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Typically, they are circular artworks (often within a square framework) with a spiritual context. In Sanskrit, the word means circle, or completion.
They are often symmetrical and geometrical in design, as seen in this sandpainting, created by Tibetan monks. They are using a language of symbols. Each element, each color, each direction has a particular meaning to them.
In the Tibetan view, they are creating an image of the perfect Universe, a 2-dimensional temple that they can enter through meditation.
But for the purposes of spiritual exercise, you will be creating a personal temple. You can work with any shape, designs, colors, and symbols that calls to you.
(I recommend starting with a circle so you can get the feel of it. I've created a free printable mandala template page, to get you started.)
They are tools and symbols of healing and well-being.
They can help you understand yourself, know your Path, and re-create yourself to align with your highest potential.
They are traditionally thought to be a symbolic depiction of the Universe, as a link between the physical world and the Divine realm. You can think of them as holograms . . . a tiny piece of the universe, which shows within its colorful borders . . . a microcosm of all existence.
So in creating one, you are portraying your spiritual Source - the essence of your Self.
Just as every piece of a hologram contains a picture of the whole, this is a depiction of your inner self reflects the whole Divinity of which you are a part.
The first thing to know about any spiritual exercise is this . . .
No artistic talent is necessary.
We've all been trained by our society that only "artists" can create, and the rest of us poor menials should sit on the sidelines and applaud them. This is absolute hog manure!
Everyone has a birthright of creativity. You are a spark of the Divine - the most creative power ever. You inherited some of that creativity. So set aside the inner critic who criticizes your creative expressions. Don't listen to his voice. It's important to allow yourself the opportunity to play.
As Robert Pike says, "Learning is directly proportional to the amount of fun you have."
First you need the right tools.
Then, like any meditation or creative task, this takes some time. Set aside an hour for a small one . . . three hours so you don't feel rushed on a large one. These times are just estimates. After drawing a few of them, you'll have an idea how long it takes you. You may be a lot faster than I am!
Make yourself a quiet, undisturbed space. You may want to listen to music, or mantra, or silence.
Be aware that if you're playing music, your meditation will reflect your response to it, perhaps more than it reflects your inner space. So for a pure art meditation, mantra or silence is best.
Prepare your "canvas." If you're using a template or stencil to map out the sections, you may tape it underneath your working paper, as a guide.
NOTE: A free printable mandala template page can be downloaded here.
If you've looked at pictures, you may have some ideas for shapes and designs. These are easily found by an online image search, or check out this site. (Opens new window.) I found it useful to get ideas from others when I began, because I didn't really know where to start.
Look at the colors you have available. Pick one that you're drawn to. Hold it near the paper, until you have a feeling where you'd like to have that color.
When you feel a hint of inspiration, go with it.
Avoid judging it, or trying to make it look a certain way. Part of the magick of drawing and coloring a mandala is that it can be a clear expression of your soul, if you set your thinking brain aside for a while.
This is what makes art a meditation.
Let the creativity flow through you, without trying to control it. Remember . . .
"Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. You're never good at anything at first."
When you've finished, you may want to paste your finished piece into your journal, or hang it for a few days first, somewhere you will see it but others won't.
Now you come to (what I feel is) the best part . . . Reading and interpreting the design, like you would interpret dreams.
P.S. Remember to download your free printable mandala template.
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We might imagine a military hospital to be nothing but depressing and tragic, exhibiting only the terrible consequences of war. The Station Hospital in Morley, a village near Wymondham around thirteen miles west of Norwich, was no exception, caring for those with severe and sometimes fatal injuries. However, the hospital had another side, indeed maybe even another purpose, to the dispiriting task of tending to wounded soldiers. Those who experienced Morley remember it not simply as a hospital, but also as a place where music played, where joy and happiness were had, and where lifelong friends and lovers were found.
Morley and the construction of the hospital
Derek Daniels was only a child when war came. To begin with, 'life […] continued much the same' for him and the other children growing up in the small village of Morley: 'the war seemed like another world'. Soon, though, that 'world' began to close in on the village. Daniels remembers when Morley became 'encircled by American Air Force bases at Deopham, Hethel, Old Buckenham, and Snetterton'. Not long after, the once "other" world of war became utterly inseparable from everyday life in Morley.
In 1942, the golf course at Morley was chosen as the site of a new hospital for the United States military (previously, the land was being used for agriculture in the 'Dig for Victory' campaign). To build the hospital as swiftly as possible, builders and equipment arrived from across the country, with many workers coming from afar as Wales and Ireland. Derek Daniels recalls: 'even my Uncle Tom a farmer in the village became involved — they [the building contractor] used his horses and carts for carrying bricks and cement'. The construction firm, Gee, Walker & Slater, was 'known locally as Get-m, Work-em and Sack-em', according to Daniels.
Hospital operations
From August 1943 to March 1944, the hospital was managed by the 77th Station Hospital, after which it was re-designated the 231st Station Hospital under the command of Colonel Linwood Malone Gable. It was established to serve some 60,000 US military personnel based in the region at the time, mostly crews and engineers for the 15 heavy bomber bases. Most patients requiring surgery were injured during high-altitude operations in enemy airspace, with the vast majority of their injuries being classified as 'severe'. Despite this, 99.6% of the airmen who were alive when they were admitted to the hospital would survive. On average, it took five and a half hours for a serviceman to arrive at the hospital after being injured.
Working at the hospital
Patients were cared for by American Red Cross staff. This demonstrates that the range of American people serving in the region during the war was by no means restricted to male troops in the Air Force. Rather, they included civilian women, like Virginia Foley of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Foley, who went by the nickname of "Ginger" at Morley hospital, has written vividly about her time in East Anglia, a region that she describes as 'that little thumb of England that protrudes into the North Sea'.
Foley lived in a 'quonset hut' with five other Red Cross staff. Working in a military hospital so far from her home, she would at times feel 'heavy of heart and almost sick with loneliness', especially on holidays. She describes how she spent Christmas Eve in 1943: 'for much of this evening I have sat on my cot indulging in the game of nostalgia (thinking lonesome thoughts of home)'. However, solidarity with the other hospital staff kept her strong. Foley recounts her thoughts as she attended the Christmas Mass at the hospital chapel:
What is my family doing right now? Are they thinking of me? Missing me? Then, a feeling of shame flows through me. Every single person in this room is far from home – the doctors, the nurses, and certainly each patient in our hospital. Then I think of the hospital staff who must work the whole night and the others who must be on duty all day tomorrow, Christmas day. I fight off this indulgent feeling. I wasn't drafted. I chose to enter this service. I look around at the people I've come to know so well and wonder what they are thinking. Their calm faces betray no emotion.
Indeed, Virginia Foley often found comfort and support in those around her at the hospital, most of all through Jack Reynolds, the Personnel Officer at Morley. She met Jack at Camp Atterbury in Indiana where they were both assigned to the 231st Station Hospital before it moved to Morley. The first time she was off-duty, Foley spent the evening strolling in the hospital's countryside surroundings with Jack.
"The Gable Gaitors"
In her spare time when she was not working or socialising, Virginia Foley would learn the piano. The hospital was lucky to have a concert-pianist among their staff, Sargent Harry Miller, who gave lessons to Foley. According to Foley, Colonel Gable had "traded" Miller from another unit, giving the commanding officer two Chinese cooks in exchange for the musician.
The Colonel certainly succeeded in fostering good musicianship among his staff. The hospital band was, by all accounts, very talented, with several performers good enough to be professional musicians. Honouring their Colonel, the band went by the name the "Gable Gaitors". Residents of Morley, such as Pamela Standley, greatly enjoyed going to see the Gable Gaitors perform on Sunday afternoons when the Anglo-American Social Club had an open house. On these occasions, Standley and her friends would dance with the staff and any well-enough patients, and then visit the hospital wards to meet those with more serious injuries.
Celebrity Visits
Colonel Gable also invited famous entertainers to visit the hospital and perform for the patients and staff. Luckily for Virginia Foley and Jack Reynolds, they would often be invited by Gable to attend his small after-parties with the visiting celebrities. On one occasion, Foley was thrilled to have been invited, along with Jack Reynolds, to meet the Hollywood film star Jim Cagney. On the day of the party, however, Foley received a distressing letter from her father:
Mother is in St. Mary's Hospital and fighting for her life. The doctors believe she will live because of some new-fangled medicine called "Penicillium" that was flown in from Boston especially for her. […] She slipped on the ice as she crossed the street […] and broke her hip. An infection has set in'.
Foley asked Reynolds to inform the Colonel that she would not be able to make the party after all due to the news about her mother. After expressing his regret at her mother's ill-health, Colonel Gable insisted that Foley still attend the cocktail party, telling her 'that was an order!'. Foley obeyed, and watched Jim Cagney perform for the patients and the hospital staff:
He stood there alone, looking us over, and then went into his dance. I don't remember the music. I recall, only, an act that had us all cheering and clapping and begging for more, an act that lifted the hearts and gave us all a touch of home.
At the cocktail party after the performance, Reynolds describes how Jim Cagney approached her and said:
"Virginia […] would you do me a favor?"
"Of course I will," I answered, trying not to faint […]
"I have been told about your mother and I'm sorry. I would like to drop her a line. Would you mind?" […]
And with that, he sat down and wrote this note:
"My dear Mrs. Foley. Just met your charming daughter and she told me you had a bit of an accident. Very sorry to hear it, but I know a Foley can take a broken leg without losing a step. Get well soon. My very best to you. Sincerely, Jim Cagney."
Race and politics
Foley always wrote fondly of Colonel Gable, describing him as 'genial, courtly, and—ahead of his time'. American hospitals in England would normally accept "sick-call" patients on a first-come, first-served basis, except for black soldiers, who would have to wait until all other patients had been seen. Foley wrote that: 'Col. Gable will have none of it. We accept our patients in order of their appearances. It is no small degree of pride that we staff members take in this kind and humane gentleman who is our commander'.
Unsurprisingly, Colonel Gable's progressive attitude did not eradicate racial and political tension in and around the hospital. When Joe Louis, the heavyweight boxing champion of the world since 1937, went to Morley to give a boxing demonstration to the patients, he chose not to drink at the bar of the Morley Buck pub: Louis was black, and he did not want to offend the white soldiers. Personnel of the 987th Military Police, which was stationed at Morley hospital, also reported 'racial strife' after black American soldiers were seen interacting with local white women.
There were political tensions, too. According to James R. Perry, a Staff Sargent in a bomber repair group who was admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, German prisoners of war would serve food to the American patients at Morley. This, Perry remembers, 'fueled several "incidents"'. All American hospitals had a P.O.W. camp attached to them, and Morley's held around 200 inmates. As well as doing kitchen work, the prisoners also tended to the hospital gardens.
Grateful patients and fond memories
Even though Colonel Gable could not change the politics of his environment, the 'pride' which he instilled in his staff was certainly recognised by the patients. The Commanding Officer of the 44th Bomb Group, Frederick R. Dent, was a patient at the hospital. After he was discharged, he wrote a letter of gratitude to Colonel Gable. 'From the doctors, nurses, and even down through the ward boys there existed a feeling of pride and interest in their work. […] I shall always remember the cheery smile and pleasant attitude of these people.'
Derek Daniels enjoyed the candy and gum that the 'Yanks' at the hospital, both patients and staff, would give to him. Daniels remembers one Christmas when the hospital hosted a party for the children of Morley; they showed a film, and some of the wounded soldiers made toys for the children. 'Oh what happy memories of those days […] many happy friendships were made between the locals and the GIs.'
As for Virginia Foley, her memories of Morley hospital could well have been the fondest and sweetest of anybody's. To find her wonderfully written memoirs, though, you will have to look up the name "Virginia Foley Reynolds", for she married Jack at Norwich Cathedral in 1944 after D-Day. The hospital's head surgeon, Colonel Pedro Plateau stood in for Virginia's father, and Harry Miller, the Sargent at Morley who was teaching her the piano, played Handel's "Largo" on the organ. Foley used to wake up at 6am to practice this very piece, her fingers struggling in cold winter mornings before her shift would begin.
To read the memoir of Virginia Foley Reynolds, see Catalogue Ref. MC 376/481, USF 8/2
For an illustrated scrapbook of the history of Morley Station Hospital see Catalogue Ref. MC 376/688, USF 18/4


