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Tidy Towns is calling for all to help
Urlingford Tidy Towns are appealing for people to come out on Wednesday evenings at 7pm for a town clean-up.
It is quite noticeable all the work that has been done recently, with beautiful trees and shrubs planted.
Local Tidy Towns ask each household, estate, and street to clean up outside their own residents, this would be of great benefit in keeping the town looking tidy. See you on Wednesday at 7pm at the Old School.


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Should I enable Auto Tx Power Ctrl?
We have Enterasys 3605 in our schools; one in each classroom. How do I find out the best power level to set my radios to? I was told that our APs power level is too high, which may be causing problems with mirroring device to Apple TVs.

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text: Share: Comments Print April 24, 2009 at 11:04 PM Time with Real Change hawker well spent Posted by Gabriel Campanario Top: April 24, 10:02 a.m. [View larger] Bottom: April 23, 9:20 p.m. [View larger] I had just missed my bus home last night when a booming voice drew my attention. "Real Change paper here, folks! Brand new issue! Ink still wet!" I bought a copy from the street vendor and we chatted about the publication. With great pride, he told me it was an award-winning newspaper, something I just happened to know from reading this story by Maureen O'Hagan a few days ago. I told him I worked for a newspaper too and his eyes lit up. I said I'd like to draw him for this blog and he was thrilled. Because I was pressed for time and needed to catch another bus, he suggested meeting today. I managed to do a quick sketch of him doing his signature sales pitch but I also took him up on the offer. We met again this morning by the Starbucks near Westlake Center. His name is Norm Terry and he told me the secret of selling newspapers: "I have a big mouth, people can hear me from three blocks away." Norm was born in Rochester, NY, 58 years ago. His dad was Italian and his mother was "a full-blooded Indian Mohawk," he says. "I had a beautiful childhood," he adds, choking up with emotion. After dealing with mental illness and drugs, he got his life back on track. He has been selling the newspaper for eight years. It's not a very lucrative business. "My brother is a patent attorney in Sydney, Australia. He makes $10,000 a week," he said. "On a good day, I make $30." But he is really grateful for Real Change. The newspaper has been helping the poor and homeless in Seattle since 1994. Norm calls himself a former hippie. "The pretty girls who pass by tell me I look like Mick Jagger, you think so?" he asks me. Yeah, I really do! And we both laughed. Comments | More in Portraits


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24 May 2018
Matt Moran's Aria Sydney will today unveil a brand new menu by executive chef, Joel Bickford. Aria has long been at the pinnacle of Australian fine dining and wine service. A synergy of many elements, in an unrivalled harbourside location, Aria has been identified as one of Australia's finest restaurants since opening in 1999.
The restaurant brings together the vision of owners Matt Moran and Bruce Solomon, the creativity of executive chef Joel Bickford, and a world-class wine list in a stunning space with sweeping Opera House and Harbour Bridge views.
"We're really excited to have Joel join the Aria team and head up the kitchen and we share a similar philosophy on cooking and ingredients. We can't wait to see what he does in the kitchen, and for our guests to experience his food", says Moran.
With a career that includes stints at Biota (Southern Highlands) and The Gantry (Sydney), Joel has always been driven by nature and a less is more approach. His immense respect for ingredients embraces the seasonal bounty, celebrating nature in its original form. Joel's new menu comprises of a signature Aria four-course experience, with two or three course options, as well as a six-course tasting menu.
Joel says, "Having the opportunity to step in and takeover the Aria kitchen, and create a new menu with Matt and the team has been a pretty amazing coup in my career.
"I like a lot of decadent things and this is reflected through the menu we have created, but it is served in a fairly simple way. I love incorporating nature, I love coming across unique and native Australian ingredients, and the new menu showcases a passion of combining all the elements I love, on a plate."
Entrees feature smoked carrot, olive, fennel, liquorice and flax; steamed Murray cod with angasi oyster, white radish and miso; as well as an elegant form of cauliflower served with comte, Manjimup truffle and salted egg. Moving into mains, King oyster mushrooms, sweetcorn, leek and black garlic; pink snapper served with fungi, snake beans, ginger and shallot; and a blue eye travella dish with almond, caper, and razorback prawns.
The grill selection, for lunch only, showcases four cuts of Australian beef including a Black Angus fillet; a Black Market Rangers Valley sirloin; Rangers Valley rump cap; and Cowra Murray Grey rib eye, all served with a choice of condiments.
Desserts reflect the seasons and are built around a colour palette of warm autumnal tones; soft reds in a dish of rhubarb, raspberry, liquorice and milk; brown tones appear through a chocolate, chestnut, cognac, cocoa dessert; and a pastel soufflé with mandarin, pistachio, cream cheese.
Solotel's group sommelier Matt Dunne and Aria's sommelier, Alex Kirkwood have created the Aria wine program, one of the most awarded in the country. A mix of quirky and conventional, it highlights Australia's finest whilst showcasing an eclectic mix from all reaches of the world. The cocktails feature Australian native ingredients, delicately composed to delight senses.
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Exploring the city through different seasons and in different lights, one of the dominant colours is the deep deep blue of the water of the harbour and the even darker still water in the lakes and in the sections of the city defences where they survive.
The water picks up blue from the sky and carries flashes of colour in the reflections of buildings and trees but it has an amazing quality and depth with a green tone and that forms a frame or base for buildings close to the water.
International critics and authors discuss Danish design at length but few seem to be aware of specific location - as if Danish architecture should be judged in some non-specific place - but Copenhagen has an almost unique combination of factors when it comes to location.
From it's latitude the sun and therefore the angle of the light is low, or relatively low, for much of the year and that effects the quality or intensity of the light and changes the nature of the shadows; there is little industry or heavy industry here, compared with many capital cities, and, although there is traffic, there is, thankfully, not much vehicle pollution so the air is clear. The city is surrounded by water- relatively deep but calm water - and there is water in the city in large areas of lakes and moats to the defences.
In part, colours in stained-glass windows take on very specific qualities because they are framed in black … the matt black tending to grey of the lead cames. In much the same way, the colours of the buildings and the roofs in Copenhagen take on their quality and their character because, so often, they are seen against the sharp clear blue of a northern sky or are seen above and against water and with the light bouncing up off the water.
the colour swatch at the top was produced using a digital colour meter on these images taking about 20 samples of what appeared to be, by eye, the most typical and the dominant blues. Curiously the colour is greener and heavier than I would have anticipated from the way colours change across the image. The camera is a Leica M9 and the lenses respond to Copenhagen light in an amazing way. Maybe not completely scientific and maybe not objective but still worth doing ... the blue is close to the colour chosen for the background of the logo here for copenhagen architecture & design news


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Dunk your Boss 2018
The annual fundraiser organised by the Irish property industry returns
Dragons at The Docks is back for 2019 with a mission to raise greater funds to help alleviate homelessness in Dublin, whilst offering the perfect opportunity to meet like-minded people in the property sector.
