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So, if they're not government entities, then they're private entities, and as such not entitled to qualified immunity for their actions, right? So if they damage a house or hurt an individual, they're on the hook for damages (and criminal actions), and can't claim immunity from the courts...
Not a libertarian, but to play devil's advocate for a moment: the problem is that they're a state-appointed-and-run agency, so this isn't properly privatised. You have the bad half of privatisation, but not the good half. You could argue that if the system was actually an open market with private security firms competing for the government's business then you'd have open-ness.
Now as far as I'm concerned, history has proven that it'd never actually work out that way, but there you go.
Libertarians should love this
What's your next guess, asshole?
Libertarians are against the initiation of violence, whether the perps are government thugs or quasi-private organizations like this. You can shove your smug little digs right back up the hole it came from.
They want the monetary and security advantages of being paid with taxpayer money without having to comply with the legal requirements of a taxpayer funded government organization. If they are allowed to get away with that, would anybody here like to guess here where it will go next?
FBI raid and arrest everyone in the SWAT team, put them in prison and charge them with Racketeering. Do it very public, invite the media and make these scumbags a lesson to cops across the country that they work FOR the citizens and must act as "public servants" and not a street gang.
Better, possession of un-taxed NFA items.
Especially if anything is select fire and made after '86 since the only non-mil and non-LEO that can possess such are FFL holders with the SOT to deal in NFA stuff....
So, they're vigilantes then?
Sorry, but if it looks like a cop, and shoots people like a cop, and can arrest people like a cop, it needs oversight like a cop.
If people think police departments are terrible at investigating their own wrong doing now, wait until they're private corporations and can simply say "piss off".
If these clowns want to be private corporations, fire them all, and then tell them they're only legally allowed to be mall cops.
If they want to be cops, they're part of whatever level of government gives them the legal authority to operate, and subject to the applicable laws.
Any refusal to hand over the records should lead to dismissal, or criminal charges.
Well, no, libertarians in the current erra are against 3rd party public oversight of initiated violence.
It never stops entertaining me when someone who's not a member of a group feels compelled to explain to people who are members of the group how the aforementioned group thinks.
That means they should also forfeit the right to sovereign immunity. So fuck these assholes.
Correct. They can be prosecuted for breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, involuntary restraint, kidnapping, etc.
Your move, Mass Gestapo, err, I mean SWAT.
Well, he never said that he was a Libertarian.
If you are not a cop then I'm toto the flying fluffy dog.
Automatic weapons in the hands of corporate employee's protected by a shield? Anyone else see the potential for drama here? I cannot fathom that a ride along will justify this in my mind.
Except that at the federal level we have an FBI and DOJ that spend much of their time advising local law enforcement to if not outright lie, at least not to advertise their capabilities and methods. Then we have all kinds of federal money being appropriated at the federal level and handed to the Homeland Security to distribute to local law enforcement specifically to help them militarize.
In short I don't really really see what you suggest happening, not unless in a surprise upset Gary Johnson is elected president in 2016. Its much more likely the FBI will help intimidate and silence anyone who makes to much noise about this issue.
My thoughts precisely.
Since they're saying they aren't a government entity, then they do not have governmental authority to supersede the law, which makes them nothing more than brigands.
Also, as a private entity, that means they can be sued into bankruptcy. Which I, for one, would love to see.
No, this is a government entity which has decided it isn't a government entity, but still has the right to operate as if it were.
Sorry, but a government entity doesn't get to declare independence from the part that gives is legitimacy.
If these guys are a corporation, they can pay their own salaries, and operate under the sames rules as private security firms. Which means they're no longer police officers.
If they want to be law enforcement, well, that means they aren't private corporations, and they are subject to oversight.
Especially when they have a history of playing fast and loose with the law, 'using fictional informants to obtain warrants ', and other shady activities.
"They put up with massive amounts of shit so they should be allowed to get away with this..."
That is your defense?
No, he's right.
SWAT is out of control and needs some serious reigning in. They should be limited to being deployed only where there is solid information that a suspect is armed and dangerous. Addresses should be checked by no less than three people...one on the team, the team supervisor, and upper level supervision. Targets should be observed and confirmed to be present and all attempts made to apprehend them outside of residences.
Further, team members should be criminally and civilly liable for the injury and deaths of innocents at their hand.
Too many innocent people are being killed and maimed by SWAT raids, too many SWAT raids are occurring, and too many times there is no repercussion for fucking things up and blowing a hole in little kid's chest. [ajc.com]
If, during an interaction between law enforcement and the public, someone dies, the best option is that it's the bad guy killed by a cop. Second best option is it's a cop killed by a bad guy, the worst option and one that should be avoided at all costs, even the cost of the life of a cop, is an innocent civilian being killed by a cop.
You can't have representatives of the State killing innocents and then just saying "Whoops, my bad" and then throwing money at the family.
It's become a rather common excuse. These days it is typically mixed up with corporate claims of privacy. Essentially corporate secrecy is used as a way if short circuiting the rule of law. That's how the police departments that use Stingray cell phone interception technology to shred constitutional protections avoid admitting what they are doing: they have a confidentiality clause with the company who makes the device. Same thing with fracking chemicals: they can pump any toxic crap that they want to into the ground because it's a business secret.
So where were all the right wingers when this was going down during the Bush era? You know, the ones who are now claiming that Obama is destroying the constitution? Massive amnesia and/or massive hypocrisy?
(Personally I am furious with Obama because he has continued the blatantly unconstitutional policies of the Bush years, but at least I am not lying through my teeth and supporting one executive while screeching like a stuck pig when a democrat does the same kind of crap.)
The corporation stance is stupid legal wrangling.
It's not even that. It's unthinking shooting themselves in the foot.
Private corporations might not be subject to oversight, but they also lack legal authority to conduct SWAT raids on citizens. In fact, that should net them a pretty good number of years in prison.
On the other hand, I'd never become a cop due to the incredibly ridiculous amount of liability, red tape, blatantly lying "news" channels and papers
You should send thanks to the heavens for every one of those things.
and blame for having to enforce bad laws.
But not that one.
Almost right, but you got your ideologies mixed up a little.
If they voluntarily pool their resources to protect themselves, that is libertarianism.
If they are prevented from pooling their resources and government forces them to pay for the protection through an unaccountable private corporation, that is progressivism.
As this case illustrates.
Sunshine laws need to be updated. Regardless of whether the JPA entity owns anything or not, it provides ample opportunity to hide and obfuscate information, whether physically in JPA controlled offices or by misdirection ("We don't have that, contact XYZ county." "No, that information is controlled by the Joint Fubar corporation, we don't keep those records."). And more often than not such situations would probably result from general bureaucratic morass as much as malice.
I also find it curious that someone would even *ask* whether they were exempt from data practices laws. Why ask if you don't intend to disobey them? The intent of data practices laws is to promote open government, any organization controlled by the government should follow the rules as if they were a governmental organization.
The government should not ever have the ability to form organizations they can delegate authority to that are immune from laws regulating the government.
I strongly disagree. The military, including the national guard, has lots of training in killing, but little training in hostage recovery, preservation of criminal evidence, the rights of suspects, and protecting the safety of bystanders.
The police fall down on these things a lot, but at least they know how they're *supposed* to work. The national guard are the people you send in when you intend to kill citizens and you don't intend to have a trial afterward. (This is why the "peaceful" deployments of the guard in the civil rights era ended with dead citizens: that's their job.)
There is a time and a place for military suppression of unrest, but the SWAT team is an absolutely necessary middle ground between the beat cop and martial law.
This is simply a contracting issue. The state can put disclosure and transparency requirements in the contract, the private company can agree or not get the contract.
Whether or not they put it in a contract is irrelevant. A contract is void if it contradicts the law and the argument they are making pretty clearly contradicts the law in all likelihood. The argument this company is making is that they are not subject to rule of law, specifically the oversight that applies to law officers and their activities. Essentially they are arguing that the law doesn't apply to them because the check is from a private company even though the activities are unambiguously on the behalf of the government.
Basically if their argument is correct then they are private citizens engaging in vigilante activities and they should be in jail. If their argument is wrong then they are in violation a host of other laws and they should be in jail. Either way it has nothing to do with contract law.
Actually, this may not be so bad. If they're not government agencies, then they're not immune to lawsuits and when they bust in the wrong house, that person can sue the hell out of them, right?
