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Longmire season two premieres Monday, May 27, 2013 at 10/9C on A&E TV.
Longmire cast includes Robert Taylor, Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff, Stargate Universe's Lou Diamond Phillips, Bailey Chase, Cassidy Freeman, Adam Bartley and Louanne Stephens.
May 20 10:00 AM 8 Seconds
When a wealthy beer distributor is found beaten within an inch of his life, Walt (Robert Taylor) is puzzled over why the attacker stole a seemingly worthless painting. The main suspect is a bronc rider whom the victim recently dropped from sponsorship, but the discovery of an affair and a secret about the painting lead the team to realize that there are many possible motives for this brutal crime. Vic's (Katee Sackhoff) husband (Michael Mosley) is home for a rare visit and she struggles with his jealousy of her relationship with Walt. Branch's (Bailey Chase) father (Gerald McRaney) learns something about Walt that could be damaging to his campaign.
Guest stars include Katherine LaNasa, Shawn Hatosy, John Bishop, Michael Mosley, Calum Worthy, Stacy Haiduk, Patrick Fabian, Jodi Harris, Gerald McRaney, Eb Lottimer and John English.
May 21 10:00 AM An Incredibly Beautiful Thing
Walt (Robert Taylor) investigates the murder of a gas station owner who tried to help an unstable and barefoot young woman who claimed to be in danger. He asks Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) to use his tracking skills to find her and the trail leads to an abandoned baby, a heavily guarded drilling site in another county, and evidence of a dangerous cult. The team races to find the young woman, unsure if she is a suspect or a victim, while digging deeper into the cult's mysteries. Henry's previous tracking experiences also reveal insights into Walt's past.
Guest stars include Tom Wopat, Sonja Kinski, Margaret Easley, Abbie Cobb, Steven Culp, Kate McNeil, Mike Miller, Ralph Alderman and Jason Douglas.
May 22 10:00 AM Dogs, Horses, and Indians
When the president of the Tribal Council is found dead in his car on county land, it s clear to Walt (Robert Taylor) that the body has been moved from the original crime scene--but why? He discovers that the victim had a gambling problem and delves into the seedy world of an underground poker game run out of a tattoo parlor. After tribal politics come into play, the suspect list grows tenfold. Meanwhile, Walt deals with feelings of betrayal when he uncovers Cady (Cassidy Freeman) and Branch's (Bailey Chase) affair. A. Martinez, Zahn McClarnon, and Gerald McRaney guest star.
Guest stars include Zahn McClarnon, A Martinez, Michael Spears, Rusty Schwimmer, Richard Speight Jr., Claudia Ferri, Yvonne Delarosa, Andy Mackenzie, Kimberly Guerrero, Gerald McRaney, Marcus Red Thunder, Keith Jardine, Kenneth Ruthardt, Anthony Wamego, James Burnett and Jay Tavare.
May 23 10:00 AM Unfinished Business
Walt (Robert Taylor) investigates the murder of a teenager who was one of four boys acquitted of raping a developmentally disabled Cheyenne girl. When another boy is killed, all signs point to the crime being an act of revenge by the girl s brother. But Walt is not convinced by the circumstantial evidence and must find the real killer before someone else ends up dead. And the arrival of a detective from Denver forces Walt to finally confront the reality of his wife s death. Charles Dutton guest stars.
Guest stars include Louis Herthum, Katherine LaNasa, Michael McGrady, Jeremy Ray Valdez, Aaron Christian Howles, David Lambert, Charles S. Dutton, Q'orianka Kilcher, Jeni Reed, Tenaya Torres, Bryan Head, Forrest Fyre, Catherine Haun, Tom Schuch and Bobby Neeld.
09:00 AM Pilot
Sheriff Walt Longmire (Robert Taylor) runs for re-election against a young deputy (Bailey Chase) in the opener of this series, which follows a Wyoming lawman who struggles to cope with his wife's death as he attempts to move on with his life and career.
Guest stars include John Bishop, Louis Herthum, Karina Logue, Zahn McClarnon, Reynaldo Gallegos, Irene Bedard, Nathaniel Arcand, Austin Hébert, Arron Shiver, Paul McLean and Rio Alexander.
10:00 AM A Damn Shame
Longmire (Robert Taylor) suspects foul play when a barn burns to the ground, killing the owner and his beloved horses.
Guest stars include Terry Dale Parks, Louanne Stephens, Megan Follows, A Martinez, C. Thomas Howell, Jamie McShane, Seth Adkins, Ryan Begay, Milton Chee and Vic Browder.
11:00 AM The Dark Road
When an exotic dancer shows up dead on Longmire's territory, Longmire (Robert Taylor) and his team quickly recognize that the victim is from out of town. As the investigation continues, it becomes evident that her Amish-like roots play a major role in the murder. Meanwhile, Cady (Cassidy Freeman) develops an unexpected relationship that could stir up controversy in their small town.
Guest stars include Brian R. Norris, Timothy V. Murphy, Rebecca Wisocky, Maury Sterling, James Landry Hébert, Lauren Benz Phillips, Bree Bond and Brenden Wedner.
12:00 PM The Cancer
When a lone fisherman, hooks the bodies of two murdered men, including a teen from the Cheyenne Reservation, Longmire (Robert Taylor) is once again reminded that his beloved West isn't the way it used to be. This investigation takes the Sheriff's department into a world where the Mexican drug cartel is local, marijuana is grown, and everyone wants a piece of the pie. It's Longmire's responsibility to put the pieces of this puzzle together, and he turns to Henry Standing Bear (Lou Diamond Phillips) for help.
Guest stars include Zahn McClarnon, Diego Klattenhoff, Bob Clendenin, Roberto Alcaraz, Lobo Sebastian, Katherine LaNasa and Jesse Romero.
01:00 PM Dog Soldier
After a Cheyenne foster child goes missing, Walt (Robert Taylor) and the team investigate the boy's birth family on the Rez. The stakes are raised when two more Cheyenne foster boys disappear and an unregistered sex offender is reported missing. The children in the group home insist that the boys were taken by a "dog soldier," a legendary Cheyenne warrior who can change shape from man to dog. Walt knows that the kidnapper was not a spirit, but a man who he must find before the unthinkable happens.
Guest stars include A Martinez, Rebecca Tilney, Jeffrey De Serrano, Nancy Linehan Charles, Jason Matthew Smith, Colby French, Noah Harpster, Lora Martinez-Cunningham, Gage Michael Petrone, David Vigil, Stran Thompson, Claire Mackenzie Carter and Herman Quaye Agoyo.
02:00 PM The Worst Kind of Hunter
A body is found in the woods mauled by a bear and Walt (Robert Taylor) suspects that the bear was baited to attack. He and the team must track down both the bear and the person who used it as a murder weapon. When they discover that the victim was a murderer released early from prison due to overcrowding, it leads to a long list of suspects. Meanwhile, Walt must deal with Branch's (Bailey Chase) uncle Lucian (Peter Weller), a former sheriff who is brought into custody after firing a shotgun in his retirement home and who can't resist inserting himself into the investigation.
Guest stars include Peter Weller, Louis Herthum, Graham Beckel, Cristine Rose, Scott Paulin, Wade Williams, Dean Chekvala, Debrianna Mansini and Jackamoe Buzzell.
02:00 PM Pilot
03:00 PM A Damn Shame
04:00 PM The Dark Road
05:00 PM The Cancer
06:00 PM Dog Soldier
07:00 PM The Worst Kind of Hunter
08:00 PM 8 Seconds
09:00 PM An Incredibly Beautiful Thing
10:00 PM Dogs, Horses, and Indians
11:01 PM Unfinished Business
12:01 AM 8 Seconds
01:01 AM An Incredibly Beautiful Thing
02:01 AM Dogs, Horses, and Indians
03:02 AM Unfinished Business
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Jul 2 - Falling Skies renewed by TNT for 4th Season in 2014
Jun 1 - Doctor Who - Matt Smith Announces His Series Departure
May 17 - Syfy renews Warehouse 13 for a 5th and FINAL season in 2014 - 6 episodes only
May 10 '13 - Defiance Renewed for 2nd Season on Syfy
Apr 26 '13 - LA Times Show Tracker: NBC Renews Grimm for 3rd Season
Apr 10 - Syfy renews Being Human for 4th Season
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Jul 2 - Falling Skies renewed by TNT for 4th Season in 2014
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Holiday Camps
We will not be running camps for the remainder of 2018, but stay tuned for updates in 2019!
What ages are the drama camps suitable for?
Suits ages
Children are divided into groups:
Juniors: 5 - 7 years
Pre-Seniors: 8 - 9 years
Seniors: 10+ years
Note: if we feel that your child is not suited to their allocated Junior or Senior class, we may move them up or down, depending on where we think they will be more comfortable.
When and how long does a camp run for?
We run camps for 5 consecutive days during each school holidays.
Occasionally, due to public holidays, we may need to run a 4 day camp instead. Please take note of upcoming camp dates.
What should I pack for my child?
Please pack morning tea, lunch and water, as well as an afternoon snack.
We like to encourage healthy food options, as kids will need loads of energy!
Wear comfortable clothing (no denim or dresses)
What else do I need to know?