This year's charity boat regatta welcomes three new sponsors to its fantastic line-up: Hines, Dalata Hotel Group and Glenveagh Properties join Hibernia REIT, Cairn Homes, Green Reit, Ires Reit, Hammerson and Kennedy Wilson.
Kevin Nowlan, CEO of cornerstone sponsor Hibernia REIT, said of last year's event: "We were absolutely thrilled with the support from our fellow industry colleagues, and were delighted to have raised these significant funds for Dublin Simon Community."
This year, Dragons at the Docks will see over 860 competitors in 72 teams battle it out across 6 sectors for the top prize. Companies are asked to enter a team of 12 competitors, no experience is necessary and dragon boat racing is suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Each team includes 10 paddlers, plus one reserve, and one drummer. Four female paddlers are required on each team. Sportswear with runners and a light jacket are ideal and a bouyancy aid will be provided. Team registration begins at 12.30pm and Prize Giving is at 19.30pm, so eat a hearty breakfast!
There will be entertainment throughout the day, with games and activities across the dock and if you want to see your suited and booted boss take a dip, then form an orderly queue at Dunk Your Boss. Brave bosses in their corporate finery will climb into the dunk tank and hope your throwing skills are off the mark! Two balls costs just €5 and all proceeds will go to a very worthy cause, Dublin Simon Community.
Sam McGuinness, CEO of Dublin Simon Community said, "The funds raised from the inaugural Dragons at the Docks will support the acquisition of two apartments as part of the Simon Capital Development Fund, helping more people move to a permanent safe place to call home; making a vital difference to those who have been devastated by the homeless crisis. Each individual will not only have a place to call home but will receive vital wraparound supports such as counselling, education and employability, independent living skills and health and wellbeing to ensure they never return to homelessness and are able to rebuild their lives with their community of support around them."
Following the Prize Giving, wins will be toasted at a BBQ at HQ Bar & Restaurant where you can enjoy a well-earned burger and salad, with a glass of wine or a glass of beer.
Dragons at the Docks takes place on Thursday 29th August 2019 at Grand Canal Dock #DATD19


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I received a knock on the door this past weekend from the 12 Ordinary Women group of Elizabethtown, Ky. On this exact morning, I had prayed to God that I trusted him to take care of our family during this very difficult time. Our 16 year old daughter has been very ill for months. This has caused such an emotional and financial strain on our family. I was greeted at the door by a lady with a gift in hand stating that their group was praying for our family. This was an angel God sent to me just when we needed it the most. I can not thank you enough or express our heartfelt gratitude. May God bless you for your thoughtfulness and kindness!!!
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TIt would be interesting to note that the aviation sector in India currently contributes $ 72 bn to GDP. India has 464 airports and airstrips, of which 125 airports are owned by Airport Authority of India(AAI).There's more! These 125 AAI airports manage close to 78 percent of domestic passenger traffic and 22 percent of international passenger traffic.(investindia.gov.in)
It can be said without the shadow of a doubt that the civil aviation industry in India has emerged as one of the fastest growing industries in the country during the last three years. India is currently considered the third largest domestic civil aviation market in the world. Experts say India is expected to overtake UK to become the third largest air passenger market by 2024.
Therefore, aviation and hospitality management is one of the best career fields that a student can pursue after finishing his/her school education. The aforementioned facts clearly state that the industry offers a range of job opportunities in multiple fields like pilot, aircraft maintenance engineer, cabin crew, air-hostess/flight steward, cabin crew, and ground duty staff. Moreover, the aviation industry is still one of the best paid industries and offers a challenging and lucrative career to an individual.
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It's Sailor Moon's 20th Anniversary and Japan is going full moon crazy with the collabs!
Everything from limited edition makeup by Creer Beauty to purses by Samantha Vega to clothing by Paul & Joe Sister! A run down for when all the lines are debuting and where can be found at Sailor Moon mega-fan, SailorMoonCollectibles.com site.


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Double Chocolate Muffins
These muffins come on the tail end of a streak of cooking disasters. Ok, maybe disaster is a bit melodramatic. But, there have been a series of mishaps. The quinoa recipe where I forgot to buy the quinoa. Forgetting the ginger to make chai. And then getting everything out to make chocolate muffins on a rainy afternoon to realize I was short on apple sauce, brown rice flour and almond flour. I forged ahead anyway and made a terrible batch of muffins. Meet my stubborn streak.
I kept thinking...what went wrong? Well, for one thing not having all the ingredients in proper amounts is an obvious answer. Still, the flavor was way off. Then, it hit me one morning: the wrong cocoa powder! I used a dark dutch processed cocoa. No bueno. You need enough acid to react with the baking soda and dutch processed cocoa is neutral, so the muffins were dense and gummy.
Back to the kitchen I went because I was determined that second breakfast needed to include a chocolate treat. Too, it just so happens that there is a holiday coming up that I think these would be perfect for. I'm not much for holidays, in general, but I do like any excuse to celebrate with food. Enjoy!
Double Chocolate Muffins
makes 12, adapted from Giada's Feel Good Food
A small note, you can be generous with the 1/2 cup of apple sauce. And if you don't want to use butter, I think olive oil would be a good substitute.
1 cup brown rice flour (140 grams)
1/2 cup almond flour (50 grams)
1/2 cup unsweetened natural cocoa powder (40 grams)
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 stick grass-fed butter, melted
1/2 cup unsweetened apple sauce (see below)
1/4 cup grade B maple syrup
2 large eggs, room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 bag (6 oz) bittersweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350', Line muffin with paper liners or grease well.
In a medium bowl, mix together brown rice flour, almond, flour, cocoa powder, salt, baking powder and baking soda.
Break the eggs into a large bowl and beat until very foamy and just starting to get a touch more pale (1-2 minutes). Add vanilla. Mix together apple sauce and maple syrup. Add to eggs and slowly drizzle in the butter as you whisk the mixture together. Add dry ingredients and stir just to combine. Stir in chocolate chips.
Scoop into muffin pan. Bake for about 25 minutes until tops just begin to crack and toothpick comes out with moist crumbs. Let cool 5 minutes in tin and then remove to rack.
1 lb apples, cut into 1/2 inch dice *I used Gala and Golden Delicious
1/4 cup of water
1/2 tsp lemon juice
Combine apples and water in a small saucepan. Bring to a boil, then cover and cook on a simmer for 20-25 minutes. Blend until smooth. Add in lemon juice. This will make more than you need for the recipe. You can freeze the rest or mix into oatmeal.


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- Change of Address/Emergency Contact Update Please complete your name, the address/emergency contact information and sign. Other signatures and information are not necessary
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- Casper College benefited employees are eligible for up to 6 credits at Casper College per semester.
- Spouses & dependents of benefited CC employees are also eligible for the tuition waiver (restrictions apply, see policy).