In its purest ideological form, Libertarianism is about promoting Liberty and the limitation of the use of force by the government for police and common defense not the privatization of the use of force. "Privatizing" by merely contracting with corporations instead of individuals to act as police or government agents has nothing to do at all with libertarianism. Privatizing in this sense is just a form of contract with a group of individuals instead of individuals directly. Similarly to contracting with a labor union that represents public employees.
In this sense "privatizing" in general has nothing to do with libertarianism if it means that government is still paying with taxpayer money which is collected by the use of force. Police and Military are fundamentally the only legitimate use of government's taxing authority and even then taxes should be considered a necessary evil, but only necessary if the government can't collect sufficient money with a voluntary system.
In this case I think an important line would have been crossed if the SWAT team direction, oversight and management is coming from a private corporation. To abdicate the police powers of the government to a private corporation would be very much anti-libertarian. Very anti-libertarian. And regardless of ideology I hope people will recognize it as a bad idea that should be reconsidered.
I think liberty is a worthwhile ideal to work towards, but first you have to understand what it means.
The problem with suing them is that you can only target the corp's assets. Structuring it in such a way that the 'company' doesn't actually have any is pretty standard.
I'm thinking that the BATFE needs to come inspect them to make sure they're in full compliance with the NFA. The regulations are completely different between being a government agency like a police department and a commercial company like a 501(c)(3). I'm also willing to bet that they use government letterhead to purchase restricted stuff.
BATFE: Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
NFA: National Firearms Act. Federal law regul
Sue? Where is the law that gives them criminal immunity and how is it remotely constitutional?
If they are a private company, they should be subject to the same laws every other company and citizen or person is subject to.
Such a coincidence, just today I read this: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/... [zerohedge.com] "10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know" "The number of SWAT team raids in the United States every year is now more than 25 times higher than it was back in 1980."
The best way to change that is to legalize all personal drug use. If the War on Drugs was successful at accomplishing any of its stated goals then we could have a
debate about this, but it isn't, and no honest person who looks into the matter would conclude otherwise. Anyone who wants to do drugs can easily obtain them.
The only things we can control are whether criminal gangs or legitimate businesses will profit from this, and whether law enforcement gets to keep its single biggest excuse for militarizing itself. The idea that we can stop people who want drugs from using them is a dangerous fantasy with staggering social costs and always has been.
If you really want to minimize the impact of the portion of drug users who are irresponsible, a small fraction of what we spend now could be put towards treating it as a public medical/mental health issue, not a criminal/law-enforcement issue. Treatment can be offered to those who need it. Legal drugs would be cheap, plentiful and unadulterated, making their use safer and removing the incentive for the worst of addicts to rob and steal to obtain them. It would also go a long way towards creating the expectation that people should be responsible adults who do not need to be told how to live by a paternalistic government that parasitically profits from their problems.
They have no more power than any normal citizen.
Oh. And Fuck Cops. The ones that murder and violate our rights and kill our dogs, and the ones that stand by while they watch their buddies break the law they were sworn to protect.
Go do some ride-alongs with your local police to see what they put up with.
Boo fucking hoo. Being a cop is a shitty job. Guess what? LOTS of jobs are shitty. Is it risky? Not compared to being a fisherman, a lumberjack, a farm hand, a ranch hand, a truck driver, a steelworker, a pilot, or a garbageman-- all of whose per-capita workplace fatalities in the US are far higher than cops.
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|The Rt Hon Liam Byrne, Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
The meeting has been arranged by Jon Cruddas (ACT NOW's Patron) and Jonathan Rutherford. The meeting will be carried out under Chatham House rules which we have been told will allow for an open discussion and will ensure trust.
Jonathan has asked us to e-mail 3/4 key points that we would like to discuss on the day. The meeting will last for an hour and a half. It is important that we make as big an impact as possible on the Labour Shadow Team in that short space of time.
For anyone who is not familiar with Chatham House rules here is an outline of what taking part in a discussion while this rule is in place means.
"When a meeting, or part thereof, is held under the Chatham House Rule, participants are free to use the information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker(s), nor that of any other participant, may be revealed".
While this may appear to be restricting it is the way that Ministers and MPs are used to holding meetings. It is possible to report what has taken place at the meeting but not possible to say who said what. ACT NOW's Campaign Manager Carole has personally attended meetings that have taken place under the Chatham House rule on a number of occasions and felt that she was still able to give comprehensive feedback to her own group Autism-in-Mind after the meeting.
We believe it is important to have someone sitting round the meeting table who has a knowledge and understanding of autism who can express their concerns about the Welfare Reform Bill and how it is directly impacting on the lives of adults with autism.
It is vitally important that the Labour Party not only voice their opposition to the Welfare Reform Bill but also rethink their own policy regarding the WCA. It was after all the Labour Party who brought in this assessment.


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Merry Christmas! We had a wonderful day yesterday - thank you to everyone who sent us gifts!! The kids slept in until 8 am and we didn't finish opening presents until 11:30 or so. We had to take a few breaks - the kids were beginning to get overwhelmed. Aoife had to take a nap in the middle of it all and Emmy shut herself in the bathroom for about 20 minutes to calm down from the rush of all the new toys. It was really funny but I am glad that she knows how to calm herself down and realized that she needed it! Brendan's parents sent us a Wii and we got a few games. Brendan seems to be really happy to have Aidan play video games with him! Everyone got lots and lots of stuff - Santa was very generous!
Aidan opening the Wii - he was very excited!!
Emmy wearing dress ups, wings, jewelry, a helmet, eating chocolate and playing with her new cash register - heaven!
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The realization that Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park turns twenty years old this year left me feeling pretty prehistoric myself. I was in my early thirties when the film of Michael Crichton's bestseller came stomping into theaters, but I had been a dinosaur geek since childhood, to which the movie sent me back.
Now Jurassic Park has returned to the multiplexes, in a re-mastered 3-D version. I still love dinosaurs, but two decades have made it easier, now that astonishment at the truly convincing special effects has faded, to pick the movie apart logically, and to acknowledge the middle-class banality of its dramatics. Granting all this, however, I still say that Jurassic Park is one of the most thrilling special effects spectacles of all time, and that it remains the best showcase of computer-generated effects to date.
I say this in full awareness of James Cameron's Avatar, which astounded so many people a couple of years ago. Avatar was an absorbing sci-fi romance, preoccupied with the human ability to disrupt nature—a theme it shared with Jurassic Park. But Cameron used the story to wow us with CGI effects which, though impressive and sometimes even lovely, were always obviously virtual phantoms. Spielberg used his rock-solid virtual effects—seamlessly blended with animatronic puppetry—to draw us into the story.
In case you've forgotten or somehow missed it the first time, the film concerns a theme park on an island off Costa Rica featuring real live dinosaurs, cloned from blood extracted from ancient mosquitoes trapped in amber. Prior to opening this ill-advised attraction, the founder (Richard Attenborough at his jolliest), invites several scientists (Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum) as well as his own grandkids (Ariana Richards and Joseph Mazzello) to endorse it. A bit of industrial espionage and a power outage lead to dinosaurs on the loose.
Because of Spielberg's brilliant timing and theatrical flair, I didn't notice until I'd seen the film several times how vague and malleable the geography of the park is: steep retaining walls suddenly appear when they are needed dramatically, characters strike out across open country when it would make more sense to wait where they are for help to arrive. But when you're watching the movie, Spielberg's confident touch, and the effects, hustle you past these inconsistencies.
There are eccentric moments that still play beautifully, as when one velociraptor quixotically lunges to the defense of another against a much larger tyrannosaurus. The gag involving the rear-view mirror, which even people who disliked Jurassic Park had to admit was pretty good, is now being used in the poster, presumably to tout the movie's new 3-D status.
But here, alas, I have to note that the re-release gains nothing in particular from the addition of 3-D. I can't think of one scene that was enhanced by the effect in any way I noticed. Again, not that it matters—my ten-year-old, no particular dinosaur fan, joined me for the screening and was properly spellbound. With or without 3-D, Jurassic Park still has teeth.
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Beware spoilers for the below entry.
"Sleepwalker," by Tina G., is an interesting take on ideal's, in which the future is a utopian paradise. There, people live harmoniously, away from all the problems that divide us today. Hers is a world of light, where people are free to be themselves. The heroine looks to compare her world with this new one, in conflict with nostalgia or her betterment.To her, these problems no longer concern her. She looks to the past and decides to walk away from it.
