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Time is money, and Marge Murphy has built her company on the idea that hiring her will save businesses both. In the last year, she hired 2 full-time employees and 8 consultants. Murphy hopes to double her business in the next 3 years. What Acadia does is follows up on any type of leads a company may get, and finds the contacts that might turn the leads into sales. "The economy and the downturn -- it has actually been an upturn for us, because we can help people find clients," said Murphy, owner of Acadia based in Dayton, Ohio.
For example, when a company goes to a trade show, it leaves with a bowl full of business cards. Murphy and her team will go through the cards, call each contact and gauge their level of interest. Then they provide the company with a list of which sales leads are "hot," so it can focus its energy -- and dollars -- efficiently. "Companies can bring us in when they need us," she said. "We do the behind the scenes work."
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Snort Intrusion Detection System. www.snort.org. Outline. What is snort? What can it do? How is it installed? How is it configured? How is it used?. History. First released in 1998 by Martin Roesch Originally intended to be a lightweight intrusion detection technology. Has evolved ...
Four modes of operation
Packet Sniffer mode
Packet Logger mode
Network Intrusion Detection Mode
Network Intrusion Prevention
cs490ns - cotter
alert tcp any any -> $Home 80 (flags:S; msg:“Port 80 SYN”;)
alert tcp any any -> 192.168.5.0/24 21 \
(msg: “attempted anonymous ftp access”; \
content: “anonymous”; offset: 5;)
alert tcp any any -> any any (msg: “Null Scan”; \
log tcp any any <> 192.168.5.0/24 21 \
alert udp any any -> 192.168.5.0/24 31337 \
(msg: “Back Orifice”;)
1) Set the variables for your network
2) Configure dynamic loaded libraries
3) Configure preprocessors
4) Configure output plugins
5) Add any runtime config directives
6) Customize your rule set
Configure dynamic loaded libraries
Configure output plugins
This event is generated when TCP traffic to port 0 is detected. This should not be seen in normal TCP communications.
Possible reconnaisance. This may be an attempt to verify the existance of a host or hosts at a particular address or address range.
TCP traffic to port 0 is not valid under normal circumstances.
an indicator of unauthorized network use, reconnaisance activity or system compromise. These rules may also generate an event due to improperly configured network devices.
The attacker could send packets to a host with a destination port of 0. The attacker might also be using hping to verify the existance of a host as a prelude to an attack.
Ease of Attack:
Disallow TCP traffic to port 0.
Original rule writer unknown
Sourcefire Vulnerability Research Team
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Crux Automation, Inc.
Address: 8040 NE Day Road West, Building 6, Suite C, Bainbridge Island, WA
Business Type: Service
Description: Crux Automation designs and deploys cost-effective world-class automation systems for assembly, testing and material handling applications. The company has experience with a wide range of advanced manufacturing technologies, including the following: Robotics Machine vision inspection &... (more) | <urn:uuid:0012cbce-cde3-405a-ae8a-85795fdb6f48> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.globalspec.com/local/3007/WA | 2017-06-26T03:54:37Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.852733 | 98 | [
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The much-awaited Google Android 7.0 (Nougat) OS update now seems to be live for certain Motorola smartphones. If you own Motorola Moto Z or Moto Z Force handsets having subscribed to Verizon's network services in the US, then do check your devices for new OTA notifications representing Nougat.
As per a GSMArena report, users of Verizon-driven Motorola Moto Z and Moto Z Force can check for Android Nougat firmware in the form of a bulky 1.5 GB sized file. To manually initiate searches for Android Nougat, Moto Z and Moto Z Force users can navigate to Settings > System Updates > Check for System Update; on their smartphones.
In addition to the above GSMArena report, Reddit has also been flooded with updates with regards to Android Nougat's imminent rollout to Motorola smartphones. The rollout of Android Nougat could take place any time soon on other expected devices, including the Moto G4, Moto G4 Plus and the Moto Z. This is applicable to smartphones running on other carrier networks excluding Verizon; including unlocked variants as well.
As far as newer enhancements are concerned, Android Nougat OS update introduces the following prominent new features to Motorola smartphones:
- Multi-Window view
- Quick Switch between multiple applications
- Enhanced Google Doze
- Direct reply to received notifications
- New custom Data Saver
- Split-Screen mode
- Picture-in-Picture mode
- Unicode 9 emojis
- New customised work mode
- Support for comparatively more languages. | <urn:uuid:8bfaccea-9458-4a02-8191-8e8e4d9bc9dc> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.ibtimes.co.in/select-motorola-smartphones-finally-receiving-android-nougat-os-update-704677 | 2017-06-26T03:57:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320669.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626032235-20170626052235-00555.warc.gz | en | 0.848589 | 320 | [
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This week we focus on the US and the UK after THQ's decision to close studios in both
Each Week Develop scours its daily-updated jobs page and pick out five top vacancies.
This week we're focusing on both the UK and the US, seeing as THQ has closed down two studios from both contries.
There's a load of vacancies available on the Jobs Page if you’re interested. There's also a Develop Jobs Twitter feed.
Best of luck.
This week's top five games job vacancies
1) Game Designer / Infinity Ward / US / Click here
2) Senior Software Engineer / Infinity Ward / US / Click here
3) Game Director / Black Rock / UK / Click here
4) Various Opportunities / Playground Games / UK / Click here
5) Lecturer in computer graphics / Kingstone University / UK / Click here
If you're currently hiring and looking for a unique job position to fill, email Alex Boucher for more details. | <urn:uuid:dc4c3404-dde5-4710-a4bd-90cacb69caec> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.develop-online.net/news/the-top-five-games-job-vacancies-w-e-17-06-11/0109622 | 2017-06-26T22:27:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.879352 | 205 | [
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Found the very last teabag of this in my cupboard (I’m at home, meaning the majority of my tea collection is at uni: I’m scavenging a little through my old blends here!) so I’m giving it a shot as I’m craving white tea.
Last time I had this I’m not sure my white tea brewing methods were too great, so I took extra care not to use water that was too hot here. It’s smelling a lot more fragrant than I ever remember; the rose and bergamot are certainly distinguishable, the rose more so. But it’s beginning to smell like a bath soap.
Taking care with the water temperature and brewing time here has definitely helped- it’s now soft, rather than harsh, although it still tastes like a Lush product! The white tea is hardly present at all except maybe in a slightly toasty background but the rose tastes all-consuming here! Even the bergamot seems to have tossed in a vaguely citrusy edge and run from the perfume-y flavour of it all. Ah well – it wasn’t such a bad experience this time. It was good while it lasted but I don’t think I’ll be making an effort to buy more of this. Cheers, Will and Kate! | <urn:uuid:1f640c47-e5c8-435d-ae82-df8bd2056e58> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://steepster.com/teas/twinings/19241-royal-wedding-commemmorative-blend | 2017-06-26T23:40:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320869.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626221252-20170627001252-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.964221 | 284 | [
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Lodge's Owner Was Set to Talk Cap and Trade With Newt. Till She Was Stripped of the Invite.
On September 2, Dawn Rizos, owner of The Lodge, received an invite to A Very Special Event with Newt Gingrich. Specifically, she was asked to fly to Washington, D.C., on October 7 to pick up her award as a 2009 Entreprenuer of the Year -- an honor that was to be bestowed upon her by the former Speaker of the House's Business Defense and Advisory Council. Seriously: "Newt would like to arrange a private dinner with you at the historic Capitol Hill Club on the evening of October 7," read the letter from one Joe Gaylord, who, at the bottom of his lengthy missive, scribbled, "Dawn -- Newt is looking forward to finally meeting you face to face -- and get your thoughts on cap and trade and Obama's tax policy." Except he wrote it in all caps. It's after the jump.
Anyway, the gentleman's club owner and her PR man, Michael Precker, followed up with a phone call, during which they were told that Newt would also need $5,000 by way of a RSVP. Which Rizos promptly put on her credit card. Because, hey, sounds fun.
"I know how it works," Rizos tells Unfair Park. "It's a fund-raiser. I'm not naive. I know how those things operate: They'll give you an award if you cough up some money. I thought it would be a great thing to hang in the foyer of the club -- a certificate, a gavel, a picture of me and Newt. I thought it would be a lot of fun." So did Gingrich, who, on September 16, sent Rizos a letter in which he wrote, "Dear Mrs. Rizos, thank you very much for speaking with my assistant Linda Anders and for your generous $5,000 contribution to join my Business Defense and Advisory Council. ... I also want to personally congratulate you on being selected as one of our 2009 Entrepreneurs of the Year representing Texas." (That's after the jump as well.)
So, flights were booked, and hotel reservations were made. Then came the call Monday evening from Newt's people.
"They left a message Monday evening," Precker says. '"They didn't say why. We finally spoke yesterday morning. There is a fellow named Michael Johnston. He works for InfoCision, which works with 527s to assemble donor lists." At which point Precker says he was told that, sorry, Newt had made a mistake -- thought Rizos was somebody else. And, um, the invite has been rescinded.
"They said it was a misunderstsanding, a mistake," Rizos says. "They know what we are. All they have to do is Google my name."
We called Gaylord's number, only to reach a woman who said he was "traveling with Newt" and could not be reached for comment. A message was left.
Rizos has said Gingrich's people have promised to return her money -- even the airfare -- but, still, she's bummed. And, a little relieved. And, a little pissed off.
"That would have been very stressful," she says. "I don't think our business is anything to be ashamed of, and I don't think they shouldn't honor us. We're a big convention draw for the city of Dallas, we employ a lot of people and do as much good as possible no matter what other people think of it. I can't believe they waited a week before."
Newt Rescinds an Invite
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
love...such a complicated emotion deserves a complicated illustration. i want to do a series of emotions based on my interpretation/experience with each emotion. this first one was kind of hard because there were a lot of different things i wanted to put in the piece. the final concept of the imagery in this piece was inspired by the claw game where you move the claw around to try and win a prize. the name of this one is called "love game".
these are photos of the project in progress. there are parts that i liked early on and am debating whether or not i should bring them back in or take something out. the 2nd photo is the "finished" piece and the 1st photo is an earlier stage of the piece. the orange of the figure in the center and of the large hand are really a red orange, not just orange.
i'm not sure if it's finished, yet, so any input you can give me would be much appreciated. | <urn:uuid:ea6f592f-2036-4ca3-9c84-acd2e86cbe0c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://mzheartart.blogspot.com/2009/12/ | 2017-06-29T08:57:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323895.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629084615-20170629104615-00155.warc.gz | en | 0.981296 | 204 | [
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If you're asking "what on earth is a Thanksgiving card?' You are not alone. Thanksgiving cards are autumnal greeting cards that can be used to express a variety of seasonal sentiments. One can give to a friend as a token of appreciation or send to a family member to express thankfulness.
There are no hard and fast rules about Thanksgiving cards, but I can tell you this. The ability to express ourselves and send a thoughtful card to friends and family is what separates us from beasts and animals. Don't be a beast this year. Send some Thanksgiving cards.
November is full of expressions of gratitude. From Instagram hashtags to radio advertising it seems that bombarding friends and associates with constant reminders of what you are thankful for is what's hot on the streets these days. I am all for it.
We should count our blessings and express our thankfulness for our life's abundance regularly. Whether you choose to do so by updating your Facebook status or by sending handwritten Thanksgiving cards, it is a great practice. Expressing gratitude is good for us mentally and physically.
If you haven't had at least one fight with your significant other over whose house you'd be spending Thanksgiving at then, I question the depth of your love. If you haven't found yourself in this unfortunate yet totally natural situation, please trust that you will someday. Brace yourself.
Thanksgiving is full of fun dinner parties, lunches, and community events. There is bound to be conflict about where you spend your limited time. A decision will be made, and one of you will emerge as the victor. If you are the unfortunate loser in the whose house are we visiting this Thanksgiving battle you might want to send a Thanksgiving card to your loved one to apologize for the terrible things you said about His Aunt Linda's "stuffing. Think about it. What you said was pretty harsh, and you're going to want to smooth things over before you end up getting served the driest piece of turkey imaginable.
No one wants to eat your cooking. I'm sorry you had to learn the awful truth here, from a stranger, on a random blog you found while looking Thanksgiving cards on Google, but it's the truth (and I hope you stick around a while). Instead of sending your entire family to the emergency room during the holidays with your interesting take on Pumpkin Pie why not thank your hosts this year with a lovely Thanksgiving card? We have a lovely assortment to choose from, and our pop up Thanksgiving cards are sure to delight.
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They say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but that will certainly not be the case for the next few days, because the Consumer Electronics Show is rolling into town. And so are we. Beginning Saturday night, Popular Mechanics will be following all the technology action (ooh, is that a new router?!) from the show floor. We'll have video profiles of the hottest new products daily, the PM Editors' Choice Awards on Monday evening, and hour-by-hour we'll be blogging our hearts out.
This year, expect to see loads of new hi-def gear, massive improvements in computing power and robotics, as well as operating system overhauls, all sorts of video cameras, and so many wireless devices that we'll probably be able to fry an egg from all the microwaves in the air.
Check in regularly at our CES homepage (and sign up for daily e-mails), because we intend to bring you all the pertinent tech news fast, and weigh in on what it all means. And then, after we've exhausted every lead and tested every gadget we could get our hands on, as we stumble back to our rooms at the end of the day, we'll put down a chip for you on the roulette table. (Which would you prefer, Intel or AMD?) —The Editors | <urn:uuid:b795795a-a4d5-492b-a606-af08c2e5e0a9> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/a1165/4209550/ | 2017-06-23T01:50:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.955061 | 266 | [
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Our elders are well aware of what’s good for the human body. Back in the day,there wasn’t any processed food or saturated fats. People were eating home prepared, healthy meals. In today’s modern society and stressful way of living, we have to find different solutions to improve our diet.
These three ingredients are a salvations for indigestion and slow metabolism, and have been brought to us by our grandmothers.
This Type Of Food Will Help You Beat Constipation, Slow Metabolism And Weigh Gain
Yes,plums are a rich source of dietary fiber, which will help you stabilize your digestion and metabolism. But, this is only the beginning of their health related ”super powers”. They are strong antioxidants and important allies in the fight against diabetes, obesity and heart diseases.
Eat fresh plums as a snack, ro add them in your morning oatmeal, yogurt or smoothie. Munch a piece of juice cake with plums and don’t worry about excess weight.
Cabbage, just like cauliflower, kale and broccoli, is a vegetable form the family of cruciferous vegetables. It’s also one of the healthiest foods that you can put on your plate.It is full of phytonutrients and dietary fiber that ”treat” constipation. Also, it lowers bad cholesterol levels, and stimulates metabolism. It is best to chop it into thin strips and eat it raw, prepared as a summer salad. Or you can eat it fermented, a food that is known under the name sauerkraut.
Don’t abondon peas during summer months! Instead, add them to your favorite soups, salads and other dishes. This type of legume is a rich source of plant protein and dietary fiber, which help improve digestion. As a matter of fact, it can do wonders for your metabolism and body! Peas effectively bring you the felling of satiety, and are rich in iron and magnesium, which help relax the muscles after a heavy and intense workout. For example, after a long run or swim in the summer months, you can treat your body with a plate of warm pea soup. | <urn:uuid:41363e95-9c56-465b-a331-99e80ac2ed23> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://healthyhouseideas.com/three-sacred-ingredients-can-speed-even-slowest-metabolism-heres-beat-weight-gain/ | 2017-06-23T01:40:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319943.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623012730-20170623032730-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.93603 | 458 | [
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Max Borges Agency Media Center App for iPad
Max Borges Agency is the top public relations firm in the US with a 100% focus on consumer electronics and personal technology. Prior to CES, Max Borges Agency came to us requesting an app that catalogued their clients who would be at the conference. Based on our platform, I designed a a dashboard that includes their clients, product search, company search, guides, and acces to recently viewed brands. Download the app here.
- Design of dashboard, search, splash screens, and icons
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WELCOME to scotsman.com’s Scottish Business Briefing. Every morning we bring you a comprehensive round-up of all news affecting business in Scotland today.
ENERGY & UTILITIES
Scottish and Southern Energy’s £800m vision for hydro dam in Great Glen
ENERGY giant Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has revealed ambitious plans to build Scotland’s biggest hydro-electric scheme in the heart of the Great Glen (Scotsman).
FOOD, DRINK & AGRICULTURE
Baxters to create 125 jobs as Fray Bentos pie-making moves north
BAXTERS, the soup and sauce maker, will create up to 125 jobs at its Fochabers head office this year when it moves production from its newly acquired Fray Bentos pie business (Scotsman).
Cameron unveils £14.4m Cupar investment in porridge plan
PRIME Minister David Cameron stopped to taste some hot porridge in Fife yesterday as PepsiCo revealed plans to invest £14.4 million in its Quaker Oats factory in Cupar (Scotsman).
Jobs axe hangs over Clydeside as BAE’s sales and profits struggle
A POTENTIAL axe still hangs over one of BAE Systems’ three shipyards on Clydeside and Portsmouth after the defence giant yesterday unveiled a 7 per cent fall in annual profits and warned of flat sales in 2012 (Scotsman).
Web-rigging firm lands UAE construction deal
Scottish access solutions business Web Rigging Services has won a six-figure contract to provide equipment for the 65-storey Gate Towers development in Abu Dhabi (Herald).
Weir considers next move in Ludowici bidding war
WEIR Group hit an obstacle in its international expansion drive when a Danish rival upped the ante in the bidding for an Australian mining equipment supplier that both firms are courting (Herald). | <urn:uuid:bd088081-5a16-4d7b-bd56-418f5d8f826e> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.scotsman.com/business/scottish-business-briefing-friday-february-17-2012-1-2122683 | 2017-06-23T21:09:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320174.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623202724-20170623222724-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.88775 | 409 | [
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Here Comes Another Button: “Send To Kindle”
The new “send to Kindle” button may not be just another button to put on your site or blog. Because of Amazon’s brand and Kindle’s reach (both hardware and software) it could, if publishers comply, see meaningful adoption by consumers.
In Q3 last year Amazon created a Send to Kindle Chrome browser extension. (There’s no data on how that performed.) But now Amazon seeks to expand Send to Kindle to Firefox, Android devices, email and the PC or Mac desktop. It also works on any device with Kindle software (i.e., iPhone, iPad):
The Send to Kindle Button lets you easily send that content to your Kindle to read later, at your convenience. Just send once and read everywhere on any of your Kindle devices or free Kindle reading apps for iPhone, iPad and Android phones or tablets. No more hunting around for that website or blog that caught your eye — just open your Kindle and all the content you sent is right there. The Send to Kindle Button is also great for those who want to collect content from the web to use in work projects, school assignments, or hobbies.
Amazon provides simple instructions for publishers and bloggers to add the new button to their sites.
In short Amazon wants to create the “save” or “read later” button for content on the internet. There are a number of existing “read it later” apps or tools available, including Apple’s own Reading List. There’s also Pocket, Readability and Instapaper. None of these are as comprehensive, across platforms, as the Send to Kindle button.
There are several examples of implementations referenced by Amazon in its blog post, including Time. Here’s what the process looks like from a consumer perspective:
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I thought once Christmas was over,
I could journal more,
and you know,
take a new e-course.
I'll have to do a bit more wishing.
But not all is lost.
I'm about to make birthday decorations for my daughter this weekend.
And I will be painting with 17 Kindergarten boys
for their school's auction.
(I am not sure if this is a *woohoo*
or an *eeeeek!* ... haha)
My daughter will also have her first communion in April,
and she'll have a little party with her best friend.
I am thinking hard about designing
a little activity table for the party.
So for now, quick, little collages will have to do
in my art journal.
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Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Autovolt 127, Mar 18, 2007.
Worst:Jazz/Grimlock well I kinda lost their weapons
The Ford Gt Mold is pretty much perfect.
The Ram mold however is a different story: A lackluster mix of contrasting gaps and kibble.
Best: Sideswipe/Sunstreaker, and Mirage
Worst: Least liked by me is Grimmy, OP, and Skids
worst- subura mold
best- jaguar xk mold
Best - Mustang, Corvette, Wrangler.
Worst - Viper.
I've only got Alts 1- 10 so I can't really comment on the Acura, Scion, Ram and GT.
It's Ravage isn't it
I really can't understand why people think the Viper mold sucks a$$...
I can't speak for everyone, but, for me, the car mode is sweet and the bot mode just looks awkward (hips/legs mostly). That mold isn't my least favorite, but it is somewhere near the bottom.
My favorite mold is likely the Acura. Least favorite is the S2000. However, I have to give special mentions to the car modes on the Ram and Ford GT.
I have to say Ford GT and Honda S2000/Meister.
S2000 is what Tracks should have been. and Meister is what WRX should have been.
Worst is Dodge Ram.
Best: Ford GT, Mazda RX8, Scion.
Worst: Jeep wangler, Dodge ram, the latter Subaru mold. (Silverstreak/Ricochet)
best and worst are objective terms and I'm not really qualified to use them
personal favorites: Ram, Mustang, Corvette
least favorite: I used to say S2000 just cos it was kind of boring, but I've grown to dislike the Acura. The arms are pretty crappy. They (the arms) dont look good and I hate trying to transform them. I thought Prowl's ankles were weak because I did the leg mod to him, however I left Camshaft's legs alone and his ankles are even looser! One of Prowl's mirrors came off, so I decided to be more gentle with Camshaft. However, after he fell off my desk 3 times, he finally broke one mirror. They have good articulation, but the thighs are too stumpy to make great use of it, and the arms are also kinda stubby. Now, I dont hate them or anything. I like their general shape and details, I like the "blight"stick weapon, but from my point of view, they have the most faults in the series
because of his limited range in his hip movement, which sets TF back, oh, 20 years?
So much hate for the ram. My fav is Grimlock and Smokescreen. Hate Windcharger.
I forgot about the acura. Camshaft warms the selves here, and I just can't bring myself to buy him. Maybe it's the dull grey vehicle mode, or the ugly-ass colours in robot mode.
My favorite mold at the moment would have to be Jazz, Sunstreaker, or Skids.
My least favorite (and this is completely speculatory at the moment) would have to be the new Jaguar Ravage. It's innovative I'll give it that, but I just don't like Ravage being a car. Rumble doesn't look like such a great mold either. I also think the Acura RSX Prowl is a little lame because of the lack of articulation...hence the reason why I will be purchasing a Red Alert and retooling it into a proper Prowl...Prowl should have been made a WRX to begin with...come on Hastak...usually the simple answer is the best one
I really had hoped that Hasbro would repaint the Skids mold into Ratchet and Ironhide...it just seems like such a obvious way to make more money...Slap some paint and retool the head a lil' bit and BAM! You got a perfectly good Ratchet and Ironhide...the two they should have made out of the Scion Xb in the first place IMO. I hope this comes to fruition before I decide to take matters into my own hands and repaint Skids into Ironhide.
best: smokescreen(subaru), deadend(viper gts), tracks(corvettes), optimus(dodge ram), wheeljack(mustang),mirage(ford gt)
worst: jazz(rx 8), decepticharge(honda s2200)
Best - Shockblast. The RX-8 mold was already solid, but Shockblast provides a better colour scheme and great homage.
Worst - Mustang mold. This mold is a complete mess, with an overly finicky transformation, multiple parts that come off during transformation, crappy weapons, weird proportions in robot mode and loose hip joints. Wheeljack's terrible colour scheme makes him slightly worse than Grimlock.
Worst: Optimus/Nemesis Prime. The mold just plain SUCKS. When I 1st got it, I gave it a chance because I thought it was getting a bad rap, however, after owning it for almost a year, it SUCKS.
I don't think the viper mold QUITE sets the standards back TWENTY years. It's not THAT poorly articulated. I think it's just spoiled fans. It's a great toy! Stop being so dang picky. It's leaps and bounds above the Ram mold that doesn't even snap together anywhere in bot mode. It's a loose mess.
Best: Mazda, Subaru
Worst: Ram, Mustang
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Isolated from water, honeybees larvae dead of European foulbrood and from the
healthy worker-bee intestine. Also isolated from other insects, soil, salterns, foods,
paper products, marine environments and an eye infection. Produces hetero- and
Rather saprophytic bacteria, can intensively multiply in honeybees larvae dead of’ European foulbrood, its evolution resembling
Paenibacillus alvei. Is a component of associative flora in European foulbrood, probably more active in the last stages of the disease.
some strains are pathogenic for mosquito and blackfly larvae.
Parasporal toxin crystals, visible by electron microscopy, may be produced by some strains isolated from an eye infection.
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- Gordon R.E., Haynes W.C., Pang C.H. (1973) – The genus Bacillus . Agriculture Handbook No. 427, U.S.D.A., Washington D.C.
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International J. Syst. Bact., 46, 1, 270-279.
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“Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education”
A special thanks to everyone that stopped by to see my onstage appearance at the Philly Gourmet Food and Wine Show at the Valley Forge Casino..was it already a week ago? lots of fun, great food and wine! Philly is truly a foodie haven!
Well, not sure where you are but wherever I am it seems that cauliflower is everywhere!..nothing wrong with that… Take advantage of the fresh, local cauliflower available now and use it in a pasta dish. Orecchiette (little ears) pasta pairs great with this dish.And lunch was an absolutely delcious one with this dish…
Orecchiette Pasta with Cauiflower & Pecorino
*1 lb Orrecchiete Pasta
*1 lb fresh, red, ripe tomatoes (plum or vine ripened)
*1/2 lb fresh cauliflower-(florets only)
*1 clove garlic
*1 small onion finely chopped
*1 sage leaf
*1/4 cup freshly grated pecorino cheese
*pinch of dried thyme
*pinch salt and pepper
*2 tablespoons olive oil
Finely chop garlic, onion, place in saute pan with olive oil. Saute for 30 seconds. Filet tomatoes and place in saute pan, add in thyme, pinch of salt and pepper.
In a pot of salted boiling water, place in pasta, after 5 minutes place in cauliflower, cook till pasta is al dente. Drain in colander. Place pasta in sauce and toss gently. Sprinkle on pecorino cheese and freshly grated black pepper,serve.
Get your copy of the book selected as the Best Italian Cuisine Book in the USA-The Basic Art of Italian Cooking: Holidays & Special Occasions-2nd edition
Peace, Love & Pasta,
November 10th –see you for a sampling/book signing/reading from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking book series..they are already..looking forward to seeing you Collegeville
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U.S. President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger Mitt Romney used a foreign policy debate Monday in Florida to get tough on China.
President Obama described China as an "adversary" but said he looked forward to partnering with the rising Asian power as long as it follows international trade rules.
"China's an adversary, and also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules," said Obama. "So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else."
Obama said his administration has brought more trade violation cases against China than the previous administration did in two terms.
Romney, who has used harsh rhetoric on China throughout the campaign, said Beijing "doesn't have to be an adversary," but warned that it cannot "roll all over us and steal our jobs."
"I've watched year in and year out as companies have shut down and people have lost their jobs because China has not played by the same rules, in part by holding down artificially the value of their currency," said romney. "It holds down the prices of their goods. It means our goods aren't as competitive and we lose jobs. That's got to end."
Romney repeated his promise to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office, a designation that would allow for steeper tariffs on Chinese goods.
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Last night, was like most nights, cold and wrapped tightly in a sleeping bag. There was one difference, all night you could hear the doors opening as people frequented the primitive restroom facilities; I was up four times myself.