- Casper College employees are eligible for the University of Wyoming tuition waiver (1 class, up to 6 credits per semester). A member of CC Human Resources must sign off on this form.
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- To be eligible, you must be employed as a benefited Classified/Administrative employee for 6 months when the semester begins. Faculty and non-benefited employees are not eligible.
- Once you are enrolled in a degree seeking program, seeking a degree one degree above your current degree, fill out the Advance Degree Notification Form. Bring this, along with your acceptance notification to Human Resources.
- If it is through the University of Wyoming or CC, make sure to also fill out the Tuition Waiver (obtained in HR), prior to the start of the semester.
- After final grades are posted, within 30 days of the semester ending, fill out the Tuition Reimbursement Form, bring copies of your grades, and all receipts you are requesting reimbursement for, along with a syllabus that corresponds with the books purchased to HR. We will reimburse up to $700 per semester.
- For more information, refer to the Tuition Assistance Policy
- After you graduate, you must notify HR by June 15 that you graduated to be eligible for the educational stipend. Stipends will begin at the fiscal year (July 1). For notifications after this date, stipends will begin on the following fiscal years' payroll (the following July 1). Have updated transcripts sent to HR, reflecting new degree obtained.


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We're proud to be celebrating the 40th anniversary of our super Easter Egg Run!
For four decades, thousands of families have enjoyed this incredible event where hundreds of bikers ride through the streets of Glasgow in a mile long convoy of colour, noise and smiles in support of the boys and girls at Scotland's largest children's hospital.
There will even be activities for all the family to enjoy as well as the chance to sit on some of the bikes once they arrive back from the procession!
There is no registration fee but we ask every biker to make a suggested donation of £10 on arrival to support our young patients at the hospital.
For the event, please consider raising sponsorship rather than bringing Easter Eggs and chocolate. An easy way to fundraise is by setting up a Facebook Fundraiser and asking all your friends and family to sponsor you for taking part!
As many of our patients are on special diets or are "nil by mouth", they are unable to enjoy confectionary gifts. Financial donations mean that we can continue to ensure that our young patients have the best possible care and experience at the hospital by funding state-of-the-art medical equipment, family support services and innovative play programmes.
- Bikers to meet at Greendyke Street – beside Glasgow Green
- Arrive from 10am before parade leaves at 11am
- On leaving Greendyke Street the route takes in the Broomielaw before crossing the Squinty Bridge and heading up Govan Road towards the hospital. The parade will pass the front of the hospital before finishing at the Royal Hospital for Children
No bike? Join us at the Royal Hospital for Children from 11am and welcome the parade as they approach the finish point!
*Please note route is subject to change and will be confirmed closer to the event date.
While we take every opportunity to ensure the details for Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity Easter Egg Run are accurate, we always advise that you contact the event organiser before setting out for the event to avoid disapointment.
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The PBA was in receipt of an e-mail from CSR/KD to a citizen who complained about comments made about Major Sanchez. First before even speaking to the Major CSR assumes the citizen is telling the truth and apologizes for the comment. This is very typical of CSR and FF who firmly believe the agency is corrupt. If you read the attached e-mail she states the vast majority of officers have turned the page. One commissioner felt she should get her hearing and eyes checked as the manager continues to fail to see or hear the concerns or issues of the PBA membership.
We picked up several new sign locations in district one today and one of the big ticket items goes up the first week of April. This is a new message that City Hall will really enjoy.
One of the HPD message boards broadcasting "Highly Patrolled Area" was scheduled to be relocated this week. Unfortunately when the member backed up the truck to move trailer he was unable to do so as the trailer hitch had been stolen. NOT so heavily patrolled I guess.
If anyone who has accepted the fact that on 9/13/11 the Commission and Manager took your pay, gutted your pension, and brought in the Boy King to convince you to turn the page please feel free to let the PBA know so we can count you out and add your name to the managers list of the vast majority.
A copy of the e-mail is below…
HPD still has the highest vacancy ratio.
(See the chart on the bottom of this post.)
From: Cathy Swanson-Rivenbark
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 6:30 PM
To: XXX
Cc: XXX
Subject: RE: Major Sanchez's comment about City Politicians is disturbing
Hi Mr. Sutton. I am catching up on emails and appreciated yours sent bright and early this morning. I appreciate your suggestion that we summarize and circulate the points raised in New Horizons for the benefit of our employees. In fact, I am copying XXX to ask that she include the New Horizons on our employee intranet page to assist in the dissemination of information. As for Major Sanchez' comments, while clumsy, I don't think he intended any disrespect but I apologize for how it came out. I believe the vast majority of the Police Officers have turned the page to progress, including Major Sanchez. I am glad you like the CCTV program and we look forward to setting it up city-wide once the pilot has been tested and proves fully operational. (We learned what South Florida's heat and humidity can do to technology in the past so we don't want to repeat history.) Thanks again, Cathy
From: XXX
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 7:18 AM
To: XXX
Cc: XXX
Subject: Major Sanchez's comment about City Politicians is disturbing
I wrote an e-mail last week inquiring about the use of the CCTV's and other public safety programs being experimented within the city to deter crimes. Make no mistake that I support such actions as I have personally being a victim two times in the past 2 years with vandalism to my property.
Having said that, it is disturbing that there is an attitude in the police force that still exists between the police force and our city administrators that does nothing to help the city or reduce the friction between the two elements. Comments were made yesterday in response to my earlier inquiry about the CCTV and other programs by Major Sanchez that give cause for concern that friction is still rampant between the city and our police force. Statements were made that "I don't pay attention to what the politicians say or do". The statement was made in reference to the Mayor's and City Manager's article in the New Horizon's newsletter. Not only should attention be given to what our mayor, city manager and commissioners are saying but without a doubt all city employees should be fully aware of what is being said, planned and initiated by the city administrators. The statement by the Major is disturbing in the sense that there is still an attitude that I will go my own way and do what I want to do without regard to the wishes or opinions of the administrators.
Did this comment reflect the still existing problems between the City administrators and the police union? Is it the same continuing problem that we discussed a year and half ago when my car was vandalized and the officer stated that the police can only do so much because they received an 18% pay cut?
I had hoped that the problems between the police union and the city administrators had been resolved to the acceptance of both parties but this latest dialogue does not give me any vote of confidence that a peaceful resolution has been reached.
I am writing this e-mail in hopes that these issues can be quickly addressed and resolved so that all residents can have confidence in our police force and that they will in the future give 100% to ensure the safety of it residents.
I look forward to your response noting any corrective action that is taken to prevent a recurrence.
I look forward to your response noting any corrective action that is taken to prevent a recurrence.
City Sworn – Vacancies – Vacancy Factors
Coconut Creek – 94 -1 – 0.94
Pembroke Pines 231 – 6 – 2.6
Davie PD 184 – 7 – 3.8
Hallandale 99 – 0 – 0
Ft. Lauderdale 572 – 14 – 2.73
Hollywood 314 – 15 – 4.78
*Hollywood continues to maintain the 20 frozen positions 334 in the FY 2014-15 budget.