Unfortunately, I find this outlook does not align with my own. The main character escaped her world, to find this perfection, in her view. She freed herself of the present, a place where people are supposed to stay. Instead of facing the problems found in her reality, she goes somewhere else for the aftermath. No one likes being in pain, physical and mental. Yet, we must live through it, to heal. What good does this perfection do for her? She now has a place to hide, from her old life, and old problems.


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Million Dollar Views, 750 ft of Decking with Fire Table, Walk to Beach/Shops
About the property
- House2300 sq. ft.
- Bedrooms3
- Sleeps8
- Bathrooms2
- Half Baths1
- Minimum Stay2 - 5 nights
2,200 Sq Ft, 3 Bed/2.5 Bath Home With Stunning Ocean, City Light, & Bay Views
Welcome to San Diego Vista! Enjoy panoramic ocean, city, night light, and bay views from this stunning vacation home in a highly coveted North Pacific Beach neighborhood bordering the Birdrock area of La Jolla. Start your day with a killer espresso at the Turquoise Cafe just a short 10 minute walk away then continue on another half mile to Tourmaline Surf Park beach to catch your morning set (Wavestorm boards provided if you don't bring your own ride). Or maybe you prefer a leisurely stroll through the charming Birdrock area of La Jolla, also just a short one mile walk/bike ride away. So much to choose from just minutes from this beautiful and beautifully situated vacation home.
Our 2,200 sq ft, 3 bedroom, 2.5 bath home features two expansive decks with amazing views of the surrounding area so you may not even want to venture out. Decorated in a contemporary style, no detail has been left to chance. The main, 500 sq ft deck is perfect for entertaining and features very chic and comfortable furniture from Restoration Hardware, stone dining table with seating for six, a high end natural gas Dacor grill, pyramid patio heater and a natural gas fire table for those cooler, San Diego evenings. Challenge your family members to a game of table tennis on our Kettler aluminum ping pong table. Step inside the slider to our large living room with hardwood floors, large sectional sofa sleeper and 50" HDTV equipped with a media server with hundreds of movies and TV shows at your beck and call.
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In the garage we have all manner of toys for your visit, including the aforementioned 8' Wavestorm surf board, a 5' Sushi surfboard, 2 Body Glove boogie board, 4 Tommy Bahama beach chairs, beach umbrellas, cooler, Frisbees, and beach bags. For a little indoor fun, throw down the gauntlet and challenge your family to a friendly game of foosball or relive your youth with our retro arcade classics including Asteroids, Joust, Zaxxon, and the true original -- Space Invaders. You can optionally rent our 6 cruiser bicycles to cruise the town in style.
This is truly a magical place in a magnificent area. You won't be disappointed.
Please note that this property is privately owned and managed and primarily offered as a 'family rental'. We tend not rent to groups under 30 years of age (we're happy to discuss it, though). The home is in a fairly quiet neighborhood in North Pacific Beach that is more 'La Jolla Birdrock' than 'Mission/Pacific Beach'. If you are looking for a PB 'party house', look elsewhere.
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About Drew Rudman
Having a small family of four that loves the comforts of home when we travel, we have been enamored with vacation rentals for almost two decades and now own three vacation properties, each with something unique to offer our guests. It all started with our mountain property in the Lake Tahoe area which we have been offering since 2000 and hosted hundreds of guests. We added our charming beach bungalow in Santa Barbara in 2013 and that has been such a big hit, we are replicating the effort with this beach area property on the border of North Pacific Beach and La Jolla.
Drew Rudman purchased this House in 2014
Why Drew Rudman chose La Jolla Mesa
This was actually the first property we looked at when looking for a place in the North Pacific Beach/La Jolla area and the 750 sq ft of decking with panoramic views of the ocean, city, and bay sold us on it immediately. Being walking distance to dozens of cool spots and the beach was just icing on the cake.
What makes this House unique
Being on the border of North Pacific Beach and the Birdrock area of La Jolla gives you the best of both areas. Pacific Beach offers a lot in the way of 'youthful' fun with many bars and restaurants and a crazy assortment of places to hang out and take in the San Diego experience. But if you'd prefer a relaxing stay with a lot of style and culture, just head a few minutes north into the stylish and upscale community of La Jolla and it's amazing village and beaches.
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- Kids Welcome
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- Heater
- 4 Bedrooms, Sleeps 8
- Master Bedroom1 king, Suite has its own private bathroom and 200 sq ft deck
- 2nd bedroom1 queen
- 3rd bedroom2 double
- Living Room1 sleep sofa /futon
- 2 Bathrooms, 1 Half Bath
- Master Bathroomtoilet, combination tub/shower, tub, shower
- 2nd Bathroomtoilet, shower
- Powder Roomtoilet
Location Type
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- Guests provide their own meals
- ParkingDriveway can accommodate two vehicles
- Heating
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- Linens Provided
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- Living Room
- Dishwasher
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- Pantry Items
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- Kitchen
- Dining Area
- Dining
- comfy seating for 8 people
- Television
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- Game RoomGarage acts as a game room with high end foosball table and ping pong table
- Ping Pong Table
- Video Library
- Balcony250 square foot balcony with two chaise lounges, two club chairs and table
- Bicycles
- Outdoor GrillDacor natural gas grill
- Deck / Patio500 square foot deck with natural gas fire table/sitting area, stone table seating for six, and Kettler ping pong table
- Water Sports GearWaverstorm surfboards and BodyOne boogie boards provided.
- wheelchair inaccessible
- cinemas
- library
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- zoo
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Leisure Activities
- walking
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- kayaking
House Rules
Check-in: 4:00 PM
Check-out: 11:00 AM
Cancellation Policy
Canceled bookings will not receive a refund
40 Reviews
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Great Views
The house is lovely. The views from the porch are outstanding. (the pictures don't do it justice) We lived on the porch when we were at the home. Quiet neighborhood, good for sleeping. Location was convenient for our purposes. We could walk to PB , easy drive to downtown, Mission Valley, Torrey Pines, La Jolla. The kitchen was stocked with everything we needed. The men/boys loved the arcade! The house is a great value for the money. We loved our stay. We will definitely stay there again on a return trip to San Diego.
The house was spacious and comfortable. The home was very well kept and very clean.
Property was in a good location in a quiet neighborhood. The 80's arcade was entertaining. Bedrooms were spacious. The master was huge with plenty of closet space. Both deck areas were well appointed. My family and enjoyed our stay and would definitely stay again.
Clean, comfortable and nice location
With family visiting from out of state this house had everything we needed to have a very relaxing time. With the nights getting chilly this time of year we all really enjoyed the fire pit and tall gas heater. We took a walk down to the beach (about 1 1/4 miles down the street). A real nice grocery store is very close. Beds were comfortable and the kitchen is well equipped which was great because we did a lot of cooking! A couple of negatives would be that the baths could use an upgrade and it really isn't a quiet neighborhood (busy street nearby). There also was construction going on right below the back deck so sitting out there during the day wasn't all that pleasant. I would recommend staying here for a visit to San Diego because of it's great location. The owner was easy to deal with.
Great location, close to everything. Loved using the bikes. Very comfortably furnished.
The location and view were great. The house slept our family of 7 perfectly. Loved being able to hang out on the deck and enjoy the beautiful weather.
Great location and views
The house was perfect for our family vacation. There was ample space for 6 adults and a baby (<2 yrs old). We did need to keep a close eye on the baby with the stairs going up to the bedrooms. The decks had great views of the bay, ocean, and San Diego. We took advantage of the beach accessories to have a couple of fun days on the beach. We found the beach and restaurants to be a short walk.
Great views of San Diego, the bay and ocean.
We had a wonderful family vacation. (6 adults and baby) at the Archer location. We enjoyed the deck views of San Diego, Mission Bay and the ocean. It is a perfect location in a quiet neighborhood, close to the beach/bay. It was a short walk (>.5 mile) to the beach and restaurants. The availability of beach items made for a great day on the beach.
