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Last weekend I disappeared into Squaw Valley for four days of yoga, meditation, and music.
The festival was hosted by Wanderlust, one of the companies that I currently write for. They have these festivals all over the world, many of which are located in the United States. It's sort of like if Lululemon and Burning Man had a flexible, vegan baby with a lust for the outdoors and extraordinarily clean chakras.
First of all, you don't need to practice yoga to go. You can be a newbie and have a blast. I met so many people who came purely to have a mindful, fun experience and they loved it. One guy came thinking it would be an EDM festival. He was surprised by the fact that, yes, he would be doing yoga, but he had a great time and was able to use his glowsticks without shame.
Squaw Valley was likely created when Mother Nature was up at 2am drinking Irish coffee and thinking, "I'm just gonna throw all my favorite shit together and see what happens." There are mountains, there is snow, there is a lake of deep cerulean, and there are cotton-candy sunsets. There are forests, waterfalls, and fields of wildflowers; daisies and Queen Anne's Lace cascade down the hills as if someone had once rolled out a sleeping of seeds. It's the sort of place one goes to drop off the face of the earth. (And if you're like me, and camping 9,000 feet above the ground, you actually want to make sure this doesn't happen.)
Wanderlust is not your typical festival. While there are concerts, there's also meditation classes, workshops on how to minimize waste, dance parties, cacao ceremonies. If you plan on going (which I recommend), here's your guide:
1. Buying passes
Tickets for Wanderlust are constantly on sale, as the festivals happen all over the world. These are the current festival locations:
Aspen-Snowmass, CO
Oahu, HI
Snowshoe, WV
Squaw Valley, CA
Stratton, VT
Sunshine Coast, AU
Tremblant, QC CA
Whistler, BC CA
The upcoming festivals are Whistler (July 28th-August 1st), Tremblant (August 11-14th), and Sunshine Coast (October 20th-23rd). The festivals kick back up with Oahu in February and span throughout the summer.
2. Who to bring (Or not)
Wanderlust will appeal to anyone with an open mind and a willing spirit. I saw folks with best friends, couples, families, and mom-and-daughter duos. I attended the event alone, which I think was really special in it's own way. (I knew a few online friends from editorial, and we were able to connect.)
Regardless of who you bring, the your guaranteed to make friends and talk to strangers. It's fun to share the experience with someone you love (next year I'd love to bring my mom), but you can certainly enjoy it solo.
3. Planning your schedule
One of the things that makes Wanderlust different from other festivals are the classes, hikes, and workshops. While the music is awesome, the classes keep you healthy and strong throughout the festival experience. Most of them are taught by famous yoga instructors and meditation gurus, and have revolutionary ideas in their fields. It's a great opportunity yoga veterans to dive deeper into their practices and for newbies to try one out.
When planning, I recommend having a decent mixture throughout your day. I found myself doing well having two yoga classes (typically one Yin and one heavy Vinyasa flow), a hike or dance party, and a meditation. In the afternoon, there are sometimes pool parties, which is a fun way to grab a cocktail and rest in between classes. Do some research and find out which yoga teacher work in a style that sparks your curiosity. Don't be afraid to try something new or take classes on your own.
My favorites this year were Sake 101, Wild Women Dance Party, Navel Academy (a core and Kundalini class), and a chakra balancing meditation. Check the schedule even after you've planned your days–they sometimes add new events as it gets closer to the festival.
You can also purchase dinners, cocktail parties, and other unique food and drink events. I paid a bit extra to participate in a Cacao ceremony, which was a beautiful and trippy experience. I could go on and on about the tranquility that followed tiny dixie cups of pure drinking chocolate, but I will save that for a separate post.
The classes DO fill up so plan early if you want to make sure you get your first choices!
4. Where to sleep
There are SO MANY places to stay in most of these locations that book a place can be overwhelming. For Squaw I ended up camping, which was lovely and a test to my character. Check the weather. In Squaw it can be VERY windy, so you'll want to bring good stakes and make sure your tent is in there NICE AND TIGHT! In my experience, campgrounds were typically pretty tame–most people are too exhausted to party and you can do a lot of that on festival grounds.
You can also book lodges and condos through Wanderlust, or use AirBNB to find a place with your friends. Camping only extended until Sunday afternoon, but my new friends and I wanted to stay an extra night so we found an AirBNB in Lake Tahoe. It was right next to the water, and at sunset we wandered out to drink wine, practice yoga poses, and howl at the moon.
5. What to pack
Like Burning Man, Wanderlust is the sort of place where you can get away wearing whatever you want. The major difference is that you will be exercising, so if you want to wear something wacky and fun, be sure that you can move around in it. I mostly wore funky yoga pants and crop tops, adding a sweater or denim jacket at night. (It gets cold!) A bathing suit, layers, sneakers, Birkenstocks or flip-flops, warm sleeping clothes, sunglasses, a yoga mat, and sunscreen are all musts.
As for going out, some people wore dresses and heels, but these are by no means the norm. I went to a Lululemon party off grounds and there were folks in everything from formal wear to Teeki pants.
At Squaw the campgrounds weren't the type you'd cook on, so you don't need a stove or anything like that. Rather plan on bringing your favorite snacks, like granola bars and grapes. There are water filling stations but you may want an extra jug or bottle for your tent. Also, I kept a cooler in my car and filled it with ice everyday. This was a lifesaver because it would get HOT and I wanted to keep my fresh fruit, chocolate, and white wine nice and cold.
6. What/where to eat
As I mentioned above, snacks are key. There are typically restaurants and food trucks on the grounds, all of which have kickass vegan and gluten-free foods. Lydia's Kind Foods was my favorite; By the end I had eaten a curry plate, hummus wrap, and truckmade veggie burger. The Lydia trucks travel to festivals all over the country.
I know what you're probably thinking, "typical yogi, eating only plants." But Wanderlust is about being mindful, and part of being mindful means eating with awareness. Hippie-talk aside, it really, truly is better for the environment to cut back on meat consumption, and that's something (even if we love our bacon burgers) I feel we should be aware of. If you can't be without meat, no stress! Some of the restaurants have things more up your alley.
Also, THE SAMPLES. There are soooooo many health brands who work with Wanderlust and lots of them are giving away little taste treats throughout the day. This was how I ate lunch the entire time I was there, no joke. There were baby protein shakes, granola bars, kombucha drinks, vegan ice cream, probiotic shots, veggie burger sliders, and more. Also, all of the vendors were required to use compostable serving ware. More points, WL.
7. Mentally prepare
At Wanderlust you will do a ton of stretching, dancing, and mindful activity. This encourages a sort of "bliss-like" state, and all of the heart and hip opening can make you emotional. Our physical postures relate so much to our emotional state, and spending a lot of time hunched over, or sitting still can cramp muscles and harden bodies. That rigidity and hardness doesn't just affect how our physicality, but can also leak into our mental space. So by clearing all this, you might find yourself a bit more, uh, weepy, or affectionate than you might normally. (Here's some more info on the science and kinesiology behind this.)
When you're in this state, your more likely to initiate conversations with strangers, hug your friends, and have public makeouts with your partner(s). It's soothing. It's beautiful. It's getting high from bending your body and HOW FUCKING COOL IS THAT?
8. Don't try to do it all
Yeah, I had anxiety at a yoga festival. Irony, am I right? Luckily, I was given the aforementioned advice before I went, and keeping it in mind made things so much easier. Wanderlust is full of awesome things, many of them occurring at the same time. It's a pick and choose situation, and you may not get everything you want, but I can assure you that the experience you end up with will be a great one.
