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wordpress | This page is all about How to Use Extended Text – Extended Text is a base functionality of Dynamics NAV where you can add some custom description for any of the Item which you want to Sell, Purchase etc..
Highlighted part is the area where you need to fill in the text which you want to populate. Below is the Sales, Purchase and Service fast tab where you need to check the Flag where you exactly want this and disable the flags where you don’t.
Now as soon as you validate the Item, the Extended Text will automatically get populated as shown in the above screenshot. In the Item card you fill find a Flag Automatic Ext. Text. If this Flag is on then the text will automatically come otherwise you need to manually fill in by navigating to Function -> Insert Ext. Text. | 2019-04-25T17:45:44Z | https://rockwithnav.wordpress.com/tag/extended-text-item-card/ | Porn | Reference | 0.958077 |
wordpress | My 44th birthday is just around the corner. The doctor tells me that as we get older, exercise becomes even more important. Weight bearing exercise can increase bone density. Getting your heart pumping is supposed to be as good for your mind as it is for your body.
I tried to take my doctor’s advice, but I’ve discovered that exercise can actually be hazardous to your health.
The first nice day this spring, I put on a pair of rumpled sweatpants and a t-shirt. I laced up my sneakers and went for a walk. I envisioned a healthy brisk 3-mile walk around the Pembroke neighborhood where I live. I didn’t expect that I would be attacked by wild animals. But about a mile and a half from my apartment complex, among an expanse of colonial houses with big yards and SUV’s in the driveway, I had a run in with a wolf…a fox…a dingo…I don’t know what it was, but it scared the heck out of me and sent me actually RUNNING back home.
Fearing any more wild animal attacks, I headed inside to the gym, but that was equally unsuccessful. First of all, there were the mirrors. (I don’t know which was worse the fox or the mirrors!) There are two things that you should never watch yourself do, and one of them is exercise! In addition to that, I’m not a big fan of sweating – it just doesn’t seem, I don’t know – lady like. I know it’s healthy. It eliminates toxins from your body and all that, but yuck. I’ve seen other girls on the treadmill, they glow, some even perspire — but I sweat! My hair gets all matted, mascara gets in my eyes. It’s not a pretty sight!
I tried the stationery bicycle. I mean, you are sitting down after all, how hard can it be? But after 45 minutes of pedaling and not getting anywhere I just got exasperated!
In a last ditch effort to “just do it,” I took up golf. I bought a set of clubs at Target, signed up for lessons with a pro at the country club. I even practiced Saturdays at the driving range. My drives went 100 feet – not yards – feet! Straight as an arrow, but not too far. Despite men in funny pants complaining about it all the time, golf is a forgiving sport. With the skills I had, I could still play a course or two – but you don’t burn many calories trying to hit a little ball through a lit-up windmill.
Now, although I’ve generally avoided physical activity my entire life, I’ve somehow ended up with bursitis in my shoulder. I’m going to physical therapy twice a week and am doing strength exercises in my bedroom while watching TV. I was making progress too, but last week, as I was doing my third set of these flying butterfly exercises I got a pinched nerve in my neck. I’m worse off than before.
See, what did I tell you? Exercise is hazardous to your health…staying on the couch – now that’s safe!
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wordpress | You will be interested in this if you use the South London Line between Victoria and London Bridge. This email is circulated by the Peckham Residents’ Network.
The attached note/flyer was produced after the first meeting of the Southwark Rail Users’ Group last week, which discussed Network Rail’s draft South London RUS (Rail Utilisation Strategy).
* Direct trains between Peckham Rye, Queens Rd Peckham and South Bermondsey to London Bridge reduced.
* No direct trains between South Bermondsey, Queens Road Peckham and Victoria (currently 2 per hour).
1) Keep the South London Line service between London Bridge/Victoria as it is today, at minimum.
2) Explore the option of taking the existing service to London Bridge on to Charing Cross, Blackfriars or beyond to alleviate issues with platform availability at London Bridge.
3) Provide assurances that phase 2 of the East London Line extension (linking from Surrey Quays to Clapham Junction via Queens Rd, Peckham Rye and Denmark Hill) will mean 4 East London Line trains per hour serving our stations IN ADDITION to the South London Line trains to Victoria and London Bridge, not instead of them. SAVE THE SOUTH LONDON LINE!
This information is circulated to you by the Peckham Residents’ Network.
“”We have heard that the police have requested a licensing review of Blues (also known as ‘Good Times’), a night club, at 43 Peckham High Street. The reason is the history of violence at the club where weapons were taken to the premises and used. Two recorded examples of this being someone having entered via the rear fire exit and discharging a firearm, and on another occasion a stabbing outside the club.
that we can send an addendum to the letter after the 12th.
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wordpress | The Collaborating Centre for Values-based Practice in Health and Social care has been set up to support the development of the field through shared learning. Based at St Catherine’s College in Oxford the Centre brings together a wide range of individuals and organisations working on different aspects of values-based practice around the world. Although originating primarily in mental health and social care a particular aim of the Collaborating Centre is to support extension of values-based approaches to other areas of health care such as surgery.
The critical values based practice network comprises of practitioners, people who use mental health services and academics from the statutory, private and voluntary sector working within mental health. It focuses on education, research and practice which attempts to critique and address the barriers to implementing values based practice in mental health in-patient settings. We have an explicit focus on exploring professional and organisational power structures which underpin these barriers. This position informs educational and practice based action research initiatives which attempt to acknowledge and work within legal and ethical constraints to improve collaborative practices.
Volition is the network for third sector organisations working with people and their mental health and wellbeing. With 96 members organisations in Leeds, Volition support and bring together the strong and vibrant mental health third sector in Leeds as well as facilitating the mental health third sector voice at a strategic level. One of the core aims of Volition is to promote service user-led and recovery focused socially inclusive services. Volition is a strong advocate of people with lived experience being at the forefront of decisions around mental health, from mental health service design to co-production of a person’s own care and support. Within Leeds, one of the core principles of the redesign of the MH services in Leeds, which is a current 3 year project, is that people with lived experience are at the core of all of this work.
Leeds Involving People (LIP) is a user-led organisation, connecting citizen insight with service redesign for 20 years. LIP is a recognised centre of expertise in the coproduction of health, social care and community service solutions, with 600 members representing a range of seldom heard communities. LIP’s Together We Can network is an active partner in mental health strategic development and co-author of the Leeds Mental Health Framework 2014-17.
The Co-Creation Network began on October 2014 establishing a network of Communities of Practice for anyone interested in improving health and social care. The Network brings together service users, academics, researchers, professionals and service provider staff from all sectors to share knowledge and experiences and develop new practice. The regional initiative which began in Yorkshire & the Humber now also hosts communities with national and international interests.
The School of Healthcare at the University of Leeds has Service User and Carer Community who are actively engaged in the selection and education of mental health nurses and social work students and research studies. Having been informed by discussions with the above organisations, an early draft of the proposal was presented to the Involvement Advisory Group for their thoughts and input. A member of this group, Annie Dransfield will be a speaker at the first seminar.
Comensus (Community Engagement Service User Support) involves service users and carers and the wider community in scholarly activity at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan). Comensus emerged from a participatory action research process and has been developed to embed the voices and experiences of service users and carers within health and social care practice. Democratised ways of working and relating are central to our ethos and practice.
The School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield believes the involvement of a wide range of people experienced in health and social care is of great value to the education of its students. Their stories and history of experiences can help students to understand the needs and expectations of the individuals they will be working with. This also enables them to develop the right values, knowledge and attitudes to support their client group, ultimately putting the person at the centre of care. | 2019-04-22T06:58:41Z | https://coproductionblog.wordpress.com/2016/02/22/partner-organisations/ | Porn | Reference | 0.0969 |
livejournal | Hey folks! I just wanted to let everybody know that there's now an official Twitter account for the Bugzilla Project. This will be a really good way to stay up to date on the very latest news about Bugzilla--we plan to keep it updated frequently about all our new feature development, releases, and things going on in the Bugzilla community. | 2019-04-22T04:28:28Z | https://avatraxiom.livejournal.com/103460.html | Porn | News | 0.887456 |
wordpress | How are you waiting ?
Did you know that your spoken word has the power to create and change your life, Every morning I take the time to give thanks and create my day. What about you? How do you start your day? For more great tips to create your life Sign up here.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become.~ Buddha Years ago I sat down and I thought about my life my purpose and what God has for me… I didn’t know which way to go but I knew that there was something better. After praying and sitting in the silence I realize that are life is simple what we believe it to be. Good or bad it is what we think… You can change your life and here is 4 ways affirmations can help. 1⃣ Speak what you seek: claim it,say it speak success over your life, speak goodness over your life, speak love. Whatever you DESIRE affirm it now!!
I have a lovely home filled with beautiful things” them walk through your house smiling looking at all you’ve been blessed with knowing that more is coming. If you can’t yet believe that big, start small like asking for favor in your life wherever you go, say things like people want to do nice things for me or I am always at the right place at the right time. 3⃣ Look for the miracles, identify the magic in your life. When things start happening acknowledge them. 4⃣ BE THANKFUL!!!! Gratitude is huge in everything that you want ton accomplish and I can’t say it enough… Be thankful for your now.
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wordpress | Now at 4 BFN. And still BFN! No AF. No BFP. Yes, I know, wait 3 days. Whatever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Who the H writes this crap on the instructions? It is pretty obvious they do not suffer from infertility! Hahaha.. It is called wait 8 hours and call it good. Cannot even think of what it could be.
Keep second guessing myself that I forgot to chart something. But let’s be real about this. What infertile woman doesn’t know EVERYTHING that is going on with her body. So of course that brings on the other stresses. We shall not name any at this time. But you all know what they are.
Thank goodness, I already have a DR appointment tomorrow. Guess I will be adding a couple of things to the list of needed, in my blood work. It is not safe for a woman in my position to not know what is going on. We can make up far to many scenarios in our mind. Oh land!
Keep tabs on me. Land knows I need it!
My husband left me a message.
The Shore Path with fog rolling in.
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This blog is my diary for the world to see. Through it, I will share with you my personal Grief Journey as a Bereaved Cancer Mom. On September 24th 2015 my 8 year old Son, Rylan passed away from Brain Cancer and I've since made it my ultimate goal in life to better educate others on the utmost importance of bringing more awareness to Childhood Cancer and to help shed some light on life after Child Loss and the profound ripple effect their death causes for the families they leave behind. I hope my blog in some way will serve as a reminder that death keeps no calendar. Our lives are not owed to us. It's a gift given and everyday we are living on borrowed time.
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ncsu | This post was authored by Jocelyn Domebyl and Anna Rzewnicki, Poole College Communications, and posted on the Poole College of Management news site.
The Supply Chain Resource Cooperative (SCRC) at the North Carolina State University Poole College of Management announces the appointment of Dana Magliola as director. Magliola fills a vacancy created with the May 31 retirement of Clyde Crider, who has served as director since 2010.
Originally from Charleston, S.C., Magliola moved to Raleigh in 2008 after living in Boston, Charlotte, and the greater New York area during his prior career. He has nearly 15 years’ professional experience including leading North American corporate social responsibility and managing communications for A.P. Moller-Maersk, serving as eastern North Carolina business development manager for UPS Logistics and principal consultant for BaerPoint Strategic Communications, as well as other fundraising, advancement, and government relations roles within political and academic organizations.
This spring, Magliola graduated from the NC State Jenkins MBA program at Poole College with a concentration in supply chain management. While in the Jenkins MBA program, he was selected to be an SCRC Scholar, a position dedicated to the development of in-depth practicum projects working with SCRC partner companies on real-world business challenges.
As an SCRC Scholar, Magliola led a team of other SCRC Scholars on a project sponsored by MHI (Material Handling Institute), researching, analyzing, and publishing the first-ever comprehensive economic impact analysis of the supply chain in North Carolina. Together, they presented their report and findings to various audiences across the Southeast, including the NC General Assembly, Charlotte’s Council of Supply Chain Professionals, and MHI’s Modex supply chain national conference in Atlanta. This project was also awarded second prize in the 2016 Poole College of Management Leadership & Innovation Showcase.
Magliola is a member of the inaugural class of Jenkins MBA students selected as McLauchlan Leadership Fellows, a leadership development program designed to support professional, graduate-level leadership education through experiential learning. He has also completed the BB&T Emerging Leaders program.
His activities extended beyond Poole College and the Jenkins MBA Program. Magliola served as a graduate student senator in NC State Student Government, and is the co-founder of the Maritime Club at NC State. He also is the volunteer head coach of the competitive NC State Sailing Team. Magliola holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Virginia, and graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.
Robert Handfield, Bank of America University Distinguished Professor Supply Chain Management and SCRC executive director, cited Magliola’s experience in industry and through the SCRC as a foundation for his new role.
“Dana has been on both sides of the fence, as a student working for the SCRC and with our partner companies, and as a professional, with prior work experience that includes the logistics industry, communications and project management. He brings energy and insight that will be a great asset as we evolve into SCRC 3.0,” Handfield said.
“I look forward to working with the great faculty, staff and company partners to lead the SCRC organization forward, building on its already strong foundation and sterling reputation,” Magliola said.
The SCRC is an industry-university partnership dedicated to advancing the supply chain industry and professionalism. Based in the NC State University Poole College of Management, the SCRC provides support, services and programs to benefit supply chain students, the college’s supply chain faculty and its corporate partners. Through SCRC-coordinated practicum projects, students work on company projects, applying classroom learning to help solve real supply chain challenges. | 2019-04-23T02:38:44Z | https://mba.ncsu.edu/news/nc-state-mba-named-director-of-the-supply-chain-resource-cooperative/ | Porn | Business | 0.72173 |
wordpress | In our effort to support and raise awareness on behalf of the Etobicoke Humane Society, we would like to thank everyone who came out on Saturday October 22nd for our Howl-o-ween Party. From your participation and additional contributions, we were able to raise over $270 in proceeds. As a close neighbour, the Etobicoke Humane Society does a great job and is committed to rescuing injured, abused and abandoned animals. We hope this will help in their work with animals.
Our volunteers and staff members were a big help, donating their time and putting up decorations.
For those who weren’t able to attend, the dogs had a devilish time showing off their creative costumes in our Doggie Halloween Parade.
The dogs had Free Play Time where they got a chance to meet new furry friends.
Charlie, Sophie, and Victoria showing off their costumes!
And participate in a little friendly competition by dressing up for the occasion. Our Doggie Costume Contest was a great success! with appearances from scary Dracula to a cute little pig.
What scary horns you have!
I’m sure the judges had a difficult time deciding….
Our judges hard at work!
Some of our doggie contestants….
Sophie, our fierce little witch!
Rummin's the cutest little piglet!
Congratulations to everyone who participated, and a special congratulations to Milo who won 1st place for best costume.
Milo our 1st place winner!
Although it was a tough decision, everyone walked away a winner! Thanks to Royal Canin for supplying the doggie prizes.
Thanks again! and Happy Howl-o-ween!
With Howl-o-ween just around the corner (exactly 15 days away), why not share this year’s festivity by including your furry little friend. Many pet owners involve their pampered pooches each year by creating unique costumes that are fun and easy for the dog to wear. Dogs are becoming a part of this yearly tradition with contests, events, and even large parades dedicated to dogs and their costumes.
Yes, I am one of those people who find it cute and adorable to dress up my pet, it’s only for one day. And your dog will love the attention!
As for those who prefer to make your own costumes and enjoy DIY projects, take a look at How to make your own dog costume. This can be a great way to create inexpensive costumes for your pet.
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wordpress | Things feel different lately. I seem to have settled into myself and life as it currently is. Of course, that doesn’t mean that life is perfect and that I’m where I want to be. I’ve just made peace with where I currently find myself.
There’s a difference between accepting where we are, with no intention of improving ourselves (and life), and continuing to grow and make the changes we’d like.
For so long, I’ve been fighting to just survive. That was my daily goal. To make it through the day. But that’s changed. I’m no longer solely focused on survival. I’m no longer stuck with my default External Locus of Control.
While I’m happier than I’ve ever been, I also feel a little unsettled by this sometimes. Why? Quite simply, I’m not used to this level of acceptance and mood stability.
I could quite easily credit this stability to my new medication, but I’m not going to. A few weeks before stopping my previous mood stabilizer (I was on it for about 11 months), I had been in a really good place emotionally, like where I find myself now again. I went through a bit of a mental health breakdown while transitioning off those meds, and I’ve realized that maybe I’m not meant (or just not ready) to be without medication. And that’s okay.
I’ve been working extremely hard on myself these past 19 months, and it’s paying off. I believe that even if I wasn’t on medication, I’d still have made progress. The meds just makes it that much easier to work on my healing and self development.
I’m proud of myself for how far I’ve come. And I’m going to continue this forward momentum. Sometimes it might only be a forward leaning, other times the smallest baby step, and still others, giant leaps. Even if I take a step back sometimes, I’ll find it that much easier to take yet another step forward afterward.
I’m a work in progress. As are we all. | 2019-04-23T05:56:35Z | https://thejourneytowardhealing.wordpress.com/tag/making-progress/ | Porn | Health | 0.764165 |
wordpress | And what better way to bring in the new year with a little refresher course on trail cams.
First there has been a trail cam photo circulating on the web since the first or so of the month allegedly originating from South Carolina.
Clearly this appears to be a hog. And yes hogs can be brindle patterned.
Problem #1. Here there is absolutely nothing. No story, no location, no date, no time, no source.
Problem #2. First of all this is a trail cam photo which is obviously cropped because there is none of that neat data you get with trail cam photos. We are missing part of the frame to the left, the right and the bottom which usually is where you find such information.
Problem #3. If the “face” on the hind quarters of the hog, was actually a face, where is the IR Eyeshine??? It’s not there!
We all know the propensity for Sasquatch reports to allege eyeshine, which I have seen myself in one encounter due to the distinct possibility of the creatures having a Tapetum Lucidum. So if that is a face? Where is the eyeshine?
The only proponents of this picture being a Sasquatch is that, there appears to be a face. Yet there are 3 facts (listed above) that contradict that mere observation.
I only fear the next counterclaim will be the Sasquatch was blinking or had its eyes closed!
Now this title is a little deceiving. Because I do not believe that for one second. First of all can anyone tell me what primate can see in the infrared spectrum? How about a mammal that can? They cannot.
Also a trail camera does not emit a constant infrared beam or flash. The late William Dranginis believed the possibility that the Sasquatch’s hearing could hear the emission of an ultrasonic sound the sensors in the camera may emit. Which is plausible because hearing varies with species of mammals.
“A passive infrared sensor (PIR sensor) is an electronic sensor that measures infrared (IR) light radiating from objects in its field of view.
Therefore how can a Sasquatch avoid the trail cameras by sensing infrared, when they do not emit an infrared light until such time as the camera is triggered?
They certainly wouldn’t smell them, since most reports of a Sasquatch state their noses are flat indicating they would have scent sensory nerves much like us. Unlike the other critters with snouts, such as bears, hogs, deer and dogs which can smell stuff from very far.
The truth is putting trails cams in the forest is still like needles and haystacks. If you have six trail cams, that’s only 6 needles. Still a bit of luck is needed to get anything viable.
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wordpress | [Amanda Shiflett] I see prayer gatherings beginning to emerge in the United Kingdom in an immense way, and many will be a part of many home churches/home groups, that will be very Apostolic and Prophetic in nature. Much of the prayer gatherings will come from these, and I see a great wave of the moving of God’s Spirit through these groups. It will be a grass-roots movement of God’s remnant there. Many of these home/small groups will even be among those who are considered the “social elite”. | 2019-04-22T09:10:32Z | https://247prayerbognor.wordpress.com/2018/08/ | Porn | Home | 0.587312 |
livejournal | Many thumbs up for Bruno!
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wordpress | Need some home decor? Nags Head has your store. This may be my wife’s favorite store in the world. Opening this Sunday (unless you have a TJMaxx cc. Then you get a preview a couple of days early). You will be impressed with the selections and the price. Nags Head and the rest of the OBX is becoming a year round community. We are growing and that is exciting. If you beat Stacy to the opening please leave her something for the house.
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wordpress | Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual’s right to self-defense. This class is meant for those students wishing to apply for a Concealed Carry Permit and does satisfy the State of Maine requirement.
This is a 8 hours course where students should expect to shoot approximately 100 rounds of ammunition. Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, firearms and the law, how to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, the Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, and course completion certificate. NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home course is for law-abiding adult citizens, as defined by applicable federal, state, or local law, and experienced shooters (shooters able to show mastery of the basic skills of safe gun handling, shooting a group, zeroing the firearm, and cleaning the firearm) to maximize what can be learned from this course. Ideally one should complete the NRA Basic Pistol Course before taking this course. | 2019-04-21T20:28:44Z | https://newenglanddefensive.wordpress.com/personal-protection-in-the-home/ | Porn | Home | 0.887734 |
wordpress | It’s been very long time since I wrote my last entry, which’s 4 months ago (I guess) and wrote about science experiment.
I hope he’s okay, but things must be a little tough for Deryck Whibley these days. The departure of Stevo maybe cause this situation, well I guess. hope Deryck will be fine, Ameen.
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wordpress | I’ve heard people raving about Group Therapy Poached Egg Toast. And i’m here to give it a try! Group Therapy is located in Tanjong Pagar, Quite a distance away from the MRT, i took some time to find the place. It’s located among the shophouses at the second level. I think cafe with thoughtful designs are worth going! It has a pretty good environment, could probably take a book to read or spend your lazy afternoon there! Their menu werent extensive, but having few of excellent food are good enough too!
I’ve ordered their Poached Eggs ($15) and their Mocha. Their Poached Eggs are really awesome. Generous serving of hollandaise sauce with fresh salmon top on thick toast! Their hollandaise sauce is refreshing with tinge of sour. The thick toast is crispy! I really love this combination! The mocha was alright for me. As i dont usually drink coffee on its own so i will usually order mocha with the cocoa added. This mocha taste more coffee-y to me! | 2019-04-19T18:52:13Z | https://withrachelle.wordpress.com/2014/03/17/group-therapy/ | Porn | News | 0.353812 |
wordpress | There it (the New York Times) goes again!
When not dealing with Vinokourov, for the past few years media references to “Kazakh” have typically involved Borat. Now Borat Sagdiyev, the character invented and performed by Sacha Baron Cohen, is represented as a Kazakh, but in fact nothing about him has anything to do with the Kazakh people or Kazakhstan. His appearance, and that of the other supposedly Kazakh characters in the Borat film (most of whom are played by Romanians), is typically Southern European, and the supposedly Kazakh language that Borat speaks is in fact Hebrew. Real Kazakhs are Central Asians and their physical appearance is close to East Asian, or what in the United States is called simply Asian.
The fact that in Eastern and East Central Europe, and in most of Asia, nationality is defined by ethnicity and not by citizenship is something that the Western media seem to have a hard time with. I have written a number of essays on the subject. The issue affects me personally because I am a native of Poland, and my ancestors lived in Poland for hundreds of years, but my family and I are Polish Jews and we never regarded ourselves, nor were regarded by others (except ignorant Westerners), as Poles.
I sent Mr. Smith a message informing him of his error. Needless to say, there was no response. The high-and-mighty New York Times will publish misinformation, apologize for it if it is blatant enough, and keep on doing it. My nationality issue is minuscule when compared with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
To my surprise, I got a comment within two days of my first post!
On the page describing the Leadership Team, Ariela Rozman is listed as the CEO and Timothy Daly as the President, so that the two positions are distinct; either Wikipedia or Mr. Romero is mistaken.
The descriptions of the positions don’t make it clear what the CEO’s functions are, but the current holder “began her six-year tenure… as Vice President of Marketing,” a position that seems no longer to exist. It also seems that “TNTP’s largest business line and a growing staff of over 60 individuals” are under the supervision of the Vice President of Teaching Fellows Programs, a position that was also held by Ms. Rozman.
Neither the CEO’s nor the President’s position seems to involve the kind of management that even remotely resembles the supervision of thousands of unionized employees and scores of thousands. So, once again, I say: Good luck, DC!
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wikipedia | John Brooke Johnson Brooke (born John Brooke Johnson, 1823 – 1 December 1868) was a soldier and Rajah Muda, heir to the Raj, of the Kingdom of Sarawak until disinherited in favour of his younger brother, Charles.
Born in South Stoke near Bath, the son of Francis Charles Johnson, a clergyman who had, in 1822, married Emma Frances Brooke, an elder sister of James Brooke. James took 'Johnny' on a long cruise around the Mediterranean in 1837 in his yacht, Royalist. John then joined the British army's 88th Foot as an Ensign in 1839, Lieutenant in 1842, and Captain in 1848.
Brooke, his preferred name by then, left the army in 1848, adopted the surname of Brooke , and went to join his uncle in Borneo as Rajah Muda, taking effective charge of the country when James returned to England. He spent some time in Labuan at first as James was establishing himself as its first Governor, but was subsequently based in Kuching. He has been largely ignored in the standard historical accounts of Sarawak, but substantial records survive which show how active he was, and his engagement with pirates in the Battle off Mukah late in 1862 has attracted interest.
Brooke married Anne Grant, a granddaughter of Lord Elgin, at Kilgrastron in Scotland in 1856. They went to live in Kuching where they had two sons, Basil (1857–1860), and John Charles Evelyn Hope (1858–1934), but Anne died shortly after Hope's birth. Brooke's second marriage was to Juliana Caroline Welstead: they had met in England but married in Singapore in 1861; Julia died a year later giving birth to a daughter, Matilda Agnes (1862–1943).
Brooke died in Hounslow in 1868 after a long illness, but was buried in his father's churchyard at his childhood home of Whitelackington.
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wordpress | Here at the Memorial Awareness Board (MAB), we have launched the second of our annual photographic competitions, entitled “Dead Art? Then and Now”. Sponsored by StoneGuard Memorial Stone Insurance, the competition encourages photographers of all abilities to submit their images of memorials both “then” and “now”. The winner will receive £1000 from the sponsor.
MAB’s Campaign Director Mike Dewar says, “Memorials and cemeteries have long been a favourite subject for photographers. There certainly is no shortage of unusual and interesting memorials throughout UK burial grounds and this competition focuses on capturing and showcasing their unsung beauty”.
All entrants must submit two photographs one of then and now in order to be valid. The “Then” photograph should represent memorials as history, and the “Now” photos must be a modern headstone. Photographs can be either black and white or colour. A panel of experts including a professional photographer and a designer will judge entries.
The closing date is Friday 30th of September 2011. To enter the competition and for full terms and conditions please visit our competition page.
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Gorgeous, looks such a lovely holiday nomatter the weather! Great photos – love the one of Hugo eyeing up the burger!
Great to see you had a fab time despite the weather. It really has been miserable since the kids broke up 😦 Never heard of the River Twiss – that’s a great name!
We have done that walk with friends – I remember going behind the waterfall, though not much else about it. That must have been the first place I saw a money tree – I tried to remember where that was when I saw one more recently and now I know!
Those money trees are everywhere now. Lots at Bolton Abbey too. Well done for going behind the waterfall!
No I haven’t done the walk but it looks amazing and what a wonderful family weekend, lots of memories for sure.
It is a good campsite and excellent walking area, have you ever tried Knights Stainforth? Just passed Settle, I’ve never, but have heard good things about it. It has lovely walking nearby and an on site cafe and shop.
Knight Stainforth is definitely somewhere I would love to camp. Its on my list! I think there is a waterfall there too.
I have heard about this trail before but didn’t do it yet. It’s on my list.
<a href="http://roachling. It really has been miserable since the kids broke up 😦 Never heard of the River Twiss – that’s a great name!
Next time I will stand behind that waterfall. 🙂 River Twiss ~ not sure what the name means but its a great one..
Another lovely post and great to see, my nana used to live in Ingleton and we spent many a summer holiday there. Its a long time since I went to the falls though.
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That was a lovely start to the evening! He may have been sarcastic, but I'm happy to mistake a windmill for a giant here.
Sat down to watch Seven Samurai (the complete 207 minute version) with zetshia_gudani. Annoyingly, she remarked about 1/3 of the way through it "Wait, I think I have seen this one before."