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Me, to GP: "Why am I tired all the time?"
Doctors #1-5: "Go to bed earlier."
Doctors # 6-8: "We've done blood tests, can't find anything. Get more sleep."
Doctor # 9: "Pull yourself together."
Doctors #10-13: "Go to bed earlier."
Doctors #14: "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. I'll refer you to counselling."
Doctor #15 (after relocation): "CFS doesn't exist. I'm not going to offer you any treatment for your tiredness."
... ad infinitum...
New GP, 2013: "Well, you blood test results indicate a low thyroid, there could be other factors hiding the extent, let's try levothyrxine and see how you get on.
(Shock, horror! Some improvement!)
New GP, 2015: "Hmm, do this tiredness test. Yes, that IS very high. Let me look at your tonsils. Yes they ARE very enlarged. I'm referring you for a Sleep Test."
Specialist: "You have severe Sleep Apnoea. The reason you feel like you haven't had a decent night's sleep in your life, is because you HAVEN'T had a decent night's sleep in your adult life. Here's a CPAP machine."
Specialist 2: "Glad to hear there's some improvement, but there are still symptoms I want to investigate..." (still waiting for my appointment but am hopeful something can be done to alleviate the remaining symptoms).
And that, ladies and gentleman, is how I was diagnosed, age 35, with a sleep disorder I've had my entire life. Because, you know, if a girl/woman complains of being tired it's clearly all in her head, or down to just needing to go to bed at 8:30 (because that's normal, right?).
What are the symptoms of long-term sleep deprivation? Well, extreme fatigue (check), depression (check), weight gain (check), low immunity (check), poor concentration (check)... all symptoms that are right there in my records. But no, not enough to warrant investigation for two decades, apparently.


