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Barbara Walters: Farewell to one of the last great listeners
TV newswoman Barbara Walters retired from on-air work last week on "The View" and ABC News, having lived and broadcast so long in the mass media age that she outlasted the term "newswoman."
At 84, Walters even outlasted most of the technology that brought her into America's living rooms – first as a tea-pouring "Today" girl in the 1960s; then as the first woman to co-anchor a nightly newscast in the mid-'70s; followed by 35 years as popular culture's grande dame of the televised interview – adapting her skills to the speed with which news sparks conversations and celebrities melt down.
She's one of America's last good ears, allowing even the most notorious among us to have a say, asking many (if not always all) of the questions we wanted answers to, while never seeming to make the occasion about herself.
Her TV career, most of it with ABC News, was preoccupied with "the most fascinating" people and topics. She put a premium on listening and made it her brand – even when she started and co-hosted a successful midmorning kaffeeklatsch in 1997 called "The View."
People who compare "The View" to a chattering hen yard haven't watched it closely enough to see that its core value is rooted in listening to one another, even in moments of utter cacophony. Over there, stage left, was Barbara Walters – mostly listening, waiting to chime in. In this reactionary world of ours, who on earth still waits to chime in?
Two weeks ago, when V. Stiviano, a companion of Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, reached the part of her express-ticket scandal ride where one selects an empathetic TV inquisitor from an array of offers, she went where so very many presidents, first ladies, movie stars, despots, criminals, candidates, rock legends, heroes and villains have gone before: to the gauzy-but-somehow-still-clear gaze of the Barbara Walters lens.
The interview, which aired May 2 on "20/20" (a show Walters helped rescue), will not be remembered for anything much, except maybe that it will be Walters' final "get" in an endless list of them. It's a long way from her interview with Fidel Castro in 1977. It's a long way from her following President Richard Nixon to China in 1972. It's even a long way from the two-hour, 1999 interview she did with Monica Lewinsky that lured between 50 million and 74 million viewers, the sort of non-football TV ratings that simply can't be had anymore.
In her dotage, Walters lost some of her edge and opened herself to criticism of being too gentle or too allied with her subjects. Ever since America swooned over her $1 million contract to jump from NBC to ABC in 1976, her own fame became difficult to separate from the fame of her subjects.
Others will fill in. There is no shortage of TV and multimedia outlets inviting the famous and infamous to sit upon new sofas and tell us how they feel.
But with Walters' departure, we are losing one of TV's more neutral listeners. We're also losing one of TV's dwindling safe spaces. Walters may have gone softer over time, but do not underestimate the worth of a safe space in a culture that now seems to prefer satirical ridicule and constant interruption as a form of conversation.
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Kristen Williams, Class of '18, completed the Holloway Archives Internship at Milligan College this past Spring semester. One of the highlights of Kristen's internship was curating and installing the "Legacy of Christian Unity: The Stone-Campbell Movement" archive exhibit at P. H. Welshimer Memorial Library. Starting in January, Kristen began researching primary resources of prominent Stone-Campbell figures in the Holloway Archives collections. With the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference being hosted at Milligan in April 2018, Kristen prepared to curate an exhibit to showcase Milligan's connection with the Stone-Campbell Movement.
When asked about her research, Kristen replied, "I didn't have any real knowledge about the Stone-Campbell Movement. Learning about the Stone-Campbell Movement and seeing it reflected by prominent people at Milligan was really interesting. Taking the time to research and learn about the movement has helped me better understand what it's all about and see the impact it has had on Milligan College."
How does one select from so many historical items for an exhibit? "When I was deciding on which items to place in the exhibit, I looked for books, pictures, and scholarly papers. I found interesting papers that dealt with the theme of Christian unity, which made it really easy to make the connections between the different items."
"I displayed the exhibit in chronological order. I started with an excerpt from Beside the Waters of the Buffalo: A History of Milligan College to 1941 by Cynthia Ann Cornwell. The excerpt showcased how the division of one church led to the creation of a new church that would later become Hopwood Memorial Church and later a part of Milligan College. I then focused on major figures related to Milligan College: Robert Milligan, Frederick D. Kershner, P.H. Welshimer, B.D. Phillips, Mildred Welshimer Phillips, and Henry Webb."
When asked to reflect on her internship experience, Kristen shared, "The archives internship has been so fun and interesting! I have enjoyed researching and being in the Archives. I loved finding pieces like Mildred Welshimer Phillips' badge from the 1950 International Convention of Disciples of Christ. This little badge was tucked away in her folder. It was also really neat to have the exhibit be a part of the Stone-Campbell Journal Conference that was hosted here at Milligan."
Kristen Williams graduates from Milligan in May with a Bachelor of Arts in English, with a minors in Multimedia Journalism and Women's and Gender Study. Kristen received the Get Real Ministries "Love God. Love People" Scholarship and was the recipient of Milligan Women's Soccer Scholarship. Kristen actively served as Assistant Editor for The Stampede, Milligan's student newspaper. Kristen will attend graduate school in East Tennessee State University's library science program starting this fall.
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The Residence Inn by Marriott located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, is the perfect hotel whether staying for one night or several weeks! With the Rocky Mountains at our doorstep, we invite you to discover Pikes Peak, Garden of the Gods, and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. Spend a day browsing the unique shops of Manitou Springs and Old Colorado City or the boutiques at The Broadmoor. For the adventurous, Seven Falls, Cave of the Winds, miles of scenic hiking and the rush of Royal Gorge white water await! You will find us conveniently located on the I-25 corridor near Ft. Carson, Peterson AFB, Memorial Hospital, the US Olympic Complex, the World Arena, and the thriving bustle of downtown. Our large and fully appointed suites offer everything you need to make our hotel your home away from home and our devoted staff is always at your service. Relax, stay strong, and be productive at the Residence Inn, Colorado Springs South!Show More
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Look how gorgeous the dp is:
It's very lovely, isn't it??!! Well, I got this paper from Windsor Cottage Botanicals at a very reasonable price! I was so excited that's why I decided to use it on this card.
I started with a Mellow Moss base, and I matted my Beyond Postmarks dp onto a Bravo Burgundy cs. Nope, I don't know how to use a sewing machine and I don't have one so I just did a faux stitching here. LOL! The stitches on the verse panel had to be criss-cross just like I did with the edges of the card but something wrong happened along the way that it ended up with an unknown kind of stitch! LOL!!
I stamped my ODBD Scripture Collection 1 verse onto Whisper White, cut with Labels Small then sponged with Versacolor Petal Pink and Misty Mauve. I finished off the card using Prima flowers, Kaiser flower (Dusty Pink) and Paper Rose which I think really complemented the yummy dp. :) This card goes to my favourites for sure! ;)
I will post my take on LSC236 later tonight when my migraine goes away. :( I have it since early this morning and it's very painful.
Be sure to visit Windsor Cottage Botanicals for discounted paper craft supplies. If you're a first time customer, you're entitled to a 10% off your first order and not only that, Linda (the kind owner) is having a 25% off on most of her designer papers at the moment including K&Company!! Yay!!! Visit the shop now and tell Linda that I refer you to her store. She's a very nice lady. :)
Thanks for the visit and I'll see you on my next post.
Stamps: ODBD Scripture Collection 1
Paper: Mellow Moss, Bravo Burgundy, Whisper White, K&Company Brenda Walton's Beyond Postmarks
Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Versacolor Petal Pink & Misty Mauve
Accessories: Spellbinders Labels Small, heat gun, clear ep, piercing mat pack, Uniball black pen, Prima flowers, Kaiser flower, paper rose, pop dots, Kaiser pearls, dauber


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MALOTT Authorities have identified the victim of a fatal shooting yesterday as Antonio Naranjo-Menchaca, 38 of California.
Menchaca was the ex-brother-in-law of accused shooter Jesus Vela-Duarte, 31 of Brewster, who turned himself in following the shooting.
Menchaca has lived on and off in Okanogan County for several years. He had been recently living in California and returned here Wednesday.
According to Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers, the family was afraid of Menchaca.
"Aparently, Duarte had already contacted Menchaca when he returned and told him to stay away from his family," Rogers said.
When Duarte saw the victime drive by his house just prior to the shooting, he followed them to the Chiliwist Road area, where he confronted him, Rogers said.
"Detectives are still conducting interviews today to determining what led up to the shooting," Rogers said, noting an autopsy for Menchaca is scheduled for Monday.