Please sign your child in and out each day.
Look out for the Eastside Kids Drama sign out the front of your location!
Be sure to let us know of any allergies or special needs.
See drop-off and pick-up times below
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Dance, drama, singing, theatre sports & team games
TALENT QUEST - 1st, 2nd, 3rd ribbons awarded
RAFFLE - Win a movie ticket or Sky Zone Miranda pass
Full cast meeting, discuss costumes
Dance, drama, singing, theatre sports & team games
FULL Dress rehearsal. Students are expected to bring their costume ideas and any unbreakable props they need/want for Friday show.
No classes this morning, as we have a tech run with sound and lights instead.
Rehearsals until family & friends arrive 3pm for SHOW TIME!
Hourly Schedule/Drop-off & Pick-up Times
8:15am - Hall is open and staff on duty for early drop-offs
9:00am - Camp commences
11:00am - Recess
1:00pm - Lunch
3:00pm - Camp concludes
5:00pm - Final pick-ups
Late pick-up (after 5:00pm) will result in a charge of $1 per every minute

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2 April 2012
Series: No, standalone
UK Publisher: HarperCollins
UK Release date: March 2012
Genre: Historical Paranormal
Kindly given by the publisher for an honest review
Tess is embarking on the journey of her life. As maid to the Lisle family, she will be travelling with them to America on the HMS Titanic. However she secretly plans to run off and live a life free of servitude as soon as she arrives in America. But when she meets the handsome and rich Alec on board the ship, Tess becomes embroiled in a fight against dark forces. Soon she will be trapped, hunted throughout the ship and with no means of escape. Little does she know what else awaits on the journey across the Atlantic.
It seems the Titanic is having a bit of a revival at the moment, particularly so in this retelling of the tragic and ill-fated voyage. Gray has taken a unique point in time and given it a paranormal twist with the surprising element of werewolves, pushing the well-known story down a completely different path. As a sometimes-fan of historical stories, I loved the historical elements and how well it had been researched and portrayed with all the rich finery in first class and boisterous playfulness in third class.
For me, Tess was the perfect kind of heroine. She's kind, brave and knows her own mind, but isn't unnecessarily pushy or subservient. She really pushed forward the plot, coming up with plans and taking action when other characters were stuck in their own situation. I think without Tess's strength, the story wouldn't have been as good.
Although Alec was rich, handsome and protective of Tess, he wasn't necessarily your typical hero. His countenance was generally quite sad and depressed, which at some points overpowered any sense of individuality or personality. However I still liked Alec - even in the most difficult or unusual of situations he still protected her and felt a link to her. With plenty of secrets, he certainly has the element of mystery surrounding him, which is always an attraction for me!
I couldn't help but feel sorry for so many of the characters. Each of them had a reason for travelling across the Atlantic, which may or may not come to fruition. I mean, we all know what happens, but they are all oblivious to the fate that awaits them. I kept wondering who might survive and who might be swallowed by the dark cold waters (and who I actually wanted to survive!), which for me added an undercurrent of tension and suspense throughout the story. Although I never like giving spoilers, I will at least say that Gray did a great job with the inevitable ending, making it gripping, scary, powerful and yet very true and real.
Fateful is an enjoyable read, adding thrilling paranormal elements to a famously ill-fated tragedy.
Rating: 4*
1 comment:
- Beverley said...
Thanks for the review! Your review makes me want to read it even more now! I love the sound of Alec and how it is set on the Titanic...
- 2 April 2012 at 22:25
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An Unexpected Celebration
"Alright, let's do it," Red said without getting my opinion and picked up his pack. He turned to me and said, "It'll work out, man."
"Oh, I know it will. It always does," I said and grabbed my pack. When we have no expectations, and are easy to please, everything always works out.
Red and I just wanted to get out of the rain, dry our clothes, and get food, so asked to be dropped off at any cheap hotel or fast food place. We talked the entire 35 minutes and learned that Bob shared our love of the trail. He's a full-time financial advisor, but also a part-time forester and has built over 200 miles of state trails, mostly by himself.
When I told Bob I just officially finished my thru-hike of the AT, he got an excitement to his voice and told us we needed to celebrate. He dropped us off at a fancy lodge and handed us enough cash to cover the room and a steak dinner. I told him he didn't have to do that and almost turned it away, but I'm getting better at letting a stranger do a nice thing for me, because I know how it makes me feel when I can do a nice thing for a stranger.
And celebrate we did. We stuffed ourselves with steak, fresh veggies, wine, and dessert at the fantastic lodge resaurant. As I said before, everything always works out when I have no expectations, but I am still surprised every time. Thank you Bob!
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Who was in the boat:
Councilman Jones
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First Brew...Your life will never be the same!
This 5-gallon recipe format is designed to get you into an easy and very successful process of homebrewing that produces a very delicious beer!! These instructions are not for all-grain brewing, but instead for malt extract with steeping grains with a partial boil. There are 8 styles to choose from and the guidelines are the same for all. Reference the individual recipe for specifics on ingredients and their usage.
County Fair Blue Ribbon - 'Merican Lite Style
* Extracts: 3 lbs. Light Dried Malt Extract & 1 lb. rice solids
* Steeping Malts: 1/2 lb. CaraPils Malt (1.5 L)
* Hops: Crystal or Mt. Hood Hops (1-oz. for 60 minute boil and 1/2 oz. last 10 minutes of boil)
* Yeast : White Labs San Francisco, East Coast or Cream Ale
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 2 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
An All American Heroine - Hoppy American Pale Ale
* Extracts: 7 lbs. Pale Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1 lb. Caramel Malt ( 10L or 20 L)
* Hops: Cascade, and/or Centennial Hops (2 oz. for 60 minute boil and 1 oz. each last 10 and 0 min)
*Yeast : White Labs American Ale Blend or Cal V
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 3 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Pirates Plunder - Savage India Pale Ale
* Extracts: 8 lbs. Pale Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1-1/2 lbs. Caramel Malt (10L or 20L)
*Hops: 2 oz. Nugget or Chinook ( 60 minutes 2 oz. Cascade, Citra or Centennial Hops ( 1/2 oz. each for last 15, 10, 5 & 0 min)
* Yeast: White Labs Burton Ale , London or Cal V
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 4 tsp. 30 minutes into boil.
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Standard Stout - Dark, roasty, contemplative
* Extracts: 8 lbs. Dark Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1/2 lb. Caramel Malt (80 or 120 L), 3/4 lb. Roasted Barley & 1/4 lb. Chocolate Malt
*Hops: Perle or Northern Brewer Hops (1-1/2 oz. 60 & 1/2 oz. last 10 min)
* Yeast: White Labs Irish, Edinburgh or California
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 3 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Ambition Amber Ale - Dark, Rich and Malty
* Extracts: 8 lbs. Amber Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1 lb. Caramel Malt ( 40 L or 60L)
* Hops: Cascade, Citra or Fuggles Hops (1-1/2 oz. for 60 minutes & 1/2 oz. for last 10 minutes)
* Yeast: White Labs British, Edinburgh or Cal. V
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum : 3 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Best Brown Ale - Nutty, not wacky
* Extracts: 6 lbs. Pale Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1/2 lb. Caramel Malt (60L or 80L), 1/4 lb. Chocolate Malt &1/4 lb. Victory Malt
* Hops: Willamette, Fuggles or Goldings Hops (1 oz. 60 minute boil & 1/2 oz. for last 10 minutes)
*Yeast : White Labs British, California or Edinburgh
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 2 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Perfect Porter - Sharp, but not too roasty!
* Extracts: 7 lbs. Pale Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1/2 lb. Caramel Malt (80L or 120L, 1/4 lb. Black Patent Malt & 1/2 lb. Chocolate Malt
*Hops: Golding, Fuggles or Willamette Hops (1-1/2 oz. 60 minute boil & 1/2 oz. last 10 minutes of boil)
*Yeast: White Labs Irish or English
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 3 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
Wicked Wanda Wheat Wonder - Better than bread, it's BAD!
* Extracts: 5 lbs. Wheat Dry Malt Extract
* Steeping Malts: 1/2 lb. Carahell Malt (20 L)
*Hops: Northern Brewer or Perle Hops (1 oz. 60 for minutes and 1/2 oz. last 10 minutes )
*Yeast: White Labs American Wheat, Belgian Wit or Kolsch
* Irish Moss: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into boil
* Gypsum: 1 tsp. 30 minutes into the boil
* Priming Sugar: 3/4 cup dextrose or 1-1/4 cup D.M.E.
First Brews designed by Joel Rea @ Corvallis Brewing Supply, last revised July 2016
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For your First Brew plan on having at least 3 hours to set up, boil up your brew and to clean up your messes! Make it easy on yourself and have fun, so allow yourself plenty of time with limiting distractions. Don't worry about mistakes...because home-brewed beer can be very forgiving and the chances are in your favor that you will still make great beer!