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Chaim Shapiro is a lot of things. Award-winning Assistant Director of Career Services at Touro College. Speaker and writer. Highly regarded consultant.
We interviewed him about networking online, recent changes to LinkedIn, and the future of career services.
Below is our conversation in edited and condensed form.
What is your networking strategy?
What I always tell people is to identify on LinkedIn, engage over Twitter, and seal over coffee. Though LinkedIn is a great identification tool, great for identifying leaders, it's not the best of engagement tools.
The best place to engage is on Twitter when you can wait for the appropriate moment when someone is talking about something you share an interest in. Then after you build that relationship, the final thing to do is arrange an in-person meeting where you're able to interact with them and seal the deal, or "seal over coffee."
In my experience, not many people actively use LinkedIn. People are far more active on twitter.
Exactly, that's where the real engagement and interactions happen, as opposed to on LinkedIn. The idea is to follow someone on Twitter, either through a private list, then wait until they talk about something that's of mutual interest—I'm a huge Chicago Cubs fan, The Princess Bride, etc. Whatever it is, when a person makes a comment like that, that's your opportunity to respond. Then when they interact with you, start building that relationship and continuing that conversation until you have something, some rapport built, so that when you're asking for that eventual meeting, they think, "Oh yeah! This is a good friend of mine, I talk to him on Twitter about topics that we're both passionate about."
If you ask somebody for something, for an interview for a job, the simple answer is "No." But when you build that relationship, and you have that credibility where the person knows who you are, it can be a very effective way of circumventing the question, "Who in the world are you, why should I pay attention to you?"
LinkedIn has made a lot of changes recently, in particular to LinkedIn groups. What do you think of these changes?
I think LinkedIn is making a mistake when it comes to its groups. I understand they're doing it because of the groups that became spamfests full of people that were self promoting, but there has to be some medium between fully public and fully private.
The idea of a group that's fully public that's around a particular area of interest, it's like we used to say in college when I was an undergraduate. What happens if I go to the chess club and I say, "We're going to start playing checkers"? It loses its status as a chess club if you're playing checkers. You can't really have a fully public group with people who aren't interested in or specific to the specificities of that group. It was a mistake in my mind.
I think you either have to find some kind of medium where you can make groups around interest areas and people can engage in that way, but on the other hand make it so it's neither completely public nor private so that people can find it. The other thing is, with a public group, anybody who is a member can invite anybody else to join and approve their membership, so it's very very difficult.
What do you think of LinkedIn's new app for students?
It's based on a sort of Tinder model: It has five things you swipe through per day. What we don't need is for students thinking that choosing a career is like choosing who you want to ask out on a date. I mean, it's just completely the wrong message. There's a lot of thought that needs to go into those decisions you're making. It's not just like, "Hey, I'll send her an email, I'll send him an email, if they respond, great, if not, fine, what's the big deal."
People are making life decisions based on what amounts to a Tinder date kind of app, at least that's what it looks like. I think it really is a mistake. In career services, one of the things we talk to students about a significant amount of the time is making career decisions and making decisions that are right for them based on who they are, what they enjoy doing, where their skills are, and there's no way an app that gives you five suggestions a day could possibly get near the depth necessary to let students make those kind of informed decisions. I'm not saying change something drastically. I haven't seen the app, I haven't actually used it yet. But, I was panning it on Twitter today for quite a bit after their initial launch and was very upset about it.
Look, I understand what they're trying to do. They're trying to make an easy system to get more students involved. From their perspective, it increases user engagement and their numbers, but, you know, we're dealing with people's lives here. We're dealing with career choices that have ramifications, and if you change things, it makes a big difference.
Even the old idea from one of my colleagues in career serivces mentioned today, it's also based on the old model that "Career = Major X," or, "If I major in this I'm going to choose a career in this particular area." That is not the model anymore, not by a long shot. People choose careers for different majors in all sorts of different areas.
How do you see Career Services changing in the next few decades?
I think there's going to be much more of an emphasis on graduates' first destinations and other outcomes—being able to demonstrate clearly that there's a positive outcome because of the interactions you've had with students. That the work that you're doing relates directly into some kind of career success.
It's difficult because sometimes people in career services view themselves as student development professionals where our focus is education, not job outcomes, but, look, when it comes down to the matter, people want to know, and prospective students want to know, "Will I get a job after I'm done?" And I think it is important to be able to demonstrate those kinds of outcomes.
I think career services is going to become a much more important part of the college community. Senior administrators understand how important the work we do is because it really is what sells the college to a lot of people. I hope and think that additional resources will be given to career services across the country, and really a focus on working together. I'd like to see senior administrators who have sort of a dual role working within career services and also reporting directly to the senior administration.
In terms of the actual services, I think a lot of the services are going to move toward a model where you meet students where they are. If you want to meet over Skype, work on your résumé on Google Docs, make a phone call, all those things, as opposed to the standard in-person meting where someone's sitting in front of you and you're talking to them. I think it's about engaging them where they are, making sure they get the services they need.
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How are you preparing for and adapting to those changes?
I'm a very big fan of NACE [the National Association of Colleges and Employers], I'm very involved in NACE, and NACE is on the forefront of all these things. Some of the people at NACE really changed the paradigm in the profession: Yes, career services is student development, but outcomes are also important. I go to their conferences, I go to all their events and their webinars. They give significant advice and tools in order to be able to compete and provide the services that students need and that administrators want.
In my work, I deal with the overlap between career services, alumni relations, and advancement. I think offering career services help and assistance to alumni is something that alumni like and that they respect. It helps build and cultivate long-term relationships with alumni, so that's obviously good for any alumni association, and that's obviously great for any kind of development opportunities. There's a real synergy between the three, and if they work well together, if they're able to provide services, those services are able to translate themselves into committed alumni, and committed alumni translate into development opportunities.
We should not only engage alumni and get them whatever career services help they need, we should also engage alumni so they're interested in helping students, interested in mentoring. One of the best ways to develop recruitment relationships between us and companies is by contacting our alumni, developing strong relationships with them, bringing them to campus to speak to our students, and then having them, from inside their company say, "I met a great student at Touro, I want to pass along this résumé." That's a great way to build those relationships, and I think that's very, very important.