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© Jeanne E Webster
Life is filled with many wonders, some shrouded in golden ecstasy while others forever etched with tears from tortured souls. It is an arduous and exhilarating labor, long and short, hopeful and hopeless, fulfilling and fleeting, and promising and forsaking.
Life begins with a scream and ends with a moan, loves one day and hates the next, promises the world with one hand and waves goodbye with the other.
Somewhere in-between these dynamics, babies are born and people die, lovers marry and the disillusioned divorce, families build up and discord knocks down, adults fight and children hurt. Such is life.
Mature life begins with shy smiles, cuddling looks, love oozing from the seams of passion, pure innocence in all its meant-to-be fashion.
Babies are snuggling from the breast, prideful glances exchanged, cooing and oh-so-gentle touches of love, and brief bliss and fulfillment. Home was security until a thing called war bombed the soul out of young hearts just beginning their walk down the aisle of life.
The eruption of a foolhardy war blasted on the idyllic scene and in a few short years, family units deteriorate into shambles, love turns to hate, children tremble in frightening anguish. Parents divorce, bitterly forging a sword of despair and unforgiveness into once solid family trees—forever.
Like animated ghosts of the past, fathers and mothers trod wearily along what's left of life, separated by wounds too deep to heal and too long ago to remember. Children are resilient but deeply hurt nonetheless. They reach adulthood and marry, clinging dearly to high hopes, bearing young and slowly beginning their family trees. But all too soon they realize that. . .
"Life begins with a scream and ends with a moan, loves one day and hates the next, promises the world with one hand and waves goodbye with the other."
A story told by an angel on the wing, carrying heavenward life's shattered things.


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Let $\mathcal{M}_g$ be the moduli space of curves of genus $g$. Consider the holomorphic bundle $\mathcal{H}^k\rightarrow\mathcal{M}_g$ whose fiber over a curve $C\in\mathcal{M}_g$ is the space of holomorphic $k$-differentials $H^0(C,K_C^k)$. This is often called the Hodge bundle.
My question is, is there a natural (flat or not) connection on $\mathcal{H}^k$?
Even for $k=1$, I don't find any reference by internet search. We do have a Gauss-Mannin connection on the bundle $E\rightarrow\mathcal{M}_g$ with fibers $E\,\big|_C=H^1(C,\mathbb{C})=H^{1,0}(C)\oplus H^{0,1}(C)=H^0(C,K_C)\oplus H^0(C,K_C)^*$, which however does not preserve the splitting.


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I just purchased three new lenses for my camera! I picked up the Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM Telephoto Zoom Lens, the Canon EF-S 10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM Wide Angle Lens and the Canon EF 50mm f/1.4 USM Standard Prime Lens.
I'm excited about what all of these lenses have to offer. You can see my current equipment (and wish list) at My Equipment. Stay tuned for some amazing photography!


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Another year gone and another harvest in the books for farmers in the West. This year had its share of difficulties, with wet conditions delaying and in some cases completely destroying efforts to get a crop in in some areas. For those farmers that did get a crop in, the threat of disease loomed heavy… Read More
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The release of the Axial Flow 9230 from Case IH features the full power of the Tier four engine. According to the Case IH website: Case IH Axial-Flow® combines lead the industry with carefully matched systems that ensure productivity. With the fewest drive components, Axial-Flow combines are engineered for simplicity and reliability. And today, Axial-Flow is still out in… Read More
When CDC Triffid flax was discovered in export shipments to Europe in 2009, the result was devastating to Canadian producers and shippers. Canada's flax industry exports to the EU were suspended and even after strict testing policies came into place, are still not at pre 2009 levels. At the time the news broke, the industry… Read More
Today the Harper government voted in the House of Commons to end the CWB's single desk right on Western Canadian grains. With a vote of 153-120 the Conservatives have come through on the one promise that has been hotly debated in many coffee shops across the country.Today's vote does not end the controversy but it… Read More
The area of biofuels is growing every year. The list includes everything from algae to canola to switchgrass to corn. The main problem with most of the list is the difficulty in mass producing those sources or the ethical dilemma created with the food vs fuel debate. Carinata holds the advantage over many of the bio sources in… Read More
Talk about supply management and whether or not it should fit in Canada's future continues to find a place in our media. To be honest, whenever I see a link for a National Post article relating to the system for dairy, poultry and eggs, I have a hard time clicking since I can usually guess… Read More
Many of us woke Thursday morning to tragic news of the surprise passing of Canola Council of Canada , VP of Crop Production, Denise Maurice. A highly respected agronomist and a true friend to many, Denise will be sadly missed. What was so unique about Denise is her passion and fire for agronomy and agriculture…. Read More
We are in the middle of a weather brawl, and it feels like it. Wild winds, snow blasts and other types of unsettled weather are making life less than pleasant for all those impacted. Until winter actually moves to settle in, we can probably expect more of this instability to come. This seems to be… Read More
Farmers trying to get their fall tillage completed before winter sets in have had their efforts frustrated over the past few weeks. Cold, rainy conditions have been less than ideal when it comes to fieldwork. You can get sick of these unstable weather patterns pretty quick. It's at this point that most people just want… Read More
Macleans Magazine website has been surveying the general public on the future of supply management. With Primeminister Harper suggesting that all things are on the table, the media has really picked up the debate on the future of supply management in Canada. Vote in the Macleans Poll With Harper suggesting taht everything is on the… Read More
Today's Canadian corporations are held accountable by their shareholders and a solid corporate governance structure. No doubt one might think the CWB as a corporation is a responsible corporate citizen in Canada. It has a policy to which all its directors sign yearly to uphold standards of governance where fiduciary duties are to work in… Read More
With the recent ruling by the World Trade Organization declaring elements of the U.S. Country Of Origin Labelling program to be unfair, Canadian livestock producers feel that the first steps have been made in restoring exports lost when the program began. While Canadian producers applaud the move, there is an underlying skepticism that this decision… Read More
With the successful return of Sidney Crosby to the NHL after a long hiatus and a great deal of the country having received some pre winter blasts of snow and cold, hockey has pushed its way back into the spotlight. With that in mind, we thought it would be a good time to look into… Read More
The major story on every beef industry radar was last weeks WTO ruling in favour of Canada with regard to the U.S. Country Of Origin Labelling legislation. The resulting effect on the market……meh. The fact is, the entire industry is awaiting the U.S. appeal and the looong drawn out process to begin again. It's a… Read More
With Bette Jean Crews not seeking re-election for the Ontario Federation of Agriculture Presidency, there were three contenders for the the Presidency. The candidates were Mark Wales, Don McCabe and Wayne Black. Both McCabe and Wales were Vice Presidents with the OFA this past year. In an incredibly close second vote, Mark Wales edged out… Read More


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Tomorrow there will be two events at one day, Valentine day and a Chinese New Year. I believe this had happened before, but for me this is my first time and i think it's very rare to have this event on my life, so i should enjoy it as much as possible tomorrow.
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Passage, Larry Kirkland, 2014
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Passage is located at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights in Atlanta, Georgia. Conceived, commissioned, constructed and installed in less than eight months, this fast track water sculpture was a thrilling creative experience. The two leaning glass and stainless steel structures create a gateway to the museum. The texts engraved into the glass by Nelson Mandela and Margaret Meade address the essence for the worldwide struggle of civil and human rights. The water flowing over the glass suggests a third quote by Dr. Martin Luther King: "Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream." This work measures 36' x 24' x 24'.
Text from Larry Kirkland: larrykirkland.com. Photography ©Craig Collins. Digital modeling and presentation graphics by Mowry Studio: mowrystudio.com.