*BSO has 22 certified reserve officers slotted for those 9 vacancies.


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(SS) Saturday night, the Directors Lounge presented its second collaboration with the Zebra Poetry FiIm Festival. This project sets poems to film--film being anything that shows up on a screen--and for some poems, this process breathes new life into the medium. The good, from my perspective, was the poetic interpretation by Jochen Kuhn, who animated his poem Sonntag 1. This poem was a rambling narrative of one man's uninspirational Sunday walk through an archetypal deserted urban landscape. The poem and the animation explore how the absence of anything spectacular can actually produce an inspired work of art. The notion of writing a poem about not having anything to write a poem is about as postmodern as you can get. And yet, Kuhn makes the world of the narrator accessible and funny without losing the sense of ennui that inspired (or didn't inspire as it were) the poem. One of my favorite lines goes, "Normally your gifts regulate things but I'm too old to be gifted." The monologue has the quality of a balloon slowly leaking air and the animation does as well. The monochromatic gray palette reveals all kinds of typical scenes in urban dwelling but somehow they are magically empty as opposed to boring.
Another wonderful interpretation of film and poetry came from the Russian director Igor Strembitsky with his piece Podorozhni (Wayfarers). The poetry of this film is spoken not in a conventional story mode but through various living poets in the director's landscape. The camera leads us through a slightly terrifying mental asylum in the Russian countryside and we first meet a doctor who cheerfully looks after the inmates. He walks into people's rooms and introduces them to the camera. At one point he holds up a long-haired cat and tells it to smell the camera, "Smell the camera and be in the film," he says and there is this sense of spontaneous poetry alive in his words. The inmates also add to this sense of poetry by singing traditional Russian songs about love, the comfort of sleeping and waking to find your mother holding a glass of milk for you, the pleasures of springtime and all manner of subjects. At other points the film is silent and the inmates pose candidly before the camera reminding one of the photographs Diane Arbus became famous for in the 1960's. In richly rendered black and white, the faces of the inmates, rain dripping over leaves, the long spooky corridors of the asylum and the cat's curious face sniffing the camera all have the poetic power of a thousand words. Maybe it's cheating to call this poetry but the landscape is so lush and strange I don't mind.
The poetry/film combination was not always successful however, and one example stands out for me as really atrocious. Taatske Pieterson's, One Person/ Lucy was a poem and a film that struck a continual sour note. The visual trick to this film was to have a woman's head repeated over and over again, each head representing the deaths of unknown masses which she rattles off line by line. One person dies by swallowing a bad cheeseburger, four people die from a roof collapsing on their heads. Each line is structured in the same way and the effect is not chilling, as I think it was intended to be, but more like one of those reactionary American news programs where everyone is about to die from some toothpaste or bleach product or another and the newscasters faithfully incite terror in the average human being over activities as simple as walking or going to the grocery store. Death is a really interesting subject, no doubt, but relying on the profundity of death to carry a really bad poem is like presuming that just by wearing a tight dress and a lot of lipstick, you will become sexy. There's more to death and sex than merely following a formula and there's more to poetry than words.


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June 10, 1973
By JOHN UPDIKE
think I have been asked to write about golf as a hobby. But of course, golf is not a hobby. Hobbies take place in the cellar and smell of airplane glue. Nor is golf, though some men turn it into such, meant to be a profession or a pleasure. Indeed, few sights are more odious on the golf course than a sauntering, beered-up foursome obviously having a good time. Some golfers, we are told, enjoy the landscape; but properly the landscape shrivels and compresses into the grim, surrealistically vivid patch of grass directly under the golfer's eyes as he morosely walks toward where he thinks his ball might be. We should be conscious of no more grass, the old Scots adage goes, than will cover our own graves. If neither work nor play, then, if more pain than pleasure but not essentially either, what, then, can golf be? Luckily, a word newly coined rings on the blank Formica of the conundrum. Golf is, let us say, a trip.
A non-chemical hallucinogen, golf breaks the human body into components so strangely elongated and so tenuously linked, yet with anxious little bunches of hyper-consciousness and undue effort bulging here and there, along with rotating blind patches and a sort of cartilaginous euphoria -- golf so transforms one's somatic sense, in short, that truth itself seems about to break through the exacerbated and as it were debunked fabric of mundane reality.
An exceedingly small ball is placed a large distance from one's face, and a silver wand curiously warped at one end is placed in one's hands. Additionally, one's head is set a-flitting with a swarm of dimly remembered "tips." Tommy Armour says to hit the ball with the right hand. Ben Hogan says to push off with the right foot. Arnold Palmer says keep your head still. Arnold Palmer has painted hands in his golf book. Gary Player says don't lift the left heel. There is a white circle around his heel. Dick Aultman says keep everything square, even your right foot to the line of flight. His book is full of beautiful pictures of straight lines lying along wrists like carpenter's rules on planed wood. Mindy Blake, in his golf book, says "square-to- square" is an evolutionary half-step on the way to a stance in which both feet are skewed toward the hole and at the extremity of the backswing the angle between the left arm and the line to the target is a mere 14 degrees. And 15 degrees. Not 13 degrees. Fourteen degrees. Jack Nicklaus, who is a big man, says you should stand up to the ball the way you'd stand around doing nothing in particular. Hogan and Player, who are small men, show a lot of strenuous arrows generating terrific torque at the hips. Player says pass the right shoulder under the chin. Somebody else says count two knuckles on the left hand at address. Somebody else says no knuckle should show. Which is to say nothing about knees, open or closed clubface at top of backswing, passive right side, "sitting down" to the ball, looking at the ball with right eye -- all of which are crucial.
This unpleasant paragraph above, strange to say, got me so excited I had to rush out into the yard and hit a few shots, even though it was pitch dark, and only the daffodils showed. Golf converts oddly well into words. Wodehouse's golf stories delighted me years before I touched a club. The story of Jones's Grand Slam, and Vardon's triumph over J. H. Taylor at Muirfield in 1896, and Palmer's catching Mike Souchak at Cheery Hills in 1960, are always enthralling -- as is, indeed, the anecdote of the most abject duffer. For example:
Once, my head buzzing with a mess of anatomical and aeronautical information that was not relating to the golf balls I was hitting, I went to a pro and had a lesson. Put your weight on the right foot, the man told me, and then the left. "That's all?" I asked. "That's all," he said. "What about the wrists pronating?" I asked. "What about the angle of shoulder-plane vis-a-vis hip-plane?" "Forget them," he said. Ironically, then, in order to demonstrate to him the folly of his command (much as the Six Hundred rode into the valley of Death), I obeyed. The ball clicked into the air, soared straight as a string, and fell in a distant ecstasy of backspin. For some weeks, harboring this absurd instruction, I went around golf courses like a giant, pounding out pars, humiliating my friends. But I never could identify with my new prowess; I couldn't internalize. There was an immense semicircular area transparent, mysterious, anesthetized, above the monotonous weight-shift of my feet. All richness had fled the game. So I gradually went back on my lessons, ignored my feet, made a number of other studied adjustments, and restored my swing to its pristine ineptitude. Crass success had bowed to man's unconquerable will.