1/2 mile walk to Turquoise St with great breakfast, lunch, and dinner spots, including nightly live entertainment 1 mile to Tourmaline Surf Park and the north end of North Pacific Beach, a favorite spot for families who prefer a quieter beach day 1 mile north takes you to the charming Birdrock shopping area of La Jolla and it's rocky, rugged coastline 1 mile south takes you to the PB 'party zone' of Garnet St. 1.5 miles to PBs famous Crystal Pier and the start of the 'fun zone' beaches and boardwalk 2.5 miles to La Jolla's world famous Windansea beach with it's world class surf break 3.5 miles to La Jolla's majestic village and cove Only a 10 minute/3.5 mile drive to Sea World and Mission Bay 10 miles to San Diego International Airport, PetCo Park (Go Padres!), and the GasLamp Quarter of downtown San Diego 10 miles to Torrey Pines Golf Course and Preserve 11 miles to Balboa Park and the world famous San Diego Zoo 15 miles to Coronado Island 16 miles to Del Mar Thoroughbred Racetrack 30 miles to Legoland in Carlsbad
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Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Plus I also ate that cookie in the upper left hand corner and some poppycock and a few other things too (heehee) but I'm not counting that one cookie I didn't like.
Isn't this what holidays are for? Why do people keep giving us delectable combinations of the four food groups: sugar, salt, fat and alcohol, if not to immediately commence enjoying it? Especially for breakfast? Don't people realize this is how eating works? Put food in front of me and I eat it and then I'm happy. It's just common hence. Right?
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- Debra She Who Seeks said...
There are no calories at Christmas time, it's a well known fact. Have a merry one!
- December 24, 2014 at 1:05 PM
- Vinny C said...
I'm in complete agreement. For the best post-holiday-meal coma, you have to get off to an early start.
- December 24, 2014 at 2:11 PM
- Michael D'Agostino said...
I make sure to leave guilt at the door when I go in for Christmas lunch.
- December 24, 2014 at 8:58 PM
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A big driving force behind fantasy RPGs is the hunt for stuff. People love getting better weapons, cool trinkets, and magic doohickeys. The trouble with stuff is that over the years people playing DnD got less and less neat things with interesting histories and more and more +6 to X in my hat slot. I have tried a few solutions in Heroes By Trade to solve this problem and we are currently testing the latest with real success. The big difference in the most recent version is that attuning to a magic item is a big deal. Finding one is all well and good but eventually before it is willing to grant you its abilities you have to do something the item wants.
This requirement has led to some great situations. My character just found a two handed sword themed around truth. In order to attune to it I had to spend an entire day telling it everything about myself leaving nothing out. I did so, but it generating an interesting situation where the other characters had to decide if they wanted to listen in or not. I could not break my concentration to tell them to go away or argue with them nor could I lie or omit and this led to what was, for me, a really cool moment of decision. The other items we found require other things, one of which seems to be to get struck by lightning! and the others are to perform bloody, scary rituals or to spend a lot of time reading secrets from a mysterious book.
All of this means that these items are in no way interchangeable and they have strong memories associated. We had to choose what items we got carefully based on both what they did and what we would have to do to get them to obey. Of course the selection process was somewhat marred by the fact that one of the characters was unconscious at the time due to getting mauled quite severely by some kind of dragon / statue / demon hybrid the previous day, but what is done is done! What we definitely won't be doing is forgetting that we have these items or being bored by them.
The thing I most like about this is that it is a fantastic and natural way for the GM to generate direction and side adventures. You found the sword that wants to visit a volcano? I guess you are all taking a trip to Fiery Peak. Your bowl of healing waters wants you to cure a town suffering from the plague? Go find yourself some very sick people, somehow. Of course the GM can make the attunement process simple, like the truth telling for 24 hours example above, but they can also give the item amazing powers and make it feel like it was worth the trials undergone to tame it, especially because the characters had to choose to do so deliberately.
Plus these items really feel like marvellous objects full of history and lore right out of a book. Fantasy novels are not full of characters wielding longswords +2 but they are full of Fireheart, bane of the Undead, that can only be wielded by a templar who is pure of spirit and intention. I think I am getting very close to a game that really models that second style and it is feeling great.


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Spells that one can buy on the site include:
- Bring Back Lover Spell
- Break Them Up Spell
- More Sex Spell
- Lottery/Gambling Money Spell
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I do not know anyone who uses a spell, but I guess it is a matter of belief. Surely there must be people who would like to get all the help they can get. And they probably think that a spell will help them.


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"Since they are women, stooping to the level of gifting undergarments will defame them only," he observed.
FYI, Mr. Head-of-the-hooligan-sena,
Since there are a lot of men who are also 'stooping to the level of gifting undergarment, may you have the sense to not just 'defame' the women.
Also, the very beginning of this statement, 'Since they are women..' does in fact HIGHLIGHT a BIG 'issue of Indian culture that I have raised' and makes your point of view very very clear. That if there was a woman and a man performing the same actions, in your book, the woman would be 'defamed' 'Since she is a woman'!
You know what? If you have a daughter, I PRAY to the same Lord Ram that you so cherish, that she sends you a pink, pink chaddi with cute hearts on it. Hell, even if you no daughter, I pray that your SON(s) also sends you some love!
That the whole point of the protest would be lost out on your non-existent brain was well known, now you have proved by uttering this rubbish that your brain(or whatever performs the function) does not do subtle. It only understands the third degree. So maybe the next 'protest' will be something you will understand very well!
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"One for sorrow, two for mirth,
three for a wedding,
four for birth"
three for a wedding,
four for birth"
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Ivy gourd chutney or dondakaya pachadi
Ivy gourd (dondakaya in telugu) also called Coccinia grandis, baby water melon, little gourd is a vegetable commonly available across Asia and Africa. Ivy gourd extracts are helpful to treat joint pain and control blood sugar levels because of the enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase. There are so many recipes in Indian cuisine with Ivy gourd as a main ingredient. Here is one of them, Ivy gourd chutney prepared with raw and half ripen ivy gourd and some spices. It tastes very good .
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves: 2 people
Ivy gourd: 6 nos.( sliced)
Onion : 1 small ( sliced)
Coriander: 4 stems
Green chillies: 3 nos
Mustard seeds: 1/2 tsp
Split Bengal gram: 1/2 tsp
Urad dal: 1/2 tsp
Coriander seeds: 1/2 tsp
Red chillies: 2 nos.
Tamrind : small piece
Asafoetida: small pinch
Turmeric powder: small pinch
Oil : 2 tsp
Salt to taste
Take a kadai with 1 tsp oil add sliced onions, saute till onions are half cooked. Add sliced Ivy gourd cover with a lid stirring occassionally till both are cooked. (If the Ivy gaurds are completely raw, add ivy gaurd first and when it is cooked then add onions) Take it into a bowl.
Add 1 tsp oil in the kadai, add mustard seeds when it splutters add split bengal gram, urad dal, coriander seeds, green chillies, asafoetida, saute till they are goldern brown then add green chillies, tamrind, coriander leaves and saute for a minute. Let it cool down and take it into a jar grind it once, now add fried onions, ivy gourd, salt,turmeric powder and grind it into a fine paste.
Serve with steamed rice along with ghee.


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Love love your Christmas tree bokeh!! :) Tis the season!ReplyDelete
This last pic is stunning the cloros are gorgeous what is your indoor pic trick. My indoor pics are never as good as my outdoor pics. I know you've talked about this before and wondered if you have a new trick. I also can not afford a fancy camera with a high ISOReplyDelete
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Sheva- Indoor pictures are tricky without a flash or professional camera. Basically I have 1.8 50mm lens that I use 99% of the time. I use the 1.8 f-stop and it mostly allows me to take indoor photos, sometimes they aren't as sharp though. I also have one room in my house (where this last photo was taken) that is bright enough to take portraits as long as they don't move too fast. Otherwise as a last resort I use my flash with a homemade diffuser on it. If you have an editing program that can edit RAW then you could shoot in RAW and up the exposure in edit. This will work up to a certain point.
The last photo I shot at 3.5, 1/80 and ISO 200 -no flash and in jpeg.
Hope this helps! Love your photography, it's VERY good! I would love to know what kind of gear you use!


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I feel that there is a curse and a blessing when following the path of God. The curse part is my own words and not God's of course, but sometimes this is how I feel. The closer you get with God, the more you will have to learn to reject the ways of the world and go with what God is telling you to do. And this can sometimes hurt you to the core.
In my life, going with the ways of God means that I have had to stop idolizing the things that I wanted out of life and understand that the things that God was giving me was sufficient. This is easier said that done. I had stop with feeling like me getting married or being in a relationship was the only source to my happiness. I had to stop and realize that me having a million dollars should not define me or my happiness.