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He remembers being compelled there and submerged in the fog into the field of fear and worry, falling. He woke up in his crib, facing left, with his left earlobe tucked into his ear and held there by the rest of his ear, flapped forward. That is how he awoke.
His consciousness of the world was greatly heightened.
He had dreams, unusual dreams.
In one, he was in the living room where a social party was in progress. He was underneath an end table next to a sofa, when he heard a female voice say something about "... college." He didn't know what "college" was. He woke up with that word in his mind, wondering, but charmed by the female voice.
In dreaming, he often found himself going up a brick stoop leading to a front door. Next to the door, there was a porch light fashioned as a glass fixture with triangular faces and a pointed top and bottom. Inside was a living room with a brown leather chair and ottoman with a fire in the fireplace, cozily lit. He often went to that place. It seemed that it belonged to an elderly couple. The husband had a mustache, a greying "cookie-duster".
This was during his baby-hood.
At that time, age two-and-a-half, a neighbor boy threw a piece of glass at him, which struck and cut his nose. He ran inside and cried out for his mother, who was in the kitchen. His cries for attention went unanswered, so he went into the kitchen after her. His need to seek her out instead of her coming to him in response to his cries left him feeling uncared for.
Later in life, he experienced other occasions of "being alone" and having no one to turn to when wounded or in need. He began to resign himself to his aloneness.
At about age eight, the matter of death was up. He contemplated mortality -- in personal terms -- his own. He imagined himself eighty years' old and approaching the impassable wall of death. He tried to contemplate being unconscious forever and found himself, instead of unconscious, plunged into a depth so dreamlike and so profound that it inspired awe in him. "Forever" seemed to have meaning as that deep, awe-inspired state.
In that Depth of Forever, he contemplated the whole length of his mortal life, its beginning to its end, until he could sense its span. Then, he compared that span to the Depth of Forever and found it shrink to an infinitesimal point -- a point that nevertheless had intensity, a hard intensity. In his mind, he named it, "The Singleton Diamond of Being".
The Singleton Diamond of Being
is certainly something worth seeing.
If you're pondering death
or you run out of breath,
you might find the vision quite freeing.
During that same period, he had other experiences.
Some nights, he would feel an approaching feeling of unease.
Coupled with the sense of aloneness, he would feel the unease grow as a sensation in him, into dread. It had a motion to it, a swirling, unpredictable motion with moments of suddenness like an electric jolt. It was wild. It was chaos. It whirled. It terrified him.
Sometimes, he awoke into it from sleep in the night. It was more vivid that the waking state. Even when he awoke, he was unable to awake from it. He would cry out to his parents, "Wake me up!" They would stand around, concerned, but not know what to do. His legs would tremble and sometimes, he would vomit.
Then, the experience would slowly subside and he would eventually go back to bed.
He was eight or nine.
He was given piano lessons. He practiced so intensively that afterward, on the sidewalk in the later afternoon, he would hear the sounds of piano resonating in his mind, along with the sudden-nesses of his mother's yelling at him to resume practicing, when he would take a rest break. Piano practice isolated him from his peers, outside at play, after school.
His family life continued along the lines of feeling alone in a home environment that was, for him, charged with anxiety and demands, absent of emotional support.
On his own, he studied science copiously: paleontology, anatomy, astronomy, biology. He had a book, "Too Small to See," an illustrated book about the microscopic world. He learned about electricity and magnetism, the evolution of life on Earth. He created an apparatus to derive oxygen and hydrogen from water, then would combine them and ignite them with a pop that created water. He connected a radio in his bedroom to a photoelectric cell in his bedroom window and a relay, so that the sunrise would cause the radio to turn on and wake him; he would always wake to the morning light. He built a crystal radio and would listen to it in the dark of morning before school. He used his knowledge of chemistry and his ingenuity to create stink bombs. He wound electric motors with which he powered slot cars he ran as a hobby.
He also read the entire World Book Encyclopedia -- all twenty-something volumes -- cover to cover, along with the annual Yearbooks.
Some afternoons and evenings, he would read two science fiction novels.
At age ten, he fashioned a large corrugated cardboard box that he could up-end and fit beneath into a time machine. With magic marker, he drew dials and knobs on the inside wall. One afternoon, he noticed something unusual behind him: an inverted palm tree, not quite in focus, but in full color. Then, he noticed that there was a hole in the wall of the box, and outside was the palm tree next to the driveway.
He was fascinated with the inverted image.
He liked to darken his bedroom and project photos of the planets on his closet sliding doors. He felt transported by Saturn; fascinated by Jupiter's Red Spot, mystified by Uranus and Neptune.
Thus, his study of outer things.
At about the same age -- age ten -- at the end of an afternoon as sunset approached, he stood upon the lawn of his family home gazing into the west and had a sudden perception of That Which Has Never Changed, All My Life -- the formless presence of Nowness. After contemplating that intuition in wonder for a while, he turned his attention to the turn of the century, year 2000, and considered how old he would be, then. Forty-eight. He felt into being that age and turned his attention back to himself at age ten, perceiving himself from the viewpoint of forty-eight years old. After a time, he went inside to get ready for dinner.
At age thirteen, his family moved to California, and three years after that, he began his study of "inner things".
At age sixteen, he began to explore the Human Potential Movement. He started practice of yoga and attended workshops at Esalen Institute and at other centers of the Human Potential Movement.
He attended an encounter group, just called, "Group".
At age eighteen, he began getting rolfing sessions from a rolfer who had a hidden room above a health club -- a room with seven doors (not a metaphor or a fabrication). On one of the walls was a poster of Mr. Natural ("What's it all mean, Mr. Natural?" asks Flakey Foont, Mr. Natural's erstwhile and resistant disciple. "Don't mean shee-it", replies Mr Natural.) The rolfer may be recognized by those who know him as, "The Little Italian-Polish Guy with a Scoliosis and a Wart on His Nose, whom women find very attractive". He may not have the scoliosis, any longer.)
His rolfer told him he was, "The most contracted person he had ever seen," and said that he was like concrete. Mr. Natural addressing Flakey Foont.
During time in the rolfing studio, after a rolfing session, he often experienced the building of a physical thrill that began with pleasurable trembling and that soon gathered him into a new alignment that he termed, "a whole-body erection". He would walk down the three flights of carpeted stairs from the rolfing studio to the street, held in whole-body erection by the trembling thrill, in perfect balance.
His rolfer told him to get a copy of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and of The Knee of Listening. He began to study -- and to practice new disciplines -- mantras, visualization meditations, sitting meditation.
During that time, he read Aldous Huxley's, The Doors of Perception, and became interested in mescaline and psychedelic experiences. He studied The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, and Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa. He read Blavatsky and Alice A. Bailey. Bought a full-color-illustrated book, The Chakras, by C.W. Leadbeater -- a name he found remarkable. He practiced pranayama, fire-breathing, G'Tummo (Tibetan Practice of the Psychic Heat). He made use of psychedelics for prolonged periods of meditation, during which he found the Clear Light of Consciousness to be so obvious as to seem the natural state.
He studied Do-In (a form of acupressure taught in Macrobiotics) and earned certification in Esalen Massage.
During this time, he made his living working in his father's Quick Print shop. He did every job there was to be done in "the shop".
Later, he took some training in Cranio-Sacral Therapy and Trager Psycho-physical Integration.
He still worked at Quick Print.
During the early 70's, he worked in an assistant's capacity alongside an artist whose stated intention for his work was to promote a rise on world-consciousness, and whose artistic sound works often invoked transports to dreams and a sense of Deep Time. He called his works, The Concept of Meru.
In visits to the artist's house, his first necessary action, upon arrival, was to visit the bathroom. Then, he would often lie down on the white shag carpet and, overcome with white-hot energy, swoon away, soon to come to, refreshed, but permeated by the energy of the place.
In the later 70's he took the est Training. In 1976, he left the artist and the Quick Print shop and joined the ashram of the controversial spiritual master, Bubba Free John (later known as Da Free John, then, Adi Da and other names). He got married. After about two years, he and his wife left to move closer to the group of six to eight people who had gathered around "The Little Italian-Polish Guy" to receive teaching from him.
He began to work as a technical writer on topics of interest to The Cupertino Crowd -- things related to computers and high technology. He did this for eight years until he had had enough of that.
By 1986, a certain intensity had arisen and developed in him that had to do with the boiling up of psychic -- or more properly -- psychophysical content. Kundalini was a-buildin'.
In 1988, he and his wife wound up their marriage. He returned to university with a Physical Therapy major and made The Dean's List. However, his familiarity with bodywork and yoga made the steel-and-rubber, machine-like approach of physical therapy clinics unpalatable. He began to experience chagrin whenever anyone asked what his major was. When time for selection of the new class of physical therapy students came, he sat for selection before the selection committee. The committee rejected him; he wasn't what they were looking for.
His rejection by the selection committee freed him to enroll in the one training in Hanna Somatic Education that its developer, Thomas Hanna, lived to deliver before his sudden death behind the wheel under unusual circumstances.
That was 1990.
Concurrently (the same year), he received training and certification in The Rolf Method of Structural Integration under the tutelage of two prominent Rolfers and Rolfing trainers, Emmet Hutchins and Stacey Mills -- Emmet, the first teacher-in-perpetuity appointed by Ida Rolf, and Stacey, the eldest.
In the approach to that time, the intensity was continuing to increase. At one point, during his first semester of training in The Rolf Method, he had a dream.
In the dream, he was inside an enclosed gondola of the type seen in a dirigible. But instead of a dirigible, it was a hot air balloon. Outside the window, below, one could see a carpet of white -- clouds far below. The gondola was at 60,000 feet and spinning as it continued to ascend.
He awoke.
The intensity was still growing and had now achieved fierce proportions. He was on fire, from within. He experienced feelings of internal contradiction that he thought of as his "Gordian Knot"; for long periods, he was barely able to speak. He felt as if in the grip of a vice. Only his somatic practice kept him able to function.
In 1991, upon return from studies and training, he scheduled a public talk on somatic education at a certain spa and discovered that someone else had also been scheduled -- and at the same time as his assigned time. No one showed up for either talk, so they talked to each other. Then, they learned from each other, exchanging their gifts and sharing the teachings they had received.
He discovered that her teaching lineage, The Avatar Course, connected with Star's Edge, Inc., an educational corporation, taught, for mind and consciousness, what Hanna Somatic Education teaches, for sensation and movement. The underlying principles and procedures were exactly analogous, but operated in different spheres, and had mutual overlap in their effects.
Now, the intensity had intensified and involved a kind of breathing, a cadenced, heavy panting. It was not something he "practiced", but something that arose in him. It involved the sense of heat, of fire coming out of his face, top of his head, his hands and his chest. His senses were intensified. Everything was stark and often threatening. Accompanying all this were dark emotional moods, feelings of being under attack, images of drive-by shootings. One good day a month was a good month.
He considered that he might not live very long and determined to preserve and leave behind, for others, what he had learned, discovered, and developed in his practice of somatic education. He wrote. He took photographs and used his technical writing skills to create a manual of practice for somatic educators. Nearly all of that manual has stood the test of time without need for improvement; some of it has been improved.
With an inheritance, part of which had used to pay for his trainings, he had purchased a synthesizer keyboard and begun to create, in sound, works that embodied the ways in which he had developed under the influence of all his previous teachers, exemplars and mentors, including the artist he had assisted in his earlier years. His classical piano training re-emerged in works that have the property of deepening and steadying attention, drawing the listener into lucid dream states, and so he named them, Gateways into Different Dreaming.
On one occasion, while listening to his own work, he had a dream of flying over a city of pink buildings. He didn't know where they were or if they really existed. Later, he took a vacation trip to Cabo San Lucas. As the jet descended, he looked out the window, saw the buildings of his dream, and marveled in astonishment.
On another occasion, listening to his own work lying on the carpeted floor of his living room, he drifted into a dream in which he saw a glass storefront on a curving road with motorcycles parked in front. When he moved to Santa Cruz, he saw that road, the storefront, and the parked motorcycles (for sale) on the way to the wharf.
He launched a website, Somatics on the Web, and invited all of his colleagues to be listed, there, to get free referrals and to contribute articles. Many did get listed, and some contributed.
Through a correspondence with someone for which he cannot account, he learned of public workshops conducted by members of Carlos Castaneda's party of sorcerers -- workshops on a movement practice (of "magical passes") they called, Tensegrity. He attended a number of these workshops, saw and heard Castaneda and the other, female members of his party. He practiced regularly with a group of other students in Santa Cruz, for a time, and on his own, getting a direct experience of things of which Castaneda had written.
He integrated that teaching with others that were alive in him and came up with a potent hybrid, a series of movements to awaken and define the kinesthetic (or "energy") body, but along different lines than those of Castaneda's lineage, lines that integrated the perspectives of Castaneda's lineage, Rolfing and Hanna somatic education.
Of necessity due to the fire operating in him, he sought help and, as an offered answer, obtained Shaktipat (shakti-initiation or holy baptism) from two masters. In one, he had a dream of two or three dogs dancing on bandaged hind legs and of two older men in their late sixtys or seventys wearing pin-striped long-sleeve shirts sitting around a lawn table.
Shaktipat had little immediate discernable effect on the fire alive in him.
He continued his practice, studying with a number of other teachers.
He now practiced a rigorous, multi-practice discipline that operated on many fronts. He worked diligently to identify and dissolve the forms of his distress as a process of progressive recognition and dissolution-release.
After some nearly thirty years, he has passed the worst of the fire. What is left is a certain intensity in his character and possibly, presence, as well as whatever is left in him, not yet handled, but arising in the wave-play of life as it brought his issues to the surface.
Thus, he started by being subjected to the turbulent world, awakening in his aloneness, studying "the outer world", studying "the inner world", studying the transcendental process and the processes that accelerate personal evolution, and applying them in his own life-ordeal to clear the way, in himself, such that he may understand what may be in the way of others, to be of service to them, perhaps to ease their way.