Kurosawa was just a magical director. He knew exactly how little of a scene he needed to tell the story of that scene and he knew exactly how to get the actors to act what they were thinking.
And it moves! There are two techniques in filmmaking that I admire more than anything. It's the ability to stretch time and the ability to shrink time. Lots of the old Twilight Zone episodes had the former in spades. You'd watch a 24 minute episode, but you'd swear you just watched a movie.
Kurosawa made those 207 minutes feel like 2 hours -- if that. zetshia_gudani yawned only once and she tends to have a shorter attention span for these things than I do which is testament to his ability.
And a man in Atlanta became the first to have his condition treated with embryonic stem cells. The future is now, people. Live it!
And watch The Magnificent Seven shortly thereafter!
Virtually everything of Kurosawa's was awesome. I was introduced to him by being blindsided by Ikiru in a class.
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wired | With the production of Tesla’s mass-market Model 3 now underway, and first deliveries due on Friday, electric cars are about to hit the mainstream. For people driving EVs, it means a raft of changes: plugging in at night instead of hitting the gas station, keeping an eye on a battery meter instead of a fuel gauge, and most importantly, a change in the way they drive.
To get the maximum benefit out of driving an electric car, the accelerator (you can’t call it a gas pedal anymore!) controls both the speeding up and slowing down. Pressing the pedal makes the car go, as usual, but lifting your foot makes the car slow down, hard, not coast.
It’s a quirk that takes some getting used to. At first, it can feel like the parking brake has been accidentally left on. But most drivers eventually prefer it because it makes inching forward in traffic much easier than swapping your foot back and forth between pedals.
In a conventional car, brake pads clamp onto a metal disc, with friction converting the kinetic energy of a speeding car into wasted heat. But when electric cars slow down, the electric motor runs as a generator, recovering some of that previously wasted energy to top up the battery. Depending on how much regeneration the software engineers allow when designing the car, the force can be powerful enough to slow the car most of the way to zero, meaning drivers only need to use the brake pedal to come to a full stop.
Nissan will become the first automaker to introduce full one pedal driving in the latest iteration of the electric Leaf, due later this year. It will have an “e-Pedal” option. The pedals will still look the same, but the brake will be pretty much redundant, and computer controls will give the traditional accelerator extra functions. Lifting off won't just slow the car with regen, but will bring the car to a full stop, and will even hold without rolling backwards on hills.
“I think this is the logical next step,” says Jeffrey Miller, an engineering professor at USC. In a Tesla, owners can already choose exactly how much lifting off the accelerator slows the car on the giant touchscreen. In Chevrolet’s Bolt, drivers have a paddle behind the steering wheel to request extra regeneration, just as they’d tap to downshift and slow down with a sporty automatic gearbox.
The advantages of maximizing regen braking are huge. Maintenance costs are lower because barely-used brake pads last for many thousands more miles. There are fewer particles of dust created which pollute the air and waterways. Stopping distances will be shorter too, as the car will start slowing down as soon as the driver begins to lift off the accelerator, rather than when he moves his foot to another pedal.
Regenerative braking does mean electric car owners need to take extra care on slippery roads, because slowing the car aggressively can cause the tires to slip. For drivers, learning to ease off the accelerator rather then jerk a right foot over to the brake means forgetting many years of expecting a car to coast.
The concept isn't new. Engineers experimented with regen brakes on the very earliest horse-free carriages, and it’s widely implanted on electric trains. A boost in the number of electric cars on the roads is going to make it much more common though, and mean a modern generation of drivers is going to have to forget what they know about pedals and learn a new way to stop. | 2019-04-23T16:35:30Z | https://www.wired.com/story/look-ma-no-brake-youll-drive-electric-cars-with-one-pedal/ | Porn | Computers | 0.586536 |
wikipedia | Hymns of the 49th Parallel is the ninth studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter k.d. lang, released in 2004. It is an album of songs by lang's favourite Canadian songwriters, and also includes a new version of her original composition "Simple" that initially appeared on her 2000 album Invincible Summer.
The album's title refers to the Canada–United States border as the 49th parallel defines much of the international boundary between the two countries.
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^ "British album certifications – k.d. lang – Hymns of the 49th Parallel". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Hymns of the 49th Parallel in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
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wordpress | A wonderful seafood restaurant in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district. Service is warm & knowledgeable without being pretentious. Food is well-balanced, clean & engaging. And please, please have the sea-buckthorn dessert if it’s on the menu. Not the cheapest place for sure, but worth the price based on my single visit.
Where do you eat the night before you’re having lunch at the best restaurant in the world? That was the question.
After asking some trusted sources, the answer (or answers) seemed to be pretty straightforward. I should either go to Ralæ, a recently-opened venture by an ex-noma chef quite definitely trying not to copy noma’s formula; Geranium, although some felt it didn’t yet live up to the hype surrounding it (and this was even before their chef won this year’s Bocuse d’Or); The Paul, which was meant to be fun; or Søllerød Kro, a classic restaurant that was a little bit out of town and a lot expensive. Unfortunately, the first and third were shut, and the second and fourth were a bit too formal and expensive, plus one was out of town.
Instead, I was directed to a rather new restaurant in Copenhagen’s ‘meatpacking’ (‘kødbyens’) neighborhood, which has also received its fair share of positive press since opening in June 2009. Enter Kødbyens Fiskebar, the casual yet stylized seafood-centric restaurant whose kitchen is also – lo and behold – run by (yet) an(other) ex-noma chef.
Does this look like the façade of one of Copenhagen’s best restaurants?
It was within a 15-minute walk of my hotel, though it seemed a bit longer than this due to the well below-freezing mid-January temperature. If you don’t look closely, you might miss the restaurant completely, as the façade looks like some low-rise concrete monstrosity with a large blue sign that says something other than the restaurant’s name. Thank goodness for Google streetview and the free WiFi offered at my hotel.
When I walked in, the bar stood immediately before me, and there were a number of staff members ready and waiting to greet me. Unfortunately, I had a slightly embarrassing thing to say. I told them that I had a reservation…for one. They asked me for my name, which I gave, and they all suddenly proclaimed in unison, “Oh, you’re [INSERT REAL NAME HERE]!!!” I almost burst out laughing as they were all smiling and it was a possibly a bit ridiculous to have booked…but hey, you never know with popular restaurants, right? The guy who appeared to be the main waiter asked if I had heard about them in Canada (where they apparently thought I was from for some unknown reason) and I explained to him that a friend from the US had been recently and really enjoyed it, etc.
As the name indicates, the order of the day is mostly piscatorial, and one if the main design features of the place is a ginormous fish tank around which you can sit on stools if you so wish.
I had a great view of the fish tank and the main bar, and proceeded to plunge myself into studying the menu. The same waiter noticed my studious concentration and came by to explain each dish to me in full (in English), which was much appreciated.
I had a look through the wine list and immediately noticed that there was a Danish white wine on the list. Yes, a Danish wine. I asked if it was any good, and the waiter rambled off some long story (okay, it wasn’t that long), which I now cannot recall, and won me over to trying it.
Good thing too. The wine was wonderfully refreshing, and was composed of Sauvignon Blanc as well as another (I want to say local) grape. Perhaps wishfully thinking, my tasting notes reveal that it had “a slight saline taste, perhaps from the sea” – though I doubt some people would agree with that rationale for the slightly salty taste. Anyway, I really enjoyed it.
Soon thereafter a pretty large loaf of sourdough bread was lopped down before me, along with an upside down cone of organic Danish butter with buttermilk. As with most of the bread I sampled in Copenhagen on this trip, it was excellent…as was the butter, once it had a chance to get warm and soften up a little bit. 8/10.
On my friend’s recommendation, I decided to stick mostly with the small plates, which turned out to be a good plan, especially as I was now definitely dining solo given Mathilde and David’s flight was delayed.
First to arrive was a plate of three Danish oysters. Readers of the blog will know that I am not the world’s greatest expert on bivalve molluscs, but expert or not, these were friggin’ huge. To my untrained tongue, they were truly excellent: meaty and only slightly tasting of the sea, served with a great punchy vinaigrette. I would have had three more if my next plates didn’t arrive just as I was finishing, to use the parlance of our times. The aforementioned Danish wine was excellent with the oysters too, by the way. 9/10.
The next two plates arrived simultaneously, and I opted to tackle the razor clams first. Although a simple and visually appealing dish, I wasn’t quite certain of the best way to go about eating it. I managed, though, and thought the clams themselves were very good. The herb cream – which seemed to contain tarragon and garlic – was an interesting flavour to pair with these slivery discs, but I felt that it dominated the clams and wasn’t wholly balanced, even though there were only small dabs of the cream. The standout component of this plate for me was the salad, which had the most amazing dressing that was sweet but acidic and spicy too. Overall this dish was good but not my favourite of the evening. 6/10.
Last of my small plates was a beautifully presented little bowl of bleak row that was matched with fairly traditional Scandinavian accompaniments of onions and sour cream – with a few pea shoots and chives thrown in for good measure. I decided to taste these together on their own before spreading it on the crisp breads, which had been provided in a cute little metal bucket on the side. The roe itself was excellent, and the other ingredients worked harmoniously with its saltiness, providing sharpness, herbaceousness and creaminess.
I enjoyed the three thin ‘breads’ both on their own and with a bit of the roe. There was a razor-thin slice of fried ciabatta, as well as a delightfully light potato crisp which was well salted (this was my favourite – basically a posh potato chip) and a normal Danish flatbread with tons of different seeds stuck to the top. 7/10 for the dish as a whole.
As a side-note, I had ordered a second glass of wine (2009 Picpoul de Pinet, Croix Gratiot, Coteaux de Languedoc), which I really didn’t like very much and didn’t seem to go too well with the clams despite the suggestion from one of the waitresses.
For my one medium-sized plate, I went for the cod roe. And I was glad I did, because it was a total triumph. The roe itself had been smoked and seared perfectly. Served alongside the golden phallice were pickled vegetables of all sorts – carrots, celery, kohlrabi, plus many others that didn’t start with ‘c’ or ‘k’ – and all tied together with a rich but deftly portioned brown butter sauce. There were also a few dabs of buttery mashed potatoes and some fresh cress to finish it off. The dish as a whole had a great variety of textures and was an amazing combination of sweet, salty and smoky. It was one of the best things I ate in Copenhagen during my short stay. 9/10.
I was head-over-heels in love with my orange and yellow dessert too. It consisted of frozen and shaved sea-buckthorn (or ‘havtorn’ in Danish), lemon cream, tonka bean and white chocolate, as well as little gel capsules of sea-buckthorn and a few green leaves placed delicately beside each disc of jelly. The icy texture of the grainté melted into the truly luscious cream and the chewy gel reiterated the somewhat bracing acidity that accompanies the bittersweet berry. The heat, which I believe emanated from the tonka, was also a nice surprise. This was one of my favorite desserts in a long time and, even though it was a very generous portion, I really could have had another bowl. 10/10.
The sweet Riesling I ordered went very well with the desert, and actually mirrored it perfectly – luscious sweetness kept in check by a steely acidity.
The thing I liked overall about this restaurant was that the formula seemed to have been thoughtfully calibrated to make the diner’s experience just right. It has an unassuming façade; a rustic yet stylish interior design; a menu that is simple, focused and straightforward; helpful and friendly service; and well executed, clean, exciting food.
I immediately felt at home, and was welcomed warmly. While there was one brief lapse in service – when I sat with an empty wine glass for more than a little while – it was soon rectified by another waitress who spotted the situation. Everyone I interacted with was knowledgeable and eager (but not too eager) to explain something as and when I showed interest. While they do take their enterprise seriously, they do not take themselves too seriously. They know what they’re doing and they’re good at it – nothing more, nothing less.
I wish more restaurants could be like this. Too often, very good food is accompanied by an annoyingly cutesy, smug and/or a condescending attitude (did you read my review of ko?). And all too often, so is not very good food. I think the Danes have a good model going: they know what they do well, are proud to offer it to you and let you enjoy it…and they know how to do this without showing off. That’s what I experienced on my trip at least.
Suffice to say, if you are in Copenhagen, whether you have the good fortune of going to noma or not, please try out Fiskebar – it was a gem of a find for me, and I hope it will stay that way for you.
Wine: I only looked at the by-the-glass list, which had a red and white house wine at 50 kroner per glass, plus 4 whites, 3 reds, and 2 sweet wines priced between 70 – 120 kroner per glass. The producers were well-chosen but the prices did seem expensive…maybe this is just the Copenhagen factor, though.
Le Bernardin is all about refined elegance. The service is discreet and professional; the food is original, inventive and lifts some of the seafood on offer to its highest state; and the dining room is an oasis of calm. It does not scream loudly, but is quietly confident. Highly worth a visit.
When I knew I would be heading to New York for nearly a week, and that I would only have one or two nights to spend in Manhattan itself, my mind began to race: where could we have one really nice dinner in the Big Apple? I don’t get there nearly as often as I used to, so it had to be a well considered choice, with no margin for error. My thoughts drifted from obvious choices like Thomas Keller’s Per Se, to which I still have not yet been, to other places I hadn’t been to for a little while, such as Aquavit (a perennial favorite), Mario Batali’s Del Posto (where we had an excellent family event last year), Jean Georges (which we went to last time we were in the city and loved) and Daniel (always great). Then, there were so many new openings which sounded interesting, that I was getting a bit lost…until I remembered the remarkable serenity of Le Bernardin, the seemingly forever 3 Michelin-starred restaurant where I had partaken in an excellent lunch in my younger years (the memory is hazy but I remember I loved it), and to which I had always wanted to return for dinner.
Eric Ripert, the head chef at Le Bernardin, is a renowned culinary artist with seafood, and is a familiar face to food television viewers in the US after having been a feature on programs such as Top Chef, where an episode recently featured him and Le Bernardin. He is also a good friend of Anthony Bourdain, another Food TV personality and proprietor of a good restaurant in his own right (the steak frites at his Les Halles in NYC are still ‘bloody’ great).
The food blogosphere is chock full of extremely positive reviews of this NYC culinary landmark, and I was certainly getting excited to go back. However, I did take note that Chef Ripert says that the fish is the main ‘star’ of his menu, and the accompanying flavors are simply meant to complement and to highlight the fish. Thus, my expectations were not that I was going to experience something that would take the various tastes of fish to ‘another dimension’, but that each piece of fish would be given the best chance it had to dazzle…but more on that later.
Le Bernardin is thoroughly French, with Maguy Le Coze (the owner) opening the restaurant in New York in 1982 to critical acclaim. Before the American iteration of Le Bernardin, she and her brother Gilbert had opened a restaurant of the same name in Paris in 1972. They originally hail from a small fishing village in Brittany, and are from a thoroughly ‘fishy’ family, with her grandfather being a fisherman and her parents owning a small restaurant-come-hotel in the village. As my marriage is also a French affair of sorts, I figured the whole thing fit and would be a good idea. So I made the reservation for deux. Done.
I should have known better. Dinners in my family are rarely straight-forward. I learned a few days later that my father would now be in New York during the weekend of the booking. And this meant a rapid change of plans as my Aunt would now surely come into the city that weekend (which was great) plus, since we would all be together, my brother and his girlfriend should definitely come too. I thought we might encounter a problem changing things around with such short notice on a Saturday night, but luckily it was fine, and they upgraded our table from two to six. Phew.
We all arrived at the restaurant slightly early, except for my brother, who made a late appearance and rushed straight for the men’s room to dry himself off – no, it wasn’t raining, but it was one of those unbearably hot and muggy days in NYC, and he was sweating like crazy after running around all day on the streets and in the subway. We waited for him in the pleasant air conditioned bar area (hehe), where we had been given some great homemade parmesan breadsticks to munch on, and eventually we made our way to the table.
It was a good sized circular table near the window (a bit too close to the entry way for my liking, but I was very glad just to have it). We settled ourselves into the comfortable chairs and soaked up the calmness inspired by mellow colors and the attractive teak wood panelling that abounds throughout the interior. But we weren’t there to sit, we were there to eat.
I must admit I had a bit of trepidation about the food – not because I thought it would be bad, but because Le Bernardin is renowned for its seafood, and that’s not always to everyone’s taste. Plus we were a table of six very finicky eaters. For instance, my Aunt has been known to send back many a piece of fish in her day for not having it cooked the specific way she asked for it…but that is another story.
Once we were given what has to be one of the most extraordinary menus I’ve seen before, I knew we had nothing to worry about, even if the dishes only tasted half as good as they sounded. The menu is a barrage to your senses and imagination. It is arranged in a rectangular, landscape-layout fashion and is broken up into four sections, which you read horizontally across the long part of the page. There is ‘Almost Raw’, ‘Barely Touched’, ‘Lightly Cooked’ and ‘Upon Request’. As far as I can remember, all of the dishes from the first three categories have fish as their main, or one of the main, components. The latter is mostly non-fish main course options, such as kobe beef, duck and squab. The flavor combinations, the variety of fish available, and the diversity of preparations (and of the ingredients themselves) was really staggering, and there wasn’t one thing on the menu that any of us did not like the sound of.
This, of course, can lead to a bit of a quandary, because there are also two tasting menus available, which capture some of the chef’s signature dishes. After literally a half an hour or more of reading through the menu, we finally decided that we would go for the ‘normal’ four course menu (two starters, one main, one dessert). My brother and I used sign language across the table to let each other know that we would be ordering a supplementary course, because there were a few too many dishes which looked like ‘must-haves’. Once everyone had chosen, my father chose a beautiful bottle of white wine (see below), and we were off and running.
The food began arriving, and it looked amazing. Each dish was very individually and beautifully presented. As there were six of us, it would be too difficult to review more than one or two of the individual meals in detail, so I have put a photo for each dish that we remembered to capture with the camera, along with a brief description and rating (where either I or Mrs. LF tasted the dish). You can click on any of the photos to see more detail.
We were all brought a little cup of what looked like a broth of some kind. The waiter explained that it was a lobster and avocado ‘soup’, and we were eager to try it. It turned out to be much thicker than we had expected – amuse bouches are often lighter broths that you can sip in one go – but the flavors were fresh, distinct and went well together. The top half was warm and contained the lobster, while the bottom half was cool and had little chunks of avocado. It was an interesting and good start to the meal.
As I put the first bite into my mouth, I think I paused and audibly oohed & awed about the wonderful flavors. The fluke was really my kind of food. It was some of the freshest tasting fish I’ve ever had, and the citrus and soy nage sauce was the perfect compliment. I loved this dish – it was so fresh and light and had a great little chili kick from the red jalapeños. I think I could have drunk a glass of that sauce. A full 10/10 from me; I would definitely have it if and when I go back.
My brother had ordered another ‘almost raw’ dish which was also excellent. I only had a bite of it, but the hamachi was probably the best example of this fish I’ve had (competing for this prize would be a special starter I had at Max London’s a few years ago, where the hamachi had been overnighted from Hawaii and served with citrus flavors over some flatbread). The Vietnamese flavoring was fragrant, gentle and had a good sharpness as well. It was a very accomplished dish. 8/10.
My second starter was this amazing-sounding scallop dish. Well, it didn’t disappoint either. The scallops were ‘scorched’ perfectly and they were bursting with that sweet scallop flavor. This was in turn balanced by the rich butter sauce (as it was derived from goat’s milk, it wasn’t too heavy), which had a good kick of garlic and fresh chive flavor. Everyone that got a taste loved it. 9/10.
A few people around the table had ordered the sea urchin dish. I have only recently begun to try urchin, and it is not yet a flavor I particularly like. I do understand the attraction, but my palate just isn’t there yet. My brother, however, loves the stuff, and was excited about this dish. He commented that the risotto was cooked perfectly al dente and, as you can see, it was really creamy. He said that the urchin flavor didn’t come through enough for him though, and he would have liked to taste it more. I did taste the dish and thought it was very good, but not outstanding, and agreed with his assessment. 7/10.
My Aunt had the calamari and I only got a tiny bite of the big fleshy part, so will refrain from giving it a score. I did think that the squid itself was rather too chewy, which I was really surprised to find in this restaurant, where everything else had been cooked so perfectly thus far.
This was the dish a lot of us had been most excited by – I mean, just read the description. It was a bit disappointing, though, if I’m honest. While the langoustine was perfectly fresh and sweet, the other ingredients sort of faded into the background and didn’t add too much. The little mushrooms were excellent in their own right, but they were tiny and didn’t really come through if you took a bite with everything together. Same with the few little flakes of foie gras. I personally think it needed a little more of a sauce with it to lift it beyond a fresh piece of langoustine. 6.5/10.
My main course of black cod was an accomplished dish. The skin was just the right crispness and the flesh was moist yet firm. The sauce lent a bit of saltiness and spiciness through the ham and peppercorns respectively, and celery was a good accompaniment. I think I had misread the menu, because I was expecting to see the Iberico ham, but it was only infused in the sauce. This dish didn’t completely bowl me over, but it was very enjoyable. 8/10.
The other hotly anticipated dish was the ‘surf and turf’. If you are familiar with American menus, you will know that this usually means a huge hunk of beef served with a lobster or a bunch of shrimp. So this was a clever and refined take on the concept. And boy did it work. This was, in my mind, hands-down the best main course. Each of the three parts was perfect. The kobe beef was as tender and flavorful as you’d expect and had a very nice little jus with a few strands of what I believe were samphire. The escolar was by far the best example of this fish I’ve ever tasted. And the little deep fried eggplants (that’s aubergines for British readers) were truly delectable – I could have eaten about two dozen easily. Back on track then: 10/10.
Mrs. LF had this as her main course, and said it was superb – I did get a little taste, and wholeheartedly agreed. She said that “the tabbouleh had a hint of fleur d’oranger and that the dish had a very Middle Eastern and subtle edge to it. The king of this dish was the fish, and it was cooked amazingly well. It had a texture that was unbelievable – very meaty yet soft and delicate, like a springy sponge, almost fluffy. The black garlic and lemon sauce was just as good and simple as it sounded, and was the perfect dressing for the monkfish; it woke up the fish and gave it that kick that it needed. The little bits of black garlic were delicious in the sauce, too. It was a very simple dish that provided an explosion of flavor, and it was also a generous portion. No nonsense, superb.” 10/10.
Mrs. LF said of her sweet course: “This was a very light and well executed dessert. The apricot cream was surrounded by white chocolate and those are two flavors that go well together. The little poached apricot had a jammy texture, and was placed on top of a biscuit which added some weight to the dish. The ice cream tasted of yogurt, apricot and almonds, and was also delicate and delicious. It had the advantage of being light and refreshing, yet you didn’t feel that you had been depraved of a ‘real’ dessert, as it was substantial enough.” 8/10.
I wish it would have been twice as big. Chocolate and peanuts – where can you go wrong? It did everything I had hoped for, the perfect trifecta of deep, rich dark chocolate, peanuts and caramel. The sorbet was a nice pairing as it provided a little bit of sharpness, and I even liked the pralines (believe it or not, I have not historically been a fan of chocolate/hazelnut combos, although my palate seems to be evolving as of late and I am slowly joining the rest of the civilized world). 9/10.
Another excellent chocolate dessert, and pretty original too. I loved the combination of the delicate orange meringue and the smooth chocolate cream. The chicory ice cream really stood out as the star in this dessert, with its slight coffee bitterness perfectly melding with the chocolate cream. 9/10.
Lastly, we were brought some petit fours to have with our coffees and teas. They were also very good, and beautifully presented as with everything else during the meal.
The wine list was extensive and exquisite. We had three wines over the course of the evening, the first of which was a lovely Grüner Veltliner, and the second and third of which were high quality Bordeauxs. The second one (St. Julien) was a bit too powerful for the seafood dishes in front of us if you ask me, but I wasn’t paying on this occasion – my ‘poor’ father was – and I wasn’t going to turn down the chance to taste some of these wines, which I would normally not be able to choose if I were on my own budget!
This Grüner went down a treat with the first courses – it was one of the best I’ve had, extremely complex and continually revealing more. It was very lively on the nose, with lots of citrus (grapefruit) which balanced the wine’s honey and peach flavors. It was also quite spicy and had a really zingy mineral streak. It was a little warm on the finish, and left me wanting more.
This Bordeaux was still quite closed to me. It had a beautiful dense purple color to it and smelled of blackcurrants and a medley of herbs. It was powerful yet with some finesse, and it did become more and more drinkable as it oxygenated. Still, I felt it overpowered the fish dishes.
This superb Bordeaux had a very discreet nose, and didn’t reveal a lot of itself until it had sat in the glass for a while either. It was definitely an elegant and smooth wine. It had slightly smoky or roasted taste to it, with a good dose of ripe fruit and good grippy tannins. Again, maybe not the best choice for the food, but I actually thought this worked rather well with a few of the dishes.
All in all, Le Bernardin met my expectations. It wasn’t a perfect meal, as some of the dishes didn’t live up to their descriptions for me (i.e. rather plain langoustine and tough calamari). But then again we did order a lot of dishes, and for the most part they were excellent, with a few standing out as the best examples of the fish I’d ever had. And that is saying something. The desserts were all fantastic, something I hadn’t been expecting after reading numerous accounts of people being underwhelmed by them.
The menu by itself is unbelievable and really makes you salivate, but is it too much to take in if you’re not having the tasting menu? With so many amazing things on offer, you feel as if you might be ‘cheated’ if you can’t order the 5-7 that you really like the sound of. I guess this is a good problem to have, though.
The service throughout was discreet, professional and attentive, exactly what you’d expect from the atmosphere the dining room exudes. They weren’t overly interactive, but were knowledgeable and friendly when you needed them. The sommelier was Austrian and offered a good deal of insight from what I could gather across the table (he was shocked and delighted when we choose the Grüner as he said most customers from the States don’t even know about it), while letting the customer (my father) arrive at his own decisions. Our main waiter was very classy and the whole thing seemed rather effortless for them, which is not easy with a fairly large table.
Le Bernardin is highly worth a visit if you are in New York and want an intimate dinner for two or are celebrating an occasion of some kind. I doubt you’ll be disappointed, and you just may have a dish or two that you won’t be able to forget.
A final note: as we were getting ready to depart, they handed us each a special blue and gold edition of the Zagat New York guide, which has Le Bernardin’s rating and review on the cover. I thought this was a nice little touch. | 2019-04-21T00:07:30Z | https://laissezfare.wordpress.com/tag/seafood/ | Porn | News | 0.071895 |
typepad | you should of kept the refrigerator for at least three days after eaater sunday.
I like this story. You notice so many nuances that the rest of us miss. It adds a "richness" to life. | 2019-04-25T08:55:22Z | https://ruthwilliams.typepad.com/the-joy-prescription/2011/05/refrigerator-resurrected-on-easter-sunday-alert-the-media.html | Porn | Reference | 0.465197 |
imdb | Comedy series following the chapters from the life of Kees Heistee. Airs on saturday at 20.05 on RTL 4 and on streaming service Videoland.
A group of friends and family living in a village.
A sketch show centered in a cafeteria starring multiple caricatures of Dutch celebrities.
In 'The Oldenheim 12' we follow the lives of the residents of the extremely traditional Dutch village of Oldenheim. The locals are shaken to the core when they suddenly face a series of mysterious disappearances.
After a disturbing call from his mother, Johan has no other choice then to leave Norway and return to the hometown he left many years ago. Back in Volendam Johan has to face the past he has been running for. | 2019-04-20T16:48:21Z | https://akas.imdb.com/search/title?country_of_origin=nl&ref_=tt_dt_dt | Porn | Arts | 0.721224 |
typepad | 1. "Seattle-Eastside light rail presents safety problems. A railroad has never been put on a floating bridge anywhere in the world."
2. "By what right would Sound Transit acquire this center corridor? This would constitute a "taking" of state highway property now belonging to all Washington taxpayers."
3. "Utilizing the two center lanes exclusively for light rail would require compensating the state for such a taking."
4. "A more seminal issue would be whether such taking would rise to the level of being in the public interest. Prior to the time of a taking, there should be a finding of public purpose, welfare and/or benefit. Such taking would require approval of both the Washington State Department of Transportation and the attorney general."
5. "The proposed taking of the I-90 center corridor should be viewed for what it really is: an unwarranted, unnecessary, unproductive, wasteful and essentially disruptive use that would contribute to congestion, not alleviate it.