1. Yeast preparation: Remove your vial of White Lab's yeast from the refrigerator 1 hour before you begin step #2. The yeast needs 4-6 hours to warm up before you pitch it into your wort. See step #11
2. Steeping the Specialty Grains: Place the cracked specialty malt (such as Crystal Malt, Chocolate Malt & Roasted Barley) into your mesh bag and add it to your boil pot with +/-3.0 gallons of cold water. Turn the heat on med-high and bring the water up to 170 degrees. Turn off the heat and allow the specialty malt to steep for another 10 minutes. Hint: Do not allow the grain bag to sit on the bottom of the pot, as it can melt!
3. Dissolving the malt extract: After you have steeped the malts remove the bag and allow it to drain into your boil pot. Either throw the malt away or compost it. Your mesh bag is good for many more batches of beer so rinse it in cold water and allow it to dry. While stirring, pour in the malt extract and dissolve it completely. Once it is thoroughly dissolved – otherwise it may burn or caramelize- turn the heat up on your stove and bring the wort to a boil. Hint: Use the warm water in your pot to rinse all of the malt extract out of the tub. We also charge $2.75 for a new tub, so bring one back to fill on your next trip to Corvallis Brewing Supply!
4. Boiling the wort: When the wort (beer without yeast) has begun to boil and you have adjusted the heat to prevent future boil-overs, set your clock for one hour. The amount of time that you will boil your wort is 60 minutes. The potential for your wort to boil over is great! Take heed, as caramelized wort on the stovetop is a significant enough reason for your significant other to kick you right out of the house! If your are a bachelorette, no worries, eh? Well, let's just say that once is enough to learn the lesson of what caramelized wort on the stove top is all about! If you notice, at the start of a boil, proteins coagulate into a cruddy sea foam-looking mass.This "Hot Break" formation will help to produce a cleaner and clearer finished beer. It is also directly related to "Cold Break" and Irish Moss. All three of these items aid in clarification of your beer.
5. Adding the hops: In beer, hops add bitterness, flavor and aroma. The longer a hop is in a boil the fewer aromas and flavors it will provide as heat degrades the flavor and floral qualities of hops as the lupulin oils are isomerize into bitterness. The longer a hop is in the boil the more bitter the beer will become. So, hops added for 60 minutes will produce only bitterness. Hops added for the last 15 - 5 minutes will produce a minimal amount of bitterness, lots of hop flavor and a little aroma. Hops added the last 10 - 0 minutes will add no bitterness, very little flavor and lots of aroma. Add your hops according to the times listed in parenthesis on page one. Stir the hops until they are saturated and they are free flowing in the wort...otherwise they will create a thermal blanket and cause a violent boil over!!
6. Irish moss: Irish moss is not really Irish, nor is it moss. Irish moss is actually seaweed and it helps to clarify your beer by coagulating proteins which settle out during "cold break." Add 1 teaspoon of Irish moss 1/2 hour before the end of the boil.
7. Gypsum: Gypsum increases the hardness of water and it aids in clarification of the beer. Gypsum also helps to accentuate hop profile. Depending upon your water source you may or may not need to use brewing salts. In the Mid-Willamette Valley it typically is good to add salts, but not necessary. Add the gypsum 30 minutes into the boil.
8. Sanitizing your fermenter: While the wort is boiling, the primary fermenter needs to be cleaned and sanitized. 3 caps of Iodophor to 6-8 gallons of water in your bucket is a sufficient enough solution for sanitizing. U s e t h e Iodophor as a color indicator; a light yellow-colored solution is the correct color to have...if your solution is amber in color than you have mixed it too strong which makes it difficult to volatilize off your equipment. Soak the fermenter for 5 or more minutes and invert it to drain. Air dry the primary fermenter for 20 minutes prior to adding your wort to it. Hint: You do not need 6 gallons of sanitizer to sanitize your fermenter. A gallon of sanitizing solution sloshed around for 5 minutes will accomplish the same sanitizing task.
Amazing tid-bit: Hops have one other relative; marijuana. While you might find that smoking hops isn't all that enjoyable, the dynamics of "bud lite" are such that you might find it expensive, futile and a huge bummer to use marijuana in brewing! Now, on the other hand, brownies and beer is a great combination...so I've heard.
9. Cooling the Wort: After you have boiled your wort the next goal is to get the yeast pitched ("brewspeak" for adding it to your wort) as soon as possible. Do not pitch the yeast into boiling wort, as the yeast will die! The wort in your primary fermenter needs to be 70- 75 degrees. To chill your wort put the kettle into a cold water or ice bath. A kitchen sink works great for this! You may need to stir the wort occasionally to mix the hot with the chilled. You may also need to change the bath water several times. Try to knock 125-150 degrees off of the kettle temp before putting the wort into your primary fermenter. Pour the wort into the primary fermenter through a strainer to keep the hops out of the fermenter. Use cold water to rinse the hops and to bring your volume up to 5.0- 5.25 gallons of volume. Remember "Hot Break"?Cold Break, is the re-coagulation of proteins during rapid cooling of the wort. Large protein clumps will help to clarify your beer when they fall out of suspension.
10. Taking a Hydrometer Reading: Mix your beer thoroughly with a sterile spoon and carefully remove enough wort to take a hydrometer reading. Hint: a turkey baster works really well for this. Don't dump the beer back into the fermenter after taking the reading because you should also taste your unfermented beer. It is a good idea to taste the beer in its many different stages so that you may begin to get an idea of how the flavors will change during fermentation and during bottle conditioning. Record your Original Gravity. Hint: Now is a good time to start a beer journal! One day you may want to recreate this beer (or maybe not!!) BIG HINT! We cannot help you in determining what fermentation issues there might possibly be without you supplying us with hydrometer readings!! For these recipes you should have final gravities below 1.020. Don't bottle unless it is!!
11. Pitching the Yeast: Snap the lid of the bucket on tight and rock the fermenter for a couple of minutes to aerate your wort. Hint: At this point in time oxygen is very necessary for proper yeast respiration; "More is better" at this time. Shake your vial of yeast to break up the deposit of yeast cells. Open the lid and pitch the yeast into the fermenter! You may need to use a small amount of water to rinse the vial that the yeast came in. Now put the air lock on the fermenter. Remember to put a small amount of water in the airlock trap! Congratulations! You have just made beer!!
12. Fermentation of Your Beer: Your ale yeast will be very happy if left alone at a temperature of 60-75 degrees and out of the light. Find a quiet place to put the fermenter to allow the yeast to work at converting the sugar to alcohol. It will take 18-24 hours for your yeast to begin fermentation. You can reduce this lag time by swirling your fermenter every 2-4 hours. This action will pick the yeast up off the bottom of the fermenter and get it energized! Try to resist the temptation of peeking into the fermenter as this will only introduce oxygen (now oxygen is not good!!) and bacteria. After flocculation, which is the settling out of the yeast, your beer will be ready to "rack" (that's brewspeak for "siphoning") to your secondary fermenter. It will be hard to see your beer while it is in an opaque bucket, so to tell if your beer is ready for racking look for this other sign: If your airlock is releasing less than one bubble per minute than it is o.k. to rack. Your beer will be in the primary fermenter for approx. 7-10 days. If you leave your beer in the primary fermenter longer than one week, after fermentation has ceased, it will begin to pick-up a yeast bite (white bread-yeasty flavor) from the dead yeast cells. This is one reason why it is important to rack the beer from the primary to the secondary as soon as yeast flocculation has taken place. Hint: A towel or Tee- shirt wrapped around your fermenter will help to protect your beer from light damage.
13.The Secondary Fermenter: Your beer ought to be ready to bottle about 7-10 days after racking into the secondary. The purpose of the secondary is to age and clarify the beer in a clean environment. If racked carefully the beer in the secondary fermenter is not sitting on a lot of dead yeast cells. It is o.k. to let the beer sit in the secondary fermenter for many weeks or months...in fact it is even encouraged!!
14. Taking a Second Hydrometer Reading: When you get a siphon-started take the first bit of the flow for a hydrometer reading. After noting the number in your log book take a good sensory evaluation of the beer. Get your nose close to the beer and smell it. Then, take a good hearty mouthful and marvel at the wonders of young beer! Write down some notes about the early characteristics of your beer.
15. Taking a Third Hydrometer Reading: In the secondary your beer may emit more CO2 gas with a renewed activity of fermentation. It may settle out and become real clear. When the later happens it is time to take a 3rd hydrometer reading. If you get the same reading as the second reading, or very close to it, then you are ready to bottle. If it is a different reading you should wait a few more days and take a 4th reading. When you have back-to- back samples that have unchanged readings you are ready to bottle. Ultimately, what you are measuring is the difference between fermentable sugars and non-fermentable solids (A.K.A. "body".) AGAIN! A S u p e r B I G HINT! We cannot help you in determining what fermentation issues there might possibly be without you supplying us with hydrometer readings!!
