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Posts Tagged 'distributed systems'
Funding small-scale solar projects for widespread gains
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on May 3rd, 2012
Photo by Rajiv Patel (Rajiv's View) via flickr CC
From "Solar rooftops sought in poor communities" by Bernice Yeung:
San Diego is home to more than 2,600 solar residential rooftops – more than any other California city – but in the neighboring lower-income community of National City, there are only about a dozen.
A bill before the California Assembly Committee on Utilities and Commerce this month seeks to equalize renewable energy installation in the state by promoting small-scale solar rooftops in the disadvantaged communities. The bill targets neighborhoods with high unemployment rates and those that "bear a disproportionate burden from air pollution, disease, and other impacts from the generation of electricity from the burning of fossil fuels," the bill said. Bill author Assemblyman Paul Fong, D-Mountain View, said the legislation would create jobs and build "cleaner, safer, and healthier neighborhoods."
The legislation would require the state to install enough systems to produce 375 megawatts of renewable energy – or about 1,000 small-scale projects – in disadvantaged communities between 2014 and the end of 2020. Utility companies are required by a 2011 state law to achieve a 33 percent renewable portfolio standard by 2020. The renewable energy systems supported by Fong's bill would take the form of rooftop solar installations on apartment complexes and commercial buildings, and each project would be limited to producing 500 kilowatts of power, a project the size of a typical Costco rooftop. Advocates say passage of the bill could improve both the health and economy of these low-income communities.
Through a program known as "feed-in tariff," the owner of the solar panels would be able to earn revenue by selling back unused energy to the local utility company. Additionally, the bill promotes the hiring of local workers to install the solar panels. And because reliance on carbon dioxide-emitting power plants used during periods of high energy demand – called peaker plants – could be decreased with an increase in renewable energy creation, there are health implications to the bill, said Strela Cervas of the California Environmental Justice Alliance, which sponsored the legislation.
Read the full article by Bernice Yeung on California Watch.
Adaptive Capacity: Design for Resilience and Resourcefulness
Posted in Movements, Research by Kate Archdeacon on April 13th, 2011
Source: Core 77
From "Building Adaptive Capacity: Towards a Design for Sustainability 3.0" by Michael Sammet:
Designing to expand adaptive capacity means creating objects, templates and platforms that allow people and systems to survive and even thrive in a complex and uncertain planet. In a world increasingly shaped by peak oil, global warming, economic uncertainty and environmental disasters (Deep Water Horizon, Pakistani floods, Fukushima), designers are coming to grips with how to help users create local resilience and self-reliance. In fact, the concept of resilience has become an important term that designers are just now grappling with. An emergent property of systems that is related to the "longevity" tenet of sustainability but qualitatively different from its "no impact" focus, resilience is concerned with cycles of change and positive adaptation. Resilience thinking integrates social and environmental factors into a holistic framework that helps users prepare for —or even take advantage of—shocks to a system.
In their 2006 book Resilience Thinking, Brian Walker and David Salt explain the concept of the four phases of the adaptive cycle: rapid growth, conservation, release and reorganization. They argue that building adaptive capacity based on resilience, not optimal efficiency, allows systems to absorb and prepare for external disturbances without crossing thresholds that shift to another regime. Designers need to consider differentiated, integrated strategies for change rather than rational, efficient strategies that maximize and exploit the growth of early stages. These growth-focused systems certainly yield more substantial paybacks but at the expense of resilience, such that they are more prone to massive shakeups after significant fluctuations. As Salt and Walker explain, "any proposal for sustainable development that does not acknowledge a system's resilience is simply not going to keep delivering goods and services. The key to sustainability lies in enhancing the resilience of social-ecological systems, not in optimizing isolated components of the system."
Design for resilience, which has surfaced at the burgeoning conjunction of environmental science, localism and business scenario planning, is just now beginning to appear on designers' radar and can be implemented on many different levels. At the most practical level, ShelterBox can help a group of ten survive major disaster for a prolonged period. Transition Towns are popping up all over the globe as people begin to redesign their cities in response to the rising cost and resource depletion of fossil fuels. Forage movements, permaculture projects and farmers markets are all examples of ways of building resilient food systems. After recent government interference of communication systems in the Middle East, resilience thinking led designers to consider how to create decentralized, localized Internet and cell phone systems, not just new, faster and lighter versions of the old models.
From a larger article on Design for Sustainability by Michael Sammet for Core 77.
Check out this excellent article about Food Connect's small local network delivering food to residents in the Brisbane floods. KA
From Resilience Theory To Practice: 11 Commandments
Posted in Research by Kate Archdeacon on April 6th, 2011
Source: Stockholm Resilience Centre: Research for governance of social-ecological systems.
Photo of Neural Sky by rox sm via flickr CC
From "The 11 Commandments: Brian Walker presents 11 issues to think about when applying resilience theory":
[Stockholm Resilience Centre Senior Research Fellow] Brian Walker has been instrumental in formulating social-ecological resilience theory. At a time when resilience has become a widespread term used by scientists, politicians, business leaders, NGOs and other practitioners alike, Walker is starting to see the need to develop ideas on how to apply resilience theory into practice.
"This need has become apparent in my work with a range of different practitioners, from Australian farmers hit by climate change effects and global economic trends to the government officials who have to develop appropriate policies. It becomes doubly difficult when you're dealing with regions that involve more than one country, like the Arctic", says Walker. "Generally, the resilience concept is a very useful tool in communicating with practitioners. A common problem, however, is that people tend to focus too much on one scale — the scale that most concerns them. A lot remains to be done when it comes to the practical work of implementation", he continues.
At the recent Resilience 2011 conference in Arizona, Walker presented 11 areas where more attention is needed in order to tackle problems with applying resilience ideas:
- You cannot understand or manage a system by focusing on one scale.
- Increasing resilience at one scale can reduce resilience at other scales.
- Social-ecological systems are essentially self-organizing systems with thresholds.
- Thresholds can move.
- There is a hierarchy of thresholds with some embedded within others.
- Trying to make the system very resilient in one way can lead to loss of resilience in others.
- While theory development around specified resilience (identifying thresholds, etc.) is active and encouraging, the theory on general resilience lacks rigour and needs research.
- Both specified resilience and general resilience are important and interact.
- The proposition of panarchy has become popular and widely used, as a concept, but it, too, lacks rigour in application.
- Resilience and transformability are not "opposites"; they are compatible aspects of a complex adaptive system that functions at multiple scales.
- Navigating the combined influences of exogenous shocks and endogenous changes calls for adaptive governance.
Read the full article for links to Brian Walker's presentation and a video illustrating resilience in humans and ecosystems.
Dispersed Cities Vs MegaCities
Posted in Opinion by Kate Archdeacon on February 7th, 2011
Via Trendwatching
Image of Mumbai by Abhisek Sarda via flickr CC
As unfashionable as it might sound, what if we thought less about the benefits of urban density and more about the many possibilities for proliferating more human-scaled urban centers; what if healthy growth turns out to be best achieved through dispersion, not concentration?
Foreign Policy article Urban Legends: Why suburbs, not cities, are the answer by Joel Kotkin:
The human world is fast becoming an urban world — and according to many, the faster that happens and the bigger the cities get, the better off we all will be. The old suburban model, with families enjoying their own space in detached houses, is increasingly behind us; we're heading toward heavier reliance on public transit, greater density, and far less personal space. Global cities, even colossal ones like Mumbai and Mexico City, represent our cosmopolitan future, we're now told; they will be nerve centers of international commerce and technological innovation just like the great metropolises of the past — only with the Internet and smart phones.
It's far less clear whether the extreme centralization and concentration advocated by these new urban utopians is inevitable — and it's not at all clear that it's desirable.