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Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative
Everything about Forest Park is impressive: its size (the nation's largest forested urban park, spanning 5,200 acres); its unique environment (home to 112 bird species, 62 mammals, and hundreds of native plants) and the opportunities it provides us (80 miles of trails for outdoor recreation). Forest Park is a precious natural treasure that plays a major role in the quality of life we enjoy in the Portland-metro region, contributing to clean water and air, while also offering an abundance of outdoor recreation in the heart of a rapidly-growing urban area.
A Forest under Threat
Yet as impressive and immense as Forest Park is, so too are the challenges it faces. Climate change, invasive species, urban growth, development
and recreational pressures are taking a toll on the Park's environmental health. Experts say the time is now to combat these threats
before they grow increasingly worse.
"Studies show that the longer these types of problems are left unaddressed, the more difficult, costly and potentially more damaging it will be to fix them. Ultimately, if we don't take action now, it may be too late," said Renee Myers, executive director of the Forest Park Conservancy.
A Greater Vision for a Great Park
But there is hope, as outlined in a vision that is a big and bold as Forest Park itself.
Called the Greater Forest Park Conservation Initiative (GFPCI), Forest Park Conservancy has created a visionary roadmap to restore and protect not just Forest Park, but its entire surrounding ecosystem totaling more than 15,000 acres.
At its core, the GFPCI is an environmental action plan that prioritizes strategies and projects that will have the greatest positive impact on improving the health of Forest Park. The GFPCI is focused on four key goals and conservation activities, including:
- Streams: Protecting and improving water quality in the Park's more than 30 miles of streams, to safeguard watershed functions
and human health
- Connectivity: Protecting and improving the connectivity between Forest Park, the Tualatin Mountains, the Coast Range and the
Willamette River
- Forests: Maintaining and improving forests to support diversity, environmental integrity, connectivity and complexity
- Wildlife: Maintaining and protecting native wildlife diversity The GFPCI is a significant undertaking in many ways. In addition
to identifying needed restoration efforts inside the Park, the GFPCI recognizes the importance of the larger link between Forest Park and
the Coast Range. The GFPCI also calls for protection and restoration efforts in areas immediately adjacent to the Park, to help stop the
continual re-infestation of invasives and other threats from the outside of the Park's boundaries.
A Partnership at Work
But a plan–and especially one as significant as the GFPCI–means nothing without progress. And progress can't be effective without essential partnerships.
The problems facing Forest Park are massive, complex and varied. It takes a village of organizations and individuals who are committed and
willing to bring their expertise and resources to the table to help advance meaningful solutions.
As part of building this collaboration with partners, we need to track our success which is why we teamed up with METRO, Portland Parks & Recreation and West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District to create a Unified Monitoring Protocol. With this tool, we will all use the same methods to track our progress.
Led by Forest Park Conservancy, our growing network of public and non-profit GFPCI partners are already making a difference, both on the ground in Forest Park and in the surrounding area. GFPCI partners include:
- Forest Park Conservancy
- West Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation Service
- Metro
- Portland Bureau of Environmental Services
- Portland Parks and Recreation
- Friends of Trees
- Audubon Society
- Columbia Land Trust
- Forest Park Neighborhood Association
- Linnton Neighborhood Association
- Intertwine Alliance
- PSU Institute for Sustainable Solutions
- PSU Institute for Economics and the Environment
- Oregon Department of Forestry
- Skyline Ridge Neighbors
- Neighbors for Clean Air
Taking Action for a Healthier Forest Park
GFPCI partners work together to identify key projects, collaborating on solutions and bringing individual resources to bear to help accomplish specific GFPCI goals. These efforts range from such vital activities as invasive species removal and native re-vegetation projects, to environmental quality monitoring and public education and outreach.
Recent restoration work in the Balch Creek area is an example of how GFPCI partnerships are working towards a healthier Forest Park. By teaming with Portland Parks & Recreation and Metro, more than 250 acres in Balch Creek have been treated to remove destructive and highly-invasive English ivy, allowing for the regrowth of native vegetation. Along with West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District, the Forest Park Conservancy also has rallied community volunteers to help with hand-pulling invasive plants and promoted neighborhood awareness and education to ensure longer-term protection.
The restoration of Balch Creek demonstrates the progress being made towards a number of GFPCI goals, such as improving watershed quality,
enhancing habitat and removing invasive species. And it's just one of several projects that GFPCI partners are working to tackle. Others
include restoration initiatives in the Holman Wedge and Pittock Mansion area, FPC's old-growth forest preserve and an industrial greening
initiative "Getting Green to Work".
FPC's staff members leading the Initiative are Renee Myers and Alejandro Orizola. And our Canopy Weeds Program is led by Cody Chambers.
Tree ivy removal and native planting.
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CBO's score: Cloudy with a chance of bankruptcy
–Peter J. Pitts is President of the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. The views expressed are his own. —
Today, the Congressional Budget Office released its latest estimate of the price tag of the Democrats' health reform package. At $940 billion, this version of reform will cost more than the measures passed by the House and Senate late last year. More is not always better.
CBO also says the bill will reduce the deficit by $130 billion over the next 10 years and by $1.2 trillion over the following decade. That's right. It will reduce the deficit by significantly increasing federal spending. Only in America.
While they're at it, they should also predict the weather for the next decade.
Let's face it: Uncle Sam has a poor track record of forecasting how much new programs will cost. Medicare's progenitors, for example, stated in 1967 that the entitlement would cost $12 billion by 1990. Actual Medicare spending in 1990 amounted to $110 billion — nearly 10 times the initial estimate. Oops.
CBO's deficit-reduction estimates are further divorced from reality because they don't include as much as $371 billion in new spending to fix reimbursement rates for doctors who treat Medicare patients. Imagine that — health reform legislation that doesn't include payments to doctors. Only in Washington, DC.
Absent congressional action, Medicare reimbursement rates will fall 21 percent next year. Congress has no intention of letting that happen. But the Democrats have decided that they don't have to include this so-called "doctor fix" in their healthcare reform package — even though it's critical to preserving Medicare.
No wonder the CBO was able to conclude that the Democrats' health reform package would reduce the deficit by $130 billion. The bean-counters simply ignored the $371 billion in spending needed to fix Medicare reimbursement rates.
Democrats point to the favorable CBO score as proof that their health reform package is a model of fiscal responsibility. But it's likely that the next generation of lawmakers will look back on these cost estimates with the same astonishment reserved for Medicare's naïve forecasters back in 1967.
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Where do you people (Reuters) find these "analysts" every time something favorable to the White House is reported? Nobody complained that CBO has bad track record when it reported that health care reform would cost more then what the government was saying.
Simply irresponsible. Shame, shame, Reuters.
CMPI is well known as a pharmaceutacal funded orgnanization doing whatever it can to spread misinformation about legislation which is going to cut the cost of drugs.
Even if you didn't know this, you would guess that CMPI has a dog in this hunt by the Pitts uses broad sweeping generalizations and by the wide ranging condemnation of the CBO, which is pretty well thought of.
This is a far cry from honorable journalism, and your silly little disclaimer does nothing to change my view. Are you going to be journalists or are you just going to play at it?
Great insight by PJ Pitts.
With nationalized healthcare the whole USA will become like Detroit.
The problem is that, because the states share in the cost of these federal entitlement programs (especially Medicare and Medicaid), much of the cost in over runs will fall upon the states.
Practically every state in the nation is already cutting back on higher education. Personally, I think colleges should just eliminate sports (the only college athletic programs that make money are the top ten football teams) to save money, not eliminate entire academic programs.
Most athletic scholarships are for Black athletes, and they are notorious for skating through on grade school academic abilities. Obama wants a "Rush to Excellence" in education – let's start with college athletes, and require them to have Notre Dame level smarts. College is for learning not sports.
Many states are already cutting back on k-12 education as well. Detroit closed 40 schools, Kansas City almost as many. These closings are in Black, inner-city communities that don't have the tax base.
Arguably, the Black community stands the most to benefit from this Health Care bill. 99.9% of Blacks form Obama's Revolutionary Guard, supporting him righteously on this and other social welfare issues.
So be it. Let them have their Health Care. Once their schools start closing by the boatload they'll come running to Washington for another $1 trillion dollar bail out. But guess what? There won't be any money left.
Medicaid is already bankrupt. This bill will exacerbate the problem.
Social Security is worse than bankrupt; they're having to cash in IOU's from the Treasury Department from funds Congress has siphoned off Social Security for the decades now.
Apparently bankrupt-this-year isn't good enough. The new norm is bankrupt-for-the-next-decade. This Health Care bill bankrupts us by this new norm, spending all our disposable income for the next ten plus years.
This is what we get when the 50% of Americans who pay no taxes are all Democrats, and they demand government to provide more of the same – free education, free schools, free colleges, and now free medical care.
Soon they will pay the cost of all this: no jobs. Ironically, a decent job is the best education, the healthiest activity, and the most life-enriching thing of all. At least they have their guns and their churches to depend on in hard times, like Obama so famously said.
Personally, I think we should be spending all this on a $1 trillion jobs bill. If kids can't hack regular high school, send them to vocational school to learn a trade. If they still drop out; well, there's always a military draft for people who need some discipline and direction.
Hiel to the Chief.
ah, numbers, schnumbers….I want the $3 trillion we spent in Iraq back
Mr Pitts argues by ridicule rather than by facts and analysis. Only in America. He challenges the idea that increasing government spending can result in a net cut in the deficit. He does this on behalf of a party that has argued since 1980 that cutting taxes will increase revenues. An idea can be counter-intuitive and still be correct.
I would have been interested to see a real analysis of the accuracy (or, I suspect, lack of accuracy) in CBO estimates. That is why I read the article. The best I got was one anecdote from 1967 about the cost of Medicare estimate for 1990. Did Mr. Pitts correct for inflation and for the extraordinary, unexpected run-up in the cost of health care as a % of GNP from 1967 to 1990? He did not, although those were the main reasons the 1965 estimate was so far off.
I look for both analysis and opinion in such columns, but found neither here. What I found was slurs, smog and misrepresentations. Am I on the Reuters site, or have I become lost in Murdoch land?
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Wyatt Earp - An American legend
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp is buried at the Hills of Eternity, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California alongside his common law wife Josephine "Josie' Sarah Marcus. Surprising? Perhaps, but the more one learns about Earp, the more it seems that the Wyatt Earp that is popularly known is a Hollywood legend, promulgated to tell a romantic story of heroes and villains, with Wyatt Earp emerging as the Forest Gump of the wild west-having been everywhere and changing things for the better.
The legend of Wyatt Earp helped define America's era of the Wild West. Not only did Earp live through the entire cowboy era, by the time he died at the age of 80, he had written a memoir and served as a technical advisor for the early western silent films.
In this role, Earp's reminiscences of the old west helped create early Hollywood cowboy heros: actors Tom MIx, Hoot Gibson, and John Wayne, and director John Ford. Having lived from 1848 to 1929, Earp was a boy at the time of the Civil War, and following the war, headed west to seek his fortune.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp is buried at the Hills of Eternity, a Jewish cemetery in Colma, California. Surprising? Perhaps, but the more one learns about Earp, the more it seems that the Wyatt Earp that is popularly known is a Hollywood legend, promulgated to tell a romantic story of heroes and villains, with Wyatt Earp emerging as the Forest Gump of the wild west-having been everywhere and changing things for the better.
So, who was Wyatt Earp? Many films have been made about him-all were partially or totally fictional. Earp was an officer of the law in various Western frontier towns, farmer, teamster, buffalo hunter, gambler, saloonkeeper, miner and boxing referee.
Earp was most known as a peace officer. Yet, although he served from time to time as an adjunct lawman, he was never a Marshall. Earp had several brothers. His brother, Virgil, was a Deputy U.S. Marshal.
Wyatt actually found himself more often on the receiving side than on the enforcement side of the law. In 1868, the Earp family moved to Lamar, Missouri. When his father, Nicholas, resigned as constable, Wyatt was appointed to the post, and later won election by defeating his half brother, Newton.
Soon, Wyatt was arrested first for falsifying court documents regarding town collections, and then for horse theft. While out on bail, he fled Missouri. In his biography, Earp claimed to have spent the time buffalo hunting where he met Wild Bill Hickok, but records indicate that during that period, he was running a brothel in Peoria, Illinois-where he was arrested three times for operating a house of ill repute.
In 1874, Earp arrived in Wichita, Kansas, a train terminal destination for cattle drives. He helped in the City Marshall's office, possibly in an unpaid capacity. He is credited with arresting a horse thief and a group of wagon thieves. During this period, while he was leaning back on a chair, a single-action revolver dropped out of his holster and discharged a bullet that went through his coat. That was the closest Earp ever came to being struck by a bullet.
After two years of service, described by a newspaper as "unexceptional," Earp got into a fist fight during the City Marshall election and was fired.
Earp ventured to Dodge City, Kansas, where the first records are of him being fined for slapping a prostitute who insulted him. He left Dodge City on a gambling tour, returning in 1878 to become Assistant City Marshall. Earp and Doc Holliday met during a brawl when Holiday was reported to have stopped a cowboy from shooting Earp in the back.
Earp, in his biography, reported several gunfights or potential gunfights during his time as Assistant City Marshall, with most of the details found to be at variance with the record.
In a murder where a woman was killed during an attempted assassination of the mayor of Dodge City, Earp was part of a posse and was credited with shooting the perpetrator's horse.
Wyatt moved to Tombstone, Arizona to be near his brothers James and Virgil, a U.S. Deputy Marshal. Wyatt went to work riding shotgun for Wells Fargo stagecoaches. Soon, brothers Morgan and Warren, and Doc Holliday joined them.
A complicated series of events led to what has become known as the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral. It pitted Virgil Earp, Morgan Earp, Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday against Ike Clanton, Billy Claiborne, Frank McLaury, and Tom McLaury. Sheriff Johnny Behan took the side of the cowboys in their battle against the Earps. Ike Clanton was known to have been unarmed and no weapon was found near Tom McLaury, who was killed by a shotgun blast from Doc Holliday-who fired the first shot.
The gunfight was followed by a lengthy trial that concluded that Virgil Earp and his deputies had acted as law officers, although Virgil Earp was criticized for his choice of Wyatt and Doc as deputies.
Following the trial, Virgil Earp was attacked and wounded. Then Morgan Earp was assassinated. Wyatt and Doc Holliday formed a vendetta posse, killing several he believed to be involved in the shootings.
Earp had three common law marriages: Urilla Sutherland a wife of just a few months, Celia Ann "Mattie" Blaylock, and Josephine "Josie' Sarah Marcus. Mattie worked as a prostitute for the Earp brothers. Wyatt left her when he left Tombstone in 1882. Josie was the common law wife of Sheriff Johnny Behan.
In 1882, Wyatt moved to San Francisco, struck up a romance with Josie, and they became a common law couple beginning in 1883.
In 1896, Earp was the referee for the Bob Fitzsimmons against Tom Sharkey boxing match. The fight was heralded as a prelude to the World Championship. Fitzsimmons knocked down Sharkey, but Earp awarded the match to Sharkey, claiming that Fitzsimmons committed a low blow. Earp was accused of committing fraud.
In 1896, Earp wrote his memoirs, and in the early 20th century, the Earps moved to Hollywood where Wyatt served as a technical advisor to the early western film industry.
He died in 1929 at the age of 80. Western actors William S. Hart and Tom Mix were pallbearers at his funeral. Earp's body was cremated and Earp's ashes were buried in the Marcus family plot at the Hills of Eternity, a Jewish cemetery (Josie was Jewish) in Colma, California. When she died in 1944, Josie's ashes were buried next to Earp's. The original grave marker was stolen in 1944 but has since been replaced.
The legend of Wyatt Earp has inspired nearly a dozen feature films. The true story of Wyatt Earp is less about a hero and more about a man growing up at a time when the West was wild. His legend is part of Americana.