If Sound Transit desires to cross Lake Washington, let it undertake the cost of acquiring the necessary right of ways and building the necessary infrastructure to do so. Then we can see if the taxpaying public thinks this extremely expensive project is worth it."
*Taking a train from land, to a floating bridge, and back to land, has NEVER been successfully accomplished before in transportation planning, WORLDWIDE.
*The corridor that Sound Transit wants to use is situated directly over a major fault, and then would come to land in a LIQUEFACTION ZONE during a major earthquake (Mercer Slough).
*Taking the center lanes from carpool, vanpool, and freight usage constitutes a "TAKING" from the people of Washington by Sound Transit, and the agency would have to PAY FOR that taking, a cost which is not reflected in its currently monolithic budget.
*There would have to be a legal determination that there would be a PUBLIC BENEFIT over and above the benefit that the current use of the lanes already provide for the public, and Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna and WSDOT would have to sign off on it.
*The Puget Sound Regional Council's (PSRC) Metropolitan Transportation Plan for 2030 would allocate ONE HALF of transportation dollars for transit to increase the ridership from 3% to 4.5%!!!
"Meanwhile, our roadway system, with the other half of funding, would serve the other 95 percent of travel. The disparity between ridership being served and proposed dollars should be apparent."
Thank you for your analysis, gentlemen. The taxpayers, and folks who appreciate and advocate for the continued quality of life in this region thank you.
George Kargianis is the former chief examiner of the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, former member of the state Transportation Commission and currently a member of the Eastside Transportation Association.
Phil Talmadge is a former state senator and former state Supreme Court justice.
Talmadge didn't do his research.
47.12.063 states requires that the property is "no longer required for transportation purposes" before a transfer takes place. Light-rail is transportation.
Can rubberized asphalt bring peace and quiet to SR 520? | 2019-04-20T16:31:37Z | https://ecrd.typepad.com/ecrd/2007/05/the_hidden_cost.html | Porn | Business | 0.356209 |
wordpress | Requiem is the third book in the Delirium trilogy written by Lauren Oliver. You can read my take on the first book here and the second book, Pandemonium here. Okay, let’s go!
Disclaimer: there are spoilers in this Nerd Talk.
If you think Lena’s had it tough in the Wilds in Pandemonium, well she’s having a tougher time in Requiem, as if that is even possible. Before I get to the drill, you know how in Pandemonium, the chapters are alternated between the past and present? In Requiem it has the same style, except it’s alternating between Lena and Hana’s (Lena’s best friend) point of views. One chapter, you read about Lena’s life in the Wilds, and the next you read about Hana’s life back in Portland, then Lena again. Yeah, that’s how the story goes. At first I didn’t know why it was necessary to bring us into Hana’s point of view at all, though I did find it interesting reading in the point of view of a Cured, it didn’t make sense to me when I first started reading. When the story started building, then it slowly started clicking together, and I was like, “Ohhhh, that’s why!” I’ll start with Lena first ’cause there’s no way I’d alternate like how it is in the books. Duh.
In the Wilds, Lena and her bunch of resistors are on the move to someplace safe in case of any regulators sabotaging them while they camp. There’s basically no such thing as an entirely safe place for them to live anymore since the Incidents (something like rebellion against the government). Lena spends most of her time with Julian, but has Alex occupying her mind like, all the time. Even though Lena and Julian made that promise back in Pandemonium, he feels something going on between Alex and Lena, but doesn’t say it. There’s tension between him and Alex as well and they hardly speak. Even when they do, they don’t look at each other. Lena confronts Alex and tells him she still loves him and stuff, and here comes the heartbreaking part: Alex tells her while he was in the Crypts, he could have died, but she was the one who kept him going. She was his ray of hope. And she ruined it. That part was just, ugh. I have no words. I know I’m supposed to be the writer and writers are supposed to come up with words for everything, but this, really, no words. My heart ached when he said that. And that was the point where I didn’t know who I want Lena to be with anymore.
While they were arguing, a bear appeared out of nowhere (the Wilds, remember?) and at that point, it is clear that Alex still cares for Lena. He tries to protect her and scolds her for acting out of instinct (in other words, acting stupid) with the bear ’cause she could have gotten killed. Lena doesn’t get why he was so upset ’cause during their argument he clearly told her he never loved her before. He obviously said that out of anger, after what he’s seen going on between Lena and Julian. I wouldn’t blame him. At some point, Raven–the one who took Lena in when she first arrived at the Wilds–senses something going on between those three as well but she’s careful not to mention it directly, though she hints that Julian needs Lena more than Alex does. At that time Julian is filling a bucket of water of the sorts and Raven asks Lena to help him and she does, even if she doesn’t want to. She’s like, “So I go to Julian. Who needs me.” Something like that. (I’m too lazy to refer to the actual context right now) That part really stood out to me, it’s like, she really wants to be with Alex, but she’s forced to tend to Julian instead.
And then there’s this part where they saved this girl called Coral and her friend, though only Coral made it. She then spends a lot of time with Alex and every single gesture they make, makes Lena increasingly jealous. Lena then thinks Alex is not hers anymore, and just throws herself with Julian. I don’t know, I just got really annoyed with Lena when I read about her thoughts about Alex and her actions towards Julian. She’s smart and a great fighter and all, but she’s really dense when it comes to these things. When they made a stop at this house that’s declared safe for the time being, Alex is supposedly teaching Julian how to fight. Being the son of the DFA and all, he’s never had it tough and couldn’t even hold a gun properly. So, he’s seeking for Alex’s help to learn to fight. Sounds like they’re bonding, no? No. It’s just an excuse to hit each other right in the face. Even though they’ve never said it, both of them are mad at the other for stealing Lena away. Alex went too far and he actually broke Julian’s nose. He let anger got a hold of him and he felt so sorry that he left the group. It’s like basically surrendering Lena to Julian. He left a note to Lena, saying how the tale of King Solomon is the only way to explain his behaviour. After Alex’s departure, Lena throws herself at Julian again and this time without hesitation because she thinks it’s really over between her and Alex. She does think about the note and wonders what he meant by it though. When she finally does–at the same time I do too–that was when I wanted Alex to be with Lena instead.
Despite the love-triangle going on, there is a bigger plan at hand, and that is to fight and reclaim their right to love again. Lena and her people (well, technically not her people since she’s not the leader) plans to head to Portland and strike there, where security is the weakest ’cause there would be a wedding ceremony going on.
Now moving on to Hana’s point of view. Ever since Lena left Portland, Hana stayed behind and continues life as if nothing has happened, as if her best friend never existed. She is cured and is paired with the mayor’s son, Fred Hargrove, which after his father’s death, he takes over his position. It isn’t surprising since the book describes her as being almost flawless, so it is only suiting she gets the best possible pair. Except, throughout the book, you get to see Fred’s true colours and frankly he’s kind of a psychopath. When Hana pisses him off, he would physically hurt her. She’s just curious about Fred’s first wife whom he divorced, but apparently that’s out of the question. Unwilling to drop it so easily, Hana actually goes to this prison, mental institute place-thingy–which I forgot the name of–just to talk to Cassie, Fred’s ex wife. Cassie tells Hana that Fred framed Cassie being mentally ill just so he could get rid of her. And that he killed his own father just so he could be mayor. Even after hearing that, Hana still proceeds with the wedding, which I don’t understand why.
There’s another side story, that is Hana finds Lena’s cousin, Grace one day and for some reason, she feels the need to provide her and her family food and other necessities. It’s either she feels guilty or she sympathizes them, but either way she’s a Cured and she’s not supposed to feel those emotions. And she dreams. Cureds aren’t supposed to dream. So I’m guessing Hana probably still has some humanity in her to some extent, but the book didn’t further discuss about it.
Alright, back to Hana’s wedding. Despite knowing how creepy and potentially dangerous her husband-to-be is, Hana still walks down the aisle and gets married. During her wedding ceremony, guns and explosions are heard and everyone panicked. Hana is immediately escorted by her driver to Fred’s house. On the way there, that is when Hana encounters Lena on the streets and she brings her former best friend back to the house. Lena constantly tries to see through Hana’s expressions and responds to see whether the Hana she once knew is still in there. That, to me, is one of my favourite parts in the book, all the way to when Hana and Lena talks in the kitchen. It seems that even though Lena knows Hana is cured and there is almost zero possibility of her being the old Hana again, Lena still holds onto that hope. There’s actually a bomb planted somewhere around Fred’s house and Lena hesitates on telling Hana at first because she’s one of “them” now, but in the end she did. Hana allows Lena to leave safely and when Fred comes back, Hana asks him to stay in the house for safety and he listens to her. She then escapes and lets the bomb explode the house into pieces, together with Fred. That is actually the another one of my favourite parts in the book, to be honest. Heh.
In the end, Lena meets Alex again. Turns out he left the camp and came back to Portland. Lena tells Alex that she never stopped loving him, and I was like, finally! After that, God knows what happens to them. I mean, there is no finality in the book as to what will happen to Lena and Alex and Julian, and what would happen to that society altogether. Will they be able to restore things back to where they were before? Will the people accept it? Who will Lena choose? Those questions still remain, and that is why I kind of have a love-hate relationship with the ending. The love part of it is because of how the author pens out the ending. It has such a strong message to it that I really like.
You never know if she ever pens a fourth book. I wasn’t expecting a fourth book for Twilight but it happened anyway… so the ending can still change. | 2019-04-23T04:44:27Z | https://xsuzannex.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/nerd-talk-requiem/ | Porn | Reference | 0.743598 |
wordpress | Wow… how often can you write a headline with all Fs?
Hot off the press today is this letterpress. My Fabulous Find is a new letterpress machine from Fiskars. Called the Fuse Creativity System®, this bad boy cuts, colors and letterpresses in one fell swoop. Weighing 25 pounds, it’s no lightweight; it’s sturdy. The 12 inch platform offers plenty of space — including a built-in storage compartment, which I adore — and the whole contraption folds nicely to a compact, upright position.
I used the dies two ways: on the right, the black butterflies were letterpressed (pressed into the cardstock). I inked the plate using the black ink that came with the machine. Yum … (I have since played around with various pigment and dye inks, which seem to work just fine.) The paper, by the way, is a slightly textured, thick paper from Paper Source. Sadly, the blush pink color I used is discontinued, leaving only Luxe white and cream. Love this paper for letterpress. But I digress….
Sigh. Now I want more dies. I want to play some more with this machine. See the demos here. | 2019-04-23T17:51:51Z | https://creativeunblock.wordpress.com/2012/07/ | Porn | News | 0.156219 |
wordpress | Many people over the years have asked me isn’t a Laserfiche Document Management System very expensive, how can I justify the expense?
To answer this question let me take you back to my early days in the business world. I worked at a large computer manufacturer in R&D. We designed and manufactured the computer systems that ran business at that time. Main frames.
We had the best technology that was available to us. But, as you will see, it was not very effective or efficient compared to what you are used to today. We had about thirty people in our department. One manager, two supervisors, three managers, two secretaries and remaining engineers and technicians.
At the end of each month we had to report on our project activities. Each engineer would sit at their desk and write their report on a pad of paper and then turn it in to one of our secretaries. They would type a rough draft on their electric typewriter and return it to us usually within a day or two. We would then markup any change on the page with a red pen and turn in back in for revisions. The secretary would have to type from scratch the report from the marked up edition. If you were lucky, you could knock out your monthly report in two or three iterations. Then we would turn it into our supervisors who would use portions of our report in their monthly status report. Of course it all had to be typed from scratch. And, not surprisingly they had to revise it several times to get it just right to turn in to their manger. Who then when through the same process to create their report.
Can you imagine much of the same information was typed over and over again just to get a monthly report for one department of this large company? Thousands of hours were spend on this process.
Can you imagine how frustrated and inefficient you would be if you had to do this for just one day.
Then we purchase a word processor for each of the secretaries. These word processors were propriety mini-computer systems that had the capability to save what was typed for a short period. This revolutionized our month end report generation process.
Can you image that before we were able to purchase those word processors we spend a lot of time justifying to management why the purchase of such expensive technology was so important.
Today that scenario seems ridicules. With all the technology you have at your disposal. A PC with office applications and email just sitting on your desk. It is unimaginable to go back to the old way of doing your work with just a few typewriters per department. Justifying the technology on your desk is just a “no-brainer”.
If you are not using a document management system you are using the same techniques that our secretaries did some thirty years ago. Filing cabinets filled with file folders and paper.
Asking what the ROI in this light is seems ridicules. Look what moving to typewriter to the PC on each person desk has done for business. Laserfiche Document Management System will do the same. Don’t be bogged down thinking that electronic document management system is expensive and we need to look long and hard at the ROI. | 2019-04-26T10:43:50Z | https://larryphelps.wordpress.com/2012/03/ | Porn | Business | 0.540961 |
wordpress | « Was It Everything You Hoped It’d Be?
I recently returned home from a vacation where I traveled by airplane. Airplane travel is always an interesting proposition for lots of reasons. The biggest drawback to air travel is people because, well, people tend to be people and we all know how people can be.
All the usual airport people were there. People who try to drag 17 baggage items onto the plane with them. People who cart around every single item their child owns in a stroller even though that stroller must be packed up and stowed away during the flight. People who try to wrestle their carry-on bag, a backpack, a briefcase, an oversized purse, a pillow, a large pizza, a bag of chips, and an extra large soda down the gangway. People who absolutely, under no circumstances whatsoever, will put their cell phone away. You know, the usual cast of characters.
Yeah, leggings. Leggings everywhere. I hate leggings. They don’t even look good on skinny people.
Cranky people, sleepy people, loud people, foreign people, you name it. They were all at the airport. But, the absolute jaw dropper was the guy with the glitter beard and mustache. Now, mind you, I did not see him at the airport, but I did see him while on vacation.
I’m sorry the picture didn’t turn out the best but I was trying to get a good shot without being obvious. He was sitting at the table next to us and behind my husband, which made it nearly impossible for me NOT to look. His face sparkled. It was so weird. He had to have been swallowing bits of glitter with every bite. And yes, he was wearing snowflake pajama bottoms as well. Because, well, what else does one wear with a silver glitter beard and mustache if not blue snowflake pajamas?
And here’s the thing that made me cringe. Yes, I actually cringed when I saw this.
That’s right, one woman – by herself – was attempting to board a plane with five small children. FIVE. What is wrong with this woman? I’m not sure if this woman was a complete idiot or my hero. Good grief. Can you imagine?
Anyway, that’s it for this week’s stuff and nonsense. How about you guys; have you seen anything weird, wacky or wonderful lately? Any airport/airplane stories you’d like to share? Have you ever seen a guy with a glitter beard?
Fun fact about me: I try to travel without any carry-on bags that need overhead bin space.
Original post by Jansen Schmidt, December 2018. Photos courtesy P. Rickrode and Google Images.
LOL Your trip sounds like it was to Walmart, not the airport!
Hope your vacation was as fun as it was interesting!
It DOES sound like a trip to Walmart! I hadn’t thought of it that way, but sure enough, same host of oddballs.
I also stow my carry-on under the seat. It’s usually a large purse/totebag or sometimes backpack so it doesn’t take up that much space. If I’m only going away for a few days I will stuff everything into an actual carry-on suitcase and use the overhead bin, but that doesn’t happen very often.
In the nearly 60 years I have been flying, I have seen it go from a thrilling, upscale experience for which we dressed up, to a low class and often demeaning experience for which many dress like they’re going to a gym workout. It has become a painful necessity to fly.
I do, however, remember one great flight. It was in the late sixties and we were on a red eye from Oahu to L.A. The plane was not crowded, Patty was asleep, so I went to the back of the plane and talked myself into a game of Pinocle with three stewardesses. It was only after I suggested a game of strip pinocle that they told me to go back to my seat. (Just kidding about that part, Patricia).
Good post. You have nailed the entire experience perfectly.
Al, flying has indeed become a hassle. I remember my first flight; Sacramento to Honolulu. I was 19 years old. I felt like a movie star. My mother made me wear a dress. That’s when flying was indeed a privilege.
Now, it’s just a way to get from one place to another. And, like everywhere else, so many people feel entitled to stuff. Why? You pay for a seat, not an upgrade, not free drinks, not free movies. Good grief you’d think people paid a million dollars for their ticket the way they ask for stuff.
I miss the good ole days when you could play strip pinocle with the stewardesses on a plane.
Thank for visiting today. Enjoy the rest of your week. Stay warm. It’s cold out there.
on January 14, 2019 at 4:03 pm | Reply "jane doe"
I’ve never seen anyone as, uh, festively dressed as the glitter beard guy, but once when walking home from school I saw a guy in a full-on clown outfit – big fuzzy buttons on his shirt, floppy shoes, makeup, everything. He told me to vote for him because he was a… and then he named a political party. I won’t say which one – just imagine it was the one you like least.
Hi Jane. Welcome. Thanks for stumbling in. Those are often the best blog friends. I did see your comment on my outhouse post. And I posted a response. And I posted a response on last week’s post as well. I usually only blog on Mondays. It’s hard being clever all week long so I let it all out on Monday and get it over with.
I imagine seeing an actual clown walking along would indeed be eye-catching. Definitely not something you see every day. Like the glitter beard guy. What in the world was up with that anyway? Just very strange.
Thanks for stopping by again. I hope to see you around again. Stay tuned or more silliness.
on January 15, 2019 at 1:36 am | Reply "jane doe"
I saw your reply on the outhouse post, and I appreciate it. I left a reply to your reply.
Definitely looking forward to more silliness. Thanks for taking the time to write all this.
Entertaining, Patricia. It certainly makes the trip seem shorter, doesn’t it. Plus, the possibility of any of this ending up in a book…awesome!
As always, thanks for visiting. Stay warm up there in the Great White North.
I bet the glitter-beard guy would have happily posed for you. I mean, anyone who puts glitter in his beard is dying for attention, right? And that woman who took five kids on the airplane must be amazing…there’s no way anyone would choose to travel alone with five young kiddos. I could barely keep track of one. I’m glad you had an entertaining time while on vacation and that none of those people were at Baer House – especially wearing those horrifying leggings. My eyes. They’re burning.
Oh Coleen – I get the leggings folks checking in here at the inn too. I just don’t get it. I know they’re comfortable but, for the love of God, please cover up the lumps and bumps people. That’s why LONG shirts were created.
And yeah, the 5 small kids. No. Just no. What was that woman thinking? I mean, she’s supposed to stay in her seat with the seatbelt fastened. How can she even supervise little people in 2 rows of seats? Maybe she gave them all some Nyquil before take-off, I don’t know, but I’m glad I was not on that flight.
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typepad | Please join us on the occasion of our 27th anniversary as we press forward with a wine dinner from a region we've never presented before. South Africa has produced some very good wines, but in recent years, we feel the bar has been significantly raised.
The wines of Mullineaux and Joostenberg are game-changers. We've been working for a couple of years now to make this dinner happen. We will have not one, but two great wine families represented. I'm not going to begin to describe these wines in depth, because it would require a whole new frame of reference and once I began I would not stop for pages. Click the pictures for info on these extraordinary wineries.
Instead, I will ask that you trust us. On the occasion of our 27th anniversary weekend, come see for yourself a couple of wine families that have changed the game. Enjoy wines that have changed the category entirely.
Some of these wines retail for well over $100 per bottle, so we're running this dinner near cost. That's how much we want to show you these wines, in-context, and to introduce you to these winemakers. You will be floored.
Come party with us as we turn 27!
Like their vines, the Marchand and the Grillot families are both well-rooted into the Burgundian soil. Going back six generations, the Marchands were in the village of Morey St Denis, and the Grillots were in Gevrey-Chambertin. The families came together in a fortunate marriage in 1950. Marchand-Grillot was founded.
Today Jacques Marchand heads the estate, bringing his knowledge borne by generations. He is followed by his son, Etienne, who is taking over the responsibilities. Etienne grew up on the vineyards, obtained degrees at university and has studied with vine-growers in Oregon. He brings modern wine-making methods to the family's long-standing traditions and in-depth knowledge of the Burgundian soil.
The vines are worked by hand. The estate stopped using herbicides and insecticides 20 years ago. The wines are made at the estate (9 hectares of vines, made up of 47 different plots) by the family and aged on-site.
Come and share some extraordinary Burgundy, meet the winemaker and enjoy dinner with us. Etienne Marchand will be here to host a dinner with his wines on Thursday, April 18th. I hope you can join us.
The Martini: History, Culture, Technique and Drinking!
We'll cover this history, culture and evolution of the cocktail as well as technique, glassware, tools and ice for both bar and home martini making.
This is a Pro-Am. Working bartenders are invited to attend along with Home Bartenders and the Enthusiastic Imbibers!
Guests of this event will receive 15% off the food portion of your bill if you choose to stay for dinner at Stage Left Steak or Catherine Lombardi.
If you don't know Paul, you should. His wines from California and Argentina and now New York and France are extraordinary. Paul is one of the most sought-after winemakers on three continents. He's one of the smartest guys in the business and we are proud to say that we have been supporters and friends since he and we started our businesses at roughly the same time. We were the first restaurant on the East Coast to serve Paul's wine and we remain the only venue where Paul hosts a dinner every year.
Paul has said that our tasting is the greatest single tasting opportunity of Hobbs wines each year. Part of the reason is that it is supplemented by our own deep collection of Hobbs wine.
Please reserve a spot as this event will sell out.
We already have 80 reservations before we even announced!
We've got our Truffle Tasting Menu in Stage Left Steak - December 26-30th.
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Never trust the forum trolls. They rarely have your best interest in mind. The first question I ask you is: If this is your first fine timepiece, why would you be taking it off long enough to need to wind it again? If it lives on your wrist, and with a Patek it should, you will never need to do a thing to it other than advance the date a few times and correct the time twice a year.
But let’s assume your work requires that you remove your watch for several days on end — maybe you're an oil rig roughneck or commercial diver. If this is the case, I recommend a watch winder, merely to save the trouble of having to set the time and date repeatedly after it stops. A fine watch, like an automobile, is designed to run, not sit flat on a nightstand or in a safe for days on end. So invest in a decent watch winder, not one of those advertised in the back of those seedy men’s magazines, and store your Patek on it while you’re off doing whatever it is you do without wearing a watch. Better yet, wear your watch every day.
I am completing my nearly 15 years of training and entering the workplace. To this end, I am getting my first true timepiece. I have narrowed my choices to a JLC Master Chronograph and the Breitling Transocean Chronograph. Any thoughts comparing the two would be appreciated. Any others that you would recommend in that price point/aesthetic?
Fifteen years of training? Either you are a very poor study or you’re a brain surgeon. And now that you’re 35 years old, it’s about time you get a proper timepiece. The short answer to your question is, get the Jaeger-LeCoultre. It’s really not a fair contest. Pit a JLC against just about any other chronograph, except maybe a Lange Datograph, and it will win every time. The lads in Le Sentier simply know what they’re doing and have done it for a very long time. If it weren’t for a few ill-conceived sports watches, Jaeger-LeCoultre would be virtually above reproach.
The Breitling is an impressive timepiece from a brand that seemed almost synonymous with Valjoux 7750 for the past 20 years, despite its early heritage as a chronograph pioneer. I applaud the company for conceiving a new chronograph calibre from the ground up, which is no small feat. However, the Transocean, for all its mechanical prowess and quite attractive aesthetics, suffers from a positively American body mass index. It is 43 millimeters across and almost 15 millimeters thick. Consider that the Jaeger is a near-perfect 40mm and barely 10mm thick. It’s really no contest. If Breitling wants to play with the big boys, it’s going to have to slim down a bit.
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wordpress | As the most underrated poet of his time, Eminem, proclaimed, “Snap back to reality, oh there goes gravity.” Back to the grind as they say. How so fortunate am I to have a job where the grind leaves me with a grin. Returning to the trash laden rocky roads of Mogote was comparable to any Macy’s day parade on thanksgiving. Faces I longed to see in an instant so close to mine as we embrace for a greeting’s kiss. Questions about Home and family flooded the kitchen as the full staff gathered once again. Home. Around the table. Where we come to remember we don’t have to this thing called life alone. What a gift. A glorious grace. As the second most underrated poet of her time, lilo, recited, “ohana means family and family means no one gets left behind.” Surely we see the goodness of this truth manifested each morning as we gather before we disperse to our duties. Everyone matters. Everyone counts. And no one gets left behind.
Once the clock struck noon today, 50 of us exited the front gate of our work building and divided up amongst the streets of the area we serve. It’s not a big area that surrounds the hope center, but it houses several thousand people. Lately, our organization has had some mischief occur in and around it that has not happened in a while. So for the past few days, before we take our lunch break, we have dedicated time as a staff to walk the streets, pray, say hello, and just flat be present. I think there’s a lot of healing that comes through the obedience of presence and a lot of consequence for absence. For example, the family unit. It is clearly proven scientifically that the family unit flourishes with both parents in the picture. There is also proven negative effects for the absence of a parent. Or what about when we make the sacrifice to see that friend in their time of mourning. Or when we take time to listen to the 4 year old we babysit as they tell us about their imaginary world. When we commit to showing up, we speak life and sacrificial love into others without ever having to say a word. On the contrary, if all we ever say are words of promise of presence to no avail, we loose our license to contribute to those lives in any kind of meaningful way. And our love will always be construed as tainted. So. Show up. Be present. I guess the cliche is true that actions truly do speak louder than words. And the action of presence produces peace.
The valuing of certain human life over other human life is the root of almost any corruption faced in our world today. We see 3rd world countries exist as so because a handful of their country’s population has everything while the vast majority have nothing. And never will. Because the majority’s lives do not matter near like the minority does. In some places, we see the majority presented with seemingly more opportunities and preference over minorities. In certain places where deep roots of radical religion spring forth, we see even certain genders given preference and more value than others. And these webs of devalue weave through every community and take up different costumes and performance depending on their stage. What do we do in the face of such clear oppression? Do we raise our voice? Do we create space for real and respectful conversation? Do we rally the troops in defense? Do we write letters to our government? Do we raise funds and raise awareness? Do we use our platforms to display the truth behind the curtain. Are we so beaten up inside that we cant sleep at night because we know in the deepest of our bones someone somewhere is been told they aren’t enough. That they’re nothing. That they’re nobody. Does it break our heart into unmendable pieces? Or. Do we continue sipping our coffee, scroll through social media, and go to bed.
If you’ve ever seen the movie Hitch, you know the opening monologue to the movie explains how communication is so much more than the words you say. It’s how you say them, what you don’t say, and the body language all in between. And man its treacherous waters. Because so much of the time what we say and what we mean are not received. And when they are trying to communicate what they receive, then the initial communicator gets confused and hurt and it just becomes a huge mess. Striving to be a better communicator often starts with becoming a better listener. We cannot engage effectively if we lack the ability to listen to understand rather than just listening to respond. We can avoid a lot of the hardship of communicating if we would just learn to be quiet sometimes and really listen. But I’m the contrary, sometimes our strife comes from not speaking up when we should. People are not mind readers and they can’t read yours. And for anyone and everyone communicating, a good ole dose of “I’m not always right” can certainly do the relational body some good. I heard a famous preacher day once “I’ve met some extreme idiots in my day, but it’s never 100% one idiots fault.” What he means in the statement is, there’s always something we can own. Check yourself. Check your heart. Check your ears, check your mouth. And let’s go out there and love the mess outta people.
Perspective and Vulnerability are often the results of tragedy. In the aftermath and wreckage of life’s expected unexpectedness, we come to terms that we never see the full picture. We have to admit that in all of life, in every season, we will never know it all or get it all “right”, whatever the heck that actually means. So the perspective to see and the vulnerability to admit are keys to unlocking the chasm of self reliance that was seemingly a facade, all along.
Nothing flourishes in the dark. We rot there. We did there. Life cannot exist where light isn’t. The opposite is true as well. Everything begins to flourishes once the light hits. The initial exposure shows the seemingly irreversible wreckage of the emptiness that envelopes the dark. But then. The light. Light comes in and says, I’ll fix this. I’ll bring the dead to light. It won’t be overnight. But it’s coming. It’s growing. It’s alive.