Like that golf story of mine? Let me tell you another: the greatest shot of my life. It was years ago, on a little dog-leg left, downhill. Apple trees were in blossom Or the maples were turning; I forget which. My drive was badly smothered, and after some painful wounded bounces found rest in the deep rough at the crook of the dog- leg. My second shot, a 9-iron too tensely gripped, moved a great deal of grass. The third shot, a smoother swing with the knees nicely flexed, moved the ball perhaps 12 feet out onto the fairway. The lie was downhill. The distance to the green was perhaps 230 yards at this point. I chose (of course) a 3-wood. The lie was not only downhill but sidehill. I tried to remember some tip about sidehill lies; it was either (1) play the ball farther forward from the center of the stance, with the stance more open, or (2) play the ball farther back, off a closed stance, or (3) some combination. I compromised by swinging with locked elbows and looking up quickly, to see how it turned out. A divot the size of an undershirt was taken some 18 inches behind the ball. The ball moved a few puzzled inches. Now here comes my great shot. Utterly demented by frustration, I swung as if the club were an axe with which I was reducing an orange crate to kindling wood. Emitting a sucking, oval sound, the astounded ball, smitten, soared far up the fairway, curling toward the fat part of the green with just the daintiest trace of a fade, hit once on the fringe, kicked smartly toward the flagstick, and stopped rolling two feet from the cup. I sank the putt for what my partner justly termed a "remarkable six."
In this magical experience, some deep golf revelation was doubtless offered me, but I have never been able to grasp it, or to duplicate the shot. In fact, the only two golf tips I have found consistently useful are these. One (from Jack Nicklaus) on long putts, think of yourself putting the ball half the distance and having it roll the rest of the way. Two (from I forget -- Mac Divot?): on chip shots, to keep from underhitting, imagine yourself throwing the ball to the green with the right hand.
Otherwise, though once in a while a 7-iron rips off the clubface with that pleasant tearing sound, as if pulling a zipper in space, and falls toward the hole like a raindrop down a well; or a drive draws sweetly with the bend of the fairway and disappears, still rolling, far beyond the applauding sprinkler, these things happen in spite of me, and not because of me, and in that sense I am free, on the golf course, as nowhere else.
Books referred to in John Updike's essay:
How to Play Your Best Golf All The Time.
By Tommy Armour.
Simon & Schuster.
Cloth, $3.95.
Paper, $1.95.
Power Golf.
By Ben Hogan.
A. S. Barnes, Cranbury, N.J.
Cloth, $5.
Pocket Books.
Paper, 75 cents.
My Game and Yours.
By Arnold Palmer.
Simon & Schuster.
The Square-to-Square Golf Swing.
By Dick Aultman and others.
Simon & Schuster.
Cloth, $5.95.
Bantam Books.
Paper, 95 cents.
The Golf Swing Of The Future.
By Mindy Blake.
My 55 Ways to Lower Your Golf Score.
By Jack Nicklaus.
Simon & Schuster.
Some current books on golf:
The Duffer's Guide to Bogey Golf.
By Brian Swarbuck.
Go For Broke!
By Arnold Palmer with William Barry Furlong.
Simon & Schuster.
Golf: The Great Ones.
By Michael McDonnell.
Drake Publishers.
Encyclopedia of Golf.
Edited by Robert Scharff and the Editors of Golf Magazine.
Harper & Row.
295 Golf Lessons.
By Billy Casper.
Follett, Chicago.
495 Golf Lessons.
By Arnold Palmer.
Golf Magazine's Handbook of Putting.
By the Editors of Golf Magazine.
Harper & Row.
Play Better Golf.
By John Jacobs.
Paper, $1.45.
Sports Illustrated Golf.
By Charles Price and the Editors of Sports Illustrated.
The Greatest Game of All: My Life in Golf.
By Jack Nicklaus with Herbert Warren Wind.
Simon & Schuster.
Golf Magazine's Winning Pointers From The Pros.
By Gene Sarazen and Peggy Kirk Bell.
Award Books.
Paper, $1.25.
Take A Tip From Me.
By Jack Nicklaus.
Simon & Schuster.
The Education of a Golfer.
By Sam Snead with Al Stump.
Simon & Schuster. $5.95.
John Updike golfs in Ipswich, Mass.; he will publish a play, "Buchanan Dying," next spring.
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The Raptor glasses from Everysight are the latest version of wearable tech we've seen appearing on the market. They have built-in GPS, HD camera, microphone, speakers for music, wi-fi and Bluetooth plus, most importantly, a head-up display showing all of your ride data on the screen right in front of your eye. All this tech comes at one hell of a price, but their performance is pretty impressive and they certainly feel like a simple-to-use, finished product.
- Pros: Head up display, easy to use once you've got used to it
- Cons: Camera hammers battery life, a big outlay
The first thing you notice about the Raptors is the weight: at 101g they are about three times as heavy as most top-end sunglasses. Thankfully, it isn't really an issue when you've got them on; I wore them for a four-hour ride and didn't really notice it. The only thing that can happen, if you lower your head to look at the ground or at your cassette, for instance, is that they tend to swing off your nose. The arms grip tightly, though, so there are no worries about them falling off.
As sunglasses they do a pretty good job, if nothing exceptional. Clarity of the lenses is good with no distortion or anything around the edges and I never suffered with them fogging up, even though airflow over the top is quite restricted as the frame of the Raptors is quite big where it houses all of the electronics and gizmos, so it fits flush against the forehead.
I was worried about it getting in my eyeline because of its thickness, but in reality I never had an issue.
Optional extras include a clear lens for riding on overcast days and at night, and you can have prescription lenses added behind the main lens.
Now for the fun part: the gadgets!
Head-up display
The thing that grabbed everyone's attention when the Raptors arrived in the office was that they have a head-up display, which shows all of the menus and various settings plus the metrics when you are riding.
The colours used are green and orange, which really stand out even on a bright sunny day, and you scroll through the various menus and options by swiping and tapping on the right arm. It feels a little clunky to start with while you are trying to remember what does what, but once you've familiarised yourself with the controls it becomes second nature.
A controller to mount on your handlebar is also available.
Everysight has an app available for both iOS and Android platforms which you use for the initial setup and any other settings you want to tweak, all via Bluetooth.
The head-up display can be adjusted for brightness and position, plus you can zoom in or out depending on how much of the screen you want to use. Using your phone screen to adjust all of this is quick and easy.
With everything set up, the simplest operation is to select 'Just Ride'.