You will be tired. You're working out all day and dancing all night. Skip a class and take a nap. Hang by the pool. Sleep in. You simply are not yoga superman and thinking about the Wanderlust you "could have had" or "should be having" is just too exhausting for your zenned-out brains to do.
9. Go wild
Do you have fears about being judged? I definitely do, and I threw that shit to the wind. I danced with abandon, sort of like I had just snorted a line of ground coffee, coke, and pixie sticks. (I hadn't. Save for a glass or two of wine, I was sober.)
I attended the Wanderlust Spectacular, the Wild Women Dance Journey, and a few concerts. At all of these bad boys I, as the cool kids are saying, "let my freak flag fly." I twisted and contorted and crawled on the ground. I held hands with strangers and did acro yoga on a tram. No. One. Cares. And if they are judging you, so what? Do you like being a judge-y person? NAH, BRAH. Judgey-judgersons are lame and stuffy. You are cool. You are a fucking ANIMAL and it feels good to stomp your feet and howl at moon.
10. Leave no trace
I'm stealing the Burning Man motto for this one: Clean up your messes! This festival would be a huge oxymoron if we didn't mindfully consume while we were there. Bring a reusable bottle and thermos. Make us of the compostable serving materials. Recycle appropriately and do not purchase or use containers that cannot be recycled.
Even if this isn't your norm, it's nice to make it that way throughout the festival. As you reconnect with the earth, be good to the earth. Mama Nature gives us strawberries and wine and pheromones. Let's show her some love.
Now the above is a detailed list of things you might like to know, but if you want a simpler version, Clarissa Pinkola Estés has a great list. She wrote this for Women Who Run With the Wolves, with the title "General Wolf Rules for Life", but I like to think you can apply it to many things. Especially Wanderlust.
1. Eat
2. Rest
3. Rove in between
4. Render loyalty
5. Love the children
6. Cavil in moonlight
7. Tune your ears
8. Attend to the bones
9. Make love
10. Howl often


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A little housekeeping. Due to hardware limitations of the server and concerns about the SKS software/protocol, the Philly Mesh keyserver will be offline until further notice.
Please Sign the Philly Mesh GPG Key!
Now that we have erected an SKS keyserver, I invite everyone to sign the Philly Mesh GPG key to help verify our identity. There are many GPG/PGP applications out there, but below I will provide steps for the
gpg utility available on many POSIX systems (Linux, Darwin, etc.). Ideally, with enough signatures, the Philly Mesh key has a higher probability of entering the Web of Trust strong set, the largest collection of strongly-connected gpg keys.
Receive the Philly Mesh Key
Before you can sign the Philly Mesh key, you will need to download it to your system via a keyserver. Here is an example using the SKS server pool:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0x8f5b291d3a3ca65a gpg: requesting key 3A3CA65A from hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found gpg: Total number processed: 1 gpg: imported: 1
Now, you should be able to list the Philly Mesh key in your public keyring. Make sure that the key has not been revoked and is not expired:
$ gpg --list-keys 0x8f5b291d3a3ca65a pub 4096R/3A3CA65A 2017-11-25 [expires: 2027-11-23] uid Philly Mesh <email@example.com> uid Philly Mesh <email@example.com> uid Mike Dank <email@example.com> sub 4096R/1744B74A 2017-11-25 [expires: 2027-11-23]
Bootstrapping Trust
Before you sign the Philly Mesh key, you want to make sure that it is actually owned by Philly Mesh. For some people, this is as easy as asking me online somewhere or in person. For others, you might want to check the verifications for Philly Mesh on Keybase which shows that this key has been verified by the
phillymesh.net domain. For those who want some instant verification that this key is associated with the domain
phillymesh.net, you can query against a DNS record on the domain which holds the key's fingerprint.
First, let's see the fingerprint for the key you have just received:
$ gpg --fingerprint 0x8f5b291d3a3ca65a pub 4096R/3A3CA65A 2017-11-25 [expires: 2027-11-23] Key fingerprint = C58B 0431 C815 F315 7310 0959 8F5B 291D 3A3C A65A uid Philly Mesh <email@example.com> uid Philly Mesh <email@example.com> uid Mike Dank <email@example.com> sub 4096R/1744B74A 2017-11-25 [expires: 2027-11-23]
Now, let's query against
fingerprint.phillymesh.net, which pulls a live
TXT record set up on the domain housing the trusted fingerprint:
$ dig +short -t txt fingerprint.phillymesh.net "C58B 0431 C815 F315 7310 0959 8F5B 291D 3A3C A65A"
The fingerprint from the
gpg --fingerprint command should match the result from the
dig command. If it doesn't match, don't trust the key. Someone may be in control of the
phillymesh.net domain and try to get you to trust their false key.
Sign the Key
Now, you are ready to sign the Philly Mesh key. At this point, we assume that you have already created a key of your own. While receiving the key in the initial section above, we also assume you have made sure the key has not expired or been revoked.
Sign the Philly Mesh key with your own key, following the prompts as they come up. At the time of this writing there are 3 uids (email addresses) associated with this key (listed below in the command output). They can each safely be signed:
$ gpg --sign-key 0x8f5b291d3a3ca65a gpg: checking the trustdb gpg: 3 marginal(s) needed, 1 complete(s) needed, PGP trust model gpg: depth: 0 valid: 1 signed: 0 trust: 0-, 0q, 0n, 0m, 0f, 1u gpg: next trustdb check due at 2027-11-23 pub 4096R/3A3CA65A created: 2017-11-25 expires: 2027-11-23 usage: SC trust: ultimate validity: ultimate sub 4096R/1744B74A created: 2017-11-25 expires: 2027-11-23 usage: E [ultimate] (1). Philly Mesh <email@example.com> [ultimate] (2) Philly Mesh <firstname.lastname@example.com> [ultimate] (3) Mike Dank <firstname.lastname@example.com> Really sign all user IDs? (y/N) y
After signing, send the key back to the keyserver so the signature is recorded:
$ gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --send-key 0x8f5b291d3a3ca65a gpg: sending key 3A3CA65A to hkp server pool.sks-keyservers.net
That's all it takes! Your signature will now be recorded and the record will update across all keyservers in the SKS pool. You can check that your signature has been recorded here (it might take a few minutes to populate).
Philly Mesh OpenPGP SKS Keyserver Now Online
Hey all,
After a trial run of setting up a keyserver over the summer, I am now making the Philly Mesh OpenPGP Keyserver public for all to use.
The keyserver currently runs SKS, and is ideal for uploading or downloading gpg/pgp keys. A great feature of SKS is that it has what are known as "gossip peers." Gossip peers help with the transmission of keys uploaded on each node by sending them to all other nodes they gossip with. This creates a web that allows all nodes to communicate and transfer keys through one another. Ultimately, if a key is uploaded to one node, it will end up on all of the others in the network.
The Philly Mesh keyserver, available at gpg.phillymesh.net, is now part of several official server pools run by sks-keyservers.net. If you currently use the
gpg utiliy, you may already be accessing it!
Of course, you can always use gpg.phillymesh.net specifically instead of via a server pool. The server has unencrypted HKP available on ports 80 and 11371, and encrypted HKPS available on ports 443 and 11372.
Additionally, this keyserver is available with HKP access over Hyperboria at the address h.gpg.phillymesh.net, and over the Tor network at the address phillygoh7mkcb44.onion. HKPS is not necessary over these networks as they are already end-to-end encrypted.
