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The best Rahm Emanuel story is not the one about the decomposing two-and-a-half-foot fish he sent to a pollster who displeased him. It is not about the time - the many times - that he hung up on political contributors in a Chicago mayor's race, saying he was embarrassed to accept their $5,000 checks because they were $25,000 kind of guys. No, the definitive Rahm Emanuel story takes place in Little Rock, Ark., in the heady days after Bill Clinton was first elected President.
It was there that Emanuel, then Clinton's chief fund-raiser, repaired with George Stephanopoulos, Mandy Grunwald and other aides to Doe's, the campaign hangout. Revenge was heavy in the air as the group discussed the enemies - Democrats, Republicans, members of the press - who wronged them during the 1992 campaign. Clifford Jackson, the ex-friend of the President and peddler of the Clinton draft-dodging stories, was high on the list. So was William Donald Schaefer, then the Governor of Maryland and a Democrat who endorsed George Bush. Nathan Landow, the fund-raiser who backed the candidacy of Paul Tsongas, made it, too.
Suddenly Emanuel grabbed his steak knife and, as those who were there remember it, shouted out the name of another enemy, lifted the knife, then brought it down with full force into the table.
''Dead!'' he screamed.
The group immediately joined in the cathartic release: ''Nat Landow! Dead! Cliff Jackson! Dead! Bill Schaefer! Dead!''
Today, Rahm Emanuel is, at 37, one of the most powerful people at the White House. He is also the middle brother of two similar tank commanders: Ariel Emanuel, 36, a relentless Hollywood television agent who left International Creative Management under cover of darkness to create a rival firm, and Ezekiel Emanuel, 39, an oncologist (with a doctorate in political theory) who is a nationally known medical ethicist at Harvard and a leading opponent of assisted suicide.
''We were cloned, full grown,'' says Ezekiel.
Of the three brothers, Rahm is the most famous, Ari is the richest and Zeke, over time, will probably be the most important. Zeke is also, according to his brothers, the smartest. Rahm, naturally, gets the most press attention. Last term he managed the President's campaigns to pass the crime bill and the North American Free Trade Agreement, but this term he has taken over the job and close-to-the-Oval-Office of his friend Stephanopoulos. Now chief promoter of Clinton's small-bore issues like stopping teen-age smoking and requiring trigger locks on guns, Rahm has been singled out in recent profiles as the centrist, hyperactive counterreaction to the Stephanopoulos liberal cool. The articles are more colorful than is typical of the genre (the dead fish helps), but Rahm is more interesting, and reflective of his time, in the context of his brothers.
Together, Emanuel Freres are a triumvirate for the 90's. All are rising stars in three of America's most high-profile and combative professions. All understand and enjoy power, and know how using it behind the scenes can change the way people think, live and die. All have been called obnoxious, arrogant, aggressive, passionate and committed. All three get up before dawn. All are the sons of an Israeli father, now a 70-year-old Chicago pediatrician, who passed secret codes for Menachem Begin's underground. Iregun, and an American Jewish mother, who worked in the civil rights movement and owned, briefly, a Chicago rock-and-roll club. All three also worry about a less successful Emanuel: Shoshana, 23, their adoptive siser, who crash-landed into the family at the age of 8 days, when the brothers were in their teens.
No one would call it an ordinary upbringing in Wilmette, Ill., the lakeshore Chicago suburb. The Emanuel boys always had to prepare for dinner, and that did not just mean washing up. ''You had to be up on the news,'' says Marsha Emanuel, their mother, who is now a psychiatric social worker. Every Sunday there was a family cultural excursion, sometimes to the Art Institute of Chicago, other times to the ballet. (All the boys, at their mother's insistence, took lessons, and Rahm still does.) The neighbors thought it odd when Marsha dragged the three boys to ''The Nutcracker,'' but then they went with her to civil rights demonstrations, too.''
The Boys went to summer camp in Israel, and reveled in the family lore: in 1933, after their uncle Emanuel Auerbach was killed in a skirmish with Arabs in Jerusalem, the family changed its last name to his first, as a tribute. Political passions always ran deep. Raham still remembers the time his mother and her father got into such a furious argument at the dinner tble over Henry Wallace and the 1948 split of the Democratic Party - a quarter century after the fact - that father threw daughter out of the house. ''And it was her house,'' Rahm says. ''I thought, 'This is nutty.' ''
Today, the brothers argue just as passionately about the role that environment and genetics played in the life of their sister, who in recent years has been on and off the welfare rolls that Rahm worked so hard to cut. Benjamin Emanuel met his daughter when he gave her a well-baby checkup and discovered that she had suffered a brain hemorrhage at delivery. The baby's future was unclear; Shoshana's birth mother, a young woman of Polish Catholic background, asked Dr. Emanuel if he knew someone who wanted her child. ''But I couldn't find placement,'' Benjamin Emanuel says. After a week of debate between both parents and sons - Marsha Emanuel had always wanted a girl - the Emanuels themselves took Shoshana in. ''What are you going to do?'' Benjamin Emanuel says philosophically.
Intellectually, Shoshana developed normally - like her brothers, she graduated from New Trier, one of the most competitive high schools in the country - but she needed four operations and years of physical therapy to give her 85 percent use of her left side. She had a difficult adolescence, and today Marsha Emanuel, at the age of 63, is raising Shoshana's two illegitimate children. (None of the Emanuels will talk about Shoshana in detail, and she declined to be interviewed for this article.)
The conversation the brothers continue to have about Shoshana is also, of course, a conversation about themselves. Were Zeke, Rahm and Ari simply successful products of Jewish middle-class parents who valued education and hammered them with expectations? How much of their drive came from their immigrant father? Certainly each Emanuel brother derives a large part of his identity that of the others. No one else, it seemed, mattered as much. ''The pressure is that you were judged by the family,'' Ari says. ''Our family never cared about the kid down the block.''
The Emanuel brothers got together not long ago in Washington for the bris of Rahm's first child, Zacharia. ''He's fabulous,'' Rahm says.
''He looks cute,'' Zeke agrees. ''We don't think Rahm's the father, though.''
So goes a pre-bris interview with the three over tea at the Four Seasons Hotel that regresses into giggles, insults and much nervous jiggling of legs. At one point, all three brothers, apparently unkowningly, are jiggling in unison; at another point, Zeke and Rahm leap up to give each other a high five. ''Our wives say we go right back to when we were 16, 14 and 13,'' offers Rahm, feeling this needs to be pointed out. ''Every spouse not only marries her partner, she gets the other two shmegegges with us.''
The brothers are close friends - they talk almost daily - but when together they fall into the roles assigned within the family: Zeke the brain, Rahm the politician, Ari the jock.
''Ari can carry on a conversation!'' Rahm says at one point, noticing that his younger brother is talking with me about Los Angeles. ''What an accomplishment! A complete sentence!''
Ari retaliates when the conversation turns to money. ''I.Q. brings down - I'm not going to go into it,'' Ari says impishly.
''Income?'' shouts Zeke. ''Is that what you were going to say? I.Q. and income are correlated?''
''They should be!'' counters Ari, who says he made between $1 million and $2 million last year.
''Inversely, that's the thing,'' says Zeke.
''This is all off the record,'' says Rahm.
The conversation moves to how wonderful their wives are. Ari is married to Sarah Addington and Rahm to Amy Rule, both now stay-at-home mothers of young children. Zeke is married to Dr. Linda Emanuel, the vice president of ethical standards for the American Medical Association. They have three children and live in Chicago; Zeke commutes to both Washington and Boston.
''I'm going to tell you something, O.K.?'' Ari says. ''So I walk in yesterday -.''
''My wife-,'' Zeke interrupts.
''Shut up!'' says Ari.
Growing up, Zeke and Ari were at each other's throats, with Rahm acting as mediator. ''Rahmie was the calmest,'' says his mother, aware of how strange this sounds given his reputation as a barracuda.
''I was the classic middle child,'' Rahm says, talking in his White House office one morning. It is a peaceful Tuesday, with not a crisis in sight, although you would never know it from Rahm's body language. He is lean, handsome, wired. Earlier, the President had wandered through the door connecting the Oval Office to Rahm's little digs. ''Where is he?'' the President asked. Rahm was in an adjoining office talking to his secretary, but at Clinton's words he sprang up and disappeared into the President's dining room like a rabbit. He returned to sit on the edge of his seat, his face inches from the television, mouthing the words along with Clinton as the President announced, before live cameras in the Oval Office, a ban on the use of Federal money for cloning humans.