Four of us on the team are part of a study being conducted by the University if Utah. We are taking a medicine called Diamox a high altitude prevention medication. In exchange we receive the medication for free, but we must record our symptoms four times a day; appetite loss, headaches, tingling in the hands and feet, and dizziness. One side effect, It makes you go frequently, and in high altitude with you drinking a minimum of one liter of water a day or more, you naturally are going more frequently.
Today we attempt to achieve the goal of the last eleven days of hiking, trek into Base Camp. People are tired and looking rugged, beards are growing, hair is wild, eyes are wide and tired. I noticed the other Trekkers coming into camp, they all have that look, the look of sunburn faces and fatigue, frankly, they look rough. The sound of backpacks hitting the floor after having been carried for hours on toughened strained backs hit the floor when unloaded with a definitive thud!
I have worked hard physically and mentally the last eleven days, there Is more happening here than getting to base camp, lessons of life are being imparted. Our Team Leader has a shirt she wears and it says, "Slow is the new fast." Most of us are learning what it means to go slow, and achieve goals without killing yourself trying to race to the finish line, "slow is the new fast."
The pictures below are of the sun setting on the camp outside our window, the menu of the camp restaurant, and the entrance into the camp tea house. Keep in mind, the only heat source in the whole tea house is in the restaurant. I've eaten rice and potatoes everyday for lunch, and dinner. I'm changing it up this morning and just eating porridge and eggs again.
We will start April 5th, climbing a mountain to get the best views of Everest for at at least three hours, then hike three hours into Base Camp. We ended up hiking from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm.
It's 10:11 am, I'm writing this at over18,000 ft, more than 500 ft above Base Camp. Six of us took off this morning and climbed Kalapattar to get the best views of Everest. The views are stunning. The other part of our group trekked on into Base camp. We walk three feet, stop, three feet stop, the air is thin here..
11.59 am, the time we scaled Kalappattar, over 18,600 ft, the highest I have ever been other than in an airplane. The way to Base Camp from here is being made up as we go, the Sherpas have decided to have us scale the rocks to get to Base Camp. It is all up through the snow, and over different routes. Many of us are wishing we had gone with the other group we are so tired.
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I'm going to post the promised picture of my burns but first, I'm gonna give you a Clyde and O'Malley pic to fill up the screen so you won't see the burn picture if you don't want to. It is entirely your choice whether you want to see this so I'm giving you fair warning and the choice not to scroll down to the bottom of this blog post.
The picture doesn't do it justice - think hot magenta.
He was barely tolerating me trying to take his pic when he wanted to be fed. He looks annoyed, doesn't he?
And Clyde, high maintenance cat of the year who also deserves an award for most patient cat of the year. I think he actually likes to be in Jackie's baby stroller. When we unclip him, he doesn't move out :)
Alright. Don't scroll down lower if you don't want to see the burns.
By the way, I am now allowed to combine my patches with oxycodone to control the pain. Dr. A seems to think this intense pain will lessen and that I'm seeing the worst of it right now. Everyone expects it to ease by the end of the weekend. Me? I'm being a pessimist about the whole thing.
Murphy's Law, right? Sorry for the small type but my blog width is limited. Use the zoom on your browser if you want to see the text.
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Panda Express combines classic Chinese flavors and fresh ingredients in a popular dining experience that has become legendary. Create your next plate with tempting tastes like Beijing Beef, crisp veggies, and everyone's favorite Orange Chicken, a Panda Express original. Our entrees are wokked hot, fresh, and fast!
You'll find endless choices with our five “made to order” stations. Have something different, every day of the week…. delightfully delicious salads, handcrafted sandwiches, exotic German sausages, savory-homestyle hot entrées topped off with mouthwatering desserts. Located on the ground floor of the stunning Ronald Tutor Campus Center, Seeds Marketplace will become your on-campus favorite! Stock up on items for your dorm or office with the many selections of snacks, beverages and produce available at Seeds.
Our Mexican inspired dining concept offers a great flavor profile enhanced with ancho chili, lime, chipotle, adobo, garlic and oregano. Tender and moist meats from local sources with integrity are freshly grilled. All selections are laid out exhibition style for a custom built burrito, taco, bowl or salad. New this fall….NACHOS!!!
Located in the main lobby of the Annenberg School for Communication (ASC), the Annenberg Cart offers a limited selection of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf drinks as well as packaged snacks, pastries and grab and go items. In between classes or a quick snack on the go, the Annenberg Cart is there for you!
Located in the Dr. Verna and Peter Dauterive Hall, the Joyce J. Cammilleri Café is a favorite spot for coffee, tea and iced coffee beverages on the south side of campus (Near Gate 2). Guests can enjoy deliciously prepared “grab and go” sandwiches and salads from the University Club as well as an extensive offering of gourmet pastries. Be sure to ask about our fruit infused tea of the day during your next visit.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf at the George Lucas School of Cinematic Arts is the ideal social gathering place, featuring a warm and inviting décor with a dual fireplace as well as outdoor seating overlooking the courtyard. Our skillful barista’s will craft your coffee, tea or ice blended beverage to perfection on every visit so you can enjoy the full Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Experience.
Nestled on the first level of the new Jill and Frank Fertitta Hall, this cafe was created in collaboration with the Marshall School of Business and will serve as a festive location for dining and networking.
The menu will feature Bao, Banh mi, Dim Sum, Asian Salads, Noodle and Rice Bowls and an expansive Sushi Bar.
USC students love Boba Tea. We listened and created Boba On! for the Law School Café. We are now offering made to order, customizable teas with boba under our own signature label. Chef Edward Rodriguez enhanced the menu to feature hearty rice bowls with a variety of delicious toppings. The menu continues to offer fan favorites – Panini sandwiches, signature salads (made to order as well as pre-packaged to go), fruit smoothies and a number of items to keep the Law School community fueled up! The Law School Café is located in the lower level of the Musick Law Building, on Downey Way behind the Town and Gown Ballroom.
The perfect compliment to a quiet afternoon with books is a steady supply of good tea or coffee. Literatea has plenty of both, along with a compliment of healthy grab & go items to make your study hours more pleasant and productive. Located in the Nazarian Pavilion behind Doheny, Literatea is open Monday through Friday.
USC Hospitality has partnered with Athletics and now manages its premier dining facility, Little Galen. Little Galen is conveniently located within the complex that includes the iconic Heritage Hall building, the new John McKay Center and near the Loker Track Stadium and McDonald’s Swim Stadium. Little Galen is open for breakfast and lunch service Monday – Friday. All menu selections are health consciously prepared and feature premium ingredients - grass-fed beef, antibiotic free poultry, sustainably farmed fish and local produce. There are many choices including grill items, handcrafted sandwiches, wraps, salad bar and special hot entrées. Be sure to check out the home-style chili on Wednesday! You can also start the day right with a hearty breakfast with a made-to-order omelette and other morning favorites. Little Galen is open to the public.
The best smoothies, juices and acai bowls are prepared in a quiet corner within the School of Architecture. Once, a well-kept secret, student, faculty and staff are flocking to this location where they are greeted at the door with the amazing aroma of blending fruits and veggies. DRNK Coffee and Tea is the newest addition to the Shop Café lineup. The DRNK brand is committed to providing a truly memorable coffee experience to guests by using USDA organic and fair trade products. Had enough to drink? No worries, there are also plenty of things to snack on with speciality pastries from Moulin Rouges, croissant sandwiches and a wide variety of grab and go selections. In a hurry? Order ahead with the Tapingo app.
The newly renovated Popovich Hall has a new menu featuring Mediterranean inspired sandwiches, wraps and salads. Delicious pastries from Portos, a favorite local Cuban bakery are available. In partnership with Sambazon, several signature organic Acai bowls with a variety of tasty toppings serve as a healthy meal alternative. illy is the coffee purveyor. Popovich Cafe is located on the first floor of Popovich Hall. No time to wait? Order ahead through Tapingo and pick up your items at the walk-up window on Child's Way.
Hungry for slice or a fully loaded pie? Well, right across from USC you can grab Rosso's New York-style thin crust pizza or piping hot Lasagna. We've got cold soft drinks and beverages and you can watch the game on five flat screens while challenging your roommate on our 20-foot shuffle board. Come on over and enjoy music, sports, games, and great pizza with your friends at Rosso's.
Starbucks at Trojan Grounds is the only USC Hospitality venue that’s open 24/7. Also known as “TroGro” or “the student filling station,” Trojan Grounds is stuffed full of enough coffee, sundries, munchies, and grab & go meals to keep your study groups fueled all night for mid-terms or finals.
In partnership with the Annenberg School of Communication, USC Hospitality has opened a signature concept on the University Park Campus serving illy coffee. Nestled in the lobby of the CWallis Annenberg Building, it is the perfect place for a quick snack, beverage or healthy meal. The menu focuses on single origin foods that are simple yet tasteful with a touch of Italian style cuisines. The menu is primarily comprised of cold food pairings. Coffee beverages are handcrafted from the highest-order Arabica coffees spanning four continents, purchased directly from the growers who nurtured them.
Come and savor the International flavors with the new menu selections at Tutor Café. Authentic Indian Cuisine, Japanese Noodle Bowls and Banh Mi are just a few of the hot items available at our specialty café at the Viterbi School of Engineering. With indoor and patio seating surrounding a beautiful water feature, Tutor Café is conveniently located near Parking Structure A and the residences at Parkside. We are pleased to announce the addition of DRNK Coffee and Tea to the beverage lineup at Tutor Hall Café.
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New students are here!
So much excitement is in the air!
As do many employees, I wear many hats at Living Light. I work as an Enrollment Specialist downstairs in the front office; however I’m also doing a Teaching Internship upstairs in the kitchen and culinary studio. Primarily I teach the FUNdamentals of Raw Living Foods class (nicknamed FUN). This is one of
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Brumbies great Joe Roff is betting on Clyde Rathbone's comeback to be an ''unequivocal'' success, claiming the 31-year-old is capable of challenging for a Wallabies recall.
The former ACT Brumbies and Wallabies winger signed a one-year deal with his old Super Rugby club this morning.
It is three years since he retired because of a chronic knee injury and six years since he last represented the Wallabies.
But Roff, who was teammates with Rathbone in the Brumbies' 2004 championship-winning team, had no doubt the South-African born player had the capacity to return to the top and play Test rugby.
''I would say unequivocally he can comeback,'' Roff said.
''Clyde has been hampered a little bit by injuries but he's a Wallabies winger who is still young enough and good enough to be returning to the Wallabies if he can stay fit.
''If he can stay fit and the Brumbies look after him I think he can really exceed his own and other people's expectations.''
Roff has spoken to club insiders who have revealed Rathbone's physical testing places him near the top of the current Brumbies squad in speed and strength.
Durability has always been Rathbone's limitation, but Roff said the 31-year-old was better equipped to address that.
''He's probably more mature and a bit more self-aware about looking after his own body as well,'' Roff said.
''For those who remember him playing, he was an incredibly confrontational, physical player. He would throw his body at brick walls. So it's just about being smarter about how he looks after his body.
''I've caught up with him a number of times, he's a good friend and he's got a real self-awareness of what works for him and what doesn't.''
''I hear he's nigh on the fastest in terms of his speed-testing. He's a freak of an athlete. When I first saw him he'd come in and warm-up on 180-kilogram squats as a young kid.
''He's exceptional. I remember seeing him for the first time and being blown away.
''I couldn't stop talking about the size of his quads and how powerful he is. He's just a freak athlete.''
Today's announcement will fittingly be made alongside Brumbies great Stephen Larkham, who contemplated his own comeback last season as the Brumbies faced an injury crisis to their playmakers.
But while Larkham only toyed with the idea, Rathbone is ready to re-enter the game after retiring because of injuries and then facing a personal battle with depression. Roff said Rathbone's presence would also add valued experience to a Brumbies squad which has developed promising outside backs such as Henry Speight, Joe Tomane, Jesse Mogg and Robbie Coleman.
''It's still a young side and the success they've had this year, he'll fit into that success and bring an added level of maturity and seniority to the direction the team's going,'' Roff said. ''It's a very potent mix of skill, experience and maturity that he has, but also add the quality of person he is … the senior guys have built something really special, it looks like a great environment to be a part of and he'll add to that.''
Coach Jake White hailed Rathbone's official return this morning as a sign the Brumbies were heading in the right direction.
‘‘It’s fantastic that a guy like Clyde can see the value of our rugby program and wants to come back and have another crack at playing professionally,’’ White said.
‘‘From the first time I saw Clyde play as a youngster, I knew there was something special about him and that I wanted a chance to coach him at a higher level.
‘‘From a coach’s perspective, Clyde’s signature is another confirmation that what we are doing with the Brumbies and rugby in the ACT is on track.
‘‘I look forward to seeing Clyde contribute to this team, both on and off the field, throughout the coming Super Rugby season.’’
Rathbone and White have previously worked together as captain and coach of South Africa’s under-21 world cup winning side in 2002.
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And once again, via our friends at Zero Hedge and Michael Snyder at The End of The American Dream blog, I bring you a poem, since there was no poets at the Trump Inauguration.
But if there was, he would no doubt sound like this:
Twas the night before Inauguration, and up in the tower,
The Donald reflected on his newfound power.
The conservative masses had come out in force,
And delivered a victory that would chart a new course.
The snowflakes were shell-shocked with tears in their eyes,
The media lied to them . . . What a surprise.
They had been promised a Hillary win,
But the criminal Clinton took one on the chin.
And though from all corners celebrities flew,
They made no impression, for they hadn’t a clue.
They talked about climate, racism, and such,
And they made up good stories . . . But didn’t know much.
The fake news and ignorance came at a cost,
And they can’t understand all the reasons they lost.
They blame it on Comey and Bernie and Vlad,
But fail to acknowledge the one that was bad.
Yes, Hillary Clinton, in many ways flawed,
Was her own biggest hurdle toward getting the nod.
The campaign exposed her corruptness and greed,
And her speeches were punch-less as ten dollar weed.
So out in the streets there arose such a clatter,
It was Soros-paid protestors and Black Lives Matter.
With cities to pillage and windows to smash,
They knew not the issues, but needed the cash.
Eight years of Obama had given them cause,
To expect a replacement of their Santa Claus.
But soon the protestors will feel the pain,
When the wheels fall off of the old gravy train.
And now all the snowflakes are riddled with fear,
Upset and offended by things that they’ll hear.
The cocoa and crayons will help for a while,
But fact-based opinions will soon cramp their style.
I originally supported, and voted, for Cruz,
In the end, I would vote for whoever they choose.
He wasn’t my first choice, but soon I would cede,
The one they call Trump is the one that we need.
I saw him on TV in front of a crowd,
He spoke about veterans, it made me feel proud.
He spoke about energy, safety, and jobs,
Taking this country back from the Washington snobs.
He was dressed in Armani, all tailored and neat,
And the Brunos he wore made the outfit complete.
For a man of his vintage, he seemed rather fit,
And he looked presidential, I have to admit.
His eyes glowed like embers, his smile was the best,
And his hair was the color of my old hunting vest.
His love for this country was on full display,
And his actions spoke louder than his words could say.
He thanked all his voters, and before he was gone,
Saved thousands of jobs while Obama looked on.
The fate of this country left nothing to chance,
So, he filled out his cabinet weeks in advance.
The men he had chosen were of the same mind,
Let’s set the bar high, and not lead from behind.
He picked up his phone as he rose from his seat,
With a flick of his finger, he sent out this tweet;
“Now Mattis!, now Kelly!’ now Sessions! And Pruitt!
On Perry! On Flynn, You’re the ones who can do it.
Start lifting restrictions and building the wall,
Now dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!”;
The roar of his audience rose from the stands,
He kissed all their babies and shook all their hands.
He answered their questions and calmed all their fears,
They knew it would be a fantastic four years.
Then he jumped in his limo, and off to his jet,
A fellow that Liberals won’t soon forget.
He sent one more tweet as the evening expired;
“Happy Inauguration to all,
AND OBAMA – YOU’RE FIRED!”
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Ketsu Onyo is a character who appears in the Star Wars Rebels episode "Blood Sisters" and makes a cameo in the episode "The Forgotten Droid". She is a Mandalorian bounty hunter and an old friend/partner of Sabine Wren.
Ketsu is an old friend of Sabine Wren before joining the Rebel Alliance. Both attended and escaped from the Imperial Academy on Mandalore together to become bounty hunters. But they eventually had a fallout and took different paths. Ketsu became a bounty hunter, contracting with the Black Sun, while Sabine became part of the Rebellion against the Galactic Empire.
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- Ketsu's design is based on some abandoned concept from the early development of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.
- She is the second Mandalorian character to appear in Star Wars Rebels, followed by Sabine Wren.
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Enjoy spacious studios and one- and two-bedroom villas at The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge. You'll find accommodations modeled after the Rocky Mountains during the nostalgic railroad era of the 1800s and all the convenience of home. This "home away from home" resort, part of the Disney Vacation Club family of resorts, features a pool with a slide, health club, and a complete array of dining and recreational options.
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The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge offer you all the convenience of home near plenty of family fun! Play on the playground any time, day or night, or head to Chip 'n Dale's Campfire Sing-a-long at the Fort Wilderness Campground area!
The Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge offer you privacy and convenience on your romantic getaway. Enjoy dinner for two at the rustically elegant Artist Point or relax together by the pool.
- Orlando International Airport (MCO) / 16.2 miles
- Orlando Sanford International Airport (SFB) / 32.8 miles
- Bartow Municipal Airport (BOW) / 34.5 miles
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Often called as a new media artist and painter by many, Julius Redillas’ works are clear representation of a modern and contemporary art which had irrational and illusory appearance to showcase.
“I mimic documented subjects. I initially played on the idea of documenting documented things using references such as books, periodicals, torn pages from magazines, and my favorite, Googled images. Everywhere, we see things getting fixed and people being saved. I emphasize a world where everyone wants to be involved in the whole process, and its manipulated realism and truths”.
Disturbing, uncanny and a mess as it may seem to others, the imperfections of the said artworks were made to be perfect as he invigorate it with the use of watercolor as his medium while he reveal a few of the emotional and psychological effects of living in a world in rapid flux through broken colors of distorted images and shapes.
Creativity and consistency played a vital role in all of his masterpieces as he tried to create anew. Considerably a painter of modern life and a must watch artist of his generation.
* Check out his works and exhibit schedules on: http://www.blanc.ph
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Dorothy Simonson. First published in 1988, this perennial favorite shares the joys and hardships of a winter spent on Isle Royale. The diary, edited by son Bob who spent that winter with her, recounts with honesty and humor the challenges she faced during eight months teaching a Chippewa Harbor fisherman's family in 1932-33. 5th printing.138 pages. | <urn:uuid:eef0af0e-950c-4010-b923-ac5e9cdfa806> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://irkpa.org/shop/irkpa-publications/diary-isle-royale-schoolteacher | 2017-06-28T15:53:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00355.warc.gz | en | 0.925307 | 81 | [
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Happiness, sadness, anger, fear, love, hate — emotions play a pivotal role in our lives. But do they loom large in an animal’s world as well? Part Two of NATURE’s Inside the Animal Mind explores that question in fascinating detail.
In large part, researchers have found that emotions are accompanied by biochemical changes in the brain. Fear, for instance, is accompanied by the production of one set of brain chemicals that can make us alert and ready to flee, while pleasure triggers the release of other chemicals that soothe and calm. But some emotions aren’t so biologically clear-cut. Shame, for instance, is a so-called “social emotion,” the product of attaching an emotional meaning to a behavior, such as hitting another person, or lying, that may be appropriate in one social setting but out of bounds in another.
While researchers don’t agree on how big a role such social emotions play in the animal world, there is widespread agreement that many animals share another emotional characteristic with us: stress. Indeed, like humans, many animals can be harried and “stressed out” — with sometimes serious health consequences.
Among the most remarkable studies of stress in animals are those carried out on African baboons by Stanford University research Robert Sapolsky and his colleagues. For three months each year, Sapolsky travels to East Africa’s Serengeti plain to examine how factors like a baboon’s social behavior, personality, and rank within its troop influence the levels of stress hormones produced by the ape. By measuring the hormones found in each individual’s feces, Sapolsky’s team has been able to show that baboon troops are high-stress societies, with higher-ranked individuals maintaining order by intimidating lower-ranked troopmates. Indeed, Sapolsky says, “Baboons and us are surprisingly similar . . . they can devote a large part of each day to making each other absolutely miserable with social stress.”
Sapolsky’s team has also shown that such stress can have real health consequences. Stressed-out mothers, for instance, have more problems producing healthy offspring. And sustained production of stress hormones can also damage the hippocampus, a region of the brain central to learning and memory. So even though baboons may not commute, do their bosses’ dry cleaning, or pay income taxes, they suffer very similarly from the scourge of stress. | <urn:uuid:e2a0b304-df71-441c-9ccd-97e320651c1c> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/inside-the-animal-mind-stressed-out/2083/ | 2017-06-28T16:06:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323711.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628153051-20170628173051-00355.warc.gz | en | 0.942758 | 511 | [
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We have a new sketch challenge starting today at Sketch Saturday! Our sponsor this week is Simon Says Stamp.
The prize is a $25 gift certificate.
I used a Simon Says Stamp set this week too, called "Love This". I have another card in my stash for Mark :D Valentine's Day is just around the and this is a great set.
We have a great sketch this week designed by Jen:
Stamp set: Simon Says Stamp "Love This"
Cardstock: PTI White, Pure Poppy, True Black
Ink: PTI Pure Poppy and True Black
You can see all the DT creations using this sketch HERE.
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Another one of the world's biggest financial institutions has predicted that the uncertainty surrounding the UK's future following the vote to leave the European Union will push the country into recession by the end of 2016.
In a new note to clients sent on Tuesday afternoon, analysts at Morgan Stanley are the latest to forecast a technical recession for the British economy, spurred on by lower investment into the country and a slowdown in consumer spending.
Morgan Stanley's "UK Macro Summer Outlook" note, compiled and written by economists led by Jacob Nell, suggests that any recession in the UK will be "shallow" and not be drawn out for much longer than two quarters. The economists also suggest that overall growth in 2016 will be roughly 1.2%, with growth in 2017, just 0.5%, down from a previous 2.3% forecast.
Here is the key extract from the economists (emphasis ours):
In the immediate aftermath of the vote to leave the EU, our judgement is that a pullback in investment, combined with a consumer slowdown, will be enough to lead to a technical recession, i.e., two successive quarters of negative growth. Thereafter, we see recovery, helped by a robust policy response and improved trade, but a weak recovery, as ongoing uncertainty continues to weigh on investment and hiring.
Overall, we expect the UK to avoid a deep or protracted recession unless there is some additional shock, not in our base case, such as a sharp and more prolonged period of sterling depreciation or an abrupt correction in the housing market which triggers a sharp rise in precautionary savings and fall in consumption.
Here is more from the bank on why it thinks a recession is coming (emphasis ours):
We think that longer-term economic decisions, especially investment and hiring decisions, are most likely to be deterred by the likely prolonged period of uncertainty now facing the UK. This would chime with the evidence on the pattern of activity during the pre-referendum period of uncertainty, when we saw weakening investment and a sharp slowdown in hiring, but little discernible impact on the consumer, with strong retail sales.
Nell and his team identify two key drivers of the uncertainty that will plunge Britain into recession. First, despite Theresa May taking over as prime minister and the creation of a new government, the British political landscape is still rocky.
A combination of the small government majority and divisions over Europe are two key points of uncertainty: "When the eventual settlement with the EU surfaces, it is unlikely to satisfy everyone, raising the risk of political divisions and early elections." Morgan Stanley also adds that the potential for a new Scottish referendum and eventual secession from the UK presents a key threat to stability.
On top of the uncertainty in British politics, Morgan Stanley notes that the lack of clarity on the UK's continued trading relationship with the EU following the Brexit vote will help contribute to the start of the recession.
The bank's prediction of recession makes the bank the latest in a long line of institutions predicting some form of recession in the aftermath of the UK's Brexit vote. Among those institutions to forecast recession is Credit Suisse, which argued last week that the coming slowdown will cost Britain 500,000 jobs. Barclays has also said Britain is "on the cusp of recession." | <urn:uuid:c0cd988f-3af0-4e0b-9738-454fe2fe4725> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.businessinsider.com/morgan-stanley-analysis-on-uk-economy-and-brexit-recession-2016-7?r=UK&IR=T | 2017-06-29T10:57:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323908.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629103036-20170629123036-00435.warc.gz | en | 0.947849 | 659 | [
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Saturday, April 05, 2014
Carpe Diem! Actor's Express does 1955.
How many of us fantasize about "simpler times", or long for a chance to live in the (perceived-to-be-kinder) past? For a few decades now, Americans have been told by mental health professionals, pop psychologists like Dr. Phil, and especially by that former queen of TV--Oprah Winfrey-- that we can "re-invent ourselves". That there is much dignity in discovering WHO we can be, by slipping into an as-yet untried persona, by getting "outside[our]comfort zone". But what if we could re-invent ourselves by living in a place where time means another time, where living day-to-day means shedding our former selves, and all the hurt we've accrued as a result of our painful, in-the-moment, living? The premise for escaping to a place where one can re-invent oneself, is at the white-hot center of a remarkable new play, Maple and Vine, currently running at Actor's Express. A young urban couple who are dealing with a recent trauma, make the leap to living in the 1950's--not generic 1950's --but 1955, to be exact. It's 1955, everyday, always. An enterprising group affords them an opportunity where they can be fully present, by living in the past. Playwright Jordan Harrison has fashioned a stylish, stylized 1955, complete with gleaming, grinning, happy-homemakers and their steadfast, blue-collar husbands, coming home to their crab-puff-making ("...I know crab is exotic, but....everything is better with cream cheese...")wives. Director Kate Warner has truly seized the day (and time!) by casting a terrific ensemble that, at a recent Sunday matinee', had us laughing until it hurt. The fun thing about actually living in the past, is that both husband Ryu, (a poignant Michael Sung-Ho) and wife Katha, (an effervescent Kate Donadio) get to create a new history for themselves. It's not all fun-and-games, though, as 1955 reveals itself (how soon we forget!) to be less inclusive-- a place where secrets are held, and there is a code of denial, when secrets aren't secret, any longer. The repression is real, and palpable. Stunning interactions between Ryu, Katha, and Dean, (John Benzinger, with acting chops as a sharp as a fully-loaded .45), Roger/Omar (a tender Jeremy Harrison), Ellen/Jenna (a vulnerable, revelatory Tiffany Morgan) make this a "must-do" theatre event. Special notice must be made of the lighting (Mike Post), sound (Joseph P. Monaghan III--the music is captivating, effectively setting the tone for the play), and scene design (Isabel A. and Moriah Curley-Clay)that literally feels like a window into this 1955-world. Costume designer Sydney Roberts appears to have had great fun with this; the costumes (think early-"Mad Men") will make you want to play dress-up . I plan to see the show again, and think organizing a dress-like-1955-night would be genius.(Hint, hint, marketing department at Actor's Express). Maple and Vine runs for two more weeks at Actor's Express. Box Office: (404)607-7469, or order tickets online, www.actors-express.com. Please note this production contains brief nudity. | <urn:uuid:0fa958d7-d031-40c4-afc6-3a73e65ef6e8> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://lisananetteallender.blogspot.com/2014/04/carpe-diem-actors-express-does-1955.html | 2017-06-23T05:12:11Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320003.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20170623045423-20170623065423-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.94395 | 740 | [
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A Short Introduction to Women’s House
Women’s House is a community based non-government organisation, situated in Woolloongabba, Brisbane. Our offices are publicly accessible to all women in the community, and are open 9.30am to 4.30pm Monday to Friday.