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on November 12th, 2013 at 8:19:45 PM
Disney has it down to a science now.
A cold-fingered, bum-warming science.
And oh, it'll fit. Against every instinct of rejection, they'll work it in. And when that sudden chill pass the point of no return leaves you prey to their shoehorned abuse, you'll take it with a smile hoping each thrust is less tearing than the last.
on November 12th, 2013 at 8:30:37 PM
Anyway. Well. Now that the studios are making super-record profits from their films, tv ventures, on-demand services and rental contracts, perhaps they'll slack off on the folks downloading dark, shaky sh*t-cams of the latest crap we're going to pay to see eventually anyway.
Oh, right. Greed. I almost forgot.
on November 12th, 2013 at 8:34:22 PM
I'm with mink, Dafuq detrimental lol
Yeah, 2015 is looking promising for becoming one of the biggest years for box office.
on November 12th, 2013 at 8:39:40 PM
I'm just wondering if Detrimental is talking about Disney or something more...personal.
on November 12th, 2013 at 9:32:46 PM
Well good for Disney.
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Disney and apple rule the world
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Funny how all Disney had to do to turn a huge profit was to pull a Steinbrenner and buy up the best players (Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm).
Without those guaranteed moneymakers, all they'd have is their sh*tty public-domain childhood-classic adaptations (Alice in Wonderland, Oz the Great and Powerful, etc).
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Mink, He's probably high. Like most of WP Users :)
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now maybe they can get Thor a helmet
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Bulb Films for BBC Wales produced a TV program called Peace of Mind about a few people in Wales who have/are suffering from various types of mental illness. I looked up Bulb Films to see if it had anything to do with the Nescott Mental Awareness course I'm doing because they are similar. I'm interested in mental illness because it's a result of B'org food. I didn't find any connection to Nescott, but did find that Bulb Films is connected to a business plan for global growth, albeit on a local level, if you can grasp that meaning.
Bulb Films is a newly formed division within the Boomerang Plus Plc, a British TV producer. It all leads back to the BBC, but I think the journey is interesting because it shows that the focus of TV broadcasting is actually global and a sign of the enfolding globalisation agenda.
In July 2012, Boomerang Plus Plc was taken over by its management for a price agreed by the firm's independent directors. These managers made the bid of around £7.1m through Boom Pictures Ltd. The managers include CEO Huw Eurig Davies, finance director Mark Fenwick and executive director Gareth Rees, as well as by British TV producer Lorraine Heggessey, and private equity firm LDC which is part of Lloyds Banking Group Plc.
Lorraine Heggessey was actually the former controller of BBC One and Chief Executive of Talkback Thames and took over as Chair of the newly created company Boom Pictures. She commented on this deal by saying "I am delighted to be teaming up with Boomerang and LDC to launch Boom Pictures, a new production business in the UK's vibrant independent sector… LDC is an investor with a great track record in understanding the complex demands of building a media company, with the resources to support Boom Pictures as it grows".
The Olswang team, a big international Technology, Media and Telecoms law firm who advised the management team on the buy-out commented that they look forward to continuing the relationship as the business grows internationally.
LDC, which plans to invest £200m in the expanding domestic TV production sector over the next two years, expects the management buyout deal to drive significant growth at Boomerang/Boom/Bulb.
The BBC is the medium for the Boom pictures media. It's governed by twelve trustees. Although they are all interesting, I would like to comment on two of them only.
Since 2011, the BBC has been led by Chairman Lord Patten, an Oxford graduate who had a 45 year political career including Westminster and the European Commission, Governor of Hong Kong when it was handed over to China; and chairman of the Independent Commission for Policing in Northern Ireland which set up a new police service. Proof the BBC is foremost political.
Anthony Fry is a trustee who also trained at Oxford and then had a city career with Rothschilds, mega financial advisory group, and split his time between banking and corporate boards. In 1996, he left Rothschilds "to become head of global media and European telecoms at BZW/CSFB where he developed a deep understanding of the UK and global media industries." From media he went to Lehman Brothers, a global financial services firm, and was head of UK operations. He left there in 2007 (handily just before the company went bust!) to do an advanced management programme at Harvard Business School. Then he joined the global investment banking boutique, Evercore Partners, in 2008 and was senior adviser until 2011 when he was appointed chairman of Espirito Santo Investment Bank UK, which incorporated Execution Noble (meaning? Execution of the Noble Plan? Or the New World Order perhaps?). Anthony, of course, is very interested in how businesses work since money makes the business world go round and he holds a number of non-executive directorships alongside his position as BBC Trustee. In other words, he is very well connected and involved in making sure we get "the right picture".
The BBC Worldwide is the last part of this broadcasting pyramid I'll mention here. It's actually a side shoot because it's the commercial arm of the BBC and growing fast. In contrast to the BBC's Public Purposes as set out in its Charter: (1) sustaining citizenship and civil society;(2) promoting education and learning;(3) stimulating creativity and cultural excellence;(4) representing the UK, its nations, regions and communities; (5) bringing the UK to the world and the world to the UK; and (6) in promoting its other purposes, helping to deliver to the public the benefit of emerging communications technologies and services and, in addition, taking a leading role in the switchover to digital television; the mission of the BBC Worldwide is simply "to maximise profits on behalf of the BBC by creating, acquiring, developing and exploiting media content and media brands around the world." This, it is said, is done in order to keep the UK licence fee as low as possible even though it's possible to watch it on the Internet for free.
Under the previous BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, there were complaints about this commercial arm being anti-competitive. It's obvious to me that it's all about the B'org's agenda and competitive fairness has nothing to do with it. Funny how all the names begin with 'B': BBC, Bulb, Boomerang, Boom, Bubble, Bust, Big Brother, B'org, Broadcasting, Bullshit!
Anyway, watch TV and watch out because you are in danger of being assimilated by the B'org. Would that bring peace of mind? Perhaps being hypnotised is a type of peace of mind, but not the one I seek. Maybe even just staring long enough at the above logo from the Bulb Films website might do the trick.
Anyway, watch TV and watch out because you are in danger of being assimilated by the B'org. Would that bring peace of mind? Perhaps being hypnotised is a type of peace of mind, but not the one I seek. Maybe even just staring long enough at the above logo from the Bulb Films website might do the trick.


