no one had ever set a thriller there.
Dark Scribe: One of the strengths of The Harrowing was its ensemble of well-drawn characters. Is The Price more of an ensemble piece in terms of the characters or does it employ a single-protagonist narrative?
Alexandra Sokoloff: Thanks! That ensemble thing was fun to do in The Harrowing – although in terms of voice it's still very much from Robin's point of view. The Price is almost entirely a single-protagonist narrative, but the most interesting thing about it structurally, at least to me, is that under the surface, the protagonist's wife really drives the action. While Will is agonizing, Hamlet-like, about what he should do, Joanna just goes out and coldly does what she feels needs to be done. Then Will has to uncover what his wife has done. There's also a very strong triangle structure going on, between Will, Joanna, and the mysterious antagonist, Salk. These brutal oppositions and the underlying eroticism give the story a lot of tension, even though it's just Will we're following.
Dark Scribe: The Harrowing received glowing reviews and Bram Stoker and Anthony Award nominations for Best First Novel. Did that out-of-the-box success put any pressure on you to deliver a worthy follow-up?
Alexandra Sokoloff: I wasn't thinking about anything at the time except trying to get the story right – it was a very internal struggle. After I was finished and those nominations were coming in for The Harrowing it suddenly occurred to me that with The Price I had written a book that was so different in terms of potential audience that I might have to start over building a readership. Dark genre fans, of course, will read anything good in the genre, but The Harrowing is very appealing to older teens, and The Price wrestles with extremely adult issues.
Dark Scribe: With your background in screenwriting, any plans on tackling the screenplays for either book?
Alexandra Sokoloff: Absolutely – after the wrtiers' strike is over and we've resolved this negotiation favorably. I've already been through a round of development with The Price at Sony – it's a very cinematic story. And yes, I'll always want to be the first screenwriter on my own books. I would never again write an original screenplay without writing the book first, though – writing the book is the best way to protect your underlying rights.
Dark Scribe: Between The Harrowing and The Price, which one do you see translating better to the screen? Who could you see playing the main roles in each? Extra points if you say Jamie Lee Curtis!
Alexandra Sokoloff: The Harrowing is a slam dunk as a movie - and I appreciate how many readers have taken the time to write to me to say so - but The Price would have a chance at being a real classic, even though it's a much more difficult story to pull off. For The Harrowing, I've always seen Jena Malone as Robin, but of course Ellen Page would be lovely! Teenagers have very definite ideas about who should play Cain and Patrick: Joshua Jackson, Gregory Smith, Chris Pratt, Charlie Hunnam… I think they're right. Joseph Gordon Leavitt or Michael Cera as Martin, Emilie de Ravin or Katharine Isabelle as Lisa… there are so many talented actors in this age range right now.
For The Price…Will is hard – we don't have many American actors who have the masculine power required to pull off a political figure like that. Viggo Mortensen would be ideal. I've always liked Milla Jovovich for Joanna, or Keira Knightley, if she were a little older: complex, dark, haunted. It's a fantastic role. Salk - I would die to see Lawrence Fishburne, Samuel Jackson, or the outrageously talented and charismatic Idris Elba (Stringer Bell from The Wire). The interesting thing about Viggo is that he could play Salk just as well as he could do Will.
Sorry… nothing for Jamie Lee at this time!
Dark Scribe: Our interview is over! (laughs) Always much lively discussion on the topic of genre labels. What are your thoughts on the horror versus thriller label, and what implications do you think either/both have on how books are marketed by publishers and received by readers?
Alexandra Sokoloff: Well, you know, at St. Martin's we don't even use the H-word! And I understand why. I've been a horror reader since I could read and I'll always reach for the spooky cover over anything else out there. I think that's typical of horror fans, so in a way you don't have to work as hard for the horror audience – it markets itself. And let's be blunt – the horror genre has been degraded by years of real dreck – those books have turned off a huge percentage of a potential crossover audience, so it's not at all surprising that publishers prefer to market dark suspense books as thrillers. The Harrowing found a large mystery audience, and also a staggering number of paranormal romance readers. From my limited experience as a new author, it seems the paranormal audience is the one that horror authors should be courting. Anne Rice sure knew that. Bottom line - that readership buys books.