As an organisation, Women’s House was incorporated in 1975 as Women’s Community Aid Association (Qld) Ltd. (Link to Herstory page)
We offer a variety of services and facilities for women:
- Practical and emotional support over the phone or by appointment
- Support/action groups
- Education and Training – for community groups and agencies
- Free access to computers with internet facilities, photocopier, phones, and a library.
- Women’s meeting spaces.
- Information and referral
- Assistance and advocacy when accessing accommodation, protection orders, court support, Centrelink, Legal advice
- Social activities
Women’s House auspices two service organisations;
both are both concerned with violence against women:
- BRISSC provides information, support and referral for women who have experienced sexual violence and the people who support them, facilitates support groups and provides education and training to the wider community about sexual violence.
- Women’s House – Shelta is a service that provides support for women and children who have experienced domestic or family violence.
Women’s House, as the umbrella organisation for the two services, has the following unique characteristics:
- It is a service for women only, and it is managed and staffed by women.
- It is a women’s only space; i.e. the Women’s House premises are accessed only by women…….. We believe that this gives women who may have experienced sexual or family violence an opportunity to feel safe and supported without the intimidating presence of men.
- Our service delivery and policies are based on feminist principles.
- All levels of the organisation are operated on Collective principles; i.e. we believe in equality and in non-hierarchical structures (for more information on this, see LINK???
- We believe that women are experts in their own lives. We believe that we must listen to what women say as they have the most knowledge about themselves and about what has happened to them. We do not see ourselves as “experts” who can tell women how to behave or what to do.
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Feeling pretty sluggish this time of year? It’s time to blast out the cobwebs with an indoor cross-country race at BOTH Ray’s Indoor Bike Park locations: Cleveland and Milwaukee. Both venues are tearing down walls, rerouting trails and creating a one-of-a-kind opportunity to get back on your bike and ride hard in a one-lap, time-trial format.
If you’r fast, you’ll have a chance to win prizes from SR Suntour, GoPro, ODI grips, FSA, or even cold, hard cash. And if you don’t win, it’s still a great chance to ride a loop through the park you’ll never see again. There will even be professional photographers on-site to capture the action.
Sign up for the One Lap – No Crap race at the Rays’ Indoor website. Registration is $20 and includes a commemorative T-shirt for those who pre-register. Racing takes place Sunday, March 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Ray’s Indoor Bike Park Cleveland
9801 Walford Ave
Cleveland, OH 44102
Ray’s Indoor Bike Park Milwaukee
8365 N 76th St
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That's probably why I've been thinking about coats for the past few days.
If a man is to have only one coat, it unquestionably should be the classic tan, double-breasted trench with a removable liner, which also makes it suitable for warmer wet days in late-spring and early-fall:
My last two have been from Burlington Coat Factory. My latest one is 11 years old, and about due for a replacement. I have my eye on this one from Jos. A. Bank, and I'll probably pull the trigger sometime this fall (as I recall, last Black Friday, they were $99; the typical real ["sale"] price is in the $200 range).
The second coat should probably be a similar one, in a lighter weight, and with either no liner or the liner permanently removed. (Removing liners is a hassle, and this will allow you to have a second tan trench, designated solely for days when it's too warm for your winter one). For variety, it could be a singe-breasted, balmacaan style:
For my taste, this particular coat is a few inches too short; dress coats should always extend a few inches below the knee, to around mid-calf, both for the aesthetic reason that shorter coats look too boxy and top-heavy, and for the utilitarian reason that a longer coat keeps the legs warm and/or dry.
To reiterate, the first raincoat (or winter coat with a waterproof, raincoat-style shell) in the wardrobe should be tan. Basically, the only other acceptable colors are navy and gray -- but only as a second or third coat. Anyone unfamiliar with John T. Molloy's research on black vs. tan raincoats should buy his book, Dress For Success, which can be found on Amazon for next to nothing.
In addition to my winter coat from Burlington, I also have a lightweight, unlined tan no-name-brand trench, purchased at a thrift for $2.00 (yes, $2.00).
I also have a similar-weight, unlined tan balmacaan from London Fog, acquired at a thrift for $10.
And, just a couple of weeks ago, I scored another lightweight, unlined balmacaan from Austin Reed, in a medium-gray with a faint yellow windowpane plaid, also at a thrift for $10.
I also have a heavyweight, lined navy trench with wool collar from Stafford (J.C. Penney, seems like better quality than their current offerings, I suspect vintage 1980s), bought at a thrift for $4.00.
What can I say? I like clothes, and I like variety -- and, at those prices, how can I miss?
Once you have a heavyweight tan trench and a lightweight tan trench or balmacaan, your next dress coat should be a wool-like (wool, camel hair, cashmere, combination, etc.) coat, ideally double-breasted (for style and extra warmth).
The quintessential version is a tan polo coat, like this one from Polo Ralph Lauren (a Polo polo):
In my opinion, while this is beautiful, a navy or gray version is preferable first, both as variety from the tan trench and to have a coat for more somber occasions, when needed:
(This gorgeous version is also from Polo Ralph Lauren; unlike the tan version, it's 100% cashmere, and also features a ticket pocket. I believe that this is the exact coat written about by Richard Merkin in Esquire Gentleman about 20 years ago.)
Of course, this advice can't always be followed perfectly by those shopping the second-hand market. I don't yet have a navy or gray version; my only one is also tan, from Polo University Club (an inferior Ralph Lauren brand from about 20 years ago, not as nice as the full Polo version above). I bought it on eBay 12 years ago for about $175, and it has served me well every winter since.
To me, a dream coat wardrobe would be (in addition to the heavy tan trench and unlined tan trench or balmacaan) versions of this double-breasted style in tan, chocolate, navy, medium gray, charcoal gray, and olive green, plus two herringbone tweed balmacaans, one brown and one gray.
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During the private presentation/party about Call of Duty 4 yesterday evening we got to see the same presentation as during the Microsoft press conference at Santa Monica, except for one little thing: Here is what happens if your are not stealthy enough. Bark bark.
These shows already are crisp as can be on the B6, not demo video crisp. Was kinda expecting that from Netflix 4K. Guess i really need to see a 4K BR disc. (2 Hours ago)
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#biblestudy #newtestamentgreek #dunatos
so the disciples had just asked freaking out about how the young rich man had been told to go sell his possessions and give to the poor.
Who then can be saved? They asked.
and Jesus looked at them begins the next verse
and I'm thinking a long hard stare because they're worried about their personal salvation rather than how they could practise the simple advice to be obey the commands and laws and help those worse off ...
Jesus then says
With Humans this impossible is
and with god all things are possible.
Note its salvation he's talking about not miracles but bear in mind
dunatos means powerful and strong as well as possible
and that statement if you think about it at length sends a shiver down the spine.
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When I’m at work and I need ready access to something I’m not sure of, I open an instruction manual, watch a YouTube video, or Google it. No one is expected to know everything about everything, although I have met quite a few doctors and stay-at-home-moms who certainly think they do. In work and in life, we are expected to do a little research to clarify life’s grey areas. So why don’t we teach that in schools? Honestly, unless you can see Russia from your back yard, will not knowing that Juneau is the capital of Alaska really make or break anyone’s career? Who really cares that you cannot write the number zero in Roman numerals? And with the constantly shifting alignment of nations and treaties, does it really matter who North Korea’s ally was in the Korean War?
We flood our childrens’ minds with so much useless information they will never find the need to access again. Their minds are moving at a million miles a minute (which means that in a single minute, his or her mind would travel one million miles — figuratively, of course), and our school system mistakenly attempts to mold them into twentieth-century factory workers in a much maligned world. At first I thought Common Core was a good idea. I thought opponents hated it because it made parents feel stupid. But now that I’ve thought about it, it’s merely a consolidation of the same old mindless data taught by the same old broken system. We do need a common core, but the whole shebang needs to be re-engineered first.
A hundred years ago, libraries were scarce and knowledge was difficult to come by. If you didn’t store something upstairs while you were young, chances are you’d never know it. But, if you think about it, there was much less to learn. With all of humanity’s wonderful and exponentially expanding discoveries, it’s impossible to tailor-fit a single mode of education that fits all. We as a society need to become better at finding a student’s aptitude, and then customize a program that embraces their potential and promotes success.
But nothing will change quickly. Nothing important ever does. There are two primary reasons why this occurs.
If you’ve ever wondered why necessary and fundamental change is slow, especially (and ironically) within socialized government programs, look no further than capitalism. Why? Because there are a whole lot of people making a whole lot of money with the system operating at its status quo. Think textbook makers, lunch providers, equipment vendors, colleges, certification and testing companies, builders, carpenters, utilities, and so on. Education is big business. While educators preach the need to memorize useless state capitals and now irrelevant historical facts, the same education you and I received and were tested on, we have been meticulously blindsided by a society engineered largely by campaign contributions from organizations who operate not necessarily for the common good, but more for their own self interests. While you were busy memorizing Pi to the fortieth place, society changed right underneath your nose. We were trained to be asleep at the wheel, folks. I was there too.
Secondly, and I say this with all due respect for teachers who are genuinely interested in teaching, many of your peers are downright lazy. I met with an algebra 2 teacher about a week ago. During our twenty minute meeting, she spent ten minutes reminiscing about her glory days in North Carolina, and the remainder showing her blatant disgust towards the district mathematics department for changing the outdated textbook. I was there to discuss the poor progress of my A student daughter, who currently has a D in her class, yet all this teacher seemed interested in doing was using the new text as an excuse. Before I left, I asked her if she might be attempting to sabotage the district’s decision in implementing a new textbook. She did not acknowledge my question. I have not challenged her… yet.
What we need to do is stop filling their young and growing minds with irrelevant information from the last century. If you really want to know about John Smith, Pocahontas, and their relationship that would now be considered statutory rape, you’ll gain as much truth from a Disney cartoon as you would from a history book. If you’re tasked with a project that somehow involves deciphering the genetic code of a grasshopper or you need to explain why your boss may be a syrabite, pull up a web browser and look it up. And if you need to know anything at all about Alaska, simply call John McCain’s office. | <urn:uuid:bb40e640-f8c3-4f5a-be1e-b20d5b3e7233> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://angryfather.wordpress.com/2014/09/28/life-is-an-open-book-test/ | 2017-06-24T18:55:53Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320323.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20170624184733-20170624204733-00235.warc.gz | en | 0.972282 | 963 | [
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As Oregon leaders race to establish relationships with China and India, international trade has become critical to the state’s economy.
Davis, a 1974 PSU graduate who grew up in Roseburg, will share insights that the shipping company has gleaned from working in the world’s key economic regions.
The Business Journal caught up with Davis for an email interview before his Portland appearance.
Portland Business Journal: Last year you joined the President’s Export Council. What does the President’s Export Council do?
Davis: The President’s Export Council works to encourage American businesses to explore their growth options outside U.S. borders and to offer advice to the government on policy or rule changes that might make it easier to export. The president has recognized that this is one sector of our economy that really can accelerate the creation of jobs. And let’s remember: 95 percent of the world’s consumers live outside the United States.
PBJ: How important are exports to the U.S. economy?
Davis: In the United States, exports accounted for about $2 trillion in the first quarter of 2011, or about 13 percent of the U.S. gross domestic product. Those exports support about 10 million jobs in this country. President Obama wants to double U.S. exports by 2015.
That’s a tough goal, but if we achieve it, we could create another 2 million jobs just from exports. Many of these would be high paying jobs. Other countries do a better job of exporting than the United States, so we know there’s room for improvement. In Germany, half of all small and medium sized businesses export.
But only about 1 percent of these firms in this country export. I believe we would see more exports from this country if we moved ahead with free trade agreements and invested more in transportation infrastructure.
PBJ: What effects did the recession have on UPS?
Davis: We saw our revenue decline from $51.5 billion in 2008 to $45.3 billion in 2009. For 2010, it was $49.5 billion, so we’re still not back all the way. We had to take some difficult steps, including a temporary freeze of management salaries and suspending the 401(k) match.
But in doing those things, we never stopped investing in the business, so we’re ultimately emerging now in an even stronger position in our industry.
PBJ: Does UPS have any business plans or strategies specific to Portland?
Davis: We know that Oregon already is doing a better job than most states in exporting to other countries, and we know that Oregon’s export focus at the moment is Asia. China is by far Oregon’s largest export market, followed by Malaysia, Canada, Japan and South Korea. What we’ve done is build out a global infrastructure that covers all of Asia.
We’ve got an air network now that straddles the region, we also can help our customers with anything they need to move by ship and we’re now the largest customs brokerage in the world for crossing national borders.
PBJ: You’ve added alternative fuel vehicles to your fleet. What positives have come from that?
Davis: We have been testing and deploying alternative fuel vehicles since the 1930s. This year, we hit a milestone of more than 200 million miles driven by our alternative fuel fleet. We have the largest alternative fuel fleet in the industry. Nearly 2,000 have been purchased and are permanently in our fleet.
Others are (in research and development) with the (Environmental Protection Agency) and manufacturers to test new concepts. We have all-electric, electric hybrid, propane and compressed natural gas. We’ve tested hydrogen fuel cells and hydraulic hybrids. This is part of what we call our “rolling laboratory.”
PBJ: Is that a response to rising oil prices?
Davis: It’s one way we mitigate that risk. But we actually find that our other conservation methods save us more — intelligently routing our fleets to save the miles we drive. Exploring things like composite plastics for our vehicle structures, which we’ve found can lower the weight of a vehicle by 1,000 pounds and can improve our fuel efficiency by 40 percent, making sure our vehicles are regularly maintained and our tires properly inflated. We do the same, by the way, with our air fleet, which represents 53 percent of our carbon footprint.
We are also utilizing rail, putting ground packages on the railroads. Believe it or not, those shifts alone prevent more than 2 million metric tons of carbon emissions a year.
PBJ: How much will you spend on such efforts this year? And how much is that budget line — energy-efficient vehicles, sustainability in general — increasing for UPS?
Davis: We don’t release specific dollar numbers, although we have said our overall capital spending in 2011 will total about $2.2 billion, of which 20 percent to 25 percent will be on vehicles and about 40 percent on aircraft.
PBJ: Finally, what’s the strangest thing you’ve ever heard of that a customer shipped? Legally, that is.
Davis: It’s really the illegal or improper shipments that are the strangest. Even though we don’t permit it, for example, we’ve had a person ship a very large alligator in a cardboard box. Legally, UPS has moved some rather exotic animals, such as the killer whale Keiko that starred in “Free Willy,” panda bears for the Atlanta Zoo, and whale sharks and beluga whales for the Georgia Aquarium.
Scott Davis is the keynote speaker at PSU’s Business Leaders Lunch, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 13. Visit: http://psu.ticketleap.com/business-leaders-lunch/
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Technology can be a parent’s worst nightmare.
Don’t get me wrong; I love smartphones, laptops, tablets, and all that jazz. But if not monitored correctly, these useful tools can become a source of much grief for families as more and more teens and pre-teens (and even adults!) engage in potentially destructive behaviors such as “sexting.”
Am I exaggerating? Am I blowing the issue out of proportion? Maybe, maybe not. All the time I see stories such as this article involving a 31-year-old man texting inappropriate images and messages to a 15-year-old student, or articles describing high school and middle school students spreading nude photos of each other on their phones.
These kinds of reports lead me to think that the issue is very real. I am sure most parents would agree that they do not want their teenagers and middle schoolers sending or receiving sexually explicit text messages (especially if predatory adult men are thrown into the mix).
GuardChild reports that 39% of all teens, including 37% of teen girls and 40% of teen boys have “sent sexually suggestive messages via text, email or instant messaging.” In addition, 48% of teens report having received sexually suggestive messages.
On top of all of that, teens have their own texting lingo that can make it impossible to decipher what they are actually communicating when you look at their messages. What is a parent to do?
- Don’t freak out!
There is no need to turn into a paranoid psycho-parent. Just because a lot of teens are doing it doesn’t mean that your teen is doing it. Take a deep breath and make informed, rational choices.
- Check what your teens are up to on their electronic devices.
School Resource Ofc. Casey Frazier of Lafayette, Indiana, says, “You’re allowed to search your kid’s cell phones, their tablets, their rooms. You need to do that. … Do that as part of parenting, especially since we live in a digital age.”
Don’t feel guilty checking up on your kids. You are the parent and you are responsible for their behavior.
- Be as informed as possible.
Use the resources in front of you. There are dozens of internet sites (such as noslang.com and netsmartz411.org) that help you understand texting lingo and answer any other questions you might have about your teenager’s means and methods of communication.
- Keep communication open.
Have open dialogue with your kids and make sure you listen with an understanding ear. Let them know you love them and do your best to always be available to them, and warn them about the potential dangers, as well as the legal ramifications, of sexting. (But never be their “friend” at the expense of being their parent.)
- Maintain correct priorities.
Remember that the priority is not to “save face” or to avoid conflict or embarrassment. Your priority and mission should be to parent your child – not to protect yourself from unpleasant situations.
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The Muslim viewpoint is this. Allah, because of man’s propensity to be led astray from the path of virtue, has sent Prophets with divine revelations. Some of these Prophets, such as Moses, and Jesus, were given books, reflected in the Pentateuch, and the Gospels. Unfortunately, these books, these historical documents have been corrupted. The only true, and pure book to be trusted, was given by Allah to the last Prophet, Mohammed. All other books are no longer reliable, and therefore they are no longer authentic and authoritative. Within this frame work with its obvious limitations, the Muslim proceeds to discuss Christianity, and the Scriptures. The dilemma, for the Muslim is that while the theologians of the Koran teach one thing to Muslims, the Koran itself contains a different message. Within the Koran are various verses which exalt the Prophets, command people to listen to the message of the Prophets, including Jesus, and to honor the Scriptures, meaning, the Bible.
The Gospels are to be Honored
Sura 5:47 And let the People of the Gospel judge by what Allah has revealed therein. And whoever does not judge by what Allah has revealed – then it is those who are the defiantly disobedient.
The Old Testament is to be honored
Sura 5:48 And We have revealed to you, [O Muhammad], the Book in truth, confirming that which preceded it of the Scripture and as a criterion over it. So judge between them by what Allah has revealed and do not follow their inclinations away from what has come to you of the truth. To each of you We prescribed a law and a method. Had Allah willed, He would have made you one nation [united in religion], but [He intended] to test you in what He has given you; so race to [all that is] good. To Allah is your return all together, and He will [then] inform you concerning that over which you used to differ.
The Bible is Honored above the Koran
Because the Bible Came First
Sura 10:94 So if you are in doubt, [O Muhammad], about that which We have revealed to you, then ask those who have been reading the Scripture before you. The truth has certainly come to you from your Lord, so never be among the doubters.
Muslims are not to Argue with Christians
But Are to Believe the Bible
Sura 29:46 And do not argue with the People of the Scripture except in a way that is best, except for those who commit injustice among them, and say, “We believe in that which has been revealed to us and revealed to you. And our God and your God is one; and we are Muslims [in submission] to Him.”
Initially, Mohammed wanted to say to Jews and Christians, “I am a monotheist, I believe in the Bible, and I am a prophet like Moses and Jesus.” Because Mohammed wanted his words to be taken seriously, he said what he did about the Bible. However, as time passed, as devout Muslims wanted the Koran to be authoritative, the realization came, there was a problem. The Koran teaches that it cannot be changed, the Koran says that Moses, and Jesus are to be honored, the Koran says that the Bible is to be trusted, and yet there are all the contradictions.
To reconcile their dilemma, later Muslims came up with Taḥrīf, or, the Doctrine of Corruption. Taḥrīf is an Arabic term used by Muslims for the alterations, which Islamic tradition claims Jews and Christians have made to the revealed books, specifically those that make up the Tawrat (or Torah), Zabur (possibly Psalms) and Injil (or Gospel).Arab scholars assert that Jews and Christians have changed the word of God.
The teaching of Tahrif, or the Doctrine of Corruption of the Bible was first taught in the tenth century, or four hundred years after Mohammed died. Ibn Hazm rejected all claims of Mosaic authorship and insisted that Ezra was the author of the Torah. He also organized arguments against the New Testament. To make the basic assertion sound modern, and scholarly, Amin Ahsan Islahi (1904 – 1997) wrote about four types of Taḥrīf.
One form of Taḥrīf, is to deliberately interpret something in a manner that is totally opposite to the intention of the author. To distort the pronunciation of a word, to such an extent that the word changes completely.
Another form of Taḥrīf is to add to, or delete a sentence or discourse in a manner that completely distorts the original meaning. For example, according to Islam, the Jews altered the incident of the migration of the Prophet Abraham in a manner that no one could prove that Abraham had any relationship with the Kaaba.
A third type of Taḥrīf is to translate a word that has two meanings, in the meaning that is totally against the context. For example, the Aramaic word used for Jesus that is equivalent to the Arabic: “ibn” was translated as “son”, whereas it also meant “servant” and “slave”.
Finally, to raise questions about something that is absolutely clear, in order to create uncertainty about it, or to change it completely, is Taḥrīf. (Tahrif, Wikipedia)
That Arab scholars can unite with apostate Christian scholars to question the text of the Bible, does not resolve the problem. If the validity of the claim is bogus, so is the conclusion.
If a person is serious about finding out if the Hebrew and Greek texts of the Bible are reliable, an honest inquiry can be made. One way to validate the authenticity of the Bible is to consider the prophecies that were made years, and even centuries, before they transpired. Daniel the prophet foresaw the fall of the Babylonian empire, and the rise of the Medes-Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans. It was an amazing display of foretelling the future. Isaiah prophesied about the birth, life, and death of the Messiah, Jesus.
Jesus, as a true prophet, predicted the fall of Jerusalem forty years before it happened. Jesus predicted events that no one thought was remotely possible, but it happened. In contrast, Mohammed (c. AD 570 – June 8, 632, came along five hundred years alter and, allegedly, dismissed what had been prophesied. Normally, a prophet spoke of things being true, that will yet come to pass. Mohammed’s position is rather unique, and silly. He, as an alleged Prophet, invalidated things that had already taken place. He said that what had taken place, and could be historically verified, never happened. That is an audacious position to take, and very irrational. What Muslim scholars did, beginning in the tenth century, was to assert a biased approach to history, in order to discredit the Bible, much like Liberal Theologians in Germany tried to do in the 19th century, in the form of Higher Criticism. Nevertheless, the attacks on the Bible continue to fail. They always have, they always wil,l because the word of the Lord endureth for ever. (1 Peter 1:25)
“Last eve I paused beside the blacksmith’s door,
And heard the anvil ring the vesper chime;
Then looking in, I saw upon the floor,
Old hammers, worn with beating years of time.
“‘How many anvils have you had,’ said I,
‘To wear and batter all these hammers so?’
‘Just one,’ said he, and then with twinkling eye,
‘The anvil wears the hammers out, you know.’
“And so, I thought, the Anvil of God’s Word
For ages skeptic blows have beat upon;
Yet, though the noise of falling blows was heard,
The Anvil is unharmed, the hammers gone.”
—Attributed to John Clifford
If a Muslim is not willing to consider the Bible in its historical setting because the Koran tells a person to, then all is lost and any rational discussion is over. The only recourse a Christian has is to commend such a person to God. It is possible such a person has been given over to destruction, according to prophecy. Jesus spoke of those, “That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them.” (Mark 4:12) | <urn:uuid:16c51e33-f024-410d-a4dd-fe3b3e9e04d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://stanmurrell.org/2017/04/19/islam-and-the-scriptures/ | 2017-06-25T14:02:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320532.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625134002-20170625154002-00315.warc.gz | en | 0.965224 | 1,821 | [
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It's a story that began more than 40 years ago at a small Jesuit liberal arts college in New England.
The tapestry includes the United States Supreme Court, a Pulitzer Prize and the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins.
In "Fraternity," Diane Brady, a journalist for BusinessWeek, writes about five African-American men who arrived at the College of the Holy Cross during the racially tense time of the late 1960s and early 1970s, and went on to great success in life.
Brady describes the bonds between these men and their peers, and their connection with the Rev. John E. Brooks, later the president of Holy Cross, who convinced them to study at the college atop Mount St. James in Worcester, Mass.
The "Fraternity" five adorn the cover of the book. One of them, Eddie Jenkins, was a member of that perfect Dolphin team. The others are Jenkins' HC roommate and star litigator, Ted Wells (1972); Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas (1971); Pulitzer-Prize winning author of the novel, "The Known World," Ed Jones (1972); and former New York City deputy mayor and investment banker, Stan Grayson (1972), who also played three years for the HC basketball team.
Jenkins, a running back, attended high school at St. Francis Prep in Brooklyn. He played in just three freshman games at HC before breaking a rib. All but two games of his sophomore season were wiped out because of the hepatitis outbreak which quarantined the entire team and forced cancellation of the remainder of the 1969 schedule.
The Crusaders were 0-10-1 in 1970, a UConn tie the only saving grace. But in a game at Boston University that year, Jenkins was on the receiving end of the longest pass play in HC history, a 99-yard touchdown completion from Colin Clapton.
Eddie Jenkins played in just 20 games at Holy Cross, and his teams won seven. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the 11th round (285th overall) of the 1972 NFL draft. Jenkins sat below names like Larry Csonka, Mercury Morris and Jim Kiick on the Dolphin depth chart, and saw action as a special teams player.
Super Bowl Champions
He was on the field in the Los Angeles Coliseum, wearing No. 28, Dolphin aqua and orange, when Miami won the Super Bowl against the Washington Redskins and finished 17-0.
“We didn’t know it was going to be a perfect season,” Jenkins told the Worcester Telegram years later. “It just kept building. Honest, it was game by game. No one ever thought about this perfect season.”
Following his NFL career, Jenkins studied law at Suffolk. He formerly worked in private practice, as a prosecutor, a labor lawyer and later in several Commonwealth of Massachusetts executive positions. He is currently MassDOT’s chief diversity and civil rights officer.
Jenkins has two children. His son Julian, a former defensive end at Stanford, played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2006.
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Today we graded our maps, so in lieu of posting extra credit, I'm putting them in the grade book.
Thanks for checking in though. Maybe you can spend some time discussing what you did the rest of the day. Seriously... What DID you do today? How'd you do on that math quarterly assessment? Or what about Language Arts? You did some vocabulary stuff in there, right? (Stuff... how's that for some higher level vocab?...) Did you also read "Thanksgiving With the Conners?" What's going on in that?
Well, I'm not giving extra credit today. But I'm going to try to have your grades entered. But even that is going to be a stretch since I have a doctor's appointment. Wish me luck.
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There is nothing better than chili on a colder-than-last-week November day. You know, when it feels colder than it actually is because it was in the 60s all week and now its in the 40s? The typical thing that makes you laugh at yourself come February when you thought 40 degrees was sooo cold.