Today is for my brother. Today is for him. 19 years ago was his moment to enter into time. Mason. A name that traditionally means stoneworker. Oh how fitting of a name bestowed upon him as he would grow into a man who thrives in hard manual labor. My brother can out work anybody, especially when it comes to construction work, paving, and anything with a tractor. The physical jobs that most people shy away from he leaps towards. With integrity, discipline, and a whole lot of country grit, Mason proves himself strong. While he embodies strength, he also encapsulates passion. You cannot force my brother to care about something he doesn’t, but the things he cares about, he is 1000% in. There’s no halfway for me. All in or nothing. We all could learn something from that kind of commitment. So, here’s to you Mason. May your day today and your years to come be a shining example of a man who lives and loves with passion, dedication, loyalty, and love.
One of the perks of living in a third world country is that the electricity constantly goes out. Trust me when I say that my heart while im writing this is in no way sarcastic (I cant say that every time I think about the lack of electricity stability, but for now, a word of gratitude). When I have plans to watch a movie on netflix, or talk on the phone to a friend, or simply make some food, and then all plans are halted by no power. No power. For literally only the Lord knows how long And no control. Only dependence on the controller of the electric company to fix this in their timing. These times force me to remember my constant state of inability to control. They require me to stop, pause, and reflect on my ever increasing dependence on the creator of life. These moments draw a beautiful picture of grace for me when I often think I somehow can manage this life on my own. Oh, I need thee. And its not until I am faced without thee, that I long for thee evermore. No power puts into perspective that I have no power.
Nothing roots us like knowing we can’t uproot Christ.
Today is my Mom’s 50th birthday. It also is my grandmother’s (her mom) 79th birthday. Wow. My mom. I love that woman so much. When I look at her and the relationship we now share, I can’t help but be overcome with the unshakable reality of God’s goodness. In regards to a mother daughter relationship, my mom and I didn’t always have a great one. Polar opposites create incredible tension and easy amo in my teenage years to create division. Classic “you don’t understand me” cries of insecurity becoming flaming daggers to pierce the enemy that was made of my mom. And then. Grace. Woken up by the lord in the middle of the night on one particular night of my sophomore year of high school. One honest letter, a two and a half hour conversation, and many years later, healing began. Fast forward ten years later, Linda Gail is one of my most favorite people on the planet. Rather than means of divisiveness, I now see our differences as intentional markers of perspectives that we both glean from. I see my mom’s enate selflessness that truly astounds and challenges me. I see her unmatched steadiness that grounds a wanderer like me. I see my mom as a broken human in need of Jesus, just like me. Here’s to you, Mom. I love the mess out of you.
The hardest part in the pursuit of lifetime learning is maintaining the humility and openness to be corrected. To have not only some ideas more and more solidified over time, but to have some of our values shaken and destroyed. If we believe we are never going to get it completely then we have to surrender that we always have more to learn. That we will never arrive to a place of total comprehension but will forever be in a position of unending open-ended-ness. Are we content with being played on a vulnerability repeat?
All i’m really certain of is that all of this might make sense one day and im going to keep fighting. Simplistic in concept, harder in practice. But my goodness if we haven’t have hope, then we are devastated to live at all. Proclaiming there is purpose in the pain shakes loose a facet of living water to sustain our thirsty unbelief. When all the routines of life scream reminders of decisions left unmade or discernments yet to be discerned, wallowing becomes the soother. Our soul is tired and quite frankly is over the consistent abuse. What shall we do? Fight. Keep fighting. Because our hope is in that one day this will all make sense. That our faith will in fact become sight.
We want to protect the people we love. Most often, out of great intention, comes disastrous results. We think protection means elimination. Eliminating the hard parts of the truth we need to share. When actually elimination leads to fixation and fixation leads to frustration and frustration leads to explosion and explosion leads to destruction. When all the while, if we saw true protection as unhindered bias, we would all thrive in the freedom that the truth brings. Even when it’s hard.
When you’re spent in all the right ways, joy and peace are the by products. Rest doesn’t always look like head on a pillow, but joy and peace always look like resting in Jesus.
Today in colonia Cabañas, a colonia where we do ministry in, I was with two team members as we passed out food. Also accompanying was two of our staff ladies Erlinda and Wendy. Both of these women have the sweetest spirits and im convinced Wendy’s hugs are holy. That in her arms is holy ground. As we are all waiting at a familiar stop on the way, Wendy asked me how I was doing. Answering, I expressed good but that I was tired because team season takes all of me. Her reply struck me. She smiled and said “Yes I understand, but what a great privilege.” Wow. frozen in the silence of remembrance and reflection. Yes Wendy, you are extremely right. What a great privilege that I even get to do this. Tears left my eyes and my spirit freshly renewed. Now im convinced just being around Wendy is being in holy ground.
The gift of conviction is one that I sometimes would rather return and get some kind of store credit to spend later.
Engaging in a rhythm of consistency is definitely not glamorous or often notarized…but it’s the driving force in any endeavor as it fuels our discipline towards our goals and acts as a great litmus for desires that maybe aren’t meant to be pursued.
Dad, you’ve been gone 14 years today. What. That seems insane. 14 years without ya dad. But I had 11 with you. 11 imperfect but memorable years that I will fight to keep alive in my heart and mind forever. While life on this side of heaven will never reach the ideal because its a life without you here, Im elated at the thought of worshipping Jesus with you forever. Thats the hope in Jesus. That this life isn’t the end, merely the beginning. Envy comes to mind when I think about how you got to meet our Creator first. Cant wait to join you one day. I miss the mess outta you. Love you Dad. Love, your baby girl.
Mackenzie Gail turned 22 today. For those who dont know thats my sister. Wowza she is beautiful. Not many people dont just love her at first encounter. She is a fighter for those she needs to care for. She is seeking to serve Jesus and serve high school girls well. She is so smart its dumb. She has a laugh that is completely contagious. She is funny, but she’s kind. She is not perfect. But she is wonderfully made. My sister she will always be. And I love her forever, especially this day.
Out of many things forcibly learned here in Honduras, the art of being interruptible has shone quite brightly. When things like the power going out or water not being available are a more than average occurrence, you learn how to be more flexible or you just become bitter. You learn to adjust and be creative out of necessity. You remember that the world is a whole lot bigger than you.
When we lean into the spike of heighten emotion, we can make some dangerous choices. Say words that should have never left our mouths. Do actions that our body should have never produced. Think thoughts that we always meant to capture before they took off in a frenzy. Emotions can start running laps in our heart and pressure us to respond immediately and intensely. Caution. Pause. Because no matter the “how” of your response, there will ALWAYS be a consequence. A result of a choice made in this game. Choose wisely. Be oh so careful.
In this season of life, ive had to learn how to wait and receive rather than initiate and give. Thats muy hard para mi. Im a go getter. In all the things. I make things happen. I do a lot of talking but I also try to back it up with a lot of doing. Yet, here in Hondy, God has called me to a whole lot of leaning and a whole lot of seeking. A whole lot of planting firmly instead of running rapidly. Much more seeking to be present than seeking to find more. It’s felt like the biggest gift of a curse. Today, I had a couple initiate plans with me. They intentionally sought me out to hang out with them. They treated me to dinner, showed me that there is fountain dr.pepper in this city, played games and talked about shows we loved. I stayed the night. Got to meet their family more the next day over a treated lunch, and they drive me all the way back across town to my home. Im so not used to this. This kindness and seeking. I didnt do anything to earn this. They just wanted to know me and love me well. Gods doing something in this mind and heart of mine.
You know you are old now when getting your teeth get cleaned and whitened for free feels like you just won the lottery.
Well. I did it. I wrote everyday for the year of 2018. And I’m so thankful for it. I started this goal as a challenge to myself to become a better writer. To home my craft through the diligence of daily discipline. It was hard somedays. Some days I wrote one sentence. Other days I wrote a page. Sometimes it was a story I thought of and wanted to play it out from imagination to creation. Other times it was a hard moment that I needed to release in words. Rarely, it was like a daily journal. But overall it was dedication to the putting together of words in hopes of creating something beautiful. And I believe that goal was accomplished. And I’m proud of that. 2018, thanks for the memories.
This is a poem/spoken word I wrote at some point this year. Quite honestly, I don’t even remember writing it. However, I found it again recently and the timing was haunting. My hope is that the truth of who God is would awaken and refresh your heart today, as it so fervently did mine.
on my worries, on my fears, on to the world, I would cling.
rather than gazing on myself, I fix my eyes on His face.
Let me be real clear, and I promise ill make it quick.
knowing Jesus finished it all, but left us with a message to expect.
when His kingdom will come to earth and all will finally be redeemed.
That His Son Jesus went to save us by death, even death on a cross.
Because if death was the end, then our eternal fate would be doom.
As Christ stood tall over death and the grave whimpered.
So what shall we say and do, in response to this call?
Live abundantly ordinary? Like it never happened at all?
Oh, my friends. Let us stop and consider.
The freedom we have in Christ, He has called us to a life much richer.
bigger than the latest iphone or instagram live stream.
If we stop settling for good, and ask for God’s best to dwell.
And cling to the goodness of this promise, that He has overcome.
So may we learn to trust Him, till the end of the age.
Getting to work in Honduras everyday is not short of adventures. Traffic is everywhere and traffic laws are more like traffic suggestions. “If you’re not first, you’re last” seems to be the motto of most of the drivers I’ve encountered around these parts. In this chaotic mess everyday, in the almost hour commute to drive 13 miles, you will find me in the very back row of a 15 passenger van. If Im honest, there are lots of mornings I am out like a light because #morningsarehard and its 6:30am. But yet, there are times like friday morning that I pray I submit to happening more often than not.
Y’all, reading this text became like this crazy question and immediate response session between the Lord and I. Let me explain!
Ya see, The first verse here says “Let your reasonableness be known by everyone” and my immediate first question is how in the world do we become reasonable and then how would that be most evident to others in a genuine way?
Well, thankfully the text doesn’t end. First thing we are given in the very next verse is the comfort that God is at hand, so we should chill out and not be anxious.
And to combat anxiety, prayer.
Prayer in the tone of thanksgiving over anything and everything. And what happens when we do that?
We have peace, the peace of God that surpasses understanding and really all reason.
So, once we have peace with God, what do we think about and speak about since it’s not our anxieties?
Boom, next verse. Whatever is honorable, true, just, pure, lovely, commendable, anything excellence and worthy of praise (which all of these things are found in the cross of Christ and the person of Jesus).
But that can be hard right? Well, that’s why we are told to practice.
Once we have received and learned and heard and seen the goodness of Jesus, practice throwing away anxiety by prayer of thanksgiving and dwelling on the excellent things of Jesus.
Because I mean as they say, practice makes perfect. But I think a better representative phrase is practice makes progress.
Progression of looking and being more like him, thanks to Holy Spirit inside of us.
Wow! Isn’t that just the coolest. God doesn’t leave us to our own vices to try and figure this messy thing called life out. He’s given us His word and its powerful y’all. Its alive and active and shaping and molding believers all over the world.
Thank you God for your love for us, Jesus for your obedience and sacrifice, and Holy Spirit that dwells among us and in us!
Well, I tried to think of a bunch of ways to start this blog. Ways that were much more eloquent and clever and compelling. But I have to believe that God’s word and his conviction and teaching of the saints and sinners has to suffice. And actually be way more than enough.
With that being said, MAN, God is teaching me so much right now. Like I’m not trying to be dramatic here and embellish to have something worthy to write, its just simply the truth. But rather than expound to you all of the ways God is revealing himself to me, ill jump right to the meat on the bones of my sanctification currently.
God has completely humbled me with this language barrier, in a way I had hadn’t expected until getting here.
Now of course I recognize and tried to prepare for this barrier as much as possible, but what He is teaching me is way beyond any scope I could have foreseen.
YES. That is it. There is so much I am begging to say but am literally without words to say it. It can feel like such a hindrance in doing my job, progressing in relationships, or even simply wanting to make sure that there are no tomatoes are in my food! Wow! What a humbling position.
But man how much I am learning. What am I really reliant on? Is it really God? Or only the skills He has given me that can clearly be taken away in an instance? Am I truly and undeniably dependent on the Father every hour like I claim to need thee? Or am I ashamedly clinging to myself while “giving God the glory” to sound like a good Christian should.
I say this things so bluntly because I have been hit in the face with these realities so fiercely. And even though it hurts like Hell, I am so thankful.
Because what grace that a God would love me and love us so much that He refuses to let us stay the same. That he would beckon us to more than we are right now. That he would rip those scales right off of our eyes, knowing that it will be painful, blood may shed, and tears may roll, but it is ONLY TEMPORARY. The tears will dry up, the wounds will heal, and the pain that screamed as a warning that something was wrong now serves as a reminder that though sorrow may last for the night, joy comes in the morning. Our present sufferings are to prepare us for eternity. To feel as Christ felt only for a moment, and to stand with Him in glory forever.
Wow. He is good. And loves us in ways that will continue to wreck my heart and soul for a lifetime. I pray He never stops chiseling. Never stops using me. Never stops changing me into more like His son Jesus.
May I always be that soft moldable clay being kneaded and shaped in the Potter’s hands.
This season is hard in several ways, but oh is it joyous as ever. In a new avenue, my finite mind is beginning to see what James meant as seeing those trials as joy. But oh do I have such a long way to go. But Ill keep on trying. Goodness, lets all keep on trying, keep on pursuing, keep on running that race.
Because Eternity is calling, and man I want to be ready.
Honduras Info 101: Get your answers HERE!
I have been trying to think of a way to answer the reoccurring questions people have been asking in a concise, clear way.
I decided to write this blog post to 1) do my best at answering these questions (which I love by the way, you guys have blown me away with you eagerness to support!!) & 2) introduce you to the avenue that I will be providing updates to my supporters while I am here and while I am in Honduras.
1. Why are you going to Honduras and for how long?
2. What Organization (if any) are you going with and what exactly will you be doing there?
I will be joining a non-profit organization called Hope 4 Honduras, founded by two missionaries Ron and Shelley Jones. This organization has been established for over 15 years right outside of the capital city Tegucigalpa. This organization is doing incredible work for the Lord through meeting medical, educational, relational, and spiritual needs. My role coming in will be taking over the public relations/communication side of the ministry. I will be helping with all of the mission teams that come to the mission throughout the year and also helping with any media information the organization puts out. All while holding everything with an open hand of what God wants to do. if you want to read more on this incredible organization, here is there website here.
3. How can I support this ministry prayerfully and/or financially?
-Prayerfully: By subscribing to receive email updates from this blog. On the bottom of my own page, there is a button that says “follow+” and if you click on it, it will prompt you with a place to type in your email. That way you get an email everytime I update this blog, which is where I will post updates and prayer requests frequently!
4. How can I set up a meeting/phone call to learn more?
By calling, emailing, texting, facebook messaging, carrier pigeon, etc! I will link all of those avenues below (except not the pigeon, that would be too legit though).
And that’s all for this post folks. I want to end this with a verse I came across today that im sure will be a strong tower to lean on in the next several months. I covet your prayers. Thank you in advance for partnering in kingdom work! You are LOVED!
May we never boast in anything less than Jesus Christ and HIS righteousness.
Incredible friendships. Intimate conversation. Obnoxious Laughter. Insane Travel. Deep Communion. Peace. JOY.
Embarassing breakdowns. Devastating mistakes. Rivers of tears. Itching guilt. Frequent failure. Confusing emotions. Despair. DEFEAT.
Yet, I dont think I’ve really answered the question here. Listed above are the highlights of the chapters I’ve read of the story. The story is written and I am a character. I havent introduced you to the author.
The truth is my story is actually a microscopic spec in a much greater story unfolding. What is the greater story?
The Greater story at play is one that started way before you and me. By the God of the universe who was, and is, and is to come. Who set this world into perfect motion and it took little to no time at all for us humans to do what we do best: mess stuff up. Brokenness entered the world because we thought God was withholding good from us. We didn’t trust Him. And we gave into selfish gain. And the story should have just ended here. With broken relationship between God and man, with restoration inconceivable. With failure flourishing. BUT GOD, being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ. Jesus, God’s only son, came and fixed the brokenness, because he was the only one that could. Being fully God and fully man he became the perfect sacrifice for redemption and the example-setting empathizer as he endured life’s temptations on earth. Jesus went to Calvary for the very people who started and perpetuated the brokenness abounding and died the death of a criminal with a clean record. And the story could have ended there, but we were only at the climax. The resolution became apparent when Jesus conquered death and rose to life 3 days later. Proving his Lordship and contract-sealing victory over death. Not long after this, He ascended back to heaven, but not before leaving us with a command and a promise: Make disciples and I am with you always, and I will be back again.
So what authorizes me? Well the author. The author of salvation. The author of this story that you and me are merely characters in. He writes my role. He’s written my role. I get to be a part of this story. What?! How stinking awesome. And so freaking undeserving.
And even though our roles in the story all look a little different, they all point to one common theme: Love God, Love People.
How do we do that? We believe God is who He says he is. We experience the freedom that grace gives. We begin to see the world and others differently. We tell people the story. The story bigger than all of us. And pray hard that they see how they fit into the story.
My thoughts and heart are overwhelmed by the goodness of Your grace in my life. I can’t do this life on my own. I can’t bear to look within, knowing what I see. I see dirt. I see filthy rags. I see a mess inside of me. A storm raging with no calm sea. I am broken. I hurt. I hurt people. I fill voids with food and other’s affirmation. I long for people to tell me im beautiful, hoping and praying ill finally believe it. I run so far from the foot of the cross its embarrassing. I run so deep into misery I cant see straight. I see how my insecurity seeps out into every aspect of my life. God I am so frustrated. I get so upset. God I know who I am! I KNOW IM YOURS. Why doesn’t it feel like enough sometimes?
Because im not pressing in. Im pushing out. Your arms are spread, your knees are bent, ready for my embrace and I look you straight in the eyes and say no. No God. I want another lover. I don’t want a divine romance. I want love, but not yours. I really think that someone else’s affections will satisfy my own.
Ive tasted and seen of the sweetest of loves where my heart becomes free and my shame is undone. Your presence Lord. I cant kick and scream you away. I am your child. You beckon me by name. Not another name can sound so sweet as Jesus, Abba Father. With my heart racing, blood boiling, palms sweating, knees trembling, I stumble back to where I belong. I make the prodigal son look like a saint. Lord Jesus I am so messed up. But you gather up the wounded blows and the shatterings of my soul and make it new. I am Yours and You’re not going anywhere.
And Im here to stay.
I wish I could say that I have been intentionally preparing my heart this lent season.
Eagerly diving into His word, delving into the story of Jesus, and arriving at today.
Good Friday. The day we sing as good as we remember our Savior crucified.
If I’m honest, I’ve been ridiculously inconsistent. Even with all the great intentions lingering in my heart, less than perfect actions have resulted.
I’ve been distracted, stressed, and seemingly itching to put anything else before my God.
So here we are. Sounds like a Good Friday huh?
The whole reason I we can even call this Friday GOOD is because He is and I’m not! And this was shown on the cross of Calvary.
The people Jesus died and rose to save are consistently inconsistent.
Look at Jesus praying in Gethsemane the night before he would be taken to Calvary (Mark 14:32-42). He knows what is coming, begging God to take this cup if it could pass, but ultimately not what He wills, but the Fathers! He is selflessly laying himself down for selfish. WOW, what a savior we have.
And then we have Peter, James, and John. Jesus asked them to come with him to Gethsemane to pray. And yes while The disciples clearly did not understand what all was about to go down in the next few days, you would think that they would take the words of the Lord to heart and actively pray on His behalf when asked to.
And what are they doing? Sleeping. Instead of praying like Jesus desired, they fell asleep. Jesus even responded with compassionate instruction by reminding the men that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Then Jesus left them, continued to pray, then came back and found Peter, John and James…you guessed it…Sleeping.
Now we can look at the disciples with a few perspectives. On the one hand, we can look and assume that they just don’t care about Jesus’s instructions and seemingly rebelled, because if they did, they clearly wouldn’t have fallen asleep right? They would fight to follow him and pray for him.
On another hand, maybe they really did try to stay awake and pray for Jesus, but felt the exhaustion come over them, got frustrated and just decided “you know what, it’s not worth it, I’m going to just fold and go to sleep.” Maybe once exhaustion hit, excuses and justifications started sounded appealing. The fight felt pointless.
Or maybe they really did fight with all that was in them to stay awake, because they saw the seriousness in which Jesus was carrying himself, even though they didn’t fully understand what all was happening. And even with all the fighting and wrestling, the flesh was so weak.
But no matter what was the state of their hearts, the reality is, they proved the human condition to still be alive and active: we are broken and inconsistent. And you know what’s crazy? You know what blows my stinking mind?
The fact that regardless of what really happened that night in Gethsemane with Peter, James, and John, Jesus still went to Calvary, and died for them.
Regardless if they rebelled against Jesus in disobedience to his request to pray.
Regardless if they were first fighting the flesh and then gave up and gave in.
Regardless if they fought with everything in them and they still failed to stay awake.
The beauty here and the truth here is still the same: THIS is why Jesus had to do what he did on Calvary.
For the rebel without a cause, for the fighter who feels defeated, and for the one who feels so strong, to find out they are weak.
All are in need of a Savior. Not that the reality of our brokenness gives us a license to sin, but it enables us to run to the one who can fix us! We can’t be fixed if we don’t know we are broken.
The rebel needs to see that they can stop running away and run into the embrace of Jesus’s Grace.
The fighter needs to see that they can keep fighting when they are battling with God’s army and His strength, not his own.
The strong needs to see that He is so weak without the power of Jesus Christ enabling Him.
And this is all possible because of the redemption story that has been spinning in motion since the moment sin entered.
And today, we reflect on the climax of the story: Good Friday.
Ah, yes. What a GOOD Friday indeed. Thank goodness.
Wow, it’s been way too long since me and this blog have rekindled our flame. But to sit down and blog means I have to force myself to sit down and pause and wow has that been a battle this season.
If you know me and know me well, you are fully aware that my life seems to never go “as planned.” And this season has proven to be no different. Without going into details that are not for common knowledge, let me just say this: the past several months have been a complete turnover and has thrown me into a season of life I never expected.
I’m still in Spring, TX for now and I have been learning what it’s like to be a manager in a business. It’s been so humbling, so challenging, and really rewarding all in the same. What’s been the sweetest part (and the hardest) for me is getting to be Jesus outside of vocational ministry. My heartbeat really is for people who would never step foot towards a church and bring Jesus where he is unexpected to be. Well, that is exactly where I am and it’s hard and beautiful. It’s made me realize and understand even deeper that we as believers are all in vocational ministry, we just have to be willing to see our lives uncompartmentalized. Be willing to do life with messy people. That shouldn’t be hard to swallow, because we’re all messy. And God doesn’t require perfection, he just asks for faith.
I’ve had to face some pretty big demons in my life this past season and really see the incredibly need for Godly community. I’m so ignorant to think I can live this surrendered life on my own. That I can muster up enough strength, tell myself enough truth, and love God enough to sustain my vitality.
I don’t get ANYTHING right apart from God’s grace. I can’t earn His love or muster it up on my own. God designed us to need HIM! God in His own design (triune God: Father, Son, Holy Spirit) is community. So to strive towards looking like Christ, community is not a suggestion, it’s absolutely necessary. We will never get anywhere close to looking like Our Maker on our own. We fail every time on our own. EVERY. TIME.
I’ve been so grateful and humbled these past couple of months by the reality that God’s love and grace is not dependent on my performance. Because if it was, I would have lost Him. Period.
Can ya tell it’s been a rough season yet?
But I’m not writing this to receive loads of sympathy. I’m writing this to be real. To show that man this life truly does have its soaring with the Eagles moments and it’s face down in the dirt moments.
We waiver. We fall. We run away. We create space. We slow fade. We chose ourselves.
HE NEVER FAILS. HE IS CONSTANT. HE LOVES RADICALLY. HE IS SCANDALOUS IN HIS PURSUIT OF REDEMPTION. HE CHOOSES US.
He is MORE. He is ENOUGH. He is more than enough.
This post is way different than my normal writings because I’m usually talking you through a journey with all the highs and lows, but with a fixed beginning and end point.
But today, I’m writing from the middle. I’m in the middle. I’m standing on the my feet looking back at how inconsistent and wavering my faith has been and yet looking forward seeking to be in deeper intimacy with Jesus. I’m not over the season or over the journey. I’m still in it. Walking one step at a time. Shaking. But sure. Confident that where I’m headed, there is life and life abundant.
The beauty of this position is, this is actually how our whole life is. Looking back at what God’s done and where we’ve been, then striving forward to where He is and where He’s called us to be. Our life is in the middle. He is in the middle.
This friend and I have been friends for exactly one year now, so of course we had dinner to celebrate! Linds has been such a source of encouragement as a sister in Christ, an answer to so many prayers for community, and a connector of people and to people I would have never known without her! She truly is a gift to all who get the chance to encounter her. And I get the honor of calling her friend. You da best Lindsey! So stinking grateful! | 2019-04-26T13:52:05Z | https://meghanmazerolle.wordpress.com/ | Porn | Home | 0.63452 |
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wordpress | After a rather un-satisfying summer, there´s not much to report – I missed nearly all of the interesting meets and rides this year, for reasons of overwork, bad luck with double booked weekends, and also a few instances of sickness.
Turning the record over, there he is, looking none to pleased to have been left off the front cover. His bike is quite OK, equipped with what looks like Suntour gear and a Turbo saddle. And look at his Cinelli socks!
Let me add that Eros Ramazotti isn´t exactly the music I usually listen to, but the cycle on the cover affords at least some optical attraction.
As far as I´m concerned, I´m hoping for a better 2016 cycling season. Until then, and unless I can find the time and an occasion, I guess I´ll prolong my blogging break. | 2019-04-20T10:39:22Z | https://starostneradost.wordpress.com/2015/10/ | Porn | Sports | 0.6048 |
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is it just me or is wordpress broken, every time I try adn comment I am told about unresponsive scripts? But blogger and typepad are working fine…..oh well, I really like this, it is strong.
What a picture this presents!
so is that good or bad? I would say snapshots–staged? Is real life staged or does it happen?
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wikipedia | ^ Myodes glareolus. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010. International Union for Conservation of Nature. 2008.
^ * Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. Superfamily Muroidea. (编) D. E. Wilson and D. M. Reeder eds. Mammal Species of the World a Taxonomic and Geographic Reference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2005: 894–1531.
^ Ferris-Khan, R. (Ed.). The Ecology of Woodland Creation. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. 1995. | 2019-04-24T03:15:33Z | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A0%A4%E5%B2%B8%E7%94%B0%E9%BC%A0 | Porn | Reference | 0.598513 |
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wordpress | Last week I was able to attend the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) Open Educational Resources (OER) Summit in Orlando, FL. I was the only one from FSU Libraries who was able to attend, but I had a wonderful experience learning more about how to implement OER at FSU.
One of the surprising things at the summit was the amount of faculty in attendance. There were also librarians in attendance, as well as administrators. Having faculty show up and learn more about the what, why, and how of OER is very important. Librarians have been one of the leading forces behind the push for OER and it’s nice to see the sharing of responsibility with faculty. Faculty play a huge role in deciding what’s used in the classroom, so knowing that we’re sharing this space is a step in the right direction.
The summit began on Wednesday February 27thand opened with remarks from Dr. John Opper, FLVC Executive Director. He welcomed Una Daly, Director of the Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources (CCCOER) that’s a division of the global Open Education Consortium. Her opening speech was about asking ourselves as educators, librarians, administrators “why” we’re choosing to learn or implement OER and “what” we’re doing. Daly spent a lot of time talking about Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) courses and programs, open pedagogy, and using instructional designers to help faculty plan their courses around OER. This is something that is open to anyone teaching at FSU. Our OER Task Force works with the Center for the Advancement of Teaching(CAT) and Fabrizio Fornara, Assistant Director of CAT recently joined our OER Task Force.