Although I want to get married and I want a million dollars, if these things never happen I have to be content in what God has given me. This is because I have to learn to trust God and trust that He is giving me exactly what I need at whatever point I am in my life. I also had to learn that my identity is not given to me by money or a husband, but in God.
Although this sounds easy, it takes an understanding that all the things you want out of life really means nothing and only God matters. It is not to say that God does not want to give you a husband, children, mansion on the hill, or more money than you can count; but He does not want you to get your identity through these things. Because to God, none of these things matter and if He feels that by giving you these things it will take your attention away from Him; then He is not going to give it to you.
This train of thought goes against everything our flesh is telling us to do. Our flesh tells us that to be somebody we must have a picture perfect life, and if we do not have these things then something must be wrong with us. God must not love us. We must not believe hard enough or be praying hard enough because God is not giving us what we want.
It is a fine line between seeing God as someone who wants to lead and guide us in the life path that He wants for us and seeing Him as a genie. For me, and for many people, I have felt that these things go hand and hand. If I ask God for something then of course I should get it.
How many times has your Christian life turned into something of self centeredness in which you only focus on you, what you want, what you are not getting, and when things are not happening for you then nothing else matters.
I used to be that person and still am often times. But I have learned one lesson. Even when I was struggling, lonely, stressed out, and do not feel close to God; when faced with a test or opposition doing what God wants me to do still comes first even if I do not feel like it.
And this is what we call growth. Being a Christian is not about you, it is about showing and teaching others through your life. Believe it or not, when times are hard, when you are depressed, when you are praying for a break through and nothing is happening, those who know you are Christian are watching you to see what you do. They want to see if you walk the walk or just talk the talk. They want to see if you are willing to turn your back on God because you are going through a hard time or not getting what you want; or if you are willing to praise God in the midst of the storm.
I know when I first started on being serious about my Christian walk. When I prayed something happened, when i wanted something I got it, and I thought this is what God was all about. As time went on I noticed that God wanted to see what I was going to do when I felt like His love was not about giving me what I wanted. When the real life problems started to hit, would I still remain true on the things He has taught me?
How many of you feel the same way? Like God is no where to be found because when you pray nothing is happening? You have to view your situation and God in a different way. I read an excerpt from a book called the Screw tape letters it states:
"God withdraws. He leaves the creature to stand up on its own legs. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles. It is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our God's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
Man this verse is deep it gives me the chills. So when God does not give you want you want, when all your enemies are bless and you are looking lost and forsaken, and even when you feel that God is gone BUT you still chose to obey the what God is telling you to do, then you have past the test. Not only have you past, but you are almost invincible in the things of the world. And this is what you want, and the key to getting everything you want.
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آنچه را که چشم نمی بیند ، ذهن نمی تواند رد کند: آیا محل مرکز تماس های فوریتی می تواند تفاوت ها را در ارزیابی مشتری توضیح دهید؟
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : International Business Review, Volume 21, Issue 5, October 2012, Pages 957–967
چکیده انگلیسی
Moving call centers offshore may be an effective way to increase service productivity by lowering costs, yet recent research suggests that customers associate offshore call centers with lower service quality. This study clarifies customer evaluations of call centers with a field study that examines how customer perceptions of a foreign accent, call center location, and the agent's customer orientation relate to nonmonetary performance outcomes. Multivariate analysis of data collected from more than 800 customers using call centers located in three countries suggests that neither accent detection nor call center location relates to customer satisfaction, trust, or word-of-mouth communication; only perceived customer orientation has an effect on these outcomes. These findings suggest offshore call center locations are not necessarily associated with lower performance outcomes and that service firms should place a higher priority on ensuring call center agents have a strong customer orientation, rather than on avoiding the use of call centers abroad.
مقدمه انگلیسی
Many firms have moved call centers and service operations to lower cost locations in other countries in an attempt to achieve their strategic goals of improving their cost structure or increasing their profitability (Bunyaratavej et al., 2007, Kedia and Lahiri, 2007, Miozzo and Grimshaw, 2008 and Tate et al., 2009). If the same service can be provided at lower labor costs, ceteris paribus, the firm should employ the less costly resource. Service outsourcing driven by cost-reduction motives does not necessarily involve the internationalization of business activities, but very often it does coincide with the internationalization of the firm (e.g., Massini & Miozzo, in press). Despite a continued trend towards internationalization of service firms, recent management research focusing on offshore call centers (OSCs) suggests that service firms may benefit in the long term if they resist earning short-term profits from offshoring, because those profits come at the expense of customer satisfaction and loyalty ( Stringfellow et al., 2008 and Whitaker et al., 2008). Both popular and academic press imply that consumers disapprove of OSCs on the grounds of fairness (i.e., they substantially undercut domestic call centers' wages), ethics (e.g., lax labor laws), and service quality ( Musico, 2008, Stringfellow et al., 2008 and Thelen et al., 2009). The latter point is particularly common as an explanation of consumer resentment toward and dwindling acceptance of OSCs ( Hayward, 2004 and Raiborn et al., 2009), and reports of increased customer dissatisfaction levels with OSCs have led many firms to relocate centers closer to home. For example, in 2011, the computer backup firm Carbonite moved its customer service call center from India back to the United States, citing a desire to increase customer service levels ( Isidore, 2011). Previous studies also show that customers evaluate OSCs less favorably than domestic call centers, regardless of whether they are aware (Roggeveen, Bharadwaj, & Hoyer, 2007) or unaware (Bharadwaj & Roggeveen, 2008) of which type of call center (domestic or offshore) they encountered. These findings appear to corroborate the notion that services delivered by OSCs are inferior to those delivered by domestic call centers. However, findings in relation to the reasons for customers' varying perceptions of the services delivered by OSCs are equivocal. Some studies refer to customer attributions of poorer competence and skills (Bharadwaj and Roggeveen, 2008, Pontes and O'Brien Kelly, 2000 and Rafaeli et al., 2008), but others suggest that customers' evaluations of OSCs are shaped less by actual service levels than by customers' resentment toward offshore services in general (Kwak et al., 2006, Thelen et al., 2009 and Thelen et al., 2011). It appears that customer-related performance outcomes may relate as much to a call center agent's (CCA's) ability to help the customer achieve his or her goals as they do to the OSC's location. In a call center context, the ability to help the customer depends on the CCA's ability to communicate effectively and a willingness to respond to customer needs. However, no study has simultaneously examined the relationship of the CCA's accent and the call center location, together with the CCA's customer orientation (as perceived by the customer), to key performance outcomes. In investigating these relationships, we draw on and extend previous research. For example, Bharadwaj and Roggeveen (2008) find that customers associate poorer communication skills with the CCA when the call center is located abroad versus domestically; we predict that customers are more likely to perceive an accent when interacting with a CCA based abroad than one based domestically. An accent likely coincides with generally poorer communication skills and therefore may relate negatively to customer-related performance outcomes for OSCs (Munro and Derwing, 1995 and Weil, 2003). In addition, customers calling customer service centers expect their issues to be addressed effectively (i.e., resolution on the first call) and courteously (Feinberg, Kim, Hokama, de Ruyter, & Keen, 2000). The agent behavior and action that is best suited to meet customer expectations (i.e., customer orientation) should therefore have more predictive power than the actual location of the call center or the agent's perceived accent. Although customer orientation, defined here as the extent to which employee behavior meets customer needs, drives customer outcomes (e.g., Hennig-Thurau, 2004 and Homburg et al., 2011) and has been studied in relation to CCAs (Dean, 2007), it remains largely absent from the literature on customer-related performance outcomes for OSCs. Dean (2007) investigates the effect of CCAs' customer orientation on three downstream variables (perceived service quality, customer loyalty, and commitment) but does not distinguish between domestic and offshore CCAs. In investigating the relationships among CCA-related variables (i.e., accent and customer orientation), call center location, and the three performance outcomes, we thus attempt to close several research gaps. Moreover, we apply insights from homophily and attribution theory when designing our study of customers exposed to OSCs. We demonstrate that customers are more likely to perceive foreign accents when interacting with OSCs compared with domestic call centers. However, unlike perceived customer orientation, call center location and an agent's accent are not related to the three performance outcomes. In addition to being theoretically interesting, this research thus is relevant for international managerial practice, because we investigate performance outcomes that can be linked easily to profitability (Guo, Kumar, & Jiraporn, 2004), and our findings offer guidance to firms considering where to locate front-office operations (i.e., sales and customer service).