Not all Global Cities are created equal. We can hope the developing-world metropolises of the future will look a lot like the developed-world cities of today, just much, much larger — but that's not likely to be the case. Today's Third World megacities face basic challenges in feeding their people, getting them to and from work, and maintaining a minimum level of health. In some, like Mumbai, life expectancy is now at least seven years less than the country as a whole. And many of the world's largest advanced cities are nestled in relatively declining economies — London, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo. All suffer growing income inequality and outward migration of middle-class families. Even in the best of circumstances, the new age of the megacity might well be an era of unparalleled human congestion and gross inequality.
Perhaps we need to consider another approach. As unfashionable as it might sound, what if we thought less about the benefits of urban density and more about the many possibilities for proliferating more human-scaled urban centers; what if healthy growth turns out to be best achieved through dispersion, not concentration? Instead of overcrowded cities rimmed by hellish new slums, imagine a world filled with vibrant smaller cities, suburbs, and towns: Which do you think is likelier to produce a higher quality of life, a cleaner environment, and a lifestyle conducive to creative thinking?
So how do we get there? First, we need to dismantle some common urban legends.
Read the rest of this article by Joel Kotkin on the Foreign Policy site for some interesting points about future suburbs (clusters of services in the places people live) and some eye-candy (if you like cities, which I do).
Interconnected Wind Farms: Distributed Harvest, Improved Consistency
Posted in Research by Kate Archdeacon on April 13th, 2010
Source: Environmental Research Web
Image: vattenfall via flickr CC
From Joined-up thinking smooths wind power:
When it comes to incorporating more wind power into electricity supply systems, a key worry is the renewable-energy source's variability with time as wind speeds fluctuate. Now a US team has found that linking up offshore wind turbines spread over a distance of roughly 2,500 km down the eastern seaboard of the US could help smooth out this variability. "When location of wind farms and transmission are picked to make best use of large-scale meteorological patterns, there is a dramatic improvement in how steady we found the produced electric power to be," Willett Kempton of the University of Delaware told environmentalresearchweb. "In five years of data, there was never an hour with no power production." Not only would such wind farm interconnection reduce variability and remove periods of zero power production, it would also mean that any remaining variations in power output happened more slowly. This would give electricity suppliers more time to ramp up or down alternative sources or transmission links to meet consumer demand. Together with colleagues at Stony Brook University, US, the Delaware team analysed wind-speed data from eleven meteorological stations off the east coast, stretching from the tip of Florida in the south to Maine in the north. The researchers used this data to estimate power output from turbine arrays for the period 1998 to 2002.
Currently power supply operators use existing systems such as reserve generators and redundant power-line routes to manage the variability in wind-power output; as well as combining remote wind farms via electrical transmission, as discussed here, it's also possible to employ energy storage, either at a central location or at distributed sites, for example through home heaters or plug-in cars, to smooth supply. There are plans for wind-turbine arrays with a total power capacity of about 2,500 MW off the eastern coast of the US. This amount, which is roughly equivalent to the output of a large coal or nuclear power plant, is only 0.1% of the available wind resource in the region. The researchers say that to connect these turbines would require 350 miles of submarine cable, which would add around $1.4 bn, less than 15%, to the estimated $10.5 bn installation costs. This supplement is roughly equivalent to levelling wind output via existing generation, which as a rule of thumb adds 10% of the wind-power cost for an electricity mix containing up to 20% wind power, and more for higher levels of wind power. And it's much cheaper than smoothing output via energy storage schemes, such as pumping water into higher-level reservoirs – these have capital costs roughly equal to those of generation.
Read the full article on Environmental Research Web.
London Orchard Project: Community Fruit
Posted in Models by Kate Archdeacon on April 12th, 2010
Source: The Ecologist
Image: London Orchard Project, Wilton Estate via hackney.gov.uk
From "The London Orchard Project: bringing fruit to car parks" by Jason Gleeson
Every year between June and October, the Hackney Marshes in north-east London (UK) are covered with sweet, luscious blackberries. Families bring buckets and collect the free harvest, turning the berries into jams, smoothies and many other recipes. They are so abundant that most of the succulent berries are never picked. Yet larger supermarkets will sell blackberries for as much as £3 for a small handful, and people will buy it. Most Londoners don't know about this abundance and have never had this close a relationship with their food and local wildlife. The London Orchard Project aims to change all this.
Founded by Rowena Ganguli and Carina Dunkerley, in less than a year the Project team has assessed, prepared and planted orchards on 12 sites in nine boroughs around the capital; and trained 50 orchard leaders in orchard management skills. The London Orchard Project is working in partnership with community groups and local authorities to design, plant and maintain community orchards. They provide training in orchard management and support to community groups – including mapping and developing new local food distribution models and in effect creating a network of Londoners engaged in orchard activities.


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Hotel 525, opened in Los Alcazares in 2006, is the perfect location for your Golfing Holiday, providing 4-Star hotel quality with 5-Star service. It is located 10 minutes from San Javier - Murcia and 5 minutes from Mar Menor, in a privileged place for its climate and tranquility. Only 150 meters away. the beach of Los Narejos beach with its palm tree lined promenade, calm waters and characteristic wooden piers of wood, invites you to spend a calm day in the sun.
The hotel offers luxurious accommodation with spacious rooms and a relaxing atmosphere, the ideal respite after a long day on the golf course. You can cool off
in the rooftop pool, before enjoying a cocktail at the bar.
Adjacent to the hotel you will find a range of restaurants and shops that will cater to all your needs. If there is anything you can not find there, the largest
shopping centre in the region (La Zenia Boulevard) recently opened only 20 minutes away.
The Hotel 525 has 108 rooms: 90 standard doubles, 9 superiors and 9 suites. The rooms are decorated with ivory colored walls
and mahogany wood furniture and special attention has been given to the light, aesthetics, quality and your comfort.
The hotel it is equipped with a Jacuzzi, a sauna and there is also a gymnasium equipped with the latest technology in exercising equipment. On the roof of the hotel, and with fantastic views, you will be able to enjoy
our excellent climate. Swim in the dynamic swimming pool with water jets and waterfall or sunbathe on our patio.

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On a dry summer's day in 1977 Rose Churchill, full of shyness and romantic dreams, waits under Rata River Bridge for a young man whose life will be forever altered.
Jessa Reynolds is bound by a cosmic thread to a man she has never met, and drawn to the life of the aunt her family has kept from her. The aunt they never speak of. When the paths of William Cook and Jessa finally cross, he is a well-respected architect in his thirties, she a student of seventeen about to embark on her university studies. His familiarity is beyond her understanding and his conservative and unyielding persona frightens her.
Jessa's haunting angelic beauty fascinates William. He knows he should stay away, but he can't resist tiptoeing into her world. It takes Jessa five years before she fully understands the mysteries of the past surrounding William and her aunt Rose—mysteries that may tear her family apart. Will William step over the line drawn for him by Jessa's grandfather the year she turned eighteen?
Set in New Zealand and spanning four decades and three generations of women, The Watershed is a tale of love lost and forever searched for. If you like your romance served with a touch of family saga, a hint of the paranormal, a dash of sensuality and an alpha male thrown in for good measure, The Watershed won't disappoint. But first, ask yourself one question: Do you believe love can span more than one lifetime?
The Watershed is a standalone novel with a slow burn HEA.
"This is one of the best para normal romances I have ever read! The author's voice is so real and you can identify with her characters.How does someone weave such an interesting story-line?
You feel you are with the characters because they are so real.
I do hope this author has another novel on the go because I want to know more. " by Jane Hamilton
"Absolutely loved this book. Read it in a few days as I couldn't put it down. Every chapter left me wanting to know more about the characters & their lives. I'm hoping there is a sequel. " Anonymous
Frances Cowie started writing romantic fiction after waking one morning with the story of an old pump house floating around in her head. The Watershed is her first novel.