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December in Hamtramck
Gabrielle Egnater
By Gabrielle Egnater
December will be my last month residing in Hamtramck Disneyland. This post acts as a reflection and publication of the works created during my three-month residency. Though many pieces have been explored and remain in progress, three pieces have come to a moment of possible completion.
I spent the majority of my first month in Hamtramck Disneyland taking in and processing the multiple structures, objects, and patterns that form the art environment. In conjunction with processing the current Hamtramck Disneyland, I was able to access the past forms of Hamtramck Disneyland through photographs and relics in Szylak's apartment. When Szylak was actively living in and creating the art environment, no structure, object, or pattern remained the same for very long. This fact led me to the idea of "alternative archiving," a non-traditional way of archiving the color patterns seen in the current form of Hamtramck Disneyland. The series features sheet metal tiles coated in oil-based enamel acting as a type of "color swatch" for the art environment.
During the month of November, I continued with motifs already present in my practice. I created the "adjustable monuments" as a starting point for a body of interactive installations that allow the audience to decide what a monument marks and how the monument marks it.
To contribute to the Hamtramck Disneyland Renovation, I fabricated structures for the north garage roof that mimic Szylak's work and support objects previously placed in the art environment. Once the weather warms up, the structures will be painted, bolted together, and adorned with sculptures.