''This is discovery that carried burden as well as benefits,'' Clinton and Rahm said in unison.
Rahm, the senior adviser to the President for policy and strategy, recently broadened his scope to serve as Clinton's political strategist in the budget talks. ''It's the biggest role he's had in his new job,'' says Erskine Bowles, the White House chief of staff.
Rahm's portfolio does not include defense of Whitewater or the 1996 fund-raising scandals, although he is part of the White House team that says it is pushing for campaign finance reform. He has not been questioned about his role as Clinton's fund-raiser in 1992 - a different era, when Clinton did not have a Lincoln Bedroom to offer - but is evasive when asked how he defends the Clinton campaign fund-raising practices in 1996. ''The 1996 election was not about fund-raising,'' Rahm begins, portentously. ''The 1996 election was about two different visions for this country. ...''
I ask again about fund-raising.
''Fund-raising for the last hundred years - go back and read the Lincoln books - is an unseemly business,'' he says.
Does he think the 1996 Clinton campaign went too far?
''I'm not going to pass judgement on the 1996 fund-raising!'' he finally says, yelling. ''O.K.? It's a broken system. There's no prettiness in 1996.''
Rahm is one of Clinton's longest-serving advisers - he started in Little Rock in 1991 - and talks nearly as bluntly to the President as he does to everyone else. Once, when Clinton was made about how an event with the police was shaping up, Rahm, in the words of the former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, shot back: ''What the hell are you worried about? The key is to get your picture with the cops.'' White House advisers say Clinton drops by Rahm's office regularly for gossip and talk, knowing he'll get something good. ''He's always got a carrot to give to the big guy,'' says one White House official.
Reporters say Rahm is smart, but complain that he has a bad habit of peddling shopworn goods as scoops. ''I got along with him, but like everybody else who ever covered that place, I also hung up on him,'' says David Lauter, who was in charge of the 1996 election voerage for The Los Angeles Times. ''You just want to say to hi, 'Enough,' He'll call you up and start spinning something about how this is the greatest thing that any President has done in the history of man.''
Rahm did not show promise early on, and was in fact so undistinguished a student in high school that his guidance counselor suggested to Marsha Emanuel that her son might want to consider ''alternatives'' to higher education. He went on to Sara Lawrence College - ''for mother,'' he says - ostensibly because of the dance program, which he ignored once he got there. By the early 90's he was back in Chicago, raising money for the mayoral campaigns of Richard M. Daley. Rahm liked what he heard when an ambitious Arkansas, raising money for a Presidential campaign that had $600,000 in the bank and a tiny team of finance people who kept Little Rock bankers' hours.
''He got up and stood on a table and yelled at them for 45 minutes on his first night there,'' George Stephanopoulos says. In 20 days, Rahm organized 26 fund-raising events that produced $3.3 million, which kept Clinton alive through New Hampshire and the Gennifer Flowers explosion. He was rewarded with the job of White House political director, which lasted six months, due in no small part to his screaming matches with Susan Thomases, then First Lady Hillary Clinton's very powerful friend. Exiled to what he describes as a White House closet with a Playskool phone, Rahm was made director of special projects. He grabbed on to Nafta and the crime bill and crawled his way back. ''He didn't take his ball and go home,'' says his friend William Daley, the Secretary of Commerce and the Chicago Mayor's brother.
Ari Emanuel has had a similarly tumultuous career, culminating in March 1995 when he and three other agents plotted to leave International Creative Management and start a boutique agency of their own. But their plan was discovered when an I.C.M. employee, noticing an assitant carrying out files of one of the rogue agents after hours, alerted I.C.M. executives, who promptly fired Ari and friends. As Ari tells it, the I.C.M. chairman, Jeff Berg, called him at home at midnight, threatening a lawsuit. ''I said, 'I don't work for you,'' Ari recounts. ''Don't raise your voice at me.' And I hung up.'' (No suit was ever filed.)
Ari, a George Clooney look-alike, relates his cloak-and-dagger tale over lunch at the Palm in Los Angeles, where we have driven in a rental car. (His Jaguar is in the shop.) Ari is permanently attached to his car phone, but then this is Los Angeles. In his office, Ari watches four TV screens at once, practices his golf putt and, of course, lives in his phone headset. ''You were a half-hour late with the chairman of NBC!'' he shouts at one caller, spicing his words with profanity. When he gets off, he smiles. ''It's my life - right here,'' he says happily. ''I just sit and scream all day.'' He has a nice view of the haze over Beverly Hills, and very good suits. ''All I wear is Paul Stuart, Armani and Calvin Klein,'' he says later, and with such joy I feel I should be pleased for him.
Despite the bravado, Ari does have a certain sweetness and a what's-not-to-love kind of self-confidence. ''There are times when Ari gets very earnest,'' says Leslie Moonves, the president of CBS Entertainment. ''I have to say, 'Ari, we're in the television business.' ''
Ari's agency, Endeavor, has nearly 200 clients, many of them writers like Greg Daniels, a creator of the new hit series ''King of the Hill.'' Endeavor also represents a smaller number of actors; Wesley Snipes, Adam Sandler and Lisa Kudrow are a few of the better known. In Hollywood, Endeavor is part of the up-and-coming new guard. ''They're hungrier,'' Moonves says.
As a child, Ari was diagnosed as both hyperactive and dyslexic. ''I was on the ceiling,'' he says. Ritalin helped, but learning to read was an enormous task. ''My mom, to her credit, spent hours helping me.'' He graduated from Macalester College in St. Paul in 1983, played on the professional racquetball circuit, then moved to Paris, where he was financed by his father. ''Shik gelt,'' Ari would write, in Yiddish. ''Send money.'' Benjamin Emanuel knew full well his youngest son was entertaining a long list of girlfriends. ''So?'' says Benjamin Emanuel now. ''Who didn't?'' Ari was gratefull. ''I had a blast,'' he says.
He moved to New York and eventually went to work for the agent Robert Lantz. ''Nothing stopped him,'' Lantz remembers of Ari, who soon followed the money to television in Los Angeles. By 1987, Ari had a job as a trainee at Creative Artists Agency, at its height under Mike Ovitz. He moved on to Inter Talent, then I.C.M. When he was accidentally hit by a car driven by an I.CM. client, Ari cracked his ribs, tore open his knee and rethought his life. ''I wasn't going to sit around and say my big book on my life when I'm 50 years old is C.A.A. or I.C.M.,'' he says. ''I'd shoot myself.''
Ari credits his father for teaching the brothers to question and challenge authority. (Any number of the brothers' superiors will say their father did this annoyingly well.) Benjamin Emanuel puts it differently: He says he taught his sons self-reliance. ''I never told them, 'Go to your room and study,' '' he says. He believes the secret ot child-rearing is to ''sit and talk to your kids,'' and thinks that the drive in hs sons came from both him and his wife. ''I know I'm hyper,'' he says. Rahm, he adds, ''is an aggressive guy and a very good administrator.'' Ari ''always figured out the angles in business. I knew when he was 15 that he'd be a millionaire.'' And Zeke?
''Zeke,'' he says, awed, ''is really brilliant.''
As eldest son, Zeke feels he bore the burden of following in his father's path. ''I was a sort of fullfillment,'' he tells me one day in his very quiet office at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, affiliated with Harvard Medical School. ''But if I did the doctoring that my father had in mind, I would hate it.'' That, he says, would have been biomedical research, the route at the time to a hospital chairmanship. ''When I decided that I wasn't going to do that, he thought I was crazy,'' Zeke says. ''But I created for myself the kind of career that I like.''
We are talking on a day when a freak spring blizzard has kept everyone at home. Perhaps it is the mood crated by the snow swirling silently out the window, perhaps it is Zeke, but clearly he is the most thoughtful and mature of the brothers. This is not to say he is not brash and contentious - he is, infamously so among his colleagues. But he seems more willing, and able, to articulate what has driven the three brothers to such extraordinary success over the years.
''One thing that I think is very important is the fact that we've all failed,'' he says.
Zeke's first failure, as he tells it, was flunking a calculus final his first semester at Amherst, although he is better remembered by friends for scoring so high on an organic chemistry midterm that he destroyed the grading curve. Later, he wasn't nominated for a Rhodes scholarship - ''I was crushed'' - and over the years has warred with authority figures at Harvard. ''If I listed to you the number of times that people have tried to throw me out of this institution,'' he says, ''or the number of times people have tried to prevent me from doing research, or the number of times I've had my grants rejected. ...'' He trails off.