Frances resides with her husband in one of the most beautiful areas in New Zealand. She spends her days jostling between her family business commitments, a very large garden, and writing the romantic dreams that invade her thoughts.


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Olly Murs Celebrity Pumpkin on Capital Breakfast
Just guess which celebrity Olly Murs has carved into this pumpkin and you can win the pumpkin signed by Olly Murs himself
We asked Olly Murs to carve a celebritys face into our pumpkin. If you can guess who the celeb is and get your answer to us via twitter @TheRobEllisShow you could be winning the actual pumpkin!
Watch the video, guess the celeb and we'll pick a random correct answer from twitter


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Independence Celebration
Four Mile Historic Park
715 S. Forest St.
Denver, CO 80246
Four Mile Historic Park
715 S. Forest St.
Denver, CO 80246
Explore the era of our Founding Fathers with horse-drawn wagon rides, a trip to the blacksmith's shop, and old-fashioned games including sack races and tug of war. After making your way around the historic park, refuel with snacks from Kettle Head Popcorn and Em's Ice Cream as well as craft beers from Copper Kettle Brewing Company. Then don't miss the Glendale fireworks show, the cherry on top of a patriotic evening. Fri 5-10 p.m.
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- Date:
- Jul 01, 2016 05:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Nesting problems have been tackled by researchers using a vast number of algorithms in the past. Most of the algorithms, however, need to perform on a one-dimensional space. Therefore, the problem must be transformed into a one-dimensional space problem similar to the travelling salesman problem. Consequently, loss of solutions due to the dimensional reduction may occur. In this study, an object-based evolutionary algorithm for rectangular piece nesting problems is proposed. This methodology is created on truly two-dimensional space, allowing new mechanisms (i.e., individual representation, initialization, etc.) and new object-based genetic operators (i.e., hill-climbing, mutation, and recombination operators) to perform effectively on the space. Since no dimensional reduction is used, therefore, no solution losses during the searching. Simulation/animation of the layouts shows the continual improvement by using this method over generations. Experimental results are promising.
Recommended Citation
K. Ratanapan and C. H. Dagli, "An Object-Based Evolutionary Algorithm for Solving Rectangular Piece Nesting Problems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Jan 1997.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSMC.1997.638076
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IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1997
Engineering Management and Systems Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
2D Space; Dimensional Reduction; Genetic Algorithms; Genetic Operators; Object-Based Evolutionary Algorithm; Operations Research; Rectangular Piece Nesting Problems; Search Problems; Search Space
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Final Version
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© 1997 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.


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Cleaning the entire exterior of your home may feel overwhelming, but you don't want to cut corners if your goal is beautiful curb appeal for the spring season. Here are the best tips to get your exterior sparkling for spring:
1. Clean Your Vinyl Exterior with a Soft Cloth or Long-Handled Bristle Brush
If dirty vinyl siding has got you down, you'll be smiling again soon when you use these vinyl siding cleaning tips. The best way to clean vinyl siding after winter is with a soft cloth. For hard-to-reach places or stubborn grime, you can also use a long-handled soft bristle brush.
If your vinyl siding is textured, it's best to use a bristle brush so you can keep the grooves of the textures free from stains.
Start from the bottom of your home and work your way up, making sure that you rinse your cleaning solution (water and vinegar works fine before it dries).
2. Pressure Wash Your Deck
Your deck is another area that likely accumulated a lot of grime over the winter. The best approach for deck-cleaning this spring is to use a pressure washer. Choose a pressure that sprays at approximately the width of a two-by-four. Be sure that you don't spray in one area for too long, otherwise you run the risk of stripping the wood.
After you're finished, consider resealing your deck to maintain color and shine.
3. Get Debris out of the Gutter
Not only are clogged gutters unsightly, but they can also cause problems for your home's foundation. However, the truth is that gutter cleaning isn't a chore that's reserved for fall. Maple trees and other specifies shed debris throughout the spring, and you'll want to keep those gutters clear.
If your gutters are overflowing, you'll need to climb up on a ladder and remove the debris by hand. Once they are clear of large debris, take a garden hose and spray the inside of the gutters clean and wash the rest of the debris away.
4. Touch up Your Shutters
If winter weather caused your shutters to fade, now is a great time to give them a fresh coat of paint. Be sure to thoroughly clean the shutters before adding new color. If you're feeling particularly bold, change up the color of your shutters this season to give your home an entirely fresh look and feel.
If you're ready for a complete overhaul on your home, consider upgrading with new vinyl siding, entry doors, and more from UWD.


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WESTPORT, Conn. – The League of Women Voters of Westport will host a candidates debate from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, at the Westport Town Hall auditorium.
Kay Maxwell, former president of the League of Women Voters of Connecticut, will serve as moderator.
Co-sponsors are the PTA Council of Westport, Westport Women's Club and the Y's Women. Candidates for the state Senate – Toni Boucher (Republican) and Philip Sharlach (Democrat) for District 26, and Kim Fawcett (Democrat) and Tony Hwang (Republican) for District 28 – will debate first.
Then the state representative candidates – Brandi Briggs (Republican) and Jonathan Steinberg (Democrat) for District 136 and Keith Rodgerson (Democrat) and Gail Lavielle (Republican) for District 143 – will have a turn.
Each candidate will answer questions from the audience, read by the moderator. Then the candidates will each have a chance to give a closing statement. All members of the public may participate and find out more about the candidates' views on relevant issues.
Cablevision Public Access Channel 79 will broadcast the debate live and then show it again in October. The dates will be posted online on the Celebrate Westport calendar. For more information about the debates, email Chris O'Sullivan at email@example.com .
The LWV of Westport is a nonpartisan organization that works to get people of the community informed and involved in government. To become a member of the LWV, email Jackie Gordon, vice president of member services, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Lucy Esralew, PhD, Clinical Administrator of the S-COPE initiative, contributed to the discussion at the first S-COPE conference in 2013. The conference explored crisis response and training for nursing home and assisted living staffs to reduce emergency room visits of the elderly through clinical assessments done in place.
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Behavioral health and psychiatric professionals provide in-hospital and community-based services year-round
As one of the most comprehensive behavioral and mental health treatment centers and service providers in New Jersey, Trinitas Regional Medical Center proudly acknowledges National Mental Health Month in May.
Trinitas pays close attention to the social issues that impact the mental health and well-being of the entire community and takes a proactive approach to helping address those issues. In response to the deadly shootings at the Sandy Hook School in Newtown, Connecticut, Trinitas professionals published
Step-Up, Take Action: When Does a Child Need Help?
This guide informs and educates teachers, school boards, parent organizations and others concerned about school violence in elementary schools. Published in English and Spanish, the guide can be accessed by clicking the link above, or by contacting the Department of Behavioral Health & Psychiatry at
In April, 2014, the "Pills/Heroin = Overdose: Defining the Epidemic & Implementing Strategies to Reduce Overdose" conference at Trinitas probed the troubling epidemic of prescription pain killer abuse that often leads to heroin addiction. Panelists from state government, law enforcement, the medical community, healthcare, community agencies fighting drug abuse, and families feeling the tragic results of addiction gathered to examine the issue.
Based in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Trinitas offers behavioral health and psychiatric services for adults, children, adolescents and their families. Bilingual psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, nurses, creative arts therapists, substance abuse counselors, and mental health workers bring depth and diversity to the services Trinitas offers. Through these professionals Trinitas is well-positioned to respond to any manner of psychiatric emergency, provide screenings, inpatient/outpatient/partial hospital programs and addiction services for adults, children and families.