In use
The Raptors have built-in GPS, so once the satellites have been engaged (it can take a while even on the clearest of days compared to my Garmin 810 or the Mio Cyclo 210), you tap the arm to start.
The head-up display in ride mode displays the information across the top and around the sides in exactly the way you can see in the videos further down the review. You can get a rough idea how it looks with this interactive video. This way it isn't distracting at all, because if you aren't staring directly at it, it is easy to ignore.
You have a choice of five pages of metrics as, thanks to the Raptors having both Bluetooth and ANT+ it will connect with any sensor you have like heart rate, power or cadence. All of this can be set up via the app.
By logging into your account on the Everysight website you can set up your parameters for heart rate, power and so on, and depending on what zone you are in it will display the metrics in different colours from green through yellow to red.
This is great for keeping yourself in check and really handy if you use the built-in workout mode where you can follow specific training plans that you've designed.
Routes can also be followed by uploading the file created to the Raptors. Maps for pretty much everywhere in the world are available to download, so the Raptors can give you direction instructions on the screen. That said, the display just gives an arrow pointing in a rough direction and the countdown to when the turn needs to be made; it's a pretty primitive way of pointing out a route so isn't something I'd use often.
When you are finished with your ride, a couple of taps on the arm will take you through the process of saving it to the internal storage of the glasses. You can connect your account to Strava if you are a user and as soon as you open the Everysight app and sync the ride it will be passed over.
The Everysight app doesn't show much data, so using Strava to look at the ride will give you much more information.
Built-in camera
Another cool thing about the Raptors is the fact that they also come with a built-in camera for both pictures and videos. I don't really tend to run a camera on the bike but I thought, with it being part of the package, I'd have it on to record the ride just in case anything untoward happened. I was a bit surprised when it recorded for just one minute at a time, though.
It turns out that it really uses up the battery power, so I can see why Everysight has done this. You can now extend the recording to 90 seconds by swiping the arm halfway through, thanks to an update.
The app lets you select what mode you want to shoot in. Video is available in Social 480p/30fps, HD 720p/60fps which Everysight recommends is the best for moving footage, and HD 1080p/30fps.
The quality in this first video is in that Social setting, ideal for creating clips to share on social media; as you can see from the quality, it's best viewed on a small screen.
The Raptors have their own wi-fi which links to your phone to upload these videos and it does so pretty quickly and without fuss. The head-up display data is also overlaid.
If you want sharper footage then select the HD settings. This next video is recorded in in the 720p mode, with the file being uploaded to your PC via the USB cable because of its size.
It doesn't come with the metrics added, so if you want those you need to download the Everysight's annotation tool which overlays the ride data over the video. It's still in beta mode but works okay; I'd say the video and the overlaid graphics are about seven seconds out of sync. The 47mph you see at the end of the video was what I was actually doing at the bottom of the hill rather than on the climb!
If you want to take pics for Instagram or Strava, the quality is pretty good. The pic below was taken when I was out for a ride with my daughter. A quick double tap on the arm to turn the camera on and then swipe to take the pic, simple. You can also use voice commands.
Battery life
All of this filming and picture taking can really have an effect on battery life. On the 1hr 40min ride that I recorded using the HD video, I used over 45% of the battery. That was taking about 13 minutes of video and 10 photos, plus the use of the GPS.
You can slow this power sapping by opening the app on your phone, so the Raptors can use the GPS on that, and if you don't use the video and other settings you will just about reach the claimed eight-hour burn time. Riding with the app running in the background also means you can receive call, text and email notifications via the glasses.
You get battery power alerts on the head-up display, too, to help you keep an eye on things. When it does need charging, it's pretty quick, especially if you plug it into the mains: from flat to full in two hours.
When it comes to the price, £699 (32GB option; £649 for the 16GB) is quite an outlay, and I for one would really have to assess whether or not I could justify it – and I like the Raptors.
I can see their benefits for racing, especially time trialling or the bike leg in triathlon events like Ironman, where you want to remain in an aerodynamic position on the tri-bars so no dipping your head to look at your computer screen. Having power and heart rate data right in front of you will definitely aid pacing. For most, though, the benefits are minimal over a bar-mounted Garmin or similar.
Three years ago we tested the Recon Jet Black glasses which had a similar setup and George liked the idea but found them flawed. They were originally priced at £579.99, although that quickly dropped to £359.99. Unfortunately, the reviews across the web for the Recons weren't great and there is little evidence of them now. I'd say that the Raptors sound a much more refined product, with better user-friendliness but getting on for double the price.
If you can do without the head-up display but still want the GPS and a video camera then the Xplova X5 Evo computer, which has both built in for use on your handlebar, is worth a look. That'll cost you £379.99.
Garmin's Edge 1030 is probably one of the most advanced GPS computers and it's far from cheap at £499.99.
If the Raptors started to appear at that sort of price, I'd probably take a punt.
On the whole I think the Raptors are a decent product and simple to use. And as with anything gadget-wise, once a benchmark product has been delivered updates across the board follow quickly, so who knows where we'll be in a couple of years.
A different approach to the humble cycle computer but one that works – battery life and the price the only issues
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road.cc test report
Make and model: Everysight Raptor glasses
Size tested: 32GB
Tell us what the product is for and who it's aimed at. What do the manufacturers say about it? How does that compare to your own feelings about it?
Everysight says, "Augment your ride with Raptor's patented Everysight BEAMTM projection technology, providing easily-accessible yet non-intrusive information. BEAM's ultra-high brightness digital display is designed for an outdoor environment and is fully see-through, with no fiddly add-ons or blind spots. Digitally fitted to your personal IPD, the display can be activated and deactivated as needed. Let's go for a ride!"
I really like using the head-up display, it's more than just a gimmick.
Tell us some more about the technical aspects of the product?
From Everysight:
BEAMTM Display Projector
High Brightness BEAMTM Display Projector designed specifically for active outdoor use.
WVGA+ OLED Display
Ultra High Brightness and Contrast for outdoor environments
Display equivalent to a 65' screen size (virtual viewing distance 12 feet)
Adjustable brightness level
Digitally adjustable screen positioning (using Everysight's Smartphone App)
Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410E
Fast, powerful, energy-efficient Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ 410E
1.2GHz Quad-Core ARM Cortex-A53
Qualcomm® Adreno™ 306 GPU
Low power voice DSP
Low power sensors fusion processor running proprietary line-of-sight algorithms
Memory & Storage
RAM: 2GB SDRAM for high performance and data processing.
Internal storage: 16GB or 32GB Internal for storing your greatest moments and sharing with your friends.
Operating System
Android 5.1.1 Lollipop
13.2 MP Point-of-View camera
75 degrees' field of vision
Video Modes: 1080p30 / 720p60 / 480p30
Still Image Resolution: 13.2 MP / 3.2 MP Quick Shutter
Records video in h264
Audio is recorded in AAC
Internal speaker, 2 Microphones
Embedded internal adjustable volume speaker keeps your ears free and you aware of your surroundings.