Here are some examples of how to access the keyserver:
# Clearnet access over HKP (IPv4/IPv6) $ gpg --keyserver gpg.phillymesh.net --recv-keys 3A3CA65A # Clearnet access over encrypted HKPS (IPv4/IPv6) # Note, you may need gnupg-curl, not just gnupg # Do: sudo apt-get install gnupg-curl $ gpg --keyserver 'hkps://gpg.phillymesh.net' --recv-keys 3A3CA65A # Hyperboria access over HKP $ gpg --keyserver h.gpg.phillymesh.net --recv-keys 3A3CA65A # Tor access over HKP $ gpg --keyserver phillygoh7mkcb44.onion --recv-keys 3A3CA65A
GPG and ProtonMail
Philly Mesh now has a public GPG key that you can use for any email correspondence you would like (it is completely optional to use). Using GPG ensures that Philly Mesh will be the only entity that can read any email you send. The 4096-bit GPG key has been uploaded to the MIT Public Key Server, and can be checked here, where you will also be able to see that it was signed by me personally. Additionally, you can also see the key over on Keybase.
Philly Mesh now also has a ProtonMail email address at for any sensitive matters that you do not believe can be discussed through any other email provider. The address for this account is at email@example.com.
In our ever-changing world, you never know who or what may be reading.
For easy access, the GPG key is pasted below!
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Browse the Philly Mesh Site from Hyperboria
The Philly Mesh website is now available from Hyperboria. The new subdomain h.phillymesh.net will resolve to [fc4a:cb93:88dc:32e1:43ec:e1b8:2b45:dd46] and is available via both HTTP and HTTPS:
As cjdns encrypts traffic end-to-end, standard HTTP should be acceptable in most configurations. You will want to use the HTTPS link if you connect to Hyperboria via a cjdns gateway on a different machine or if you share the machine running cjdroute.
If you do use HTTPS, you will likely get a warning from the browser that the cerificate is invalid as it is issued for an IP in a private address space (as all Hyperboria addresses are). Be aware, there should be no issue with this certificate. In the future, I may go through the process of configuring a CA for phillymesh.net (self-signing a cert for h.phillymesh.net and distributing the root cert, signed with my GPG key, but don't find it necessary right now. The current certificate is issued by Let's Encrypt.


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Róisín Shortall TD, co-leader of the Social Democrats, has branded as 'disgraceful' a response from the Minister of State with responsibility for Disability issues, Finian McGrath where he admits he has no plan or timeframe for the enactment of a key component of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Deputy Shortall said: "The government and Minister McGrath in particular, weren't shy about lauding themselves two weeks Read More
Government betraying people with disabilities over crucial UN Convention
Social Democrats co-leader Róisín Shortall TD has accused the government of betraying people with disabilities by refusing to give them the right to bring complaints to an important UN body. Deputy Shortall was commenting after it emerged from an official source that the government does not intend for the foreseeable future to ratify a crucial protocol to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCPRD). Deputy Shortall Read More
People With Disabilities Must be Supported into Workforce – Social Democrats
The Social Democrats have today pledged their support to the Disability Federation of Ireland's 'Make It Work Campaign' which is aiming to raise awareness of the difficulties faced by those with disabilities trying to find employment.At the Social Democrats' National Conference on Saturday the party highlighted this issue in the main Leaders' Address saying that people with disability and mental health issues are at significantly greater risk of experiencing poverty, Read More
Shortall Slams Housing Adaptation Cuts As "Just Plain Stupid"
On foot of today's announcement that Dublin City Council are no longer in a position to fund the Housing Adaptation Grant Scheme for People with a Disability and the Housing Aid for Older Person's Grant Scheme, Deputy Róisín Shortall has branded the Government's decision not to provide the necessary additional funding as being "not only the very worst form of austerity, but also just plain stupid". The Dublin North-West Read More
Double Whammy for Pensioners as Key Supports are Slashed
**** Dublin City Council effectively ends home adaptation grant schemes **** HSE suspends Fair Deal scheme for community applicants Pensioners living at home in unsuitable housing conditions face a double whammy of cut backs as several key supports were slashed in the past week. Dublin City Council has confirmed that it is effectively ending three key grant schemes for older persons and people with disabilities (see letter below). The Read More
Grants for Disabled and Older People Cut by 40%
Department of Environment funding for home adaptation grants for people with disabilities and for older people have been cut by an average of 40%. Councils around the country received notification of their funding last week and details were provided to me in response to a Dáil question yesterday evening. (see details below) The reply reveals that Leitrim suffered the worst percentage cut of a whopping 89%, followed by Laois (76%), Read More
72,000 now on Primary Care Waiting Lists while key staff still await appointment.
New figures provided to me through a Dáil Question show that at least 72,000 people await one of the core primary care services, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, or occupational therapy. The breakdown is as follows: Speech and Language Therapy The total waiting for speech and language therapy, mostly young children, is 34,617. Of this, 15,713 are waiting on an assessment and 18,904 are waiting for treatment. 6,500 are waiting Read More


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bookwizard from Scholastic
You can punch in a book that your kids have really enjoyed and the level you want them to be reading next. For example, my kids have loved Magic Tree House. But 2 of my kids can now read them in one bathroom sitting. I can use this bookwizard to type in "Magic Tree House" but then I type in what level I want the search to include. For us, I will type in 3 grade levels above Magic Tree House.
Voila! The bookwizard lists out the books of similar story lines, but more age appropriate for my kids. It's like having a personal librarian without the hair bun, glasses on a chain and the snide comments about the Michael Jackson Fan book that you wanted to check out every week of second grade.
Some of us still have scars.


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Lady and the Tramp
As far as feel-good fantasies go, it isn't so bad.
As far as feel-good fantasies go, it isn't so bad.
Far too often, it feels like you're watching a video game or an F/X highlight reel.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Chaz Ebert celebrated her birthday by honoring Victory Gardens Theater in October 2019.
A video essay celebrating Antonia Bird's maligned masterpiece, Ravenous.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
A new look at a modern classic from an FFC in Korea.
An interview with writer/director Trey Edward Shults and actors Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Taylor Russell about their new film, "Waves."
A Far Flung Correspondent weighs in on the MCU controversy.
I never tire of quoting Godard, who said, "The way to criticize a movie is to make another movie." Now comes more proof. A few weeks after "When Do We Eat?" a dreary comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family at Passover, here is "Keeping Up With the Steins," a fresh and lovable comedy about a dysfunctional Jewish family planning their son's bar mitzvah.
The family is headed by Adam Fiedler (Jeremy Piven), a Hollywood agent who is envious when his archrival Arnie Stein (Larry Miller) throws a bar mitzvah for his own 13-year-old that includes an ocean cruise, a giant model of the Titanic and a trained killer whale wearing a yarmulke. "I'm king of the world," the younger Stein cries, his arms outstretched as the Titanic sails into a ballroom and Adam Fiedler grows morose.
Adam consults with his wife Joanne (Jami Gertz) about a bar mitzvah to shame the Steins. It may involve booking Dodger Stadium and having his son Benjamin (Daryl Sabara of "Spy Kids") arrive from the sky. Money is no object. Hiring a singer? How about Neil Diamond?
The problem with this grandiose scheme is that young Benjamin has no heart for it. Because he narrates the movie, we learn from his point of view that he feels embarrassed by all the attention, overwhelmed by the scope of the ceremony and terrified by his inability to master Hebrew in time to read it aloud during the religious prelude to the conspicuous consumption. He is also sad that his grandfather Irwin (Garry Marshall) has not been invited; Irwin and Adam have not been on speaking terms for years.
Benjamin appeals to his mother to downsize the bar mitzvah plans, and secretly invites Grandfather Irwin to the ceremony. We discover that Irwin now enjoys a delightful new lifestyle on an Indian reservation, with his young girl friend Sacred Feather (Daryl Hannah). When Irwin and Sacred Feather arrive at the Fiedlers for dinner, Sacred Feather turns out to have dietary restrictions that make Jewish customs seem positively permissive. Marshall and Hannah have small roles, but they're perfectly realized.