Getting to the subject, red chili warms and satisfies a fall appetite. This particular recipe is so easy and it only gets better the more you let it sit and simmer. If you put it in the fridge overnight, what you have the next day is a mix so amazing; let’s just say I recommend making a big batch because you’ll want it around for awhile. By the end of “day two, red chili,” you might be thinking “why didn’t I use industrial measurements?” Or, it might be time to try white chicken chili instead. Whatever the case, it makes your fondness for chili grow to the point where you stock your pantry with all the necessary ingredients for that impending cold day.
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 2 medium sweet onions, diced
- 2 pounds ground beef, ground chicken or ground turkey
- 2 28-ounce cans diced tomatoes
- 1 15-ounce can pizza sauce
- 4 tablespoons chili powder
- 2 15-ounce cans red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
- 1 15-ounce can black beans, drained and rinsed
- seasoning salt
- kosher salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- shredded cheese of choice, for garnish
- sour cream, for garnish
Heat olive oil in a large stock pot. Add onions and saute until translucent, about 5 to 7 minutes. Add beef (or chicken or turkey) and break up with wooden spoon. Cook through, adding just a bit of seasoning salt, salt and pepper- you will add more to taste shortly. Once meat is browned, add tomatoes, pizza sauce, beans, and chili powder. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Let simmer 20 minutes. Ladle into bowls with garnishes on the side. | <urn:uuid:3ad6e2fb-817a-40bb-895b-b62f3778bd72> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | https://growlingtummy.com/2010/11/15/red-chili/ | 2017-06-26T08:57:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320695.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170626083037-20170626103037-00395.warc.gz | en | 0.927878 | 441 | [
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If you have an iPhone, you can change your phone number and email address in-app. From the home screen, tap the menu on the top left. Then tap 'change your contact details'.
We will ask you to verify the changes - the app will prompt you to verify the new mobile number before you do anything else.
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Have spent the last two days touring these historic towns. I am in awe of being such places of importance. As an American of my generation, WWII seems so distant, so remote, so impossible. Yet to discover the effects of this war, and witness what exists now is mind blowing. Very emotional.
Wiesbaden itself is such a great town. The streets are quiet, silent enough to hear the numerous birds calling to each other in the narrow, windy cobblestone streets that lead around town. The buildings that line these streets remain almost unchanged. During the war, Americans admired Wiesbaden so much, that they set up their headquarters here. The town escaped the war without much damage. Wiesbaden has three historic inspiring cathedrals as well as a very busy downtown center near the government buildings, restaurants, theaters and shops. There is a gorgeous, thick forest that lies right outside of town. Fox, deer, racoons. We saw a few falcons the other day hovering near the freeway. Beautiful.
Frankfurt is equally interesting. This town was not protected during WWII, so many of the buildings were either destroyed or have been rebuilt since. The Mainz river flows through the city. We walked through a flea market along the water. Anything you can imagine. Middle-eastern jewlery and trinkets, furs (ugh,) clothes, shoes, etc. A very ethnic feel. Down to the food market. Lots of booths selling fruit, vegetables, hot food, cheese. We started off with a drink made of buttermillk and peaches. Tart at first, but yummy after a few sips. For lunch, we had potatoes (mine was like a potato pancake) with a special green sauce made of sour cream and 7 herbs (only made in Frankfurt!) Really tasty, espcially with the cider made from apples. As we wandered the market, I bought some hand cream made or beeswax, and there I met the "Mr. Bad Beekeeper." He was a jolly man who spoke great English. He pretended to trick me about giving me back the correct change so he said, "I'm a Bad Beekeeper! And I like to be bad!" He was so funny, and I can already see an idea for a great picture book. Encuentro de Cuentos. Dinner that night at a Thai restaurant called Erawen with Andrea, her friend Patsy, and their friend Till. Such great people. It is an honor to be in their company.
I took a four-hour train ride to Berlin yesterday. Manuervered my way through the train station, following the nice German people who were going my direction. The train ride was great. Northeast up through towns and the countryside. Lots of green pasture land, and beautiful towns with German-style architechture. One town had an amazing castle sitting atop a hill in the center. In Berlin, Andrea's friends Joe and Christiana met me to take me on a tour of a now united Berlin. We started off with the Reichstag Building, the German parliament building. The parliament was dissolved by Hitler, and in 1945, the end of the Battle of Berlin raged all around, leaving this building in ruins and rubble. It has since been rebuilt, and cupola that was once in the center, has since been redesigned by a new architect in glass, with a spiral staircase inside.
In the 17th century, trees were planted along the axis of one of the main streets, Unter Den Linden (under the trees.) This area holds many of the embassies, a German historical museum, New Guardhouse that acts as a National Monument for the victims of war and tyranny. One of the most historic intersections, Unter Den Linden-Friedrichstrasse, has famous hotels and cafes. Some of the businesses still remain unchanged. The Berlin Dome is a dramatic cathedral in the center of town. It' green oxidized iron domes are such a stark contrast to the darkened sandstone. The cathedral was severely damaged in the war, but has also been rebuilt. The bottom floor hold the crypt of the original Hohenyollern family The area around the cathedral was almost completely ruined during the war, but you would never know, with the lively energy and hustle and bustle of this area. After being completely destroyed, the palace in the center of Berlin no loner exists. East German leaders rebuilt The Palace of the Republic in 1974, but now that has been torn down as well, and a new palace--maybe similar to the original before the war. There is still much controversy about how to preserve the horrible parts of Berlin's past, yet remain true to the integrity of its history.
We visited an amazing area called Hackensche Höfe that is a colorful varietz of buldings within a narrow space. During the turn of the century, along of with industrialization, thousands of people were immigrating to Berlin to work. So the govenment constructed these tall upright apartment buildings with eight rear courtyards. Sometimes as many as 2-3 families would live in one small, apartment. Now the area is ful of restaurants, bars, clubs and theater--all preserving the original design and architechture. | <urn:uuid:52cacb19-9b8e-4220-9205-dd03ee5a09b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://encuentrodecuentos.blogspot.com/2008/04/hallo-from-wiesbaden-frankfurt-and.html | 2017-06-27T03:37:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320915.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170627032130-20170627052130-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.976158 | 1,085 | [
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Katalin Green was putting her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in photography and sculpture to good use in New Jersey’s arts scene, when her heart very decidedly pulled her West - and a little serendipitous luck landed her in Montana.
“ Growing this business in Montana - and in turn helping to strengthen Montana’s economy - is a dream come true for me. I love what I do, and I love where I am. It’s an amazing life.”
“I was on my way to Alaska when my car broke down…what resonated was not only how beautiful the landscape was, but how amazing the people are. I absolutely fell in love with their kindness and their stories and knew this is where I wanted to be.”
Katalin soon began capturing those uniquely Montana stories in beautifully crafted articles and images and sharing them in the Montana Bride publication she founded in 2001. It wasn’t long before she saw the potential for Montana Bride to be the forerunner for an entire wedding industry built around the Montana experience; and how deeply that experience resonates with people from across the country and around the world.
“In the late 90’s and early 2000’s nobody was coming to Montana for destination weddings. I knew that could change, so I built Montana Bride into a full business model focused on creating one-of-a-kind experiences…it just absolutely took off.”
Today, Montana Bride sources and offers clients every destination wedding service imaginable - from catering to fly fishing guided trips for guests - so that couples can offer their friends and family a lifetime of memories. As Katalin puts it, “we’re in the business of creating the kind of unique experience that creates a lasting impression…we want people to fall in love with Montana like I did.”
The destination weddings Montana Bride offers don’t just create great memories - they bring significant revenue into the Montana economy. Every time a bride and groom bring upwards of 100 people to the state for a wedding, thousands of dollars are spent in local restaurants, shops, and with service providers. Katalin references one Big Sky guest ranch that cites a “million dollar season” in the five weeks where they are constantly hosting weddings for couples from Montana and out-of-state. Revenue from the wedding season allowed the ranch to completely renovate their historic property, expand their amenities, and hire additional staff.
Growing Montana’s economy and fueling entrepreneurial activity in the state is a passion of Katalin’s: “I’m really an advocate for businesses and entrepreneurs because I think you need to carve your own path and do what you love…when I started this business model I really wanted it to to be a catalyst for other entrepreneurs.” Over the years, she’s had photographers and other beneficiaries of the wedding industry reach out to her to let her know Montana Bride helped make it possible to pursue their dreams, and to make a living in the place they’re proud to call home.
Katalin continues to evolve the Montana Bride business model, and is constantly looking for new ways to promote and grow the state’s wedding industry. This winter Montana Bride sponsored the Governor’s Conference on Tourism and Recreation, after Katalin realized how closely the destination wedding model aligns with the Office of Tourism’s to get people to come to Montana on vacation; to fall in love with the place, and to want to return time and time again. Katalin is currently working with the Montana Department of Commerce to identify state incentives and programs that will help advance their mutual goal of promoting Montana to a global audience.
As for her own entrepreneurial streak, Katalin is also looking at starting a series of workshops focused on helping other entrepreneurs learn the spectrum of crafts, such as photography and floral arranging, related to the wedding industry. She is also growing her own very busy event planning business - and in her spare time - enjoying the wide open spaces and endless recreation opportunities that drew her out West over two decades ago:
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On March 19th, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Chinese President Xi Jinping, two men in dark suits, white shirts, and red neckties, sat in matching armchairs in Beijing’s Great Hall of the People. Both of their bellies bulged slightly, and their neckties curved over their well-fed contentment. Their interaction, as described by Xinhua, China's state-run news agency, was equally amiable. Xi called on the United States and China to “expand coöperative areas and achieve win-win results.” Tillerson, who was on his first visit to Asia since taking over at the State Department, and was travelling without the press gaggle that usually chronicles the movements of America’s top diplomat, agreed that “the U.S. side is ready to develop relations with China based on the principle of no conflict, no confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win coöperation.”
Who could argue with such inoffensive sentiments? Tillerson’s words, however, echoed a curious antecedent. On numerous occasions, China’s President has used almost the same phraseology. As recently as last November. when he congratulated Donald Trump for winning the election, Xi vowed that he would partner with the new U.S. President “to uphold the principles of non-conflict, non-confrontation, mutual respect, and win-win coöperation.”
It is possible that during the thirty minutes that he spent behind closed doors with Xi, Tillerson took a more forceful tone with his hosts. Certainly, there are those in the Trump camp—including the President himself—who have urged China to rein in an increasingly belligerent North Korea and to ease restrictions on American companies. Nevertheless, by parroting Xi’s anodyne language, Tillerson sent a message that was picked up the next day by the Global Times, an influential newspaper linked to the Chinese Communist Party. “Tillerson has implicitly endorsed the new model of major power relations,” the paper said. The story added that Tillerson's language had given “U.S. allies in the Asia-Pacific region an impression that China and the U.S. are equal in the region.” Endorsing this model, the article continued, was something that “the previous administration of Barack Obama refused to do,” despite China’s repeated use of the term during bilateral meetings.
Ever since Trump was elected on an America First platform, Beijing has pondered not just equality but supremacy on the international stage. A nation that once counted Albania as one of its few diplomatic allies now serves as the biggest trading partner for dozens of countries. In January, at the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Zhang Jun, a top Chinese diplomat, explained China’s new positioning to reporters. “If anyone were to say China is playing a leadership role in the world, I would say it's not China rushing to the front but rather the front-runners have stepped back, leaving the place to China," he said. “If China is required to play that leadership role then China will assume its responsibilities.”
Davos itself provided evidence: Trump stayed away from the annual gathering of global élite, while Xi chose this year to make his first appearance there. Addressing a crowd spooked by the rise of nativist politicians worldwide, Xi presented China as the ultimate responsible global citizen. Since taking office, Trump has pulled the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement and has pressed America to abandon its climate-change commitments. Into this political vacuum, Beijing has offered up trade agreements of its own design. Xi made sure to point out that China does, in fact, believe in global warming. As Trump works to close America’s borders, the Chinese capital hosts a constant stream of foreign dignitaries. The day before Tillerson arrived in Beijing, Xi welcomed Paul Kagame, the President of Rwanda. The day before that, the Chinese President met with King Salman bin Abdulaziz, of Saudi Arabia, to sign trade and investment deals worth as much as sixty-five billion dollars.
China now boasts the world’s second-largest economy, but it hardly serves as a global economic role model. As growth in China has tapered off, protectionism has surged. American companies, once loathe to offend Beijing lest they threaten market access, now complain openly about state-supported efforts to cut into their profits or copy their technology. Just as Tillerson arrived in town, news emerged that Pinterest had been added to the long list of banned Western Web sites in China, one which already includes Google and Facebook. Pinterest’s life hacks and craft tips seem an unlikely target, but even the most apolitical of foreign companies can fall victim to politics.
Stepping into the void created by America’s seeming retreat from vigorous foreign policy does not mean that Beijing can—or is even eager to—project moral leadership to the world. If anything, China’s most clearly articulated foreign policy over the decades has been non-interference in other nations’ internal affairs. China’s authoritarian government detains its citizens by the hundreds simply for criticizing the Communist Party. The human-rights activist Liu Xiaobo languishes in a Chinese jail, the only Nobel Peace Prize laureate behind bars. (His wife, meanwhile is under de-facto house arrest, even if she has not been found guilty of any crime.) Under Xi, who came to power in late 2012, a crackdown on lawyers, writers, and activists has dampened hopes for political reform.
That global moral authority has, traditionally, been taken up by the United States—even if it was often undercut by Washington’s support of dictators and invasions of sovereign nations. But the new Administration does not seem eager to assume such leadership. Every year, the State Department releases a human-rights report that records abuses around the world. Yet, earlier this month, for the first time in years, the new Secretary of State declined to personally present the report. Tillerson has also threatened to pull the U.S. out of the United Nations Human Rights Council. “The U.S. is hemorrhaging credibility because it is not standing up strongly for its values of human rights and democracy,” Nicholas Bequelin, the East Asia director for Amnesty International, told me. “The worst thing is that this is a self-inflicted injury because it is the U.S. that is choosing not to herald the values it has promoted since the end of the Second World War.”
By his own admission, Tillerson is not “a big media-press-access person,” as he told the one journalist from a conservative Web site, whom he allowed to fly with him on his Asia tour. As the former ExxonMobil chief reached Beijing, after stops in Tokyo and Seoul, American journalists found that they, on occasion, had to rely on the organs of China’s Communist Party for intelligence on their Secretary of State’s movements. The U.S. Department of State’s Web site offered scant details. Although Tillerson said that he brought up human rights with his Chinese counterparts, the overall impression of his Beijing trip was that the fundamentals of democracy—free speech, civil society, a vigorous press—were an afterthought to the niceties of “win-win coöperation.” (Although nothing was confirmed during Tillerson’s visit, Xi may meet Trump in early April in Florida.)
On March 20th, I reached Hu Jia, a Chinese dissident who has spent years in jail or under house arrest. Every time that there is a sensitive anniversary, a visit by a foreign dignitary, or a political conclave, Hu is tailed by state-security personnel or local authorities. Often, he is hustled out of Beijing or confined to his home, lest he disturb the Chinese state’s sense of order. During Tillerson’s visit, Hu happened to be participating in a trail-running race near the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou. “I do not think that Tillerson has expressed concern about the Chinese Communist Party’s human-rights record,” Hu told me. “We dissidents in China feel a bit disappointed.” That didn’t matter, though, to local police in Hangzhou, who checked to make sure that Hu was racing off-road rather than speaking out in Beijing. “I was,” he assured me, “just running.” | <urn:uuid:4ab61ce3-95f9-4e38-9476-408dcc4ee164> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/rex-tillersons-deferential-visit-to-china | 2017-06-28T17:45:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323721.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20170628171342-20170628191342-00635.warc.gz | en | 0.971359 | 1,780 | [
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No, I doubt if we ever truly get over the death of someone we loved very deeply–and the longer or more closely we knew them, the harder it will be. The Bible tells of a mother "weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more" (Matthew 2:18).
At the same time, God wants to comfort us in our times of sorrow–and He will, if we will let Him. Jesus' promise is for you and for every person who passes through times of sorrow: "Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted" (Matthew 5:4). God's promise is true: "As a mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you" (Isaiah 66:13).
How can you know God's comfort? First, thank Him every day for the years you and your wife had together; they were, after all, a gift from Him. Thank Him also that your wife is now safely in heaven, beyond the reach of the pain and distress of this life. Thank Him also that someday you will join her in heaven if you know Christ.
Then ask God to help you reach out to others who need His comfort. They need your love and concern–and you need theirs also. Don't try to carry your burden alone, but don't make others carry their burden alone, either. All around you are people who need encouragement, and God wants to use you to help them and point them to His love. God bless you. | <urn:uuid:42ba5bac-f026-4919-9129-5ff64bc06754> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://billygraham.ca/topics/crisis-situation/death/i-lost-my-spouse-to-cancer-three-years-ago,-and.aspx | 2017-06-29T12:46:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128323970.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20170629121355-20170629141355-00715.warc.gz | en | 0.966406 | 315 | [
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Now, I am not exactly the demographic the late Randy Pausch's Last Lecture was geared toward. That's enough about that because there is no need to speak snark of the dearly departed. But I must give him this: he got the word out about the Art of the Apology. You can dress it up, but it rises and falls on these three components:
- What I did was wrong.
- I'm sorry I hurt you.
- How do I make this right?
Though I should stress at great length, it's never about the expense; it is always about the integrity of the gesture -- it is not possible to buy one's way out of the doghouse. My last ex pissed me off over a vacation a few years ago, and brought me home a Mac airbook ... which I rejected -- because he was being extravagant, but not thoughtful (and being thoughtLESS was what landed him in the doghouse in the first place). I really, really wanted that airbook too, but how was he supposed to learn?
This past summer, a guy bailed on me for a big evening out... where I was one of the guests of honor. And what I got was an email explaining why he couldn't make it (a really, really flimsy email). Clearly, there was no d'anjou pear, no matter how succulent, that could atone for a transgression so monumental. I didn't answer the email, and as far as I was concerned, that was that. And by that, I mean, if I never saw him again as long as I lived, that was fine by me. A few more half-hearted desultory emails and texts followed, which I answered with five words, "you are dead to me."
Awkwardly enough, I ran into him a little while later -- in a very public place, which is why I felt like it was socially acceptable to just keep walking. Again, as I've said before, I don't confront people to their face. I was raised right.
But no, he ran me down, and what followed was an "explanation" (which sounded a lot more like a harangue) about how he had a perfectly good reason for not being at my gig; that if it came up again, he would do the exact same thing; and how he couldn't really believe I would just never speak to him again because of it. (Really? Have we met. Cause anyone who knows me would tell you that is exactly the kind of thing I would do, and that it is not even a little bit out of character.)
So instead of: I was wrong; I'm sorry; how can I make it up to you? -- what I got was: I was right; I'm not sorry; and you're being rude for not accepting my non-apology apology.
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18 Pages Posted: 29 Jan 2006
Date Written: March 2000
This paper examines the effect of unionization on welfare and trade policy in a model of duopolists competing in a third market. It shows that the traditional result that the presence of a union necessitates a stronger strategic trade policy to reach the optimal level of welfare depends on the mode of competition. With Bertrand duopolists, a union can be welfare-improving; it can also lead to a weaker trade policy, or even reverse the direction of the optimal policy. The results highlight the importance for trade policy of understanding the nature of firm behavior and the institutional features of the labor market.
Keywords: strategic trade policy, trade union, wage bargaining
JEL Classification: F13, J51
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
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Looking back, ominous portents abounded, although we didn't recognize them at the time. The night after I left Peter Beard in Kenya, a pregnant giraffe stumbled into the yard at Hog Ranch—the tent [#image: /photos/54cbf4b81ca1cf0a23ac5103]encampment where he lives outside Nairobi—and collapsed. After laboring all night to give premature birth, the giraffe, who had apparently been shocked by a neighbor's electric fence, expired.
"Hog Ranch was left with a grotesque morning scene featuring uniformed 'Old Etonians' performing autopsy African-style—meat cleavers and saws/vultures, hawks, local dogs, and some lucky governesses with frying pans and plastic shopping bags—NYAMA!" Beard wrote me a few days later, using the Swahili word for meat. "Luckily the long surrealistically twisted embryo was ideal subject matter for yours truly, the relentless parasite with 2 panoramic cams."
As a renowned wildlife photographer, Peter Beard has been obsessed with images of death and loss since he made his reputation more than 30 years ago with The End of the Game, his chilling chronicle of disaster at Kenya's Tsavo National Park, where tens of thousands of elephants starved because of encroaching civilization and conservation mismanagement. And as a lifelong adventurer, Beard has always been notorious for flaunting every caution. He thinks nothing of swimming in crocodile-infested waters, has personally witnessed less fortunate acquaintances being gobbled up, and once sprinted away as a colleague on safari was gored and thrown by a charging rhino.
But in September, after decades of defying danger with reckless abandon, Peter Beard finally succumbed to the odds. Photographing a herd of elephants on the Tanzanian border, Beard riled a cow elephant, who charged. As she tried to impale him, Beard—attempting to evade her tusks—hung on to her leg. She crushed him with her head, pressing him to the ground and fracturing his pelvis in five places as well as slashing his thigh. Other elephants crowded around, nosing him with their trunks. When Beard arrived at Nairobi Hospital, doctors warned that he was bleeding to death from internal injuries; as he was wheeled into the operating theater, he had no pulse.
But, after a long operation to piece his pelvis back together, using an external scaffold pinned to hipbones through the skin, the bleeding was stopped. The most immediate danger became the risk of infection: at the very least, Beard faced weeks in the hospital and up to a year of recovery.
As shocking as it was, the news proved less than surprising to Nairobians who have long watched Beard's antics with a mixture of fascination and horror. "People have been expecting it," says Terry Mathews, the former safari guide who was savaged by a rhino on a Beard expedition. "He was playing the fool with elephants 20 years ago, back when he was married to Cheryl Tiegs. Everyone knew he was either going to hurt somebody else or hurt himself. Now he's done it."
Only a few weeks earlier, Beard had been quite chipper as he welcomed me to Hog Ranch, a ragtag assortment of tents topped with thatched roofs. Fresh off a plane from Paris and the couture collections, which he photographed for French Elle, he rolled a joint and sipped a cocktail of gin and passion-fruit juice as we settled down in front of a campfire while a smiling African servant passed around a tray of hors d'oeuvres.
Just beyond the congenial ring of leather safari chairs, enormous warthogs snorted and snuffled around a mudhole, their tiny pig eyes almost invisible above their gnarled snouts, each of which sported a curly pair of tusks. In the distance, the four raised knuckles of the Ngong Hills turned intensely blue in the dusk; Beard's ranch adjoins the land once owned by Isak Dinesen, back when she was a coffee-plantation owner named Karen Blixen, and his view of the Ngong Hills is the same one she described in Out of Africa.
It has been more than 40 years since Peter Beard first came to Kenya as a teenager infatuated with the romance of Africa. More than three decades ago, he bought the 45 acres he has clung to ever since, despite the steadily encroaching suburbs, the rising land prices, his own increasingly desperate financial straits, and even some nefarious attempts to drive him off his property (including trumped-up charges which landed him in a Nairobi jail several years ago).
To a first-time visitor, Hog Ranch seems peaceful and exotic. Lying in an open tent in the middle of the night, gazing out onto a landscape brilliantly illuminated by a full moon, one hears the rustling in the underbrush and the voices of countless creatures chattering and yowling in the mysterious darkness. It is easy to imagine the leopards that used to stalk the place after nightfall; once one ate a monkey right outside the tent where I slept, leaving behind only a fluff of fur.
But Beard—whose endlessly repeated theme over the last four decades has been the destruction of the Africa he knew and loved—has never been mollified by the beauties of his adopted continent; he has always been preoccupied with the ravages of civilization. "Listen to those dogs barking," he told me just after my arrival. "The wilderness is gone, and with it much more than we can appreciate or predict. We'll suffer for it."
At 58, Peter Beard is remarkable for many reasons. "Half Tarzan, half Byron" is how Bob Colacello described the Beard of a quarter of a century ago in Holy Terror, his book about Andy Warhol. The wives have come and gone, the decades have rolled by, but Beard remains what he has always been: an internationally known photographer who has contempt for photography; a diarist whose densely adorned volumes have influenced artists as disparate as Andy Warhol and Francis Bacon; a rakishly handsome playboy; an enthusiastic drug user who always seems to have a joint lit (unless there are magic mushrooms or cocaine available); a trust-fund spendthrift who is perennially broke; a magnet for controversy.
And to everything, including the feuds he so relishes, Beard has always brought his characteristic exuberance. "One of his great attractions is his enormous passion and enthusiasm for whatever he involves himself in," says Lee Radziwill, a former lover, adding that Beard possesses "an extraordinary charm."
Equally at home in the hippest Manhattan nightclubs and the most remote reaches of the African bush, Beard is forever spouting dire warnings and apocalyptic predictions about the fate of a doomed planet. It is a vision he has always expressed most hauntingly with his work, an extremely eccentric oeuvre that transcends every genre and resembles nothing outside of its creator's fervidly bizarre imagination. This fall marks a certain milestone with a major retrospective exhibition opening November 5 at the Fondation Rothschild's Centre Internationale de Photographie in Paris. But even before his accident, Beard found himself poised uncertainly on the brink of his own future: sickened by much of what he sees in today's troubled Africa, even more broke than usual, since much of his trust-fund income has been diverted to support his estranged third wife and child, and inching ever closer to the dismaying watershed of his 60th birthday. Should he replace the dilapidated safari tents at Hog Ranch or give up on the place entirely? Is it finally time to move on, to leave Kenya—the most sustained passion of his life—behind?
Such concerns have always evaporated quickly, driven from his mind by the haze of marijuana smoke and his intense desire not to confront reality; he'd much rather grapple with a crocodile. "I'm an escapist," he tells me unrepentantly, a bad-boy twinkle in his eyes. "I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want, without someone looking over your shoulder."
He flashes a dazzling smile. "I'm the most irresponsible person you ever met," he announces triumphantly.
Over the years, many girlfriends, several wives, and innumerable colleagues have counted on the possibility that Beard might actually grow up. Others were more astute. "I remember Truman Capote saying that Peter would never change," recalls Barbara de Kwiatkowski, who caused a minor social scandal a couple of decades ago when she left her first husband to run off with Beard, who was then Lee Radziwill's paramour.
Indeed, his name might as well be Pan. So far, Beard's resolute determination has outlasted them all.
The first day of my visit to Hog Ranch, Beard finally ambles out of his tent in early afternoon to begin the day. He is clad only in his usual kikoi, a colorful sarong-like loincloth. His torso is sinewy and nut-brown, with not an ounce of extra flesh, and he looks surprisingly fresh for someone who stayed out until five a.m. Apparently, after I begged off at two a.m. to get some sleep, Beard stopped in at the Carnivore, a local hangout whose menu features zebra and ostrich and crocodile as well as a diverse array of Nairobi night crawlers. It isn't until the Ethiopian girls begin to wander out of his tent that I realize he didn't come home alone.
As more girls appear, I finally ask, "How many of them are there?"
Beard shrugs. "Four or five."
"Did they all sleep in your bed?"
Beard nods, grinning.
"Wasn't it crowded?"
"We were very cozy."
"Aren't you tired?"
"It's such a waste, sleep," he says dismissively. "You're just lying there."