Beyond its 95-bed inpatient facility for adult, child/adolescent and mentally ill/developmentally-disabled persons, Trinitas typically provides more than 200,000 behavioral health visits each year. At its New Point campus in Elizabeth, the New Point Residential Treatment Center is a 15-bed facility serving adolescents aged 12-18 who require extended voluntary treatment (minimum 180 days). Young people at the Residential Treatment Center receive licensed, supervised, 24-hour care through an intensive program that treats severe behavioral and emotional disturbances. The Center's multidisciplinary team includes but is not limited to a psychiatrist, social workers, psychologists, nurse, and childcare workers.
Beyond New Point, Trinitas also exhibits a dynamic statewide presence through innovative programs to benefit other age groups. Its Statewide Clinical Consultation and Training program,
, is designed to help the developmentally disabled. SCCAT offers key services to those over the age of 18, including assessments, linkage to mental health and behavioral services in the community and crisis mobile response. In collaboration with the New Jersey Institute of Successful Aging, Trinitas impacts mature citizens in all 21 counties of the state through the Statewide Clinical Outreach Program for the Elderly,
. Now in its second year, S-COPE addresses the needs of adults 55 years and older who reside in nursing facilities and who may be at risk for making trips to emergency rooms and screening centers. They can now be seen and assessed by clinicians who specialize in the care and management of geropsychiatric and behavioral problems.
For further information about the programs and services of the Department of Behavioral Health and Psychiatry at Trinitas Regional Medical Center, call
or visit the Trinitas Behavioral Health Center of Excellence section of our web site.
About Trinitas Regional Medical Center
Trinitas Regional Medical Center (TRMC), a major center for comprehensive health services for those who live and work in Central New Jersey, is a Catholic teaching medical center sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in partnership with Elizabethtown Healthcare Foundation. With 10 Centers of Excellence across the continuum of care, Trinitas has distinguished itself in cardiology, cancer care, behavioral health, renal care, nursing education, diabetes management, wound healing and sleep medicine.
Posted: May 5, 2014
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#Bookhour is an open forum twitter discussion between scholars and the public that takes place the last Tuesday of the month unless otherwise stated. Find out more here.
This month's #bookhour is on Claire Vaye Watkins's debut novel, Gold Fame Citrus (2015) and will run from 9pm-10:30pm (UK time) on Tuesday 28th March 2017.
Emily St John Mandel writes in her review for the New York Times that Gold Fame Citrus 'opens in a dry and broken California. Years of extreme drought have combined with ferocious winds to create a vast and rapidly expanding desert, called the Amargosa Dune Sea after one of the mountain ranges it swallowed. The sea of sand is approaching Los Angeles, and the only people left in the city are the marginal and dispossessed. Some are criminals who prefer the lawlessness of the abandoned city, while others are simply too strung out or too indifferent to disaster or too nervous about their outstanding arrest warrants to board an evacuation bus'.
Our discussion leaders for this month's #bookhour are scholars with research interests in ecocriticism, dystopia and Hurricane Katrina. They are:
Dr Iain Williams (@IainWilliams1) who is a postdoctoral English literature tutor at the University of Edinburgh, specialising in contemporary U.S. literature. His current research project is investigating the relationship between Deep Time and water.
Pat Massey (@MasselinesSt) is a second year-PhD student a the University of Manchester. His thesis title: New Orleans Exceptionalism in the Cultural Response to Hurricane Katrina. Academic preoccupations outside of Louisiana: instances of and reactions to natural disaster; the relationship between music and literature; the mysterious art of Pecha Kucha.
Hollie Johnson (@HollieD_Johnson) is a final-year PhD student at the University of Nottingham. Her thesis focuses upon the recent environmental turn of dystopian novels after 1950, thereby moving away from reductively anthropocentric scholarly accounts of dystopia. Her project engages with the ongoing discussions around nature and environment with the specific aim of clarifying what an ecocritical approach can bring to the understanding of recent dystopian fiction.
Christina Brennan (@cmbrennan_) is a PhD student in the division of English Literature and American Studies at the University of Manchester, UK. Her thesis examines representations of natural disaster in cities in late twentieth-century and twenty-first-century North American fiction. She previously studied at the University of Leeds and her wider research interests include literature on war, migration and displacement in the United States.
The #bookhour will be led by the following questions from the discussion leaders:
- How does GFC depict tension between the idea of Deep Time and the danger of rapid climate change?
- Does GFC attempt to absorb climate change into a narrative of US exceptionalism?
- How effective is Watkins' world-building? Is her extended universe convincing? See e.g. the start of section 2, the "Ray in the Limbo Mine detainment center" chapter
- How illuminating are the recurrent references to John Muir et al.? (N.B. the listing of Luz's biographies on p.185)?
- GFC kills off its male lead at an unconventionally early juncture? What are the implications of this for the rest of the novel?
- What is the significance of the character Ig?
#Bookhour is an opportunity to share thoughts and reflections on the text in question and connect with other scholars and readers. Anyone is welcome to join the chat.
Get in touch with Christina at Christina.Brennan[at]postgrad.manchester.ac.uk if you would like to take part in #bookhour


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Hi everyone!! It's been awhile since we have updated the TK website. It has been almost a decade long search for Krissy's match and of course life must go on. We've really focused on living life the past few years and our involvement in the cause has lessened as a result. Hopefully we can build the momentum up again and find her a perfect 10 out of 10 match!
I have been working hard on a new design to the site with the help of my sister, the graphic designer. Hopefully this new and improved site will be easier to navigate and easier for me to manage. Stay tuned, I have a few more things to finalize, graphics need to be tweaked, and we need Krissy's stamp of approval and we will be up and running again. In the meantime check for updates on our Team Krissy Facebook page:
Show us some love and share this beauty to all of your friends and family once it's finally updated! Let's all come together again and work on finding Krissy her perfect match! This could be be the year! :)
Thanks to everyone for your love and support. Krissy and the rest of the team really appreciate how everyone answers to the call when we get together for this cause.


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Home Repair Loans
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Interested in making improvements that will make your home more energy-efficient? Efficiency Maine offers a number of rebates and other incentives to help you save money and reduce your environmental impact.


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"Revenue cycle management is a vital issue that can get overlooked by many providers. It's even more important for community-based and rural providers who have tighter budgets to manage." --Erika Running
(PRWEB) March 24, 2016
Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions has hired Erika Running as its Vice President of Analytics. Running will be the first person to hold this newly created position at Sisu.
Running is a healthcare revenue cycle expert and IT professional with over 15 years of experience in healthcare revenue cycle management analytics and optimization, EHR implementation, information technology and project management. She is returning to Sisu after a six-year absence in which she held leadership positions as a systems analyst and a senior consultant with firms Gustafson + Associates and Jacobus Consulting.
"Revenue cycle management is a vital issue that can get overlooked by many providers. It's even more important for community-based and rural providers who have tighter budgets to manage," said Running.
"I'm thrilled to return to Sisu and bring my experience in revenue cycle redesign, cash acceleration and key performance indicators to help these providers manage their revenue cycles more efficiently and avoid unnecessary setbacks due to denials, audits or inefficient processes," she added.
Running will report directly to Kris Olberg, Sisu's Chief Information Officer.
"Industry changes are forcing healthcare in a new direction," commented Olberg. "Sisu is responding by reshaping its service delivery to be more patient-centric across the continuum of care. Erika brings the broad-based skills and experience needed to understand customer requirements in the field of analytics—and convert those requirements into the products and services that community-based and rural providers need to thrive."
Running will be working closely with Olberg and the rest of the Sisu executive team to expand its suite of products and services.
"I'm excited to count Erika as a member of the Sisu team," added Olberg. "I know her expertise will help Sisu continue to provide the highest level of support for our customers and to remain adaptable to the ever-changing needs of today's healthcare organizations."
About Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions
Sisu Healthcare IT Solutions offers IT services and solutions for the healthcare provider segment with a focus on community and rural healthcare organizations, including critical access hospitals. Sisu delivers the insight, understanding and resources required to provide sustainable IT cost structures and critical access to information—the lifeblood of operational efficiency and clinical decision-making. Sisu's value is rooted in a long history of helping rural healthcare providers stay independent and remain operational amidst the challenges of skill acquisition, low patient volumes, seasonal populations and increasing IT complexity. Founded in 1998, Sisu has been ranked on Inc.'s 5,000 list of fastest growing private companies in the United States and is a recognized leader in rural healthcare IT consulting. Discover more at http://sisusolutions.com


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Two things define you.
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"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
- Elbert Hubbard
Penske Motorsports driver Kurt Busch has earned his stardom. He won the 2004 NASCAR Winston Cup championship and his most recent win at Atlanta Motor Speedway was yet another big-time accomplishment for a young man who grew up eating, sleeping and breathing the sport of auto racing.
Back in 1997 when the young Las Vegas driver was competing in short track events while working as a meter reader for the Las Vegas Valley Water District; I was the PR guy for Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
On one day during that year both Kurt and I found ourselves thrown into a situation neither of us had ever expected. Chris Trickle, a talented and highly-respected NASCAR Southwest Tour driver sponsored by Star Nursery, had been shot while driving his car in southwest Las Vegas.
When it was determined that the popular Trickle would not be able to compete in the near future, Busch was named the driver of the Star Nursery Camaro in NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series competition.
Immediately upon hearing that Busch was the new driver for Star Nursery, I knew the announcement was noteworthy. At least from a local standpoint Busch being named as a replacement was important.
I called Kurt suggesting that we do a media tour prior to the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Tour event at Las Vegas Motor Speedways short track. The story of the shooting of Trickle was important and to me, it was also important that the public in Southern Nevada knew who would drive the car at least for the immediate period.
Busch didnt hesitate when agreeing that a media tour was appropriate. I did not offer any advice how he should handle himself and explained that I would (a) set up the media tour and (b) accompany him to the various media outlets.
Frankly, I was nervous because I didnt know how the media would react. However, I offered Kurt no advice, assembled the tour and picked up Kurt the next morning.
I think we visited a total of about 12 outlets including radio, television and print outlets. Each member of the media seemed to appreciate that this particular development was not only significant but also created a significant level of pressure on the driver who had been called in to replace the victim of a horrific crime.
Busch was brilliant at each media stop especially considering that he was only 18 at the time. His concern for his fellow driver and friend was evident.
At the end of the media tour, I drove Busch to his home adding OK, make us proud on Saturday night. I figured if he finished in the top 20 of an event with top-notch talent that would be a huge accomplishment.
Even better, Busch won the event one night later at the short track at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. He was dominate in a field of kingpin short track competitors and when he climbed out of the car in Victory Circle, television cameras from every station in Las Vegas were present to capture the moment.
Poised and prepared, Busch said something to the affect of Chris, this victory is for you. Were all thinking about you.
Every television station in Las Vegas ran the footage and print outlets picked up on the moment, too. A young man thrust into a stressful situation not only won the race but immediately remembered to salute his friend at the same time. He earned the respect of the local media not only as a driver but also as a caring person.
About a year later, two significant developments would take place. Chris Trickle would lose his gallant fight to survive and Kurt Busch would continue his climb up the ladder to the elite of NASCARs top competition.
After winning the NASCAR Winston Cup title, Busch continued to exemplify his true class when he invited his friends from Las Vegas including the Trickle family to the awards ceremony in New York. Among those who attended the event were Trickles father, Chuck; Star Nursery owner Craig Keough and friend Jerry Spilsbury.
Busch moved up the ladder yet again when he left Roush Motor Sports to sign with legendary motor sports king Roger Penske. The move was both gutsy and intelligent and Busch is now working for a man who appreciates talent; combines it with excellent machinery while capping it with the best PR guy in the sport in Tom Roberts who also handled public relations for Rusty Wallace.
Busch won the pole at Las Vegas and captured his second Spring race at Atlanta Motor Speedway. He has grown tremendously especially since joining Penske Motorsports.
Its all coming together again for the 31 year-old Busch who has combined a level of class with incredible talent to power down in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
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We all love to be scared, well most of us do. Because of this, there are many ways to get your heart beat racing. Fair grounds, stories and obviously, movies. One of the most immersive ways to feel terror is to be apart of the horror, and what better way than by playing a scary video game?
We asked over 100 customers of Level UP what their scariest video game was and the votes are in!
10 - Amnesia
Platform(s) - Windows, Mac, Linux & OnLive
Release Date - September 8, 2010
This award winning game puts you in the shoes of Daniel as he wakes up in a desolate castle, barely remembering anything about his past. Exploring the eerie pathways, you must also take part of Daniel's troubled memories. The horror does not only come from the outside, but from the inside as well. A disturbing odyssey into the dark corners of the human mind awaits. Can you hear the sound of feet dragging behind you? Or is that just your mind playing tricks on you?
9 - Doom 3
Platform(s) - Windows, Mac, Linux & OnLive
Release Date - August 3, 2004
A massive demonic invasion has overwhelmed the Union Aerospace Corporation's (UAC) Mars Research Facility, leaving only chaos and horror in its wake. As one of only a few survivors, you must fight your way to hell and back against a horde of evil monsters. This game was not one you would play in the dark!
Platform(s) - Microsoft Windows, XBOX 360, PS3
Release Date - Windows October 17, 2005 Xbox 360 Oct/Nov 2006 PlayStation 3 April 2007
Be the hero in your own cinematic epic of action, tension and terror. A mysterious paramilitary force infiltrates a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but issuing no demands. The government responds by sending in a Special Forces team only to have them obliterated. Live footage of the massacre shows an inexplicable wave of destruction tearing the soldiers apart. With no other recourse, the elite F.E.A.R. (First Encounter Assault Recon) team is assembled to deal with the extraordinary circumstances. They are given one simple mission: Evaluate the threat and eliminate the intruders at any cost.
7 - Cry of Fear
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Release Date - Feb 22, 2012
You wake up in a dark alley, not knowing anything. What has happened? This is your struggle to find the truth and answers to your questions. Answers for the darkness and fear that is making your pulse race like violent blows against your head. What are "they"? Where do "they" come from? What the hell has happened around here? Are these the indulgences of insanity? Time's up. You can't stand there reading those SMS's forever. It's time to head down the pathways ahead and find your answers.
6 - Dead Space
Platform(s) - Microsoft Windows, XBOX 360, PS3
Release Date - October 2008
Dead Space for PC begins when a massive mining ship, the USG Ishimura, comes in contact with a mysterious alien artifact and suddenly loses its communications with Earth. Engineer Isaac Clarke is sent to repair the Ishimura's communications, but arrives to find a floating vessel that has become a complete bloodbath. The crew is mutilated and infected with an ancient alien scourge.
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Release Date - PC Sep 2013 PS4 Feb 2014 XBOX one June 19 2014 Linux, OS X, March 31 2015
In the remote mountains of Colorado, horrors await inside Mount Massive Asylum. A long-abandoned home for the mentally ill, it has been recently re-opened by the research and charity branch of the transnational Murkoff Corporation and operates in strict secrecy… until now.
Acting on a tip from an anonymous source, independent journalist Miles Upshur breaks into the facility and what he discovers treads a terrifying line between science, religion, nature and something else entirely. Once inside, his only hope of escape lies with the terrible truth at the heart of Mount Massive. Outlast is a true survival horror experience which shows that the most terrifying monsters of all come from the human mind itself. Are you prepared?
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Platform(s) - PS2, XBOX
Release Date - PlayStation 2 (JP) Dec 13, 2001 (NA) March 4, 2002 (EU) August 30, 2002 Xbox (NA) November 22, 2002 (JP) February 6, 2003 (EU) May 2, 2003
Miku Hinasaki visits what is famously known to be a haunted building when her brother goes missing. Knowing that this house was the last place he visited she decides to find him, and uncover the secrets hiding there. Armed with just her brothers camera, Miku discovers she can see spirits through the lens and even capture them! With the Camera as her only weapon against the ghosts, this is not a game for the weak hearted.