After Daly’s opening keynote speech, we were able to move into different rooms depending on the subject. The rooms were split into four groups: Mathematics, Writing & Composition, Humanities, and Business. I went with the humanities group where Kim Molinaro, a psychology professor at St. Petersburg College in Clearwater, FL spoke about how she had worked extremely hard to implement OER in all of her psychology courses. Next we heard how Dr. Bruce Wilson, a political science professor at the University of Central Florida and James Paradiso, an instructional designer and program coordinator for textbook affordability at UCF worked together to also flip all of Dr. Wilson’s classes to use only OER. Attendees had their questions answered and I was able to meet a great group of librarians from University of Florida, Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University, and Tallahassee Community College. There was a lunch & learn that afternoon where Ethan Senack from Creative Commons, USA gave a presentation on the basics of creative commons (CC) licensing, the difference between CC and copyright, and how different licensing interact with OER.
Thursday, February 28thwas the second and last day of the summit and Nicole Allen, Director of Open Education at SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) was the keynote speaker. Allen gave a great speech on her experience with OER and how she came to know what it is and how it has changed over the last decade. Hearing about her experiences and seeing how OER and the terminology has changed over time meant a lot to me. It really helped me put things into perspective and think of ways to talk to other librarians and faculty about how to approach OER.
We know change can be scary, but it happens. Seeing the toll of the rising and high costs of getting an education takes on students, parents, and other stakeholders is a reason why we should be implementing OER. Attending this summit has given me a lot to think about and a lot to work on, but I do think movement is achievable. FSU Libraries has supported a lot of endeavors and we’re fortunate because not all universities encounter the same support and encouragement, but we have so much more work to do. | 2019-04-19T12:40:19Z | https://fsulib.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/flvc-oer-summit/ | Porn | Business | 0.334713 |
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yahoo | 29 Jun - Mainland model-actress Xu Dongdong was very secretive about her rumoured relationship with NBA star, Jeremy Lin.
As reported on Mingpao News, the model, who recently announced her breakup with mainland singer-actor Pu Bajia, recently attended a charity dinner in Hong Kong at the same time Lin was in the area for his fan meet.
When asked if it was intentional, Xu replied, "It was just a coincidence."
"I love watching him play, and I am a fan of his. I am also a friend, but not his girlfriend," she said.
Xu also stated that she doesn't understand how the rumours started, though added, "I want to know him better. I am fond of him."
The two were romantically linked back in January, when Xu was spotted at Lin's game in the US. It was reported that the two of them were introduced to each other by a mutual friend and quickly hit it off. | 2019-04-24T19:53:55Z | https://sg.news.yahoo.com/xu-dongdong-denies-dating-jeremy-lin-091800072.html | Porn | Sports | 0.520909 |
wordpress | All the following quotes have come from DoC or Landcare Research scientists. If there’s a problem with rats, DoC, OSPRI, regional councils and pest control contractors have no one to blame but themselves for using a pest control method that creates imbalance in the ecosystem and which gives an advantage to the meso-predator that breeds fastest.
Why would social media censor a video about the silence of our forests?
Doesn’t make sense does it? If 1080 was actually as effective as the authorities tell us it is then videos about the replenished forests would surely be welcome wouldn’t they?
Recently I posted an article featuring a video by Brett Power that gave us a glimpse of the silence of the forest around Mt Taranaki. It had already been removed more than once from social media before I featured it. Then it disappeared (as in no longer functional) from my article. I’ve actually re uploaded it now via a different platform but the question still remains, why remove it in the first place?
It may also interest you to know that the FB share buttons frequently disappear from my 1080 articles. I have to regularly review and reinstate missing share buttons, particularly on very popular 1080 posts. If you spot any please give me a heads up via comments.
Anyway, to the thinking amongst us, it isn’t really rocket science why they are removing articles. With damage control in full swing now with the less palatable facts coming out, the authorities are racing about stamping out the evidence.
Search ‘categories’ here (left of page) for other articles on 1080 and see the evidence that 1080 does not appear to be working.
See also our new sub page (under the 1080 page) called ‘NZ’s Silent Forests – Where Have the Birds Gone?’ featuring video footage & social media comments as they become available. Feel free to comment at the bottom of that page yourself in the comments section, or submit a piece via the contact page for me to add. Send me your videos also if you wish. Random evidence by itself is more easily dismissed by the authorities but all together as a collective is far harder to dismiss.
Finally, if you are new to the 1080 poisoning program, a must watch is Poisoning Paradise, the doco made by the GrafBoys (banned from screening on NZ TV, yet a 4x international award winner). Their website is tv-wild.com. Their doco is a very comprehensive overview with the independent science to illustrate the question marks that remain over the use of this poison. There are links also on our 1080 resources page to most of the groups, pages, sites etc that will provide you with further information to make your own informed decision on this matter.
CITIZENS INITIATED REFERENDUM TO BAN ALL CRUEL POISONS.
There has been a recent spate of poisonings on Auckland’s North Shore with distressed residents finding dead and dying birds in Rothesay Bay and Browns Bay for the past couple of weeks.
I’m fortunate my dog who ate a dead pigeon wasn’t sick but my friends cat was very ill and a very costly vet bill.
I contacted both DOC and the Council yesterday. Two drugged pigeons were pecked to death yesterday afternoon on Rothesay Bay Beach, amid another 3 carcasses. There was a dead seagull further down the beach and a dead penguin. I was concerned not just about the cruelty to the pigeons but also with impact on the food chain; other wildlife, dogs and children on the beach. The Council Actionline said it was not their area and put me on to DOC. DOC have advised this morning that they and the council and police are aware of the situation and it is suspected to be a poison, alphachloralose, aimed at the pigeons. I would observe that the poisoning is still occurring, so be aware of this if you are going to the Browns Bay or Rothesay Bay beaches. I cannot imagine who would think this is an ok thing to do!
Browns Bay resident and co-ordinator of the local community group Friends of Sherwood, Tricia Cheel, is not so sure that it can be attributed to alphachloralose if a pigeon carcass has made a cat so ill and indeed if the penguin also died of poison, and notes that the council has recently also deposited many bait stations along the beach front, and even playgrounds in these areas, and she is presently nursing a young wood pigeon that was found on Saturday night unable to fly and very unbalanced and distressed.
(Image to left) Named Boris he (or she?) will be available for interview by appointment only!
Note the golden tufts of baby feathers and contemplate how anyone in their right mind would risk harming him / her.
Whatever the truth of the matter is it is but a mere whiff of the full horror of having these poisons used so freely throughout the country and Friends of Sherwood say that their proposed Citizens Initiated Referendum to ban all cruel and inhumane poisons is long overdue and look forward to the question being put to all New Zealand voters just as soon as possible.
Unfortunately it will take time to collect the 320,000 signatures needed but it is hoped that the whole process may be circumvented sooner rather than later, by Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, who has said her government embodies kindness as well as strength, and it gives her the opportunity to demonstrate both those characteristics by acting immediately to put an end to the torture thousands of animals suffer every day, both in suburbia and in the wild.
The proposal complies with the requirements of the House of Representatives and the Office of the Clerk has advised that the question will go out for public comment on Wednesday 21st November by way of advertisements in national newspapers and notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
People will have until 11th January to comment on the wording with the final question being determined by 7th February 2019; after which time Friends of Sherwood will have 12 months to collect the necessary signatures of 10% of all eligible voters.
Co-ordinator of the group since it began in June 1990, Tricia Cheel says that although they twice successfully delayed the drop of 1080 poison in the Hunuas with interim injunctions, it eventually went ahead leaving two more families devastated by the cruel loss of their beloved dogs, and further down the line a further 8 cows were gruesomely tortured to death by this same poison dropped indiscriminately by helicopter, while countless more animals suffered agonizing deaths, mostly unseen and unheard, in the forests.
Banning the deadly 1080 poison will only go part way to addressing the problem since as more and more animals are demonised in the headlong rush to be predator free by 2050, many more animals are set to suffer similar fates with other equally cruel poisons, including brodifacoum, pindone, cholecalciferol and PAPP, with the latter specifically targeting cats.
The unfortunate by-kill includes many of the species that are purportedly being ‘protected’, but even without that inconvenient truth, as the question states, the intense and prolonged suffering these poisons inflict can never be justified.
Carol Sawyer recently drew attention to a letter to the editor by scientist Dr Jo Pollard that expresses concern over the Kea Conservation Trust’s plans.
I read your article on the activities of the Kea Conservation Trust (ODT 10/10/18) with despair. Paying no heed to the recent deaths of two pet kea that were blood sampled by DoC, this volunteer group is continuing with its blood sampling of wild kea. The group is also planning more interference with kea nests, despite high rates of abandonment and failure of nests which they have monitored previously. Normally, a female kea spends years building her nest then can use it for life. Even a preschool child knows that disturbing a bird’s nest is likely to cause abandonment and attract predators. Scientific literature backs this up. Research has also shown that stoats and possums are not normally a threat to kea nests, but other kea and falcons are and are likely to be attracted by monitoring. Science and common sense indicate that kea would be much better off left alone.
Today we take for granted an awareness of environmental matters, but this was not always the case. It could be said that in Britain there was a moment when that environmental consciousness arrived. When in 1963 some farm animals in the parish of Smarden in Kent became sick and died, suspicions fell on a nearby pesticide factory run by a division of Rentokil Laboratories. The events that followed amounted to one of the first environmental scandals in contemporary British history – one that would galvanise the environmental movement.
It became clear that the factory, a large shed in the middle of farmland, was manufacturing toxic chemicals and that a leak of one of these, fluoroacetamide, led to Britain’s first documented livestock mass poisoning. The incident might have passed by as only a historical footnote, but instead the Smarden leak quickly became a national concern with international implications, and has cast a long shadow across the approach to intensive agriculture in the UK in the years since.
Part of why this incident had such major repercussions is due to timing, coming as it did at the same time as American writer Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was first published in the UK. Seen as the first polemic of the environmental movement, Carson’s book was a significant catalyst to the emergence of modern environmentalism on both sides of the Atlantic.
Local veterinarian Douglas Good had unique knowledge of fluoride poisoning having worked with a leading expert in South Africa and on cases of animals affected by industrial fluoride poisoning in England. Taking his cue from Carson, Good disseminated what he called a “short story” about the incident to the press, putting across the Smarden incident as not simply a local industrial waste spill, but as deadly evidence of the pervasiveness of toxic pesticides in the environment. Acknowledging his inspiration, Good concluded his narrative by declaring that the “subject of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring had become a reality here in the heart of the Garden of England”.
The media placed the Smarden incident within a Carson-inspired ecological critique of the dangers of an intensive, industrial approach to agriculture. Good, like Carson, was a trained scientist. Like her, he raised concerns about technocracy – governmental administration underpinned by scientific and technological expertise. As the Smarden incident unfolded, it highlighted the risks and hazards which accompanied the government’s commitment to industrial development. Tensions arose between veterinarians, government scientists, local government, media, and business interests.
While the use of inorganic poisons as pesticides stretches back to antiquity, large-scale use of organic pesticides is a 20th-century phenomenon. Fluoroacetamide is a toxic organic pesticide with nefarious origins.
The two world wars fostered a massive growth of the chemical industry, and fluoroacetamide was a pesticide that arose from the search for lethal chemical weapons. After the war it was approved for use as a poison for use against rodents and insects – it was not uncommon for the science, technology, institutions, and language of chemical warfare to be redirected to the problem of agricultural pest control during peacetime. But by the time of the Smarden incident in the early 1960s, the origin of these chemicals was seen as damning evidence of the perniciousness of the military-industrial complex and its impact on the environment.
there is a small factory, which makes orchard sprays.
surgery, together with its litter brother. Both were dead, having had fits earlier in the day.
not knowing what had killed his puppies which had been so well that morning.
Centre at Wye had closed down for the weekend. A sixth sheep died at Benenden Fair and a seventh with the new owner at Rye. Sheep can die suddenly from a number of infectious diseases but there was no reason to suspect any of these.
samples were collected and internal organs from the dead sheep were taken to the County Analytical Laboratory at Maidstone. Telephone calls to my neighbouring veterinary practice at Ashford established that they had been attending three cows at Roberts Farm. We were mystified. They knew the factory made methyl bromide, and one of the ponds smelt of bromide.
fluoroacetamide (1081), a rat poison. The goat was trembling and in a convulsive state.
She died a few hours later. Many meetings transpired between the Ashford veterinary practice, the factory manager and myself. Analytical test results bean to come through. Fluorides were present to the extent of 5 parts per million, but bromides were a hundred times more. Sulphuric acid was also present in the water. The sheep specimens revealed no chemicals of any significance. Testing of the ditches and ponds for bromides were carried out at intervals.
River Board assured me that this could only be carried downwards into the soil.
showed only the signs of death from drowning, and the big meal he had eaten the evening before was undigested in his stomach. The owner could not accept my post-mortem certificate. What had caused the madness before he bolted away in terror? I explained this as being due to severe abdominal pain and colic. The dog had been out hunting the previous afternoon and given a big meal on his return that evening, when he was in an exhausted condition. Mr. Lowe was still not satisfied. He had lost sheep, his neighbour had lost cattle, this was still poisoning! But how could it be? The water analyses for acid and bromide were almost normal, and the bromides, if responsible, would only have a sedative effect and not one of stimulation. Doubt grew in my mind. The Veterinary Investigation Centre was not so concerned with dogs, and besides they would be reluctant to intervene as litigation might be involved. Meanwhile the cows at Roberts Farm were reported to be normal to the casual observer.
Laboratories at Oxford offered me their help and in July a team of three visited Tenterden and took apparatus out to Roberts Farm. Within minutes of setting up their apparatus they diagnosed fluoroacetate (1080), much to the surprise of the farmer and myself.
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Watch the video at this link. | 2019-04-21T04:27:39Z | https://envirowatchrangitikei.wordpress.com/tag/birds/ | Porn | Science | 0.760376 |
livejournal | Over 2,500 more remixes added to the 70s, 80s & 90s 12" Remix Archive on "Chaz' Jukebox" today! - When pigs fly.
Over 2,500 more remixes added to the 70s, 80s & 90s 12" Remix Archive on "Chaz' Jukebox" today!
Earlier this month I announced Chaz' 70s, 80s & 90s 12" Remix Archive, today I added over 2,500 tracks to the folder -- and I also moved the files into it's own folder called "Archive (Vinyl Remixes)" -- to keep it out of the miscellaneous MP3 "Archive", where I put all sorts of left-overs.
You'll see several versions of the same song (different remixes), some rare "B Sides" which didn't get much play, as well as a few things you thought you'd never hear again!
Also -- if you have your own collection, why not merge it with mine for the world to share? Talk to me.
I hope you enjoy this new addition -- and as I said earlier this month, I'm still adding stuff here, so keep your eyes open!
Remember: These recordings are from vinyl and aren't as clear as digital recording sources. In addition, they are highly specialized tracks (they're all remixes) for DJs. You would never find these in your average record store. I put them in their own special area in Chaz' Jukebox as not to be confused with the original songs.
Visit my VINYL ARCHIVE here! - of course, my regular MP3 library (Chaz' Jukebox) is still online for your downloading pleasure. Just click here. I've added some new stuff there as well -- added all up, as of April 27th at Midnight, the jukebox has 22,966 MP3s!
I check it out this morning. It's rock but had to leave for a couple of hours. Came back & can't get to the website. You might need to check out the link. HUGS!!!
Someone was hogging all available ports.
I disconnected them and restricted future connections from them to ONE. | 2019-04-24T19:48:15Z | https://mc4bbs.livejournal.com/217974.html | Porn | News | 0.450795 |
wordpress | I decided today that I could probably eat Indian food everyday for the rest of my life and not get bored. Here’s a bit of a twist on tandoori chicken (as I do not have Tandoori oven in my house).
2. Combine and mix all ingredients except for the chicken.
3. Rub spice mix over chicken wings.
4. Place chicken on baking sheet. Bake in oven for 25 minutes.
5. To make yogurt sauce. Combine all ingredients and mix well.
I am $8 over this week, but I feel like the recipes are worth it. There is a great mixture of hot comfort food and cool spring time fresh food. I found a new combination of flavors (mint and olives! who knew?) this week and also discovered a new cheese that tastes like bacon (not gouda, but fontina–it’s cheaper!). Have a great week and happy cooking and eating!
Each recipe amounts to 4 servings each.
For a pdf version of this shopping list, CLICK HERE. | 2019-04-24T02:36:02Z | https://dinneronthecheap.wordpress.com/tag/chicken/ | Porn | Shopping | 0.846677 |
wordpress | Here we are, week 2 of the Masterkey Learning System. The excitement is still intact, enthusiasm for reading and posting is gaining traction. I am learning that I am very fascinated by the brain and how to use it to manifest more. I finding that I am searching more ways to interrupt old thought patterns. Learning how to manipulate through the simple child-like exercises is so easy and fun I know that it will stick long term. This should be the way to learn when we begin learning. Simple techniques keep complicated tasks easy to understand and fun to do which is the key for forming new good habits.
I will say that this week has been a challenge and the old blueprint has really been fighting hard. I here the little voice in my head saying things like, “why are you doing this?, This will never work, who are you to think you can do that?” I will have to admit that sometimes he wins and that is o.k. I am not looking at the failures as permanent defeat but learning opportunities to succeed. Why would I tell myself that I can not do something or that I don’t matter? I am amazing! I am made to do amazing things! I am learning to laugh at the old blueprint and shame it into non-existence. It is tough though, a continuous battle daily to pay attention to what I am telling myself, how I see and treat myself. I am falling in love with this new way of thinking and I am excited for the future. I love creating it.
Great thoughts and insights! A great way to look at things. I will use these ideas myself. Thank you.
Thanks for the post Brian! I’ve never considered laughing at a shaming my old blue print. kind of gives me a new perspective on how to look at this process. Thank you! | 2019-04-26T09:03:22Z | https://brianhowardmasterkey.wordpress.com/2016/10/07/week-2-forcing-change/?shared=email&msg=fail | Porn | Kids | 0.725282 |
wordpress | There is an interesting discussion shaping up on the atheosphere, among other places. It started with the publication of Did Jesus Exist? by Bart Ehrman. Actually, it was just a bit prior to that. There was an article in the Huffington Post written by Ehrman that provoked a shocked response from Richard Carrier. He then followed up with a full scale review of the book.
Ehrman’s book (which I have not read yet) apparently concludes that Jesus was not a myth, but actually existed. Carrier is a mythicist, concluding that there is little evidence for an historical Jesus. So it’s not surprising that he might disagree with Ehrman. His conclusion, though, is not very dispassionate. In fact it’s downright harsh, to say the least, at times devolving into the personal. | 2019-04-22T06:11:07Z | https://spaninquis.wordpress.com/category/supernatural/ | Porn | News | 0.360786 |
wordpress | If it is right, pursue it with all of your heart, your skill, and your grit.
If in the end we are but dust and vapor, then may our dust be fertile and our vapor pure. May we grace gardens and orchards and coastlines. May we intertwine and find each others atoms in the fruit that grows, the flowers that bloom, the waves that crash. May we seek out trade winds to travel to new homes, and make the earth good and whole again. May we bring life.
The stars in the sky glimmer with the hopes of reflecting in your eyes.
Generations have sped past, worlds formed and civilizations were built and conquered.
All just passing time to wait for the day you arrive, you look at me, and you smile. | 2019-04-25T18:23:42Z | https://strikeyourcolors.wordpress.com/tag/inspiration/ | Porn | Reference | 0.253145 |
livejournal | There's a bunch of Denver days in front of this list and another day at the end, since that's where we're flying to and from. Now that I have the list recorded here it will be interesting to see how close we come to visiting all these spots.
Just make sure you get the "Yellowstone, Yellowstone, Yellowstone" in...it is fabulous! Follow the crowds to see the animals. And don't plan on traveling fast. Grand Teton is beautiful, too. I wish we could go back....sometime. Have a great trip!
I hope you have a great trip! I also hope you get a chance to share some stories from the trip with us folks out here in Readerland. | 2019-04-20T00:50:58Z | https://koralleen.livejournal.com/181281.html | Porn | Recreation | 0.956486 |
wordpress | Even though I was born in Michigan, I grew up in Nashville, so country music is practically ingrained into my DNA. I LOVE country music, and I get very annoyed when anyone says they hate it. In fact, I am convinced that anyone that says they hate country music has never really given it a chance. Sure there are some TERRIBLE songs (“Red Solo Cup” is the most recent big hit that comes to mind), but that’s true of any genre (“Gangnam Style” anyone?). To me, what sets Country Music apart as a genre is its focus on story telling. Not that a good pop song can’t tell a story (we’ve got hundreds on this playlist that do) but country songs often take it to the next level and can make you feel all sorts of emotions. Naturally, there are many country songs on this playlist that conjure up Doctor Who feelings. So those who claim to HATE country should give these songs a listen and then get back to me.
And if you get back to me and say you still hate country music, I can’t help you. And I also question whether or not you have a soul.
“There’s a new wind blowing like I’ve never known.
I’m breathing deeper than I’ve ever done.
And it sure feels good to finally feel the way I do.
I wanna love somebody, love somebody like you.
And I’m letting go of all my lonely yesterdays.
I’ve forgivin’ myself for the mistakes I’ve made.
Now there’s just one thing, the only thing I wanna do.
This song screams the Ninth Doctor at the end of “End of the World”, which I also covered in my last playlist post. While the Doctor still has many many gruff moments post “End of the World” (which IS only the second episode of the series), I always pinpoint the end of that episode as the moment where The Doctor started to heal and began to open himself up to Rose. He doesn’t completely change all at once, there would be no fun in that. It’s an ongoing process. But in that moment where he and Rose head off to get some chips, The Doctor begins to let go of his past and relax and allows himself to think that there could be something more for him.
That’s why I run to you.
This song is about partnership and finding that one person you can count on above anyone else. If that is not what you think the Doctor and Rose are to each other, then you are watching the show wrong. Fact. | 2019-04-21T08:24:59Z | https://headoverfeels.wordpress.com/tag/lady-antebellum/ | Porn | Reference | 0.534305 |
wordpress | I had seen ‘Maravathoor Kanavu’ when I was a kid. It had a dialogue which I called cheesy then ‘A Chick’s life is like an Egg, Once broken it can’t be mended. So take care’. I also laughed at the statement when it was played in the movie hall. Although cheesy, it made a lot of sense.
Fast forward to this day. A day which people call important in my life; somehow for me it is just another day. Somehow, I don’t see much of an importance in this day like all others. Turn of events has happened around me in such a fashion that a thought in the above cheesy line has crossed my mind.
Every person cracks at one point or the other, no matter how hard the person claims himself to be! I witnessed such an event today. A person whom I had considered to be a toughnut cracked in front of me. Oblivious to all the public! It was in such a highly ‘camouflaged’ way, that no one realized. As the clock ticks, this memory fades just like the music fades in the end………………….. | 2019-04-25T08:49:15Z | https://ameenmaj.wordpress.com/tag/human/ | Porn | Reference | 0.633295 |
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Funding for positions is dependent upon the funding source. Please note that only opportunities listed as REUs provide funding for students from outside of Columbia University. While students may be eligible for an opportunity, they are not guaranteed funding. Please check with the contact in the posting.
Targeted de-epithelialization as a novel therapeutic strategy for lung repair in ARDS.
Investigating the immunological mechanisms that cause heart failure in lupus patients using 3D cardiac tissues. | 2019-04-24T06:23:32Z | https://studentresearch.engineering.columbia.edu/content/current-research-opportunities | Porn | Science | 0.6146 |
wordpress | Say Goodbye to Another Familiar Face?
The Eraserhood is on the verge of losing another building. HiddenCity Philadelphia The Church of Assumption on Spring Garden and 12th is scheduled for demolition. Embroiled in a battle to keep the integrity of the neighborhood, community leaders are fighting the owner to keep the building.
Christopher Mote and HiddenCity Philadelphia had an update on the appeal to keep Church of the Assumption standing, reports that nothing has been fully resolved, though the building is still in real danger (read the full updated report here). | 2019-04-21T10:09:52Z | https://eraserhood2013.wordpress.com/tag/katharine-drexel/ | Porn | News | 0.825471 |
wordpress | Ttiagrateful : this week so far !!
the weather has been very kind . We have been swimming at North Berwick. The Great British Bake Off . Van Gogh in the flesh/oil at the Scottish Museum . | 2019-04-23T20:47:00Z | https://beverleyhaines.wordpress.com/2015/08/ | Porn | Arts | 0.945809 |
wordpress | A facade redesign for Indianapolis Habitat for Humanity for their existing floor plan layout. Incorporated a vertical farm option or can be altered depending on the clients needs for a community bench. The design also works with Habitat’s existing panel construction techniques and materials. Received an Honorable Mention. | 2019-04-23T22:06:52Z | https://rzfolio.wordpress.com/folio/habitat-for-humanity-indianapolis-faced-redesign-2010/ | Porn | Business | 0.434377 |
wikipedia | როლინგ სტოუნი (ინგლ. Rolling Stone) — ამერიკული ჟურნალი, რომელიც ეძღვნება მუსიკას და პოპ კულტურას. ჟურნალი 1967 წელს, სან ფრანცისკოში ჯენ უენერის (ის დღესაც მისი რედაქტორი და გამომცემელია) და მუსიკის კრიტიკოსის, რალფ გლისონის მიერ დაარსდა და პირველი ნომერი გამოვიდა 1967 წლის 9 ნოემბერს.
„როლინგ სტოუნი“ გამოდის თვეში ორჯერ. მისი ტირაჟია დაახლოებით მილიონნახევარი ეგზემპლარი. არსებობს ჟურნალის რეგიონალური ვერსიებიც (მათ შორის, რუსულენოვანიც). დღესდღეობით ეს არის ერთ-ერთი ყველაზე ავტორიტეტული და დაფასებული ჟურნალი მსოფლიოს კულტურის შესახებ.
(2005) The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll. New York: Fireside. ISBN 0-7432-9201-4.
[1979, 1983, 1992] (2004) The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
Miller, Jim (1980). The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-394-51322-3.
(2007) Rolling Stone Cover to Cover – the First 40 Years: Searchable Digital Archive-Every Page, Every Issue. Renton, WA: Bondi Digital Pub. ISBN 978-0-9795261-0-7.
↑ "eCirc for Consumer Magazines". Audit Bureau of Circulations. დაარქივებულია 18 აპრილი, 2015.
↑ Freedman, Samuel G.. (2002) Literary 'Rolling Stone' sells out to male titillation. USA Today. წაკითხვის თარიღი: 12 თებერვალი, 2009.
↑ Pable Pawncasso. Pawn Stars (18). | 2019-04-24T23:58:19Z | https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_Stone | Porn | Reference | 0.395053 |
typepad | Everyone on earth is connected to everyone else; it only takes six steps to get from any one person to any other person on the planet, hence the phrase 'Six Degrees of Separation'. If this really is the case, then we should be able to track down people who worked in Numbers Stations from the last three decades, simply by deploying the special cards that we have produced.
Hopefully the people that we are able to locate (and that are willing to divulge their secrets to us) will have kept a private, detailed record of what they did, the decisions that were made, who made them, why, and everything else we are keen to know. We may finally find out why a little girl's voice was thought to be appropriate for use in a Numbers Station!
We are very sensitive to matters of privacy. This system has the wonderful side effect of being completely anonymous, so that when you participate in it, there is no way for us to know who sent which card to whom, should we score a 'hit'.
So far, to the best of my knowledge, nobody has answered the challenge.
You can hear my own experiences with Numbers Stations, as well as my own WWdN Poacher, which I made as a clue in the still-unsolved photoblog mystery, in my old audioblog. | 2019-04-26T10:33:42Z | https://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/02/ready_ready.html | Porn | Business | 0.274522 |
wordpress | See a yacare (crocodile) Seen as of 5/3/2014, but still need a photo!
Host our own asado DONE as of Feb 2015!
Country Countdown–let’s see how many stamps we can get in the passport! | 2019-04-23T08:30:51Z | https://arabbitinargentina.wordpress.com/bucket-list/ | Porn | Reference | 0.28026 |
strike-the-root | In theology, the practice of defending the faith is called "apologetics." Countless folks down through the ages have engaged in the practice, with noble intent, for better or for worse.