In the coming days I will realize this is par for the course; leave Beard alone for a few minutes and women materialize around him like mushrooms after a heavy rain. The next night he turns up with an elegant young woman who works in Kenyan television; the day after that he appears with a 16-year-old German model. He never explains why they're there or what they mean to him; they are simply part of the landscape, like the drugs and the servants and the wildlife. Separated from his third wife, a descendant of Afghan nobility named Najma, Beard is currently embroiled in an acrimonious divorce which includes allegations that he molested their daughter, who is now eight. There is also a Danish girlfriend, but she's back in Denmark, and the general modus operandi seems to be, Love the one you're with.
As the young Ethiopians cluster shyly around him, Beard gives me a wink. "The last thing left in nature is the beauty of women," he says as he rolls a joint, his big, capable hands scarred and battered, his fingernails black with deeply encrusted dirt. And then he sails into his favorite subject as if borne on a gust of wind.
"When I first came here in 1955, there's no way you could imagine how great it was," he exclaims, his face alight. "It was paradise, believe me. This was one of the heaviest wildlife areas in the history of the world, and now it's a parking lot. People think you're a whiner or a complainer if you mention it, but the speed with which we destroy nature is overwhelming, and we adapt to the damage we cause with unbelievable cunning. The obvious metaphor here is the elephant."
And off he goes, ranting about the elephant deaths at Tsavo National Park. Start a conversation on almost any topic and Beard will turn it into a tirade about the predations of man and the destruction of the environment. He is equally scathing about the attempt to salvage something. "Conservation is for guilty people on Park Avenue with poodles and Pekingeses," he says derisively.
His abhorrence of what humans have done to his beloved Africa has driven him to the brink of drastic action. "I'm moving to Montauk," he claims, blissfully unaware of the catastrophe that will soon confine him to a Nairobi hospital bed. "I'm out of here. It's so anachronistic, being here. It's evolving into kind of a joke. My driveway is like Bel Air: people with hard hats riding their horses, governesses wheeling their prams. Can you believe they've got go-slow bumps on this road now?"
"So why haven't you left yet?" I ask, knowing that Beard is about as likely to leave Africa as I am to become an astronaut.
"It's such an interesting microcosm of our own doom," he says. "It's a fascinating experiment. We're in deep shit."
This thought seems to delight him; the worse things get, the happier Beard appears to be. After all, he's been forecasting disaster for decades now. "I can kick a dead horse longer than anyone," he says with satisfaction.
In recent years, Beard's apocalyptic talk has acquired new dimensions; spend any time in Nairobi and you find that Topic A is local crime. Over lunch, the restaurant owner stops by our table to tell us how his dog got attacked by a leopard, his neighbor's cows were eaten by lions, and his restaurant was held up by armed thugs. You don't just get mugged in Nairobi; you get assaulted by a dozen guys wielding AK-47s. One night we walk into another restaurant and find a woman sobbing in a corner; she has just been robbed by 10 men who took her money, credit cards, passport—even her shoes. Apparently she was lucky; Kenyans can't wait to tell you about all the lurid incidents in which tourists on safari have been hacked up with machetes (Beard once saved a whole busload of Germans from being butchered) or assaulted in their hotel rooms—and then how the corrupt police shake down the victims afterward, while the government, fearful of discouraging tourism, covers up the atrocities.
At Hog Ranch, there has been one attempted murder with a hammer and another aborted assault in which Gillies Turle, an Englishman who lives on the property, and his girlfriend woke up in the middle of the night to find three guys preparing to bash their brains in with large rocks. Beard tells these stories with tremendous relish.
"Even in this horrendous compromise of concrete and horror, it's more real than the U.S.," he says flatly. "You don't get the thrill in the United States anymore; you get the lawyers. I'm like everyone else, except I just like to have a little more excitement than boredom."
It was the thrill that drew him here to begin with, lured by the whiff of romance he picked up as a child in the African Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. He came from a privileged and patrician background: his great-grandfather J. J. Hill had founded the Great Northern Railway, and Beard's grandfather was tobacco heir Pierre Lorillard, who founded Tuxedo, New York, and invented the tuxedo. Peter and his two brothers grew up on Manhattan's Upper East Side in a nine-room apartment with Daumiers and Corots on the walls.
But his memories of those years are sour. "I was a robot," Beard says. "I went to every single school my father went to. I had it all handed to me. I was just too spoiled."
When I ask what his father did, Beard is dismissive. "Remarkably little," he says. "He was basically looking into his investments." As for his mother, she "suffered from lack of education and the disease of conformity. Her day would be ruined if you didn't have a clean suit on," he says dryly.
Since Beard is the kind of guy who wears the same filthy clothes for days at a time, his clashes with his mother were chronic; from early childhood he was labeled the black sheep of the family. "I always felt everyone was pretty much against me," he admits. Did that make for a lonely life? He shrugs. "It's a lonely life for almost everyone. But you can get a lot out of isolation. Maybe it's motivating. Motivation is valuable, however you get it—even if you get it by being slapped in the face."
Although he was a terrible student, Peter managed to squeak through Buckley and Yale, where he was a member of Scroll & Key, but his first taste of Africa changed him for life. "It was total authenticity—something totally real," he recalls.
His parents tried to steer him into a conventional mode by enrolling him in a J. Walter Thompson training course, but Beard quickly went awol. "I didn't even go to my graduation; I went right back to Africa," he says. He never actually said no to the advertising job; he just never showed up. Like most aspects of Beard's life, his course was determined by drift rather than decision. "I did not decide," he says proudly. "I did not decide to be a useless bum for my entire life; I've just become one. I'm not against bums, but I'm definitely a bum."
He is famously hopeless with money. On my first night in Nairobi, after a lavish dinner of oysters and crab and gin and wine, as I was preparing to pay the bill (when you're with Peter Beard, you always end up paying the bill), I asked him how much a Kenyan shilling was worth; only a couple of hours off an airplane, I hadn't yet had a chance to figure out the local currency. A resident of Kenya for more than 30 years, Beard had no idea. He prides himself on never having held a paying job in his life, and he is in debt to virtually everyone he knows. "He's $30,000 into me," reports Peter Riva, who describes himself as Beard's "manager, agent, and baby-sitter," as well as his close friend. "A check from Peter Beard is like an I.O.U.," observes Peter Tunney, whose SoHo gallery, The Time Is Always Now, features a permanent Beard exhibition.
Beard is also completely shameless about cadging whatever he can. Whenever you take him out to dinner, he shows up with 5 or 10 or 20 extra people, blithely assuming someone else will pick up the check. "He just loves to run up the bill," Tunney sighs. When you go to the grocery store, Beard gets you to buy the week's groceries, then tries to tack on months of back debts. Although he doesn't have his own car, he enjoys the use of Gillies Turle's ancient junker; on my first trip to Hog Ranch, the car died several kilometers away, and we had to hike the rest of the way, hauling my luggage. Beard hit me up for gas money, slipped in an oil change, and then tried to get me to pay for a new alternator for the car.
"I'm broke," he says cheerfully. "People think I'm rich, but it's a very meager trust fund I've got; I've always just survived. It's amazing that I have gotten through without total bankruptcy."
According to Riva (who is Marlene Dietrich's grandson), the principal in Beard's account is currently around $1.2 million. That may not be everybody's idea of broke, but Beard's view always departs from the conventional. He doesn't even object to the most frequently repeated description of him over the years. "I don't mind the word 'dilettante.' A dilettante means someone who does what he loves," Beard protests.
And what he loves most has always been his own curious art form, a combination of photography and collage that is currently metamorphosing into the oversize works that will be shown in Paris. While the large scale is relatively new, the form is one Beard has used for decades, most notably in his notorious diaries, which are nothing if not original. "When you look at his diaries, you think, The man is mad!" observes his friend Iman with affection.
The diary habit began back when Beard and Radziwill were lovers and Jacqueline Onassis gave him a leather-bound journal he proceeded to fill with all manner of debris. Year by year, the diaries piled up, overstuffed volumes grotesquely swollen with the detritus of a life, each page densely layered with photographs and an astonishing assortment of other items: tiny rodent skulls, candy-bar wrappers, keys, buttons, flamingo feathers, a pocket from a pair of velvet jeans, peanut shells, dried leaves, plastic cocktail stirrers, a piece of a cereal box, mysterious newspaper headlines (woman saved from slime!), bones and rocks, smears and dribbles of blood (always Beard's favorite artistic medium), intricate line drawings and elaborately inscribed quotations, cigarette butts, rubber gloves, matchbooks, fish skeletons, plastic ketchup packets, a desiccated lizard, a dung-beetle foot—the variety is endless.
A veritable time capsule of their era, the diaries are also crammed with pictures of the rich, famous, and beautiful people who have populated Beard's life. Always enamored of models, he was Veruschka's favorite photographer, a longtime friend of Lauren Hutton's, and pals with dozens of others, from Janice Dickinson to Paula Barbieri. A frequent guest on Aristotle Onassis's yacht, Beard spent months on the island of Skorpios with Jackie and Lee, and once won $2,000 when Onassis bet him he couldn't stay underwater for four minutes. (Jackie clocked him at 4:20.) Beard used to baby-sit for Caroline Kennedy and her brother, John, whose childhood drawing of a monkey is still tacked up in the kitchen at Hog Ranch.
Ever a heartthrob, Beard has had admirers of every description, from such girlfriends as Candice Bergen and Carole Bouquet to his buddy Francis Bacon, who has painted him more than 30 times. "Peter was one of the most beautiful men in the world," attests Barbara de Kwiatkowski, a former model. "He should have been a movie star." His guests at Hog Ranch have included Kennedys and DuPonts, Mellons and Rockefellers; his friends have ranged from Isak Dinesen to Bianca Jagger to Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia. He seems to have caroused with everyone. "Mick arrived so drunk from an afternoon with Peter Beard and Francis Bacon that he fell asleep on my bed," reported Andy Warhol in a diary entry from the 1970s.
Fragments of all these experiences surface in Beard's work, which provides a felicitous metaphor for his life. "Every single moment of my life has just been getting through it; there's not a single moment of development," he maintains. "Whatever is there is just like a coral reef: accidental accumulation."
And accidental accumulation is the beauty of the diaries. "I'm an expert on futility, and I like the futility and the pettiness of my diaries," Beard says. "It's a sort of laundry list of the day. Totally meaningless, but it makes a texture, the texture of the day, and at the end of the year you have a lot to show for the year. It's life-thickening. I don't think of it as work; I've always just loved doing it. It's like being an addict."
He doesn't think of his diaries as art, either. "It's avoidance of art; that's what the diaries are all about. I've avoided doing art because I never liked homework," says Beard, who was an art major at Yale.
Although photography—both his own and that of others—constitutes a major element in his work, Beard is equally disparaging about that art form. "Photography is such a retard profession, and the people in it are such parasites on technology," he says venomously. "Photography has become an all-money deal. Money kills creativity. All this technical equipment, dozens of crew—it's complete bullshit. It destroys the magic."
Beard's friends have often wondered why he isn't more successful; certainly he has failed to cash in financially to the extent that he could have, had he ever focused on marketing his work. "He has so much humor about himself and would never take himself as seriously as most successful people do, which also makes him somewhat of a rarity," observes Lee Radziwill.
Beard has, of course, taken abysmal care of his work over the years; the diaries that survive are crumbling, and many years' worth were destroyed when his millhouse in Montauk burned down in 1977. Although almost everything he lost was irreplaceable, including Picassos, Warhols, and Bacons, Beard refused to give in to any grief. "I remember having a little sob on my own for like three seconds," he concedes. "But you can either worry and moan and fuss, or totally avoid that by just not doing it. I swear to God I've never looked back."
Indeed, Beard is a firm believer in the efficacy of repression. "I've found denial is just unbelievably important," he says enthusiastically. "Tomorrow is another day, and most people don't really remember that when they get all excited and fuss. If there's a moment of emotion, so what? Repress it. Don't tell someone how jealous you are. Don't go around whining. Force a little perspective on yourself."
Such stoicism extends to his romantic life as well. "I'm a very jealous person, but I would never dream of showing it. That just means you're a jerk," he exclaims.
And, anyway, it's not as if Beard believes in monogamy. All of his marriages have ended badly. He was dismayed by the failure of the first one, to Newport socialite Minnie Cushing, but says he was absolutely delighted to get divorced from Cheryl Tiegs. "The institution of marriage should be re-examined because of its overwhelming claustrophobia," he declares. "The odds are stacked against spontaneity and effervescence. It's an institution that was brought about for the sake of family and children, but biologically it's very unnatural. It's masochism and torture the way it's been organized."
We've been sitting in Peter's tent, curled up on an ancient velvet sofa. Along with a vast array of animal skulls and bones, crocodile heads, gourds, Sudanese baskets, a woven baby's bed from Lamu, and even the full plumage of a peacock are old pictures of Zara, his daughter, scattered throughout the tent. He hasn't seen her "since March 19," he says, his jaw tightening.
One of the Ethiopian girls pokes her head in, looking for his jar of marijuana. She is wearing a long, clinging sweaterdress that reveals every curve of her taut behind. Beard gazes after it with admiration as she strolls off. "What an unbelievably beautiful ass!" he exclaims.
When I call Najma Beard, she is appalled to learn that Peter has been talking about the allegations of sexual molestation involved in their divorce. "It's so awful that he would put it in the public arena," she gasps, as if someone had kicked her in the stomach. "This was only meant to be a family issue." Her voice turns bitter. "But Peter has seen fit to talk about it in every restaurant, every nightclub, with a bunch of hangers-on and sycophants and third-rate human beings."
She starts to sob. "I don't want to say anything terrible about Peter, because he's Zara's father. But this is something that's very, very serious. I literally begged him to go and get help, but he didn't want to. I was completely crazy about Peter; I would have done anything to save our marriage. I did my best to help Peter out of this, but when he refused to deal with the situation that existed in our family, I had to leave."
Beard's friends, who dismiss the idea that he could be guilty of child abuse, accuse Najma of using the issue for tactical advantage. "That is completely untrue," exclaims Najma, a tall, striking woman who is 20 years younger than Beard and comes from a strict Muslim fundamentalist family who strenuously opposed their marriage. "I'm just not that sort of person at all! I've gained nothing with this! My daughter's lost a father; I've lost a husband. I have absolutely nothing!
"Peter's problem always has been too many drugs," she adds. "Anything that's out there, anything that anyone gives him, he'll do. I think it does erode a lot of your morals; you have no boundaries, and when I felt my child was in danger I had to do something about it. I have not turned against him; even today, if he were to go for help with her, I'd be all for it. But I think Peter has started believing his own hype. Once you become a public person, you create a persona as sort of a mask, and you can't get out of it. I love him very, very deeply, but he's hurt us so much."
She starts sobbing again. "There are two Peters: one is a completely loving, vulnerable human being, and the other is a complete publicity-hound monster who wants to be a celebrity, and to be around celebrities. That's his downfall. He's absolutely petrified of getting old; Peter wants to be young, and drugs are his escape. When we had an intervention for him, he said, 'I like my drugs, and I don't think I have a problem.' It's a complete avoidance of reality."
Najma maintains that Peter's decision to stop seeing Zara was entirely his own choice. "It's going to be between him and his daughter one day, and I would not like to be in his shoes," she says bleakly. "There's too much darkness there. But he has no remorse about anything."
Before I went to Africa, I had expected Beard would be reluctant to discuss the molestation issue, but to my surprise he brought it up himself. He actually relishes conflict and loves nothing better than to regale listeners with an endless litany of stories about fights and feuds, lawsuits and grievances. He seems completely without shame; indeed, he is happy to fill you in on the worst things anyone has ever said about him. "I've always hated people who hold back the truth of things," he says.
He has denied any sexual abuse: "What's really disgusting is the utilization of child molestation as a divorce technique!" Oddly, however, he has only nice things to say about Najma. "I love my wife," he says brightly. "She's a totally good person. I think she got spoiled by America."
Although Beard's next book is Zara's Tales, an autobiographical account of his life's adventures which he is writing for his daughter, he won't even admit to any sadness about losing his child. "You can adapt to negative things," he says brusquely. "I'm not into sadness."
Indeed, despite all the wrecked marriages, the damaged child, the hurts and the debts and the disappointments, Beard remains the personification of masculine imperviousness. "I've never felt guilty about anything," he boasts, lighting one cigarette after another. "I have no regrets."
Needless to say, Beard—who enjoys being what he calls "pleasantly pixilated"—also rejects the idea that his drug use is a problem. "People say I did, but I don't think I ever used drugs excessively," says Beard, whose 40th-birthday party was held at Studio 54, complete with an elephant cake that descended from the ceiling. "I've met so many wonderful people on coke. I have nothing bad to say about it. I really enjoy coke."
His handsome, ravaged face brightens. "Got any?"
As Iman sweeps regally into the garden restaurant at the Essex House in New York, heads turn, as they always have. Impeccably groomed, she has a neck like a black swan, the whitest teeth I've ever seen, and a dazzling smile. Now married to rock star David Bowie, she has enjoyed a long career as an internationally famous model—a career she readily admits she owes to Peter Beard.
It has been more than 20 years since Beard first accosted her on a Nairobi street. "I have this man in a sarong and no shoes following me," she recalls. "He finally stopped me and said, 'Have you ever been photographed?' I thought, Well, I've heard lines, but this is ridiculous. What do these white people think? That my parents never took a picture of their family?"
The daughter of a doctor and a diplomat, Iman was a student at Nairobi University. Her family, in exile from Somalia, had just moved to Tanzania; Iman had earned a one-year college scholarship but was trying to muster the fees for further schooling. When Beard offered to pay her a year's tuition, she accepted.
But after sitting for a photo session, she started getting calls from the Wilhelmina agency in New York, asking her to come to the United States and become a model. After weeks of importuning from Wilhelmina and Beard, Iman agreed to fly to New York. There she found that he had planted an astonishing fairy tale about her in the papers.
"He hypes it that I'm six feet tall; I'm barely five feet nine inches," Iman says indignantly. "He claims I didn't speak a word of English; I spoke English, Italian, and Arabic, as well as Somali. He says he found me with goats and sheep—that I was some kind of shepherdess in the jungle!" She shakes her head, still amazed. "I never saw a jungle in my life.… But Peter lives in a fantasy world. He loves the idea of being my Svengali."
Iman, who was promptly hailed by Diana Vreeland as "Nefertiti rediscovered," became enormously successful, but Beard never had an affair with her and never profited in any way from her career; he seems simply to have enjoyed the drama of it all. And Iman eventually resigned herself, with a sort of amused exasperation, to his enthusiasms—even his nostalgia for the bygone culture of the British colonialists he so admires. "Peter loves the myth of Africa more than I do," Iman explains. "He 'loves' Africa, but we always have an argument about what Africa really is. Is it the animals and the landscape, or is it the people? He has no respect for Africans, but it's their continent—not his. For him, there are no people involved; they get in the way of his myth."
The question of Beard and his mythmaking has had eerie reverberations over the years, and in at least two disputes his veracity became a major issue. Nine years ago ABC filmed a television special called Last Word from Paradise: With Peter Beard in Africa. The producers engaged old friend Terry Mathews to serve as a consultant for the show. Stalking big game with cameras rather than guns, the team managed to enrage a massive female rhinoceros which was trying to protect her calf from the intruders. Beard got out of the way, but Mathews stood there yelling "Bugger off!" as the rhino charged. Goring him through the thigh, the beast slashed 16 inches upward into his pelvic and abdominal cavities, breaking six ribs as well as his leg and stopping within a quarter-inch of his heart.
Miraculously, given the extent of his injuries, he survived, but he and his wife subsequently filed lawsuits against Beard and ABC. The case dragged on for years and was finally settled out of court, but its repercussions still roil the social waters in Nairobi, where opinions remain polarized.
Beard blames Mathews alone for his fate. "This was an outrageous show-off blunder of total stupidity," he maintains. "The lawsuit was just an amazing crock of shit. There isn't one ounce of culpability on any of our parts."
Mathews tells a different story. "I think Peter wanted to get this animal to charge," he says. "When she chased after him, he ran back past me, directly toward the camera crew, who were loaded up with gear, and I felt responsible for those guys. I think Peter just wanted a sensational picture."
Another controversy arose in the early 1990s, when Beard and Gillies Turle published a book called The Art of the Maasai, which purported to reveal ancient tribal artifacts they were bringing to public view for the first time. Turle, a former antiques dealer, wrote the book, a hefty coffee-table volume published by Alfred A. Knopf, and Beard shot the photographs of a stunning array of items, from ceremonial pipes to medicine-mixing bowls, many carved from contraband materials such as ivory and rhino horn. "This is the most important African art discovery of the century," Beard insists. "These things are hundreds of years old. These are major museum pieces—collector's items!"
Both Beard and Turle have a significant financial investment in that view, since they've been collecting this material for years. But the academic community remains unconvinced. "I find it hard to believe that a class of art objects could be discovered so late in this century, when Maasai anthropologists have been around for well over a hundred years," comments Richard Leakey, the former director of the National Museums of Kenya. "Now there are thousands of these things on sale in art galleries all over the world. I'm just uneasy about it—why the Maasai I've talked to don't know about these things, and why there are suddenly so many of them. Are any of these things genuine? Some certainly must be fake, but are they all?"
Others are less diplomatic. "There isn't any controversy here," declares Donna Klumpp Pido, an anthropologist and expert on Maasai beadwork who wrote a scathing review of the book for African Arts magazine. "There is universal agreement in academic, scholarly, museum, and curatorial circles that these things are fakes. If you've handled a lot of stuff, you can tell a fake patina when you see one."
If the artifacts are fraudulent, the question then becomes whether their champions knew about the hoax. "When I wrote my review, I was making the kind assumption that Beard and Turle had been bamboozled by some Maasais, but it turns out that that's not the case," explains Klumpp Pido, who lives in Nairobi. "They're both perpetrating a fraud. I can't imagine they could be so dumb as to believe this stuff is real. They know bloody damn well it isn't."
Recalling Beard's fabrications about Iman, Klumpp Pido adds, "I must say, the guy's got balls: artistic balls, social balls, every kind of balls you can think of. He's a genius, but he's a fruitcake."
Beard and Turle scoff at such criticism, maintaining that further research will eventually vindicate them. "You cannot say a whole genre is fake without producing evidence," declares Turle. "I think the history of these artifacts will be traced back hundreds of years, if not thousands."
Indeed, expert opinion is not quite as unanimous as Klumpp Pido claims. Roderic Blackburn, an anthropologist and former research associate at the American Museum of Natural History, did extensive fieldwork among the Maasai to investigate the artifacts. "I could not find any reason to doubt the authenticity of these objects," he reports. "I don't see much basis for the doubts that have been cast."
Meanwhile, Beard freely admitted to me that he has been smuggling Maasai artifacts out of Kenya; he was positively gleeful as he described how he sneaked them past customs at the Nairobi airport. But he claimed he's not selling them; he said he just wanted to include Maasai objects in his show this fall, along with his photographs and collages.
"I'm really into these collages now," he told me. "I've got so much material from my whole life stacked up. Time has made most of it so rare. It's just a lucky coincidence that most of the things I've photographed are destroyed—and rarity is value. The subject matter is over, but I can wheel and deal it now."
His mind buzzes with ideas; he has even toyed with opening a Hog Ranch Bar & Grill, with a gift shop and, behind the bar, a diorama of the Ngong Hills. Then again, considering the realities of present-day Nairobi, maybe that's not such a good idea. "It's like setting it up in Watts or Bedford-Stuyvesant," he conceded glumly.
His friends know such fantasies will never happen. "Peter is not a commercial person," says Iman. "That's his beauty and that's his downfall. He's an artist; he does not live in society; he doesn't play by their rules. He's like a wild animal. He doesn't own a pair of socks; in winter he's wearing sandals and sloshing around in the snow. He would rather have grand disasters than just have a mediocre life."
Back in Manhattan, I head down to SoHo, where Peter Tunney's gallery is stuffed with Beard artifacts. When Beard is in town, he often works here, holding court and sending fellow revelers out to service him: "I need some ink!" "I need 25 six-foot snakeskins!" "I need a quart of cow's blood!"
In between all-night bouts of working, Beard carouses, sometimes with unfortunate results. Last winter Beard was supposed to meet his girlfriend at Spy Bar one night, but the bouncers barred his way. "He makes a run for it, they grab him and beat the shit out of him," Tunney reports. "They punched him, they kicked him, and they snapped his biceps tendon, which required surgery." [Spy Bar publicists admit only that Beard was "pushed."] As he was wheeled into the operating room, Beard's last words before succumbing to unconsciousness were directed to the anesthesiologist: "Can I get some of this stuff to go?" he asked hopefully.
Despite his doctor's entreaties, Beard never showed up for the prescribed physical therapy. Indeed, whether he gets Lyme disease or malaria, "he just completely ignores it," says Tunney. This modus operandi wouldn't work for most people, but Beard has always specialized in flouting the limitations that constrain ordinary mortals. Last summer, he and his Danish girlfriend were out in Montauk, where Beard owns the last house on Montauk Point. "Peter's girlfriend started ragging him about all his bad habits," Tunney recalls. "She's this strong Danish chick with a spandex suit on, and she said, 'Peter, you smoke, you drink, you drug, you stay up all night—and you're almost 60 years old! You need to start taking care of yourself. You should go running, like me—five miles a day!'"
So Beard, wearing his usual dusty African sandals, obligingly accompanied her on a run. Tunney expected him to last about five minutes. "An hour later, the girlfriend comes back, dripping," Tunney reports. "I said, 'Where's Peter?'"
"He loved it," she gasped. "He said he just wanted to keep going."
But then came the confrontation with the elephants. Beard's surgeon at Nairobi Hospital turned out to be the same one who had stitched Terry Mathews back together. "What goes around comes around," the doctor commented grimly.
Mathews, who was immediately inundated with phone calls from fellow Nairobians about Beard's accident, couldn't resist some black humor. "The witch doctor had nothing to do with it," he said wickedly.
As for Beard, he maintained his customary sangfroid even in extremis. After the elephant herd pulverized his midsection, his safari guide thought Beard must be dead—until Beard looked up at him and remarked, "Don't worry, I'm not gonna sue."
He underwent several lengthy operations over the next few days, but not even general anesthesia was able to dull the vehemence of his aesthetic opinions. As he was being wheeled out of the operating theater after the second surgery, which lasted four hours, Beard asked the color of the room he was being taken to: turquoise. "Oh, God, can't they get a better color," he groaned.
Beard's social proclivities were also undimmed; to the consternation of Nairobi Hospital officials, he received 320 visitors during his first three days in the hospital, according to Peter Riva.
Beard has no medical insurance, of course, and the bills will be astronomical, but his major regret is that the brush with death didn't provide the kind of mystical journey toward otherworldliness some people have reported. "I was technically dead, but I had no tunnel, no light, none of the other-frequency experiences—I was so disappointed," he exclaims. "It was a big anticlimax. The one person who really wanted to have that experience and I got none of it!"
Despite his intense pain, Beard's philosophical sympathies remain firmly with his antagonist. "It was the elephant's revenge for all the things people have done to them," he says breezily.
And yet perhaps he can put the accident to good use after all. "I need a final tale for Zara's Tales, and I guess this is going to be it," he tells me one day on the phone. "I never really had a close call like this, and that's what I wanted her book to be—the most heightened moments, the most dangerous mistakes. All the stuff kids like best."