Zeke - along with his wife, Linda - represents the cutting edge in medical ethics. Unlike the theologians and philosophers who dominated the modern beginnings of the field in the 1960's and 1970's and who focused on abortion and human experimentation, Zeke is both a medical doctor and a Ph.D. with a grounding in philosophy. Only handful of people in medical ethics span both disciplines, a combination considered crucial for the future. ''He's the model of the next generation of bioethicists,'' says Arthur Caplan, the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. Because Zeke sees patients, he combines clinical data with informed theory. Working as a consultant, he is building up the department of medical ethics at the National Institutes of Health.
Zeke's influence, through his research, writing and speaking, is in three large areas of 1990's debate: doctor-assisted suicide, which he opposes legalizing becuase it would transform the practice into a ''routine intervention''; ''advanced directives,'' or living wills, which he favors and ethical standards in managed care, which he promotes. His goal is that all doctors get some training in ethics.
Zeke is the ascetic in the family. He does not own a television set, for example, even though it is the lifeblood of his brother Ari. In his view, a sense of struggle was crucial in the development of the boys. ''My father did not make a whole lot of money for most of my formative years,'' Zeke says. Benjamin Emanuel came to America with nothing, as his sons proudly recount, and slowly built up a practice from scratch. In the beginning, the family lived in a small apartment in Chicago, but by the time Zeke was ready for high school, the Emanuels managed a move to the suburbs, to a split-level house in the western part of Wilmette, far from the large homes along the lake. ''And that was a big stretch,'' Zeke says.
They were there when Shoshana was born in late August 1973. A week later, the Emanuel boys had a new sister and quickly grew devoted to her, at least as their mother remembers it. By this time, Benjamin Emanuel was 46, well established in a busy practice and prosperous - all much to Shoshana's disadvantage, in the view of Zeke. ''They were struggling much more when we were being raised,'' he says. ''I think too much comfort is not a good thing. It doesn't lead to certain character formation.'' Zeke, however, is too well traveled in the complexities of family and the big ideas of life to do anything but mull over the unanswerable. ''I don't think there's a 'the' cause there,'' he says of his sister.
The brothers say things began to go very wrong with Shoshana when she was 15, but they think she is finally coming out of a bad time. She now has a job and talks to her father every day. ''I wish I could talk to the other kids every day,'' Benjamin Emanuel says. ''But everybody's busy.'' The boys add that following in their wake must have been brutal on Shoshana. ''Growing up in my shadow was not good for my brothers, either,'' says Zeke.
The boys, meanwhile, worry about how their mother is managing with two young children. ''I spend most of my time exhausted,'' Marsha Emanuel says matter-of-factly, over a cup of coffee in her kitchen. ''I think, gee, I shouldn't be at this age.'' She shrugs. When I start to say something lame about how strong she must be, her response is swift.
''If one more person tells me that, I'll shoot them,'' she says. ''And I'm nonviolent.''
What, then, should people say? ''The nicest thing that people can say to me is, 'God, you have a nice family,' '' she says. But she admits that the question of nature versus nurture is on her mind all the time. ''Day and night,'' she says softly. ''Day and night.''
Rahm, the new father, has similar questions these days. ''But I don't know about gene pool,'' he muses. ''I'm a big believer in environment. If I wasn't, I wouldn't be so worried about trying to balance this job with parenthood.'' He calls his mother and father ''Uber-parents'' who ''left an indeliable print that they expected nothing but the best from us, and taught us to expect it from ourselves.''
That, he says, is the most important lesson he will pass on to his son. ''Luckily,'' he adds, ''I got the crib notes from somebody.''


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In his "Grand Experiment," Branch Rickey was looking for a player who was a supremely talented catalyst. As usual, he did his homework.But what if this "can't-miss" prospect went the way of so many other phenoms destined for stardom? What if Jackie Robinson failed on the field, or achieved only journeyman status? How would baseball's next half-century have played out?
We'll never know, because by any measure Jackie Robinson was a success as a player.
This much is known: Jackie Robinson was a great baseball player, apart from his special role in the history of the game.
Those who saw him play--and his generation raved about him--also talked about intangibles. They marveled at his speed, how he "drove the pitchers nuts" on the basepaths. He was ahead of his time as a baserunner, taking two and three bases when almost everyone else settled for one.
He was regarded as an intelligent player and no less an authority than Willie Mays shares that view.
"Jack was the smartest player I ever saw," Mays has said.
Robinson was Brooklyn's most fiery, most inspirational player even though the team captain's role fell to the more subdued Pee Wee Reese. Robinson's game face in the locker room is said to be a legendary visage.
"He burned with fire," said Roger Kahn, a baseball writer who covered Robinson and befriended him.
"He was an absolutely fearless player," says ex-Phillies star Richie Ashburn. "There was no way you could intimidate him."
Intangibles, intangibles. But there were also tangibles.
Some facts are well known. Robinson hit .311 over 10 seasons, batting better than .325 five times. He was National League rookie of the year in 1947 and the league's top hitter and most valuable player two years later. He led the league twice in stolen bases and he's rightfully famous for stealing home--he did it 19 times. He led the National League three times in fielding percentage. Brooklyn won six pennants and its only World Series championship in Robinson's decade on the team.
Some facts cited less often are even more compelling. Robinson isn't thought of as a power hitter but he reached double figures in home runs in all but one season. He drove in 125 runs one year and 95 in another, both times while he played second base and Brooklyn had others to fill the power roles. Robinson's career on-base percentage was an astounding .410, owing in part to 734 career walks.
Robinson was remarkably consistent: He hit .314 at home and .309 on the road (.295 at Wrigley Field); .317 versus left-handers and .309 against righties; .317 by day and .301 by night.
Robinson did not have a weakness as a baseball player.
His first-ballot Hall of Fame selection in 1962 was a formality. Only three other Hall of Famers played as few as 10 seasons.
With all that, there's circumstantial evidence to suggest Robinson may have been an even better player than his numbers indicate. He played with two liabilities unrelated to the unique pressures he had to face.
In his Historical Baseball Abstract, Bill James rates Robinson behind only the more powerful Joe Morgan as an offensive threat among second basemen. But unlike most superstars, Robinson played the position for which he is best known only about half his career. He played every game of his tumultuous rookie season at first base, moved to second the following year, then moved to third base late in his career. He was Brooklyn's regular left-fielder for a time and played every position except pitcher and catcher.
Then there's the fact he was 28 years old when he played his first major-league game. How much he could have accomplished had he come up as a 21- or 22-year-old, as most of his contemporaries did, is another unanswerable question. The evidence suggests he was no late bloomer: He hit .345 for the Kansas City Monarchs in 1945, his only season in the Negro leagues. A year later, he batted .349 and stole 40 bases for Montreal of the International League.
How good was Jackie Robinson?
"Give me five players like him and a pitcher and I'll beat any nine-man team," said Charlie Dressen, one of his managers.
Five Jackie Robinsons? Sports fans should feel blessed to have been able to see one.

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Chinese Elm Bonsai Care Guide
General Information:
Ulmus parvifolia is a climate-tolerant native of Taiwan, China, and Korea. In nature these trees can reach a height of 60-70 feet and may live 100 years or more. Sometimes confused with Zelkova – Japanese Elm – the two can be differentiated by their fruits and leaves.
The Chinese Elm has winged fruit, whereas the Japanese Elm has unwinged, and Chinese Elm has double-toothed leaves compared to the single-toothed leaves of Japanese.
Ulmus is an excellent bonsai tree and is sometimes referred to as being almost impossible to kill, making Chinese Elm Bonsai care a good choice for beginners. There are several varieties, all appropriate for the art-form. These trees may be evergreen or deciduous, depending upon their environment.
Tree's Attributes:
The leaves of this Elm are small, a desirable trait for shaping purposes. The trunk is typically slim, with bark that varies significantly among the different types.
'Hokkaido' is a favorite among enthusiasts for its corky bark, fast growth, and tiny leaves. It is one of the more delicate cultivars so be very cautious when wiring.
'Dynasty' is also a great choice, with small leaves and smooth, gray bark. If allowed to be deciduous, the leaves on 'Dynasty' will turn red in autumn.
This tree prefers full sun, or partial shade at the most. Varieties with smaller leaves must have full sun, and bonsai with full ramification may experience shoot dieback if in shade too long. Chinese Elm is hardy, tolerating temperatures to 20 degrees F. If concerned about severe cold, insulate the pot or mulch it into the ground to protect the sensitive root system.