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These are the final editorial shots I took with photographer Stanley Debas. We decided to do this series black and white. Is it possible for me to wear lace front wigs every day of my life? I love wearing my vintage pieces and making them look modern. Stanley and I loved the way these pictures came out so much we think we are going to do an editorial shoot monthly. A different theme each time which I'm extremely thrilled for. It keeps my mind constantly thinking about new projects. Hope you guys love them!
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In both Dungeon and random raids, the objective is to destroy more buildings to defeat enemies. A minimum 50% destruction rate is required to win a raid. In Dungeon levels, completing a level will earn you coins, Mana, Honor and Hero Shards, with which you can buy additional heroes.
While raiding a random online player's base, destroying at least 50 percent of the buildings in a map will earn you major loot (coins, Mana and Honor). Winning a dungeon level is not easy if you don't have a good troop combination or a good strategy. Check out this strategy guide to get a destruction rate over 50 percent:
1. Before entering a dungeon or map, make sure you have enough troops to defeat enemies, destroy buildings, and defend your base. Create at least three Army Camps and place them in all three or four corners of your base. Each Army Camp has a 20 troop cap, which can be increased to +2 after each upgrade. So make sure you add more camps and level them up at regular intervals to increase the maximum troop limit.
2. Have a mixed bag of troops consisting of Hunters, Treants and Pyromancers. Personally, I find Guardians useless, unless you upgrade them to powerful units. A combination of Archers, heavy-armored and high-destructive Treants, and Mages can be a good blend for destroying common and defensive structures. There's also your Hero, who can really be useful in defeating enemy heroes. Mages can be extremely effective in taking out enemy Guardians and Heroes.
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5. Deploying troops at the back of an enemy camp is also a good tactic to take down a few buildings and launch a surprise attack. If the rear is guarded by Army Camps, adopt a flank attack strategy to destroy a couple of buildings before advancing toward the enemies.


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07 Nov 2009 06:58
The investigation into Sir Mark Thatcher's role in the failed coup in Equatorial Guinea could be hindered by legal obstacles, which may mean he could never be prosecuted in this country, according to senior law enforcement sources.
Scotland Yard detectives are engaged in what is said to be a serious and protracted inquiry into allegations that Old Etonian Simon Mann, along with Thatcher and others, orchestrated the attempt to oust the country's president during meetings in London in late 2003 and early 2004.
According to the former prosecutor in Equatorial Guinea, detectives from the counter-terrorism command at the Yard visited Mann in prison five times. He is said to have co-operated fully.
The evidence relating to Thatcher's alleged involvement in the coup as a key player is believed to be held in testimonies given to Yard officers by the British mercenary, and in documents handed to the Metropolitan police by Equatorial Guinea and held by officials in South Africa.
But despite months of gathering evidence in a detailed inquiry, investigators could stumble when it comes to considering any charges against the son of the former prime minister.
As Thatcher has already been convicted in South Africa of paying for a helicopter he suspected might be used for mercenary activity, the likelihood that he could be prosecuted in this country on the same evidence for a similar offence is very slim, according to senior legal and police sources.
When he talks to the police in the UK, Mann will have to come up with something new and powerful if the prosecution is to go ahead, it is understood.
The sources indicated that the pursuit of Thatcher was primarily hindered by fears of double jeopardy because of his South African conviction, despite the fact that this took place in a different jurisdiction.
Adrian Chaplin, a criminal barrister in London, agreed.
"If there was an attempt to take him through the courts here there would be a fairly powerful argument to say: 'What's the point because he has been convicted and punished already,'" he said.
Thatcher was first implicated in the coup attempt in a letter written by Mann and intercepted by the South African police while he was being held in Harare, after his arrest following the failed plot in 2004. Written to his wife in Cape Town it made a request for money from the alleged financiers Scratcher, his nickname for Thatcher, and Smelly, a nickname for the Lebanese-born businessman Ely Calil.
Both Thatcher and Calil deny involvement in the coup attempt.
Other evidence which could be used against Thatcher is the testimony of Crause Steyl, a South African mercenary pilot who was on the plane the night of the coup. He was never arrested and returned to South Africa where a deal was struck. He cooperated with the authorities by telling them everything he knew, and he talked about Thatcher. According to Adam Roberts, author of The Wonga Coup, a detailed account of the plot, that was when the whole story about Thatcher exploded. Rumours about his involvement had been swirling for some time, but with Steyl's plea bargain evidence the South Africans arrested Thatcher in a move watched with disbelief by the world's press.
In South Africa Thatcher eventually admitted breaking the country's anti-mercenary laws, by giving money to someone despite suspecting the cash would be used for mercenary activity. Initially Thatcher told the authorities he had thought the $275 000 was to be used to fund an air ambulance for Africa's poor. But he accepted that at some point before the coup attempt, he suspected the helicopter might be used for a mercenary plot.
Thatcher was convicted in January 2005, fined $450 000 and given a four-year suspended sentence. He left South Africa shortly afterwards.
The third plank of evidence which could be used against him is Mann's testimony during his interviews with Scotland Yard detectives, who visited him in Black Beach prison after his trial ended in Equatorial Guinea last July. Mann implicated Thatcher, as he had done at his trial, when he said Thatcher was "not just an investor. He came on board completely and became part of the management team."
He also is understood to have continued to implicate Calil, who he named at his trial, saying he was the "overall boss".
But Mann's testimony will be one of the legal problems. The statements he made in Equatorial Guinea are tainted by the threat of ill-treatment or even death in prison. He is likely to repeat his statements under caution to the British police but even away from the threat of torture or death, his testimony might not be enough to lead to a prosecution of Thatcher.
Equatorial Guinea is still seeking to see Thatcher in court. President Teodoro Obiang said Thatcher would "definitely" be brought to justice. But his government has not asked Spanish police to arrest him. - guardian.co.uk
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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - The Adelphi University athletic department has been awarded gold medallion status, the highest honor by the organization, by LGBT SportSafe for its efforts in creating an LGBTQ-inclusive athletic community.
As a Founders' Club member of LGBT SportSafe, Adelphi joins an elite group of institutions recognized as early adopters of inclusion. Founders Club status is awarded to the first two institutions from an NCAA-affiliated conference to complete join the program. Adelphi joins Pace University from the Northeast-10 Conference, and other athletic programs including the University of Oregon, the University of Nebraska, UCLA, North Carolina, Temple and Northwestern have earned this distinction.
LGBT SportSafe works to make inclusion efforts sustainable by educating coaches and administrators on how they can lay an inclusive foundation to support student-athletes. The goal is to make every college and university in the United States LGBT SportSafe, so coaches and athletes alike can compete in welcoming, respectful and inclusive athletic communities.
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LGBT SportSafe launched the "3-Peat Model" to help administrators champion a culture of respect and inclusion in collegiate athletics.
To qualify for the program, completion of training for coaches and administrative staff must receive training on creating inclusive teams, as well as updating department policies to include protections for LGBTQ student-athletes and coaches. Upon completion of the "3-Peat Model" assessment, an institution is awarded a gold, silver or bronze medallion for the athletic department website.
Gold status indicates that a collegiate athletic department has the highest commitment to inclusion. Adelphi's road to certification began in February, as the athletic department welcomed the organization's co-founder Nevin Caple, pictured with the softball team, to campus to speak to student-athletes and athletic department staff about the importance of inclusion.
"We are thrilled to welcome Adelphi University to the LGBT SportSafe Inclusion Program as a Founders Club member. Since visiting campus earlier this year, the athletic administrators and coaches have shown a real commitment to addressing the LGBTQ inclusion needs of their student-athletes," said Caple.
"Adelphi leadership is setting a precedent for other schools to follow and we are so excited to continue supporting their inclusion efforts through our partnership."
For the 2017-18 year, the athletic department also instituted an internal Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Council, which developed a statement on diversity and a pledge that Adelphi athletes signed to champion a climate of diversity, inclusion and equity both on and off-campus.
The NE10 is an association of 15 diverse institutions serving student-athletes across 24 NCAA Division II sports. Together we build brilliant futures by embracing the journey of every student-athlete.
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Founded in 1955, the National Association of Metal Finishers (NAMF) is comprised of management executives in the surface finishing industry and related fields. It has thrived as a trade association thanks to the voluntary and cooperative efforts of its members worldwide.
Through the years, key legislative and regulatory activities have contributed to making successful daily surface finishing operations increasingly difficult by imposing fines and restrictions upon the industry. With the support of its members, the association has met and continues to meet regulatory challenges to remain a strong and viable force in the surface finishing industry.
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Conventions, Seminars and Tours
Annual Convention and Management Seminars. NAMF's Annual Convention and Management Seminars allow finishers to stay on top of the most current management techniques, as well as regulatory activities.
The convention, held each March, mixes business seminars with member interaction to provide valuable information. In the past, association members have enjoyed programming that ranges from crisis management communication to learning the art of power negotiating to discussions on estate planning, environmental criminal law enforcement, regulatory compliance issues and more.
Many association members take advantage of this opportunity to combine informative seminars with family recreation. The convention provides numerous social and sporting events and features the annual awards banquet where individuals and firms are honored for their contributions to the finishing industry.
This year's event will be cosponsored by NAMF and the MFSA. It will take place at the Pointe Hilton Resort at Tapatio Cliffs in Phoenix, Arizona, March 8-11.
Outlook Management Seminars. The opportunity to learn new management and regulatory concepts, share ideas, develop strategies with peers and visit one of the industry's trade shows can be found at the Outlook Management Seminars. Held in conjunction with the American Electroplaters and Surface Finisher's (AESF) annual Sur/Fin® Conference and Trade Show, NAMF schedules two half-days of timely regulatory and industry management seminars.
Legislative Conference and Capitol Hill Visits. In conjunction with its government relations activities, the association coordinates an annual legislative conference every September, providing an opportunity for members to meet with elected officials and discuss issues affecting their companies.
The conference is an important function of NAMF government relations, providing its members with yet another means of having a voice on important legislative and regulatory issues.
Trade Tours. The association's trade tours, held every two years, are designed to give members an opportunity to study industry-related operations in various parts of the world. Trade tour participants have visited sites throughout Europe and the Far East, giving members a first-hand look at foreign operations.
Member Benefits
Government Relations. In this era of environmental concerns, NAMF is a highly respected and integral force for the surface finishing industry at the federal, state and local levels of government.
The association's full-time Washington D.C. staff formulates, implements and represents the interests of its members in all regulatory and legislative matters before Congress, EPA and other federal agencies.
The association's manual provides a better understanding of crisis control and communication. Members are taken step-by-step through defining a crisis, preparing a plan, conducting a crisis audit, positive public relations tips and preparing for media interviews.
Management Manual. For information on competing finishing methods prevalent in the business world, NAMF turned to the collective experience of its members, owners and technical personnel of finishing job shops.
This information is provided in the association's Management Manual. With more than 500 pages of technical, statistical and financial information, this manual helps members run their businesses better by addressing job costs and profit centers, quality control, personnel management, insurance, financial management, sales and marketing policies and pollution control.
finishingLine. Regular communication of NAMF events, late-breaking industry issues, regulatory updates and special calendar activities are crucial to members. That is why the association distributes its member newsletter, finishingLine.
legislativeLine. Written by NAMF's government relations staff, this regular supplement to finishingLine provides members with current regulatory and legislative news relating to the association and the industry.
Membership Directory and Resource Guide. For an easy reference, the associations membership directory furnishes members with a concise listing of fellow surface finisher members across the U.S. and abroad. Produced every two years, the directory is a useful tool in identifying other major surface finishing shops.
Membership Categories
Affiliate Member. NAMF membership begins at the affiliate level, a vital key to the structure of the association and its ability to serve the entire industry. Affiliates are located in major industrial areas to serve local and regional needs. They provide their own membership benefits and meet on a regular basis.
Affiliate membership is open to individuals (sole proprietors), partnerships and corporations directly engaged in surface finishing and related fields, as well as associations representing such businesses. When a finisher's membership into the local affiliate is accepted, it automatically becomes a member of the national association as well. Local affiliates have complete autonomy over the approval of membership applications in their respective regions.
At-Large Member. At-large members include individuals (sole proprietors) or corporations engaged in surface finishing who are not located within the geographical boundaries of one of the local affiliates. At-large members are considered full members and receive full benefits.
Contributing Sponsor. Consultants, manufacturers and interested parties in the industry are eligible to become contributing sponsors. NAMF provides an opportunity to join with other surface finishing professionals to improve the industry at both the local and national levels. Contributing sponsors receive most of the same benefits of membership as at-large and affiliate members.
For more information on the National Association of Metal Finishers, contact NAMF at 209 Elden Street, Suite 202, Herndon, Virginia, 20170-4815. Phone: (703) 709-8299, Fax: (703) 709-1036.