Having discerned the requisite silver lining, he pauses for a moment while a nurse rearranges his body; even Beard can't suppress a few loud moans. Soon he will be transported back to New York, where American doctors will apply the latest technology to his shattered body, but for now he is happy to be where he is.
"They have hundreds of nurses here; it's very nice," he adds. "You see, it's all Dr. Pangloss: all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds." All the way from Nairobi, I can hear the sardonic glee in his laugh.
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Guys, if I were to be completely honest…. I made blueberry cheesecake rectangles. And yet telling people that you’re about to feed them ‘blueberry cheesecake rectangles’ doesn’t have quite the same ring to it. So yes, cut them up into squares. Get out a ruler and be absolutely pedantic about it. Or you can just tell them they’re squares and serve them rectangles – that’s how I’d play it!
Shapes aside, the story is that we were invited to someone’s place for dinner and we usually bring something along, more often than not dessert. I volunteered to make it, and since we had blueberry pie filling, I thought I’d make blueberry cheesecake. Now we usually have a go-to recipe for cheesecake, but honestly, it’s a bit of a mission making that one because there are quite a few ingredients involved and more than just a bit of mixing. It was a hot day, I was tired, and I simply wasn’t up for further kitchen slavery. So I decided to ditch it and find a new recipe that would hopefully turn out right. I bought the ingredients, and left the cream cheese on the counter to soften up. Then I tried reading ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ in the lounge. Don’t start asking me about it though; I fell asleep and really, it wasn’t my type of book.
Or maybe I should really just admit my failure to digest classics.
The good thing is, I digest classic food very well (har dee har har), especially when it comes to desserts, so I’m glad to say that this recipe was very easy to work with. If I can make it in my sleepy dazed state, so can you! Our family’s favourite cheesecake base is almost always made of McVitie’s Digestive biscuits, and I wouldn’t change that for the world. American readers, I haven’t come across graham crackers so I can’t even imagine what it tastes like. By all means, if you love that, you should stick with it.
If you don’t have blueberry pie filling (and it’s not exactly a supermarket shelf item here in Australia!), you can make your own by cooking down canned blueberries, adjusting the sweetness, and adding in cornstarch which has been diluted in water as a thickener. The next thing I did was to reduce the sugar because that’s just what I do by default, and also due to the sweetness of the blueberry topping I have on hand. I know everyone has their preferred level of sweetness when it comes to desserts, so go with your gut on this one. If you think I’m crazy for cutting down on that 1/4 cup, then add it in. Or you could roll with my version and justify having another slice! Glutton is my middle name, after all.
P/S: I forgot to bring my camera to the dinner party, so excuse the crappy photo of the final product.
Blueberry Cheesecake Squares
Adapted from Dienia B’s Blueberry Delight recipe
- 400 g McVitie’s Digestive biscuits
- 125 g unsalted butter, melted
- 500 g cream cheese, softened
- 3/4 cup blueberry pie filling
- 4 eggs
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla essence
- Crush the Digestive biscuits into a fine consistency (you can put them in a ziplock bag and use a rolling pin to bash them, or you can use a grinder) and mix well with melted butter. Press into the base of a 9 x 13 inch (22 cm x 33 cm) Pyrex dish or baking dish.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
- Beat the cream cheese, sugar and vanilla essence with a handheld mixer or blitz in a food processor until smooth (I used the latter method!).
- Mix in the eggs one by one and combine well.
- Pour the cheese mixture on top of the biscuit base and bake for 20 minutes. Do not overbake as the cake will further set upon cooling.
- Let cool completely.
- Spread the blueberry pie filling on the cheesecake evenly and refrigerate overnight.
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Matthew 25:35-40(NKJV)For I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in; 36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was in prison and you came to Me.
Unashamed Impact Kenya at a local orphanage.
As most of you know with Unashamed Impact I have a huge heart for acting as Gods hands and feet in our world. And that begins with each of us playing our part as a body by reaching out to our communities. I dont only believe its "ideal" but that its the responsibility of EVERY Christian to touch the lives of those around them. That being said, I've compiled some awesome ways to serve your community! I tried to think of pretty simple things that would be free to most cost efficient. Whether thats as a church or grabbing a few of your friends, dont go into the new year without making the solid decision to live a life of love, generosity, compassion, service and sacrifice. Amen? Amen!
Give some of your time to tutor children at a school in your area. Mentor a child/teen in your community or in your church. (Fellas! There are fatherless boys out there that need strong male guidance. You could be the one to alter the course of their life.)[space_20]
2. Feed the Homeless
Put together sack lunches and/or special dinners throughout the year and give to the homeless. (Check your city restrictions. Not all city laws allow you to give out food for safety reasons.) Or be an extra set of hands at your local church or pantry! Help pass out and prepare meals.[space_20]
3. Build a home
Partner with Habitat for Humanity to build a home for someone in need![space_20]
4. Host a Parents Night out
Make plans at your local church or recreational center with a group of others on the weekend. Provide snacks, games, and a movie for the kids. (For fun make it a pajama night!) Give the parents a much needed date night and the single moms/dads a break. Take it a step further- Charge $5 at the door and use the money you collected for another outreach project![space_20]
5. Spend time with the elderly
Its great to be on fire about our rising generation but lets not forget about the ones who got us here! They receive an emotionally rewarding experience that cant be bought or sold anywhere when we are givers of our time and love! Locate a senior home near you and see how you can get involved![space_20]
6. Do a community/beach trash clean up
Lets not forget who created this Earth and how good it was. Lets be good stewards of what Gods created for us.[space_20]
7. Visit/Volunteer at a hospital
Serve free coffee, energy drinks, and snacks to staff and those waiting in the emergency room or sign up to volunteer. *Related* Think about potentially volunteering with your local Red Cross for emergency crisis.[space_20]
8. Be a light to those in prison/jail
No life is beyond the reach of Gods grace and that includes inmates. Find a church or organization in your area thats engaged in Prison Ministry and the requirements to get involved. (They usually require background checks, finger printing, etc so be ready for the process though it will be worth it.)[space_20]
9. Practice Random Acts of Kindness
Pay for the persons meal or coffee in line behind behind you. Help a struggling person with groceries to their car. Give a homeless person a gift card to a restaurant. Put money in an expired parking meter. Let someone go ahead of you in line. When you receive good service, tell that persons manager or boss. Help someone who is broken down on the side of the road. Help someone move into their new place. The list goes on and on. Imagine if the body of Christ operated like this consistently![space_20]
My last time doing loads of love in Grand Prairie, TX with Courageous Church
10. Loads of Love
Plan a day to go to a nearby laundromat and help others load, wash and fold their clothes. Not everyone will welcome it but those who do deeply appreciate it. Dont forget to pray with them when done.
Ways to Reach the WORLD:
- Sponsor a Child in another country- Change the life of a child in need (WorldVision, Compassion)
- Support The Persecuted Church- Donate, Write letters, buy them Bibles (The Voice of the Martyrs)
- Become an advocate for sex trafficking- Donate, Write letters, volunteer with a sex trafficking organization and join the fight against injustice (A21 Campaign)
I was so excited to finally write this post. Nothing fuels me like impacting the world and meeting the needs of others. Consider taking on at least one of these missions this year and if you do let me know about it! I'd love to hear how everything went. Your sister, Brittney Moses | <urn:uuid:9e052dd0-9c31-4c5e-9fa5-31dfec91eb04> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://unashamedimpact.com/blog/10-ways-to-impact-your-city-in-2014 | 2017-06-25T15:29:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320539.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625152316-20170625172316-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.950321 | 1,079 | [
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While I'm normally content to sit back and watch other threads I've noticed a new disturbing trend in the recent Transformers releases. By luck or circumstance I tend not to end up with even remotely defective TF's, however, recently every TF I've purchased has ended up with stress marks (or had them right out of the box). My most recent purchases include -HftD Axor -PCC Mudslinger -HftD Hailstorm -HftD Terradive -PCC Double Clutch And every single one of them has upwards or 10 structuraly hazerdous stress marks running through various panels, and is esspecialy bad at the pin joints (Axor is the least problematic). Now, I am ocd-edly careful about stress points when transforming my figures and have never had anywere near this much trouble in the past so I'm wondering what's going on to cause all this. Didn't someone say a while back that Hasbro recently changed factories overseas? Maybe that's not related, but who knows? I know the first runs of a figure can be poor for various reasons but something seems kinda different about the plastic they are using for the new line, that, and none of my older figures ever stressed at the pin joints the way these new ones are. I'm also wondering if Hasbro has finnaly reached the critical point in their design intricacy were largely plastic figures can't support the strain of all the "tab and lock" thin panels etc. etc. I'm mostly interested if anyone else is having these problems and/or could shed some light on this issue. Since time already ravages toys so much it just seems to compound the issue with damage on the front end. I don't expect Tomahawk to be any better when I get him later this week, but my fingers are crossed anyway. Maybe this is all completely off-base, but still. | <urn:uuid:f832b555-7bd4-4951-937d-bc4bc1c3e2ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/stress-marks-got-me-stressin.335848/ | 2017-06-25T16:12:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128320539.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20170625152316-20170625172316-00595.warc.gz | en | 0.977004 | 387 | [
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Idaho Keeps Same Health Care Provider for Prison
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Idaho Board of Correction has awarded Corizon another contract to provide medical care to the state’s prison inmates. The Department of Correction and Corizon have had a rocky relationship in the past.
The state has been under pressure from a decades-old lawsuit to improve medical care for prisoners, and a court-appointed expert concluded more than a year ago that Corizon’s medical care at one prison was exceedingly poor.
Corizon countered that it was meeting national prison standards. Four companies submitted bids, and the proposals were scored based on technical details and overall cost.
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Memories of the West Boathouse, Glasgow
About the project
The timber-framed West Boathouse, on the banks of the River Clyde on Glasgow Green, was built by the Glasgow Corporation in 1905. The building is a hive of activity, housing two rowing clubs on each side of the semi-detached building.
Over 40 members of the two clubs, Clydesdale Amateur Rowing Club and Clyde Amateur Rowing Club, met with the Scotland's Urban Past (SUP) team in September 2015 to discuss potential projects about the history of the building, sharing old photographs, and recording memories from both veterans of the clubs and the younger generation of rowers.
By April 2016, a core group of volunteers from the two clubs had focussed their project idea. The group wanted to create oral-history recordings about the West Boathouse, memories of rowing events in times gone by, and experiences of being out on the river.
The SUP team provided training in oral-history recording, advice on running reminiscence sessions and equipped the group with recording devices for conducting interviews. A smaller group of volunteers received training in editing audio files and video production at the end of July 2016.
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GREENEVILLE, Tenn., June 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Jarden Zinc will announce its newest line of products, the Zahner(R) series of patinated zinc, which will debut at a launch party prior to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Convention in Denver.
“We are looking forward to introducing the Zahner/Jarden collaboration. We are certain the combination of the science of our unique patinas with the beauty and endurance of zinc will make an industry impact ” said L. William Zahner, President and CEO of Zahner. “There will be a significant number of architects, owners, clients, interior designers and artists at AIA who are very interested in the unique offerings available to them via the Jarden Zinc and Zahner collaboration.”
Jarden Zinc is the exclusive zinc provider of Zahner custom patinas, an agreement that was reached earlier this year.
With the different Zahner patina options available, the natural Zinc panels we start with transform into not only creative design elements with beautiful textures, but panels with all the inherent functional attributes of Zinc,” said Tom Wennogle, President of Jarden Zinc. “We’re quickly becoming a first-choice design option.”
Patinas that will be displayed at the launch party include:
— Roano — a custom patina used on the distinctive Baja 600 Dome, Kansas
City, where each of the hatched panels is a slightly different look than
the adjacent one. Roano was first developed because the architect for the
Taubman Museum in Roanoke, VA wanted a facade that was derived from the
rich colors of the Blue Ridge Mountains, thereby showcasing the rich
colors and hues of the ever-changing mountain leaves.
— Hunter — A pre-weathered zinc surface used on the Hunter Museum of
American Art in Chattanooga, whose tonality closely resembles the
limestone surroundings. Hunter is also very much in view on the Art
Gallery of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
A third, new patina will also debut at the party. The patina, a chocolate brown with flecks of yellow, it’s visually pleasing uniqueness is like no other patina produced before.
Discerning clients are motivated toward a natural patinated surface rather than painted or clear-coated surface. The Jarden/Zahner collaboration will make their visions a reality.
According to Zahner, “Patinated zinc extends the palette of zinc to architects and designers who want something that gives their projects a timeless signature look. It’s a way to promote superior design.”
The AIA convention is set for June 20-22; the Jarden Zinc and Zahner launch party will be June 19 at 7 p.m. at Coors Field. AIA attendees are invited to register for the launch party by visiting JardenRegistration.com.
Jarden Corporation is a leading provider of a diverse range of consumer products with a portfolio of over 100 trusted, quality brands sold globally. Jarden operates in three primary business segments through a number of well recognized brands, including: Outdoor Solutions: Abu Garcia(R), Aero(R), Berkley(R), Campingaz(R) and Coleman(R), ExOfficio(R), Fenwick(R), Gulp!(R), K2(R), Marker(R), Marmot(R), Mitchell(R), Penn(R), Rawlings(R), Shakespeare(R), Stearns(R), Stren(R), Trilene(R), Volkl(R) and Zoot(R); Consumer Solutions: Bionaire(R), Breville(R), Crock-Pot(R), FoodSaver(R), Health o meter(R), Holmes(R), Mr. Coffee(R), Oster(R), Patton(R), Rival(R), Seal-a-Meal(R), Sunbeam(R), VillaWare(R) and White Mountain(R); and Branded Consumables: Ball(R), Bee(R), Bernardin(R), Bicycle(R), Billy Boy(R), Crawford(R), Diamond(R), Dicon(R), Fiona(R), First Alert(R), First Essentials(R), Hoyle(R), Kerr(R), Lehigh(R), Lifoam(R), Lillo(R), Loew Cornell(R), Mapa(R), NUK(R), Pine Mountain(R), Quickie(R), Spontex(R) and Tigex(R). Headquartered in Rye, N.Y., Jarden ranks #371 on the Fortune 500 and has over 25,000 employees worldwide. For in-depth information about Jarden, please visit www.jarden.com.
SOURCE Jarden Zinc
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But we hired him to run our offense, not serve as the head coach. And this guy has been coaching offense for 30 years, most notably as the OC at Colorado State (before he took over as head coach), and the OC for the Rams, Bills, and Chargers in the NFL.
Here are some of the nuts and bolts of Fairchild's system, as best as I can tell from scouring the interwebs:
- He runs a pro-style offense that is seen as more conservative than not. Should be a good fit with Tom O'Brien doing quality control for the offense.
- He's good at "coaching up" young / inexperienced offensive players and maximizing skills and abilities.
- He likes the short and intermediate passing game -- call it dink & dunk if you wish.
- He prefers versatile running backs who can contribute in the passing game. (Smoke says hello.) Fairchild really clicked with Marshall Faulk.
- He elevates mediocre quarterback talent (Marc Bulger) into effective game managers and productive passers. Everywhere he goes, he develops good QBs. Losman in Buffalo is probably his biggest failure in this regard.
- He throws to his tight ends A LOT.
- He likes a limited number of plays run out of a lot of different looks, very much like Bill Lazor.
- He delivered the best recruiting class in Colorado State history, and the book on Fairchild is that he is a very good, willing recruiter who has a little bit of a closer's mentality.
- He picked up a lot of passing game savvy from his three years coaching under Mike Martz with the Rams.
- He seeks run/pass balance, but at his core he's a passing game guy.
- He's not afraid to grind between the tackles with a power running game (see: Travis Henry's Pro Bowl season in 2001).
- He's fallen in love with throwing screens, drags, and slants recently. Maybe he's lost his appetite for taking downfield risks after he's been canned at his last three stops.
- He is not an innovator, and runs a very conventional attack.
Lots of good stuff about Fairchild on the CSU website, HERE.
It seems like it could be a pretty good hire. The guy is on the downside of his coaching career, obviously... but what that means is that he brings a lot of experience to the table, never a bad thing. I think he'll mesh well with Tom O'Brien, and that had to be a big concern with this hire. He's also a very good QBs coach, another big concern.
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A lot of you would agree with me that this word has been given credit more than it should and has been interpreted the wrong way in a lot of occasions.
I’m a big believer in word of mouth but influencers and word of mouth are two different things and I’m a bit tired of companies and agencies trying to bribe twitter users. Even though I’m one of those people who has been invited to different conferences and events for being an “influencer,” I have to be honest some of these events haven’t added anything to me or people following me or the company or agency that invited me.
Here are some tips to companies and agencies:
1- Are you talking to the right people? You shouldn’t invite people to something they don’t relate to. Like inviting me to a mango festival when I truly despite mango. (I do)
2- True influencers are those who would actually buy your product (but you’re giving it to them for free) and if they really like it they would tell the world about it and be advocates.
3- Listen! I learned this in my early days in social media for businesses. Listening to what people say online and learn about what they like and don’t like can make a huge difference. Spend few days just searching these people and listening to what they have to say then make a plan on how to involve them.
4- Involve “influencers” and don’t just throw BS at them just because you have some lines to say out loud to the world. Let your plan be meaningful to them and hopefully a fun experience they’ll remember for few months.
5- Influencers shouldn’t be names and numbers on your excel sheets. I tried to do this several times but the true people I could rely on are those who I spend time communicating with them rather than writing about them on my excel sheets like a stalker.
Last but not least, your product should talk about itself or it will fail even if the queen herself promotes it. I refuse to be part of a product that I don’t believe in. I refuse to talk about something that doesn’t grab my interest so you shouldn’t expect this from your list of
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Field Notes: a Northwest nature blog
One of the reasons many of us live in the Pacific Northwest is the natural wonders that amaze us all. On this blog Seattle Times writers and photographers will share their explorations of the natural world from snowcaps to whitecaps. Write us at [email protected] with your own sightings, questions and wonders to share.
Our summer of long, sweet grass
Posted by Lynda V. Mapes
Ahhh long grass. Not the scruffy stuff by Aurora Avenue. No. I'm talking about the pleasure of a meadow of long, sweet grass.
Long Grass at Discovery Park
Living in the city, it becomes rare to see grass actually grown to the point that it can set up a nice fat seed head. Let alone long ripples in an expanse of tall grass, unleashed by the wind. Unleashed: that's just the feeling, out of the realm of the clipped, managed, tidy realm of lawn. The birds sure know the difference: song sparrows on a recent evening were calling, and the click and buzz of insects snugged deep in the sheltering grasses was soothing as a lullaby.
In no time, I settled in for a nap, the long grass framing the cloudscape.
Grass, from the napper's vantage point. Long grass sings one of life's best lullabies.
Good as a meadow feels for us, it's actually important for wildlife. Scott Black, executive director of the Xerces Society in Portland, a non-profit dedicated to the conservation of invertebrates, notes the value of long grass for birds, bees and insects.
"We often talk about in our work leaving messy places," Black said. "Messy places where there is a little bit of chaos are really good for animals. Everything manicured, everything cut, everything looking perfect is often providing nothing. Even in yards, if you can leave messy places, I have this pile of branches I leave every year. I have had birds nest under it, a couple of bee nests."
Native bumblebees will nest in tall grass where it falls over, Black noted, and butterflies will use it for overwintering habitat. Birds will nest in long grass. "These places are definitely missing from many urban environments, even our parks, for the most part."
And of course if the meadow includes clover, that can be an important source of food for bees and other pollinators. The grass at Discovery Park was replete with the twining magenta of vetch, and purple orbs of blooming clover.
Clover is an important source of food for native pollinators
Lynda Mapes photos
Black noted increasing push back at the convention of the clipped lawn monoculture. Indeed, many Seattle Parks, including Discovery Park, include both cut and uncut areas.
At the Center for Urban Horticulture, Fred Hoyt, associate director of the UW Botanic Gardens, said the grounds are managed both for people and wildlife. The grass at the Union Bay Natural Area is mowed just once a year, to keep down the blackberries. The mowing is done in consultation with Seattle Audubon, usually in July after ground nesting birds have completed their breeding season, Hoyd said.
The natural area includes both forest canopy and open areas, and is a rich wildlife habitat right in the heart of the city. To read about the area as a birder's paradise, read my story in the Seattle Times.
Feb 25 - 7:00 AM Washington's wolf population has at least doubled since last year
Feb 22 - 7:00 AM See (and smell) it now: witch hazel at Washington Park Arboretum
Feb 18 - 7:00 AM Live from pocket protector central: The AAAS wraps up in Boston
Feb 15 - 7:00 AM Here come the snow geese ... along with their very own festival
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Congress is always demanding efficiency from the executive branch of the federal Government, but a release from the Obama administration on Wednesday points out that a lot of the waste in Washington actually originates on Capitol Hill.
The Office of Management and Budget released a list of 74 reports that various Federal agencies recommend be either consolidated or cut altogether – the majority of them demanded by Congress itself. That comes in addition to 376 outdated or duplicative reports and plans that the Obama Administration brought to Congress’ attention just two years ago.
“This action represents another step in the President’s Management Agenda and overall effort to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the Federal government,” wrote OMB’s Deputy Director for Management Beth Cobert in the Wednesday press release.
Wednesday’s list contained requests to eliminate such things as reports on the nation’s “distant water tuna fleet,” and hard-copy versions of the import tariff schedule, which is usually out of date days after publication.
However, it is not quite as comedic as it’s predecessor. In 2012, the Department of Homeland Security recommended putting an end to their annual “Dog and Cat Fur report,” which found only a single violation of the Dog and Cat Fur Protection Act in the five years prior. The Department of Agriculture suggested cutting its report on “Timber supply and demand in Southeastern Alaska.” Their justification: “[The Department] is uncertain as to whether enough congressional interest in this report exists to warrant its submission.”
To their credit, some lawmakers on Capitol Hill appear to have noticed the problem. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) have introduced legislation called the “Government Reports Elimination Act of 2014.” In a March 2014 joint press release, they claim the bill would remove or consolidate over 300 reports deemed “unnecessary, duplicative or outdated” by more than two-dozen federal agencies.
“All too frequently Congress adds more reporting requirements without checking to see if they overlap with existing ones,” Warner said in the statement. “If these unnecessary but required reports are wasting staff time and resources and are sitting on a shelf collecting dust, then it’s long past time for them to be eliminated or consolidated.”
Representatives Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Gerry Connolly (D-VA) are introducing a bipartisan bill on the House side.
|Top Ten Eliminated Reports|
|Agency||Report||Reason for elimination|
|Department of Education||Evaluation of a program to train teachers to help disabled children.||Congress unfunded the program|
|Department of Education||Evaluation of the Adjunct Teacher Corps program.||Congress unfunded the program|
|Department of Education||Report on the Excellence in Economic Education initiative.||Program was eliminated in 2012.|
|Department of Education||Report on the National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity||All the data is already available in online reports.|
|Department of Education||Reports on DOE's spending on "local flexibility demonstration agreements."||DOE hasn't used this authority since 2009.|
|Department of Homeland Security||Coast Guard's annual fisheries enforcement plan||The report is essentially the same every year.|
|Department of Homeland Security||Coast Guard's annual report on distant water tuna fleet||The report is essentially the same every year.|
|Executive Office of the President||A report on waivers granted for companies to do business in Sudan||No waiver has even been requested.|
|International Trade Commission (USITC)||Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (hard-copy version)||The report is out-of-date within days of being issued.|
|National Aeronautics and Space Administration||Astronaut Health Care||The report was requested as a reaction to a single, unspecified incident, which was found to be an "isolated case."|
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Information about Serving on Council
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ReFo: Chargers @ Chiefs, Week 4
An early deficit neutralized the Chiefs' running attack and Matt Cassel made too many mistakes to give them a chance in this San Diego victory.
ReFo: Chargers @ Chiefs, Week 4
Watching the game you couldn’t help but feel like Kansas City fumbled this one away before it really even got started. Their first two drives ended with turnovers and the first quarter wasn’t even nearly done before they were 17 points behind. That score neutralized the Chiefs’ running attack and Matt Cassel made too many mistakes to give them a chance.
That is not to say that the Chargers didn’t deserve this win. San Diego was all over the field on defense in the first half and was quite frankly dominant. An offensive lull in the second and third quarters when the Chargers weren’t able to run the ball effectively allowed the Chiefs a glimmer of hope, but that was quickly stamped out early in the fourth as Ryan Mathews and Jackie Battle ran the ball down their throats to make it 34-13 after a third Chiefs fumble.
San Diego – Three Performances of Note
A Much Needed Win
Last season saw right tackle Jeromey Clary (+3.6) put up only three positive performances all year en route to his worst performance since PFF starting grading. If the past two weeks are any indication, he may be in for a superb comeback year. Clary’s draw on Sunday may have been his hardest all year, as he faced sophomore sensation Justin Houston who was coming off of three straight games of at least three combined hurries, hits, and sacks. For the day, Clary denied Houston of any of those stats in an excellent performance. After being handed the lead early, all the Chargers needed to do was work the clock and run an efficient offense. Clary’s lights-out play allowed them to do that.
Eric Weddle on the back end is about as consistent as they come in this league. Weddle snagged his second interception of the year on the only time he was targeted in the game. It is getting to the point where quarterbacks are taking note of where he is and throwing away from him because of his ball-hawking abilities — Weddle has been targeted only 10 times and given up only 39 yards. Last year he led the league in quarterback rating against at only 25.8, and he is picking up right where he left off with a rating of 37.1 so far in 2012. It’s sad that he doesn’t get the same recognition as guys like Ed Reed and Troy Polamalu because he doesn’t make flashy hits or returns, but Weddle belongs in the elite safety category nonetheless.
Biting on the Fake
Antoine Cason plays right cornerback in a Chargers’ defense that keeps each corner on their respective side of the field no matter where the wide receivers line up. On Sunday Dwayne Bowe only lined up on Cason’s side 34 times, but they were certainly enough to make Cason wish he could have followed around Jonathan Baldwin or Dexter McCluster. Bowe beat Cason five times for 90 yards and a touchdown. The trouncing culminated when Cason bit hard on a shoulder fake and let Bowe get behind him for a 29-yard touchdown. Given that Cassel had missed Bowe deep on an early double move it won’t be long before more teams try the same trick on the former first-round pick. It was just a game to forget for a player who has had success against the Chiefs in the past (positive grades three out of past four games).
Kansas City – Three Performances of Note
A Slow Recovery
In this day and age ACL injuries don’t have the serious career implications that they once did. A torn ACL is devastating, but fans expect the player at full strength the next season. Unfortunately for Chiefs fans, Eric Berry doesn’t seem to be back at full strength just yet. Berry was exposed all day by tight end Antonio Gates. The Chiefs’ star safety was more than a few steps behind most plays and was out of place in man coverage. When all was said and done he gave up 97 yards (59 to Gates) on seven of seven passing and committed two pass interference penalties. This was a performance reminiscent of a rookie year where he was put in positions he was always going to struggle with, and while learning on the job will make him better in the long term, it hurt the team in this one.
The Whole Backfield
Coming into the game all the talk was about Ryan Mathews’ fumbling problem. Who knew it would be the Chiefs’ backs that would cough up the ball three times? The good news is that Jamaal Charles and Shaun Draughn don’t have a history of fumbling problems (never more than two in a season). The bad news is that the attention to detail just wasn’t there. Charles, Draughn and Cyrus Gray combined for a -3.9 pass blocking grade on a measly nine attempts in as pathetic an exhibition of blitz pickup as you’re likely to ever see. The three whiffed multiple times on the Chargers’ athletic linebackers and had little semblance of proper form. Other teams will take advantage of this in the future if the Chiefs’ backs aren’t able to correct it.