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Thursday, September 5, 2013
NYFW ZAC Zac Posen Spring 2014 RTW
This is the new ZAC Zac Posen Spring 2014 Ready-To-Wear Collection from New York Fashion Week. I posted some of my loves from this beautiful collection! I hope you enjoy!
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In fact some customers might prefer that especially if they don't want to get their fingers dirty, smeared with sticky sauce.
Silcor Food Products is hoping so.
The company in January launched its Boneless BBQ Ribbits brand in 400 gram packages now found at some major groceries.
Brampton-based Silcor specializes in pork products, and delivers to most of eastern Canada's major grocery chains such as Loblaw, Sobeys and Metro.
The new Ribbits product is produced under Silcor's Cobblestone Farms brand.
Company president Don Bernier said the boneless rib concept has actually been around for many years.
He said McDonalds'' McRib sandwiches is a similar "chopped and formed" pork product but in the firm of a patty.
But as far as Ribbits is concerned Bernier said there is no direct competition that he knows of, and the company came up with the product to provide consumers with "value," similar to some of its other pork products.
A 400 gram package, in the frozen food bin, at No frills, priced recently at $5.00.
"It fit well with the value program because it is a less expensive product than a back rib," he said.
Don't get the idea that these are simply ribs that have been deboned.
"It's not like I take a back rib and take the bone out of it," Bernier said.
"It's made with ground pork basically so it can be more economical to produce the product and it gives the consumer a little more value."
But the tried and true smoky rib taste remains.
Not to say Silcor didn't first try to debone ribs.
"That's where our first entry into the category was going to be," Bernier said.
"But it was extremely costly to try to sit there and have people remove bones from each one of the back ribs."
No Frills is the product's biggest account so far.
And Sobeys recently started carrying Ribbits.
And if you think this might be a low-cal alternative to bone-in ribs, well…
"I'm not sure with barbecue sauce if I would classify this in your nutritional type of category," Bernier said.
Indeed the MyFitnessPal.com website classifies one Ribbit serving as having 240 calories, 15 grams of fat, 520 mg of sodium, 80 mg of cholesterol and 16 grams of protein.
Bur rib lovers have always known they're not buying exactly health food.
So, for some people, the idea of eating ribs without the hassle of pulling pork or getting your hands dirty might be a welcomed alternative.