16. Bottling Your Beer: Have ready at least 48, 12-oz. or 33, 22-oz. crown cap bottles that are clean and sanitized. Hint: An easy way to sanitize bottles is to load them up in your dishwasher. Don't use any soap
though! The rinse and dry cycles are hot enough to sanitize your bottles. At this point your beer will taste good, but it will be flat. To create carbonation you will need to re-feed the yeast with a priming sugar. To this, take one- to- two pints of water and your priming sugar and boil them for 5-10 minutes. (hint: a touch of acid - 1 tbls. Lemon juice or 1 tsp. citric acid added to your priming sugar solution will help to give the carbonation a smoother and creamier texture.) You will also need to sanitize your caps. To sanitize your caps hold them in 140 degree water for 10 minutes. Another method is to spray them with a spritzer of alcohol and water or to use your Iodophor. Put the dissolved and cooled priming sugar in your clean and sanitized bucket and then gently rack your beer out of the secondary fermenter and onto the priming sugar solution. When all of the beer is racked, you can use the racking cane to gently swirl the beer to help completely mix the priming sugar with the beer. Hint: when transferring your beer from the secondary into the bottling bucket be sure that you get some of the yeast off of the bottom... otherwise you may not have enough yeast in your beer for proper carbonation. You will need about 1 TBLS. of yeast-sediment transferred over. Attach the bottling wand to the end of your siphon tube, create a siphon and fill each bottle leaving one inch of headspace. After filling each bottle place a sanitized bottle cap onto each bottle. Do this with all of the beer before crimping the caps on. This will allow oxygen that is in the bottle to be pushed out by the CO 2 while keeping germs out. When all of the bottles are filled crimp on all of the caps, starting with the first one filled. Hint: Creating a siphon is simple but awkward for beginning brewers. Start with your receiving container(s) lower than what you are siphoning out of. Hold the flexible tubing horizontal and suck until the beer comes up and over past the crook of your racking cane. As the beer gets closer to you drop the flexible tubing into the receiving container. If you have your bottling wand attached it will take a little tongue action to keep the tip of the filler open while you are sucking. You will find a siphon nearly impossible to start if you are sitting below what you are siphoning out of.
17. Storing Your Beer: For the first week you will need to keep the beer at room temperature to allow the yeast to convert the priming sugar to CO2. One week after bottling grab one of the bottles and stick it in the fridge for an hour before serving. If it gives up a nice, "pppffffft!" upon opening then you have developed carbonation. At this point you can move your beer to a colder location for storage. If there is absolutely no carbonation then give Joel a call to discuss some measures for getting your beer carbonated. You will notice that homebrew reaches its prime, depending upon the style, after 3 - 4 weeks. It will be tough for you to resist the temptation, but try to wait two weeks before drinking all of the beer!! I recommend that you try one a week after bottling, then another after 2 weeks. You will note some significant changes for the better! Most homebrews will not last more than a year. Try to store your beer at a constant temperature below 60 degrees and out of the light. Hint: Don't wait until the last six pack is left before you ferment up another batch "Cheers!" If your beer did not carbonate after a week to two weeks there are several reasons that. First, after bottling you stored the beer in a cold location and the yeast went dormant. Second, you forgot to add priming sugar. Third, you were too careful in your rackings and did not get enough yeast carried over from your primary to your secondary and to your bottling bucket...Don't be a Yeastybeastyphobe! To remedy flat beer you need to either move the beer to a warm area, add priming sugar and/or fresh yeast. Sometimes simply shaking the bottles 2 – 3 times a day for a week is sufficient for getting the yeast agitated and out of dormancy.
18. Bonus tips: Never use bleach for cleaning or sanitizing. If you think you have aerated your wort sufficiently then do it twice as long! Cool your wort as quickly as possible. If you don't like how your beer is turning out bring a bottle down for an evaluation. Share with friends but insist on getting your bottles returned in a clean state! And always for the best homebrew, think good thoughts and be a good person!
This "malt extract and grain-steeping" recipe guide is designed to get you into a method of brewing that I think works really well...but, hopefully, you will develop your own opinions and methods! It is also designed as a hand-holding tool so that you can go home and get brewing. To advance your skill, think about a "mini-mash" or a stepping up to the bat and playing with the big boys and doing an "all-grain" batch. For more information refer to Charlie Papazian's Complete Joy of homebrewing or Palmer's How To Brew
Predicting the FG of your beer when you know the OG and % ATTN of your yeast strain
OG - [%Att (OG - 1) ÷ 100] so, for example... 1.050 - [ 70 (1.050 - 1) ÷ 100] = 1.050 - .035 or a FG 1.015
First Brews designed by Joel Rea @ Corvallis Brewing Supply, last revised July 2016
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Australian airline Qantas will use a replica of NASA's Mars Rover 'Curiosity' in a new campaign promoting its frequent flier program. The rover will feature in TV commercials, outdoor advertising, social media campaigns and digital advertisements promoting the features of Qantas's frequent flier program.
The CEO of Qantas Loyalty, Lesley Grant, stated that the Rover was selected as it symbolizes "the spirit of exploration." "We are thrilled that NASA has given us permission to make the association with their Mars Rover for the campaign," Grant added.
The campaign, scheduled to be launched in July, will highlight frequent flier features such as the recently launched Qantas Cash that allows frequent fliers to transfer money onto their member cards for use when shopping.


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Chia Crush
Makes 1 serving
What you need:
1 cup organic maple water or pure unsweetened coconut water
1 cup pure water
1 1/2 tbsp whole chia seeds
1 tsp fresh lemon juice
1 tsp fresh lime juice
½ tbsp pure maple syrup (optional)
What to do:
-Juice your lemon and lime with a manual citrus juicer (juice extra and store in a mason jar so you can easily make this again!)
-Add your chia seeds, maple/coconut water and pure water to a large mason jar. Screw on the lid and shake very well.
-Allow to sit in the fridge for about 10 minutes to chill, when the chia is visibly swelling, shake again.
-Add lemon, lime and maple syrup (if using) to the mason jar - shake well to combine
This drink is perfectly fine when made ahead of time, however as the chia seeds swell get heavy they have a tendency to sink to the bottom (this is normal) shake well to re-combine.


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Many of you know, paint is my therapy. I've done quite a bit of painting these past 2 weeks... what's that tell you? I had hubby pick up a 4x4 post and a 2x4 from the HD, gave him a specific set of instructions for how I wanted the wood cut... I took a couple of hours for myself and created these:
Did you know 4x4 post are actually only 3.5 inches? I didn't, but now I know! Dear Hubby cut 2- 3.5 squares and 2- 3.5x5 inches for me... isn't he sweet? I then asked him to cut a 2x4 to a little over 14 inches long to create a base.
Each block received a coat of black paint. Halloween themed craft paper {6 different designs for each block}, cut into 3 inch squares was mod podged on and sealed. My favorite little friend {2nd to my paintbrushes} the Silhouette Cameo then came out to play. The numbers for the blocks and the text, "Days til Trick or Treat" was cut from some bright lime green vinyl and applied and sealed also with poly sealer... so cute already, right?
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From our complimentary in-home consultation to selecting materials and accessories to crafting and installment, we will make sure you are happy and loving your new space before it's even finished.
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Every single person on the team from sales to service to installation was on time professional and neat. When you go through six weeks of renovations with more than 14 tradespeople … you have no idea how much this is appreciated. I love showing off my new closet and we appreciate its flexibility as it is so often used every day. California Closets really stepped up to the plate on this a real home run from start to finish!
From the moment we walked in to the showroom and were warmly greeted the whole experience was a delight. We were shown our choices of finish at the store and then were able to make an appointment for an in home design quote on exactly the day we wanted. We are very pleased with the final product and the excellent service we received from everyone we came in contact with.


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Issues at a glance
Gun Violence Prevention
1. What is the Issue?
Gun Violence Prevntion & Common-Sense Gun Reform. "Proponents of more gun control laws state that the Second Amendment was intended for militias; that gun violence would be reduced; that gun restrictions have always existed; and that a majority of Americans, including gun owners, support new gun restrictions.
Opponents say that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns; that guns are needed for self-defense from threats ranging from local criminals to foreign invaders; and that gun ownership deters crime rather than causes more crime."(ProCon.org)
2. Background
- In 1977 the National Rifle Association (NRA) changed their primary purpose from sportsmanship to protecting the Second Amendment. "The NRA-ILA actively lobbies against universal checks and registration, "large" magazine and "assault weapons" bans, requiring smart gun features, ballistic fingerprinting, firearm traces, and prohibiting people on the terrorist watchlist from owning guns; and in favor of self-defense (stand your ground) laws." (ProCon.org)
- Today, America's guns' homicide rate is 25% higher than other developed countries. On an average day, 93 people are killed by a gun and for every one person killed by a gun, two are injured. Of those 93 people, 60% are suicides with a gun. (everytownresearch.org )
3.Representatives Who Deal with this Issue:
Contact your representatives.
4. Summary of Current Laws Governing this Issue
Key Federal Acts Regulating Firearms
"Among other things, Maryland:
- Requires almost all transfers of handguns and assault weapons be processed through a licensed dealer or designated law enforcement agency, who must conduct a background check on the purchaser through the State Police;
- Requires licensure of all dealers in handguns or assault weapons;
- Requires purchasers of handguns and assault weapons to complete a certified firearms safety training course;
- Prohibits any person from purchasing more than one handgun or assault weapon within a 30-day period;
- Imposes a seven-day waiting period prior to the physical transfer of a handgun or assault weapon;
- Provides law enforcement with discretion to deny a permit to wear or carry a handgun;
- Imposes design safety standards for handguns;
- Prohibits the transfer of certain assault weapons and large capacity ammunition magazines; and
- Requires firearm owners to report the loss or theft of their firearms.