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Victor Hugo Quotes About LaughterQuotes about: Laughter
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars -all the beauties of creation.
The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows. A burst of laughter starts from a scene of emotion. In a moment of buffoonery, the serious enters. Impulses depend on a chance word. The spirit of each is sovereign. A jest suffices to open the door to the unexpected. They are conferences with sharp turns, where the perspective suddenly changes. Chance is the director of these conversations.
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GEORGE KENNEDYv.JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, ET AL
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George Kennedy has brought this pro se action against (1) JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Jamie Dimon, Deutsche Bank National Trust Company, and Renaldo Reyes, (2) Thomas Barnett, Dominette Celli and Michelle Berkeley-Ayres (associated with the Atlantic Law Group, LLC), and Greenberg Traurig, P.A., Dennis Melero and Cory Eichhorn.
Plaintiff has pleaded no viable claim against the defendants associated with the Atlantic Law Group or Greenberg Traurig. All that the Atlantic Law Group did was to file a foreclosure action in Delaware in connection with the property that is the subject of this action. All that Greenberg Traurig did was to successfully oppose a motion to intervene filed by Kennedy in the Delaware action. Kennedy's claims in this action, which apparently arise from alleged statements made on behalf of JPMorgan Chase Bank that 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC would be permitted to assume a mortgage previously issued to Helen Hines which was in default at the time the Delaware action was instituted, had nothing to do with either the Atlantic Law Group or Greenberg Traurig. If Kennedy contends that any lawyer committed fraud in connection with the Delaware action, he should file an action in the Delaware court in which the fraud allegedly occurred.
Kennedy's claims against JPMorgan Chase and related defendants likewise fail. Kennedy clearly alleges in the complaint and argues in his opposition that he is bringing this action in his individual capacity and as the manager of 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC. He further alleges that he at one time was a twenty percent owner of 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC and presently is a one hundred percent owner. However, it was 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC, not Kennedy himself, who allegedly was to become the purchaser of the property in question. Thus, Kennedy personally has no claim against JPMorgan Bank N.A. and the related defendants.[1]
Further, Kennedy has alleged no facts that would substantiate any claim against the JPMorgan defendants. Any fraudulent statements made in connection with the original issuance of the mortgage obviously had nothing to do with 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC because Helen Hines, not 302 S. Ocean Drive LLC, was the owner of the property in question. Moreover, Kennedy has alleged no facts to ...
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I'm sure everyone of you must've noticed the 'new, improved' TwitterBook, err... I mean Facebook. I personally do not like Twitter and keep away from it. Facebook is a nice platform (for the public as well as the web developers, I'm sure the latter will in no way disagree with me!).
But the new Facebook is bad, really bad. A complete Twitter rip off and also tries to act smart by integrating Twitter. Why, oh Why did you haf to do this, Facebook? The main interface is a complete mess now, worser than my trash can. The Wall is hidden behind another 'wall', all the 'cool and innovative' Facebook features are now lost in the oblivion and all I can see on the homepage is now garbage!
What do you all think? Do you like the new Facebook?


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Homily for the
16th Sunday
in Ordinary Time
July 22, 2012
Jer 23: 1-6
Mark 6: 30-34
Christian Brothers, Iona College, N.R.
"I myself will gather the remnant of my flock from all the lands to which I have driven them" (Jer 23: 3).
Jeremiah is the classic "bad news" prophet, the prophet of doom and gloom. The shepherds of Israel—the kings of Judah and the priests of Jerusalem—have been leading the people astray. They've tolerated, if not encouraged, idolatry. They've made political choices at odds with God's will. They've thrived on social injustice, ignoring the needs of the poor. For instance, 100 years before Jeremiah the prophet Micah had denounced those who "covet fields and seize them; houses, and they take them. They cheat the owner of his house, a man of his inheritance" (2:2). Jeremiah faulted nobles, priests, and people for adultery, slander, deceptive practices, and other crimes.
Consequently God has given Judah over to her enemies, the king of Babylon and his army, who have deposed one king and taken him, many of the nobles, army officers, and craftsmen into exile, and they've put a new king—intended to be their puppet—on the throne. But the new king and the remaining leaders are no wiser than the old ones.
"You have scattered my sheep and driven them away," Jeremiah decries, speaking in God's name. "You have not cared for them, but I will take care to punish your evil deeds" (23:2). Worse things are going to come upon Jerusalem, the priests, and the royal family at the hands of the Babylonians.
But Jeremiah also has good news, a promise of better days. God will bring back together the scattered flock, and he will find them a good shepherd, "a righteous shoot" from David's house, who "shall reign and govern wisely, shall do what is just and right in the land" (23:5). "In his days," Jeremiah continues, "Judah shall be saved, Israel shall dwell in security. This is the name they give him: 'The Lord our justice'" (23:6).
Whatever Jeremiah may have thought God had in mind about a new and righteous king from the descendants of King David, and a restoration of the kingdom to peace, prosperity, and justice on all levels, we don't find that fulfilled in the history of Israel between Jeremiah's days, 600 years B.C., and the destruction of Jerusalem and the province of Judea by the Romans in A.D. 70; nor does it look like today's state of Israel is fulfilling what Jeremiah promised.
St. Mark, however, finds its fulfillment in that Son of David whose "heart was moved with pity for the vast crowd, for they were like sheep without a shepherd" (6:34). The apostles have just been out on a preaching and healing mission, as we heard last week (6:7-13); they've come back, excited and, presumably, exhausted—this is where this evening's gospel picks up. Furthermore, Jesus and the 12 have heard the terrible news that Herod the tetrarch has executed John the Baptist—the passage in ch. 6 preceding our reading (6:17-29)—which we may be sure unnerves them, shocks them. It's also Mark's subtle contrast between the shepherding style of Herod and that of Jesus; Herod proves to be no better than the kings and leaders whom Jeremiah denounced, a "shepherd who misleads and scatters the flock of my pasture" (23:1), who causes the flock to "fear and tremble" (23:4), who disposes of those sent by God, like John the Baptist.
So it's a good time for Jesus and the 12 to disappear for a while, to "go away to a deserted place and rest" (Mark 6:31), to evaluate what they've been doing, what Herod's done, what the scribes and Pharisees are saying; to ponder what God's asking of them at this point; to do some pastoral planning.
But life intervenes; reality shows up. The vast crowd of abandoned sheep shows up at their "deserted place." And Jesus, a true shepherd, responds to their hunger by "teaching them many things" (6:34). Unlike the evil shepherds of Jeremiah's age, he cares for the flock, gathers them together instead of scattering them, leads them securely with his teaching, his gentle manner, and (tho Mark doesn't say it here) his binding up their wounds. As we'll hear next week, he even feeds them when they're hungry for physical food as well as for sound teaching (John 6:1-15; cf. Mark 6:34-44).
|From an altarpiece in a church in Copenhagen
All of which is a sign, a prelude, to Jesus' saving of Judah, his establishing Israel in security, his role as the Lord's justice. The ultimate salvation, the ultimate security, that he offers to the flock is a right relationship with God (righteousness, or justice in the biblical meaning of the term). He heals more than bodies. His teaching brings God close to the flock and makes the flock want to stay with God. "He is our peace," St. Paul will proclaim (Eph 2:14), who has "reconciled us with God" (2:16) and given us access to the Father (2:18).
Each celebration of the Eucharist (or any of the other sacraments) is an invitation from Jesus, our good shepherd, to "come away and rest a while," to be with him and receive access thru him to the Father; to be restored to a good relationship with the Father thru the forgiveness of our sins and a close union with the Son who cares so much for us poor, directionless, and scattered sheep. So at the beginning of Mass we acknowledge our sins and our humble need to be restored; and we open ourselves to God's work—liturgy is literally a "public work" in classical Greek, but here it's God's work, the mysteries by which he acts to save us, give us peace, lead us to an eternal dwelling in security.


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Saturday, 12 April 2014
Missing in action
Still I am back now and after a fab delivery of new goodies I have another box card to show you.
Dont forget you can order supplies direct from my shop at Stampin` Up! just enter Tracey Gardner as your demonstrator or email me at email@example.com
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Lovely pop-up box.ReplyDelete
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This is a blog that Andy has written to describe his battle with cystic fibrosis. Andy is 40 years old and is married to his beautiful bride Andrea and has two miracle children, Avery and Ethan. Andy appreciates each day and hopes to show the doubters that in his world CF stands for Can Fight!