I've said this to you before, but I think Dark Scribe has it completely right – dark suspense is what I write, and it's by its very nature cross-genre: mystery, supernatural, horror, thriller, suspense, paranormal.
Dark Scribe: Having worked inside the movie studio system (with studios such as Sony, Fox, Disney, Miramax) with your screenplay work, what are your thoughts on the current stalemate between Hollywood producers and the writers union? What do you think needs to happen to bring the strike to a close?
Alexandra Sokoloff: Talks have started again this week, so by the time this article goes up it may be much closer to resolved, and I don't want to comment on the latest, the new DGA deal, before the WGA Negotiating Committee has had a chance to analyze it. But the WGA and SAG, the Actors Guild, are both entirely committed to getting a fair deal on Internet and New Media residuals. That's the future of the industry and we're entitled to a percentage of the profit from the stories we create. For those interested, I've written extensively about the strike on my blog.
Dark Scribe: With overall readership on the decline and potential younger readers opting for visual, high-tech entertainment, what can/needs to be done to help reading as a pastime make a comeback?
Alexandra Sokoloff: Hmm, huge question. What can we as authors do? I think that cross-media projects can help encourage reading. Movie adaptations of books often impel younger readers to read the original books. Manga is huge with a young readership, and so it makes sense to adapt books as graphic novels, or market stories with some graphic novel features, like The Darker Mask anthology coming out from Tor that I have a story in. It's a collection of literary stories on the theme of "Heroes from the Shadows" and is illustrated by graphic artists – very cool!
Dark Scribe: You're contracted for two more supernatural thrillers from St. Martin's Press. What can your readers expect from you next?
Alexandra Sokoloff: The third book is something I've always wanted to do - based on some of the real studies done at the Duke parapsychology department the first dedicated parapsychology lab at a major university in this country. Most people know about Dr. J.B. Rhine's scientific ESP experiments – not that many people know that the lab also did field studies of poltergeists. Now is that a book, or what?
The fourth I don't want to talk about yet, but I'm dying to get back to it. Just not enough time in the world to write.
Dark Scribe: You've also got quite a musical background and have been spotted tickling the occasional ivory, tearing up the occasional dance floor, and belting out the occasional tune on stage. Why writing and not music as a career path?
Alexandra Sokoloff: I'm really only a backup singer, and preferred the chorus and featured dancer roles to leads in musicals. Piano – well, you have to make a choice, don't you? You can't be a professional pianist and a professional novelist. At least, I couldn't.
Sometimes I regret not having gone for a life as a musical theater director, but I get a lot of satisfaction from the performing I do, especially with the Killer Thriller Band and Heather Graham's Vampire Dinner Theater productions. Funny how many dark genre authors there are in those two ensembles!
Dark Scribe: What are three things your readers would be surprised to know about you?
Alexandra Sokoloff: 1. I'm an ordained minister. I started out doing unconventional weddings for unconventional friends and then started getting asked by people I don't know; 2. I grew up with all kinds of rescued animals because my dad's a biologist and at one point had 36 pet rats, all named after Dark Shadows characters; 3. I can fly.
For more about Alexandra Sokoloff, visit her official author website.
Check out the exciting book trailers for The Harrowing and The Price.
Reader Comments (5)
Looking forward to The Price. Really great premise. Also, how did your dad tell the rats apart? :)
An ordained Minister??? How did i miss that one?
I'm very much looking forward to The Price. think I may pre-order it now in fact!
Hah, SL, my Dad didn't have anything to do with my Colinwood rats, except for encouraging the genetic breeding of rats and my obsession with vampires to begin with.
I could tell those rats apart, and that's what was important.
Did I mention we had rabbits, as well?
Lots of rabbits. Not named after Dark Shadows characters, though.
Yes, Sarah, I am a minister, so watch out. I could sneak up at you at any old convention and marry you off to a likely suspect, if I thought that was, um, ordained.
And that goes for ALL of you reading. Be very afraid.
Great interview Dark Scribe. Now we know so much more. I already have "The Harrowing" on my TO READ LIST, but after reading the above, I may have to move it up a few notches!!!
THanks Dark Scribe.


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Strikers 1945 II Edit
Gliath is the boss of the USA level.