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Platform(s) - Linux, Windows, OS X, PS3, PS4, XBOX 360, XBOX One.
Release Date - Windows, PS3, PS4, X360, XONE 7 October 2014 Linux, OS X 29 September 2015
Discover the true meaning of fear in Alien: Isolation, a survival horror set in an atmosphere of constant dread and mortal danger. Fifteen years after the events of Alien™, Ellen Ripley's daughter, Amanda enters a desperate battle for survival, on a mission to unravel the truth behind her mother's disappearance.
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Platform(s) - PlayStation 2, Xbox (DC), Windows (DC), PlayStation 3 (HD), Xbox 360 (HD)
Release Date - PlayStation 2 (NA) Sep 24, 2001 (JP) Sep 27, 2001 (EU) Nov 23, 2001 Xbox (NA) Dec 20, 2001 (JP) Feb 22, 2002 (EU) Oct 4, 2002
While not a direct sequel to the events and characters of the first Silent Hill game, Silent Hill 2 takes place in the series' namesake town, located in the northeastern United States. Silent Hill 2 is set in another area of the town and explores some of Silent Hill's backstory. The town draws upon the psyche of its visitors and ultimately forms alternative versions of the town, which differ depending on the character. The concept behind the town was "a small, rural town in America"; to make the setting more realistic, some buildings and rooms lack furnishings.
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• 6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice
• 6 tablespoons fresh marjoram
• 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground pepper
Rub the chicken with olive oil and lemon juice and sprinkle with marjoram and pepper. Marinate for at least 1 hour in the refrigerator. In a skillet on medium-high heat, sauté the chicken for 2 minutes and turn. Cook 4 to 8 minutes longer or until cooked through and browned.
• 3/4 cup sour cream
• 3/4 cup plain nonfat yogurt
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon white pepper
• 2 tablespoons fresh dill weed
• 1/4 cup fresh chives
Combine all ingredients. Serve over the chicken.
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Supervisor: Director, California Programs
This professional-level position is responsible for implementing assigned work plans for the California Program of Defenders of Wildlife. The primary responsibilities include implementation of programs, strategies, campaigns, and projects focusing on strategic plan priorities in California with a particular focus on climate change and legislation.
This position also involves a wide variety of responsibilities supporting the program and operations of the California Program field office. Programmatic and technical assistance will be provided to the Director and other staff members in the California Program. It serves as the Director's liaison to other staff, federal and state agency personnel, elected officials and their staff, Defenders' members and the general public. The California Program Associate must possess a general knowledge of all programs and projects within the California Program in order to assist the Director with oversight, implementation of works plans and compliance with procedures and schedules. This position requires substantial discretion in determining how to meet assigned goals and competing deadlines.
- Coordinate, advocate for, and implement local, state and/or national strategies, campaigns, programs, projects, work plans, publications, educational materials and reports for each assigned program area with a particular focus on climate change and adaptation.
- Influence federal and state wildlife policy through administrative, legislative and judicial forums, using a range of strategies including but not limited to direct and grassroots lobbying in Congress and the California Legislature; seeking policy and programmatic changes in federal and state agencies; and recommending litigation where appropriate and providing technical support.
- Undertake a wide variety of duties as needed to implement program plans, including drafting letters; negotiating sign-ons to Defenders' policies and group letters; and writing and editing reports and proposals.
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with leading conservation biologists, research scientists, state and federal agency personnel, members of Congress and California Legislature and their staff, and leading NGOs; identify new partners as appropriate.
- Represent Defenders in coalitions, public meetings, hearings, press events, conferences, national and international forums, and in general communications with public officials, the media, members, the donor community and the public.
- Trouble-shoot problems with the computers, server and other technological and information systems, in conjunction with our in-house computer specialist or outside experts. Carry out desktop publishing projects as needed.
- Compile and edit documents; copy and fax; schedule appointments; manage and distribute information; check requests, reimbursement requests, and submit in a timely manner; attend all relevant internal staff meetings; and follow all other administrative procedures. Identify, inform and mobilize citizen activists, including Defenders' members and supporters, in areas of particular importance.
- Respond to information requests from members and other interested parties requiring technical responses, and distribute Defenders' published reports.
- Assist all Defenders departments with tasks relating to education, development, publications, and communications.
- Assist with development of the California Program's annual budget.
- Research specific conservation issues and prepare comprehensive background memos on issues as assigned by the Director.
- Perform all other related duties as assigned by supervisor and be an energetic, enthusiastic and committed advocate for all Defenders' programs.
- Education: Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) in Biology, Natural Resources, Environmental Studies, Public Policy or related discipline.
- Experience: 3+ years of experience working on wildlife conservation, land use planning and/or water issues. Other relevant experience with public policy, legislative procedures, grassroots organizing, communications, administration and/or development.
- An equivalent combination of education and experience may be accepted as a satisfactory substitute for the specific education and experience listed above.
- Demonstrated knowledge of federal and state agencies, natural resource policies and laws, and contemporary conservation issues
- Experience developing, implementing and managing conservation campaigns
- Ability to conduct research, analyze information and produce high quality work products in a consistent, efficient and timely manner
- Strong organizational and communications skills
- Ability to effectively and efficiently handle many projects and tasks at one time. High level of computer literacy with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office and information technology systems
- Willingness to travel throughout California an average of four days per month
- Personal interest and commitment to natural resource and wildlife conservation
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use a computer and communicate with others while doing so.
- General office working conditions, the noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.
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GAY SPIRITUALITY: The Role of Gay Identity in the Transformation of Human Consciousness
GAY PERSPECTIVE: Things Our Homosexuality Tells Us about the Nature of God and the Universe
MATTER: updated, revised & expanded edition from Lethe Press
with Afterword by Mark Jordan
THE FOURTH QUILL, a
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CHARMED LIVES: Spinning Straw into Gold: Reclaiming Our Queer Spirituality Through Story
Books on Gay Spirituality:
White Crane Gay Spirituality Series
and Excerpts:
Toby's review of Samuel Avery's The
Dimensional Structure of
Funny Coincidence: "Aliens Settle in San Francisco"
Simple Answer to the Gay Marriage Debate
Why gay people should NOT Marry
What's ironic
A Bifurcation of Gay Spirituality
Q&A about Jungian ideas in gay consciousness
What Jesus said about Gay Rights
Common Experiences Unique to Gay Men
Is there a "uniquely gay perspective"?
The Reincarnation of Edward Carpenter
Interview on the Nature of Homosexuality
What the Bible Says about
Mesosexual Ideal for Straight Men
of Gay Liberation Activity
Why Gay Spirituality: Spirituality
as Artistic Medium
Easton Mountain Retreat Center
Andrew Harvey & Spiritual ActivismThe Gay Spirituality Summit in May 2004 and the "Statement of Spirituality"
"It's Always About You"
Joseph Campbell's description of AvalokiteshvaraYou're Not A Wave
What is Enlightenment?
What is reincarnation?
How many lifetimes in an ego?
Emptiness & Religious Ideas
Experiencing experiencing experiencing
Going into the Light
Meditations for a Funeral
Meditation Practice
The way to get to heaven
Buddha's father was right
Advice to Travelers to India & Nepal
The Danda Nata & goddess Kalika
Nate Berkus is a bodhisattva
John Boswell was Immanuel Kant
The Two Loves
The Joseph Campbell Connection
Campbell & The Pre/Trans Fallacy
Gay Spiritual Functions
The Sinfulness of Homosexuality
for a study of gay nondualism
"The Evolution of Gay Identity"
"St. John of the
Cross &
Religious Articulations of the
The Moulting of the Holy Ghost
The Hero's Journey as archetype
Marian Doctrines:
Immaculate Conception & Assumption
Prostitution and the Nature of Evil
Hu: "God is present here"
The Life is in the Blood
The mystical experience at the Servites' Castle in Riverside
Great Dance according to C.S.Lewis
The Techniques Of The World Saviors
Part 1: Brer Rabbit and the
How Gay
Souls Get Reincarnated
In honor of Sir Arthur C Clarke
What are you looking for in a gay science fiction novel?