Apologetics is quite refined in theological circles, although largely unknown to most now living in what is call the "post-Christian" era. As I view the expanse of history, there never was a "Christian era." The Church, when it was its purest in form and practice, was in the catacombs of Rome--hiding from government. When it dominated the scene, after the fall of Rome and for 1000 years thereafter, it ceased being the church in many ways, and became government in clerical garb.
Now, I speak of the western Church primarily, namely Rome. Constantinople has always managed to have a hierarchy without dominating people. They have kept the mystery, without becoming an entrenched bureaucracy in alliance with kings and governments, as happened in the West.
In many ways, Luther's rise to prominence marked a shift in the West toward freedom in both body, and faith. Unknown to most were the ongoing discussions between Luther and Constantinople. They were kindred spirits.
And while certainly a man of his age and given to open expression that today might embarrass a sailor on shore leave, Old Marty nonetheless helped get "God, Inc." back on track. While the stories of how, when and where are lengthy and involved, suffice to say that much of America was originally settled by people of faith who had to credit Luther for breaking the organizational yoke of the governmental church.
I should add--while followers of Calvin were certainly in the mix in America, their founder's penchant (reference Geneva) for continuing the religious rule of the state has persisted to this day. The so-called "religious right"--eager for whatever any conservative/neo-con/war-chicken hawk politician desires, lean toward Geneva.
In the New World, The Orthodox and the Lutherans took advantage of the concept of being free men. The Roman Catholic Church began to wisen up to the concept, and began being Church again, rather than rulers of men.
Where am I going with this? Well, I have a pet peeve with many who claim to be whatever shade of libertarian or anarchist. Some have what I can only term a compulsive need to slam Christianity as no more than mere superstition. Even if I believed as do they, that it is mere superstition, I cannot avoid the fact that the true founder of Christianity, that short-lived itinerant preacher who roamed a Palestine no less contentious then than now, was hardly a starry-eyed dreamer.
Even if he did speak of a super-natural existence (not a hard concept to consider if one has been alive the last 75 years or so and seen the progress of mere mortals), Jesus had one concept he expounded over and over again. True, he spoke in soteriological fashion--but even his critics, now and then, could not deny he knew human nature well.
And while theologians of all stripes have used what Christ taught to browbeat people into one sort of compliance or another with those in power, a careful reading and understanding of his words, in context, would prove Christ the one man most dedicated to individual freedom in history.
Now he does say some things about certain behaviors that are uncomfortable to the pure hedonists. Like every one of us, Jesus had an agenda. But even in his denunciations, he refused to rule out individual choice. His discussion with the rich young ruler, and his constant sparring with the grizzly fisherman named Peter give much insight, if one chooses to observe closely.
Jesus never demanded. It was all a matter of faith, or lack thereof.
Most all of those who diss Christian libertarians or anarchists for still being a superstitious lot; or those who claim God kills more folks in auto accidents than in war (anyone watching the northerners drive in Florida will tell you who is really to blame, and it ain't God!); or those who blame the Church and Christ for whatever--how should I say it? Back up, re-evaluate with as much careful study into Christ's words as you put into those of the secular philosophers. Discover that even if you disagree with Christ's major premise on a soteriological basis . . .
He would be one heck of a good neighbor anyway. He was into freedom, after all, with no apologies. | 2019-04-22T20:41:41Z | http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/baxter/baxter2.html | Porn | Reference | 0.176342 |
wordpress | Christmas / Xmas – is it really that important?
Christmas, Xmas, Happy Holidays – everyone says something different and sometimes people get so hung up over the right term to use it can get a little crazy. I learnt something interesting not so long ago It’s not earth shatteringly life changing but it does bring some clarity to the Christmas / Xmas debate that often rages around this time.
Apparently the term Xmas is not a new thing but originates from New Testament times. Patricia King (Extreme Prophetic’s leader in the USA) sent us this little article to explain it all. Interestingly it is also where our XP logo originated.
Chi is written as an “X” and Rho is written as a “P,” but they are the first two letters of the Greek word Christ “savior” that “XP” is sometimes used to stand for. Sometimes X is used alone. This is the case in the Chi (X) abbreviation for Christ in Xmas.
So Merry Christmas or Happy Xmas to you all! Take time to enjoy the true meaning of the season and don’t get hung up over a few letters, they really aren’t that important in God’s grand scheme of things. | 2019-04-22T20:12:11Z | https://xpnz.wordpress.com/tag/xmas/ | Porn | News | 0.288907 |
wordpress | On our way to the Dead Sea we drove through the Judaean Desert. It is a very barren place. The limestone mountains have eroded producing deep ravines (wadis) that make the landscape appear very rugged.
Then we drove along the coast of the Dead Sea and saw sink holes that have formed in the last 20 years because, due to global warming, the desert is drying out, the water level of the Dead Sea is decreasing, and the sandy rock has become less stable. This area used to have recreational areas along the coast. Now because of the danger of sink holes, there are fences and warning signs everywhere.
While we were driving along, we had a rain storm that came and went very quickly. We later learned that not long after we had passed by, a flash flood caused a section of the road to collapse. We also learned that when there is a storm in Jerusalem, the water runs to the Dead Sea which makes sense since the elevation is 1412 ft. below sea level – the lowest place on earth. This was the same storm that caused flash flooding in Petra.
Right next to the Dead Sea are mountains and on the top of one of them is Masada, a fort and palace built by Herod in 30 BC. He built it because he had a lot of enemies and wanted a place where he could get a way and be safe.
The top of the mountain is a plateau measuring 1,800 ft by 890 ft. Herod built a wall around the top of the mountain with many towers, and the fortress included storehouses, barracks, an armory, two palaces, and cisterns that were refilled by rainwater, as well as baths. The large palace he built for himself sits at the north end where the cliffs are very steep. The palace was built on three levels.
We got to the top by cable car. One member of our group hiked up. It took him about an hour and 15 minutes to walk a very steep path.
Left: For scale, the arrow is pointing to a group of hikers who are wearing red shirts.
Right: The arrow is pointing to a rectangle at the base of the mountain. It is what remains of a Roman military camp.
Some of the ruins of Herod’s palace.
Herod died in 4 BC. and the palace was abandoned. In 70 AD the Second Temple was destroyed by the Romans and the Jews were run out of Jerusalem. The Romans were intent on getting all Jews out of the whole area and many fled to other parts of the world. There were still some Jewish resistance, and a group of dedicated resisters settled into Masada. There they discovered food stored away in Herod’s storerooms, enough food to last for 7 years. And they had Herod’s system of trenches and cisterns for collecting water.
Herod’s fortified structure, surrounded by steep cliffs, protected the resisters and their families, numbering 960, from the 15,000 Romans who built 8 military camps at the base of the mountain. But there was one cliff that was not as high, so the Romans, used Jewish slaves who had been captured in previous battles, to construct a ramp to the top. It took 2 years to construct the ramp and tons of rock. In the meantime, the Romans could not understand why the resisters didn’t die of starvation since the could not leave the fort to obtain food or water.
Then in 73 AD, the Romans brought in a huge battering ram, dragged it up the ramp and breached the walls. Legend has it that all they found were dead bodies, except for two women and five children hiding in a cistern. The story goes that the resisters decided that they did not want to be taken captive. Since Jewish Law forbids suicide and the penalty is no afterlife, they killed each other, including their families members, and picked by lot, the person who would be the last, and he would sacrifice an afterlife and kill himself. The story goes that the women told the Romans what happened and it was recorded. Since there is no archaeological evidence to document the event, it is disputed by scholars. At any rate, Masada was the last stronghold of Jewish resisters which began the Jewish diaspora.
In the museum at Masada I saw tiny oil lamps that dated back 2000 years. I bought a reproduction of one in the market in Jerusalem as a souvenir. I was very proud of my bargaining skills when I haggled the price down from 50 shekels to 15 ($4.30) until I left the store and saw them at another shop marked 10 shekels!
At the Dead Sea we stayed at resort/spa hotel where most of the guests were Russian. Most of the staff was Russian as well. They are very serious people. Our guide, whose mother is Russian, admits that they can be very pushy. The popularity of the area for spa treatments is because there are a number of factories in the area that produce beauty and skin products with minerals form the Dead Sea.
The water of the Dead Sea is a beautiful turquoise color, not a deadly color at all! Of course we bathed in it and the buoyancy of the water made it bouncy! I felt like a coke bobbing around! Once I got the hang of it, floating was very relaxing.
It was hazy while we were there. Across the water are the mountains of Jordan.
Before we left the Dead Sea we took a Jeep Tour of the desert. 17 of us piled into 4 Jeeps. The sky was hazy which made the landscape look dreamy.
We stopped to examine the large deposits of salt in the rock. I was fascinated with the rock patterns created by erosion.
The ride through the desert was bumpy as the trail curved and had lots of ruts. Our guide discussed the current controversy of the future of the Dead Sea. On this map, the larger sea area is naturally formed. Below that is an artificially made sea where water from the Dead Sea is piped into evaporation flats where industries harvest chemicals including potash, magnesium, and bromine. The industries date back to the 1930s, before Israel was formed, and they are privately owned. A large amount of the chemicals go to Asia for fertilizer. The companies are taxed, but they still make a lot of money for the owners. They also employ a lot of workers and most of the resort/spa hotels are located along the shores. The problem is that the level of the Dead Sea is decreasing with global warming and the piping of water out of it for the industries isn’t helping. The industries also cause pollution, and the foundations of the hotels along the artificial sea are corroding, and it is extremely expensive to repair and stabilize them.
There have been talks of constructing a pipe line to bring in water either from the Mediterranean or the Red Sea, however, there might be problems with these waters chemically mixing with the Dead Sea water. Also, it would be enormously expensive to pipe in water for the industries. Not an easy solution – save the industries, hotels, and jobs for private companies at public expense or save the Dead Sea and the environment by closing them down.
Stay tuned for food and people of Jordan and Israel.
This entry was posted in Israel on November 11, 2018 by JWH.
The map shows our travels from Haifa to Jerusalem in blue.
While in Jerusalem we visited a number of Christian sites that are also important to the Muslim faith. Some of the sites have some archaeological evidence, whereas the only evidence for other churches is that they were built on the ruins of earlier churches marking a Holy Site.
First we visited the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the place where it is believed Christ was buried and resurrected. The tomb is surrounded by an enclosed chapel.
Another church we visited was the Catholic Church of Gethsemane, also called the Church of All Nations because it was built with funds from Catholic Churches from all over the world. It is the disputed site where Christ prayed and his disciples slept the night before he was crucified. It is located at the base of the Mount of Olives and is the church in the foreground.
Next to the church is a garden of very old olive trees, one of which dates back to the time of Christ.
We visited Mount Zion and the location of the Last Supper and passed several locations of the Stations of the Cross. Since it is the height of tourist season, the Old City was packed with people from all over the world as well as the local people going about their everyday business. We also saw many large groups of religious pilgrims.
We visited the archaeological site of the City of David, the oldest part of the city near the Mount of Olives which is now a Jewish cemetery. Look for the figure on the path at the bottom of the photo as well as the large tour buses to get a sense of scale.
As for museums, we visited the Historical Museum of Israel and the Holocaust Museum. I could not take pictures at the Holocaust Museum so these photos are from the internet. The museum is designed with triangles and is filled with displays of personal materials belonging to those lost as well as testimonies of survivors. I was amazed by the amount of photographs documenting events, both historical and personal, that were on display along with movie footage.
We drove by the US Embassy, now located in Jerusalem.
Betsey and I spent a day visiting some of the various quarters in the Old City: the Muslim, Jewish, Armenian, and Christian (Orthodox and Catholic) areas. The streets were narrow and a great many were markets filled with locals, tourists, and pilgrims. We strolled through very crowded market areas as well as narrow lanes with only a few people.
We noticed that some walls had dots and symbols painted on them and learned that these were the homes where Muslims who had made Hajj, a pilgrimage to Mecca, lived.
We met a shop keeper on one of the narrow streets who invited us to climb some stairs that led to roof tops with some great views of the city.
We did not visit the Dome of the Rock because to go to the top of the platform meant standing in a line for more than an hour. Also, non-Muslims cannot enter the mosque, so we viewed it from a distance.
Bethlehem was a side trip from Jerusalem. There we learned that Jesus was not born in a barn, but a cave. The stable that we picture as a wooden structure does not exist in Israel because they do not have any wood. Instead, everything is built of stone. In Bethlehem, people lived in caves, naturally formed and then expanded on by hand. Our guide explained that people back then slept in upper levels and used the ground level for cooking, eating, and housing animals. So when Joseph and Mary were told there was no room in the inn, it meant the upper level was full. They then settled for the ground level which was made up of multiple chambers. He took us to see what one of these caves looked like.
And the manger, a feeding trough for animals, was not wood, but stone as well.
We then visited the Church of the Nativity, built over the place where Jesus is believed to be have been born. This is the unimpressive facade of the church. It originally had three large doors, but the door on the left is covered with a wall buttress that was built to add support and the left door is hidden by part of a monastery that was built later. The center door was once quite large, but was made smaller to keep camels and horses out. But the arched door was still used by horses, so they made it even smaller. It is called the Door of Humility since everyone had to bow to enter.
The interior has been undergoing a lot of restoration. At one time, the floor was 2 feet lower than it is today, where 4th century Byzantine mosaics were found.
There was a section that was tented over while restoration continues. We were able to find a peephole and saw an archaeologist at work.
The church is Greek Orthodox so the altar area was quite elaborate.
There was a huge line of people waiting to go down to see the birth place, so we decided not to wait. Instead, we viewed the church and entered the church next door, only to be have our guide lead us down to the cave from another entrance. He took us to an adjoining part of the cave where the stone was still original.
From here we could look through a tiny hole in a door and see the chamber where the birth took place. It has been decorated to the hilt and does not resemble a cave at all. I took this photo off the internet.
The church next door, St, Catherine’s, is where Christmas Eve services are televised.
Before we left Jerusalem, we visited the Dead Sea Scrolls Museum. Again, photography was not permitted so here are more images from the internet. The scrolls were found in jars with covers and the roof of the museum was shaped like one of these covers.
The interior is round with display cases around the walls as well as on an elevated platform. This photo was taken when President Obama visited the museum.
Notice the dark spots in the mountains. Those are the caves where they were found in ceramic jars.
This entry was posted in Israel on November 10, 2018 by JWH.
We visited the Old City of Jerusalem where we visited a series of tunnels and cisterns under the Muslim neighborhood next to the West Wall of the Temple Mount. To understand the layers of history of the area, our guide used a model of the Mount.
This shows the Mount as it was initially. The Jews believe that civilization was created here and that God is present here.
King Solomon built the First Temple on the Mount in 957 BC. The Babylonians destroyed it.
Herod the Great, raised as a Jew, was a vassal of the Roman Empire and was granted the title of King of Judea. He built a huge platform on the Mount surrounded by walls in 20 – 18 BC.
He then built a Second Temple.
Here is another model looking at the Mount form the East.
The Roman Emperor, Titus, destroyed Herod’s temple in 70 AD, drove the Jews out, and sacked Jerusalem of its wealth. He returned to Rome and built the Colosseum with the spoils.
A Roman temple was built on the Mount, but then the Muslims invaded and built the Dome of the Rock in 691 AD on the platform that Herod had originally built.
Then the Muslims wanted a higher access to the Mount so they built a series of tunnels with arches as an elevated foundation and built their city on top. And that is the way it is today. The total height of the retaining wall was 105 feet when Herod built it but only 62 feet are exposed today.
The closest that Jews can get today to the site of the First and Second Temples is the Western Wall. Only a portion is accessible at street level (a width of 230 ft.), but 1591 more feet of the wall is accessible underneath the Muslim city by the tunnels that run along its length. Excavations began after the Six Day War (1967) and continued for 20 years.
We walked through the tunnels and were able to see lower parts of the wall that Herod built.
Some of the chambers are very large and in some areas of the tunnels there are two elevations.
This rock is 45 ft. wide, 9.8 ft. high and 11 ft. thick. It weighs 570 tons! It is the largest rock moved by humans without modern equipment!
Right: One section of the underground Western Wall is used by Jewish women to pray.
Left: Tunnels running along the Western Wall have been connected with a tunnel used for water that was constructed by the Maccabees. There were some very tight passages.
After walking through the tunnels, we visited the above-ground Western Wall.
Women and men each have their own part of the wall.
Betsey referred to me as Mother Theresa in this photo, but I doubt that MT would have worn such a colorful scarf….
The arrow points to where I inserted my tiny note. I had to work to poke it into the crack.
Jerusalem is a great place to people watch because people come here from all over the world and some religious people wear interesting outfits. Here are some Hasidic Jews.
This entry was posted in Israel on November 7, 2018 by JWH.
In Galilee we stayed at a Kibbutz. We each had cabins overlooking the Sea of Galilee.
We arrived in time to see the sunset.
The red roofs are the cabins.
We had dinner in the kibbutz dining room and because it was Friday evening, two women in our group and our tour director’s husband performed the Shabbat rituals.
The kibbutz is 50 years old, is about 3 miles by 3 miles in size, and has 412 members. It is located in Golan. Besides farming, they have other businesses including a valve company that has branches in the US, Mexico, Russia, Brazil, and China. They make water and wastewater values – like check values. The company produces the largest percentage of income for the kibbutz. They also have a dairy herd of 500 milk producing cows and a day care for pre-school children. Members of the kibbutz work, but they also hire outside of the kibbutz. They have housing, a medical clinic, children’s areas, community centers, a dining room, a pub, a fleet of cars for the members to use, and bomb shelters. The bomb shelters are required of all kibbutzes since many of them are located along disputed borders. Because of their location, the Israeli government gives them a tax break.
This is one of the bomb shelters. Some of the shelters are used for activities – like yoga and meetings.
We visited the cow barns.
Since we stayed in the kibbutz cabins, we were invited to participate in the kibbutz experience by doing some work. We peeled potatoes.
While in Galilee we visited a church built to commemorate Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. (The actual site of the sermon was not here, but was close by.) The church was built in the 1930’s and was funded in part by Benito Mussolini.
We also visited Capernaum where Jesus stayed with Peter’s mother-in-law after leaving Nazareth. A very early church was built over her house, and then another church built over that, and even more. Today a church that looks like a space ship sits over the archaeological site.
Next to the site is a Jewish temple that was built on top of an earlier one. The dark stone is the temple that dates from the time of Jesus.
While in the area, we took a short cruise on the Sea of Galilee.
We visited a museum that houses a wooden fishing boat that is 2000 years old. It was discovered in 1986 and the museum displays explain the elaborate process of removing the boat from where it was buried in wet sand and preserving it for display. The wood was so fragile that it was about to fall apart so it had to be held together with sprayed on plastic foam (like insulating material) while it was removed and then chemically treated to stabilize the wood. The process was fascinating.
This entry was posted in Israel on November 4, 2018 by JWH. | 2019-04-26T01:55:57Z | https://joanhausrath.wordpress.com/2018/11/ | Porn | Recreation | 0.91592 |
wordpress | If you type владимир (vladimir) in Google and let it guess the popular queries, then Vladimir Putin is second and Vladimir Vysotsky is first.
Where does the computing world go? I’m not talking just about Free Software, but about the whole industry. Even Microsoft is in trouble here.
What more can we do with computers? What will computers do five years from now that they can’t do today?
Business v1.0 software – databases, billing, CRM, ERP? It is a market of reliability, not innovation.
Websites, communications and social networks? True innovation in that area hit a glass wall long ago, if you ask me. Some websites make up nicer AJAX tricks, but that’s about it.
So i thought that the really innovative thing that can useful on a major scale may lie in the field of Linguistics (disclaimer: I am studying for a B.A. in Linguistics). Speech recognition, text-to-speech and automated translation – all of them are related to Linguistics; none of them can be done right without proper scientific Linguistic preparation.
Microsoft puts “improved” speech recognition into every version of MS-Office, but it is very far from doing it right. Xerox and IBM tried something in their respective (and respected) research labs, but it didn’t see the light of day (at least yet). Google are rumored to be doing something with statistics-based automated translation.
But no-one has anything finalized.
The first one who does it right will rule the whole market for years to come. Of the current players, Google seems to have the best chances to succeed, but it can also be a startup company created by an anonymous undergraduate Liberal Arts student in India, Nigeria or Ukraine. Or Israel?
Sometimes branding is funny. And sometimes people just give up on branding completely, although i thought that it happened only in Soviet Russia.
What do you know – my little campaign for free-as-in-freedom hardware bears its first fruits.
I sent a few messages similar to the one that i posted here recently to forums concerning Linux, gNewSense, Ubuntu etc. I have also posted a few comments* to the post on Mark Shuttleworth’s blog, where he announces the first developer release of Gobuntu, the “radically free” version of Ubuntu.
Surprisingly Mark himself replied to me in the comments of Bug #1. That’s nice, but not too notable on a global level.
But today something bigger happened: Mark announced that he sets up an initiative to pressure laptop manufacturers into building the perfect free-as-in-freedom GNU/Linux latpop – one that can be used with only purely Free Software drivers. He didn’t mention me by name, but i really don’t need this.
So there you go: One of the good things about Free Software projects is the openness of the development and the project management.
Most Free Software projects have open access to their mailing lists and bug tracking tools. Every user of the program can, nearly anonymously, enter a bug or a feature request into the database (Bugzilla, RT, Launchpad, SF.net etc.) and then track its investigation and fix.
It is not a requirement of any license; it just makes sense! For most users this is even more important than being able to read or modify the source code. Even a reply like “Duplicate bug” or “Works for me” is far better than nothing.
I’ve never seen anything like this in the proprietary software world.
Sure – you can send an email with a bug report to Microsoft, Oracle, CA, HP etc., but it is unlikely that you will know where did it go, unless you have a personal service agreement. It’s just “fire and forget”. And you surely won’t get a personal reply from Mr. Gates.
Yet in the Free Software community the user has the full power to influence the project planning of the core development team.
So – thank you, Mark, for this initiative.
* Some people that read them badly misundestood what i was trying to say. I have made some mistakes too; i really should have known that being sarcastic in writing is much harder and more dangerous than when speaking in person. Joshua Gay, Andrew Fenn, if you are reading this – please accept my apologies again for any misunderstandings.
WordPress has a nice feature – it is possible to see what did people look for in search engines when they find my blog.
I went to The Stooges concert on Saturday.
The show was excellent. Iggy did all his crazy antics without a shirt. Mike Watt was super-cool and had a little anchor pendant (he comes from a family of sailors).
But the sound was too loud. I didn’t feel it for the most of the time, except the end. But after the show my ears started ringing. Which is perfectly after a rock show. But they keep ringing until now – two days later. A lot of people are complaining about it – see the talkbacks on NRG and YNet.
No more rock shows without earplugs.
I always thought that only wussies put earplugs on a rock show. From now on i strongly prefer to be wussy than to have permanent damage inflicted on my ears. I really hope that this will pass.
I am shopping for a laptop computer and i would like to buy one that is truly free – one that is able to run GNU/Linux without any restricted drivers, binary blobs and proprietary firmware.
I’ve been looking for such a laptop for almost a week now, and unfortunately couldn’t find it. I’ve tried asking about it on Ubuntu and gNewSense forums and local (Israeli) forums of GNU/Linux and Free Software experts, but the best reply i could get was that finding a perfectly Free laptop is just too hard and that at this time i should just give up! That is what Mark Shuttleworth himself said, even though he claims that he is also concerned about the issue of “radical” hardware freedom (see discussion at the bottom of Bug #1).
For example: The hardware database at the FSF website has a list of network cards that support Free Software; This is informative, but in practice i couldn’t find anywhere on the Internet a way to search for laptops that have these cards. A lot of laptop vendors don’t even bother to list the manufacturer and model of the network card in the details of their laptops’ components, because in Windows they all just work and Ubuntu makes it relatively easy to install restricted drivers.
The above is also correct for video cards, DVD burners, etc.
So, apparently, most people – even Linux users! – don’t care about free firmware. I do care, and i tried my best to do something about it, but my wife urgently needs a laptop to write her thesis, so unfortunately it seems that i’ll have to buy a (partially) restricted system after all.
I thought that you would like to know that there are people that care about this issue, but find it hard to do something about it in practice.
If you do know about a laptop that is fully usable with purely free drivers, please tell me.
N.B.: I have great respect towards Mark Shuttleworth and i believe that he is doing his best to help and fix this issue. I regret using the word “claim”, but i already sent the letter to RMS and wanted to post it here without changes. | 2019-04-22T03:18:13Z | https://aharoni.wordpress.com/2007/07/ | Porn | Computers | 0.878214 |
wordpress | Following on from PART 1, This post will no go into detail about implementing and installing Lync 2013 onto your Frontend servers.
Firstly lets just confirm again that there are a few pre requisites which are required before the fronted services can be implemented. These pre reqs can be found in the part 1 of the guides.
Let move onto the installation.
If you have followed part 1 when the deployment wizard opens you should see green ticks as per image below.
On clicking next the wizard will then proceed to install the required modules to home the CMS database locally.
Ensuring the Step 2 has successfully installed its time to move onto the certificate placements.
On the below certificate dialog if you have an internal CA then leave as default, else select the bottom option to prepare the request for later.
Once you’ve requested your certificates from your CA import and enable them for Lync 2013.
Now lets start the services.
NOTE: For my lab I’ve also added a few users for testing purposes within AD. The Lab machines are using Windows 8 with win8lab1 running Lync2010 and winlab2 running Lync 2013.
If we have all our initial DNS entries correct for the front ends, which we set up for using DNS load balancing and automatic configuration using the service record we created in PART 1 of the PreReqs blog no further changes are needed to be made to the Lync 2013 client for logging in as it should be automatic.
This blog post will be made up of several parts covering all the main aspects of a greenfield Lync 2013 installation. The reason for the post is to help others who are not clear on the requirements and installation methods used within Lync 2013 plus also to raise awareness of the new features that are imbedded in the Lync 2013 build.
Within my lab DC, I’m running DNS, AD services and my certificate authority. This is a Windows 2008r2 server running 2008r2 Domain and Forest attributes.
For my installation i always use a recognisable named account to do my installations. In this lab install, i have used the following account throughout the whole process of the installation.
As with Lync 2010 there are a number of pre reqs required on the actual servers for Lync, e.g.: dotnet3.5 etc. Below is a the installation guide for adding the required roles and features needed for a successful topology publish.
****NOTE: Anyone running the installation against windows 2012 without update will encounter an issue with trying to enable .net3.5 as part of the roles and features install. (At the time of writing there is a bug which doesn’t allow the install direct from the GUI. You have to run the below cmd line to install .net3.5.
– Source D being your DVD media!
Guide to adding the roles required.
Messaging Queue and all the other features listed above.
Now all our Roles and Features are installed its time to move onto the Lync frontend installation wizard.
Its also worth noting that as part of the SQL mirroring setup you will also require .net3.5 on the SQL servers as well.
Once this install is completes, then navigate to your start menu where you will find an option called ‘Lync Server Deployment Wizard’.
Add your Lync 2013 Pool FQDN name into the dialog box.
In this guide i will be building the lab as enterprise edition setup, meaning i can add multiple frontend servers to my pool topology for resilience.
* Note – Enterprise Edition requires a separate SQL server, whereas Standard Edition runs SQL express within its only frontend server build.
** Note – Standard Edition can’t have a multiple servers in the pool BUT can be paired to another Lync 2013 pool for some resilience if required.
Please ensure you select the option which is right for your organisation.
Select the features you require. If your unsure, its better to deselect options then go back at a later date and add them as a separate exercise.
Also I’m going to Co-locate my mediation server onto the frontend for my lab as i have no requirement for voice apart from the demo purposes.
Next Dialog relates to Edge enablement. As part of our demo we are not going enable this for the time being as we will jump into edge as Part 5 of this guide.
Now before committing your SQL setup information, this is a good chance to double check your details.
Enabling your Web Access Server. If you already have a WAC server in your organisation you don’t need to have a separate one for Lync 2013, as you can utilise your existing WAC server.
For this lab demo i will add a WAC server for guide purposes.
Ok at the next dialog click Finish.
So before we can publish our now defined topology, we need to update the AD Schema, Domain and Forest.