Two MEMS microphones: front-facing microphone for camera recording usage, bottom-facing microphone to increase wind protection, for voice control.
Audio formats supported: mp3 aac, amrnb, amrwb, flac, g711
Power and Battery
Up to 8 hours of continuous use
Wireless, Location & Connectivity
Bluetooth, ANT+™, GPS, Wi-Fi 802.11, Micro USB 2.0
Bluetooth 2.0
BLE 4.1 (Bluetooth Smart)
GPS, Glonass
Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n 2.4GHz
Micro USB 2.0 for battery charging and data transfer.
5 different sensors to provide high accuracy and maximum functionality
3D Accelerometer
3D Gyroscope
3D Magnetometer
Proximity sensor to identify when Raptor is worn
Highly durable Grilamid® TR 90 frame designed for sport, light weight and highly durable
Splash, Water, and Dust Resistant / Water Resistance
Rated IP55 under IEC standard 60529 / IP55
Tell us how the product performed overall when used for its designed purpose
With such a large amount of options going on it runs smoothly.
Tell us what you particularly liked about the product
Head-up display makes you feel like a fighter pilot at speed.
Tell us what you particularly disliked about the product
Short battery life.
How does the price compare to that of similar products in the market, including ones recently tested on road.cc?
There isn't much on the market at the moment like the Raptors, but it's safe to say that they are pricey.
Did you enjoy using the product? Yes
Would you consider buying the product? I'm not sure I could justify it at full rrp.
Would you recommend the product to a friend? Yes
Use this box to explain your overall score
Everysight has done a good job with the Raptors as they work well. True, they could do with a few tweaks and a bit of refinement considering the price, but on the whole it's a decent product.
About the tester
Age: 40
I usually ride: This month's test bike My best bike is: B'Twin Ultra CF draped in the latest bling test components
I've been riding for: Over 20 years I ride: Every day I would class myself as: Expert
I regularly do the following types of riding: time trialling, commuting, club rides, sportives, fixed/singlespeed
Stu knocked out his first road.cc review back in 2009 and since then he's chucked the best part of seventy test bikes around the West Country, a couple of them quite literally! With three alloy and two steel bikes in his fleet he's definitely a metal man (that'll be the engineering background) but is slowly warming to that modern carbon fibre stuff along with fat tyres & disc brakes.
It's not all nostalgia though, after spending the last few years in product design Stu keeps banging on about how 3D printing is going to be the next big thing and he's a sucker for a beautiful paint job too.


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Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) checked in with a smaller-than-expected loss in its third quarter Wednesday, losing $86 million, or 26 cents a share, on sales of $356 million. However, rising expenses will crimp profit margins in future quarters.
Ahead of the earnings report, Amazon.com shares closed off 5 5/16 to 75 15/16.
First Call consensus expected the online retailer and auction site to lose 28 cents a share in the quarter.
The $356 million in sales represents a 132 percent improvement compared to the year-ago quarter when it lost $24 million, or 8 cents a share, on sales of $154 million.
Henry Blodget, an Internet analyst at Merrill Lynch, predicted Amazon.com would record total sales of $345 million in the quarter and add another 2.1 million new customer accounts.
In the quarter, Amazon.com added 2.4 million new accounts, bringing its total to 13.1 million accounts, up 190 percent from the 4.5 million accounts it held in the year-ago quarter.
Repeat customer orders accounted for more than 72 percent of total orders in the quarter, up from 70 percent in the second quarter.
"In the third quarter, we announced our new Toys Store, which was immediately recognized by both Forrester Research and MSNBC as the best toy store on the Internet," said CEO Jeff Bezos in a prepared release. "Toys and our other product expansions round out our rich selection and establish Amazon.com as the one-stop holiday shopping destination."
But that expansion will come at a price.
During a conference call with analysts, Bezos said Amazon.com's fourth-quarter gross profit margins would fall between 200 to 300 basis points compared to the third quarter due to increased investment in new services, marketing expenditures and extra personnel to handle the frenetic holiday shopping season.
Bezos said the company will triple its marketing budget from the previous quarter and that operating expenses compared to total sales will remain the same or slightly higher than the third quarter.
Company officials said its U.S. books divsion is on track to be profitable in the fourth quarter and will represent "less than half" of the company's total revenue in the quarter. Going forward, Amazon.com expects it will report some of its new product lines separately, which indicates those new offerings must be gaining momentum.
Last quarter, Amazon.com met analysts' estimates, losing $82.8 million, or 51 cents a share, on sales of $314.4 million.
In the quarter, operating expenses surged to $261 million, up from $76.3 million in the year-ago quarter.
Amazon.com shares hit a 52-week high of 110 5/8 in April after trading at a low of 19 last October.
Twenty-one of the 25 analysts following the stock maintain either a "buy" or "strong buy" recommendation.
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In The Field: Torrey Pines Beach And My Personal Photo Project #308
A few months ago I started a personal photo project, focusing on black & white photography. I talked about that in Episode #280. Well… it's still ongoing. And that's OK. By design, it's a long term project. Although I do need to spend some more time on it. The last photos I purposely took for my project were in late November. Join me on Torrey Pines State Beach to photograph one of my favorite subjects, Lifeguard Tower #2.
Watch In The Field #280 for more background on my photo project.
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Nowadays (especially in the US), there are a huge amount of labels being placed on the food (and non-food) items in the supermarkets. And it's becoming quite confusing for everyone! Therefore, I've tried to do my research so that I really know what I'm buying and why.
Have you found yourself buying organic produce and organic animal products, without fully understanding what it means? Is it just that there are no pesticides? No injected hormones? And do you feel better about buying chocolate bars and packaged oatmeal labeled "non-GMO" though you're not really sure why?
There is a lot behind the different labels that should be better explained. In particular, there's a lot of confusion and debate around what non-GMO and organic labels really mean, and what we should be buying.
Let's start with the "ORGANIC" label – what does this imply?
Organic farming limits a lot of the potential harmful practices used in conventional industrial farming. It PROHIBITS the following:
- synthetic pesticides and herbicides (that have been linked to various cancers, birth defects and kidney disease)
- use of antibiotics (used to stimulate growth, that are hormone disruptive and are linked to weight gain among other things)
- use of ingredients laced with Hexane residue nor Ractopamine residue
- use of genetically modified ingredients
While all of these claims are important, I'd like to emphasize how crucial it is that we limit the amount of non-organic animal products we eat, that are injected with growth-stimulating hormones and antibiotics. These antibiotics kill the good bacteria in our gut, which are so important for our overall health. And this huge amount of antibiotics that we're consuming nowadays (in large part, indirectly from eating these animal products that have been injected with antibiotics) is a big contributing factor to the epidemic of diseases that stem from an unhealthy gut, i.e. a large intestine with an imbalance of good bacteria vs. bad bacteria. This is why we now need to fill up on probiotics to make sure we restore this crucial balance in our gut.