Toby's friend
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Harry Hay, Founder of the gay movement
About Karl Heinrich Ulrichs, the first
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Michael Talbot, gay mystic
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Be Done on Earth by Howard E. Cook
Pay Me What I'm Worth by Souldancer
The Way Out by Christopher L Nutter
The Gay Disciple by John Henson
Art That Dares by Kittredge Cherry
Coming Out, Coming Home by Kennth A. Burr
Extinguishing the Light by B. Alan Bourgeois
Over Coffee: A conversation For Gay Partnership & Conservative Faith by D.a. Thompson
Dark Knowledge by Kenneth Low
Janet Planet by Eleanor Lerman
The Kairos by Paul E. Hartman
Wrestling with Jesus by D.K.Maylor
Kali Rising by Rudolph Ballentine
The Missing Myth by Gilles Herrada
The Secret of the Second Coming by Howard E. Cook
The Scar Letters: A Novel by Richard Alther
The Future is Queer by Labonte & Schimel
Missing Mary by Charlene Spretnak
Gay Spirituality 101 by Joe Perez
Cut Hand: A Nineteeth Century Love Story on the American Frontier by Mark Wildyr
Radiomen by Eleanor Lerman
Nights at Rizzoli by Felice Picano
The Key to Unlocking the Closet Door by Chelsea Griffo
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Jeffrey J. Kripal is a wonderful, engaging writer with a sense of humor and a talent for telling stories--and retelling stories--so they take on so much more meaning.
Esalen: American and the Religion of No Religion is a very big, thick book. It's a little intimidating. But it reads so easily and is so interesting I found I was disappointed when I finally finished. I'd have liked to have had the presentation go on.
The book is structured around the history of the Esalen Institute in Big Sur along the California coast, but it's about so much more than just Esalen. That's partly because Esalen proved to be very influential in West Coast thinking and then worldwide culture. So a discussion of Esalen includes all those issues of the last half of the 20th Century that are roughly called New Age and/or Countercultural. Esalen was a part of the transformation of how modern culture understands religion. The subtitle of the book is "America and the Religion of No Religion."
The Religion of No Religion is the modern religion now. The popular term in social media is "Spiritual, not religious." Kripal writes about very heady stuff, but I found it easy to read and easy to understand. I've also read Kripal's The Serpent's Gift, and found it really enlightening. I resonate with his idea of a "gnosticism" that comes from the study of religion from over and above. Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion is wonderful both for its broad generalizations about meaning and the evolution of consciousness and for its minute details and intriguing stories of the history of the land and people that constituted Esalen.
On a personal note, let me add that the expression "The Religion of No Religion" was coined by Professor Frederic Spiegelberg. This Sanscrit scholar and professor of Comparative Religions was one of the founders of the California Institute of Asian Studies, now the California Institute of Integral Studies. This is the private, free-standing graduate school in San Francisco from which I received by Masters ("Philosophy and Religion") and my Doctoral ("Integral Counseling and Psychotherapy") degrees in the late 1970s. I have a very minor personal connection to Dr. Spiegelberg from the brief period in which he came back to be interim President of C.I.A.S. after the sudden death of the "Great Teacher"/guru-like President of the Institute, Haridas Chaudhuri. Both Dr. Spiegelberg and Dr. Chaudhuri play significant roles in Jeffrey Kripal's history of Esalen. I've written about that personal experience and the more "magical/mystical" implications on the page: Early Years in San Francisco AND Dr. SpielgelbergRead Toby Johnson's review of The Serpent's Gift by Jeffrey J. Kripal
Toby Johnson's book The Myth of the Great Secret refers to this "Religion of No Religion" as the "meta-myth," the myth of myth and argues that this is what Joseph Campbell's idea of the "New Myth" results in.
Toby Johnson, PhD is author of eight books: three non-fiction books that apply the wisdom of his teacher and "wise old man," Joseph Campbell to modern-day social and religious problems, three gay genre novels that dramatize spiritual issues at the heart of gay identity, and two books on gay men's spiritualities and the mystical experience of homosexuality. In addition to the novels featured elsewhere in this web site, Johnson is author of IN SEARCH OF GOD IN THE SEXUAL UNDERWORLD and THE MYTH OF THE GREAT SECRET (Revised edition): AN APPRECIATION OF JOSEPH CAMPBELL.
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Utterly delicious, this is one of those recipes you wonder why the heck you weren't making it sooner. It is made in minutes, is super good for you and it tastes utterly divine. I use raw garlic cloves, but if raw garlic doesn't agree with you, you can use a teaspoon or more of garlic powder. Garlic is literally one of the healthiest foods you can eat!
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Hibiscus flower, stone fruit, apple blossom and a touch of lemon cream. Long and beautiful
Winemaking is the new rock 'n' roll! Or in Charles Smith's case it is the new Danish thrash metal.
Charles spent a decade in Europe managing various bands you have never heard of (unless you misspent your youth in disused warehouses near the Copenhagen ring road) before seeing the light and heading to Washington State to plant vines.
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CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - June 24, 2008) - Ruby Red Resources Inc. (TSX VENTURE:RRX) ("Ruby Red" or the "Company") is pleased to announce visual results on the first of three scheduled drill holes on their 100% owned Zeus property located 35 kilometres west of Cranbrook, British Columbia.
Diamond Drill Hole (DDH) 08-01 was drilled to extend the mineralized zone encountered in DDH 07-01 (previously announced in the news release of June 10, 2008) which intersected 95 metres of 0.436% Cu, 2.24 gm/tonne Ag , 106 ppm Co and 49 ppm Bi. DDH 08-1 intersected 270 metres of silicified quartz stockwork breccia with significant visible sulphide mineralization in disseminated, semi-massive and massive states. Sulphide minerals include primarily pyrite and an unidentified dark sulphide with minor chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. The hole encountered the silicified quartz stockwork breccia from a measured depth of 245 metres to 515 metres. The zone has intensive argillic alteration and is highly silicified throughout the mineralized intersection.
Ruby Red believes that the recent drill hole results, with the presence of visible copper sulphides being observed on site by the project geologist, are very encouraging and could be of significant importance to the Company if the assay results pending are favourable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, visible observations are estimates only and pending assay results may not confirm visual observations in whole or in part. The widths given above are core widths only and do not represent true widths which cannot be determined at this time.
The drill has been moved 150 meters to the east and will be drilled at a -70 degree angle to intersect the zone at depth and along strike to determine the continuity of the mineralization.
Ruby Red was formed to participate in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral claims in the Fort Steele Mining Division of British Columbia for the purpose of exploring for precious and base metals. Ruby Red holds 100% working interests in 144 mineral claims (approximately 44,000 hectares), all located within 80 kilometres of Cranbrook, B.C. in the Purcell and Rocky Mountains.
This news release has been reviewed and approved by Gordon W. Turner, P.Geo, President & CEO hereby designated as a "Qualified Person" under National Instrument 43-101.
Except for statements of historical fact, this news release contains certain "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable securities law. Forward-looking information is frequently characterized by words such as "plan", "expect", "project", "intend", "believe", "anticipate", "estimate" and other similar words, or statements that certain events or conditions "may" or "will" occur. Forward-looking statements are based on the opinions and estimates of management at the date the statements are made, and are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements, which include but are not limited to risks inherent in the mining industry, regulatory and economic risks, and risks associated with the company's ability to implement its business plan. The company undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking information if circumstances or management's estimates or opinions should change except as required by law. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements.