Gliath runs in to the Strikers and blows off its steam engines as the battle begins. It fires bullets from its bullet throwers and hidden turrets in its first form as a single-car train. Once the first form is destroyed, a group of planes come flying by as it assumes its second form while also blowing off steam, this time from its body. In its second form, Gliath will fire bullets in a spiral pattern and will summon mines that explode into bullets as it jumps from rail to rail. It will also fire bullets from its right arm that spread and disperse all over the place. When you destroyed Gliath, you will clear the stage and earn the coins, point or ruby.
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DescriptionBased on the unreleased Desert Bus mini game of Penn and Teller's Smoke and Mirrors, Desert Bus 2600 is a driving simulator where you drive a bus from Tucson, Arizona to Las Vegas, Nevada. Once in Las Vegas, you turn around and head back to Tucson. Along the way you encounter the same cactus over and over again while the sun sets and a moon rises.
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I think I am going to get a ringside seat for a spectacular show in a couple of hours (and I won't even need to leave my house - I will only have to look out of my front room window or my office window. Office window has a better view). The name of the show??? "Strictly Come Driving"!!!
This is a bit like "Strictly Come Dancing" but with cars. Actually - there are times when it can ressemble "Synchronised Swimming" with cars. However, those occassions are a lot rarer than they were when I was at school. (That is one of the great things about now living in a house you have known all your life - you remember the good old days with a smile and a grin. Even when the grown ups were probably wondering how to get themselves - and their cars - out of a jam so they could take you home.)
There are two rivers and a canal not very far from my house. When I was at school (and I used to visit my Grandparents in this house) the road I live on used to get flooded frequently. I am not exaggerating too much when I say that I used to think that a sharp shower was all it took to close the road. Then two things happened. Firstly, the bridges over the water were altered to stop the road flooding so often. Secondly, the local councils decided to build another bridge between two main roads further along the river out of the city.
It is almost a pity they didn't also train some idiotic drivers to read roadsigns. Particularly ones saying things like "Road Closed" and "Flood". (It amazes me that some extremely idiotic drivers don't even take any notice of the electronic roadsigns which warn them before they ever get anywhere near the flood site.)
Anyway - I suppose I have an amusing few hours to look forward to as I watch the idiotic drivers decided to perform a three point turn in the middle of the road when they realise their mistake. That is - if they don't try to borrow one of the driveways to reverse into so they can turn around when they realise their car isn't quite as submersible as they think (or should that read "amphibious"???).
Maybe I should send them to one part of Rotterdam - and tell them that they can give their cars a proper "water-induced" workout??? I know just the place as well!
The scariest place I have ever been to in a car (apart from an icy road bridge in the southern Netherlands where you could see nothing but water around you - and no barrier between you and the water) was a river bank in Rotterdam. I am not exactly sure whether my mind was put at rest by the fact the river was frozen solid at that point - or it scared me further when the car I was in was parked right on the edge of it. (At least the river didn't thaw for the duration of my stay. Also, the car was lefthand drive - leaving me to get out on tarmac.)
The reason for me being anywhere near that particular riverbank in a car??? One of my Mum's cousins lived on the river bank. Well, technically they live
the river bank (they still live in the same house) and their house doesn't get flooded. At least not to my knowledge.
Rotterdam has two main rivers running through it. The Maas and De Rotte (or The Rotter) which handily gives the city its name.
Now, if you go for a walk along the Rotter (as well as other Dutch rivers) you will notice something rather strange. Especially if you are British.
The Dutch do not appear to have heard of floodplains. Instead they have a system of dykes, dams, and water gates, to control the water. The water gates near Europoort and Hoek van Holland look quite impressive close up. They are literally large gates to keep the water out in case of high tides and storm surges.
Oh, and the Dutch have apparently built large underground storage containers to hold the excess rainfall in cities.
This means that the Dutch feel extremely comfortable building houses in plces where the rest of the world would not even bother consider dreaming about building them. For example, on a river bank. Not only that - but build it so that the first floor of the house is only just higher than the level of the water itself. This means the ground floor of the house is below the level of the water. Admittedly, the slope of the driveway means that the house isn't directly underneath the bank of the river but it is still a bit too close for my liking.
I am sorry but my English side always wonders why I am never issued with a lifejacket when I visit my relatives.