Another key character is Benjamin's grandmother and Irwin's first wife, Rose (Doris Roberts). How will the once-married couple get along, and will Sacred Feather get caught in the middle? The movie could handle these questions with overacting, screaming matches and overwrought drama as "When Do We Eat?" does, but no. The screenplay by Mark Zakarin (a writer for "The L Word" on TV) uses its share of exaggeration and hyperbole, but the characters behave according to their natures and needs, as we all do.
The movie was directed by Scott Marshall, son of Garry, nephew of Penny, and therefore born with comic timing in his genes. His plot is not astonishingly original; it bears some similarity to the competition over holiday decorations in the awful "Christmas With the Kranks" (2004), and cheerfully goes for one-liners and sight gags. But it is always about something, and if a bar mitzvah marks a boy's entry into manhood, Benjamin's shows him becoming his own man.
I was grateful to Jeremy Piven and Jami Gertz for making the parents into people who act more like parents than like movie characters. To be sure, any Hollywood agent has a tendency toward the grandiose and the cocky, but Joanne is a steadying influence on Adam, who after all loves his son more than he loves outspending his rival.
At one point in the film Adam looks at home movies of his own bar mitzvah, a humble backyard affair. His wife has never seen them before. They are a reminder of the underlying purpose of the ceremony, which is not to out-spend the neighbors but to wish a young man godspeed in his life. Because the movie never really forgets this, "Keeping Up With the Steins" never loses its footing.
Our staff choices for the best films from 2010 through 2019.
Steve McQueen is dead at 50. The actor, one of a
Christy Lemire on the staff choice for the 4th best film of the 2010s, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road.
Sheila O'Malley on the staff choice for the 6th best film of the decade, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street.


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In the evening, walking on foot along Han river or Le Duan street is fantastic ideas to explore the flavor of Da Nang spicy snail for fresh wind night.
>> 5 unique street food in Hoian
Da nang spicy snail (oc hut)
In the evening, walking on foot along Han river or Le Duan street is fantastic ideas to explore the flavor of Da Nang spicy snail for fresh wind night. People can not conceal their craving for this street food. Various types of escagots are cooked in different styles, but the most popular is small escagots are processed with lemongrass and chili. Watch video how local sucks snail. Due to small shape, people in Da Nang also enjoy in a individual way. Taking a snail and sucking the smaller end of the shell before sucking the opening. However, if you can not take it out and heat your lip owing to spiciness, a toothpick is used to solve this problem. That is reason why Vietnamese named Da Nang spicy snail is OC HUT. Kieu Kieu restaurant is the most famous restaurant selling various type of snail Oc hut is ranked top Da Nang street food If you want to know more about Da Nang cuisine, you can check Danang Cuisine Site.
Noodle salad with pork and anchovy fish sauce (bun mam)
Bun mam is made out of vermicelli, pork or roasted pork, vegetables, unripe papaya, peanuts and, of course, anchovy fish sauce. As the name suggests, the exquisiteness of this dish depends mostly on its anchovy fish sauce. Originally Bun mam is accompanied with boiled pork, and other alternatives include roasted pork (my favourite). Additionally, bun mam is served with "mít non" (unripe/young jackfruit) and the special chilli sauce which are trademarks of the central region. Add: Quan 110 – 110 Huynh Thuc Khang Danang


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This guide describes pre-deployment planning and configuration.
Before deployment you should know the following:
|Recommendation and notes
|Acrobat or Reader?
|Acrobat requires licensing. Reader requires a distribution agreement.
|Acrobat Pro vs. Standard?
|There is a single installer and the license determines what installs. Standard is unavailable on Macintosh.
|Licensing program?
|ELTA, VIP, TLP, etc?: The program type determines what track you can use et. al.
|License types?
|Serial number, Named User (recommended), or Feature Restriced Licensing?
|Track type?
|Continuous or Classic? Continuous is recommended: deployments with NUL and services support the most options.
|Product version?
|Ideally, you don't care and are installing the latest. However, features do vary by version.
|Basic configuration
|Admins typically suppress registration, accept the EULA, etc. Most of this you can do on the cmd line, but you can also use the Wizard.
|Advanced configuration
|Use the Wizard and manual registry configuration to customize nearly any feature.
Acrobat Professional and Standard DC are delivered as a single installer. Product behavior and features become enabled based on the entitlements granted by the licensing methodology (a user ID or serial number).
After extracting the .exe, you'll see
AcroPro.msi in the output folder. This is the correct behavior. Simply use
AcroPro.msi in any command line scripts whether you're installing Pro or Standard.
Update existing scripts that use
DC products provide two tracks: Continuous (recommended) and Classic. These tracks provide different features, benefits, and update methodologies. Know which track you've purchased or need. For details, see Document Cloud Product Tracks.
Continuous and Classic track release schedules and their respective versions vary, but both share an identical versioning methodology. In it's generic form, the version number will appear as
|The last two digits of the release year.*
|An internal number indicating when code moves from Trunk to Beta.
|The first two digits indicate the track. 20 = Continuous. 30 = Classic.
|Hidden 4th field
|Changelist number
|Only visible if user clicks on the version number in the About box.
* The year-based version number is not the same as the Classic track name. While the Classic track version begins with
15 and the current track version is
2015, the track name only changes at each major release–not every year. The version number increments every year.
A note on terminology:
License the product with a physical key. The Continuous track does not support serialized licensing after December, 2018.
Named user licensing (NUL) is the preferred activation method. You can migrate serial installs to NUL.
DC products support NUL and user management via the Admin Console. The Console supports managing single user and group entitlements for all Adobe products as well as Single Sign-On. It also provides tools for managing software, users, and devices and support multiple ID types . With NUL, end users simply "activate" Acrobat by logging in to any VM or machine. License-related data is saved in
<user>/appdata/Roaming folder which is synced to the VM on login.
to review.
The August, 2019 release extends FRL support the following virtual environments: Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop, VMWare Horizon, and RDS/WTS.
Feature restricted Licensing (FRL) provides an alternative to serialized (license key) and named user deployment which can be set up and managed via the Admin Console. Enterprise can use FRL to control data flow in restricted network environments. Use FRL when end users either don't have access to the internet or are not allowed to use online services. Note the following:
need to check what's on the helpx page.
You can create a new FRL package as well as move existing installs to FRL. See https://helpx.adobe.com/enterprise/using/create-frl-packages.html.
New and existing installations may work with one or more of the following file types.
If you need to check the authenticity of the installer, check its signature using third party tools:
You can also view the certificate, the counter signer's certificate, and the certificate chain to the trust anchor for both.
These steps apply to EXE installers, including those downloaded from the Reader Download Center, the FTP site, or Adobe's LWS site. Note the following:
To expand an EXE:
<path>\<product_name>.exe <7-zip switches and optional Acrobat switches>]
Expanding the installer
<path>\Acrobat_2017_Web_WWMUI.exe -sfx_o"<absolute path\extractDirectory>" -sfx_ne
There must be no space between the 7-zip switch and the path.
Expanding the exe and installation (single step)
AcroRdr20151500630032_MUI.exe -sfx_nu /sALL /msi EULA_ACCEPT=YES
Do not use the current directory, and do not leave any spaces after the
-sfx_o command.
|7-zip (10.x and later)
|Do not execute any file after installation (overrides the -e switch) This switch should be used if user only wants to extract the installer contents and not run the installer.
|Specifies the name of folder where the expanded package is placed. The folder name should be enclosed in quotation marks. It is best if you do not use an existing folder.
|Silently extracts the installation files from the EXE.