At this point select local domain.
Ensure your Topology publishes without Errors. If you do have errors ensure that you resolve all errors and warnings before continuing on.
You’ve completed your PreReq’s and also added information about your Lync environment plus published your topology. | 2019-04-22T03:12:17Z | https://northernlync.wordpress.com/category/sql-mirroring/ | Porn | Reference | 0.185715 |
wikipedia | This category has articles on people who died in the year 1833.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1833 deaths.
Pages in category "1833 deaths"
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livejournal | Let me step ever-so-briefly out of the running narrative of daily life for a pop culture type essay. It's inspired by the climax to Monsters University, but touches also on Monsters Inc, so, there's some spoilers involved and please don't read it if you don't wish to be spoiled.
My question, though, is: does the Monster world actually understand human psychology? Because they don't seem to do very well at getting the emotion-generated energy that they want, considering.
In Monsters University we get a couple scenes of people being trained into doing the scare work, including a competition in which simulated scaring is done. This is all set up by the Monster sneaking into a child's bedroom, setting a little atmosphere, and then yelling ``Boo!'' or getting in someone's face and making them holler in panic. That's fine enough, but ... well, one of the supporting cast in the film is a monster who isn't terribly scary offhand, but has an unsettling ability to be underfoot. It's a bit creepy. More creepy the more he does it. You might not scream at his catching the corner of your eye, over and over, but it'd certainly set the mood for greater fears.
All right, perhaps the contest is meant to be a string of solo performances. But why wouldn't there be team scarers out in the real world of industrialized screaming? If there's any hint that the professional scaring is done by more than one Scarer and one Support guy who stays in the Monster world, I missed it.
Are they looking to minimize the risk of human-contamination by sending the smallest possible parties in? Perhaps, but they are sending, implicitly, millions of Monsters into the human world for little sorties; would it be that much more risk to send about the same number of Monsters in for medium sorties, if those medium sorties are more effective?
And they can be more effective: the climax of Monsters University requires Mike and Sully to team up and get a lot of terror out of a bunch of human adults. This is done not by sneaking up and going ``boo!'' or growling at them, but by a multi-level strategy of instilling and growing the terror aimed at people. This requires more time than the in-and-out attacks seen elsewhere, but the yield is enormously greater, so great as to produce jaw-dropping results from tenured faculty, including people with decades of experience in the Scaring business. Why is this not followed up on?
Particularly, why wasn't that seen in Monsters Inc, where it's explicitly stated that the increasing desensitization of human children means there are sparser and weaker Scares to be had? If adults can be terrified so very well, using not really that much preparation --- Mike and Sully have to put together a campaign without any particular knowledge of what the humans involved are scared by, and without using anything but what they find in the human world --- then why aren't they being harvested?
In short, it seems like the Monsters could be doing a much better job if they didn't worry about in-and-out ``boo!'' frights, and instead focused on groups of humans, with more elaborate strategies, and let fears grow and simmer.
Perhaps they are just letting their own fears overwhelm them: they're terrified of contamination from the human world, but there's no obvious signs that it does any actual harm. But that seems to mean they've built this vast industrial apparatus to extract emotional energy without evaluating some critical points about what they're actually doing, such as, whether contamination is actually a problem, whether they're getting terror-induced Screams as efficiently as possible, or whether they really want screams at all. Why hasn't anyone in the Monster world noticed this, and tried to research these obvious defects?
Possibly they have and the powerful Monsters Inc corporation is plunging ahead with what it already knows regardless of new research. Monsters University seems to have disturbingly tight links with the corporation, down to sharing logos. Is it possible the school is just a diploma mill meant to funnel talent into the corporation without the students quite realizing it? Is that why the academic hierarchy seems dreadfully screwed-up, and why there seems to be nothing but a Scaring program that twists all a university's priorities so? I don't want to automatically assume big businesses to be bullheaded and obstinate, but, Monsters Inc does appear to be a big and powerful corporation at the center of a vitally needed resource: this is where corporate bullheadedness can really thrive and distort priorities all out of whack.
But granting that Monsters Inc/University hasn't got any particular interest in doing things better (because it would invalidate a lot of sunken costs in equipment and training? I don't know --- but note that the Scaring Floor in Monsters University looks not appreciably different in Monsters Inc, a film set decades later), doesn't anyone in the Monster World have such? Or are questions of ``how to best harvest energy'' left in the hands of people who've already concluded They Know Best, and keep research into this sort of thing from being supported?
In short, why aren't the Monsters better at all this?
Trivia: Samuel Langley's experimental aircraft of 1903, the Great Aerodrome, was rated as having a 52 horsepower engine, although in practice only 40 horsepower was available in 1914 when Glenn Curtiss was refitting it for the Wright patent trial. Source: First Flight: The Wright Brothers And The Invention Of The Airplane, T A Heppenheimer. | 2019-04-24T10:39:29Z | https://austin-dern.livejournal.com/896947.html | Porn | Reference | 0.389789 |
cnn | Keli Goff, Will Cain and Howard Kurtz on the coverage of the 2013 State of the Union address.
blaming other people for his mishaps.
I think this was the same speech and promises that President Obama gave some 4 or so years ago. This is getting stale while the News folks are telling us this is new exciting material. No it's not and dont tell me it is. We're in worse shape now that we ever were in the 2000's. Even though I didnt vote for him our business grew fast during the Bush admonistration and that's really the only facts I can go on. | 2019-04-23T02:18:13Z | http://reliablesources.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/17/pundits-praise-obama-speech/ | Porn | News | 0.729966 |
wordpress | More young students critically injured by another ZR maniac driver.
14 year old student Zakiyah DeFreitas lost her left hand and 21 others received lesser injuries when a ZR van overturned in The City yesterday. The van flipped near the entrance to the nursery Drive Terminal.
Twenty-two students in a ZR van? Of course it overturned at the slightest provocation. Top heavy, overloaded, too fast. Half the time driven by maniacs with dozens of convictions – or in the case of ZR driver Cyril O’Bryan Archer one hundred and ninety-eight driving convictions prior to being found guilty of dangerous driving in the death of bicyclist Errol Thornhill on route taxi AR42 in 2010.
Insurance? What’s that? Half the ZR vans don’t have insurance and the police don’t seem to care.
Yesterday’s incident is only the latest. More will follow next month. It’s been this way for a decade or more. TripAdvisor calls ZR Drivers “Hustling Pimps“.
Our leaders don’t care, and don’t do anything to stop the slaughter.
Irony: Shot tourists return as guests of Barbados – as another tourist is shot.
“I would not mind getting shot again to go through that! It really was a fantastic holiday and they did us so proud. It was quite overwhelming.
Is it the government’s policy that tourists get a two week all-expenses-paid free vacation if they are shot during a visit? Does this offer apply to the most recent victims, or just Mr. and Mrs Prior?
Many will say that I am being unreasonable by bringing this up, but my point is not that we shouldn’t have looked after these good people (or any visitors having some trouble to any degree). My point is that something is going terribly wrong on this island and has been going terribly wrong for a number of years. And it is getting worse.
And there have been many other incidents in the last year. Is it just me, or is it all going to hell?
I found this ‘Stolen in Barbados’ Facebook page with over 700 ‘likes’. It’s a place to discuss crime in Barbados and to put your stolen stuff on the internet so people will know its yours if they find it or someone tries to sell it.
It could develop into something. | 2019-04-25T01:00:19Z | https://barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/tag/tourist-safety/ | Porn | Business | 0.494916 |
typepad | Hootsuite and Tweetdeck just don't cut it.
This is massively overdue post but with the assistance of screen clipping tool Skitch I think I'm ready.
I have been live tweeting at events since 2008 and its always been a conversation and connecting tool. Who is in the room and who is not, is important. If you are not its quite nice to see photos of the speakers but all the 'hey look at me, don't you wish you were here too' photos and who's up next tweets... STOP!
Thats a bit hash... what I mean is they are great for 'your' networked audience but the audience following the hashtag IMHO want what all the 'on the ground' audience want, to learn from the wisdom of the programmed speakers, draw insights from discussions and panel plenaries. Oh and network.
OK So photos are welcomed to put the 'in the cloud' audience in the picture. For us in the digital audience its a common frame of reference to be able to empathise with the activities you are participating in at a distance online. If I'm commissioned to tweet my objective is to visualise the audience as a whole within the twittersphere and communicate with them. Present or remote isn't important. My challenge is always to generate a coherent stream of activity, a stand alone stream containing all reverent content, chatter, user generated media and the official event voice. I am not necessarily the 'official voice' but the conversation laser's focus operator!
Now... I'm getting to the point I promise! Networking conversations 1-2-1 are part of the experience at any conference but most of the time it's dialogue between groups or one person introducing two people to one another and is rarely binary back and forth ie @name to @name.
There is a dialoging feature which was present in the pre twitter ownership days of Tweetdeck that made my role as connector and stream curator easier. It disappeared and never came back.
Here's how it works - I have found a little known Tweetdeck alternative, Janetter that has the feature.
Its about responding to multiple people in one tweet in the click of a mouse, logically compiled as I, the curator reads the activity in real-time. I hope these screen shots illustrate my point.
First the tweets and colleagues I wanted to engage.
It was responding to them that helped me break down the long felt frustration of the missing feature in to a blog. So thanks Kate and Jen if you read this. Do let me know how your trips to Edinburgh turned out.
Kate @BustingFree and Jen @jennifermjones are not in the same networks as far as I know. I met Jen several times after she attended MediaCampNottingham and, forgive me if I'm wrong Jen also as part of the Amb:IT:ion program roadshows. Kate on the other hand sat on Equity's Independent Theatre Arts Committee with me for several years and I follow because she had the awesome idea of building a theatre in a bus. Both are always interesting reads and following their activities on twitter over the years gives me a sense of where they are at professionally always wanting to find time in my calendar to coincide locations to meet up. I remember a time when everyone I knew were numbers in my mobile phone now in the social media age they are status updates in a constantly moving stream of activity, my home twitter feed. Better but thats another post. I digress! This is about illustrating this lost feature.
Bare with me! It is a long lost feature and you are probably nonplussed by my indignation. I want to communicate when d0ing this dynamic dialoging at events and not have to faff with the interface.
Best way I could think to illustrate my point was with screenshots.
It never used to be this way you could build replies.
Just as before with Tweetdeck I'm forced to reply to one person at a time. As I'm writing this it seems so minor but it fundamentally changed the way I interact with Twitter. I like Twitter less since the change happened and I have bemoaned its loss ever since. I kept an old install of Tweekdeck to keep this feature but finally it was closed down and the browser based version we have today superseded it.
I discovered a little know, or so it seems twitter client called Janetter.
With Janetter clicking a reply icon builds on the tweet being composed, it included all the other @names in the tweets and the hashtags. These replies can be from different columns or accessed by scrolling further down the stream. Once all the @named people are included you can tidy up the hashtags, remove any @names you don't need in this tweet and write the tweet... of course then SEND.
And thats it the missing feature.
Another unique (a word to use with caution but I haven't seen else where) is the ability to change the font used in the app. This means the OpenDyslexia font can be used making it super stable visually for me to read.
Do you use Janetter too?
Have I missed another platform, tool or service you think I should look at?
Once upon a time Twitter was a stream trickling through the cracks of cyberspace. Its now a tidal river opening out into a vast ocean of commonly refered to as The Twittersphere.
Time was, when who ever you followed on Twitter pulled in all the activity of that tweeter this included all @ messages from those they followed. This full circle conversation visibility make joining conversations very easy with context of who was talking to who. It also helped building your follow list. Which in turn would broaden and enrich your twitter stream. That early day's dialogue has long since gone. It feels much more window-like than door-like these days. But that's the pitfall of successful growth it seems.
Then a day came when the buzz was too much and tweets with an @ name became only visible to the person the message was intended for. To continue public dialogue the full stop was inserted as a fudge to prevent the exchange being exchanged only between the intended recipient and other @ names in the tweet.
So it has a purpose but why am I wanting it to stop?
Used as it was intended it announces to the twittersphere a comment you want everyone to see but it is a mechanism for the lazy construction of a well crafted intentional tweet.
So full stop, How to combat it prevalence and pointlessness.
I'm using her examples to illustrate the alternative ethos (ie, using the dot) for audience dialogue and adding it for your message recipients... but is it necessary?
This message is thanking Stephanie for her great tips.
Great #SocialMedia tips from @DotSocialise.
This message is being addressed directly to your followers, your audiences yet still credits the source of the 'greatness'.
So when could you use the dot?
A superb example of the rhetoric dot - this is most certainly an about someone, not to them tweet!
I saw this tweet from Owen Jones as I was writing this post and it's only quoting for context, a tweet from Owen that I would EVER configure letters to convey 'that man' in any writing I do. Why does Owen get this license? Check out his Politics of Hope talk (audio) from this years FutureFest.
This setting is ticked by default, at least I have never knowingly activated it. Very useful for my Audience Europe Network account as the EU partners often tweet in their native languages day to day.
When new to twitter or any social networking platform it’s useful to start your audience with people you already know, especially if they are already established in your new network. Twitter enables you to search your email contacts for email addresses that match ones submitted by existing Twitter users.
REMEMBER: Not ever one uses the same email in social media networks.
Some people are prolific tweeters and you might find they drown out your new infant twitter stream.
Or you might be an established tweeter who sees one account dominate your stream on occasions.
Well you can turn them off if you don’t want to unfollow them. But if you want to hear from them again don’t forget to turn them back on! #WeAllKnowOne!
The screenshot below shows the application I has granted access to elements of my twitter account, yours will display the applications you have authorised over the lifetime of your twitter account.
It is also a good way to reflect on the platforms, tools and services you have signed in with Twitter that you have forgotten about. It’s probably advisable to revoke access to long since used platforms as you can’t know if the access is still possible. Thats just my thoughts. If you revoke access to a platform you use you will simply be asked to log in next time you visit the site.
For a long time Twitter had no internal analytics so twitter stat sites were very popular and still are today providing a bewildering breakdown on your twitter and other social media platform audiences, personal usage and reach.
Twitter now has stats now too. Once you find it have a browse around its quite an extensive area. You’ll have a whole new top navigation bar to explore.
I hope there’s something new there for you.
Tags: Some people are prolific tweeters and you might find they drown out your new infant twitter stream. Or you might be an established tweeter who sees one account dominate your stream on occasions. Well you can turn them off if you don’t want to unfollow them. But if you want to hear from them again don’t forget to turn them back on! #WeAllKnowOne!
Audiences Europe have recently taken me on team to provide social media and associated technologies support and advise. I always like to start by helping network members connect up existing tools and services with Twitter being one of the most accessible in terms of kicking of conversation and 'making new friends in the playground'. Audiences Europe have a Ning network where I have focused much of my time to date helping tweak and shape it in to platform project administrator Rich Hadley can be proud of, and in turn create content for. It's hugely important to feel proud of the network environment, blog look or website layout. Its a great motivator for creating content.
In the AEN discussion forum we exclaimed...Let's Get Following, inviting exisiting network members to post a little intro or just their Twitter name so others could follow them. This was my offering and a bit about my Twitter journey. As folk often ask me what I do this is alittle about who I am, which I think is what matters.
I have been a tweeter since late 2007 when I discovered I could maintain and develop connections beyond an event and project. The notion of a continued conversation day to day with like-minded people appealed to me. As a source of information it took a further 18 months before I thought to ask my Twitter network to answer a question I would normaly have 'googled' "What is the traditional gift for a 10th aniversary?" ie Cotton, Lace, Ruby etc. I got several responses infoming me it was aluminium. one suggesting a macbook coz its shell is milled aluminium and one declaring with a emoticon wink "Decree Nisi ;)" From here I knew Twitter was only going to get better.
I have been referred for work thought this 140 character mass messaging platform. Built audiences for online live theatre streams then spent the evening chatting though massaging to complete strangers who then become digital friends as they follow me on Twitter and begin to read my blog. I love it when months and in some cases now, years later I bump in to folk like seeing old friends yet quickly realising we have never met in the flesh before today.
This is my Twitter biog.
Social Media starlet, practitioner & consultant. @EquityUK campaigner for independent theatre artists. Slight nut. I love a good cuppa. @PCMprojects coordinator.
Sums me up professionally I guess as much as you can in 160 characters! As I recently discovered writing the Twitter biog for @audienceseurope it is quite an art, one I quite enjoy. Distilling the essence of an identity to create an impression in a single phrase. It's a great exercise.
What are your 160 characters?
The presenatation from Oliver Emberton was live streamed to bambuser. Thank you to those who watched live, there were 25 of you and engaged in chat room banter. Thanks also to @PhilCampbell for curating and responding to chatter. Not bad for an iPhone4 with no external mic.
I've initiated numerous hashtags in Twitter for events. They work very well for streamlining conversation and filtering participating twitter peeps. It is possible to track the reach of a hashtag using services like TweetReach but it is near impossible to determine how the twitter stream from an event is being engaged with by the active participants.
There are so many application to access twitter with a mind bending array of different features how can I possible know if a stream is being watch in the way I am in good faith curating it?
I am heading off to a networking/meet up event tonight called NottTuesday and it has a tag which I check in to as the event approaches to get a feel for who is going to be attending. Are they also watching the tag or are they simply using it.
I created this poll to try and find out.
Are you watching the notttuesday hashtag?
Posted this on Twitter and with the PollDaddy app on the ipad I'll poll the peeps tonight at the event. I'm leaving the poll open. As of the 15 Septmber only 4 had voted; a No, 2 Yes other and 1 Yes Tweetdeck collumn. I also created a saved search on Twitter for Notttuesday.
TwitBlock is a junk filter and bulk blocking tool for Twitter. It scans your followers for nuisance accounts and makes it easy to block them all in one place. You can also see who you're already blocking; something you can't do on twitter.com.
How many people follow you on Twitter? How many do you listen to? Friends and Followers, mutual friends, for so many it seems to be a numbers game. I have far more Twitter accounts than is healthy! Admittedly these are for business, clients or pet projects but yesterday I received a lot of what looked to be spam followers. Now my thinking in the past has been, well they won't be listening to anything I say but it's a follower. I had no intention of following these back but then I realised it dilutes the quality of my following. I have always been very proud that I can flick through my followers with a pretty good idea why I picked most of them up. Some I know, some I admire, some I want to meet, some I want to work with, many have attended events I have twitter curated and followed me from there and there are many good friends who I don't see half as much as I would like.
So... after manually reporting spammers last night I asked Google "who is a bot in my followers" and @timwhitlock's TwitBlock came top.
It found 35 bots in 850+ followers and to my delight only 1 in my friends and that was one of my own pet project which was dormant! So... How about you?
Where do you start? This sums it up. We all need a little assistance when it comes to making sense of the social media landscape. This (see above with awe!) is just tools, services and platforms for Twitter! I have a set of twitter tools I use all the time. I'm constantly exploring new ones. Only a few make it in to my day to day working practice. This week will put them to the test as I monitor and engage with the imwithphil media stream across social networks.
The www.imwithphil.com project bringing Phil and Phylis Campbells from across the world for a party was going to be a media making opportunity but since it has become a relief effort it's going to push social media and it's capability to reach the masses with out a traditional intermediary which is IMHO our generations legacy. Reinforcement from traditional sources is vital but anyone can have a voice.
I'm looking forward to all the Phil Campbell action who every the Phil Campbell, who ever the story teller, what ever the media might be.
Share with me if you are following. | 2019-04-24T06:17:19Z | https://pcmcreative.typepad.com/my_weblog/twitter/ | Porn | Reference | 0.21929 |
wordpress | At it again, using photographs as the basis for getting dusty. I went a bit further today, deciding to add a touch of pastel colour, just to see what happened.
I’ve been wanting to get back to some drawing play and the kindest medium I know is willow charcoal. Why? Because it’s easily erased, is good for finger play and enables you to use an eraser for contrast.
Today’s attempt does bear some resemblance to the photograph. But in a sense, that doesn’t matter. What happens when you’re working with something like this is your brain gets to open up to other possibilities. It’s relaxing. And it’s also fun to get a bit messy.
It may be a messy medium, but charcoal is wonderful to work with when you’re learning. I love something that encourages you to make mistakes over and over again.
Hot off yesterday’s workshop and the invitation to experiment, I grabbed what was to hand this morning – mere butchers paper – and had a play. First, the big agave in the garden, then revisiting one of the Sydney life drawing pieces. | 2019-04-20T06:37:05Z | https://sentiodotme.wordpress.com/tag/drawing/ | Porn | Arts | 0.306218 |
livejournal | One Must Act, or Wither on the Vine!
It occurred to me last May sometime that my writing purpose had become muddled again. I was finding my way out of personal blogging and into more productive fiction writing, but by doing that, I realized that what I wanted more than being published was just a short list of friends to trade bon mots with in a quasi-scholarly sort of way. Moreover, to do this, I had to short circuit the whole "thinking deeply" apparatus and instead think more dramatically in terms of quips, quotes, and repartees. In short, writing in seclusion was suddenly unbearably lonely. Too much blogging can make you a crack addict.
That being said, I also realized that I was not writing for posterity, or for truth, or even deeply for myself. What I was writing tended to be some (to me) interesting thought often said more for effect than for truth. Almost like: I wonder how this wild thing will look on the wall of my living room-- and will my friends just love it or puke on sight of it? You get some raves, and you get some pukes that way.
But this surprising need for attention caused me to realize that I was essentially a dramatist, and not an advocate of a particular realm of knowledge. I enjoyed evoking an emotion, even a mood, and I was very agnostic about what sort of material was used in the process. I had called this my need for expression. And expression here functions as a physical need as much as an intellectual one. Lying right behind this need is the hypothesis that, if one must express oneself, then one should strive to do it in a manner that might be called art.
So, in addition to my non-blog writing I began an actor's improv workshop. There I could do many things that I could not figure out how to do with just words. I got nearly instant feedback. I began tuning into what drives dialog, and some ideas of how to fit it back into fiction writing. The unsatisfied need for expression suddenly went away.
I wrote a short screenplay (SIXTY TIMES SIXTY) in a film workshop, and then played the principle role for filming. This seemed to cure me of all toxins unreleased through my previous writings. I will continue to seek theater and film parts as this seems to clear my head of excessively dramatic urges.
Working in three dimensions is very liberating and brings some freshness back to the two-dimensional page! At least on this side of the ink.
Bravo! I have just been a Magus for the sake of performance art, and had forgotten until Friday night that he who can barely carry on a casual conversation with strangers can play the improvisational comedian for a whole audience of them.
I have had that same experience, believe me! In fact, during my recent two weeks in Greece I seem to have gone solely for the purpose of entertaining the inhabitants in my role as "unwitting American." Although in that case most of the humor was unintentional... I will be posting several at-length entries here on my Greek trip so that friends can share in the fun.
Any chance of the movie getting published online?
Yes, I suppose so, if it is not too self-damning-- as soon as it is available some time in January.
So, what's so bad about needing attention? Sharing words may have its own reward although working on scripts, or dialogues, or performances, or blogs all seem different forms of self-help. Tom Z.
No, true, it's all good! Just remarks in way of explaining the unusually sparse activity on these pages the second half of the year. | 2019-04-26T11:38:19Z | https://dyvyd.livejournal.com/36647.html | Porn | Arts | 0.871689 |
wordpress | Been missing you at WW. Yes, I’m still going…lol.Thanks for sharing your blog on Sleepless in SC. I can honestly say sleepless is Not me! I can sleep 8-10hrs a night. I watch a little tv with my husband, then go to bed (in a very dark room….no night light either). I usually go to bed around 11:00 or 11:30. I can’t function on less that 8 hours. If I don’t get my rest, I get run-down and sick. I like a very quiet room and no noise. Usually I will eat something lite at bedtime….small bowl of oatmeal, a scrambled egg, or cookie and 1/2 glass of milk (just a little something to hold me through the night. You know, like feeding a baby at bedtime to hold them). Anyway, Ro….You will work out a solution for what’s good for you, I’m sure. Can’t get my oldest daughter(36yrs.) to go to bed and get her rest. I tell her she’s not going to miss anything by sleeping a good 8 hrs. Everything will be exactly where she left it, but she will be more rested the next day to catch up.
For every young mother……SLEEP WHEN YOUR CHILDREN SLEEP!!! God gave us mothers a family to care for and if we don’t take care of ourselves who will take care of our families? Rest and God Bless You!!!!
You are so sweet. Thank you for the kind words. I miss you ladies at WW. Had a tough summer and still trying to get back on course. Getting better at going to bed. Thanks for the tips. have a blessed thanksgiving.
Yes, it was great. Looking forward to Christmas! Merry Christmas to you and blessed New Year! | 2019-04-25T14:03:33Z | https://supermomdel.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/1063/ | Porn | Health | 0.606904 |
fc2 | 水曜日のヘタクソ：Stormy Weather performed by The Zircons on this Wed. at FFR.
今日のおくちなおし：Wonderful World performed by The Zircons on this Wed. at FFR.
The Zircons Live at 池袋Free Flow Ranch: Wed. 20 June, 2011. | 2019-04-24T16:55:11Z | http://reviken.blog6.fc2.com/blog-date-201107.html | Porn | Arts | 0.960077 |
wordpress | John Sidney McCain Will Attend Clinton Global Initiative Meeting BEFORE Going Back To Washington To Address Economic Mess!
Please see a liberal criticize Obama for, you know, wanting to be president and campaigning, instead of joining McCain in declaring that globalism is our biggest priority.
Second Coming Ecology: We care for the environment precisely because God will create a new earth.
Please note where it says that Harry Potter opened the door to this. Also, note their attempts to claim that these books have Christian messages … the “Christianity” that these people are talking about resembles New Age or even spiritism: “ascending to a higher plane of reality to escape the problems of everyday life.” People, the ministry of the Holy Spirit, which gives believers the strength to cope with the pains, griefs, struggles, and turmoils of life, is not mind altering escapist delusions but precisely the opposite.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Saudi Arabia this weekend will convene a special summit on oil prices that could lead to cheaper crude on the world market. But a Saudi decision to produce more crude likely won’t come without a demand: The Kingdom is expected to press the U.S. government to impose greater controls on oil trading and take steps to strengthen the dollar.
The world’s largest oil producer, stepping out of its usual role as de facto leader of OPEC, will host representatives of big oil producing nations, consumer countries and companies. The Saudis are widely believed to be concerned that escalating oil prices – crude hovered around $134 a barrel Thursday, nearly double what it cost a year ago – will cause a permanent drop in demand as consumers get more efficient or, worse, the global economy slows.
One sign of the Saudi anxiety: The country’s oil production decisions, usually left to its oil minister, appear to have been put back in the hands the Royal Family, according to Antoine Halff, deputy head of research at brokerage firm Newedge.
As a group, OPEC has been reluctant to raise production. Several states, enjoying the record prices, maintain there is no shortage of crude. It’s a line the Saudis also touted – until recently. Saudi Arabia now says it will pump more. The Kingdom, during a recent visit by President Bush, pledged to increase production by 300,000. Last week, they said they would boost it by another 200,000 barrels. Those numbers are not set in stone, and Sunday’s meeting may produce more details on the planned increases.
The Saudis will also seek to convince refineries and others to keep buying. Recently, refiners worldwide have cut back in light of record prices. But that has only led to a drop in crude inventories – further pushing up the price of oil. (Almost as if it was PLANNED.) To inject more oil into the market, Halff said the Saudis may use the meeting to arrange for special deals with refiners and others that could bring crude to market at below-market prices. The exact nature of the deals, he noted, will probably never be disclosed. At the very least, traders will be watching the Sunday meeting to see if those announced production increases fall closer to the 500,000 or 800,000 barrel a day mark.
The Cost To Global Warming: $45 Trillion! And That Is Just The Down Payment!