Walking along the river bank on a nice sunny day and seeing the sun reflecting off the water on my way to visit them reminds me that thr river can be a calming, tranquil place - even when it scares me.
Maybe Britain will just have to go Dutch at some point and learn to live with the power and danger of water in order to make peace with our future!
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A two day CHAOS listed trip joined by Evan W. Two dayhikes on the East Side of the Sierra Nevada with car camping at the Long Valley hot springs.
Red Slate Mountain on the left
A hike up the beautiful Convict Creek Canyon. Virtually all the rocks in this drainage are metamorphic, and many are highly colored. This is one of the prettiest canyons on the East Side, both the colors and patterns of the rocks are spectacular. The only hitch is the missing bridge, washed out some years ago at about 9000'. With the wet winter, the creek is still too high for a safe crossing, happily there is a adequate log across the rocks.
At Mildred Lake, most of the maps are wrong, having the trail cross west of the lake, where it is an easy ford. There is actually a bridge over the outlet of the lake at the East end. From Mildred the trail climbs across a talus slope (steep, but not too loose) to reach Lake Dorothy, a large lake with expansive views towards Red Slate Mountain.
Mount Morrison and Mount Baldwin
The clouds built up quickly in the morning, but never amounted to much in the afternoon...a few rumbles, but no rain at all.
The trail is marred by a number of recently active washes, the missing bridge, and above the bridge site, a series of debris slide and washouts that have severely damaged the tread for about a 1/4 mile. It is not however very difficult to follow the established use trail.
About 12.5 miles, 2750 feet of ascent, 6:15 on the trail. Bunnyhike Rating: 53.
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Year 11 begins with … What else? … a "Celebrity Death", as Dean and Phil remember the versatile, Oscar-winning filmmaker Jonathan Demme. Your friends in podcasting then re-visit last week's 10th Anniversary Episode and share their thoughts about what they got wrong during the years, what surprised them, a fantastic article about the show and birthday greetings to a past guest. Then, it's on to the work at hand, namely trying to make sense of the wild, wild, week that was …
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Nesika update 10/6/2017
Glenn Conrad made it into into Nesika Thursday with a USFS crew to inspect and get the lodge winterized. Here is what we now know.
As we surmised from the news videos, the fire came right through the site. Most of the trees from the point to the lodge are burned and will need to be removed. We lost all the outbuildings (dorms, woodshed, toolshed, outhouses) except the generator building. However it got hot enough to deform the PVC conduit on the inside of the generator building. The state of the generator is unknown, but it was not totaled.
The main lodge is mostly intact. The roof appears to be water tight if a bit heat damaged. There are several cracked windows, but they are double pane and cracked only on the outer layer, so the windows are still weather tight.
The water system is mostly intact. The spring box and cover were not damaged, the main valve box is mostly undamaged, and the pump and lower tank are undamaged. The upper tank was described as a "blob of plastic".
There is fire damage all along the road from before the green gate down, but all the bridges are undamaged. The crew was able to drive AVT's to the parking lot. No serious slides yet, but we expect there to be some by spring due to the fire damage.
Plans for restoration have already started. Glenn Conrad has been appointed the chair of a Nesika Restoration committee which will focus planning critical repairs and cleanup.
We have lost both dorms and most of the equipment we have been using to operate Nesika. We know we will have to replace equipment (tractor, trailers, tools), and we will have some key facilities (water, sanitary, power) repairs to do so we have started fundraising to offset the costs.


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How to make a wire hook for an umbrella that does not have one.
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2. Thick wire - I used 8-AWG stranded, but solid wire is good as well
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Hours after he captained Portugal to semi-final defeat in the Confederations Cup in Russia, Cristiano Ronaldo has announced the birth of twins. For days Portuguese media have reported that the footballer's twins had been born to a surrogate mother in the US.
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Anyway, today I will tell you all about my first free weekend. We all did different things and stayed with different people, keep in mind, so my experience was vastly different from others'. That said, however, the consensus is that everyone had a great time.
Before the weekend began I thought I would be staying on campus. I had no plans to make, and most of the other girls' plans fell through, so it was going to be me, the rest of the girls (minus Raelle), Max, and Matt (lucky boys, right?). Well, anyway, we got a call from Nurit (our madricha), and she said that the woman who is hosting four of the girls for Pesach, Liora, would like to have us for the weekend so we could get to know her. Well, she was happy to take an extra, and all five girls went to the Shiller household for our free weekend.