All updates, including out of cycle patches, are cumulative to the base release. Chaining updates is never required. For all products and tracks, install the base release and the last update.
Some components use separate installers. These should be downloaded and run at deployment time. The following items require running an additional installer:
To distribute the desktop or mobile Reader in any form, do the following:
Your confirmation e-mail will contain a link for the Reader download. The license agreement is good for one download. The license agreement is good for one year, and you will receive a reminder by e-mail in advance of the expiration date.
Different versions of Acrobat and Reader can coexist on a single machine as follows:
REINSTALLMODE=amus to do the work for you.
Read the release notes. These provide links to installers as well as details about new features and bugs.
Download the requisite installer(s).
Preconfigure the installer via the Customization Wizard or manual registry configuration.
Set cmd line properties as needed to perform the actual install:
- If you're using the MSI installer, configure abcpy.ini.
- If you're using the Setup.exe bootstrapper installer, configure setup.ini.
- On your command line, you can use msiexec and Adobe properties and switches.
Subscribe to the security notification service to receive an email whenever a scheduled update or patch is available. You can also manually check these pages:
Trials are only available for Acrobat Professional. Acrobat Standard does not offer trials. An Adobe ID is required to install a trial.
Sometimes it may be expedient to install the product without a serial number. For example, when creating a disk image for trial use or when you don't know how many seats you may eventually need. To do so, install the product without a serial number prior to creating your image. If you do not pass a serial number via one of the supported methods, a trial version of the product is automatically installed.
For information about migrating a trial to a licensed version, see Licensing a trial.
The workflow is generally as follows:


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Have you noticed that some of the most compassionate, understanding, modest, and intuitive people seem to be those who have suffered, been oppressed, or are in constant search for life's ultimate meaning? I have and I find that it is an interesting phenomenon. As stated in a previous article, it was not until rain and "dark-valleys" appeared in my life that I grew and could see my potential.
Pain gets our attention, refocuses our purpose, and breaks the human will to compete or be better than others and rise to the top to the exclusion of others. It adds character to some people, while with other people they may become bitter and angry with the world.
Once we begin to understand the personal qualities, rewards, and potential benefits to pain and suffering, we can begin to reject bitterness and anger in favor of a growth experience designed to change, re-structure, and transform our mindset, behavior, life, and purpose.
For families and caregivers caring for loved ones, it is important that you learn to redefine your experience and to see hope in all the pain and suffering. It is very difficult to do this, but once the pain subsides to a level where you can reflect, you will be able to see where you have grown, what you have learned, and what you can possibly give to others.
Here is a list of reasons why we are better after pain and suffering:
- You are more open-minded and focused: When you experience pain you see the world differently including yourself and others. You approach life differently and you recognize that your time is better spent pursuing what truly matters and rejecting temporary pleasures.
- You can relate: Pain levels the playing field. We recognize our vulnerabilities and limits and become modest enough to reach out to others. We recognize that all of humanity is subject to many conditions of living (homelessness, abuse, domestic violence, loneliness, depression, mental health problems, loss of family and friends, financial difficulties, and death).
- You're more pressed to succeed: One most important benefit to suffering is that when you become tired of suffering, somehow you begin to fight back. You look for ways to reduce the pressure and strive for a better way, a better level of existence. Think about the success stories that fit this profile (John Newton, Victor Frankl, Chris Gardner, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Walt Disney, Dr. Seuss, etc.). There are many successful people today in many fields who were rejected, abused, or suffered some sort of pain. No one is exempt!
- You're emotional: Have you ever spoken to a therapist, friend, or family member who just didn't get you? They couldn't understand why something hurt you so bad or even stopped you from moving forward. You get those distant, non-caring looks that make you feel odd or misunderstood. This person might claim to understand you and might even use their own personal experience as proof that they get you, but somehow you realize they don't. When you've experienced pain, you truly understand, although not entirely, what pain can do to you. You have a close idea that helps you empathize.
Each time I experience a set back, disappointment, or hurtful life event I find myself more intuitive than before. After all the "why" questions, I can then begin to accept it and move on. Something happens and I begin to reach out to others without strict barriers. You can experience this too.
The next time you walk by someone who is homeless or see someone suffering and in pain, just consider the fact that these may be people who have wonderful talents, qualities, skills, and charm. When you walk by or see someone who is down on their luck, just remember that this could be you or someone you love too. Use your pain to become compassionate to others.
Read the Business Insider for the "20 successful people who failed at first."
All the best to you
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New figures show that students are opting to stay local for their learningrather than going away to University.
Figures released recently by UCAS reveal that 12,400 fewer UK students have applied to go to university in September 2018, than compared to the same point last year.
With tuition fees set to rise, an increase in the rate of interest on student loans, and a perceived lack of graduate jobs, many students are finding an alternative to university.
In a recent article The Guardian revealed that some university lectures could cost students £136 per hour, when taking into account the £9,000 fees and the amount of contact time they get with their tutor, leaving students wondering if a degree is really worth it?
But according to the University Centre Hastings; University is worth it, and it can be affordable to all.
Higher Education Manager David Fowler said: "The cost of university has increased dramatically over the past 15 years. Many students have their hearts set on university but are being put off by the increasing amount of debt. "That is why we're reaching out to students to give them a much more affordable option, without sacrificing any of the quality.
"There are lots of fantastic opportunities available to college and sixth form students right on their door step. Traditionally, students want to move away from their home town to gain that university experience, but with fees set to rise to £9,250, interest rates on student loans rising from 4.6% to 6.1%, and the cost of living continuing to rise, many simply can't afford to move away. I believe staying local is the answer."
Staying local appears to be a trend on the rise. Figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) show 638,855 full-time students in the UK were living with their parents, or in their own home, while studying last year. This was an increase of 40,755 from the 598,100 students who started a degree in 2015/16.
The cost of living in Hastings is also lower than other university towns and cities in the South East. According to Numbeo, a user-generated cost-of-living statistics website, essential living costs, such as rent and food, is approximately 45% less than compared to Brighton.
Poppy Carter, a first year BA (Hons) Graphic Communication at University Centre Hastings said: "In 2016 I started an art degree at Arts University Bournemouth, but due to the cost of living, decided to drop-out and move back home to Hastings. My student loan just about covered the cost of rent, leaving me very little money for essentials like food. Now I'm studying and living in Hastings, I have more money to spend on food and course materials, as well as enjoy the social aspects of uni."
David Fowler said: "The quality of our provision in Hastings is fantastic. We have gained full confidence from the QQA (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education) for our teaching and standards. We offer over 30 higher education qualifications, including a number of higher apprenticeships, as well as 6 full honour, Bachelor of Arts subjects awarded by the University of Brighton. We're able to offer these courses with the pull of a certificate from the University of Brighton, but saving students almost £2,000 a year than if they studied the equivalent subject elsewhere.
"We put all of our courses together with the industry in mind, adding strong vocational elements to the modules. This enables the students to take advantage of our excellent links with the community, Sussex employers, and international industry experts to increase their experience of working on live projects and build their own network of contacts. We're able to offer smaller class sizes, in brand new lecture rooms and art studios, with increased and meaningful contact time with lecturers and tutors. When we follow the formula of working out our hourly lecture rate, students studying on our BA (Hons) art programmes could be paying up to 80% less."
Helen Bowler, National Collaborative Outreach Programme (NCOP) coordinator in Hastings, also argues that lower living costs and lower fees would help to widen participation. The HESA revealed that there was only a 0.1% increase in the number of students from deprived areas attending university in autumn 2016 from the previous year.
"The increased cost of university, along with the scrapping of maintenance grants for students on low incomes, creates too many barriers for a lot of students from deprived areas. Why should talented students miss out on higher education because they cannot afford it?