We should ask evangelical Christians that have decided that climate change is more important than spreading the gospel if this is how much they are willing to help spend, and if they are willing to contribute their own tithes and offerings to it. I honestly wonder if a lot of the evangelical leaders who rushed out to take positions on this issue in order to gain a good reputation with the world – as opposed to the bad, negative, hateful fundamentalists that give Christians a bad name by talking about backwards things like sin, final judgment, the lake of fire, and salvation through Jesus Christ – took the time to actually study and analyze this issue and realize what they were advocating: global political, economic, and military controls that will regulate the way of life for every citizen on the planet. I say the same thing with these global warming schemes as I say with, say, the presidential race between McCain and Obama. Either McCain or Obama is going to win, and whichever one will be an evil person that will allow himself to be used by people that are even more evil in exchange for a few years of personal power and a little bit of money and fame. So evangelical Christians, if global warming is already going to be used as an excuse to implement the one world government, if it is going to happen anyway and there is nothing that we can do about it, fine. There was nothing that Christians in the time that the Bible was written could do to stop the apostles from being killed either. Read Matthew 24 and the book of Revelation people, as well as Daniel and Ezekiel. This world is ruled by sin, and as a result wickedness is going to happen. What evangelical Christians have to learn is stop being manipulated by conservatives (in the case of white ones) or liberals (in the case of black and increasingly Hispanic ones) to try to pick and choose which wickedness to pledge ourselves to and get behind … trying to determine A) which wickedness is “lesser” or B) which wickedness will give us greater short term personal benefit. How many black Christians could have cared less no matter what Bill Clinton did? How many conservative white evangelicals actually care about the dead Iraqi civilians, or the people who were kept FOR YEARS at Guantanamo Bay without a trial before the government WAS FORCED to admit that they had no evidence on them and let them go?
Again, wickedness is going to happen Christians. That should not be a fact that surprises, frightens, or fascinates anyone. The point is that we should renew our minds and be transformed from the ways of this wicked world so that when its evil does happen, it happens without our participation, aid, or consent. So yes, you will almost certainly contribute to the $45 trillion plan to implement one world government with your taxes. But that doesn’t mean that you have to rush to the ballot box and elect the leaders who will put it into place, and it especially doesn’t mean that you have to go attend these “evangelical environmental creation care” conferences. Being a follower of Jesus Christ is supposed to mean that there is a difference between you and the unsaved. You are supposed to have wisdom and discernment that gives you better judgment. A lot of people out there who are calling themselves by – and calling upon – the Name of Jesus Christ certainly aren’t acting like it.
Has The Third Seal In Revelation Already Been Opened?
Obtained from the good folks at Abrahamic-Faith.com.
Can Global Oneness Save The Earth?
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typepad | Vermont’s single party payer healthcare plan was doomed to fail from the onset for several reasons.
Vermont had a Republican governor for eight years. He decided to retire. Peter Shumlin (D.) won the Democratic nomination for governor after progressive activists demanded that each candidate for the Democratic Party nomination promise to enact single-payer health care if nominated.
Shumlin’s got the nod, won the election. He was anxious to pass the single party payer system.
Vermont’s consultants were Harvard’s William Hsiao and MIT’s Jonathan Gruber.
William Hsiao has spent most of his academic career helping governments install single-payer healthcare systems.
There is little evidence that the systems by developed in Taiwan and other countries by William Hsiao have been successful. They have not been cost effective or sustainable. They have not preserved freedom of choice.
Gruber and Hsiao made the same mistakes for Vermont that they made for America with Obamacare.
Hsiao and Gruber promised that single-payer health care in Vermont could save $1.6 billion over ten years. With that endorsement in hand, Shumlin and the legislature passed Act 48, a law instructing the state to figure out how to finance a single-payer system. They dubbed it Green Mountain Care.
Unfortunately, Americans have a short memory, the short memory promoted by the conformational bias of the traditional mass media toward a progressive agenda.
Progressive Americans and their progressive politicians had better wake up fast. “Medicare for All” does not work.
Medicare does not work in a financially sustainable way for the government or seniors. It was not sustainable in the Bernie Sanders small state of Vermont. It is nice to believe you can provide healthcare benefits for nothing to all. However, nothing is free especially when it is run by central bureaucrats. It has been proven over and over again.
First, bureaucrats and healthcare policy consultants do not understand the medical care system. The history of Vermont’s single- payor story is interesting.
In December 2014 Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin (D.) announced that he was pulling the plug after four years on Vermont’s single-payer, government-run health care system.
Rather than saving $1.6 billion the Green Mountain Care would cost an additional 2.6 billion dollars in tax revenue for 2017 alone. The law would require a 151 percent increase in state taxes.
The result should explain why the dream of single-payer health care in the U.S. should be dead for the foreseeable future.
Daily, we read articles calling for “Medicare for All” from progressive politicians running for office.
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wordpress | Not sure why thats the title. Okay I know why. So lately I’ve been thinking about love, singing about love, praying about love.
It takes a while to be ready to be “in love” to “show love” to “give love”. When I say I LOVE my babies…I mean I love them. Can’t wait to see them, hug them, kiss them, teach them…be whatever they need me to be in the moment to show them that they are loved.
And then there’s Houston. I love Houston. Thats my affirmation. I love the city, the people, the opportunities, the culture. I love my apartment my friends….(where dey at doe? LOL). I love that I’m growing in a new place and being challenged in a new way.
I love my purpose. I love my calling. I love my drive and my ambition. I love my circle. I love my love. I love God. God is love. I love love. Love loves me. Now that is an incredible feeling- to know love and to be IN love.
I don’t really think love is work. Its all the things that things that are anti-love that make love seem like a struggle. Stress, pressure, fear, shame, past, guilt. May I stay in love. And continue to love love and feel love and love.
I forgave him and then loved him deeper. Is that possible?
Hurt, angry, not desperate but desolate. I forgave him and then I loved him deeper.
Its like I’m stuck in love and its okay because I forgave him. I mean he asked me to…so I did. And now, I’m more in love than I thought I was before.
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typepad | Now in recent times 3D printing has been given a very bad press – mainly because someone went and printed a fully working gun and then published the plans on the Internet. The plans were downloaded over 100, 000 times before they were removed (but of course most people know it is almost impossible to delete anything from the Internet). Despite this reckless, un-thought through and immoral act - 3D Printing is actually a very, very cool thing. Particularly when you use it as an output for creativity and for making purposeful objects rather than weapons.
I first started talking about the potential of 3D printing back in 2009 / 2010 and we even stuck a few 3D printers in schools on trial projects when I was back working for Learning and Teaching Scotland.
Over the last five years 3D printers have grown in popularity aided by their use in popular culture – for example James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5 that reappeared in the recent Skyfall Movie. As a result the cost of a good 3D Printer is now affordable to most schools and you can get a good one for under £1000. We have one in the Science Department at Grantown Grammar School that was funded by STEM Scotland and they were introduced to most Aberdeenshire Secondary Schools a few years ago.
Of course, the actual application of 3D printing is far more disruptive than the tasks and activities suggested above.
3D printing is already revolutionising the confectionary and cake industry because of 3D Printing with chocolate.
Edinburgh scientists have also used 3D printing to produce stem cells in a technology that could completely revolutionise the medical industry over time.
Then of course there is Markus Kayser’s Solar Sinter Project that uses 3D printing technology that runs completely of solar power and prints glass models (and other things) using sand as its only material.
In short, we are only just starting to see how 3D Printing Technology is going to have a significant impact on how we live, work and play. They have even opened a large MakerBot 3D printing factory opens in New York and it will only be a matter of time before you can get anything printed from your local 3D printer store (and eventually from your home). With this in mind it is also worth considering that intellectual property will indeed become the ‘oil’ of the 21st Century.
So, isn’t it about time we started to use this technology or at least teach some of the ethical issues surrounding 3D Printing in schools?
Yesterday I talked a little bit about some of the many opportunities that Lego offers to education particularly in the field of robotics. So today let stake a look at a different type of modular Robot that also offers great potential in the classroom – Cubelets.
Cubelets are quite similar to Lego in that they link together to make shapes and structures. The big difference is that there are not as many parts and that each ‘block’ has a different function that when combined can do a sequence of activities / tasks.
This video explains Cubelets in a lot better way than I ever could.
Any UK schools using them yet? Or what experience do other parts of the world have of using these in the classroom?
Last week I was speaking at the UK Internet Safety Centre eSafety Live Events in London and in Edinburgh. You can find the slides from my presentations on Games in Schools and Using Social Media in the classroom here.
As part of the Edinburgh Event I was also interviewed along with representatives from Xbox, Beatbullying, Facebook and Russell Prue by a group of children from St Paul's Primary School in Edinburgh. This was part of their ongoing work with Radio Waves.
The young people were incredibly professional with the filming, sound recording and interviewing. You can see the final interview below where they ask us about Top Tips for Internet Safety and also how safe we think we are on-line.
Well done St Pauls Primary! | 2019-04-20T10:35:17Z | https://olliebray.typepad.com/olliebraycom/curriculum_for_excellence/ | Porn | Science | 0.395542 |
wikipedia | Sandy Cohen (born November 25, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward and coach who most recently played for the Reading Royals of the ECHL.
Cohen was born in Whitby, Ontario. He holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada. He began skating at age three and started playing ice hockey the next year. He moved to the United States to play in the USHL in 1995.
Cohen spent two full seasons in the ECHL in addition to playing six games after his final season of college hockey ended. After playing for four teams in the ECHL he was forced to retire due to the effects of several concussions.
In the 2003–04 season he served as an assistant coach for the Waterloo Black Hawks of the USHL. He now is the head coach of the Penn State Berks ice hockey team.
^ a b c Alecia T. Devantier; Carol Turkington (2006). Extraordinary Jobs in Sports. New York: Facts on File. pp. 46–47. ISBN 978-0-8160-5861-7.
^ "Sandy Cohen". Coaches & Staff. Penn State Berks Ice Hockey. Retrieved 18 February 2011.
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wordpress | The 1% did a special number on southeast Michigan with its derivatives and unregulated mortgage markets; the 2008 crash hit the region hard, and it had already been being hit hard. The Detroit area is a prime example of the blight that comes from having extreme wealth (Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe) and extreme poverty (most of Detroit) co-existing in an urban metropolitan area. It doesn’t work. The wealthy have no city to play in, and the city does not have the ability to tax or benefit from the local wealthy in the suburbs. These problems are exacerbated by de facto racial segregation, such that African-Americans are many times more likely to be unemployed than are whites, and to live in urban blight rather than in nice suburbs.
“Being there” doesn’t help you to decipher an event. If anything, quite the contrary. I just slept through a plane crash. And, waking up, I probably have a much less clear view of what has happened (and what is happening) than someone halfway around the world with a decent Internet connection.
I’m flying from Vancouver to Madrid by a rather circuitous route (via San Francisco and Frankfurt). My plane left Vancouver at 6am, which meant a 4am taxi from my house. As last night I was at a friend’s birthday party, and I didn’t start packing until around 2am, I’d hardly had much sleep. No problem: all the easier to sleep on the plane.
So I dozed for most of the flight to California. And then, on arrival with six hours to kill in SFO, I settled into a chair in the terminal to sleep some more. A little later, I woke briefly to overhear two airport employees striding rapidly nearby, one asking the other if he’d heard about the crash. I took little notice and closed my eyes again.
A while later, I woke up, gathered my things and headed to grab a sandwich and find my gate. Once there, I was sitting by a power outlet and plugging in my computer when another passenger nearby asked me if I’d heard about the crash. I looked at him (still) a little groggily and he went on to say that it hadn’t been announced here at the airport, but it was on the news already. The wi-fi was unreliable where I was, so I found a seat elsewhere in the terminal and went online.
Now, a few hours later, I’m getting a sense of what’s going on. On the Internet, I’m told that an Asiana Airlines Boeing 777, coming in from Seoul, crashed on arrival, catching fire and losing its tail. Amazingly enough, the news reports suggest no fatalities. Which is all the more extraordinary as the pictures on the websites suggest one rather broken plane.
Inside the terminal, we see and hear very little of this. There’s only one television in the vicinity, and while it’s drawn quite a crowd, most people are sitting at their gates, lining up at the bars and restaurants, and/or drifting aimlessly around. Aimless because nobody has a flight to catch, as the airport is shut down, with no aircraft movements in or out. (I’m told that my own plane was diverted to Oakland.) There are periodic announcements on the public address system. Our next update is in fifteen minutes.
For several hours, the announcements were very vague indeed. They told us of an incident, and apologized for the inconvenience. It was a while before the word “crash” was used, and it was used only once. We’ve been informed that the first-class lounge is closed, because of the “viewing possibilities” that it offered. For otherwise, from the terminal itself nothing can be seen. Supposedly the accident led to a plume of smoke, but it’s hard to distinguish where that might be given the low cloud that has been hovering on the hills surrounding much of the airport.
There’s no panic, little conversation, not even much in the way of increased cellphone traffic that one would expect to tell friends and relatives that flights have been cancelled, connections missed, delays inevitable. There are occasional groups of airport or airline workers with security badges murmuring into walkie talkies.
For a while, the only, almost subliminal, indication of something out of the ordinary seemed to be the constant sound of an alarm, never answered, somewhere nearby. It was a minor irritation more than anything else, like a car alarm going off unattended on a neighbouring street. Eventually I realized that it was merely the warning marking the approaching end of the moving walkway. Now even that sound has been turned off.
In the meantime, we wait, and try to get information over a frustratingly patchy wi-fi connection. All United wide-body flights have just been cancelled. I hear that there are refreshments available by Gate 95. Here in the terminal at least, that’s the main event right now.
Update: The BBC is now reporting that at least one person died.
Two of my recent posts on education and the current techo-political landscape have now been (slightly) edited and published on The Tyee.
What happens when difference and otherness become subject to literary and cultural representation? What roles is otherness made to play, and what functions are found for the depiction of difference? These are some of the questions Erin Graff Zivin sets out to answer in The Wandering Signifier, where her focus is the “Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary.” There are of course plenty of other more obvious social divides in Latin America than that between Jew and non-Jew. There are, in other words, plenty of “other others,” not least the indigenous peoples who were displaced by the arrival of the Europeans, and who have been oppressed ever since, but remain a significant proportion of the population in countries such as Peru, Bolivia, and Guatemala. Or one might think of the African presence, legacy of the slave trade, that has had such an impact in the Caribbean, Brazil, and elsewhere. By contrast, the number of Jews in the region has always been small–albeit significant in pockets such as Buenos Aires and the River Plate region–and their place in Latin America’s often rigid social hierarchies has been much more ambivalent and ambiguous. But Graff Zivin argues that it is in part precisely because of its ambivalences (and perhaps even because of the relative scarcity of “real” Jews) that Jewishness comes strangely to the fore when it comes time for Latin American authors to define their culture’s identity and their own role in shaping it.
By stressing the role or function of otherness, Graff Zivin wants to steer clear of the mundane debates about ethnic or cultural stereotypes. She is not, for instance, all that concerned about the distance between the literary representations of “Jewishness” (a term she consistently places in quotation marks, to signal its constructedness) and the “real” attributes of flesh-and-blood, historical Jews. This distance is undeniable: “real” Jews do not fit well their stereotypical representations, not least because those representations are so contradictory. Jews are portrayed simultaneously as marginal outcasts and as sinisterly powerful; they are reviled for their supposed ugliness and at the same time feared (or desired) for their seductiveness; they are portrayed as both inescapably different and uncannily similar to the white, Western ideal. But while it is no doubt useful to point out the gap between rhetoric (whether racist or idealizing) and reality, Graff Zivin is more interested in the “rhetorical malleability” itself, and in the uses to which it is put in discourses that are often, ostensibly, not about Jews or “Jewishness” at all. Indeed, “Jews” frequently stand in for the “other others” (indigenous peoples, Afro-Latins, and so on) that may impinge more on the project of constructing a sense of Latin American identity, but that for that very reason may be less versatile or less amenable to cultural representation.
Ultimately, Graff Zivin is most interested in the last of these functions (and she devotes her final chapter to the topic): whether any representation of the other is inevitably also a form of assimilation. Is the other, in short, always and necessarily reduced to a mere rhetorical function or role simply by virtue of its representation? Or is there some resistance or surplus that ensures that something of the other’s otherness survives and even contests its literary representation? Against the claims of philosopher Emmanuel Levinas, this book argues–and for its own sake it has to, in that it, too, quite consciously makes “Jewishness” perform a quite particular function, of helping us to delineate the ethics of representation–that rhetoric doesn’t necessarily exhaust or annihilate real difference. What is less clear is whether Graff Zivin believes that this is always the case, whether (in my terms, if not hers), something always escapes. Her preference, it seems, is towards precisely the kind of careful and self-reflexive accounts that she herself also strives to provide: Borges’s short stories; Ricardo Piglia’s Respiración arficial. This is a book about the ethics of writing that wants to make as few claims upon the other as possible.
But perhaps because of its focus on the ethical dilemma inherent in any attempt to write (about) the other, Graff Zivin’s argument tends towards abstraction. For instance, in her eclectic choice of texts, historical or social context tends to blur, often despite her own best efforts. The problematic raised by the representation of “Jewishness” comes to seem rather similar in Brazil as in Colombia, in the late twentieth century as in the nineteenth. This erasure of history is all the more pronounced when the book dwells on elements of the depiction of “Jewishness” that are drawn from a long tradition dating back to the Middle Ages if not earlier still. Of course, we are dealing here with what is effectively a myth–or a series of closely-related mythic symbolizations. But while a myth, by its very nature, is detached from history and may, in practice, also be transhistorical and transcultural, this does not mean that it is ahistorical. Indeed, treating it as such threatens to confirm its mythic power: in this case, to confirm the notion that the “Jew” (the idea of the “Jew,” not actual Jews) inevitably, and perhaps uniquely, is associated with the same unchanging series of attributes, including (no doubt) the attribute of malleability and textual slipperiness. But surely there are particular moments and particular places in which “Jewishness” takes on specific qualities, while others are discarded or downplayed. And are there not particular occasions when anxiety and/or fascination with Jewishness comes to the fore, and others when it fades into the background or is even forgotten entirely? However much Graff Zivin is clear that she has little wish to dismantle the rhetoric of “Jewishness” entirely, it seems odd to place it on the horizon of all representation of otherness in Latin America as a whole.
Further, the more that in this argument “Jewishness” comes to stand in for language as such–or for the inevitable ethical impasse posed in and by any project of representation–the more that all “Jewish” specificity is lost. Or, to put it another way, the more that the question becomes about ethics per se, the more that Graff Zivin (on her own terms) comes to risk the ethical failure to treat “Jewishness” as anything more than an empty cipher, that could be replaced by any other: indigeneity, blackness, femininity, latinidad… It is one of this book’s many virtues that it is consistently aware (and makes us aware) of this danger. But it is a weakness that in the end it falls into a trap constructed in part in and through its own anxiety to do the right thing. | 2019-04-19T00:21:01Z | https://posthegemony.wordpress.com/2013/07/ | Porn | Computers | 0.760252 |
yahoo | Social media is often a toxic environment with users constantly criticizing women‘s physical appearances. However, college student Jenn August managed to gain self-confidence via Instagram.
August was born with a hemangioma, a type of benign growth or tumor that looks like a birthmark, covering most of her lip and neck. On Instagram, she discovered a community of women embracing their so-called “imperfections,” and that inspired her to follow suit.
May is recognized as International Month of Awareness for Vascular Birthmarks. So it seems appropriate that just last week for the very first time, August shared a selfie without any makeup to cover her birthmark.
“Social media has definitely helped me in learning how to love me,” the 26-year-old tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
August says that seeing celebrities on Instagram such as model Winnie Harlow, who has vitiligo, and curvy model Ashley Graham, be “unapologetically themselves” gave her the courage to embrace her hemangioma.
Ken Howe, a dermatologist at Wexler Dermatology, explains that childhood hemangiomas develop as growths of the cells that form blood vessels. “It is not known why these growths occur, but fortunately the vast majority are not dangerous,” he tells Yahoo Lifestyle.
As an infant, August’s parents placed her on various trial medications attempting to control or reduce the birthmark. The medications were not successful, so when August was in middle school, she endured two medical procedures to try to get rid of the hemangioma. But those did not work either.
August says she was fortunate enough to grow up with the same kids throughout her elementary and middle school years, so it was normal for them to see her birthmark. Thankfully, she says, she didn’t have to endure bullying. However, as she got older, the Florida native noticed that she was different. So when she was 18, she began to cover up with makeup.
August says that she spent hours thinking about whether to post the makeup-free photo on social media, thinking about how online trolls might comment. But she decided to push “post” when she remembered that women like Harlow put themselves out there for millions around the world to see and critique.
And August is not alone, as she joins the movement of several women and men who are embracing their vascular birthmarks and sharing self-love selfies on social media. | 2019-04-25T01:00:23Z | https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/ashley-graham-winnie-harlow-inspire-woman-rare-facial-birthmark-love-215641884.html | Porn | Society | 0.365405 |
wordpress | For lots of people, contacts provide an outstanding awareness of freedom. It is quite easy to tear a contact in the early days whenever you’re still learning. Learn if extended wear contacts are ideal for you.
If you’re a man who loses things very easily, contacts may not be suitable for you. Other points to consider, cost-wise, are how often the contacts will have to be replaced, shipping expenses, and whether you will have to buy separate cleaning and storage solutions. There are various kinds of contacts that are prescribed to take care of the numerous eye issues. A coloured contact can either improve your normal eye colour, or provide you with a completely different eye colour entirely.
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Wearing contacts may be an extremely liberating experience. If you wear contacts longer that you’re supposed to or overnight, if they’re not made for sleeping in, you can produce the prospect of receiving an infection much greater. The wet contacts evaporate during the day.
Speak to your doctor about whether contacts are a great fit for your lifestyle too. Daily contacts are extremely easy to look after.
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salon | In two weeks, voters in SeaTac, Wash., will vote on establishing the country’s highest minimum wage – by a long shot. At $15 an hour, the proposed wage hike for the airport-anchored town would outpace the federal standard by nearly $8, and echo the demand that’s anchored the past year’s wave of fast food strikes. It’s drawn furious opposition from big business, and from think tanks funded by a shadowy Koch-backed group.
Voters in SeaTac – a city surrounding and including the Seattle-Tacoma airport – will decide the proposal’s fate on Nov. 5. If approved, the new law would require a wage of at least $15 for over 6,000 workers employed at the airport and surrounding hotels. Smaller airport employers and most SeaTac companies outside the airport and hotels would be exempted. But both sides say a wage hike in SeaTac would have ramifications far beyond the city of 25,000 – from nearby Seattle, to Washington, D.C.
But SEIU argued that the main airport-related businesses subject to a proposed raise would be both able to pay more and unable to offshore the work in response. “You’ve got giant or large multinational corporations making money by impoverishing workers and transferring costs onto working people and the local governments,” said Rolf. And “it’s simply not possible for my French fries to be cooked somewhere 5,000 miles away and show up hot in time for me to get back to my office after a 30-minute lunch break.” University of Massachusetts economist Arindrajit Dube told the New York Times that research doesn’t suggest a significant impact on staffing levels from wage hikes, but does show they reduce workplace turnover.
The Freedom Foundation’s signature effort against the referendum has been a report by Nelsen contending that arguments by the referendum’s union backers (including an affiliate of my former employer, UNITE HERE) are undermined by those seven local unions’ own employment practices. Drawing on federal filings, Nelsen wrote that “26% of local union employees earn less than a full time $15 an hour minimum wage.” Nelsen argued that such statistics, along with a provision (common to living wage laws) that would allow union members to grant exemptions to their employers as part of a union contract, showed that what was really motivating unions was just a desire to bring in more union dues.
SEIU 775NW declined to comment specifically on the report. In an email, a spokesperson for the pro-referendum coalition said the reporter “had fudged numbers,” including by “dividing short term or part time positions’ pay by full time hours.” Nelsen argued that it was legitimate for him to include those union staffers who have part-time jobs that pay over $15 per hour in his count of those who “earn less than a full time $15 an hour,” because unions criticize employers’ reliance on part-time workers. Similarly, asked by Salon whether his use of annual stats would accurately reflect the compensation of union staffers employed for less than a full year, Nelsen said, “to a certain extent yes and no,” but compared such employment to seasonal hiring by businesses, for which “they’ll still take flak.” The lowest hourly wage rate for a current SEIU 775NW employee is $15.28. | 2019-04-26T13:41:44Z | https://www.salon.com/2013/10/23/defying_koch_cash_and_d_c_gridlock_airport_town_will_vote_on_a_15_minimum_wage/ | Porn | News | 0.106755 |
msn | Sophia Foreno rounded a corner in Paris Monday to find a sight she did not expect: Notre Dame Cathedral in flames.
Foreno, a jewelry designer from Naperville, and her artist husband have been in Paris for the last week seeking inspiration for their work.
Just the day before, on Palm Sunday, Foreno had walked along the river Seine buying trinkets from vendors before venturing inside the cathedral.
For about 30 minutes, Foreno and her husband joined throngs of people along the river Monday to watch as the devastating scene played out before police ushered them away.
Foreno said she shared tears with a young Parisian woman named Eva who was distraught over the situation.
“It was kind of bizarre, taking a selfie, and Eva said, ‘Can you please not do that? That is a symbol of my country,’” Foreno said.
Eva started crying and Foreno couldn’t help but be overcome as well, she said. “This is a hard thing to see,” she said. | 2019-04-21T11:08:06Z | https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/naperville-woman-on-a-trip-to-paris-watches-as-notre-dame-gutted-by-fire/ar-BBVY9Xq | Porn | Arts | 0.873661 |
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Whereas the publication of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party in November 2004 by the United States-based newspaper, the Epoch Times, led to the creation of the Tuidang movement; Whereas the Tuidang movement, which translates literally as withdraw from the communist party, has encouraged as many as 90,000,000 people to publicly renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates since 2004;......That the Senate—...(5)expresses support for volunteers and participants of the Tuidang movement for their peaceful efforts to reclaim Chinese history and culture, and for their pursuit of a fair and open government, a free people, and a society rooted in the practice of virtue.
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Whereas in November 2004, the publication of Nine Commentaries on the Communist Party by the United States-based newspaper, the Epoch Times, led to the creation of the Tuidang movement; Whereas the Tuidang movement, which means withdraw from the communist party, has encouraged as many as 100,000,000 people to publicly renounce their membership in the Chinese Communist Party and its affiliates; and.......(7)expresses support for the Tuidang movement and its members for their peaceful efforts in pursuit of religious freedom and a free and democratic government in China.
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^ Daniel Proussalidis. Victims of totalitarianism remembered. Toronto Sun. 23 August 2011 [2011-08-23]. | 2019-04-22T11:11:44Z | https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8E%BB%E5%85%B1%E5%8C%96 | Porn | Reference | 0.27514 |
wordpress | Well, it was a very grey today, with low cloud everywhere and a hint of snow in the air. The light was poor, and really not the sort of light I like to take pictures in. So I thought I would post a sunset from a few weeks ago.
The sun has yet to drop from behind the upper layer of cloud, but still leaves plenty of red and gold around. | 2019-04-23T16:11:34Z | https://gtphotographs.wordpress.com/2013/02/24/almost-sunset/ | Porn | Reference | 0.310801 |
livejournal | 09:00 baby it's cold outside, but I have warm coffee.
15:17 Food is in 30 minutes or so. No one is here yet. | 2019-04-19T06:25:15Z | https://jeremyb.livejournal.com/578163.html | Porn | Reference | 0.365261 |
wordpress | At first, I thought it might just be a war story and wasn’t sure I wanted to watch it but I gave it a try and I’m glad I did. It is waaaay more than a “war” story.
It is a story of how one man, Chris Kyle, was determined to stand up for what he believed in but at the same time, it showed me a glimpse into his private life. A life with a wonderful wife and two lovely children. And it doesn’t stop there.
Not only does it show Chris’ story but also portrays the struggles of other military soldiers. The struggles they face everyday while putting their lives on the line to defend our country and keep us safe. The struggles they face when they return home and try to fit back into the life they left to defend us.
In my mind, Chris is and was a hero. For the things he did overseas and here at home. But he is one among many. It just so happens that this movie is HIS personal story.
Our military undoubtly deserve our love and respect and while this post is about the movie, American Sniper, we need not to forget all that they do for us every single day. God bless them. | 2019-04-19T03:21:11Z | https://amydeason.wordpress.com/tag/war/ | Porn | Home | 0.616639 |
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