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Today's blogger MVPs are my wife Andrea, my sister Emily, her boyfriend Justin and my stepfather-in-law Glenn. Thanks to my team too. I got hit on the wrist by a 90 mph fastball from our terrific SS, who incidentally used to pitch in the Dodgers organization. If I were a MLB first baseman, I probably catch that ball but I'm an old rec player so the ball tagged me on the wrist. Several OF on the team said they could hear the pop from where they were standing. My sister and her boyfriend picked me up at the field as I waited in the rain and lightning. Thanks to my friend Drew who let me hang out in his car while I waited.
The hospital photograph can be credited to Andrea. The highlight was when the doctor came in and looked at my chart, looked at me again and then down at my chart again. Andrea asked "What?" He showed it to her and she laughed. They had me as a female. Looks like I had a case of the Mondays.
Andrea and her stepdad met us at the hospital where the final analysis was a bad bone bruise, a week wearing a splint and seeing my Braves fall in extra innings. I got home just before 1am this morning. Here's the strange thing. I had a dream the night before that I needed surgery.
Anyway, I'm fine and won't seek out sympathy...except from my kids and Andrea and possibly the fine people at My Friends Place in Duluth where I dine several times a week. Maybe I'll get an extra fruit cup out of it.
Oh, and incidentally, Off the Bench won and we are slowly moving up the standings. I know that was your first question, right? I also worked out this morning but I only used my right arm to lift.
I have cut my CF routine a bit to give myself a break. I have removed Pulmozyme from my nightly therapy to give me an extra 20 minutes off. It has really helped me get more rest and hang out with my family more. Honestly, it also prevents me from procrastinating from doing all of my stuff because I don't have to dwell about the length of time my therapy takes at night. The doctor okayed the change. I do some of my meds at work now before I go home and just charge my portable machine here.
Andrea and I had a great weekend as well. We got to spend a lot of quality time together in a very relaxing place without the kiddos. Thanks to my in-laws for watching them. The coolest thing was that we got to see a lot of amazing waterfalls and got to see nature at its finest.
I'm in a good place both emotionally and physically (other than my forearm). I plan to be back on the field next Monday.
I hope everyone had a great Passover and a Happy Easter.
T-minus 63 days till my 20-year reunion. Is it time to start picking out a wardrobe? Ha Ha!
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Pool party
Some members of the Diamondbacks are mad that the Dodgers partied in their pool after Los Angeles defeated Arizona 7-6, clinching their first NL West title since 2009.
D-backs infielder Willie Bloomquist sounded off, saying:
It's surprising because they have a lot of veteran guys on that team that I thought were classier than that. I just think they have enough guys on that team that it's surprising that they would allow that to happen. You have to give credit where credit is due. They won the division; congratulations to them, but I would expect them to act with a little more class than they did. I doubt the New York Yankees would do something like that.
I love the idea that the Yankees, who for decades were run by an owner who was suspended by baseball not once but twice, whose current GM tells his players publicly to "shut the fuck up" are seen as this classy organization, but I suppose that's another conversation.
Back to business - what's left of baseball purists will likely believe that the best way to keep opponents from celebrating in your pool is not to have one in your stadium in the first place.
This is just the latest case of baseball players proving themselves to be the world's most sensitive athletes - is it me or does it seem like every week brings about another unwritten baseball rule controversy? Now the Dodgers are supposedly "classless" because they jumped in a pool (didn't you know, that's in the book also?). I suppose that the D'Backs consider the pool to be some sort of sacred ground, but I still have to disagree with the reaction from Bloomquist.
The Dodgers completed one of the more dramatic turnarounds in baseball history, going from the basement in late June to a division title, and that is certainly an achievement worthy of a celebratory dip.After toweling off, manager Don Mattingly and his band of $200m stars will attempt to find the balance between getting some rest while staying sharp. Mattingly would be wise to keep his regulars on the field for most of the remaining season, baseball being a sport of timing and repetition that can only be honed by playing in real games, even if they mean little in the standings.
PS - If I were an Arizona D'Back, I'd be a lot more offended by this.
Lonely stars
The Texas Rangers are in the midst of their second consecutive late season collapse. However, unlike a season ago, this current Rangers slide could see them out of the playoffs altogether. With just 10 games to go, With just 10 games to go, Texas are fighting for their postseason existence, mired in a muck of soul destroying baseball. On August 31st, Texas were in the thick of a race for the American League West division title, up a pair of games on their rivals, the Oakland A's, and seemingly in control. They had just finished off their best month of the campaign, winning 20 games, despite the loss of slugger Nelson Cruz to a suspension for performance-enhancing drugs. In fact, their offense had not slowed down a bit - even without one of their key cogs in a lineup that averaged close to six runs per game in August. Meanwhile, the pitching staff put up their best numbers of the season during the month, and so the team was cruising - coolstandings.com put their chances at October baseball at 97.1%.
Then, suddenly, as the calendar flipped over, their bats died, slumbering to under 3.5 runs per game while a handful of their pitchers completely forgot how to throw. Next thing you know the division race was virtually over and the panic was back in Arlington, where they recently dropped six games in a row. Altogether, they are 4-13 in September, now battling a pack of six AL teams trying to shoehorn themselves into two playoff spots, 6.5 games behind Oakland - that's a swing of more than eight games in 19 days, during which their chances of reaching the postseason has plummeted by more than 30%.
This is a different story to 2012, when the Rangers coughed up a five game AL West lead in the blink of an eye. On September 24th, with just nine games to go, they had a 95% chance of winning the division, only for their season to fall apart at a blistering pace. The freefall made the A's unlikely division winners - the consolation prize was a one game wildcard game at home to Baltimore. They lost 5-1. Just like that, a season in which a third straight World Series appearance was well within in reach, was over.
This time around the agony seems destined to be spread across an entire month rather than 10 grim days. When the Rangers went out and acquired Matt Garza to bolster their pitching staff, they couldn't have thought they would be getting a pitcher that would allow more than eight runs per nine innings in September. Derek Holland is another rotation stalwart who has just killed Texas down the stretch - his ERA is approaching eight this month. Ian Kinsler and Adrian Beltre, two major pieces that just couldn't slump with Cruz out, have been abysmal. All manager Ron Washington can do is go out there and play his best team, while deflecting speculation that the swoon will cost him his job. Washington told ESPN radio in Dallas:
I'm not going to give that any legs. Let the people who put that out there answer it. I never said one thing about fearing for my job. I'm steadfast in what my job is on this ballclub, and that's to be the best manager for this organization and back my players, back my coaches and back the organization. I want to be the best manager possible, and that hasn't changed.
Right now it's Ron Washington's job to try somehow convince his players that one loss isn't connected to the next, to keep up his team's mental state through a second consecutive September slide. Wednesday gave an indication of just how serious a scenario the Rangers are in - Washington, up six runs against Tampa, brought in his closer, Joe Nathan to close the door on the Rays. The rare September victory kept Texas in the second wildcard playoff spot for another day.
Bashing birds
On Tuesday night in Boston Chris Davis hit his 51st home run to become the Baltimore Orioles all-time single season home run leader. He passed the entertaining Brady Anderson, who is well known for the 50 homers he hit out of absolutely nowhere in 1996. Anderson, who hit a combined 72 homers in the first eight years of his career, is one of those players that stands out in the so-called steroid era. Whenever I think of Anderson's 50 homers and the speculation of PED use that came later, I recall an amusing defense he once provided. I'm paraphrasing here, but he once said something to the effect of:
"So let me get this straight. I started taking steroids in 1996, hit 50 home runs, and then because I hated the success, attention and fame that came with it, not to mention the kind of contract I could have gotten, I decided, no, that's OK, I don't want any of that, then stopped taking steroids and went back to putting up my regular numbers. "
That's the jist of what I believe Anderson said, which, whether you believe him or not, is really quite funny, and represents the kind of personality he brought to the Orioles during his 14 seasons with the team. More officially, Anderson told the Baltimore Sun in 2004:
Because I only hit 50 home runs once, it was, in fact, an aberration. However, it was not a fluke. Nothing can be considered a fluke that takes six months to accomplish. Rather it was a culmination of all my athleticism and baseball skills and years of training peaking simultaneously. This was my athletic opus...Hitting in front of [Roberto] Alomar, [Rafael] Palmeiro, [Bobby] Bonilla and [Cal] Ripken didn't hurt, either.