"Hastings is the thirteenth most deprived of all local authorities, which is why we work to help make university more accessible.
"Some of the things that we can offer include a cash bursary to go towards the cost of attending university open days and interviews; we regularly hold one-to-one progression coaching sessions to discuss all kinds of higher education routes including HNC, HND, Top-up courses and Higher Apprenticeships; and the University of Brighton is helping to run study skills sessions to help those students who are re-sitting GCSE maths, to help boost their grades the second time around.
"The important thing is that we're able to offer impartial information advice and guidance, to let them know about all the options that are out there and to see university as a springboard into their future career; more of an investment rather than a debt."
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Delnas Metal Roofing Pty Ltd is a Canberra-based company established in 2002 by qualified and licensed plumber Daryl Leishman.
Daryl began the business as a sole trader in 1993 and has developed it into an award winning company highly respected within the building industry.
When Daryl first started the company his primary focus was residential. It was with this experience and local support Delnas was able to expand its client-base to include commercial projects.
Today commercial projects make up approximately 85 percent of Delnas' work and provide opportunities to work with visionary designs and use innovative products; however, residential projects remain an important part of Delnas' business focus.
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I promised last week when I posted the Creamy Tomato-Balsamic Soup to share the recipe for these incredible Parmesan-Peppercorn Biscuits. Oh my, are these good-- and easy. The Parmesan and pepper add so much flavor, you really don't need any other accompaniment, although I think adding something with a sweet element like fig or apricot jam would probably taste really good with these.
I came across the recipe for these this summer and have made them numerous times since. The whipping cream makes these biscuits so nice and flaky and I love a recipe like this with only a few ingredients-- is self-rising flour the greatest, or what? This is a great recipe to serve with soup and salad-- such a nice variation from just regular biscuits (not that I'm knocking regular biscuits, goodness knows they're taken very seriously down here). They're also good if you're having people over and want to make homemade bread but don't have time to make a yeast bread and deal with all of rising, etc. I always have good intentions when I have people over of making homemade rolls or bread and have all of these recipes flagged to try when I have company, but then when we do actually have company, I usually don't have my act together enough to have hours to make homemade rolls-- except maybe at the holidays. Biscuits seem to be a good alternative. Thankfully, these can be whipped up in a snap and smell delicious while they're baking. They would be wonderful served alongside a baked ham, roast chicken, or pot roast. Comfort cooking at its best!
Parmesan-Peppercorn Biscuits
2 cups self-rising flour
3/4 cup plus 3 tbs. grated Parmesan cheese, divided
1 tsp. ground black pepper
6 tbs. butter, cut into pieces
3/4 cup, plus 1 tbs. heavy whipping cream, divided
1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper; set aside.
2. In a medium bowl, combine flour, 3/4 cup cheese, and pepper. Using a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles course crumbs. Add 3/4 cup cream to flour mixture, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
3. On a lightly floured surface, roll dough to 1/2-inch thickness. Using a 2-inch round cutter, cut biscuits without twisting cutter, and place on prepared baking sheet. Brush biscuits with remaining 1 tablespoon cream, and sprinkle with remaining 3 tablespoons cheese.
4. Bake until lightly browned, approximately 12 minutes.
Yield: 1- 1 1/2 dozen
Recipe from Taste of the South, "The South's Best Dishes" edition


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From time to time, we take our little dog and pony show on the road! This time, we set up shop in the Victor Devilbliss Studio in Pottsville, PA! Michael Bann, the studio owner, has been a friend of ours for years and extended an invitation to use not only his studio, but his hair and makeup artist as well!
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Who knew that the aid organization most responsive to feedback is: the military?
I didn't see this one coming: that the nicest responses I have ever gotten to criticisms made on this blog came from military officers (both this time and on one previous occasion). I didn't know that a command-and-control ARMY would prove about 1 trillion times more responsive than the civilians at USAID. I didn't know that a Lieutenant General would handle criticism better than a Starbucks PR executivewho flamed out in response to another blog post (what DO they teach in PR school?) . OK, admittedly, the military hasn't changed anything yet that I know of, but at least they've engaged in a dialogue. Anyway I received this email from Lieutenant General William B. Caldwell IV in response to forwarding my mockery of the Powerpoint slides on nation-building in Afghanistan (also known as counter-insurgency or COIN):
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE
do appreciate you passing this along to us in Kabul. Gave up command of the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth on 2 November and immediately deployed to Afghanistan. On 21 November assumed command here of the NATO Training Mission -- Afghanistan (which we activated at the same time) and Commanding General of CSTC-A. That said -- your blog hits home for all of us here.
Know that the ISAF team is looking at a variety of different products, including those you highlighted in your tweet. What I can tell you is that I have oversight and responsibility for our COIN Academy here and we are not using these slides in our instruction. There is a place for it among technical folks -- but not for the practitioner on the ground. Would be glad to share more about our Academy -- but suffice it to say, these are not our slides - and not how we teach COIN.
That said -- if anything, the slides reveal the sheer complexity of the problem we are all contending with -- at times so complex that it proves elusive to social mapping, as you can see. Do want you to know that those are only one of many items considered by the senior staff in their analysis, as we focus in on how best to proceed in our mission. Believe that as we leverage the best minds in this business -- of which you are a vital element -- the future prospects for Afghanistan will become brighter.
As an advocate for the practice, want you to know that your blogs are a welcome -- and refreshing -- presence. This is essential to our growth as an institution, and to our ability to learn. Your efforts are greatly appreciated, believe me.
Best to you and your family this holiday season. We have snow in Afghanistan, so at least we'll have a white Christmas here, although far from home and loved ones.
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Grits & Soul bring their lonesome mountain bluegrass drenched in Mississippi soul & blues to RLC Bluegrass Thursday. Battlefield Collective kick off the show at 8pm, with our weekly open bluegrass jam starting at 6pm.
At the heart of Grits & Soul is the collaboration of Southern song crafters, Anna Kline & John Looney. Their sound is steeped in lonesome mountain bluegrass & drenched in Mississippi soul & blues. Whether performing as an acoustic duo or a full band, the Grits & Soul sound haunts you. Anna & John have a dynamic musical chemistry that shines through their heartfelt original songs & intricate harmonies. Audiences can't help but clap & sing along. You will, too.
The release of their first full-length album, Flood Waters, follows on the heels of their appearance as a featured showcase artist at the 2013 International Bluegrass Music Association's World of Bluegrass week in Raleigh, North Carolina. Grits & Soul performed in a series of showcases sponsored by Merlefest, Pinecastle Records, & The Mast Farm Inn.
Grits & Soul Official Site
Grits & Soul on Facebook
Grits & Soul on iTunes
Battlefield Collective began in the summer of 2013. Stephanie Caron and Robert Green decided to combine their musical talents and experience to create a group that brings local musical and artistic talent together. Currently performing with just two members, Stephanie and Robert aim to expand their dynamic duo and create a band that is as eclectic as their musical tastes. Battlefield Collective's goal is to master the art of entertainment through performing original and cover material influenced by the traditions of Americana, Bluegrass, Rockabilly and Folk.
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Iron is element number 26 on the periodic table. This means an iron atom contains 26 protons in its nucleus. Chemists refer to the number of protons in an atom's nucleus as that element's atomic number.
The atomic number determines an atom's elemental identity. Neutral iron atoms contain 26 electrons, whose equal but opposite charges balance the positive charges of the protons. Iron atoms lose two or three electrons when they come into contact with oxygen and other non-metals. As a result, most of the iron in Earth's crust exists as compounds of iron oxide rather than elemental iron. While iron is abundant in the crust, the bulk of Earth's iron is trapped in the planet's core, which is composed of a solid metal ball surrounded by a liquid metal outer core. The structure of Earth's core along with its spin is thought to give rise to the planet's magnetic field.