If kept indoors this species may remain evergreen, but when outdoors in areas that have a winter it will likely drop leaves like a typical deciduous. Whether indoors or out, adequate sunlight is essential. In excessively hot climates, the pot itself may be shaded while allowing the tree to be in sunlight.
Ulmus does like water but still, the roots should not be allowed to remain continually soaked. Too much or too little water may be tolerated occasionally but generally the roots should just be kept moist. As for most bonsai, rainwater is optimal as it is free of chemicals.
Chinese Elm is a fast-growing species, and proper feeding will encourage vigorous foliage growth. After budding occurs in spring, fertilize with a mix high in nitrogen for about a month, then switch to a balanced bonsai fertilizer, administered monthly throughout the growing season. In autumn and winter feed a low N blend.
Clip and grow is a reliable method of training this tree. One of the beauties of how to prune a Chinese Elm for bonsai is that it is readily manipulated and foliage growth lends itself well to shaping via trimming. Fine ramification is fairly easy to achieve and the leaves take well to reduction.
Hard pruning will stimulate copious new growth, although larger branches should be cut in late summer to fall in order to minimized scarring. The bark is fragile and combined with the tree's growth rate, wires can cut in very quickly. The shoots do hold their adjusted shape, making wiring an attractive training option, just be sure to check the wires frequently.
May be done by seed, outside in fall or spring, or cuttings – softwood in summer and hard cuttings in winter. Air-layering is quite easily accomplished with these Elms and should be done after hardening of spring growth. The dwarf cultivars can only be propagated through layering or cuttings. Take cuttings from new growth, early in summer.
Spring is the best time for repotting and should be done before the buds open, allowing for more aggressive root trimming. The roots of Ulmus grow quickly and the plant does not like to be root-bound, so you may have to repot every one to two years. While repotting, wash the root pad in order to have a clear view of the root ball. This species has pulpier roots than most bonsai and they can be crushed easily, so take care and approach root pruning with an organized plan.
The key to avoiding root rot in this tree's sensitive root system is to pot it in well-draining soil. As long as there is good drainage and the roots have plenty of growing room, most mediums will do.
Insects/Pests & Diseases:
Chinese Elm is a hardy species as far as pests go. The tree may come under attack from aphids but if caught early, rinsing them off with water will usually suffice. If the tree retains too much moisture through either extended wet weather or over-watering, it may experience black spot fungus. A general fungicide is effective for this problem, just use judiciously as the leaves may burn.
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I have had 3 very strange coincidences happen in the last month. I'm not sure what to make of them so I thought I'd share.
– I was working on a website component that pulled in news from Google News. I used the keyword "Lamborghini" and just happened to click on an article (only clicked on 1 during the few hours I worked on it) about someone crashing their Gallardo. 30 minutes after that, a friend sent me the exact same article over chat, the only link that was shared with me that day.
– A friend was working on a former client's site and needed help with a redirect that was happening. He looked through the theme and plugins and couldn't find anything relevant. I told him I'd look. Just a few minutes after, I got distracted by cleaning out one of my local development installs. The first plugin I looked at, wondering "what does this do?" was the plugin that was causing the redirect I was asked about.
– This morning, I was working on a theme and adding ways a site owner can add images to posts. To test one of the posts, I added a short, wide image collage I made ~12 years ago of motion shots of an Acura Integra I used to own. Not an hour later, I was driving down that same road in Redmond, talking Anna and Georgia to their moms' group. I drive on this road maybe once per year, at most.
The kicker? All three of these were sparked by WP development.


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9th Annual Green Energy Conference in Tianjin China (IGEC-IX)
Thank you to all who attended the conference and made it a huge success! We look forward to seeing you next year.
The 9th International Green Energy Conference (IGEC-IX) will be held in Tianjin, China, May 25-28, 2014. It directly follows the previous 8 successful conferences held in North America, Asia, Europe and Middle East, sponsored by the International Association for Green Energy (IAGE).
The City of Tianjin, China, is about half an hour ride from Beijing, China's Capital city, by high-speed trains. It is the economic powerhouse powering the third (and the present) wave of China's economic growth.
The IGEC conference series is a multi-disciplinary conference on energy systems and technologies with no/reduced environmental, economic and social impact, and provides a forum for the exchange of technical information, for the dissemination of high-quality research results, and for the debate and shaping of future directions and priorities in energy sustainability and security.
Contact Information
General Contact: Xianguo Li (firstname.lastname@example.com)
Support Contact: Yan Yin (email@example.com)
Key Dates
Abstract due: February 15, 2014 (see abstract submission)
Full paper due: March 15, 2014
Conference: May 25 - 28, 2014
Travel Guide to Tianjin
Tianjin is about half an hour ride from Beijing, China's Capital City, by high-speed trains. Beijing Capital Airport is about two hours' drive from Tianjin, it is connected through Airport's mono-rail to Beijing Subway, then to the high-speed train station. Tianjin's own Binhai International Airport is only about half an hour drive from the city.
For information regarding travel to and from the airport, hotel and conference, please download the following pdf travel guide.
Travel Guide (English).pdf
Travel Guide (Chinese).pdf
Hotel Accommodation
Download the following pdfs to learn about hotel accommodations near the conference. Preferred rates are available for conference attendees.
Hotel Accommodations (English).pdf
Hotel Accommodations (Chinese).pdf
To arrange hotel accommodations at one of the described hotels, download and complete the following form and email to the conference organizer, firstname.lastname@example.com. Note: this form only reserves a hotel room, conference delegates are responsible for their own accommodation costs.
Registry for Accommodation (English).doc
Visa Information
You are strongly urged to check whether you need a visa to enter China. If yes, please start your visa application early to avoid last minute problems. A copy of the preliminary technical program for the conference may be downloaded on the Program page. This program should be included in your visa application.
Conference Committees
Conference Chairs
Xianguo Li and Mingfa Yao (co-chair)
International Organizing Committee
Hikmet Karakoc
Xianguo Li
Mingfa Yao
Oleksandr Zaporozhets
Huamin Zhang
Local Organizing Committee
Y. Yin, Conference Secretary
Q. Du
B. Jia
International Scientific and Advisory Committee
S.K. Aggarwal (USA)
K. Annamalai (USA)
A. Bejan (USA)
S.H. Chan (Taiwan)
E. Dahlquist (Sweden)
I. Dincer (Canada)
N. Ghaddar (Lebanon)
G. Gong (China)
M.J. Guiver (Canada)
A. Hepbasli (Turkey)
H. I. Inyang (USA)
H. Jin (China)
M.J. Kaiser (USA)
G.A. Karim (Canada)
I.B. Kilkis (USA)
C.K. Law (USA)
H. Liu (USA)
Z.H. (Simon) Liu (Canada)
A.M. Papadopoulos (Greece)
S. Riffat (UK)
M.A. Rosen (Canada)
J. Shi (USA)
B. Sorensen (Denmark)
J.G. Speight (USA)
Z. Tan (Canada)
A. Thumann (USA)
S. Torii (JAPAN)
T.N. Veziroglu (USA)
C.Y. Wang (USA)
J. Yan (Sweden)
Y.P. Yang (China)
N. Zamel (Germany)
J.J. Zhang (Canada)
Specialized Sessions
Air Emission Control, Reduction and Mitigation
Session Organizer: Zhongchao Tan
Email: email@example.com
Biofuels, Biomass and Bioenergy I
Session Organizer: Zhongchao Tan and Shicheng Zhang
Email: email@example.com and firstname.lastname@example.com
Biofuels, Biomass and Bioenergy II
Session Organizer: Animesh Dutta
Email: email@example.com
Energy Management in Engines and Vehicles
Session Organizer: Hui Xie
Email: email@example.com
Energy Saving for Automobiles
Session Organizer: Shixue Wang
Email: email@example.com
Energy Storage
Session Organizer: Huamin Zhang
Email: email@example.com
Engine Combustion with High Efficiency and Low Emissions
Session Organizer: Mingfa Yao
Email: email@example.com
Green Building
Session Organizer: Guangcai Gong
Email: email@example.com
Renewable and Clean energy Technologies
Session Organizer: Yejun Han
Email: email@example.com
Wind Energy
Session Organizer: Diangui Huang
Email: email@example.com
The finalized technical program for IGEC-IX can be downloaded using the following link. International delegates should include this document with their visa application. Presenting authors may refer to this document for their presentation schedule.