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Kinds of Props Used for a Newborn Photo Shoot
Nowadays, newborn photography in Houston, TX is a popular demand for parents. If you are planning to have a newborn photography, you need to have some props. The props don't have to be grandiose and it is best that you keep it simple. The main subject is your newborn child so it is best to use classic colors, textures and tones for the props. Take note that newborn are tiny and delicate and they should be the focus of the photos and not the props that you will be using.
Here are some of the props that you can use for your newborn photography in Houston, TX:
Blankets – Throw pillows and blankets are safe for the kids since it is soft and the texture is not that rough. Choose colors that are comforting to the eyes. Make sure that you wash the blanket first before using. You can use various colors and sizes of blankets but make sure that the colors are coordinated. You can also scatter throw pillows around the newborn so that the photo will look more fun.
Bonnets – Bonnets are a great prop to be used for a newborn photography in Houston, TX. For boys, you can use a cut hat and for girls, a beautiful tieback will do. Make sure that you choose bonnets that are stretchy and soft so that you will not harm the baby's head. The heat of a newborn is extremely soft so you need to be very careful in choosing the right bonnet that you will be using.
Soft Rugs – You can place the newborn in a soft and comfortable rug while taking the photo. The rugs will add texture to the image. You can choose whatever color of rug that you want but make sure that the material is soft and it is hypoallergenic. Newborn are sensitive so you need to be extra cautious of the material that the rug is made of.
See to it that you are wary when choosing props like food since there are items that may include lead paint that is harmful to the newborn. Make sure that the newborn is comfortable and safe at all times while you are taking the photos.
http://www.pixelstudioproductions.com/houston-photography/maternity-newborn-photography-houston-tx has a lot of photos that can be use as guide.
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Philippine government welcomes release of peacekeepers
The Philippine government on Sunday welcomed the release of its 21 UN peacekeepers after they were freed by Syrian rebels and crossed into Jordan, where officials waited to receive them.
The troops, members of a UN force monitoring a 1974 ceasefire between Syria and Israel, were abducted on Wednesday.
President Benigno Aquino "was very happy to receive the news," his spokeswoman Abigail Valte said.
"The president was very concerned and this is very good news indeed."
The Foreign Department said in a statement that "the Philippine government and its people express deep appreciation to the Jordanian government and military officials" for their role in transporting and receiving the soldiers.
"The 21 peacekeepers are in the custody of the Jordanian border patrol headquarters," military spokesman Colonel Arnulfo Burgos told reporters.
"The Philippine ambassador is coordinating directly with Jordanian authorities and is ready to receive the 21 peacekeepers," he said after their ordeal ended on Saturday.
Burgos said the group's commander had met with the freed men, and that they would stay at an Amman hotel for two days before being transferred back for duty with the UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF).
Army spokesman Colonel Randolph Cabangbang said the families of the soldiers had all been informed of their release and were grateful to everyone who helped.
"We updated them. During the first calls, many of them cried, especially the parents as they were thanking us for the news," he told AFP.
The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs stressed the impartiality of the UNDOF contingent the men were serving with and called on all parties to respect their freedom of movement and safety.
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One of my best friends (the good Lord blessed me with four) was diagnosed with Leukemia last year.
I've worked with him for almost 30 years. He had the stem cell transplant and went through it with flying colors. Even back to work.
A couple of months ago the doctors started weening him off the meds. He developed a Host/Graft rejection in several organs(I may get some of this wrong). He spent another four weeks in the hospital, was able to go home only to get sick again. Now pneumonia.
He is a great father, husband and friend. We need him.
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Prayers for a swift and lasting recovery for your friend and his family and loved ones.
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Prayers sent. I have been blessed with lots of friends but only 4 "brothers" as an only child so I feel where you are coming from.
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Thank you all. It's sad. We have a group that we call "the six pack". Three couples, we go on vacation together, been to three weddings, and get together several times a year.
Of the six, four have had some kind of cancer.
It's a crazy world we live in.
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Thank you all. Larry passed yesterday. Pneumonia had set in and he wasn't able to kick it. He put up the good fight and lasted a lot longer than I would have.
In the 30 years I knew him, I don't believe he ever lied or didn't stand up when something needed to be said. In fact a jerk boss I had told me one time he didn't like Larry because he was saying things about him he didn't like. My response was "I've never known him to lie".
He will be missed.
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Chinese New Year Dinner Hop
Chinese New Year is just around the corner! Join the Graduate Student Society as we embark on a culinary journey to explore some of Singapore's local food delights! Following that, immerse yourself in the lively bustling of the Chinese New Year spirit in Chinatown! Vacancies are limited, so sign up now!
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10:32am. Just returned from the employee cafeteria here at the Tropicana in Las Vegas where I'm headlining for the Laugh Factory. Sad thing is I ate dinner there at 2:00am and haven't slept for one second. Insomnia has visited again since I can't use my medical marijuana which is the only thing that has saved me. That and having my wife's beautiful butt pressed against me in the popular spooning position. Well, she's not on this trip and Nevada is anti pot so here I am writing in this journal hoping that putting my thoughts down will purge the demons and I can nod off.
The world is awake outside as the sound of the cars reminds me. A television can be heard in the room next to me and housekeeping is knocking on doors. It's a beautiful 84 degrees but I can't enjoy it. Getting in the elevator to descend to the main level a young man in gym shorts and t-shirt entered holding an ipod. He was obviously heading to the fitness center. I thought, "That's me thirty years ago." Now I'm going to the gift shop to buy some Sominex. I had Lunesta for the first couple of nights but it should say right on the bottle, "Will make your breath smell like cat shit."
The shows have been great but the winding down is the worst. I surfed the web thinking that would tire me out but then I saw that Andy Williams had died so I watched a few videos on YouTube of his long running TV show. That brought me back to being a kid who sat on the floor in front of the tube soaking it all in. When I saw the clip of Jerry Lewis teaching Andy how to dance I'm positive that's why I became a comedian. I wanted to be one of those adults who acted silly and got paid for it.
Surfing YouTube is dangerous. One thing led to another and I ended up watching news reports on Glen Campbell's Alzheimer's. His was another show I grew up with. Seeing footage of him repeat a song he had just sang in front of a packed audience was heart breaking. His daughter reminded him with a sweet smile that he had just played that song and he joked and went into another hit. People with Alzheimer's don't know they have it. In one of the interviews he has to ask his wife how old he is. She says, "You're seventy-five, Glen." "Really?" he says in disbelief. Tears ran down my cheeks.
That's when I got up to go eat breakfast. When you stay up all night you eventually get hungry and being in a hotel you have to get dressed, leave your room, and function in public.
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Cartoon Network Café at Drayton ManorSubmitted by Rob Lee on Sunday, June 3, 2012 21:45
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The Cartoon Network Café (sometimes referred to as the Cartoon Network Diner) is a themed establishment designed to resemble a classic 1950s American diner. It serves a variety of light food options, as well as drinks and milkshakes. Cartoon Network shows play on screens throughout the diner.
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A while ago while cleaning out my grandfather's boat house we found a box of road maps from the 50s and 60s. All places he had travelled at some point in his much younger days. They're in really good shape, the paper is starting to yellow, but in a good way. They have illustrations that, these days would be replaced by stock photography. Every little crease makes them better. These puppies can't be reproduced.
I saved them for a bit and now have turned them into something new again. I've screen printed artwork, so far just Lake Superior, but eventually each of the 5 Great Lakes, on to the maps.
The Lake Superior artwork is only half it. If that is what is getting it on to a wall, so be it, but that Lake Superior logo is nothing with out the road map behind it.
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