Maryland does not, however:
- Do enough to remove guns from domestic abusers and other dangerous people;
- Impose significant requirements on most long gun transfers; or
- Allow local governments to regulate firearms.
Maryland had the 12th lowest rate of gun deaths per capita among the states in 2014. In that year, 544 people died from firearm-related injuries in Maryland. Between 2010 and 2015, Maryland supplied the 12th lowest number of crime guns to other states per capita, and it imports many more crime guns from other states than it exports."
- Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence (Links provided within the quote were provided by the source. All links open into a new window)
5. Immediate goals for this issue
Prevent legislation that would undermine commonsense gun solutions as it affects gun violence.
Continue to educate and pursue common sense gun laws for a safer Maryland. Protect current common sense gun laws.
6. Longterm goals for this issue
No one solution will stop gun violence but common sense gun reform can help to reduce it. There are many gun related issues that impact us nationally and locally. These issues include but are not limited to: mental illness, gun sense laws, education, suicide, and the ability to research gun violence. As we address each of these issues in a positive, productive manner, we can have a safer America.
Helpful Links
Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence - a response to the 101 California Street massacre; is the premier resource for legal expertise and information regarding state and federal firearems laws.
Maryland Score Card - created by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
ProCon.org - promoting critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship by presenting controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan and primarily pro-con format.
Everytown for Gun Safety - Americans working together to end gun violence)
Moms Demand Action.org - a response to Sandy Hook, was created to demand action from legislators, companies, and educational institutions to establish common-sense gun reform
Brady Campaign - create a safer America by cutting gun deaths in half by 2025
Americans for Responsible Solutions - Gabby Giffords; safe and responsible gun ownership
Marylanders to Prevent Gun Violence - reduce the number of senseless deaths through education and legislation
The Trace - an independent, non-profit news organization, dedicated to expanding news coverage of guns in the U.S.
Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research - bring public health expertise and perspectives to the complex policy issues related to gun violence prevention.
MD State Police wear and carry permit info
Dickey Amendment - the legislation that stopped the CDC from researching gun violence and the namesafe Rep. who now regrets his amendment


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In April, Apple CEO Steve Jobs explained in detail why consumers aren't
going to see Flash support on the iPhone and iPad. Long story short:
Adobe Flash "is no longer necessary." Although Apple's lack of support for Flash is often cited as an
iPhone/iPad drawback, Flash certainly isn't going to win a whole lot of
popularity contests either. But the question remains: is there a place
for Flash in the mobile market?
We may soon have an answer.
Yesterday, Flash 10.1 made its full debut on Android 2.2, the latest version of Google's popular mobile OS. Not surprisingly, Google's Andy Rubin sees the full launch of Flash on Android as a big thing:
We are excited that Android is the first mobile platform to support the full Flash Player. Now mobile users can browse the full web on their smart phones, and Android developers can use industry-leading tools to create immersive experiences on the web.
But Google won't have Flash all to itself for long. According to Adobe's press release, Flash 10.1 has also been released to other mobile partners and will soon make its way onto BlackBerry, webOS, Windows Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS devices as well. Some of these devices, of course, will not be mobile phones — they'll be tablets. If Flash isn't dead and consumers truly want Flash on their mobiles and tablets, the release of Flash 10.1 will ensure that they have no reason to complain. After all, Apple's devices may never support Flash, but plenty of competing devices will.
Obviously, as Flash gets bundled with new devices, Adobe will carve out a large install base that it can boast about. But the real question is how important Flash will really be in the mobile world. Apple has reportedly already 3m iPads and received hundreds of thousands of pre-orders for the newest iPhone on launch day. Right now, it's hard to imagine that a significant number of consumers will choose to avoid Apple devices simply because they don't have Flash.
So has Adobe already lost the war? At the end of the day, Flash's success in the mobile market will be based on the actions of businesses and developers. If enough of them continue to abandon Flash, the presence of Flash on a device won't be a very convincing selling point long-term since compelling Flash content and applications would be harder to find.
From this perspective, Adobe's challenge is just beginning. Getting Flash onto a significant number of mobile and tablet devices will be the easy part; getting creators to stick by Flash and make it meaningful in the mobile environment is going to be much, much tougher.
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The Canadian subsidiary of French aerostructures supplier Aerolia hopes that its work on the in-development Bombardier Global 7000 and 8000 business jets will help it win more work in North America, including from Boeing.
Aerolia Canada is set to complete work on a final assembly facility in Mirabel in southern Quebec in January 2014 and will unveil part of it at a ceremony tomorrow. The facility will produce the centre fuselage for the Global 7000 and 8000, set to enter into service in 2016 and 2017, respectively.
At its maximum capacity, the 7,300 square metres facility will produce seven fuselage sections a month, Aerolia chief executive Christian Cornille tells Flightglobal.
Aerolia , an EADS subsidiary, won the Bombardier contract in 2011, adding its first customer ouside Airbus. Cornille says the company's work on the Global 7000 and 8000 will demonstrate its capabilities to the rest of the industry, particularly Boeing. The US airframer is unlikely to subcontract work to an EADS subsidiary, but Cornille hopes this will change in the future. Aerolia has indicated previously that it would likely be sold by EADS to an external investor, which will open up more potential customers.
"This is why it would be so important for us to be successful with Bombardier," he adds. "We have some technology that will interest Boeing."
Aerolia is investing C$82 million ($79.5 million) in the Mirabel facility, with the provincial Quebec government contributing C$15 million of that total cost. The facility will employ about 160 workers, says Marie-Agnès Vève, chief executive of Aerolia Canada.
The aerostructures supplier is also supplying the nose fuselage section for the Airbus A350 from its facility in Méaulte in France, and is prepared to meet Airbus' needs as the airframer aims to ramp up its production rate in end-2014.
Cornille says Aerolia will increase its capabilities to meet the ramp-up and the company expects to make a decision in 2014 to invest additional resources into its A350 fuselage production.


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Monday, April 6, 2009
color me bad.
i love these perfect-for-spring crayola rings by timothy liles that i spotted over on besos y fotos. and louise is totally right, they're perfect for white-paper-tablecloth doodling while drinking strong coffee and waiting for a delish sunday brunch! man, i love brunch.
Posted by lisa butterworth at 8:27 PM
1 comment:
- besos y fotos: the virtual sketchbook said...
aren't these outta control!!!! i adore them+i love brunch--what could be better?!
so glad you reposted! i think this guy should sell lots of them+then start making necklaces with crayon pendants....this kind of genius should continue.
- April 13, 2009 at 9:57 PM
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We are mad about food at Creative Gardens! We love nothing more than home cooked, hearty meals, delicious and huge desserts as well as yummy cakes and tray bakes.
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We also use the finest ingredients — you wont find chocolate topping in our kitchens, only the best Belgian chocolate is used.
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C'mon, admit it: you're just *dying* for Bud.tv and can't wait. Well, you'll have to wait at least a few more months. Experience Curve tells us that
Bud.TV will engage contemporary adult consumers with a wide array of entertainment options in branded and original proprietary content including new humorous webisodes, sporting events, consumer-generated content, field news reports, celebrity interviews, music downloads and comedian vignettes. The first-of-its-kind initiative is slated to launch in February 2007, and more content providers will be announced in the coming months.
Adrants tells us the Bud Tube portion is "a YouTube-like site whereby people can upload the usual consumer generated media type stuff".
I'm not sure if I'm a "contemporary adult" or not. I really don't know if I like "branded and original proprietary content" or not. I guess I'll have to wait until Feb. to find out.
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The Maryland General Assembly's Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee has two bills in front of it that you should take action on.
SB 0338 allows HAWK Signals to improve pedestrian safety in Maryland. The Washington Area Bicyclist Association has a good write-up on why this legislation is important and how HAWK signals will--and could have already--saved lives.
HB 1079 gives local jurisdictions the authority to impose additional penalties for people who improperly cross the street. Read our post here for more information on why this is a bad idea.
The Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee has no representatives from Baltimore City, but we encourage you to email them anyway in support of SB 0338 and in opposition to the cross filed version of HB 1079 that they will soon hear in committee.


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Discuss the Ezi (EU - Fresh Start) server.
I made this new discord server for Ezi players so we can find a good place to talk about the game and help each other, especially with the...
Does anyone know when it will be possible to transfer from Ezi to any legacy server?
There is actually no life on Ezi.
Or mb not transfer...
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Hello everybody!
I want to create a dungeon runner community on the fresh start server Ezi.
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Is there any Discord channel for Ezi server? If so, can someone post a link?
Not sure why it is Disabled
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Well as the title says we need more good players here in Wild Hunt.
Contact Wild Hunt for more info ingame.
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Can someone post a brief history of the server regarding where the "top" guilds evolved from?
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I'm reading a fascinating book called The Anti-Anxiety Food Solution by Trudy Scott, CN. It is full of real life stories of people managing, reducing, and in some cases eliminating anxiety by choosing to eat different types of foods. It also has a ton of helpful explanations about how and why foods are correlated with anxiety.