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BENCHMARKS: As you can see from the performance analysis, multi-GPU has still got a long way to come (click here for full res image)
Spec analysis
SPECIFICATIONS: As you can see the specs of each card are quite similar but offer different levels of performance (click here for full res image)
There's nothing quite like a Supertest for weeding out the truth. This time around, the most unmistakable observation must be that there's a limit to how far you should currently go with multi-GPU technology. Not to put too fine a point on it, but both AMD's and Nvidia's quad-GPU installations kind of sucked.
The other major negative we observed was the fact that multi-GPU reliability remains slightly below the level we would like to see. Admittedly, we had relatively few troubles during setup. In fact that part of the process went smoothly save for the GeForce GTS 250 pairing, which took an awful lot of fettling. But in that case, we were using boards from mixed vendors with slightly different clockspeeds, which is never an ideal scenario.
Let it serve as a reminder that if you decide to start mixing and matching, there's no guarantee you'll end up with a working system. Elsewhere, the Radeon HD 4890s refused to run Crysis Warhead in DX10 mode, forcing us to record results in DX9. That was a particularly odd problem given the other AMD pairings ran the DX10 path with no complaints.
Overall, that may not sound like a lot. But the fact is, when we test single cards we usually have no stability or compatibility issues, period. That's the kind of flawless reliability we demand from multi-GPU technology, before we will give it a totally unreserved thumbs up. But don't go thinking it was all bad. There's plenty of good news.
We're extremely impressed by both the outright performance and the consistency of the GeForce GTX 285s. Money no object, these are the cards we would choose to run in a gaming PC hooked up to a big screen. We wouldn't kick a pair of 4890s out of bed, either. Back in the real world, of course, money is very much an object and for that reason you won't be surprised to hear that our overall winner comes from the most affordable third of our test.
But it's not the Radeon HD 4770s, though they certainly deserve honourable mention. A pair can be had for around £160, usefully cheaper than a single Radeon HD 4890. More importantly, so long as you are running at moderate resolutions, the two 4770s will be the quicker solution. But first prize must go to the trusty o' GeForce GTS 250s. In some ways, that's hardly a surprising result.
After all, they're based on a pretty ancient graphics chipset. But in 1GB trim, that chipset remains uncommonly well optimised for multi-GPU implementations. If you have a 24-inch monitor or perhaps one of the latest full HD 22-inch panels, a pair of 1GB GTS 250s will give you significantly better performance than any single card solution. And, yes, that does indeed include the GeForce GTX 285, and all for £260. 'Nuff said.