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I just love lemons! Just the thought of lemon makes my mouth water. If I lived in a year round warm climate I would certainly have a lemon tree in my yard. I put lemon in my water, in my tea and in my vodka (wink wink). I don't think I have ever prepared or ate a lemon recipe that I did not love. This mouthwatering Lip Smacking Good Lemon Chiffon Pie is my newest lemon lovers recipe and is quickly becoming one of my favorites.
These little jewels of nature give flavor to many sauces, salad dressings, marinades, drinks, and desserts, and they are also a great source of vitamin C. Lemons contain antioxidants, which are thought to boost health and aid in the prevention of cancer and stroke risk. Lemons contain pectin fiber which is very beneficial for colon health and they also help to balance the pH level in your body. Lemons are wonderful for your skin and they help fight wrinkles and acne.
Have you tried any of my other lemon recipes? Lemon Curd Cheesecake Bars, Lemon Gooey Butter Cookies and Red Pepper Asparagus Pasta with Lemon Vinaigrette are just some of my favorite lemon recipes. These Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes from Baking Beauty is a family party favorite!!
This Lip Smacking Good Lemon Chiffon Pie is a light airy no bake lemon pie made with an easy microwave lemon curd. It has a lightly sweetened graham cracker crust and is best served the next day so it has plenty of time to set. I do recommend that you use pasteurized eggs for this pie since the whites are not cooked. Here is an article on How to Pasteurize Eggs! Some of the grocery stores do sell eggs that have already been pasteurized.
So if lemons make your mouth water and you are hankering for an easy spring pie than this Lip Smacking Good Lemon Chiffon Pie has your name written all over it. Put the ingredients for this luscious pie on your shopping list today and make yourself an amazing treat.
Lip Smacking Good Lemon Chiffon Pie
- 1 1/2 cups graham cracker crumbs
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 6 tablespoons butter melted
Lemon Chiffon Pie Filling
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 pasteurized eggs separated (yolks and egg whites in different bowls)
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- Zest of 1 lemon
- 1 (.25 ounce) package unflavored gelatin
- 1/4 cup cold water
- Stir together graham cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup sugar and 6 tablespoons melted butter. Firmly press crumb mixture into bottom and up sides of a 9-inch pie dish. Bake at 350 degrees for 7-8 minutes. Remove from oven and cool for 30 minutes.
- Melt 4 tablespoons butter and allow to cool for 5 minutes.
- Soften gelatin in water for 5 minutes
- In medium microwavable bowl combine 1/2 cup sugar and egg yolks until smooth. Whisk in lemon juice, lemon zest and melted butter. Microwave in one minute intervals, stirring after each minute until the mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon; approximately 4-5 minutes.While mixture is still warm whisk in gelatin.
- When mixture begins to thicken from cooling in a clean bowl, whip egg whites until soft peaks form, slowly adding remaining 1/2 cup sugar while whipping. Fold egg whites into lemon curd.
- Pour filling into graham cracker crust and chill several hours up to overnight. Garnish with whipped cream and lemon slices.
I do recommend that you use pasteurized eggs in this recipe since the whites will not be cooked. I have included an article in the post about how to pasteurize your own eggs. Some grocery stores do sell eggs that have been pasteurized.
Other pie recipes you will love!
White Chocolate Cherry Cream Pie


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The Youth Ministry/LIFETEEN Program is "different" from Religious Education. The High School students from St Mary's and St Michael's join together for a time of faith, fellowship and fun.
The youth also participate in mission work, group outings, bible studies, etc.
Please encourage your high schoolers to try attending one of the "lifenights" and see what it is all about.. (if it helps, they can bring a friend along)


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The St. Cloud State baseball team swept a pair of games against the Golden Eagles in Crookston Wednesday afternoon. The Huskies won game one 3-0 and then won game two 4-1.
Cal Giese pitched six scoreless innings for SCSU in game one, allowing just three hits while striking out four to pick up his seventh win.
Cathedral's Dominic Austing threw a complete game in the second contest. The sophomore allowed just one unearned run on one hit while striking out 12 batters to earn his sixth win of the season.
The Huskies will host Winona State University for a pair of doubleheaders this weekend at Joe Faber Field.


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07 Mar 2012 12:00 AMMedia Release
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Sepon copper can now be traded on the London Metals Exchange (LME), having joined a list of 80 'Grade A' copper brands which conform to LME specifications covering quality, shape, and weight.
Sepon copper is produced at MMG LXML Sepon, the copper and gold mine in Savannakhet Province.
"This is truly an achievement for Laos to be proud of," said Saman Anneka, Director of MMG LXML Sepon. "Copper that is produced in Laos, by Lao people, can compete on the world stage," he said.
Sepon's official listing as "Grade A" copper followed an extensive period of review by the LME, including testing by independent copper consumers in Europe and Asia, as well as the certification of LXML production and sales processes under the globally recognized ISO9001:2008 quality management system standard.
The LME is the world's premier non-ferrous metals market, with around $US 11.6 trillion in annual trade. Non-ferrous metals are those which do not contain iron in appreciable amounts; metals of this type which have been certified as meeting the LME's quality standards can be delivered in settlement of futures contracts traded on the LME.
Awarding 'Grade A' status has increased the number of potential customers for Sepon copper
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LME registration increases the number of potential customers for Sepon copper, as some buyers will only purchase copper that is LME-registered; the listing is a standardized guarantee of quality in the metals industry.
Most customers of Sepon copper are in neighbouring countries, predominantly Thailand, Vietnam, China, Indonesia, and Malaysia. Sepon copper is widely used in the production of copper cable, wire and tube.
Copper from Sepon is sold as cathodes, which are sheets approximately one metre square. Since copper production began in 2005, Sepon has produced over five million cathodes, with a total weight of more than 575,000 tonnes.


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Analysis can be a challenging thing to tackle when you are first starting to learn how to write essays, but it is well worth persevering with because it will make your essays much more worthwhile and readable. Once you have the structure written down in note form, with the number of words for each paragraph, you can start to work on the details of your essay content.
An essay is thus, a literary initiative to describe and comprehend a situation, to the best ability of the author. Writing a meaningful and strong essay has been one of the most intriguing mysteries of the academic world. As the scope of an essay is immense, close to infinity, there can be in no proven or scientific parameter to gauge the intensity of an essay.
Comprehending the subject. This is the one of the most important thing to remember while penning an essay. What is the subject matter? What should be the essay all about? These questions should have a ready answer with the author, who is about to write an essay. Without properly understanding and comprehending the subject, nobody can even write a sentence within an essay. Before starting with the essay, the subject matter should be carefully studied upon, and self-conclusions regarding the topic should be present in the mind. Once this is over, you can safely assume that half job has been completed.


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Food Toxic To Dogs
Folks love to breed animals with extreme characteristics, but what does this mean for chickens? The typical lifespan of dogs varies extensively among breeds, however for many the median longevity, the age at which half the dogs in a inhabitants have died and half are still alive, ranges from 10 to 13 years. It isn't …
Folks love to breed animals with extreme characteristics, but what does this mean for chickens? The typical lifespan of dogs varies extensively among breeds, however for many the median longevity, the age at which half the dogs in a inhabitants have died and half are still alive, ranges from 10 to 13 years. It isn't that new dog breeds are being discovered from the 4 corners of the earth, it is that new dog breeds are advent into being due to cross breeding applications.
This nevertheless does not rule out St/ Bernard from the most important and top 10 strongest breeds of dogs—their common weight and height are clearly indicative of the gigantism of this dog breed. Dogs are seen as priceless employees as they put their heart and soul into their duties. There is not any one 'good' technique to care for all dogs as a result of every dog and every situation is totally different. Every organization has its own dog adoption application and screening course of for potential adopters. In some international locations, especially in North America, dog is used as a substitute because of the vulgar connotation of bitch. And as you flick through our many dog bowl merchandise, you might even discover new and higher ways to serve your pet's meals. The Sussex Spaniel is a British sporting dog that was originally used to hunt partridge.
The position of the dog in Chinese mythology includes a place as one of many twelve animals which cyclically characterize years (the zodiacal dog ). Cat food is another source of high fat content material, so in case your dog shares a home with a cat make sure to disable its entry to its feline mate's meals dish. This required many years of dedication on the a part of these breeders in addition to a love for the dogs. In fact, online you will find most of the model names you and your vet trust to make dog ticks and fleas a thing of the previous. Dogs bear their litters roughly fifty eight to sixty eight days after fertilization , 11 sixty six with a median of 63 days, although the length of gestation can vary.
Dogs will be socialized with different animals that assist make them kinder and playful with all types of animals. After a stint on the emergency hospital, we acquired some devastating news that it seems she has a tumor…on her coronary heart. Unless you are really experienced it is extremely laborious to train two dogs at a time. The Greater Swiss Mountain Dog is a breed that is thought to have originated from the Swiss Alps. When the time comes and you consider you might be prepared to ask a new pet or dog in your pack, embrace your dog in that call. If you happen to do not know you might be allergic to pet dander it might be a costly mistake that you could take to adopt a dog that sheds probably the most.
Most dog breeds have sure inherited well being problems related to that specific breed and the Bernese Mountain Dog is no exception. It was about 2 years ago once we first moved into our new house that we began our search for sturdier, more comfy dog beds for our getting old pups. Dog crate covers, blankets and heated bed merchandise may make for a more comfy evening's relaxation. In case you are not an skilled in dog training, or can not dedicate enough time, however still desire a double joy, it is better to depart some age hole between the dogs. With a height that reaches practically above a meter, the Great Dane is obviously one of many top 10 strongest dog breeds. To sum up I would say, that having two dogs is a very good thought, if you're experienced dog owner and might provide sufficient house.