Now, let me say one thing right away- I am all about enjoying food. Preparing and sharing a meal is great for your relationships AND your tastebuds. Foods that include gluten, sugar, and fat are... delicious. Totally eliminating entire food groups is not what I advocate. However, there also happens to be a growing pile of research suggesting that certain foods can make anxiety worse. There's also lots of evidence for the relationship between your gut and your brain. I'll leave the heavy duty research to the scientists, and present to you a few food suggestions to help your anxiety:
- Scott points out that having too little zinc and vitamin B6 is correlated with anxiety. Try adding seafood- fresh fish or oysters! Not into that? How about some carrots, red meat, or Gouda cheese?
- Add some tasty yogurt or kimchi to your diet. A new study is showing that eating fermented foods has a positive effect on social anxiety, particularly in young adults.
- Of course I couldn't forget about caffeine. Have you noticed more anxiety symptoms (pounding heart, sense of dread, upset stomach) after having too much caffeine? Everyone has a different caffeine tolerance- what might make you feel a little jittery could make someone else feel on the verge of a panic attack. My recommendation is to reduce your caffeine intake and then just notice how you feel. Once you have a good idea how much you can tolerate, try sticking to those guidelines to help your anxiety.
Are you ready to make some life changes? Changing your diet is a great first step. Cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies are also excellent, evidence-based treatments for anxiety. Click here to get started with a counseling appointment- I look forward to hearing from you!


text: Hey Papis. There is nothing like a pool party with hundreds of SUPER PAPIs. Everywhere you turned there was a PAPI with a body made out of stone. It was the Winter Music Conference. So next year you PAPIs know where to go. I took some of my closest friends and some new ones. We had a blast. It was almost too much fun. I really didn't want to leave. Once I got a grab of Maxin's package, while we were dancin, it was a no brainer: we quickly went to the hotel and had our own conference.


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Saturday, April 30, 2005
APRIL 30, 1975. As the South Vietnamese army collapsed and the North surrounded Saigon, U.S. forces helped evacuate many civilians who had collaborated with the U.S.-backed effort. 30 years later, many wounds of this conflict have healed, but let the scars continue to speak to us. What did we learn? How have we changed? For what shall we live? How do we approach conflict? How shall it best be resolved?
We have moved on,
Haven't we?
We can look each other in the eye now,
Can't we?
We don't feel the pain as much,
Do we?
We aren't making such political mistakes again,
Are we?
Friday, April 29, 2005
Thursday, April 28, 2005
STILL AT THE TABLE. Here are a few of the rogues that remained at the table after our weekly Wednesday morning roundtable at Unleavened Bread Cafe (30th & Central) concluded. Along with others, David Metzger (white beard) helped get the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood cafe going after his retirement from I U School of Social Work. He confesses that he has learned more and changed his outlook significantly about social work since immersing himself in this community and the lives of those who frequent the cafe. The Wednesday morning roundtable gathers at 7:30 am and is currently working through Psalm 119 and God's Politics by Jim Wallis.
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
"What leads to peace is not violence but peaceableness, which is not passivity, but an alert, informed, practiced, and active state of being. We should recognize that while we have extravagantly subsidized the means of war, we have almost totally neglected the ways of peaceableness. We have, for example, several national military academies, but not one peace academy. We have ignored the teachings and the examples of Christ, Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and other peaceable leaders. And here we have an inescapable duty to notice also that war is profitable, whereas the means of peaceableness, being cheap or free, make no money."
-- Wendell Berry from In the Presence of Fear
UNLEAVENED BREAD CAFE. Every Wednesday morning I meet for Men's Prayer Breakfast at WEMO at 6:15 am, then drive to 30th & Central Avenue on the northside of Indy for a 7:30 am roundtable that I've been a part of for about five years now. My father-in-law (shown here) has become a part of this table fellowship of prayer, Bible reading, and discussion of how faith intersects with urban community. Currently our group of 7-12 friends is working through Jim Wallis' book God's Politics. These two Wednesday morning meetings are important times of meeting of minds and hearts with mostly elder (though not elderly) brothers in the Christian faith.
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
THIS WEEK'S EDITION POSTED. Click here to read this week's Grace Notes. Contents:
- Moving Through Chaos - Warren Bennis
- Creative is Daily
- Pastor or Prophet? - Stanley Hauerwas
- As the Cycling World Turns
- Call for Peace Academies - Wendell Berry
INOVATION AND INTUITION. "A leader is, by definition, an innovator. He does things other people haven't done or don't do. He does things in advance of other people. He makes new things. He makes old things new. Having learned from the past, he lives in the present, with one eye on the future. And each leader pulls it all together in a different way. To do that…leaders must be right-brain, as well as left-brain thinkers. They must be intuitive, conceptual, synthesizing, and artistic."
LEARN, LEAD, GROW. "Learning to lead is, on one level, learning to manage change…and that includes changes within the leader. One of a leader's principal gifts is his ability to use his experiences to grow in office. The leader does it better and better and better, but is never satisfied. The leader knows better than anyone that the fundamental problems of life are insoluble, but he persists anyway, and he continues to learn."
OUR CURRICULUM: ADVERSITY. "Leaders learn by leading, and the learn best by leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, so problems make leaders. Difficult bosses, lack of vision and virtue in the executive suite, circumstances beyond their control, and their own mistakes have been the leaders' basic curriculum."
Monday, April 25, 2005
AMERICAN TOM DANIELSON WINS TOUR de GEORGIA. On Sunday, Lance Armstrong helped one of his proteges--27-year old Tom Danielson of the Discovery Channel pro cycling team--to the winner's podium of the 6-stage Tour de Georgia. You will not likely see the young and relatively inexperienced Danielson with Armstrong in the Tour de France in July, but his win in the biggest multiple-day cycling race in the US is perhaps a hint of things to come. Win or lose, Armstrong will retire at the end of this summer's Tour de France. Click here to read the AP story on the finishing day of the Tour de Georgia.
Sunday, April 24, 2005
THREE AFTER A COLD, TOUGH GAME. "Jitterbug," "Bazooka," and "The Badger" stop for a photo after a tough soccer loss Sunday afternoon. Temps were in the 30s. The team played in blowing snow in Lafayette on Saturday. Isn't it nearly May? Click on this or any photo on the blog for a larger image.
Saturday, April 23, 2005
"The humblest and the most unseen activity in the world can be the true worship of God. Work and worship literally become one. Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever; and man carries out that function when he does what God sent him into the world to do. Work well done rises like a hymn of praise to God. This means that the doctor on his rounds, the scientist in his laboratory, the teacher in his classroom, the musician at his music, the artist at his canvas, the shop assistant at his counter, the typist at her typewriter, the housewife in her kitchen -- all who are doing the work of the world as it should be done are joining in a great act of worship." – William Barclay
Friday, April 22, 2005
IMAGE OF GOD. According to Michelangelo, this is what God looked like as he gave life to Adam. The artist's paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel depict various images of God.
"Poverty is both a cause and a symptom of environmental degradation. You can't say you'll deal with just one. It's a trap. When you're in poverty, you're trapped because the poorer you become, the more you degrade the environment, and the more you degrade the environment, the poorer you become. So it's a matter of breaking the cycle."
"We cannot solve all the problems that we face: we don't have water, we don't have energy, we don't have food, we don't have incomes, we're not able to send our children to school. But we can do something – something that is cheap, that is within our power, our capacity, our resources. And planting a tree was the best idea I had. For me, it became a wonderful way of breaking the cycle."
Thursday, April 21, 2005
CHEERING ON LANCE. In this Reuters photo, a young Georgian cheers on cycling legend Lance Armstrong during the time trial stage of the Tour du Georgia. Lance finished over a minute behind the stage winner--American and former Armstrong teammate Floyd Landis. After four stages, Armstrong lurks back in 8th place in the race he won last year. The race finishes in Atlanta on Sunday. Follow it at www.cyclingnews.com.
Creative is not only something
we intend to do
with paint and brush.
It is not an expression
we go to a museum
to contemplate.
It is not contrived only
beyond the framework
of the ordinary.
Creative is daily.
It is illumined in the work
of common forgiveness.
Creative is found in that conspiracy
of grace we call joy.
It is in the daily honing and preservation
of a pure heart.
Creative is the transformative power
of gratitude.
The greatest creative work of God
in our lives is diminished
when we look only
outside the soul,
beyond relationships,
beyond the daily.
But look again.
God is doing a new thing
in our hearts and
thru our lives.
Wednesday, April 20, 2005
Tuesday, April 19, 2005
HAMILTON BANNED FOR TWO YEARS. American cyclist and 2004 Olympic cross country champion Tyler Hamilton will spend lots of time at home over the next two years. After an extended and impassioned appeal, he received a 2-year ban from the United States Anti-Doping Agency. Will he be too old to come back in 2007? This photo is from Reuters.
Monday, April 18, 2005
1. Resident policeman. "God's gonna get you if you don't watch out." This god is ready to arrest you if you step out of line. This god may be seen as unsympathetic, emotionally distant, cold, and interested only in facts or performance. This god can also be the "bad cop"…a bully, an intimidator, an abuser. The main response to this distorted image of God: fear and guilt.