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Thanksgiving has been on the brain and after seeing this cocktail on Tasting Table, I thought that I would give it a whirl. It sounded intriguing and utilized celery, a staple in Thanksgiving stuffing, but something that I can't say I've ever used in a cocktail, aside from as garnish for a Bloody Mary.
This Thanksgiving, I was not hosting dinner and was instead invited to a friend's home for dinner, which made my holiday much less hectic (phew!). I was charged with bringing a couple side dishes and of course a cocktail! So, since I wasn't cooking a whole dinner, I had plenty of time to perfect my cocktail.
I was promising myself that this summer that I would use more clear spirits in my cocktails, but I haven't been very good about that, and instead have found myself reverting to my whiskey ways. But that all stops with this Vodka cocktail! One Sunday evening, I was looking at the mint and cucumber sitting around and thought, that screams Vodka, and the Cucumberbund Cocktail was born.
The Old Fashioned is a quintessential cocktail. In my book, it is the ultimate cocktail. In fact, if pressed to choose one cocktail to drink for the rest of my life, it would be an Old Fashioned. An Old Fashioned is a whiskey cocktail and it is to whiskey what vodka is to the martini. It is simply just sugar, bitters, bourbon, and an orange peel. And though it is a simple cocktail in terms of ingredients, it has many complexities, and can easily be changed (though possibly not improved) by using different bitters, bourbon versus rye whiskey, and orange peel versus lemon peel.


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Relive the shortest-reigning Best Picture winner of all-time that proves jazz will ultimately make you miserable – LA LA LAND!
Wait wait wait – Actually, this is the Moonlight Honest Trailer!
Settle in a heart wrenching journey of struggle, redemption, love, and loss – and a few sandy handies – MOONLIGHT!


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Six Pack Abs Reality!
How do you get six pack abs? Many people including myself, have followed this path at one point or another. We are always looking for the miracle cure. We try to find the quick fix. Guess what? There is no miracle cure! I hate to burst your bubble! We all have tried these abdominal exercises
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Though I'm not normally a big fan of New Year's celebrations, I do have some exciting news to start 2013! Your Next Stamp was welcomed me to be on thier Design Team!!!! Wooooo HOOOO!!!! My stamping buddy Tracy introduced to these adorable stamps last year and I just love them!! They are so much fun to color and create with! I am so honored to be on such an Talented Team too. rCome on over to the Your Next Stamp blog and meet the rest of the new DT members. It's so exciting!
This is my "introducing me" card. I have never done an white or almost white card and wanted to give it a try. So Cool! Except for photographing it. I had a hard time with that! I'm going to do my best to add recipes to my post in 2013. So here goes!
Stamps: Fhiona and her Penguin
Copics: Hat, Coat, Scarf, Boots: B04, B02, B00, B0000
Hair: E44, E40, E29
Sliegh: E29, E27, E23, E21
Dies and Embossing: YNS Tree Trio Die, Snowglobe Die and
Spellbinders Embossing Snow
I can't wait to bring you more fun cards and projects from Your Next Stamps!
Addicted to Stamps: Blue Winter
Stamping for the Weekend: Anything Goes
Thank you Karen for the great honor! Here's looking forward to 2013!!!!
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Sadly the medical profession has overlooked the immense power of nutrition and instead promoted pharmaceutical and surgical interventions. Fortunately, times are changing and the world is starting to see that we, quite simply, are what we eat. At a cellular level nutrition has the power to rapidly enliven and invigorate cells and support the body to heal and regenerate.
Heart Disease
Despite extensive research, huge sums of money, specialist doctors and a stream of diets and drugs (including low cholesterol diets, cholesterol lowering butters, and yogurts, and not to mention statin drugs), death due to heart disease continues to rise.
The medical world applies a five-point check list to determine if you are a susceptible to heart disease. Sadly, getting sufficient nutrition doesn't even appear on the list.
- History of heart disease
- History of diabetes
- High blood pressure
- High blood cholesterol
- Smoking
This series of questions has made no difference to heart disease, as it is now worse than ever, with even kids dying in school play grounds of sudden death syndrome.
What if the human body could be nourished with the nutritional components needed to thrive?
Disease Prevention
Minerals are needed for the proper formation of blood and bone, the maintenance of healthy nerve function, heartbeat regulation, reproduction and foetal development.
The level of each mineral has an effect, directly or indirectly, on every other mineral, so if one is out of balance your whole system is affected. It is critical than minerals are selected and combined in the correct ratios to ensure the maximum absorption.
A lack of minerals contribute to our increasing susceptibility to diseases such as:
- Heart disease (magnesium deficiency)
- Cancer (selenium deficiency)
- Diabetes (chromium deficient)
- Mental illnesses (zinc deficiency)
Zinc is perhaps the most commonly deficient mineral and the most critical mineral for mental health.
Sadly for many people the average vitamin and mineral intake is half of the RDA meaning we are all radically deficient in the minerals needed to thrive. No wonder modern lifestyle diseases are plaguing humanity in epic proportions. Most food is farmed for bulk and not nutrition so we are gradually getting much less value for our money.
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Most cardiovascular problems are created by three core elements:
- Lack of blood supply to the heart
- Blood fluidity controlled by hormones
- Inflexible vessels thickened with plaque
The ingredients in Celtic Nutrition's Healthy Heart were chosen and carefully blended to prevent the three core problems that contribute to heart disease.


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Witchcraft is thriving in parts of West Wales, according to a leading church minister.
Rev Felix Aubel, who is currently the minister of five Congregational chapels in rural Carmarthenshire, said he had come across witches, the use of effigies and the "evil eye" during his career.
In his newly-published autobiography A Rebel's Story – which also chronicles his unsuccessful attempts, first with the SDP and then with the Conservatives, to become an MP – Dr Aubel revealed how a curse on a parishioner had to be lifted by an exorcist.
He said: "Some people in the Aberaeron and Trelech areas are known to have used 'poppets' or effigies to try and bring bad luck to other people. In folk-magic and witchcraft, a poppet is a doll made to represent a person, for casting spells on that person.
"These dolls may be fashioned from such materials as a carved root, grain or corn shafts, a fruit, paper, wax, potato, clay, branches, or cloth stuffed with herbs. The intention is that whatever actions are performed upon the effigy will be transferred to the subject.
More witchcraft stories from around Wales: Bishop of Monmouth warns of witchcraft break-ins on church property
"Amongst many cultures throughout the world, a poppet or effigy would be used with very sharp needles stuck into its 'heart' as a way of doing evil to an enemy. It was this evil type of poppet that was used on a chapel member of mine in the Aberaeron area in 1994.
"It took an experienced Anglican exorcist to 'raise' this curse, which had been placed by a witch on the instruction of another former church member. The motivation behind this 'evil' was envy that had turned into jealousy. Enmity then evolved into paranoid hatred that was exploited financially by a witch living outside Lampeter."
Dr Aubel writes that he has also encountered a case of the "evil eye" during his ministerial career: "This is an ancient belief in the existence of a malevolent power in the glance of some people, which is almost invariably provoked by envy or jealousy.
"In this instance, a lady who had given birth to a baby boy was apparently 'wished bad luck' by the 'evil glance' in the eye of a childless spinster neighbour. Both mother and child were subsequently taken ill due to acute breathlessness for no apparent medical reason and had to be hospitalised.
"The spinster even visited the mother and child in hospital while I was, coincidentally, speaking to them. It became obvious to me that the spinster was praising the baby to its mother in a very 'false' and patronising way. Indeed, this is one of the most noticeable characteristics of the utilisation of the 'evil eye'.
More witchcraft stories from around Wales: The wicked witches of the west
"Realising this, I asked the spinster to say 'God bless you' to the baby, having just said what a beautiful child the mother had. Therewith, the spinster immediately walked away without uttering another word.
"As a precautionary measure, the mother later placed an amulet, in this case a horseshoe, in the porch of her home in order to protect her baby son and herself from the malevolent effects of the spinster's 'evil eye'."
Dr Aubel states that there seems to be an "unusual connection" between Christianity and witchcraft in some chapel circles: "Tony Roberts, in his book Myths and Legends of Pembrokeshire, gives an account of witchcraft in the Gwaun Valley. He states that during the early part of the 20th Century one well-known family of witches wanted to become members of Caersalem Baptist Chapel, and were admitted. However, this made no difference to their behaviour.
"One witch, even on the day she became a chapel member, bewitched a young servant girl working at Gelli Fawr farm. The witch was sitting on a pew behind the servant girl, who rushed out of the chapel and ran wildly about the roads.
"Her father, having tried every means of pacifying her, went to Cwrt y Cadno to consult Dr Harries, the famous Carmarthenshire wise man. Dr Harries told the father what had happened and even showed him the scene in a mirror.
"He gave him a piece of paper with some words written on it that the girl had to wear on her breast. This apparently proved sufficient to bring her back to her normal state.
"A witch who lived in the Pennant area of Ceredigion in the early 1990s would occasionally attend the local chapel. Also, a deacon of mine in the Aberaeron area had a grandmother buried in the chapel cemetery who had been a well-known witch locally. I have been told that a coven of witches still meet in the Trelech area.
"Furthermore, there is a witch living in the nearby village of Talog who advertises her 'services' in the local paper."
:: A Rebel's Story by Felix Aubel is published by Carreg Gwalch at £8.25