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Repping Shaun Tan over at NCBLA
The NCBLA was after recommendations for its Great Reads campaign, so I thought I'd do some promo for fellow Aussie author Shaun Tan. Given he's won just about every award under the sun, including an Oscar and an Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, Shaun probably doesn't need my help, but still. That's what mates are for. You can read the write-up over here.


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The Digital Hub team had a WordPress theme picked out, but needed some design changes to make their new website launch ready. Broadview Station finessed the layout and spacing, in addition to designing e-commerce payment forms and form validation.
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Okay so I wasn't sure where to post this, cause I don't know what's wrong. My friend sent me a mpg. file of a dragon ball Z episode with fan translation. The thing is that quicktime plays about 5 min. of it then stops, but sometimes if I click near the begining of the movie it starts from almost where it ends if I let it play out. Then goes for about another 5 min. Sometimes though it just starts over. I'm really confused as to what's going on and why I cna't watch this movie my friend has no problem seeing. Any ideas anyone? Is it something messed up with my computer? or with the file? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.


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My mother blessed me with a visit all the way from Atlanta. She has always been my steady place in the storm and the most influential person in my life. She has supported all of my dreams and comforted me in all my downfalls.I couldn't ask for more of an amazing person to call my mother.
Thank you for being my best friend and greatest blessing Mrs. Annie.


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Johnny Marr to feature on 'The Sweeney' soundtrack
The former Smiths and Cribs guitarist plays for the Plan B-starring movie
Johnny Marr, former guitarist with The Smiths and The Cribs, is to feature on the whole of the soundtrack for forthcoming film, The Sweeney.
Marr's guitar playing features throughout the movie and on every piece of the soundtrack, aside from the original theme song from the TV show turned movie, reports Pitchfork.
Marr was asked by composer Lorne Balfe to contribute to the soundtrack. The pair also worked together on the original score for 2010's Inception.
The film sees Plan B – real name Ben Drew – act alongside Ray Winstone, Steven Mackintosh, Damian Lewis and Hayley Atwell. The Nick Love directed movie is set in the present day and will hit UK cinemas on September 21.
Scroll down to watch a trailer for the movie remake of the 1970's British cop show.
Johnny Marr received an honorary doctorate from the University of Salford earlier this summer. The guitarist has been a visiting professor in popular music at the university since 2007.


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#Brazil #environment #forests #projection
Members of a Brazilian Indigenous Tribe Projected Onto the Amazon Rainforest by Photographer Philippe Echaroux
In a gesture to draw attention to the massive deforestation ravaging the Amazon rainforest, French photographer and street artist Philippe Echaroux projected the faces of indigenous Brazilians onto the forest's trees. The projected images demonstrate the deep connection between the rainforest and its inhabitants, acknowledging the need for the preservation of their home and resources.
The photographs focus on the Suruí tribe of Brazil which is led by Chief Almir Surui Narayamoga and was asked by the Brazilian government to help replant their section of the rainforest in order to ensure and protect its longevity. Echaroux was invited by Chief Narayamoga to bring attention to the issue, which he highlighted through his projections.
Photographs from this series will be on display in the exhibition "The Crying Forest" at Galerie Taglialatella in Paris opening November 11 and running through December 15, 2016. You can see more of Echaroux's work on his website and Facebook, as well as a behind-the-scenes making of his work (in French) below. (via PetaPixel)


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Within this interview that took place in Encino, CA lies a conversation between 14-year-old Bailey Ivory Rose Bellamy and 56-year-old Carmen Benitez on an issue surrounding the topic of leaving home. In 1978, Carmen married her husband who she had...


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2009 Westbrook Wine Farm Vineyard and Winery Fait Accompli 10th Anniversary Red Blend 750 mL
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m and dry weather followed the previous year's late April freeze gave this vintage a much greater concentration of flavor layers. Will cellar very well. At Westbrook Wine Farm, we literally "make" our wine in the vineyard. In our Fait Accompli Vineyard, we grow Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Merlot, Malbec, Petit Verdot and Carmenère. We work all year to assure that all six varieties will mature at the same time, so they may be harvested together (not all grapes mature with the same sugar content). Conventional growers may tell you this cannot be done. With an open mind, however, and management efforts concentrated toward that end result, it most certainly can be done.
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Making your roof last is not just about how expert the roofers your hired were. In some cases, the main reason why a lot of roof have the tendency to last longer than the other is due to the quality of materials used. If you are the one who will going to purchase the roofing materials for your roofers, you need to be aware of the do's and don'ts.
First of all, you need to be prepared. Never think that you already know every roofing materials available in the market. Remember, everything tend to change. But, you don't need to worry because in this article, you will be able to know more about the basic roofing materials and its other varieties. Below are the things you need to know before you buy your roofing materials.
Knowledge of roofing material
You can't just purchase something that you don't even know. If you will take the risk, it can be harmful to you and your family. For example, if you will just buy a beauty product without even knowing anything about it, you might end up damaging your skin. This kind of situation is also applicable to your roofing. The following are the roofing materials and its lifespan you can encounter.
|Roofing Material
|Composite or simulated slate
|30-50 years
|Asphalt shingle roofs
|20 years
|Slate or tile roof shingles
|100 years
|Ceramic roofing tiles
|50 -70 years
|Metal roofing
|40- 80 years
|Cellulose fiber
|20 years
|Flat roof
|15 years
|BUR (built-up roofing)
|30 years
|100+ years
|EPDM Rubber
|15 -25 years
|30 years
|Coal and Tar
|30 years
Even if you already know the lifespan of your roofing, you need to know that there are other situations you need to be aware in order to make your roofing stay longer.
Ability to endure the weather
Your roofing serves as your protection from all the calamities that nature will give you. When it comes to choosing a roofing, ensure that it can endure all the weather. If the place where you are living are prone to heavy snow, you need to choose a roofing material that will not fail when a worst blizzard happen unexpectedly. The roofing materials need to have a capacity when it comes to any weather: too sunny or too snowy.
Compatibility with home exterior
Aesthetics and appearance of the roofing are still important. Why? Because if you will be going to sell your house, its value will be higher. You also need to invest more in the exterior of your house since it is one of the basis of the buyer if they want to purchase your house or not.
As stated in Home Tips, "be true to your home's architectural style. Don't put Spanish tile on a Colonial-style house, wood shingles on a Spanish-style house, or metal roofing on a 60's ranch house. Choose a material that will be consistent with the design vernacular of your home."
Last thing you need to consider is the cost of the roofing you will be buying. If you think that it is expensive than your saving, you can talk to your roofer and discuss with them the materials you may use. Aside from the one you chosen, there are still other roofing materials you can use that are also of high quality.


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Eton College chapel WIP
I've started watercolour classes recently, and here is a beginning of an attempt to paint Eton College chapel. This watercolour malarky isn't easy!
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13 January 2006
InkFinger: Blind Contour Friday
I really like the drawings at InkFinger. The Blind Contour Friday is a great idea; here is a link to the latest one: InkFinger: Blind Contour FRIday 24.
Here's a simple blind contour drawing of my own.
I haven't been getting much artwork done recently, but I have started going to watercolour classes again. With any luck I'll have a painting to post on Monday!
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