Sponsoring Organizations
International Association for Green Energy (IAGE)
Advanced Energy Systems Division Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering
International Association for Hydrogen Energy (IAHE
State key Laboratory of Engines (SKLE)
Tianjin Institute for Green Energy (TIGER)
Tianjin University China
Sponsoring Journals
Selected high-quality papers of archival value will be recommended for publication in special issues of several prestigious international journals, including
Applied Energy
International Journal of Energy Research (IJER)
International Journal of Sustainable Energy (IJSE)
International Journal of Green Energy (IJGE)
International Journal of Hydrogen Energy (IJHE)
International Journal of Powertrains (IJPT)


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In our weekly Q & A series, we've already told you why recycling isn't a waste of time and then we unpacked the United Nations SDGs. In the spirit of the back-to-school season, today we're taking on a question that gets back to basics. How else do we know that you've studied the prerequisites for more advanced discussions?
Question: Hi Thread. Following your @instagram, I've seen people, bottles, and finished fabric – but turning trash into textiles still seems a lot like magic to me. How does Thread actually turn recycled plastic into stuff? Thanks!
Answer: This is a totally respectable question – especially at a company like Thread, where how something is made is just as important as the quality of its design. The incredible partners within our supply chains offer thousands of income opportunities for plastic collectors, people working in processing facilities, and then a host of folks within the textile manufacturing industry – but you're right: no single photograph can explain the wizardry of turning plastic bottles into jersey or canvas.
As for plastic, all of our fabric features recycled PET (polyethylene terephthalate, aka rPET). Some products are 100% recycled PET, while others are crafted with 50% cotton. Our process takes a number of twists and turns as it makes its way from Haiti and Honduras to the USA. To prepare our supply chain for Sustainability 101, we broke it down into 7 freshman-proof steps… with GIFs. We hear they love GIFs.
Step 1: Collect and Clean
Every bottle that goes into our fabric is post-consumer material, meaning it was actually used by people before it was retrieved from a landfill, the street, or somewhere else it managed to roll off to. After being collected, it's taken to a center to be thoroughly cleaned and processed.
Step 2: The Grind
This isn't the beachside dance party you hoped for on spring break. To become "flake" bottles are broken down into smaller and smaller pieces that ultimately become small rPET pellets. These tiny bead-like pieces are easier for machines to work with going forward in a complex process that's focused on quality control – even when the materials are recycled.
Step 3: Fresh Fiber
From flake to pellets and then to fiber, ex-bottles are extruded into superfine filament, before being chopped and fluffed into cloud-like fiber. Then we mix Thread's rPET puffs with tufts of cotton and spin it into yarn just like traditional textiles (imagine a supercharged manufacturing version of Rumpelstiltskin's spinning wheel… but it's the size of a warehouse, and in North Carolina).
Step 4: Spaghetti is Served
We said "cotton candy" and then got kinda hungry. Sorry. This is the stage when polyester fiber is spun (like woah) with cotton into longer and stronger strands that begin to look more like string you'd be familiar with.
Step 5: Deliver the Package
We roll up all of that spaghetti into an orderly spool, which our manufacturing partners call a "package." To create an entire bolt of fabric that you'd see on the shelf in a store, machines employ dozens (even hundreds or thousands) of yarn packages simultaneously. They actually make hundreds of bolts at a time, with thousands of yards, so we can deliver them to customers at any scale. Even you, crafty reader.
Step 6: Knit + Weave
Some of our fabrics are knit (jersey) and others are woven (canvas) – and both of those techniques have their advantages – but the undyed textile you see below is the beginning of the classic garment-making process.
Step 7: Dye Until Fly
Bored with basic colors? We feel you. In our final step, the finished fabric is dipped and dipped and dipped in dye until it's just right. Then it's washed and dried to project-ready perfection. If you aren't buying a textile with a print, this is where you (the shopper) comes in and starts creating something.
Step 8: Woah…
Yeah, some soda bottle in the Carribbean may become your t-shirt, or boots, or bag. It's bound to blow some minds. On the other hand, it should encourage everyone to banish the idea of "waste," and see the potential in everything they might toss in the bin. But you knew we'd say that.
Thanks for writing,
Have a question about sustainability or responsibility for our staff of echem… teaching assistants? Contact us @threadintl and ask!


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There was a sneak preview of the Tata Nano Europa in London this week that was attended by Autocar's Steve Cropley. Earlier this year, the European version of the Tata Nano was shown at the Geneva Motor Show and since then, consumers had been waiting eagerly for its arrival expected in 2011.
In India, the world's cheapest car was launched earlier this year and carries a price tag of less than £2000.
However, they had to take into account the increased cost of making it Europeanized (more creature comforts, improved crash test safety). It is likely that the car will cost from £4000 - £5000 in the UK.
Powering it is a 1.0-litre three-cylinder engine, which will produce around 60bhp.
The Indian version is four-speed while the Europa will get a five-speed manual gearbox to allow for longer gearing, improved fuel economy and reduced CO2 emissions. Also featured is an all-steel body, with an overall length of 3300mm.
This makes it about eight inches longer than the original Mini, but still far shorter than any contemporary European supermini. The show car rides on 14-inch alloys.
The Tata Nano is equipped with all-independent rear suspension features. Europa models will get ABS, traction control, electric power steering and twin airbags.
Boot access is still unknown. Indian Nanos are strictly four-door, but a full-size hatchback is possible for the European version.


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It seems as if the comeback time is working pretty well for Nayanthara. The latest buzz about the Kerala beauty is that the ace director of Indian cinema, Mani Ratnam, has approached her to do a special role in his upcoming flick Kadal. Nayanthara, who is already on a roll with numerous opportunities falling at her doorsteps, post her break up with Prabhu Deva, seems to have got excited with this opportunity.
Sources close to the movie unit of Kadal say that Mani Ratnam is very eager to cast Nayanthara for a role in the movie. There were earlier reports that Mani Ratnam has roped in Samantha and Lakshmi Manchu to play the female lead roles in the movie. However, due to date issues and illness, Samantha walked out of the movie a couple of weeks ago. Hence, it looked as if yesteryear veteran actor Radha's second daughter Tulasi may get the chance of playing the role, which Samantha was about to play. However, now Mani Ratnam's interest on Nayanthara gives room for a doubt that whether Nayanthara will play the same role or a different one.
Quiz the sources; they say that they cannot reveal details about the characters of the movie. In the meanwhile, it seems as if Nayanthara has given a positive nod to the ace director in response to his offer. The sources reveal that Nayanthara has agreed to play the role without listening to its details and the script, just because of the fact that Mani Ratnam is directing the movie.
When asked about the development of the movie, the sources say that Mani Ratnam is working very hard and sincere to develop Kadal, which he wants to be picture perfect like his other movies. The sources also add that Mani has already completed the shooting of a considerable portion of the movie, which stars Gautham, son of actor Karthick, playing the lead role!
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Bel Ami receives 15 certificate in UK – basically an R rating
The British Board of Film Classification has awarded a 15 certificate to the filmmakers of Bel Ami. The 15 certificate is issued by the BBFC to state that a film should not be seen or purchased by a person under 15 years old. A 15 certificate is the closest equivalent to an R rating in the USA.
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Studio: Gravitas Ventures
Director: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Writer: Michael Rasmussen, Shawn Rasmussen
Producer: Bridget Keefe, Glenn Cooper
Stars: Elise Couture Stone, Michael Reed, Judith Chaffee, Rebecca Whitehurst, Erica Derrickson, Vasilios Asimakos, Edmund Donovan, Danny Bryck, Victoria Nugent, India Pearl
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A couple moves into a colonial New England home haunted by a legendary witch blamed for a plague of missing children.
Receiving an email from filmmaker Shawn Rasmussen about his and his brother Michael's sophomore directorial effort "The Inhabitants" is not so strange. What is odd is that the message opened with a declaration of appreciation for my reviews. Didn't I say something more than a little unflattering about use of the phrase "from the writers of John Carpenter's The Ward" while covering The Rasmussen Brothers' previous movie "Dark Feed?"
Looking back at that review, my negativity was harsher than remembered, ending on a summation of "Dark Feed" (review here) being "one of the more forgettable horror movies in recent memory." Are they sure they had the right person in mind when considering critics who should have a look at their follow-up film?