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Remembering Evangelist Billy Graham
Billy Graham: "An American Phenomenon"
One of the most challenging assignments for journalists can be creating advance obituaries for prominent people in the beats they cover. Those of us at the PBS program, "Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly," knew the importance of this all too well. We had just finished recording the first episode of our show in September 1997 when news broke of the death of Mother Teresa. We had to scramble to develop an obituary, edit it into the program and still make our satellite feed in time to distribute the show to our local public television stations. Fortunately, we made it, and R&E went on to have a weekly place in the PBS lineup for nearly 20 years. I had an obituary for evangelist Billy Graham ready for broadcast for more than a decade. Graham outlived R&E, which ended in March 2017. With news of Graham's death at the age of 99, I pulled out the script that I had written for the obituary that never aired. Of course, it was better with the video. The piece began with a montage of Graham giving altar calls at crusades that spanned more than five decades. His signature hymn, "Just As I Am," accompanied the video images.
KIM LAWTON, correspondent: For more than half a century, Reverend Billy Graham gained international prominence for being just what he was: an unflagging evangelist whose core message never changed.
REV. BILLY GRAHAM, at crusade in the 1950s: And I sincerely believe that if the world tonight would turn in repentance of their sins and have faith in Jesus Christ, we could not have only individual peace, but world peace.
GRAHAM, at crusade in the 1970s: Do you know Christ? Is he your Lord and savior? Have you received him? I'm going to ask you to do it right now.
GRAHAM, at crusade in the 1980s: I'm going to ask you to come.
GRAHAM, at crusade in the 1990s: You're saying, "Lord, I need you. Please come into my heart." It's a holy moment. Just get up out of your seat. From up there, it takes an extra five minutes, so start now.
LAWTON: And come they did. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association says more than three million people responded to Graham's altar calls and to his message that salvation and eternal life came through believing in Jesus. The Association says Graham reached more live audiences than any other preacher in history…more than 81 million people.
REV. JOAN BROWN CAMPBELL, Chautauqua Institution Religion Department (retired): He's a phenomenon. He's an American phenomenon.
LAWTON: Graham always referred to himself as a simple country preacher, but for many Americans, he was much more. For 42 years, he was a fixture on Gallup's list of the most admired men. He was widely considered "America's pastor."
MARTIN MARTY, Religion Historian: He was everybody's figure, middle America's figure. Many intellectuals would have snobbed him out, and many fundamentalists thought he was too moderate. But overall, he showed that if you are perceived as being a person of inner convictions that were consistent and lived a life that manifested that, people will appreciate your message, even if they don't agree with it.
LAWTON: William Franklin Graham Junior was born on November 7, 1918 near Charlotte, North Carolina. At the age of 16, he attended a series of revival meetings led by a traveling evangelist. It was there, Graham said, that he dedicated his life to Jesus. Five years later, he was preaching at his own revival meetings. In the 1940s, Graham joined Youth for Christ, an evangelical group ministering to young people and World War Two military personnel. He began organizing evangelistic rallies that blended upbeat music, patriotic fervor and revivalist preaching. It was a winning combination that he would use for more than 50 years.
PROF. RANDALL BALMER, Dartmouth College: People who heard him preach knew exactly what he believed, and he was able to articulate those principles of evangelical theology for the masses.
LAWTON: In 1949, during a campaign in Los Angeles, Graham catapulted to national attention thanks in part to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who ordered his publications to "puff Graham." The next decades became a whirlwind: preaching at crusades, sometimes for months on end, and rubbing elbows with some of the most powerful people in the world.
MARTY: It always seemed important to him that some prince or some magnate paid attention to him. I was thinking that prince or magnate should have said "Billy Graham paid attention to me." He was too dazzled, I think, by power. Maybe that was part of his charm.
LAWTON: Graham participated in more presidential inauguration ceremonies than any one in history. But even more than that, he was a friend and confidante to multiple presidents.
PRES. BILL CLINTON, in speech: When he prays with you in the Oval Office or upstairs at the White House, you feel that he is praying for you, not the president.
LAWTON: His relationship with Richard Nixon was especially close. In 1970, during the height of controversy over the war in Vietnam, Graham invited Nixon to appear at his crusade in Knoxville, Tennessee.
GRAHAM, at 1970 crusade: The American presidency is the loneliest and toughest job in the world. All Americans may not agree with the decisions a president may make, but he is our president.
PRES. RICHARD NIXON, at 1970 crusade: With that kind of spiritual assistance, there is no question in my view about the long-term future of America.
BALMER: I think it's fair to say that Mr. Graham was afflicted with a certain amount of political naivete. His storied friendship with Mr. Nixon was probably one of the things that people will remember about him, and not always to Mr. Graham's credit.
LAWTON: During a speech at Harvard University in 1999, Graham admitted he didn't always handle political relationships well.
GRAHAM: There are so many things that I wish now that I'd done differently as I look back. I certainly don't put myself up as a model for everybody on many of those issues. I've tried to stay out of partisan politics as much as possible. I got pretty close on several occasions.
LAWTON: Graham's political stands often frustrated liberals and conservatives alike. He was never active in the civil rights movement, but even in the early 1950s, he refused to preach at segregated crusades. Staunchly anti-communist, he was among the first international leaders to travel to communist countries, such as the Soviet Union, China and North Korea. During those trips, many observers said he wasn't tough enough in denouncing ongoing human rights abuses. Overall, Graham rarely spoke out on specific social or political issues, fearing it could interfere with his message and his ministry. That ministry became a multi-million-dollar enterprise. The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association was formed in 1950 to further Graham's work, especially through cutting-edge media technologies, something Graham insisted on using.
BALMER: Radio, television, print media…he used in new ways. He jumped on these media possibilities with a vengeance. And did so brilliantly.
LAWTON: Graham kept updating his crusade format as well, often incorporating contemporary music with guests such as hip-hop artist Kirk Franklin and pop rock group DC Talk. Graham encouraged other preachers to follow in his footsteps, sponsoring several international conferences to train evangelists from around the world. He was a Southern Baptist, but he never emphasized individual Christian denominations.
CAMPBELL: He always said, "You give your life to the Lord and where you go to church, my dear, go. If that church doesn't make you happy, if that church isn't where you find Jesus, then go to a different congregation." But he never tried to have a congregation of his own or to make people have allegiance to Billy Graham. And in that sense, he was a true evangelist.
LAWTON: Many scholars believe Graham almost single-handedly brought evangelical Christianity into the mainstream of the American religious landscape.
HARVEY COX, Religion Scholar: Billy Graham started as a Southern Baptist fundamentalist preacher and as he grew and matured and reached out, he became a lot more diplomatic, a lot more mellow. He really became the spokesman for American evangelicalism, not fundamentalism. And he became open to other denominations, even indeed to Roman Catholics being involved in his meetings. And really eventually became a kind of religious statesman.
LAWTON: Graham always tried to keep his private life very private. In 1943, he married Ruth Bell, the daughter of missionaries to China. They had five children. Ruth Graham died in June 2007. Many of Graham's children and grandchildren are carrying on the family legacy of ministry.
BALMER: He was a towering figure. He was a person who was a path breaker in many respects in his own right. But the fact that he did it with such style, such grace, such wit, is something that will be hard for anyone else to follow. He came to prominence at a unique moment in history, and I don't think anyone else for centuries will be able to approach his influence.