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By Careena Dudic
It's thrilling, and perhaps intimidating, to think how fast our daily lives are changing in regards to how we work, shop and live. Because of online shopping, mobile commerce, urbanization, and SEO/social media marketing – these activities are more dynamic and fluid than ever before. These trends are not only a part of our everyday lives, but they're influencing logistics and industrial real estate in a very big way.
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Lots Guild recruiting
We are a relatively new guild aiming to reach the top 3 spots in the near future summer clash events,
This Block Basher event is our first event, and we fared pretty well placing ourselves in 7th place.
- Must contribute atleast 3Million points each event
- Deposit is 60 Wls
- Must be online most of the time during clash events, if you have any specific reason such as holidays then warn me beforehand and youre gucci.
Guild Leader: MaNameJefff
Guild Co-Leader: Eboii
Guild Elders: Sodle, Balzam, Djcoppo, Sperd
Guild World LOTSGUILD
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HOME GAMES Mueller-Heaslip and the Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra play the Gladstone Melody Bar (1214 Queen West) on Sunday (September 28).
NICKNAMES The Evil Diva
POSITION Singer
TEAM MEMBERS Jen Wardle (sax), Alex Cheung (violin), Alex McMaster (cello), Ben Mueller-Heaslip (bass and keyboards), Chris Patheiger (drums)
ROOKIE YEAR "I was studying piano at U of T and not doing very well when I asked my teacher, 'Do you think I'll make it as a pianist?' and he said, 'No.' So I went out and drank about five shots of Jägermeister, and when I slammed down the glass after the fifth shot, I said, 'Dammit, I really just want to sing.' So that was that."
LEAGUE Godspeed You! Black Emperor meets Billie Holiday meets Kurt Weill meets Philip Glass.
STATS Truth In The Dark (08); winner of the Eckhardt-Gramatté National Music Competition
SPECIAL TALENT "I'm the worst dancer in the Western world."


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A great way to change your food habits to healthier ones is to take up one of our two-week challenges. Download the Want to feel 100% booklet here and pick out the right challenge for you. (how to fold your booklet)
Next time you are walking back from school and get that tempting smell of fried chicken, before you buy, stop and think about why you are eating it. Are you really hungry? Will it give you the fuel you need for the rest of the day? Is there something healthier you could have?
We've put together some top tips to help you overcome some unhealthy food habits that we all easily slip into. Challenge yourself!
- Buy a lemon, lime or some mint for under 50p, slice it up and put it in your bottle of water – you've made your own healthy take on lemonade!
- Bored of eating the same old fruit and veg? Go to your local market and see what's on offer – you'll be surprised what you might find!
- Get healthy and swap fries for homemade sweet potato wedges!
- Try swapping a bag of crisps for some plain popcorn!
- Remember to have breakfast it is the most important meal of the day!
- Why not pick a new fruit to try this week?
- Why not ditch the fizz? Swap fizzy sugary drinks for water.
- Try something new: challenge your siblings to see who can make the best family meal?
- Why not try a handful of unsalted peanuts for a snack, instead of sugary cakes and biscuits?


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Archive of 15 June 2017
Brexit talks start on Monday and we have no idea what we're doing
We have no government, no plan, no strategy, no functioning department and no hope. This is worse than the bleakest Remainer warnings.
The illiberal persecution of Tim Farron
It feels as if Farron has been persecuted because of his faith - how is that liberal?
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Home >> Uk + Ireland >> England >> Yorkshire >> West Riding, Parishes >> Little Ouseburn >>
Little Ouseburn parish:
Little Ouseburn, Benefactions transcription:The Dorothy Sutton bequest in Holy Trinity Church, Little Ouseburn.
Mrs. Dorothy Suttonto the Poor of the said Usburn Parva for ever: The Interest of which she ordered to be distributed amongst the industrious Poor of the said Place every Christmas according to the Discretion of the Minister and Church-Wardens for the time being; except two Shillings and sixpence of the said Interest - which she ordered to be given to that young Person, Boy, or Girl, who shall best repeat the Church Catechism at Easter, the Determination to be made by the Minister. -
of Usburn Parva
left the Sum of twenty pounds
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Are you worried about your partner watching porn?
I was recently interviewed by writer Bonnie Vaughan for Good Health Magazine about what to do when you find your partner is into porn.
This is a certainly a hot topic and one I've been interviewed about a number of times before by the media. One of the reasons it's become such an issue in more recent years is because of the ease of anonymous access to pornography via the internet. There's no doubt that porn is impacting relationships today.
A couple of key points I mentioned in the article included:
- Don't take it personally. If you come across your partner watching porn, it's important not to jump to the conclusion that something is wrong with you, your relationship or your sex life. Watching porn is a normal part of sexuality for many men. In fact, research shows most males are watching porn from the age of 11 and upwards. Believe it or not, you can have a good sex life and have a partner that watches porn – they are not mutually exclusive.
- Raise the issue with your partner. Your reaction to porn can be varied, depending on your values, attitudes, religious beliefs and past experiences. Talking about porn is an important discussion to have, so make sure you choose a good time to talk with your partner when you're not busy, stressed or have the kids around.
- Use healthy communication to discuss the issue. It's important you don't go on the attack with your partner because that can be very shaming. Use "I" statements to reduce blaming and shaming, for example, "I was on your computer and noticed…and the feelings coming up for me are…". Then give your partner time to respond. Try to be curious and suspend your assumptions and judgements about his porn use.
- Don't pressure your partner to share his porn. I don't tend to recommend that partners show each other their porn unless there is a genuine excitement and shared arousal about doing this. Sometimes a partner can find it distressing to see the type of porn their partner is watching. It's okay to have privacy in your relationship, including when you each masturbate and the type of porn you watch.
- Open up about porn in your relationship. Even though you may initially be upset if you discover your partner has been using porn, it can be a great opportunity to discuss what porn means to each of you and what place you want it to have in your relationship. Remember, porn is about fantasy and just because your partner is watching a certain type of porn, it is not necessarily a reflection of what he wants to do in real life. Just like any fantasy, it is an important and healthy part of human sexuality
How do you know when porn is a problem in your relationship?
If your sex life has recently reduced in frequency and/or quality and porn is being used frequently by your partner, it could be a sign that your relationship has a problem with porn. If your partner has become secretive, moody or evasive in your relationship and you're not happy with the level of emotional and physical intimacy, it may also be a sign that you need to address the use of porn in your relationship.
Want to read the entire article?
Buy the February 2016 copy of Good Health or click the link below to read the article:
What to Do If Your Partner Is Into Porn
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