Discounting possibilities of being unaware of that review or mistakenly pinging me with a cut-and-paste greeting, that meant one of two things. Either the siblings intended to be out in front of my opinion on the next go-around, or they accepted criticism with professionalism, perhaps even considered unfavorable points with an eye towards improvement. No matter the case, my respect for the Rasmussens grew exponentially, more so if the latter is true.
Now the dilemma presented itself. Putting it mildly, "The Ward" is not regarded as a high point in John Carpenter's career. I cared even less for "Dark Feed." What are the odds a third time might charm? Do I chance committing to coverage of a movie I might have to pan, after its co-director has been complimentary no less?
The trailer intrigued enough that a dice roll was warranted. And in the 2.5 years since reviewing "Dark Feed," I'd like to think I've developed enough tact to no longer make blunt statements such as, "their script is no work of Shakespeare." In all likelihood, The Rasmussen Brothers matured at their trade, too.
One minute into "The Inhabitants" and I was silently groaning, "uh oh." A couple, possibly portrayed by a pair without previous onscreen experience, settles in for the night at a centuries-old New England inn. With a quizzical grimace, the woman tells the man of a creaking noise in the bathroom. "It's an old house," he says. The woman's previously pursed lips twist into an "oh yeah, duh" smile as she replies, "you're right" and joins him under the covers. I'd been advised "The Inhabitants" was a homegrown project filmed with friends and financed on a shoestring, but was the entire movie going to be as roughly written and amateurly acted as this prelude?
The good news answer to that question is no. "The Inhabitants" goes on to develop into a quietly unsettling chiller making the most of its microbudget mood. The not as positive elaboration is that the very long fuse on its very slow burn doesn't lead to the most explosive barrel of TNT tension or terror.
Dan and Jessica, a different duo than featured in the opening, are a charming enough young couple. Anxious for both a new home and a new business, the pair purchases The March Carriage bed and breakfast from a creepy old woman's caretaking niece and moves in to a mystery. Fun fact: the film was shot at the historic Noyes-Parris House in Massachusetts, once home to Reverend Samuel Parris, whose daughter and niece made the awful accusations that kickstarted the Salem Witch Trials.
A trip to the local library reveals that The March Carriage's original owner was married to midwife Lydia March, hanged for witchcraft in 1669 when a plague afflicted local children. A trip to a crawlspace hidden within the walls then results in Jessica becoming plagued by Lydia's supernatural spirit. Legend tells tales of children disappearing after Lydia's death, and it seems she intends to continue her cursed legacy from beyond the grave using Jessica as her vessel.
Actor Michael Reed gives Dan an affable softness that keeps his Everyman husband likable and relatable. At issue with actress Elise Couture Stone's companion performance is that when her paranormal possession requires Jessica to start behaving strangely, she REALLY starts behaving strangely. Jessica goes so far into a state of frosty catatonia that even though Dan realizes something is off, any reasonably-minded husband would be ready to buckle straightjacket restraints without hesitation.
Jessica's single-jump transformation notwithstanding, "less is more" is otherwise the movie's motto. What makes "The Inhabitants" admirable is that its ambition restrains itself within achievable bounds, focusing on atmospheric appeal through setting and nuance instead of flashy frights or spectacle it doesn't possess the budget to make believable.
At the same time, scaled-down suspense requires a tolerant viewer, and "The Inhabitants" doesn't make it easy to invest that patience. Grisly ghosts and ample action redeem the climax, but the climb to reach that peak takes breathy pauses in uneventful lulls. The gradual build goes on so long that the trick bag runs out of interesting ways to stretch scares. More than once the fallback tactic is simply passing a shadow in the foreground or background with an accompanying audio cue, a setup reused often enough that eeriness effectively erodes.
There remains enough substance in the film's feel for unwearied ghost story fans to get behind it as a mood piece. Those in search of a gorier punch to a similar premise might wish to choose "We Are Still Here" (review here) instead.
At the very least, "The Inhabitants" is not the kind of skeletal indie attempting to cheat audiences with cut corners before running carelessly to the next project, like unnamed others churning cheap cash-grabs on a bi-weekly basis. No matter the film's subjective entertainment value, sincere commitment is evident. The Rasmussen Brothers might not be there yet in realizing a full-fledged feature capable of really knocking socks, but "The Inhabitants" is a step in a better direction.
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An entourage of Palm Beach County officials received a warm but cautious reception Wednesday when they took their appeal for $13 million in federal funding for Belle Glade Housing improvements to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, D.C.
"It was very well received," said County Commissioner Ken Adams, who led the delegation of officials to the capital. "We're trying to win this one and we have expressions of support from everyone we've talked to at all levels."
The county group, which included Housing and Community Development Director Allen Schnier and developer Bob Satter, met with DuBois Gilliam, a deputy assistant secretary of HUD and other officials of that agency.
Adams said he hoped the HUD officials would be impressed with the fact the county has committed $10 million in taxpayers' dollars for the housing improvements in the Belle Glade area.
That county financing would then trigger at least an equal investment from private companies, county officials have estimated.
"We presented a package that would be a partnership," Adams said.
HUD officials are to review the county funding request and present a response within 30 days, said Jack Flynn a spokesman for the agency.
"These are very, very tight budget times," Flynn said, adding that the money the county has requested would have to be taken from an HUD fund that has only $30 million for the entire nation for 1986. "All we can do is evaluate it."
Flynn said the federal housing agency receives numerous requests for such funding each year, many from local officials who travel to Washington to lobby for the aid.
"It's not uncommon. We have city officials in here relatively frequently," he said.
Last year, Palm Beach County requested $66 million in aid from HUD, the total amount in the agency's discretionary budget. They were granted nothing.
Adams said he hoped the county would have better success with this year's proposal because it includes participation from the private sector.


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The Status of Women in South Carolina
Guest Speaker: Ali Titus
Advocacy & Awareness Program Manager
Center for Women
The Center for Women serves to help educate and advocate so that women in South Carolina have economic success and are leaders in their professional, community and personal lives. At the Center for Women, Ali works to raise awareness and cultivate civic engagement around the four core tenets of the Center for Women's Status of Women in SC Report: Leadership, Health and Safety, Education, and Economic Security.
In addition to her work in the nonprofit sector, Ali serves on City of Charleston's Commission for Women and is a Board Member of Charleston Freedom Schools. In January of 2017, Ali was one of a team of nine women who organized and executed the Women's March in Charleston.
The Status of Women in South Carolina


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Costume National Pre-Fall 2015
Costume National's rock 'n' roll vibe reverberates throughout the tailored suiting and outerwear in contrasting colors of black, white and camel with fur accents. The shaggy hair, leather and pinstripes remind me of the 60s and 80s and the British Rock invasion. The overall idea is a heaven were light and dark meet, the feathers a not so subtle hint at the angels.
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On Good Friday, the members of the expedition put on their good clothes and go to services in an old church in La Paz. The church is dark, and filled with old women and small children. A choir of young boys sing, followed by a fiery sermon by a young priest. Leaving the church, the town is unusually quiet. The services produce a reverie about the poverty and humility of man, without which, man would not be what he is. These sufferings bring men together in a community more than when they are well-fed and free from distress.
On the way back to the boat, the group hears the sound of chickens over a wall and tries to buy some for dinner. The owner agrees to sell a couple, but they must catch the chickens first. This proves to be difficult...
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My Wayward Compass
I've moved over 30 times in my life. I spent a good solid chunk of my childhood in one place, but as soon as I turned 18, I was off on an intrepid quest of misled wanderlust of such passion that it took17 years to settle back down again. Dustin, being an army brat and nomad in his own right, can add another 30 of his own moves on top of my list, making us a veritable power couple of rootlessness.
I was always a self-dubbed Routinophobe. The thought of doing the same thing every day with any consistency terrified me, resulting in a spotty work history, but an impressive world map of places visited. I would quickly become dissatisfied with any home or workplace based on a variety of reasons (too many of which were directly or indirectly related to my alcohol abuse), and I would move on to seemingly greener pastures like a serial monogamist.
All this made for fascinating stories, but a total lack of self-discipline was an unintended side effect of my flightiness, due to a tendency to flee when any measure of discomfort would arise. All this whimsical flitting around kept me from developing any solid experience with working through the difficulties inherent to long term professional and social relations, and this deeply affected my alcoholism.