LAWTON: In 2002, Graham released a book titled "Heaven, the Final Journey." Heaven was a subject he preached about frequently during his career. Talk show host Dick Cavett once asked Graham what he thought heaven would be like.
GRAHAM, on "The Dick Cavett Show": Heaven is going to be where Christ is. Now I don't know whether that's a planet or whether that's a star or whether it's on this earth or where it's going to be. But it's going to be where Christ is and the Bible says, "to be absent from the bodies, present with the Lord." And if I died right now, Dick, I know that I'm going to go immediately into the presence of God.
LAWTON: I'm Kim Lawton reporting.


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Alabama Power has modernized drives for most major air dampers on two coal-fired generating units — 90 drives in all. Replacing vintage actuators with new "smart" electric drives eliminates high maintenance costs and offers large fuel savings on coal-fired boilers.
Installations took place at the company's 25-year-old James H. Miller, Jr. Plant near West Jefferson, AL. Each unit has a nominal generating capacity of 720 MW.


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Work recently came to a close at the Nettle Creek Residence. The owners were looking for a kitchen upgrade. The space was originally split in half with hanging upper cabinets creating a cramped U-shaped kitchen and small dining area. The heaviness of the space was amplified by the use of dark stained wood.
The goal was to open up the space and bring in more of the nice southern light. We removed the hanging cabinets and the soffits, widened the windows to open up the views, and installed new french doors to the deck. New appliances and finishes rounded out the kitchen remodel.
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Tracey Speaks: "Tracey Ullman: Hearing Voices"April 07, 2009
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Premiering this week-end on Showtine is TRACEY ULLMAN'S STATE OF THE UNION where, as usual, the comedienne will bombard thr audience with outrageous impersonations. This time with a 'topical' bent. We spoke with ULLMAN (via satellite) at a recent press conference for the show and she talked about where her many voices come from. Listen here!
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I got a sick new Canon
so here it goes on the wild streets of Berkeley,CA
Gravity Speed downhill bike
|Monkey Likes Shiny Gravity Speed bike
Mavic Lefty wheels and no drivetrain - pure coasting
|close up of the non-frame side
|Floating locked crank arm that now acts as a rear foot peg support
note the insert in the crank for the footpegs
|front view of the mock up bars
the tow quick release, headlight and Iphone holder are next so stay tuned
|Don't ask me why it won't rotate?
Cut down the Cane Creek headset as much as possible, they will be pumped that it has no logos!
|Turn your head to the right!
Careful for your neck doesn't get sore!
Cargo Bike - Coker 36 inch Prototype design
|Matt Ducot helping lace up the ELECTRIC Monster !!
Started making the rack!
Those are the sides you are looking at
They have 3 stop points
- Flat narrow - like you see it, about 15 inches wide
Box with sides - Flip those up 90 deg vertical and they become sides
Super wide Flat - Flip those babies out flat and now it a wopping 24+ inches wide !
German - Just like me
Got boxes of them to build weird stuff with.
So cool and so fast
I drilled this one from a 36 hole to a 48 as you can see by the missing holes
maybe 29 x 36 inch
made a quick mock up fork with some boxxer triples and Jim C's stolden 29er coaster rear wheel
I kinda like the look but it cuts in to the rack a lot with the big 29er wheel as compaired to the 26


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The Global Education & Learning CommunityWe believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right for every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone.The above is a website which has abundant resources for children's education and it is absolutely free and you can also contribute to the curricula if you think it might be useful for our future generations...Some of the features that are available in CURRIKI.org
These resources teach students about artists who invented new tools to explore topics they find interesting.
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Getting students actively participating in learning is one teacher's strategy for teaching decimals.
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A teacher in Minnesota has created a unit on reading and understanding satirical literature.
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One teacher shares her roadmaps and reading logs from the popular novel Holes by Louis Sachar. Fee's collections also include Holes vocabulary activities and materials for other great middle school books.
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Bestselling children's author Andrew Clements grew up in New Jersey and Illinois and is a teacher by trade. Clements worked in the publishing business before becoming an author and has more than 9 million books in print as of September 2014. Clements is known for the children's novels "Frindle" and "The Report Card." The author also developed curriculum books for elementary-age students and wrote dozens of picture books with various illustrators.
Clements was born in Camden, New Jersey, and lived in the state until sixth grade. His parents moved to Springfield, Illinois, where the author graduated from high school before attending Northwestern University. There, Clements earned a bachelor's degree in literature. Clements became a teacher in Chicago after he obtained a Master of Arts in Teaching from National Louis University.
Clements worked in the publishing industry in New York after his teaching career and after his subsequent singer-songwriter gig failed. Clements built projects for "A Country Christmas Treasury." Clements then wrote picture book texts while editing books for the company Picture Book Studio.
His big break came in 1996 when Clements published "Frindle," a story about a child who makes up his own words. As of September 2014, "Frindle" is Clements' most popular work, with more than 2.5 million copies sold. The trademark of the covers of the author's novels is a portrait of a student in the background with a close-up of a hand holding objects such as a pen, report card, newspaper, key, book, flashlight or sheet music.


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JW Marriott Camelback Golf Club
Scottsdale, AZ
After 13 years of teaching players of all skill levels, I have realized the most effective way make a swing change is through slow motion training. Most golfers who come to our academy want to ultimately shoot lower scores. The pathway to lower scores and more consistency is through better technique. The most effective way to change technique is through slow reps.
There has been much scientific research done on how to effectively change a motor developmental skill. After examining all the research, the same conclusions exist; you have to perform the correct motion over and over again. Some research suggests that a golfer needs to perform up to 18 hours of cumulative practice, rehearsing the correct repetition again and again. For example: if you are trying to take the club back on a better plane you need to perform the correct motion of the backswing consistently for up to 18 hours. Seems pretty dramatic but it is true. As soon as you perform the old swing, the time would start again. So my question is this, "Why would anyone try and make a swing change at regular speed and with a golf ball?"
When I am working with clients at the TOUR Academy, I get them to take slow practice swings first away from the ball. Once the client can demonstrate proper technique away from the ball and doing it slowly, then and only then do we add the ball. The golf ball tends to make us retreat back to our "patterns of habit." When the ball enters the equation we are not as free to exaggerate the change as much as needed. Once the client can demonstrate they can make the correct motion with the ball and on a tee, then we speed it up slowly.
The reality is this, the golf swing takes only on average 2 seconds from start to finish. If you are trying to make a swing change at full speed it will be impossible. Try and do it away from the ball first slow motion, then slightly faster, then a little faster. Add the ball and go slow motion off a tee, then slightly faster, and finally slightly faster. If you really commit to this, you will achieve lasting improvement. The result? Your swing will get better and you will shoot lower scores.
John Stahlschmidt is the Head Instructor at the TOUR Academy TPC Scottsdale.
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One such is the central seismic gap, which runs northeast of Delhi along a region woven with unstable faults and including over 10 million people. Until April 25, observers had been concerned by the paucity of earthquakes in the gap: the longer there were no quakes, the more the pent up stresses, and the stronger a future quake will be. A research team's conclusion describes an active thrust fault below Uttarakhand pregnant with enough tension to unleash a quake measuring at least 8 on the Richter scale. This, in a state already prone to crippling landslides and floods, and with 70% of its population (of about 10 million) residing in rural areas. They attribute the tremendous tension to a geometry of rock that has partially separated from a layer beneath and caused folds and deformations. The technical term for this geometry is a décollement:the landscape and erosion rate patterns suggest that the décollement beneath the state of Uttarakhand provides a sufficiently large and coherent fault segment capable of hosting a great earthquake.
Décollement (detachment) folds develop during folding, secondary to separation of a (more competent) layer from an underlying (less competent) layer as deformation proceeds.