2. Busy and aloof manager of the universe. Some say: "God's busy somewhere…but he's too busy for little ol' me and my concerns." In this common image, God is too busy with important things to care about or to listen to me. God's doing something somewhere…but he's just not there for me. This god is unreliable, or a god who abandons me. The main response to this distorted image of God: loneliness.
3. Uncle Sam god. This is "God-on-our-side." This image of God makes our might right. This is the war god, who blesses men's wars, who condones mass violence in the name of national pride, who justifies whatever is said to be in the nation's best interest. This is the god of civil religion. No matter what the God of the Bible declares and calls for, if this god is conjured up, many people yield to the Uncle Sam god. The main response to this distorted image of God: smugness and self-righteousness.
4. God-in-a-box. Confined to the shelf or in a limited space for limited purposes, you take him out when you need him. This is the consumer god, who stays in his place in our compartmentalized lives. Sunday god. Pet god. Like a troll doll; rub his tummy when you really need him. God-in-a-box helps you get what you want without crossing boundaries that you have set for him. The main response to this distorted image of God: self-absorbed.
5. Offended, unpleasable tyrant. Some people imagine God as a person with impossibly demanding expectations. You're trying hard to please this god…but you can't quite measure up. The standards are high…just out of your reach. You get the feeling this god is offended and you want to please him but you're not sure how. You're really not sure what this god expects…like a moving target. The main response to this distorted image of God: tired (from trying hard to please).
Do any of these describe the image of God in your own head and heart?
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Saturday, April 16, 2005
SHALL I BIKE 2000 MILES THRU INDIA? On Friday, a fellow Free Methodist and cycling enthusiast shared with me his plan to raise awareness and support for a Free Methodist hospital in Umri, India by launching an effort that will culminate in a 2000-mile bicycle journey from New Delhi to the southern tip of India in 2007. The ride would include only a handful of cyclists...and I could be one. While I salivate at the prospect and support the project, I have to seriously consider whether or not I am up for riding 100 kilometers a day, day after day for six weeks through the middle of India. I will give this some prayerful consideration.
Thursday, April 14, 2005
A LITTLE NIEBUHR. I ran across this excerpt of Reinhold Niebuhr, quoted from his book The Irony of American History. The excerpt is in a book on urban ministry titled Redeeming the City and the authors place the statement at the beginning of a chapter that challenges change agents to address systems with principles, patience and persistence over a lifetime.
"Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend and foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness."
BACKYARD FORSYTHIA. Bright yellow blooms of forsythia always greet us upon our return from Spring Break in Colorado. For more than two weeks the bush shines before dropping the yellow petals and greening up.
Wednesday, April 13, 2005
Tuesday, April 12, 2005
"There is a mistaken notion that our society has a problem in terms of effective human services. Our essential problem is weak communities. While we have reached the limits of institutional problem-solving, we are only at the beginning of exploring the possibility of a new vision for community. It is a vision of regeneration. It is a vision of reassociating the exiled. It is a vision of freeing ourselves from service and advocacy. It is a vision of centering our lives in community."
-- John McKnight in The Careless Society
Monday, April 11, 2005
- Defiant Struggle - a quote from C. F. Blumhardt
- Papal Conclave & Cable News
- Sift Our Hearts - a prayer re John Paul II's funeral
- To Share or Not to Share - four vignettes
- Ten Days After Easter - a prayer
Sunday, April 10, 2005
TRAFFIC JAM ON THE COBBLES. Cycling photographer Graham Watson (www.grahamwatson.com) was on the spot of one of many pile ups during Sunday's 103rd Paris-Roubaix race. Called "Hell of the North," the race is run on 2000 year-old cobblestone roads built by the Romans in northern France. Belgian Tom Boonen won the race; American George Hincapie, Lance Armstrong's first lieutenant on the Discovery Channel team, placed second.
Saturday, April 9, 2005
SATURATING US WITH ALL THINGS PAPAL. Before a new leader of the Roman Catholic Church is announced, the western world will be saturated with every perspective, nuance, speculation, and projection ad nauseum about the pope. For escape, we will be surfing reruns of M.A.S.H. and the reassuring banality of Father Mulcahy. Hey, why not Father Mulcahy for pope?
BEAT THEM AT THEIR GAME. One can only hope that thru the next fortnight Catholic commentators will be savvy enough (a) to not play into the news media's hands and (b) to teach us all a lesson or two in basic Christianity (vs. the made-for-TV exploitation brands).
BETWEEN SOCCER GAMES. Molly (on the right), with two Arsenal teammates, poses for a photo after a tough morning game. They played a second 80-minute game in the afternoon. Sam also played this afternoon with this Indy Burn team.
O God,
Thank you for the public life and example of John Paul II. As the world has grieved and gathered in tribute, I pray that you will be glorified.
At such a time, let the true nature of your kingdom be clarified. It is not about rituals or the rich, but about Good News to the poor. I pray for the poor to be remembered and lifted up as central to your Gospel. I ask that the hearts of those of us who have succumbed to a mammon spirit and given ourselves to unworthy, selfish pursuits will be sifted.
Let us accept your judgments now that we may be changed and change our habits, patterns, and witness before a watching world. May we yet, in this generation, live to glorify you and your name in the world.
Friday, April 8, 2005
Having shown the world for over a quarter of a century how an authentic Christian stands and lives, Pope John Paul II has now shown the world how a Christian suffers and dies. Let us all be grateful.
A RACE OVER ROMAN COBBLESTONES. This AFP photo (at www.cyclingnews.com) shows the treacherous cobblestones over which over 150 professional cyclists will race kilometer after kilometer in Sunday's 103rd Paris-Roubaix event. These cobblestone roads date back to Roman times. Once crossed by Roman chariots, these cobbles bounce high-tech bicycles and iron-willed competitors nearly 20 centuries later.
INSTANT SPRING. Each year, our family experiences the odd sensation of instant spring. The last weekend of March finds us heading from mildly cold and lingeringly wintery Central Indiana to definitely cold and snow-packed Breckenridge, Colorado. Most folks head for the beach for spring break; we head for the slopes of the Rockies.
FROM SNOWBOARD TO BIKE. Then, a week later, a plane whisks back home and -- wallah! -- spring has sprung! Bulbs are up, blooms are on plum and crabapple and tulip trees, and grass is -- get this -- green and growing. Some neighbors mowed their lawns and edged their sidewalks this week. That's pushing it! Next week, one of our family members will be pushing it...the lawn mower, that is. Last week, I rode a snowboard down mountain slopes packed with 70 inches of snow. This week, I rode my Cannondale in a t-shirt thru Eagle Creek Park while Sam practiced soccer. Go figure.
Thursday, April 7, 2005
JOHN BAILLIE'S PRAYERS. A Diary of Private Prayer is, to me, the most stirring collection of heart-felt Christian prayers in publication. There is a prayer for the morning and evening of every day of the month. Even though I have read and prayed these prayers over the past fifteen years, I have not begun to exhaust them. Here is one:
Here am I, O God, of little power and of mean estate, yet lifting up heart and voice to You before whom all created things are as dust and a vapor. You are hidden behind the curtain of sense, incomprehensible in Your greatness, mysterious in Your almighty power; yet here I speak with You familiarly as a child to parent, as friend to friend.
If I could not thus speak to You, then were I indeed without hope in the world. For it is little that I have power to do or to ordain. Not of my own will am I here, not of my own will shall I soon hass hence. Of all that shall come to me this day, very little will be such as I have chosen for myself. It is You, O hidden One, who appoints my lot and determines the bounds of my habitation. It is You who has put power in my hand to do one work and have withheld the skill to do another. It is You who keeps in Your grasp the threads of this day's life and who alone knows what lies before me to do or to suffer.
But because You are my Father, I am not afraid. Because it is Your own Spirit that stirs within my spirit's inmost room, I know that all is well. What I desire for myself I cannot attain, but what You desire in me You can attain for me. The good that I would I do not, but the good that You will in me, that You can give me power to do.
Dear Father, take this day's life into Your own keeping. Control all my thoughts and feelings. Direct all my energies. Instruct my mind. Sustain my will. Take my hands and make them skillful to serve You. Take my feet and make them swift to do Your bidding. Take my eyes and keep them fixed on Your everlasting beauty. Take my mouth and make it eloquent in testimony to Your love. Make this day a day of obedience, a day of spiritual joy and peace. Make this day*s work a little part of the work of the Kingdom of my Lord Christ, in whose name these my prayers are said. Amen.
BUG & BIKES IN CAIRO, WEST VIRGINIA. I want to make this journey again. Cairo, West Virginia is a main stop along a wonderful 80-mile rail trail (with no less than 12 tunnels) between Parkersburg and Clarksburg.
Wednesday, April 6, 2005
O God,
Removed ten days from celebrating the Resurrection event,
I wonder if I have yet begun to grasp but a fraction
of its meaning and power for me,
for the church,
for the world?
I press on presumingly,
speaking Resurrection words
but carrying on as if little had occurred.
I got stirred up about Easter
but I am apparently changed little.