Anderson, who is the Vice President of Baseball for the Orioles has been an enormous supporter of Davis, and on Wednesday, Anderson was in Boston to celebrate with him. He told the Baltimore Sun:
He's a really good hitter. I told him, 'Dude, I can see you contending for a batting title one year,' and he said, 'Exactly, so do I.' So the fact that he's been hitting around .300 all year, I'm as happy about that as anything. But that goes hand in hand. His home runs and his average, same as mine did.
After dropping the series finale to Boston 3-1 on Wednesday, Baltimore travel to Tampa Bay with a huge series against the Rays, one that could go a long way in determining whether or not Davis' Orioles reach the playoffs for the second consecutive season. The Red Sox victory means they have clinched a wildcard at the very least, reaching the postseason for the first time since 2009. Sox pitcher John Lackey took a no-hitter into the seventh inning for a Boston team that could wrap up an AL East title as early as Friday.
Billy ball
The old adage around light hitting but speedy players is that they can't steal first base - however, I wouldn't put it past Billy Hamilton. The Cincinnati Reds prospect stole 155 bases last season and has finally arrived on the big league scene where he has had an immediate impact. On Wednesday against the Astros, Hamilton stole four bags bringing his total to nine since arriving with the big club in early September. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he's "he's the first player in the "live ball era" (since 1920) to steal four bases in his first start". Mobile users can take a look at Hamilton's handy work by clicking here.
Believe it or not, as you can see above, Hamilton's in-game heroics weren't even the most interesting thing that happened on the base paths this week.
The third place Reds are making a run at the division title after taking three straight against the Astros to pull within two games of the first place St Louis Cardinals in the competitive National League Central. They face the second place Pirates in a series which starts on Friday which could determine home field advantage in a one-game wildcard playoff against Pittsburgh.
Hitting streak snapped
Denard Span is a big reason why the Washington Nationals have climbed back into the wildcard race thanks to a 13-4 September record. Span's 29-game hitting streak, which was snapped on Thursday after he went 0-4 in the Nats narrow 3-2 win at home over the Marlins, was the longest in MLB since 2011. After the game he said:
It was a few things -- I haven't not gotten a hit in 29 days, so that felt weird, walking back to the dugout without getting a hit. I felt sad, like I let myself down, let the fans down, they've been rooting for me...but once I hear the round of applause, it did make me feel a bit better.
The Nationals are now five games behind the second wildcard spot with nine games to play, which means it would take a complete and total meltdown by the leading Reds or Pirates for Washington to even have a hope. With Pittsburgh and Cincinnati's pitching, the Nats' chances of returning to the postseason are a long shot at best. Meanwhile, the Tigers are days away from clinching a third consecutive AL Central title, but apparently Prince Fielder is hungry for more.


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Well, we did it. We finished our very first triathlon! Thank you Laura for committing to do the triathlon with me! Have you ever heard the expression, "I feel like I've been hit by a mack truck"? Well, that's how I feel right now! The swimming was SO much harder than I ever imagined. People were kicking lake water right in my mouth. A few times I had to stop and cough, gag and everything else to get the water out. The biking was hard too. There were some pretty big hills on the course. Then came the running...running is not my thing. I hooked up with this girl named Kristi and we were buds for pretty much the whole 3 miles. We finished together! It was a great experience and accomplishment but I don't see any triathlons in my near future.
Saturday, July 28, 2007
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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Last night we went to the Luis Palau Heartland Festival! It was extremely hot but we had a great time! The best part was seeing Mandisa, TobyMac, Building 429, Salvador and KJ-52 all for free!! Fischer did not like Larry the Cucumber! Luis was a good speaker too, very straightforward with the young people. The Omaha Police said there was 40-50,000 people and they were only expecting 20-30,000.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
It's hard to see, but above is a picture of someone who could not afford a boat!
Ok, so my aunt Sheree convinced us to go out to this crazy neighborhood and watch fireworks! I know I said this last year, but these people in Nebraska are crazy about their fireworks! I didn't want to go because last year I was so scared, however Franklin really enjoys it and so I went. I was a nervous wreck the entire time...watching 6 teenage boys with brains that haven't fully developed(sorry but it's a fact) light fireworks was more than I could handle. I am not looking forward to the day when Fischer wants to light fireworks! Anyway, here are a few pics from the evening.
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Saturday, December 26, 2009
Sweet Potato Biscuit Muffins - A Holiday Baking Mishap
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Review of The Scarsdale Winter Market
Last weekend, I drove over the (Saw Mill) River (Road) and through the (sparse) woods to Scarsdale, NY on a quest to find the indoor farmers market. Scarsdale has a reputation for being a rather tony place (in fact, the village's Wikipedia entry list dedicates quite a bit of space to the famous and infamous who live(d) there).
Which is probably why everyone was flocking to the downtown area on Saturday afternoon. By the time I navigated the quaint and cramped streets lined with Tudor-revival-style architecture and Land Rovers, I was ready to make this my one and only visit to the market. But as I pulled into the municipal parking garage, I realized the indoor market was really incongruous compared to the other parts of the village.
Because the market is literally set up in a parking garage. No frills, but it works. With a mix of vendors selling everything from cheese to honey to woolen scarves, you can pretty much find anything you want (except takeout Indian. Chutney Masala was not there, as I had hoped).
In fact, the lone produce vendor had quite the assortement -- including purple cauliflower and a variety of mushrooms. He even had greenhouse tomatoes (which, if not as tasty as summer tomatoes from the field, were at least locally grown).
I picked up some apples and shallots, plus a head of purple cauliflower (still looking for inspiration on how to use it!) and drove back home, passing a Hastings farmers market sign on the way. Yes, I could have avoid the trip (and probably scored some samosas) as my local market is open one Saturday a month during the winter season. Oh well, I would have missed counting Land Rovers.
The Scarsdale market is located in the garage at 1 Christie Place every Saturday.
Future dates for the Hastings on Hudson market are January 9, February 13 and March 13 at the Community Center on Main St.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
'Tis The Season for Entertaining
Do a Google search and it seems like everyone and their brother has a pumpkin trifle recipe. Last weekend, I made this as written but am thinking about using artificial helpers (e.g., the old instant pudding and whipped topping route) next time to get a lighter and fluffier mousse with fewer calories. Will let you know how it goes!
1 8x8 pan of Gingerbread cake (prepared from scratch or from a mix like the one from Trader Joe's)


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|Simple mini hedge
I made something on my own with no tutorials, lol. Yay!
I have always loved our privacy hedges. They surround our family home on three sides, and I have fond memories of searching for lady bugs in the hedges for hours on end with my best friends, Laurie and Maria, when I was a little girl.
I wondered if a hedge would look nice on my patio, to help anchor the topiary trees, so I made a very simple one. I used left over foam core from my bake shop, cut it so it would be 4 inches tall (4 feet tall in miniville, lol), and as long as I needed it to fit on the patio. I cut two pieces in the size that I needed, glued them together with tacky glue, and painted them green and brown so the white wouldn't show through.
When that was dry, I chopped up some dollar store reindeer and regular moss so it was smaller, coated the foam with tacky glue, and dipped it in the chopped moss.
After it dried (it took all day), I cut a thick craft stick to fit along the bottom of the hedge, painted it dark brown, let it dry, and glued it to the mossy foam using a glue gun. Then I ran a bead of glue gun glue along the edges of the craft stick and added dried coffee grains to simulate dirt. I gently pushed the grounds down so they were completely embedded in the glue. I used the glue gun to stick the hedge with dirt bottom onto my patio and was done. Sorry I didn't photos of steps along the way, but I was experimenting and wasn't sure how it would turn out.
|Rear view of mini hedge
|Dolls enjoying outdoor patio and hedge
|Mini patio
|Mini patio with hedge and topiary trees
I am loving this, can you tell? Hope you're enjoying the journey with me.


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Maybe he looked at Quincy the wrong way; gave him the Stink Eye, so to speak. Maybe he was taunting Quincy since he gets to sleep with our son while Quincy has to sleep downstairs. Maybe he challenged Quincy to a fight.
He had it coming
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He had it coming
Originally uploaded by Mike F.
Whatever it was, he lost. Quincy beat the stuffing out of him. That will teach the other toys to mess with Quincy.
I didn't get much sleep last night. Can you tell?