They say addiction thrives on isolation. Living in Vermont is a beautiful experience, but we happened to be 40 minutes away from the nearest affordable grocery store, and hours away from most friends and family. When Dustin suggested early in my sobriety that we move closer to my hometown in New Hampshire, I was exhausted. I was raw, worn down, and world weary, and the thought of yet another move made me nauseous. I was worried that it was too much upheaval too soon.
Of course, it turns out to have been the best move we've ever made. We found the perfect apartment in a small town with access to a million hiking trails, amazing schools, a tight knit community, and all within 30 minutes of large cities/friends/family. I almost immediately landed an amazing job that pays more than I've ever made (by a long shot), and I actually like it!
The difference is, well, everything. Everything changed- my perspective, my physiology, my neural pathways- everything has changed since I became sober. That rawness that was so pervasive and overwhelming in early sobriety has now become a clear awareness that I rarely experienced during my years of drinking. The saying in AA is "people, places and things". I changed them all, the most dramatic of which was my home, and it was the healthiest change I've ever made.
I'm still struggling to nail down a routine, but I'm no longer deathly afraid of consistency. I feel like I have purged that fear, along with the other poisons, out of my system. If it wasn't for an increased predictability throughout my days, getting and staying sober would have been a lot harder.
All these changes have been astonishingly powerful in the most positive ways. I am developing a stronger sense of self worth, and a confidence in my own abilities to do things right is beginning to grow within me. I know there are a lot of hurdles ahead, but I'm not afraid to do the work now. I'm not running anymore. I'm going to dig my toes into the soil here, and grow some roots. No more wandering. I've found what I've always been searching for, and it was with me the whole time.
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Time goes past fast even as a home mom . There will be days , my schedule is about cooking,eating, feeding, coaxing the little one to sleep , rest and cooking etc repeat itself from days to weeks. Well, am not complaining at all. In fact I thank GOD , my princess is a good baby. By 2nd months, she sleep through the night from 9pm - 6am. She is a happy baby most of the days. As I am not into carry baby all day and times, she kind of knew it and able to adapt well . Praise GOD , prayer works and I now find time to bake and hopefully can update my blog as much as I can .
We are back to church and most of the activities we family used to do . This shortbread was baked for the ministry I am serving. Our church has a small cafe operate on Sunday to let people have some munch and coffee before service started each Sunday. Of course those who serve in the cafe are all volunteers . We do need more volunteers to help out. So we have the Ministry Fair Sunday to encourage people to serve in different ministry.
I come across this shortbread recipe from one of my favourite blogger ->Dailydelicious. As I need some cookie that I can stamp some wording on it, I have to make sure the dough of the cookies is firm and will not be out of shape once bake. Her recipe is just perfect. So here is the recipe I have used to make my Book Cafe Short Bread.
In total I make 47pic with heart shape and round shape mould. I double the portion from the original recipe and add orange zest in it to give a hint of orange in the cookies.
Ingredients :
200g Butter ( cold and cut into pieces)
60g Icing Sugar ( original recipe is 80g)
240g Cake Flour
90g Rice Flour
1 Tbsp of Orange Zest.
Method :
1. Cut the butter into small cube and put in a mixing bowl.
2. Sift cake flour, rice flour, icing sugar and orange zest , pour over into the butter.
3. Use your fingers to mix the dry ingredient into the butter. Mix it till looks like small bits of bread crumb.
4. Knead the crumbs till stick together and smooth.
5. Wrap with the plastic and refrigerate for 1-2 hours.
6. Take the dough out from the fridge, roll the dough to 5mm thick and cut it to different desire shape.
7. Preheat oven to 160C, and line the tray with baking sheet.
8. Place the cut cookies on the tray with baking sheet and press the wording you desire on the cookies.
9. Bake the cookies for 15-20min until the light golden.
10.Take the cookies out from the oven and cool on tray. Keep the cookies in airtight container.
The cookies is soft but firm, it will not easily break into pieces and it hold the shape after baking. Though the cookies look "plain", the taste is simple delicious.If you want to send a message in a cookies , this might be a good choice too.


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People of a certain age may remember when kids' fandom for, say, the falsetto-heavy BeeGees or TV's Charlie's Angels found expression on lunchboxes.
But whether or not you toted a lunchbox to school in the 1970s—or the 1960s or '80s, for that matter—there's something about school-days-of-yore metal lunchboxes most people can appreciate.
Probably because they were (er, are) like pop-culture billboards.
That's just one reason why lunchbox lunches at Jardin in downtown West Palm Beach are, well…groovy.
The key is that these lunches at Jardin, 330 Clematis St., are made by one of the area's most talked-about (for good reason) chef-couples: Jardin's Jordan Lerman and Stephanie Cohen.
But first, the lunches' cases: Forget today's lunchboxes made of soft, insulated polyester.
Jardin's lunchboxes are the good stuff: hard-case ones, each emblazoned with throwback pop-culture classics—from the Beatles (including a reproduction of the Abbey Road album cover) to Star Trek (don't look now, but it's Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura), and Mickey and Minnie, among others.
Lunch consists of three items you choose:
- a choice of sandwich or entrée salad (tuna melt, Buffalo chicken sandwich, warm Caprese sandwich, Waldorf salad, Cobb salad or the Megan salad with grilled chicken, blue cheese and more);
- choice of side (yucca chips, mixed-green salad, beer biscuit or French fries);
- choice of sweet (chocolate-chip cookies, banana muffin or brownie Madeleines).
Lunchbox lunches at Jardin are $14 apiece; you don't get to keep the lunchbox.
For more information, call Jardin at 440-5273 or see www.jardinrestaurant.com.


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Monday, 16 September 2013 11:19 AM
The 42-page paper, presented to the bank's executive board last week, is the first major strategic review under World Bank President Jim Yong Kim.
It offers the first concrete details of how the World Bank plans to fulfill his twin goals of eliminating extreme poverty by 2030 and boosting the incomes of the poorest 40 percent of the population in each country.
However, the strategy paper is still vague about what exact programs the bank will cut or bolster, and how it will change its budget to reflect new priorities and falling revenue.
When asked for comment, World Bank spokesman David Theis declined to elaborate further on the plan.
Founded after World War II to help rebuild Europe, the World Bank later focused on lending money to developing countries in order to improve the lives of poor people.
The global lender is praised for its worldwide reach, stringent standards and long-term focus. But it has also been criticized for avoiding risks, delaying approval of projects, not responding enough to what countries want, and focusing more on pushing money out the door rather than program outcomes.
Kim, who came to the helm of the multilateral development institution a little over a year ago, has launched a major reorganization to change all that, driving an emphasis on flexibility, measurable impact, and evidence, or what he calls "the science of delivery."
The draft strategy acknowledges the World Bank has become less important to the growth of many middle-income countries, which can rely more on private funding and bilateral loans from emerging markets like China.
The World Bank also admits it has limited funds to tackle the needs of the developing world, where new infrastructure projects alone will require $1.5 trillion in funding a year.
Instead, the World Bank wants to reposition itself as a "solutions" bank, offering not only financing but also its knowledge of how to solve common development challenges.
"The World Bank Group's role in knowledge, convening and global advocacy has increased relative to its role in providing finance," the paper said.
Keeping the bank relevant means focusing on areas where other donors are reluctant to go, such as fragile and conflict-affected states, by 2015 home to half of the world's poorest people.
The World Bank said it also plans to use its projects and global presence to share data and promote better policies in areas like climate change.
To help address countries' needs and better coordinate development policies, the bank also plans to work more closely with other development agencies like the United Nations and with philanthropic organizations.
And it wants to promote more private-public partnerships for basic services like health, education and housing — to the consternation of some non-profit organizations that argue such programs have mixed records for helping the poor.
As part of the new strategy, the World Bank also plans to make some cuts to its budget. Operating in fragile states, collecting data to measure countries' progress, and ensuring a global presence have strained the bank's administrative funds.
And less lending to middle-income or stable countries also means less revenue, as the bank has made money from interest-bearing loans.
"Maintaining a minimum scale of operations is important if the World Bank Group is to influence the policy agenda and support clients in delivering effective development solutions," the paper said.
"Although the World Bank Group does not face immediate financial concerns, its financial capacity will need to be strengthened," the paper added.
The bank said it will have to be selective in what it does and make cuts to certain programs, without specifying further. It is also considering relying more on fees for advisory services and on money from trust funds, or earmarked funds from governments for specific projects.
Trust funds already account for one of every 10 dollars the bank disburses to governments, according to the paper.
The new budget will be implemented for the next fiscal year, which begins in July 2014, and may be one of the thorniest issues for the bank to resolve as it decides which departments and programs must shrink.