We were told that the house was very nice. Great, we thought, we'll have a real bed or a sofa and some fun with a girl close to our age who lives here. Well, we had no idea what "nice" really meant. The house was gorgeous. We walked through the gate and into a front garden. The house itself is clearly of Asian inspiration (most likely Hong Kong since the family once lived there), and it was just beautiful. Tal, who is in 10th grade, showed us around her house. We walked around and saw the living room where we would spend much of our time watching movies on the plasma television. She then led us outside and downstairs to the basement of the pool house, where we would sleep. We put our stuff down and continued the tour, walking past the amazing infinity pool onto the stables where three horses greeted us. Dana, Tal's little sister, was there petting her horse and gave us a very warm welcome. Oliver, a To-Toesque dog, followed us as we strolled past the koi fish pond, and then frolicked with us as we walked back to the house. Inside, we headed toward Tal's room, and on the way stepped over a creek that ran under the floor under a plate of glass. The house was amazing.
The food was equally as stunning. Chicken, pasta, rice, salads, potatoes, pound cake, soup, fruit, grilled cheese, anything. It was as though we were being fattened up so that we could be the main course for Pesach dinner. We were constantly eating. Mmm…
So, after the tour of the house Tal and Shai (father) brought us to a garage and showed us their Ranger (basically a Range Rover/ATV). "Would you like to take a ride?" Shai asked, and like little school girls we all exclaimed "YEAH!" They brought out some mats for a few of us to sit on in the open back of the Ranger, and we all got in. We rode over dirt and through water and went to the family's orchard. We picked fresh oranges (which we still have an abundance of. Mmm…), snapped some photos, then hopped back into the Ranger and went home. We then went home to change and nap, and headed to Barak's house for Friday night dinner.
The boys of room 81 (what what) were staying at Barak's (Noah, Eli, Micah, Brandon, Jacob, and Jeremy), so we ate a gigantic dinner with two families and11 Weber kids. It was so much fun and delicious. We had some coffee and some cake, and then the girls left to go with Tal to a friend's birthday party. The party was more of a dinner, actually. And the dinner, in reality, was more of a dessert. We went to Max Brenner's, which, now don't get too excited, is a CHOCOLATE RESTAURANT. Everything on the menu was chocolate. Milkshakes and cakes, of course, but also special desserts in shot glasses and a huge list of hot chocolates. Most people got the banana split or fondue. There were even chocolate cocktails (no worries, none of us got one)! Well, aside from my near-death experience (no joke) everyone devoured and thoroughly enjoyed their chocolatey treats. Wait, you say? Near-death, you ask? But Jamie, you say, you're not allergic to chocolate! Yes, this is true, but I am allergic to hazelnuts, a favorite ingredient of good Israeli chocolate. I had, literally, less than a sip of a friend's delicious milkshake. I then passed the shake back to her, and within a few minutes my allergic reaction began. Fortunately I have amazing friends who all gave me their waters and lemons and constantly asked "are you gonna die!?" Well, I made it out okay, and have resolved to not eat sweets in foreign countries. Hopefully it'll not only keep me alive but maybe I'll stop eating so damn much here!
Anyway, Liora picked us up at 2:30am and we went home, but not before getting stuck in TRAFFIC. Yeah, I know, traffic at 2:30am! And apparently it's worse at 4:00am when people are done clubbing. Insane. Anyway, we got back, went to bed, and slept in as long as possible. At 1pm we woke up and went upstairs just in time for lunch. We ate, watched a movie (The Omen – it was okay), and some girls napped while the others lounged in the hot tub. Unfortunately it was then time to come back to Muss, so we packed our bags, said goodbye to the nicest host family ever, enjoyed a quick grilled cheese and scrambled eggs dinner, and came back to a very quiet and empty campus.
We hung out, played some poker, went to bed, and had classes again today. Tonight we have a Zionism project, where we are split into groups and research an assigned historical figure. We're told we need to write a skit and a song about the person. Hoorah.
All right everyone. I'm done for the day.
Goodnight and have a pleasent tomorrow.