While all around him were losing their heads, step forward Dwayne Bowe (+3.0) with the kind of performance you expect from an elite receiver. The only way the Chargers could stop him required the use of the referees flags as he drew two defensive pass interference and another illegal contact call. Yet that only limited his impact, and not by much. He regularly got separation and twice put double moves on Antoine Cason, one of which resulted in a touchdown and another that should have (but for an overthrow) resulted in a big gain. With an erratic quarterback and few others stepping up in the passing game, Bowe’s 7 of 12 balls caught for 108 yards didn’t do him justice.
– Who needs to blitz? Cassel threw three picks and completed 53.1% of his passes without the Chargers sending the heat.
– The Chargers didn’t even try and go deep, throwing 16 of 22 passes within 10 yards and only one pass over 20.
– Antonio Gates picked up 2.46 yards for every route he ran.
This ball goes to right tackle Jeromey Clary for putting up an all-around solid game when they needed it most. There was a lot of buzz regarding Justin Houston coming into this game, and a lot less leaving it because of Clary’s performance.
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Colleagues Remember Longtime Missouri Politician Ike Skelton
COLUMBIA - Missouri politicians spent Tuesday remembering their friend and colleague Ike Skelton, one day after the longtime Missouri congressman's death. Skelton died Monday night in Virginia. He was 81 years old.
Skelton represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives for 34 years, from 1977 to 2011. In his tenure on Capitol Hill, Skelton served as the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II said he was "The most trusted civilian by the US military."
US Senator Claire McCaskill released a statement which read, "In his half-century of service he showed how Missouri could be a leader in contributing to the safety and security of our nation."
US Representative for Missouri's 6th Congressional District, Sam Graves released a statement which read, "Though we were from different parties, I knew I could always work with Ike to benefit our state."
Skelton's close friend and fellow representative in the US House, Emanuel Cleaver II said, "The people of Missouri just need to know what kind of loss we've just experienced."
Cleaver said he and Skelton were very close and would spend time at each other's homes when they were both in Missouri.
"Ike Skelton was like a big brother to me...he was always embarrassed by it, but I have a huge photograph of us two hanging on my wall in my office," Cleaver said.
Cleaver said even though Skelton is gone, his legacy will continue to live on forever.
"No person is actually dead as long as they're remembered and Ike Skelton will, as long as I'm alive, be remembered," Cleaver said.
Cleaver plans to deliver the eulogy at Skelton's funeral, which will be later this week.
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Review for Norm's Car Care
Greg N. on 04/27/2016
I had issues with my van and Ian was able to get it into the shop and repaired quickly. Outstanding service as always! No matter the issue, the explanation of the repairs and the costs are always spot on. I have always had excellent service and can trust the repair work that the technicians at Norm's perform. This is one place I will always trust and take my vehicles for work to be done.
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Service Date: 04/25/2016
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Rosemary Clooney, whose warm, radiant voice placed her in the first rank of American popular singers for more than half a century, died Saturday night at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 74.
The cause was complications from lung cancer, according to her spokeswoman, Linda Dozoretz.
Ms. Clooney did not dig as deeply into the emotional content of a song as Frank Sinatra did; she never tried to emulate the sound and delivery of an instrument as Mel Tormé seemed to do so easily; she did not burst into the scat choruses favored by Ella Fitzgerald. But she sang with so much assuredness, simplicity and honesty that these elements became her trademark and endeared her to audiences and critics alike. In the words of the director Mike Nichols, "She sings like Spencer Tracy acts."
In recent years Ms. Clooney had been appearing in the best cabarets and on concert stages, largely with small groups, singing pop-jazz standards that earned her new audiences and renewed respect. Reviewing a performance at Michael's Pub in Manhattan, Stephen Holden of The New York Times said of her: "Her special strength is an ability to infuse everything she touches with warmth, intelligence and a subtly swinging energy that make her interpretations of standards models of balance and clarity. Her emotional perspective is dry-eyed and perceptive. Rather than acting out the romantic dramas of well-known song lyrics, she projects an understanding that is almost maternal in its blend of wisdom and empathy."
Although she did her best work singing standards with a fidelity to their composers, Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, George and Ira Gershwin, Johnny Burke, Jimmy Van Heusen and Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart, her beginnings were decidedly in a genre not nearly so distinguished. She became one of America's best-known popular singers in 1951 with a novelty called "Come-on-a-My House," which became a huge hit record, and followed that with other novelties like "Botcha-Me," "Mambo Italiano" and "This Old House," songs that her audiences always wanted to hear long after she was pursuing a less-flamboyant repertory.
Some fans even occasionally asked her to sing "How Much Is That Doggie in the Window?" a novelty that belonged to Patti Page, never to Rosemary Clooney. "They probably figure if it's a bad song I must have done it," she once said about her earlier recording career.
But even then Ms. Clooney recorded pensive ballads like "Tenderly" and "Hey There" with such simplicity and beauty that they also became songs indelibly associated with her. Ms. Clooney with a good ballad was always approachable and intimate.
Her early career reached a height in 1954 when she appeared opposite Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye singing Irving Berlin songs in the hit musical "White Christmas." But her good looks and cheery disposition masked a life with more than its share of pain.
She survived a disastrous marriage to the actor Jose Ferrer; she was scarred by the assassination of her friend Robert Kennedy, which she witnessed first hand; she abused drugs and had affairs that disappointed and wounded her; she had a childhood of uncertainty with an affably alcoholic father and a mother who eventually deserted the family.
And yet Ms. Clooney never completely lost her admiration for Mr. Ferrer, the father of her five children, whom she married and divorced twice, not even after she learned of his womanizing during their marriage that led her to conclude that he was breaking her heart "in small increments." And she always made a place in her home for the parents who had not done the same for her when she was a child.
She was nominated for an Emmy award for an appearance on "E.R.," the series that featured her nephew George Clooney, and this year she was given a lifetime achievement Grammy award a month after she was hospitalized for lung cancer surgery.
Rosemary Clooney was born May 23, 1928, in Maysville, Ky., a small town on the Ohio River southeast of Cincinnati. She was one of five children born to Andrew and Frances Guilfoyle Clooney. Mr. Clooney was a house painter who drank so much and so often that his own father, a jeweler who served several terms as mayor of Maysville, had his son jailed for public drunkenness. One of the Clooney children, Andy, drowned as a boy swimming in the Ohio River. But the others survived and remained close. They included Betty, who sang professionally for a while with Rosemary; and Nick, who became a television performer. Another sibling, Gail, did not venture into show business.
When Rosemary was 10 and in the fourth grade, she made her acting debut in a school production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," in which she played the witch. That same year her paternal grandmother died, sending her father into an intensified period of drinking. Rosemary and her siblings were sent to live with her mother's family, the Guilfoyles. After Rosemary completed the sixth grade her grandmother took her to Ironton, Ohio, east of Maysville. Two years later, they moved to Cincinnati.
Rosemary and her sister Betty began to sing publicly, at first for political rallies for her grandfather, who was mayor of Maysville, later at amateur contests throughout northern Kentucky and southern Ohio.
When Rosemary was in high school and Betty was in junior high, radio station WLW in Cincinnati conducted a talent contest. The sisters won and for a time were heard seven nights a week, earning $20 each.
The sisters began to sing with Barney Rapp's big band, which performed around Cincinnati. An agent for Tony Pastor heard them, and for the next three years the Clooney Sisters became vocalists for the Pastor big band.
Grandmother Guilfoyle , who sewed as well as she could cook, made them dresses, and one of their uncles, George Guilfoyle, accompanied them on the band bus to make certain that they were not led astray by any of Mr. Pastor's musicians.
In 1946 Rosemary Clooney made her first solo recording, "I'm Sorry I Didn't Say I'm Sorry When I Made You Cry Last Night," which attracted attention because she sang it in a whisper that disk jockeys speculated was going to be the new style. In reality, she had been so petrified when she stood before the microphone that she could not sing the song in full voice as she had intended.
By 1947 she was gaining notice. Downbeat magazine said she had "an extraordinarily good voice, perhaps the nearest thing to Ella Fitzgerald we've ever heard." In 1948 Betty Clooney quit the Pastor band. Rosemary stayed another year before she left, hopeful of success because she had signed a contract with Columbia Records. The initial deal was that she would be paid $50 a recording, no matter how many copies it sold.
In 1950 she attracted favorable attention with an appearance on the "Songs for Sale" television show and with her recording of "Beautiful Brown Eyes," her first real hit for Columbia. She started to appear regularly on television, including the Ed Sullivan show.
But her first megahit came the next year, when Mitch Miller, the artist and repertory man at Columbia, persuaded her to sing "Come On-a My House." The song was based on something old and Armenian, updated by the novelist William Saroyan and Ross Bagdasarian, who later changed his name to David Seville and created the Chipmunks. From the instant that Ms. Clooney heard it she thought it was dreadful and told Mr. Miller she would not sing it, but he insisted, hinting broadly that if she refused, her career at Columbia might come to an end. The recording became a runaway best seller, and Ms. Clooney became a star.
The success emboldened Mr. Miller to assign her to other novelty songs, most notably "Botcha Me" and "Mambo Italiano," which also became hits. When she made her screen debut in "The Stars Are Singing," she was trumpeted as "the next Betty Hutton," and she made the cover of Time magazine in 1953 with her bouncier image.
"I always wanted to sing sad ballads, but I didn't get many opportunities," Ms. Clooney once told Stephen Holden of The Times. "If I found something I wanted to do, I had to get permission. At the same time, you can't quarrel with success. If it hadn't been for `Come on-a My House,' I probably wouldn't be here now."
Ms. Clooney remained busy and successful for the rest of the 1950's. She fell in love with Dante DiPaolo, a dancer at Paramount studios, but jilted him to marry Mr. Ferrer in 1953 and to make more movies, including "White Christmas" in 1954 with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and Vera-Ellen.
In the early 1960's she and Mr. Ferrer became estranged, she had an affair with the arranger Nelson Riddle that went nowhere (he was married and the father of six children) and she slowly became addicted to sleeping pills. Her work habits became erratic, and she got tagged as being undependable. She found it difficult to find work. Her singing deteriorated.
By the end of the decade, she was "dead behind the eyes," she recalled in her 1977 memoir, "This for Remembrance." "The records I did then sound like they were made underwater. I misbehaved with everyone, onstage and off." Her divorce from Mr. Ferrer became final in 1967.
In 1968 she supported the presidential aspirations of Senator Robert F. Kennedy and was standing near him when he was shot to death in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Ms. Clooney, recalling the day in her memoir, said she was convinced that he hadn't died, that it was somehow all a big hoax.
Her self-destructive rampage continued until she spent a month in the psychiatric ward of Mount Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. And when she emerged, she was short of money and supported herself by singing for anyone who would pay her. Mostly it was weekend work at Holiday Inns.
Her fortunes changed again in 1974 when Crosby asked her to appear with him at a show marking his 50th anniversary in show business. She did well and then made several successful tours with him and also toured with Margaret Whiting, Helen O'Connell and Rose Marie in a show called "4 Girls 4."
She suffered a setback in 1976 when her sister Betty died of an aneurysm but regained control of herself and worked on her memoirs.
Unexpectedly she ran into Mr. DiPaolo, who moved in with her and became her road manager, and in 1996 she married him in the church in Maysville where she had been baptized.
In the 1990's she recorded many songs for the Concord Jazz label, and the critics agreed that her voice had gotten better.
She is survived by her husband, Mr. DiPaolo; three sons, the actor Miguel Ferrer; Gabriel Ferrer, a painter and Episcopal priest married to Debby Boone; and the voice-over actor Rafael Ferrer; two daughters, Maria Murdoch, a designer; and Monsita Teresa Botwick; 10 grandchildren, her brother, Nick Clooney, and her sister, Gail Clooney Darley.
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Nearly 1,000 people in Tennessee lost their lives to traffic fatalities in 2015, reports the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Tennessee’s highway fatality rate far outstrips the national average. Here, 14.51 people per 100,000 died on the roads in 2015, compared to only 10.92 per 100,000 for the national average. Car accidents are an all too frequent occurrence in Tennessee, which is why it is so important to have a Knoxville car accident lawyer on your side.
Unfortunately, many accident victims forgo hiring an attorney because they do not know how much an attorney can help their case. Below, we discuss three ways car accident lawyers can help you overcome your losses.
- Gathering Evidence
To prove your losses and get fair compensation, you must have evidence. Your car accident lawyer will evaluate your claim and determine the specific evidence needed for your particular case.
Some of the common types of evidence in car accident claims are:
Police report: The police report will show what happened at the scene of the accident. It will contain the names and contact information for all drivers. It will note all the damage done to every vehicle as well as the time, date, and location of the crash. Names of eyewitnesses may be on the police report or on a supplemental report. The report will also list any citations given to the drivers, if any, and an initial determination of fault.
Medical records and bills: Your medical records are an integral part of your accident case. Without an injury, you have no claim. The medical records illustrate the details of your injuries and link those injuries to the crash.
Your medical bills show how much the medical injuries harmed you financially. The details of your injuries and the financial losses from the medical bills are important factors in determining the amount of compensation you will receive for your injuries.
Employment records/paystubs/W-2s: If you lost wages because of your injuries, you should be compensated for that loss. Lost wages can include time away from work on the day of the crash, as well as the immediate treatment and recuperation time, and time lost from work by your having to go to follow-up or ongoing treatments. Your car accident lawyer will get the records from your employer to prove this element of your damages.
Expert witness testimony: It may be necessary for your lawyer to get testimony from expert witnesses to prove your damages. If you will have long-term or residual disability from your injuries, your lawyer might use a vocational expert to calculate the extent of your disability and how much it will impact you financially over the years. If there is dispute about who was at fault in the accident, an accident reconstruction expert can show what caused the accident.
Eyewitness testimony: Eyewitness testimony can show what happened before, during, or after the car accident. Because eyewitnesses are unbiased bystanders who have nothing to gain or lose, their testimony carries more weight than a driver or passenger.
While you can recover the police report and eyewitness testimony on your own, most of the other types of evidence listed are difficult for the average person to obtain.
- Getting a Full Prognosis and Value of Your Case
Many accident victims settle their cases before getting their full prognosis. The body takes time to heal. People heal at different rates, and with varying levels of success.
Until you know completely how the injuries will affect the rest of your life, do not settle. Many people do not understand that when you settle, you have to sign papers that take away your rights to ever get more money for anything to do with the accident. If you settle early, and later discover that your injuries are worse than you initially realized, you cannot go back to the insurance company for more money.
Note: Even after you are satisfied that you fully understand your prognosis, you should not settle your claim until a lawyer reads over the settlement documents. You can be sure that the insurance company had a team of lawyers when they wrote the settlement documents. The legal team wrote the documents to do one thing — protect the insurer. To protect yourself, you should have a lawyer read the documents to make sure the insurance company is not taking advantage of you.
- Defending You Against the Insurance Company
Insurance companies have an unfair advantage. They have you outmanned and outgunned. You are one person going up against a corporation with thousands of employees, many of whom have one job goal — to keep every dollar they can for the insurance company. They do that by paying you as little as they can.
When you are trying to deal with an insurance company on your own, you may feel like it is a battle of David and Goliath. This is the reason most people just accept what the insurance company offers. Having an attorney on your side evens the playing field.
Our team has decades of experience dealing with insurance companies and we know the tricks they like to pull. We will stand up against the insurance company and negotiate to ensure you get the compensation you need and deserve.
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running on empty. I was a little surprised to see it. Apparently, runners are starting to experiment with not eating before a run, which after about an hour of running will have you dipping into your fat reserves for energy.
Why was I surprised? Because I have always run without eating before hand. Anytime I've tried to run after eating anything, I felt sick. Especially if it's hot out. So, for about 4 years I never ate anything before a run, no matter the length. I just felt too scared to eat something.
Then during a long training run for Philly last fall I crashed. I went out for (I think) a 12 mile run and when I came home I felt like death. I couldn't eat. I wasn't hungry. My stomach hurt. I think I messed with my electrolytes or some such. I didn't feel well for three days. It was after that run I figured I needed to eat something before a run...even though I had never needed to before. (I wonder to this day why I need to eat something before a long run now when I never did before...)
So, I started eating half a peanut butter sandwich before a long run. I didn't eat anything before Philly and I felt just as bad as I did after that training run. Dumb mistake.
I haven't made it since. Long runs (8+ miles) have me eating that half a slice of bread with peanut butter before heading out. I freaked before the Shamrock Half Marathon because I forgot to pack it. I grabbed crackers with peanut butter and had that. Completely worked.
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Release July 13, 2015 NationTalk spoke with Chief Ira Lavallee from the PiaPot First Nation at the AFN AGA held in Montreal this past week. Chief Lavallee discusses the TRC and the reconciliation process, the how the residential school era hit their community very hard by loss of language, loss of culture amoung many other areas. He also talks about the flood claim and the control structures that were placed on either sides of their community in the early 80’s that affected their natural meadow lands.
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I was asked the question, if you could provide a library of five books for African pastors, what books would you put in it? Here are my thoughts.......though more than five! I have a Study Bible, a one volume commentary, three books on Jesus and his ministry, including leadership and discipling, two books summarizing Christian doctrine, and two on Bible in overview. Plus a bunch of practical books as well.
Some Practical books for additional consideration
Despite the added cost and weight - Hardbacks are probably better - they would be more durable. Perhaps it would help to "beef up" the binding on paperbacks the way libraries often do with clear plastic contact paper. Books chosen should be written fairly simply - with a limited use of original languages - High School reading Level ideal. They also should not too culturally fixed in our Western culture and concerns.
Your feedback and suggestions are certainly welcome!
Ponderings: Do we aim for reference books that will see use for a long time, or books that will be gone through a couple of times, then hopefully passed on to other pastors? Rather than making every five book library the same - possibly if taking several libraries along, one could vary the fifth book in each set with one of the practical books in the "practical" list below. Then encourage the pastors to share and swap them around.
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Hurricane Georges -- 1998
From the Log of the Sirius II and Other Sources
There was a strange feeling about as the sun rose over Key West Bight that September morning. Almost uncanny. Preternatural. It was Wednesday, September 23rd. Weather wise, it was no different than most of the other mornings that I have experienced since arriving in Key West 18 months ago. It is hot. Perspiration soon drenches my bed in the V-berth of the Sirius II. Reluctantly, I rouse myself.
The sky was clear and the winds were calm. The barometer read 29.85, down slightly from yesterday. Low, but not alarmingly so. Yet there was that feeling. The sound of captains and crew readying their pleasure craft and charter boats for the days activities were not reverberating throughout the Bight. It was almost silent. Eerie. The sea gulls and sandpipers were not about. There were many vacant slips as several boats had departed yesterday afternoon and evening. The skippers claimed that they knew of proven hurricane holes where their boats would be safe from the possible effects of Hurricane Georges.
(I learned later that one liveaboard couple in a smaller sailboat anchored out, knowing that they didn't have adequate ground tackle for the storm, nor could they afford the fees the marinas charge, chose Cuba, where the Georges was then located, as their hurricane hole. They arrived in Marina Hemingway [Havana] about 5 hours before the hurricane winds did. But by then Georges was already on a path away from Cuba and toward the Florida Keys. A gutsy decision.)
Hurricane Georges was still 600 or so miles away, moving at 14/15 miles an hour. Weather stations had been tracking it for almost a week now, with experts previously predicting the storm to turn North by now. We had been counting on this prediction. However, after slamming into Puerto Rico and now crossing Hispanola, with no change in direction as anticipated, it was becoming obvious that Key West was well within the hurricane's path.
City Marina workers had come by the various buildings under their jurisdiction on Monday to measure the doors and windows for boarding. They had started boarding up the unused and unopened offices yesterday. Now they were preparing to finish the chore. Businesses such as the Key West Ice Cream Factory could no longer stay open, although none really wanted to as there were no customers anyway. Tourists and other nonresidents had been ordered to leave.
I was having trouble focusing on the task at hand. Should I stay in my slip, which appeared to be a very secure slip, or should I take the Sirius II out to the moorage area and drop the hook? Actually, I had three anchors ready to drop. The anchorage around Key West is notorious for its terrible holding ground for anchors: a thin layer of mud or soft sand on very hard coral underneath. The possibility of dragging anchor was obvious, coupled with at least 24 hours of very rough seas if I chose to stay on the boat. No thanks. I've been there, done that. So at last I make a decision to stay in the harbor, not knowing how much surge to expect nor how much debris from the nearby buildings will be flying around the docks.
My heart wasn't in it. I had trouble focusing on the need to prepare for the impending hurricane. Slowly I convinced myself that the boat was worth saving. I needed to get moving. I had all ready removed the two solar panels. Now I had to take everything else off the deck, strip it clean. Off came the two head sails, the mainsail, the extra diesel cans, the sun shade, the extra propane tank, the bar-b-que, the dodger and all the paraphernalia I had placed under the dodger close to the companionway. Stowing all of these in the cabin and v-berth became a challenge.
Next, everything still on deck had to be doubly secured. The stern anchor was in the way of the dock line. It had to be relocated. I elected to keep the dinghy inflated and now had to secure it to the foredeck. I had already lashed the wood pram securely atop the dock. The outboard motor was stowed in the cockpit sail locker. Finally, I had to run four sets of double lines to tie the boat securely between the pilings and the dock, allowing for a surge that was expected to be five feet above high tide.
During all of this preparation, I get a call a call from Rita. "Steve," she says. "I'm in Colorado."
"I know," I said. She had told me about this guy in Colorado who wants to marry her and sent plane tickets to show his commitment. (You show commitment by sending a round- trip ticket?)
"I have a problem." Jackie (her roommate) had left, as had thousands of others to get away before the hurricane arrived. Now there is no one at her house to take care of her house and bird. I ask about Charlie, another friend of hers who usually steps in to help in cases like this.
It turns out that Charlie is busy preparing his own business and home for the hurricane. Then it dawns on me: "What have you done to prepare your house for Georges?" I ask.
Nothing, it turns out. Now she can't return to Key West even if she wanted to. Flights into Key West have been canceled. So, I get together with Charlie and we map out a plan to take care of the bird and the house. I was nailing the last shutter up as darkness fell Thursday night. The winds were nearly strong enough already to blow me off the ladder. It was too late to return to the Sirius II so I bedded down at Rita's house, or at least tried to.
I spend the night tossing and turning as the wind shakes the house. The rains fall. Airborne objects bang against the side of the house. I watch the panes rattle until the electricity is snuffed out. Then all I could do was listen. By myself. In the Dark. Wondering. Thinking. Becoming depressed. At daybreak I make contact with Rita. The phone still works! She couldn't sleep. She had been tracking the hurricane on the weather channel. She told me where to find candles and a battery powered radio. A radio! One Key West station was still on the air. I listen to it whenever I can for the next 48 hours. (All of the practice sessions we listen to on the radio that say "if this had been an actual emergency you would have been directed to dial..." is pure bunk, at least in Key West. It was happenstance that the commercial radio station US 1 had a working generator and its tower was not blown over. And, its management chose to stay on the air.)
Around noon I detect a noticeable lessening of the wind. From the radio I learn that the eye of the storm is now passing over Key West. I call Charlie. He heard that it is a big eye, might last for an hour. I quickly check Rita's house. No visible damage. I hop on my moped and head for the Key West Bight, about two miles away.
I now start to appreciate the power of the hurricane. Trees, utility lines and debris are all over. Many streets are blocked as I weave in and out on my way to the harbor. Much to my relief, the boat is fine, as were all the nearby boats that had been secured properly. I couldn't board her as the winds were blowing her away from the dock. A couple of smaller boats were under water, to no real surprise. Other boat owners were also checking on their boats and we exchange information. The winds were returning as the eye of the hurricane was passing. The back side of the hurricane would soon be upon us. I cut my socializing short and head back to Ritas house. I was having trouble keeping the moped upright as I return in the wind-driven rain.
The worst of the storm came that afternoon, night and into the following day. Rita lost one tree in her front yard (onto her roof, with no apparent damage to the roof) and three trees in her back yard, one causing some damage to the steps to her back porch. I waited out the night in candle light and listen to the radio until they shut down for the night. It was a long night. But the phone worked the entire time! My self pity was mollified a little after one lady called the radio station to lodge her protest against nature: She was so scared that she had locked herself in her closet with her water bottle, radio and phone!
As soon as I could Saturday I returned to the Bight to check on Sirius II. All still OK. Now there were a few more boats down throughout the harbor. On Christmas Tree Island, about I/2 mile away, I could see at least five boats aground, boats that had been anchored!
Most of Saturday was spent listening to various people calling in to the radio station asking for information, giving damage reports and warning everyone how dangerous it was to go outside. "Don't drink the water" warnings were issued, as the roots of falling trees had broken the water lines in many places. We still had water in Key West; we just couldn't drink it. It rained all day.
Sunday I was able to board the Sirius II to check for damage. None. Although everything was dry inside, there was a lot of rain water in the bilge, which is typical after many days of heavy or steady rains. My only loss: One canopy that I use for collecting rain water while cruising. All-in-all, good news, especially as I don't carry insurance and the boat represents the bulk of my worldly possessions
Over the next few days I busy myself with re-installing the items on the boat that I had removed. The solar panels went up first, as I needed to keep the batteries charged as much as possible without running the engine excessively. Besides, the 12 volt refrigerator on the boat was my only source of cold beer. Priorities. Other items that were already in need of minor repairs were not replaced until the repairs could be made. When is anybody's guess; all the marine repair shops are closed.
Then I start on Rita's house and, later, her vegetarian store. With the help of a neighbor's chainsaw, it took two days to clear her yard and roof of the trees and another half day to clean up her store. Her store still didn't have power one week after the hurricane. Old Town was one of the areas hit hardest in Key West.
Some stores, with their own generators, open within a couple of days during daylight hours. There is a dusk to dawn curfew. No alcohol can be sold. No one knows where this edict came from, but it makes sense. US Highway # 1 is gradually reopened, but only emergency traffic is allowed to enter Key West for several days. Rita has her electricity restored by late Tuesday; the Marina gets power by Friday.
This was my first hurricane. How severe were the winds? Gusts in excess of 100 miles per hour were reported. To me they seemed no more powerful than what I have experienced once in Seattle (one winter when the Sirius II was temporarily moored in Elliot Bay Marina), once at the beginning of our cruising in a storm off the Oregon Coast, and once at anchor off the West Coast of Baja, Mexico. Until I tried to loosen the dock lines that had been cinched tight to the cleats by the force of the wind.... Until I saw all the downed trees, power lines, signs, roofs and a few houses in Key West..... Controversial Houseboat Row, about 20 houseboats moored without permission on state wetlands, is no longer a controversy: all but three have been partly or totally destroyed.
During the aftermath I experienced for the first time waiting in line to file for unemployment and being fed a meal from a Red Cross facility. I was able to observe first hand how people and authorities adjust to a real emergency. People and institutions are resilient; they bounce back quickly to help themselves and others. Although there was a concern about looting during the dark of night (I even slept with a baseball bat by my side), that did not become a major problem.