Radicality dissipates into
minor adjustments,
shallow commitments,
tepid dreams.
Still, I dare to hold to faith in Easter,
to believe that on that morning
no mere rustled resettling occurred,
but a tectonic plate shifted reality
for a world without transcendence,
people without hope,
life locked in death.
Help me to explore and live the Third Day
in the face of my own doubts.
Believing you live and go before me,
meeting me in unlikely moments,
I go forward into this day,
this work,
these relationships,
your world.
Tuesday, April 5, 2005
Regional approach will benefit all residents
Regional participation in a new stadium and convention center upgrades makes economic sense for Central Indiana.
Residents in all Central Indiana counties benefit directly from a vital economic core. And if it is accepted that keeping the Indianapolis Colts and expanding the convention industry are necessary for regional economic growth, then participation from across the region is a no-brainer. All stand to lose or benefit.
Few regions in the nation have the potential development trajectory of Central Indiana. But county-based polarization, protecting petty political fiefdoms and trying to solve problems in isolation will diminish quality of life in each community and the region as a whole. Leadership calls for a regional approach to investment in Central
Indiana's future.
John Hay Jr.
Monday, April 4, 2005
Almighty God,
Unto whom all hearts be open,
all desires known,
and from whom no secrets are hid,
cleanse the thoughts of our hearts
by the inspiration of your Holy Spirit
that we may perfectly love you,
and worthily magnify your holy name,
thru Jesus Christ our Lord,
Sunday, April 3, 2005
THIS WEEK'S EDITION OF GRACE NOTES IS POSTED. Read it at www.geocities.com/bikehiker/gn040305.html. This week's contents:
- A Prayer: Your Call
- Share the Civic Benefit, Responsibility - I commend a regional approach to funding the new Colts stadium
- A Prayer: What Shall I Become?
- One Draught - a quote from Malcomb Muggeridge
- Life & Death in the News - reflecting on the "death events" of Terri Schiavo and Pope John Paul II
Access all Grace Notes editions at www.geocities.com/bikehiker. I have been putting together Grace Notes: Weekly Fragments from the Margins of a Graced Life since 1998 and sharing it as an e-journal via e-mail and online. Bikehiker blog grows out of that effort.
Still, our peace with one should not diminish our discomfited concern for the other.
AFTER A DAY ON THE SLOPES. Nothing like a hot tub in the Rocky Mountain air to soothe away aches from a day of skiing and snowboarding. Here's all four Hay kids chillin' earlier in the week.
Saturday, April 2, 2005
O God,
I live in response to your call.
My life is not my own.
But yielded to you,
my life is given creative capacities
and myriad opportunities
to serve, to learn,
to grow, to give--
to live more fullythan if I never heard
or never responded to
your call.
Yet your call remains a mystery,
an enigma that challenges me
without being fully fathomed
or sharply focused.
I would like to understand more,
in the thought that I may more
pointedly cooperate with
your purposes in my life.
But if my fuller knowing
ignites my pride or selfish will,
or inhibits an iota of your desire,
then let me carry on
seeing as thru a glass darkly
that I may be led haltingly
into a future that fulfills
your call on my life.
Friday, April 1, 2005
SEVENTEEN. Jared has been snowboarding on spring break since he was nine years old. Now seventeen, he's adept with a board and unbeatable to the bottom of a run.


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Take a Video Tour of the New Whitney Museum with Curator Dana Miller
It's official: the Whitney Museum of American Art's new home is a hit. The Renzo Piano–designed building, 200,000 square feet straddling the High Line and the West Side Highway, has shifted the art world's center of gravity. And it hasn't even officially opened yet.
It's not often that a project of such scale (it is expected to cost $422 million) is praised for its restraint, but the new Whitney is dedicated to art rather than to itself. (**Frank Gehry'**s gorgeous, billowing edifice for the Fondation Louis Vuitton would be an example of the latter.) And while the Piano design—the exterior of which can seem alternately like a yacht and a power plant, depending on the vantage point—has been the focus of discussion so far, the inaugural exhibition, "America Is Hard to See," is just as revolutionary.
"We are shifting from the whole kunsthalle model to a more balanced approach," says Dana Miller, curator of the Whitney's permanent collections. "This will be the kind of place you bring your aunt when she visits New York and wants to see Ed Ruscha and Jasper Johns."
Culled from the Whitney's own holdings, "America Is Hard to See" occupies all of the museum's galleries, which offer about 60 percent more gallery space than the Breuer building and will allow much more of the collection to be on view at any given time. "There was no sense of putting a Carsten Höller slide [in the first exhibition], or doing something jazzy," Miller says of the first show. "It was about doing a deep dive into the collection and deciding what deserves to be seen, and also finding out what we needed to acquire in time for the opening."
Miller says that a 2006 show at the Whitney's former location, appropriately titled "Full House," served as "a bit of a testing ground" for this new exhibition. More recently, the staff brought guest speakers like Guggenheim director Richard Armstrong and former Museum of Modern Art curator John Elderfield for roundtable discussions. (Elderfield, who helped open MoMA's current space in 2004, gave Miller some simple advice advice: "You're not going to be ready in time. Get used to it.") At a galvanizing meeting with Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem and a former Whitney staffer, the curators realized there were gaps in the collection's holdings, specifically of work by black artists dating before 1980. Discussions with experts in Asian-American and Latino art followed. "They helped us discover new strengths and weaknesses, and also helped us create priority lists of what to buy," Miller says.
The final hanging includes work both recently acquired and not seen in decades, as well as Whitney stalwarts such as Jasper Johns's Three Flags. For Miller, choosing a favorite gallery in this show would be "Sophie's choice."
The most unexpected hurdle for Miller and her team happened to be fundamental to the museum's mission: working out what qualifies as "American art." "What does that term mean?" Miller says. "Can only American artists make American art? And if it's only American artists, then by what criteria do you consider someone American?" (Those questions are the basis for Miller's essay in the Whitney's new Handbook of the Collection, published in time for the opening.) With that in mind, for the first time in the museum's 84-year history, curators have included artists' places of birth and death on wall labels, an effort to demonstrate that many American artists were born abroad. "It's a signal change," Miller says.
The title of the exhibition—"America Is Hard to See"—is taken from a 1951 Robert Frost poem, first published in The Atlantic, about Columbus encountering North America while he was searching for something else. The stanza reads like a call to go see the new Whitney for yourself:
America is hard to see.
Less partial witnesses than he
In book on book have testified
They could not see it from outside—
Or inside either for that matter.
We know the literary chatter.
"America Is Hard to See" will be on view May 1 to September 27, 2015 at the Whitney Museum of Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York City.


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Many parents are not sure what is expected of their child at various ages. Exactly when should he be talking and how much should he say? Here is a quick list of common speech and language concerns which warrant a speech and language evaluation.
A speech and language evaluation is recommended if:
– My child has no words at 16 months of age
– My one year old has never babbled
– My two year old is not adding new words to his vocabulary
– I cannot understand my three year old's speech
– My child has a history of gross motor delays and is not yet talking
– My child used to say "mama"and "dada" but then he stopped
– My two year old cannot answer "what's that?"
– My child never responds when I call his name
– My child only plays with the same two toys everyday.
– My child's teacher is concerned he's not understanding directions in the classroom.
– My 7 year old still can't say "r" correctly
– The dentist said my child has a tongue thrust.
– My child's preschool teacher can't understand him.


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DAMASCUS, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Syrian government has decided to suspend its membership in the Union for the Mediterranean (UFM) until the European Union (EU) abrogate its measures against Syria, a foreign ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The spokesman said in a statement that the EU has undertaken a series of unwarranted sanctions that targeted the livelihood of the Syrian people.
The sanctions entail a flagrant violation of Syria's national sovereignty and interfere in the country's internal affairs, contrary to the essence of the signed agreements between the EU and Syria, the spokesman said.
Syria's this move came in retaliation for the escalating media and political campaign against Syria as well as the instigation that the EU has been practicing instead of being conducive in finding an outlet to the current crisis in Syria, according to the statement.
European foreign ministers meeting in Brussels decided to impose a new raft of sanctions on Syria that would target 12 people and 11 companies.
The UFM, consisting of the 27 EU member states and 16 neighbor countries in North Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, aims to promote the economic integration throughout the Mediterranean region.
The EU sanctions came just one day after Turkey announced its sanctions against Syria, which included a freeze of the Syrian government's assets in Turkey, a travel ban on Syrian leaders, a halt of the relations between the Turkish and Syrian central banks, and a block to the delivery of all weapons and military equipment to Syria through Turkey.
Earlier this week, the Arab League (AL) decided to impose economic sanctions on Syria after the latter missed a deadline to sign a draft protocol to allow hundreds of observers into the country as part of a peace deal it agreed on early this month. However, Syria said the draft protocol represented an encroachment against Syria's sovereignty and accused the AL of acting out a foreign agenda for the interests of the United States and its European allies.
The Syrian economy has been hardly hit by the EU, U.S. and Arab sanctions, coupled with a recent raft of the Turkish economic sanctions.
Syria has said that it could survive the sanctions through its self-sufficient economy and other new measures by the government.
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