Changing the bank's internal culture may also pose a threat to the success of the new strategy, according to several outside analysts who reviewed the paper.
Part of the new focus means integrating the work of the bank with the activities of its private sector lending arm, the International Finance Corporation, and the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, which insures investments in difficult environments.
The three agencies work with different clients and may have different approaches to specific projects, creating conflicts of interest.
The details of how the bank will change its internal organization to align with the new strategy will be presented later in an "Implementation Paper."
For now, the draft strategy will go to the governments of the World Bank's members for approval, before being formally presented during the annual meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund in early October.
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Dr. Bill Atwood
A new year
Happy New Year. If it seems like it has only been 31,622,400 seconds since the last time the ball dropped in New York, you would be correct. So much has happened and so many other things did not happen, but at this time of the year we get reflective and look back.
There were attacks on the US and on other countries by terrorists. There were deaths in car accidents and there were plane crashes. People lost jobs and homes were destroyed by fire, tornadoes, hurricanes, and floods. People got sued and lost and people filed for divorce and split families asunder.
Cancer wasn't cured and Polio isn't eradicated as yet. Despots rule parts of the world and there is poverty not only around the globe but around the corner from our homes.
There was an election, and half the nation was happy with the outcome, and half the nation isn't. People woke up to having the roof leak or the hot water heater conk out. Friends and family members died.
On the other hand, so many wonderful things have happened. Millions of babies were born into loving and caring families. People found true love and married their sweethearts. Kids graduated from the high school class of 2016 ready to take on the world and feeling immortal. College students received degrees from and families celebrated. People found new homes to live in and raise families. People traveled to exotic parts of the world and others vacationed right here in our back yard at the lake or Yosemite.
Millions of dollars were raised right here in Eastern Madera County to help others who are less fortunate than many of us, and thousands of toys were under the trees around our area because we chipped in to help the Marines get those Toys for Tots. Manna House will have thousands of food items to share with the needy and many thousands of dollars to cover costs that are there to run that program. Manna House even got a grant to buy their own facility so they can keep costs down.
The Community Meals program feeds 30-40 folks each Wednesday as an outreach from local churches. That means more than 1800 free meals to folks who need it. The folks at Pawsitively Full have garnered a grant and have enlisted many sponsors to help the owners of animals who are having a tough time. Fido and kitty don't have to go without because of the gifting of our community.
The schools are doing well and educating our youngsters so that they may become a part of the "informed, enlightened citizenry." Those kids will one day take over for those of us and we had better serve them well so that this area can continue to thrive.
Music and the arts do well up here. We have artists that promote their craft with sales and tours. The music community provides concerts and the Golden Chain has been playing to full houses that are enjoying musicals and plays. Kids are getting exposed to the theater at the Golden Chain. Bravo.
When we hear of a disaster this community just gets going and somebody takes the lead and organizes a fundraiser. Then the rest of us get involved and buy tickets for raffles of items we don't really need, or buy a spaghetti meal served on a paper plate because we come together to help one another.
We wave to one another in our cars and we say hello to strangers in the markets. We look out for the other guy and we lend a helping hand when there is an accident.
So 2016 was okay for most, great for others, and has a horrible memory for some. I too grieve for friends lost this year to disease and old age, but I rejoice because those dear friends were a part of my life and I am glad that our paths had crossed.
My church has lost its building and property in a lawsuit and early in January we will head over to the Masonic Lodge, where they have opened their doors to allow us temporary housing while we find a new location on which to build.
So I look back on 2016 and reflect on what happened during those 31,622,400 seconds and realize just how great we have it. My philosophy is rather simple about our lives-if you live in the United States of America you really have very little about which to complain. If you live in Eastern Madera County or Mariposa County you are doubly blessed. Frankly, I wouldn't trade places with a single soul on this planet.
May your New Year be a happy, healthy joyous one and may we remember to be grateful for that which we have and not worry about what we don't have.
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This week our geeks wonder if Avengers 3 could be split into multiple films, Dominic Cooper as Howard Stark in Agent Carter, Kevin Smith in Lego Batman 3, Affleck wants to keep his Batsuit, how Luke will look in Episode VII, the trailer for Justice League: Throne Of Atlantis and so much more!!!
Listen to the episode here and follow along below!
Will Avengers 3 Split Into Two Movies?
It's Official: Dominic Cooper Boards ABC's Agent Carter
What Happened When Ben Affleck Asked If He Could Take The Batsuit Home?
This Is How Luke Skywalker Looks In The New Star Wars
Check out the trailer for Justice League: Throne of Atlantis!
Sexist Superhero T-Shirts Cause Controversy
"Sleeping Beauty" is based on a story where a married king finds a girl asleep and can't wake her, so he rapes her instead.
The first helicopter with an ejection seat featured main rotors with explosive bolts to release the blades just before the seat is fired.
The lowest class of meat called 'Canner' is used for dog food… and school lunches.
Funny Tweets
When I drop an aspirin on the floor I leave it there so that a motorcycle riding mouse might retrieve it to save a young boy's life.
Feeling pretty proud of myself. The Sesame Street puzzle I bought said 3-5 years, but I finished it in 18 months.
"Money won't make you happy" Yeah, financial stability is just horrible
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So Outlook crashed on me yesterday...
...Ok, so that's not terribly interesting. But what happened next was: there was a "Restart" option on the resulting crash dialog. When I clicked it, Outlook re-opened along with all of my previously-open messages!
Well, surprise, surprise - Outlook missed an opportunity to annoy me!
But now I'm curious: is there a way to make this happen intentionally? I do enjoy closing Outlook now and then, to reboot or just to get it out of my hair. But losing track of the messages I'd been reading isn't much fun. I suppose I could flag them or something, but that's tedious - I'd rather just close the app on a whim, knowing I could pick back up where I left off later.
So: is there an option for this somewhere, buried deep within the bowels of Outlook's labyrinthine Options dialog? Or failing that... Any good tips on making Outlook crash on demand?


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Also known as the GRAYTest bike ride, ever - the Grayton Beach Bike Tour takes you to the local's favorite beach. This little slice of heaven is rich in natural beauty and history.
Our guides will show you this comfy little beach town, take you to Western Lake where it kisses the Gulf and show you a funky good time. Surround yourself in some of the most natural beauty that 30A has to offer - all on a bicycle you'll never get tired on.


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We facilitate opportunities to share local art with new audiences. By reshaping the traditional exhibition to serve the needs of small businesses, non-profits and organizations, we engage unique exhibition venues, from offices to hotel lobbies. Our hope is to connect artists with the larger arts community.
Whether it be a one night event or temporary installation, ArtSee specializes in providing artists more exhibition opportunities and in creating the exhibition that fits your needs. We work from both the corporate side and directly with artists to conceptualize, curate and execute temporary and pop-up exhibitions.
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Wine is great for any occasion. Monday blues? Wine. Tuesday Boozeday? Wine. Wine Wednesday? Duh. You get the picture. I became obsessed with sangría when studying abroad in Barcelona and I'm always looking for a good excuse to make some for my babes and bros.
But don't be intimidated by this drink. Sangría is one of the easiest cocktails to make; and if you're like us, you'll always have wine at the house and will need very few ingredients to make this boozy beverage. Most importantly, if you use the right ingredients, sangría can be a healthy-ish cocktail 😜
This chilly weather, and the fact that Halloween falls on a Tuesday, is the perfect excuse to stay in, set up a nice cheese plate and make a pitcher (or two) of this Fall White Wine Sangría for your krewe.
- 1 large, Gala apple, cored and diced
- 1 large, Granny Smith apple, cored and diced
- 1 large orange
- 1 cup of light Cranberry juice
- 2 bottles of your favorite Pinot Grigio
- 2 shots of Brandy
- Cinnamon sticks
Wash, dry and dice the apples, and make sure to remove and discard the core. Place the apple pieces into the pitcher.
Roll the orange on a flat surface with the palm of your hand; this will help bring out the juices. Cut out a few thin slices and place into the pitcher. Slice the rest of the orange in quarters and squeeze the juice from the wedges into the pitcher. Add 2-3 sticks of cinnamon to your pitcher.
Pour the brandy, cranberry juice and the white wine. Stir, taste and adjust ingredients to your liking. Ideally, you'll let the sangría chill a few hours in the fridge or even overnight.
To serve, just fill each glass with ice and add a stick of cinnamon.