Leadership was something else. Essentially, there was none in the Keys during the hurricane and its aftermath. The calls to the radio Station became prods for various authorities, independent of each other, to react and issue guidelines and warnings. Many of these were contradictory. No one person or agency seemed to be in charge, or wanted to be.
Georges was only a category 2 hurricane. One wonders how much more structural damage and breakdown in emergency services there would be in the event of a category 4 hurricane, with winds approaching 150 miles an hour. Although there was considerable properly damage to Key West and, especially, the Middle Keys, there has been no reported loss of life. I feel fortunate that I experienced no significant physical damage to either person or property. As to my psychic, only time will tell.
As for myself, once again I found it difficult to make a critical decision until I could visualize the impact on others. Rita's call was a Godsend as it gave me incentive and energy to prepare. When there is no one else involved, I lack motivation and focus. I don't understand why I am not in my own loop??
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There’s nothing quite like enjoying a fall evening with friends on your outdoor deck. Starting a bonfire and roasting some marshmallows sounds like the perfect end to a cool September evening. Once the sun goes down, your deck design can take on a whole new life. With the right deck lighting, your deck will be the coolest in the neighborhood and your nights outdoors will never be the same.
As Minneapolis deck builders, the pros at UglyDeck.com have seen it all when it comes to stylish lighting for deck design. Here are some awesome ideas that we have used in previous deck builds:
- Deck Railing Lighting: One of the most common deck lighting options, these low-powered lights are built directly into deck railings and posts to provide a warm accent light on your outdoor deck.
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Tyler Morning Telegraph
Smith County Communications |
Smith County Juvenile Services teamed up with the Texas Ramp Project, Camp Tyler and PATH to help build 20 ramps for children, the elderly and disabled people.
Smith County Juvenile Services staff members and juvenile probationers helped construct 16 ramps for the Texas Ramp Project in 2017, as well as one for People Attempting to Help (PATH). They also built three ramps and repaired another at Camp Tyler this year, David Peters, vocational instructor for Smith County Juvenile Services, reported.
On Dec. 21, Peters, Juvenile Services Director Ross Worley and Smith County Court-at-Law No. 3 Judge Floyd Getz took five of Juvenile’s HOPE Academy residents to Camp Tyler, where they ended the year by building three ramps on cabins there. Peters said they plan to return to Camp Tyler this year to do a ramp repair and do some concrete work.
HOPE Academy is a residential program for male juvenile offenders, focusing on behavior modification and family/parent relationships.
“ I think that the guys absolutely enjoyed being out there at Camp Tyler,” Getz said. “For a few of them that had been there in the fifth grade, it brought back good memories. As the day came to a close, I let them know just how much I appreciate what they did and the long-term impact that kind of thing has on so many people, especially those with disabilities.”
Juvenile Services has been working to help build ramps for the Texas Ramp Project since 2015.
George Cronin, local coordinator for the Texas Ramp Project, has said most of the people they help are in wheelchairs and do not have a ramp at all, or their ramp has deteriorated so much it has become dangerous. “For somebody who doesn’t have the wherewithal financially to do it, it’s real important,” he said of building the ramps.
To some of the people living by themselves, building a ramp could mean keeping them in their own home and out of a nursing home, Cronin said.
Peters contacted Cronin in 2015, after learning of the organization. Since then, they have worked with the Texas Ramp Project 39 times. Peters said they have constructed ramps for those in need all over Smith County, as well as some in Van Zandt and Henderson counties. They have also taken the kids to Cronin’s shop to prefabricate frames for other ramp-building teams to use, he added.
“This partnership has proven to be a great opportunity for us to link our community service program with our vocational program, and we hope to continue for many more years,” Peters said. “Getting out in the community and providing a ramp for an individual who was house-bound before, and see their joy and gratefulness is such a blessing.”
Peters said they installed a ramp for a 60-year-old woman in December who told them she had been worried the night before because her dog was lost and she could not make it out of her house to search for him. When the ramp was completed, she was very happy, Peters said.
“ Our staff gets involved and has learned a lot, right along with the kids,” Peters said. “The impact on the kids is very positive … they show pride in what they have accomplished.”
With headquarters in Richardson, Texas Ramp Project is a volunteer-led nonprofit organization that builds ramps for people in need all over the state. The local division covers Smith, Henderson and Van Zandt counties. Through donations from churches and various community organizations, as well as people who volunteer their time, the handicap ramps are constructed at no cost for the people who need them, Cronin has said.
According to Cronin, 149 local residents have received ramps in 2017, because of Smith County Juvenile Services and several other organizations and volunteers who donate their time.
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By Mater Dolorosa.
A few months back I was getting up off the floor and I felt a twinge of pain in my leg. Ugh! I guess I pulled a muscle. So for a few days I iced it and heated it and stretched it. It still hurt but I got tired of taking care of it. I figured after a few more days it would go away.
But it didn’t.
As a matter of fact, it started getting worse. It was easy to ignore or forget about because it didn’t hurt constantly. But if I moved my leg in a certain way, the stabbing pain came out of nowhere and was blinding. As this continued, week after week, month after month, I started to get worried. Shouldn’t this have gone away by now? Is this something more serious? Do I have a tumor or something?
During this time, I started seeing a physical therapist about something else. She tried to get me to do a certain stretch and I couldn’t because of the terrible pain. So she stopped what she was planning on doing and focused on that crazy muscle that I had been ignoring.
Recently I have come to realize there are parts of my heart that are just like this. They are super tense and need help. They aren’t constantly nagging so I don’t know they are there. But suddenly, if I am put in the right situation, OUCH! The stabbing pain can’t be ignored.
I’ve prayed about those things here and there, on and off. They seem to kind of go away, but then once a certain thing happens again, they rear up. What am I supposed to do? Where did that come from? Why is this taking so long to heal? Why am I not over this?
With my leg, it took a while, but the physical therapist was able to find a certain position I could be in to slowly give me relief. I asked her how I would know how much I should stretch it. (I have a tendency to be a “no pain, no gain” person but this time I had enough sense to realize that was not the correct approach). She explained that I wasn’t trying to stretch the muscle, I was trying to relax and get it to release.
Release? What does that even mean?
But as I took the exercise home, I started to understand. I couldn’t just set aside 5 minutes for some stretching. I needed to prop myself up with pillows and just try to relax and let the muscle calm down. It had been in such distress for months; I needed to give it time to realize everything was okay. I had to prop it up with sturdy things. Nothing slippery could suffice. My body knew it might slip out and wouldn’t relax. And I had to lie there for a long time and let it gradually calm down. Then I needed to take a quick break, and do it again, and then a third time. And then the next day, the same thing. After a few weeks of this, it is much better, though I still have more to do.
In my prayer, it is the same way. I can’t just toss up a few prayers about these deeps hurts for a couple of minutes each day and wonder why they aren’t really going away. I need to spend dedicated time with the Lord. I need to relax and hand those things over to Him. I need to release those hurts – truly let them go. And most of all, I need to be patient with myself and my heart. Just as our bodies need time to heal and recover, so do our hearts.
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During a recent trip to China I was fortunate to visit Henan and the sites associated with Shaolin. Here are few images collected during this trip:
For the detailed captions, please see the original Gallery on SmugMug: China Gallery by Michel Mohr.
In December of this year Kagyu Thegchen Ling (also known as KTL Meditation Center) celebrated the fortieth anniversary of Lama Rinchen’s arrival in Honolulu on December first, 1976.
The Kagyu (bKa’ brgyud) lineage of Tibetan Buddhism claims to have been transmitted directly from India by the Indian master Nāropa, via Marpa, Milarepa and Gampopa. It constitutes one of the Red Hat sects. The Karma Kagyu subschool is headed by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa, a modern teacher eager to reach out to the younger generation. See his official website: http://kagyuoffice.org.
The website you are seeing here has just been migrated from another hosting platform. Its design still needs improvement but it provides more flexibility and has the advantage of being visible on all electronic devices. It was about time to move away from the venerable “iWeb” application, which is not supported anymore. I hope that you will enjoy the new “minimalist” presentation!
This story begins with my study of Hori Shitoku 堀至徳 (1876–1903), a neglected young Buddhist priest who went to Bengal as a result of his quest for the truth. It proved necessary to look into his initial teacher in Japan, Maruyama Kanchō 丸山貫長 (1844–1927), who initiated an attempt to reform Japanese Buddhism. This drove me to visit one of the temples where Kanchō resided as abbot, Mirokuji 彌勒寺 (simplified 弥勒寺, Maitreya Temple) in Dongo 土庫 (irregular reading), a small village in the prefecture of Nara. Thanks to the introduction by Professor Ikeda Hisayo 池田久代, Reverend Itō Kyōjun 伊藤教純—the current abbot—and his wife Taeko 多永子 extended a warm welcome.
Everything began by being formally introduced to the main Buddha, Maitreya, whose statue recently came back after undergoing restoration work following its designation as an important cultural property (Jūyō Bunkazai 重要文化財) in September 2012.
This amazing and elegant statue is more than a thousand years old .
Its distinctive long earlobes—which display patterns representing Brahma’s net (bonmō 梵網)—helped determine the date when it was carved because they have been found on other artworks from the same time period.
Moreover, it was carved from a single piece of wood, except for the left hand added later. No other known ancient statue of Maitreya shares this feature, since many wooden Buddhist statues are hollow and made of two halves (yosegi 寄せ木) assembled in the last phase of the statue’s completion. Another rare feature is that it represents Maitreya not as a Bodhisattva (Buddha to be in the future) as it is more common but rather as a full-fledged Tathāgata. Nothing more is known about where this statue came from, because it predates the construction of Mirokuji in 1538 (Tenbun 天文 7) as a temple commissioned by the Dongo 土庫 clan. It may have been linked to a period during which belief in Maitreya (miroku shinkō 彌勒信仰) was becoming increasingly popular during the Heian period. This type of messianic belief consists in believing that Maitreya represents the coming of a new cosmic Buddha, born five billion six-hundred-seventy million years after the Buddha Śākyamuni, who allows those still unaware of his teachings to come in touch with the truth.
In any case, Maruyama Kanchō is a fascinating figure, who was also a gifted calligrapher and, apparently gained access to the imperial court to teach the consort of Emperor Meiji. He married at the age of fifty and then divorced before marrying again… As a result, he had six children, five of whom survived and occupied various positions in local Buddhist temples belonging to the same branch of the Shingon denomination (Shingonshū Buzanha 真言宗豊山派).
Maruyama Kanchō and Hori Shitoku’s ambitions for reforming Japanese Buddhism can be surmised by the petition they submitted in 1899 to the Interior Minister Saigō Tsugumichi 西郷從道 (1843–1902) for the recognition of their movement under the new name of “the True Teachings of Nonduality” (Funi Shinkyō kōshō negai 不二真教公称願).
You can find additional images related to this temple in the following gallery: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-gJGTSH/i-P9h56RB
Today’s Kyoto is increasingly getting disfigured by Pachinko buildings, convenience stores, and modern high-rises. Yet this city still harbors some stunning assets, particularly temples and shrines, which testify to its previous beauty. One of them is the Sanzen-in 三千院, in the Ōhara 大原 area Northeast of Kyoto.
Let me share with you one remarkable image found in this temple, which conjures tales of magic and ancient beliefs. Guess what the following picture represents:
Well, as indicated on the caption, this demonic figure is called Ganzan Daishi 元三大師. So far so good but what is more surprising is that this is one of the posthumous names given to Ryōgen 良源 (912–985), the eighteenth abbot of the Tendai school.
The belief is that he had acquired supernatural powers (reigen 靈驗), in particular the ability to transform his body into that of a demon. According to legend, this proved useful when the whole area was struck by an epidemic and he was himself suffering from high fever. He swiftly transformed into a horned demon, thus frightening the demon who had come to terminate his life. At that time, there was a widespread belief in epidemic deities (yakubyōgami 疫病神). Thereafter, images of the horned Ganzan Daishi, also known as Tsuno Daishi 角大師, were used to ward off evil and illnesses. Here is a modern example of an amulet from Jindaiji 深大寺 in Chōfu, Tokyo metropolitan area:
What also picks our curiosity is the resemblance of this image with Daoist talismans. These similarities would require further research. The other fascinating aspect is that the same Ganzan Daishi is credited for having invented the usage of O-mikuji 御籤 (fortunes written on strips of paper). One doesn’t need supernatural powers to see the resemblance with similar divination devices used in China (língqiān 靈籤), often made of wood.
Should you wish to see more of the Sanzen-in, you can visit my photo gallery.
This post resembles a bottle thrown into the ocean with a message inside. Will anyone pick it up, or will it keep drifting with all the meaningless information clouding our senses and reason? It results from a dream I had in October 2014. Although it may sound presumptuous, this message is titled “Open Letter to Asia: Soul-Searching on the Occasion of the Seventieth Commemoration of the Pacific War and Suggestions for Japan’s Reconciliation with Asia.” Let me append the full text below. A PDF version if available from the following links: English PDF version, Japanese PDF version, English and Japanese bilingual version. These files are designed to be in the public domain. It depends on each of you whether these small seeds grow. It is only a matter of finding the right soil and the proper conditions, isn’t it? I welcome suggestions for improving the wording in either language, or constructive criticism of the content. If you agree with what is being said, you are encouraged to circulate this message to friends or acquaintances, or even to translate this message into your own language. In this case, please be kind enough to leave a note in the comments. May all beings be happy!
Open Letter to Asia
Soul-Searching on the Occasion of the Seventieth Commemoration of the Pacific War and Suggestions for Japan’s Reconciliation with Asia
Although seventy years have elapsed since the conclusion of the Pacific War, wounds are still vivid and even tend to be exacerbated by the lack of sincere reflection and unambiguous apology from the Japanese government. Those of us who love Japan’s traditional emphasis on sincerity (makoto) cannot watch this scene without being appalled and without thinking that with minimal effort Japan could reconcile with its neighbors and finally turn the page of its militaristic past. Coming to terms with past atrocities may sound difficult but is the only way forward. Germany has shown that it is possible. This nevertheless implies genuine reflection on the complex historical factors that led Japan to lose touch with the rest of Asia. It should also be emphasized that this reflection is not limited to Japan and could apply to any country losing touch with reality and treading the path of militarism. Here are a few suggestions on how to express such sincere reflection and apology in the spirit of this open letter. Precisely because nothing can be expected from the Japanese government, intellectuals and private citizens feeling a sense of responsibility must take the lead.
Written on April 19, 2015.
Kyoto is a place of contrast, and the quick transition from its freezing winter to an explosion of blooming trees is not the least of them. When is the turning point, then? One popular belief is that it coincides with the Buddhist ritual called Mizutori (technically Shunie 修二会 but known as Omizutori お水取り) taking place at the Nigatsudō 二月堂, a subtemple of Tōdaiji 東大寺 in Nara. It used to be performed between the first and the fifteenth day of the second lunar month but now takes place between March first and fourteen. Once this ritual involving a spectacular display of huge burning torches being shaken across the temple (Otaimatsu お松明) is over, this is is believed to mark the end of winter. You can watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9V70idM0wA. This year (2015), the cold seems to have miraculously abated on March 13, right after the peak of this ceremony.
Now to the cherry blossoms. Let me introduce the topic with a picture taken today:
Well, this is so pink that it seems almost artificial. Maybe you prefer the white ones:
Aesthetically speaking, I think that the contrast between the various colors is what makes these trees so stunning for a few days:
These petals will soon scatter, following the universal law that whatever is composed eventually dissipates and returns to a state of dispersion. Of course, human beings are no exception but it does not prevent them from enjoying their own transitoriness or the flowers’.
Instead of pontificating about the philosophical implications of the above, dear reader, I want you to make your own conclusions. Let me conclude with yet another color:
Should you wish to see more, you can visit the photo gallery that I just created: http://www.smugmug.com/gallery/n-j6wNbR/i-LFBLThG
Everyone living in Japan is bewildered by the unusual status of the clergy in this country, where Buddhist monks (there are also very few nuns) do not pay attention to the monastic precepts of their own tradition. A convergence of complex historical factors created this situation but the result is that supposedly ordained individuals are not held in high regard by the Japanese population, and that they are the object of ridicule in other Asian countries. Being currently conducting research on Taiwanese Buddhism, it was natural to visit one of their branch temples in Japan. Thus, I went to Pǔdōng Chánsì 普東禪寺, the Japanese branch temple associated with Zhōngtái Chánsì 中台禪寺, which is located in Kadoma-shi 門真市, slightly outside the center of Osaka. Here is a picture showing the outside of Pǔdōng Chánsì:
I was fortunate to be allowed to discuss with the Abbess, Venerable Shì Jiànxuān 釋見瑄, who speaks fluent Japanese because she used to be a teacher of Japanese in Taiwan. Among the topics discussed, I had to touch the delicate question of possible interactions with the Japanese Buddhist schools and ask whether any exchanges were taking place. The reply was that there were no such interactions, because both perceptions of values (kachikan 価値観 ) are so radically different. This was a very diplomatic way to hint at the gap separating a strictly monastic, celibate, and vegetarian clergy from the Japanese pretense of monkhood. More than a century ago, the Indian monk Swami Vivekananda was attracting attention worldwide after his spectacular interventions at the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago and the following lectures he gave across the United States. Among Japanese figures impressed by his charisma and spirituality was Okakura Kakuzō, who hoped to invite him to Japan. Unfortunately, because of health issues, this project never came to fruition (although Vivekananda made a brief stopover en route to Chicago). In any case, barely one month before his passing, on June 14, 1902, Vivekananda sent a letter to his disciple Dhira Mata, also known as Mrs. Ole Bull or Sara Bull. It included the following passage relevant to the Japanese situation:
Modern Buddhism—having fallen among races who had not yet come up to the evolution of marriage—has made a travesty of monasticism. So until there is developed in Japan a great and sacred ideal about marriage (apart from mutual attraction and love), I do not see how there can be great monks and nuns.(accessed March 30, 2015)
Mirroring the diversity of Buddhist traditions across Asia, the celebration of the Buddha’s Awakening takes place on various dates, depending on the country. In Taiwan and in the Chinese cultural sphere relying on the lunar calendar (nónglì 農曆), it occurs on the day corresponding to the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, which this year was Saturday, January 24, 2015 (year 104 in the Taiwanese calendar beginning in 1912). Thanks to the kind invitation of a Dharma friend, I went to attend the celebration at Zhōngtái Chánsì 中台禪寺 in Pǔlǐ zhèn 埔里鎮, central Taiwan, one of the flagship Chan monasteries known for its magnificent architecture and the quality of its teachers.
Since I had no idea about what to expect, I was there for a surprise when finding out that more than ten thousand followers were gathering for the occasion, with hundreds of buses full of people coming especially for the occasion, often travelling more than four hours (one way) to come from remote hometowns. I simply had never seen so many people in a Buddhist temple! We were not allowed to take pictures inside the monastery, but this may give an idea of the first few buses who had arrived around 4 p.m.
Participants were grouped in different units, identified with jackets featuring distinctive colors and indicating the subsection from which they came. The leader of the group, carrying a placard, would be responsible for taking care that the individuals in his or her group would stay together. Here is one example:
Around 5 p.m., everyone moved into different spaces, including the huge dining hall in the basement of this structure, fully equipped with video screens retransmitting live all the events taking place in the main hall. The highlight was the arrival of Great Master Wei Chueh (Wéijué Héshang 惟覺和尚), who gave a substantial address to his many guests. At the age of 86 his speech is still precise and his memory phenomenal. He often illustrates his teachings with poetry quoted from his vast repertoire.
This was followed by several performances, in particular by pupils attending the neighboring schools belonging to this denomination. The banner in the dining hall read “Friendly Gathering and Dharma Assembly of the Year 104 Zhongtai Chan Monastery Celebration of the the Buddha’s Awakening” (Zhōngtái Chánsì yìbáilíng nián Làbā wéilú fǎhuì 中台禪寺一百零四年臘八圍爐法會). It is interesting to see the expression wéilú 圍爐 (tentatively translated as “Friendly Gathering”) being used in this context, because it literally refers to a circle of people [chatting] around a fireplace or hearth. The Taiwanese climate usually does not warrant setting fireplaces but I imagine that this must be a remnant of traditions from colder areas in mainland China. In any case, this provided an invaluable glimpse of the vitality of lay supporters coming from all wakes of life, including teenagers, young parents, and children. The gorgeous vegetarian meal was far from frugal and included the traditional làbāzhōu 臘八粥, a nutritious rice gruel enriched with nuts and dried fruits.
To return to the various approaches to the Buddha’s Awakening, this joyful gathering around a dinner table contrasts with the more austere way the same event is celebrated in Japan. In Japanese Zen monasteries, it is called Jōdōe 成道會 (Ceremony [to commemorate] the Realization of Awakening) and takes place at the end of the harshest meditation retreat known as Rōhatsu Ōzesshin 臘八大攝心. The ceremony is usually performed at dawn on December 8, after a whole week during which practitioners barely slept and were pushed far beyond their usual limits. This week of extreme asceticism stands in stark contrast with the laxism prevalent in the way Buddhist precepts are practiced, or rather disregarded, by the modern Japanese clergy. In Southeast Asia, they have regrouped the three celebrations of the birth, awakening, and passing of the historical Buddha on a single day called Vesak. An official United Nations Day of Vesak (UNDV) has even been established. This year an academic conference will coincide with the event and will be hosted by Mahachulalongkornrajavidyalaya University in Thailand between May 27–31, 2015. This plethora of interpretation begs the question of whether it may be more accurate to speak of “Buddhisms” in the plural, as suggested in scholarly circles. | <urn:uuid:7366fb55-d586-4cce-a2fb-a4cb9ac44232> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | http://michelmohr.com/author/zorglub2016/ | 2018-06-20T22:50:06Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267863939.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20180620221657-20180621001657-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.957033 | 4,234 | [
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Morning run, yea right! The alarm went off at 6am (after I had already gotten up to feed the hungry kitten) and I turned it off and tried to fall back to sleep. The last few nights I must have been clamping my jaw as a I sleep. I have woken up with terrible headaches and a soreness below my ears. Ugh....I ended up sleeping until 10am!
I was really hoping that is did get as cool as it was predicted to last night because I still wanted to get a run in this AM. So I rolled right out of bed put shoes on and walked out the door. I chose to run naked today....no garmin, no music, and I also didn't put a headband or hat on but that was because I forgot.
As I got going I realized how tired and heavy my legs were. So I planned to run 15mins then turn around. It was lots of hills again so it was a rough start. I believe I hit the 1.55 mark by 15mins. I turned around and wanted to go back faster than I came out. Goal achieved...I made it back in 13:30. So I am pretty sure I got atleast 3.1 in today but as I said I ran NAKED! But my legs felt much better by the time I finished.
Now I am waiting patiently to take a shower because Brian is still sleeping.
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In many ways, Thailand is paradise for food lovers. You can’t cross a street without the aroma of frying garlic and chillies drawing you in, or smoke pouring from a street grill hitting your nose. Everywhere you go there’s a new temptation, whether it’s spicy papaya salad, fragrant coconut milk curry or traditional roti pancakes sizzling away. But in Thailand, navigating what’s safe to eat can be a minefield.‘Vegetarian’ generally means not eating meat or seafood: anything else, including meat stock, shrimp paste or fish sauce, is fair game. Get it right and you’ll be feasting on a variety of aromatic and flavorful dishes; get it wrong and you’ll find yourself inadvertently chewing on some gristle. Here’s how vegetarians can eat well in Thailand.
Bangkok is paradise for a food lover. You can’t cross a street without the aroma of frying garlic and chillies drawing you in, or smoke pouring from a street food grill hitting your nose. Everywhere you go, there’s a new temptation, whether it’s a spicy papaya salad, fragrant coconut milk curry or traditional roti pancakes sizzling away. You could spend weeks wandering these chaotic streets and barely scratch the culinary surface of this city, but many people only spend a few days in Bangkok. If you’re just passing through and want to make the most of your time here (i.e. eat as much as possible), there are a few things you can do to experience how diverse and delicious the food scene here is.
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Excited about getting into grad school but not sure how to pay for it? Receiving financial aid is not uncommon these days. At least 40% of graduate students borrow money. Here are six easy steps to getting free money for grad school…
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This hurricane season has already been one of the most destructive on record. Hurricane Harvey dumped roughly 40 inches of rain on southeast Texas and Hurricane Irma cut power to 60 percent of the state of Florida. Recovery efforts will be lengthy, and expensive, for both Federal and state governments.
Verizon is stepping up its efforts to support public safety and relief efforts in storm-battered states. Most importantly, the company is focused on repairing damaged communications networks and infrastructure to help governments focus on other restoration efforts.
“Hurricanes Harvey and Irma severely tested the critical networks and infrastructure of the communities in their paths, and left widespread flooding and other devastation in their wakes,” said Mike Maiorana, senior vice president of Verizon Enterprise Solutions-Public Sector, in a blog post.
Verizon said that the vast majority of their facilities withstood the storms. According to the company, 98 percent of its network facilities were in service during and after Harvey and 90 percent of facilities were operational after Irma. Verizon credits backup batteries and generators for keeping technology working, as well as massive refueling efforts as soon as was safe. In areas where there was damage, Verizon deployed mobile cell sites, including new satellite picocells on trailers (SPOTS), that use a satellite connection to Verizon’s network to support first responders.
To survey damage post-storm, Verizon used drones to assess damage and relay information to its network teams. Verizon was able to deploy repair teams and return its networks in both Texas and Florida to business-as-usual levels within a week of the storms.
Verizon also deployed additional technologies in both states to support public safety agencies and relief organizations.
In Texas, Verizon deployed:
- Two “Big Red” communications trailers, which are 53-foot trailers with meeting space, mobile workstations, and communications services including Internet access and phone service. The trailers give local officials an on-the-ground command center.
- A “gooseneck” trailer featuring an inflatable shelter and mobile workstations for command-and-control coordination.
- A wireless emergency communication center (WECC) that offers device charging, computer workstations, and wireless phones, tablets, and other devices for residents to use to contact family and friends.
- A store-on-wheels for device charging, phone calls and Internet access.
- Verizon also installed in-building solutions in a FEMA command center and satellite solutions for several big-box retailers to restore service to their point-of-sale systems so residents could purchase recovery supplies.
In Florida, Verizon deployed a 16-vehicle caravan of those same large assets to the Keys, including:
- Two SPOTs.
- A “Big Red” trailer.
- A “gooseneck” trailer.
- Tactical command center.
- Mobile command center.
- Outside of the Keys, Verizon deployed two WECCs in the Naples area, as well as a WECC and a charging house on wheels in North Miami Beach.
“Emergency response efforts like this aren’t done on the fly–they require years of planning and preparation, a hardened network that can weather the storm, and dedicated people on the ground who don’t quit until the job is done,” Maiorana said. “There is still much work to do to fully restore vital services in our communities to pre-storm conditions. And maintaining a wireless network is a 24/7 job, so there is always work to be done on our part to keep our customers connected. We won’t stop until the recovery efforts are complete.” | <urn:uuid:73492882-5b2b-4897-960a-f7e95eb7ce4b> | CC-MAIN-2018-26 | https://www.meritalkslg.com/articles/verizon-supports-officials-during-hurricane-recovery-efforts/ | 2018-06-22T23:00:36Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-26/segments/1529267864822.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20180622220911-20180623000911-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.955178 | 754 | [
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