As you may hear me say often, having a healthy gut flora is probably the #1 most important factor to having proper digestion, a stable weight, and even happy thoughts (as our gut can even influence our thoughts and emotions)! So I can't emphasize enough the importance of cutting down on conventionally farmed, antibiotic-injected animal products!
What about the "NON-GMO" label?
This label verifies that a product doesn't contain genetically modified (GMO) ingredients, which is important because genetically modified foods can be highly disruptive to our endocrine and digestive systems.
However, the non-GMO labeling doesn't specify anything about the conditions under which the food was grown / produced, nor where it came from. So for example, "non-GMO" labeled foods may still be produced with tons of harmful pesticides, like organophosphates, that have been linked to lymphoma and leukemia. And note - while some natural pesticides are allowed on organic crops, organic produce has much lower levels of pesticide residue overall compared with conventional crops.
Sadly, GMO foods are so widespread in this country now! Two of the largest GMO crops in this country are Soy and Corn, which are heavily subsidized, and are therefore used as ingredients in so many other products that really should contain no soy nor corn (ex. high fructose corn syrup being used in place of natural sugars, or soy lecithin used as an additive in many supplements, and even foods like my beloved dark chocolate). So the easiest way to avoid GMO corn and soy is to 1) only buy ORGANIC soybean and corn products, 2) avoid packaged foods when possible, and when you do buy them, read the ingredient labels and try to avoid products with corn and soy additives.
CONCLUSION? While Non-GMO labeling is important, aim for buying Organic food when possible (which by default, is Non-GMO).
And MOST IMPORTANTLY, I always advise to READ THE FULL INGREDIENT LABELS. Try to buy products with no more than 5, or max 10 ingredients, and make sure these ingredients are foods/spices/herbs etc. Avoid products with ingredients you cannot pronounce, which are usually chemical additives, stabilizers and preservatives. Your body doesn't recognize these unnatural ingredients, rejects them, and this sets your body into fat-storage mode, so ultimately, these chemical ingredients make you gain weight!
Even better? Look for fresh and local foods from your local farmers markets that have no labeling, but you know come from organic farms nearby. (Just think - if it's coming from a local farm, the produce is fresher as it hasn't been traveling for hundreds of miles, which increases the need for stabilizes/preservatives, etc).
Also, this way you are supporting farms that are investing in organic farming, and slowly making a difference towards the improvement of the (horrible) industrialized, pesticide-, hormone- and antibiotic-ridden farming techniques in this country. We need to work together to bring this country back to a place where fresh organic produce is more affordable, so more people can afford to eat cleaner, whole foods, and not have to rely on cheaper, heavily-processed foods.
Love and Organic farming,


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Humburg Mountain State Park, OR
With night and lots of fog descending, we decided to find a place to stop so we didn't miss more of the awesome coastline . Really loving the whole RV resort vibe for our road trip, we stayed at the Honeybear Campground which was awesome and relatively cheap ($18 a night with the off-season discount) for a place with hot showers, a restaurant, and access to the beach.
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No Mess Cooking
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What is a bad faith claim?
What are some examples of conduct that can be bad faith?
How can a party respond to a bad faith act?
What is a bad faith claim?
A bad faith insurance claim may arise when an insurance company does not act in good faith towards it's policy holders and third party claimants. Insurance companies are required by law to act in good faith, or fairly and honestly, when investigating and negotiating personal injury claims.
Failure to act in good faith, can lead to policy holders and third party claimants filing bad faith lawsuits. A bad faith lawsuit usually makes the claim that the insurance company acted unfairly or dishonestly or engaged in fraud.
What are a few examples of bad faith insurance claims?
- Denying a valid claim and not providing a reasonable basis;
- Offering a unconscionably low settlement offer without a reasonable basis;
- Failure to conduct a proper investigation into a valid claim;
- Misrepresenting policies or the law;
- or Ignoring messages, acting in an abusive, threatening or hostile manner toward a party.
How should parties respond to bad faith insurance acts?
Bad faith claims are separate from personal injury claims. In order to have a chance at successfully fighting a bad faith claim against an insurance company, it is important to hire an attorney with experience in this special area of law.
In addition, if you feel that your insurance has acted in bad faith start keeping a journal and document all interactions, conversations, and dates between you and your claims adjuster. Provide this information to your attorney.


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Kosovo's UEFA membership is a step towards recognition on the global stage
A couple of years back I travelled to Mitrovica's Adem Jashari Stadium to watch Kosovo play their second-only sanctioned international football match, against Turkey. The result: 6-1 to the away side. But that barely mattered. When Albert Bunjaku stabbed home a scruffy first goal for his young country, the ground erupted. Royal blue Kosovar standards were pulled from coat pockets and bumbags and held aloft to a roar that far outstripped the Jashari's 18,000 seats.
Then, the Kosovo flag was officially banned by FIFA. Captain Anel Raskaj, who I'd met the night before at a big, gaudy hotel on the outskirts of Pristina, was himself stowed away of sorts – defying the wishes of board members and coaching staff at his club, Norwegian side Sandnes Ulf, to travel to Kosovo. The game was sanctioned but not as a full international, hence Raskaj's predicament. "For two months I've talked to them saying I can't miss this game," he told me nervously (he's still playing for them).
Kosovo is barely eight years old as a state. Contention about its entry on the global stage, as it was that sunny day in Mitrovica, remains loud. Serbia still protests its legitimacy and EU accession talks between the two and Brussels are painstaking. The debacle that overshadowed Serbia's 2014 European Championship qualifier against Albania was sparked when a drone carrying a map of 'Greater Albania', which includes Kosovo (the two states share culture and language, if not a twentieth century statehood), flew overhead.
Neither has the country been without its share of domestic teething problems. Widespread corruption, economic failure and protests have marred the last year. Many blame a government packed with those who fought the long and bloody Kosovo War. A proficiency for death, they argue, does not confer fiscal adroitness.
Which makes it all the more celebratory, perhaps, that last week Kosovo was officially elected to UEFA – becoming its 55th member and most recent since Gibraltar in 2013. The country's footballing hierarchy will now turn its sights to FIFA, and could even compete for a place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. That would ignite plenty of controversy, with the hosts having traditionally sided with Serbia against Kosovo's existence.
Kosovo, with a population of just 1.9m to draw from, have long been considered the 'Brazilians of the Balkans' – and with a squad that might have included Xherdan Shaqiri, Valon Behrami, Granit Xhaka and Lorik Cana, it's a label that's at least regionally deserved. FIFA has even suggested that it will give Kosovar players currently representing other nations the chance to switch allegiances, which would be unprecedented.
One drawback might be the emergence of Albania, many of whose own players have roots in Kosovo but whose successes will likely persuade them to stay. But footballing recognition is a big step in the country's progress, and one which could galvanise its sometimes precarious society.
Don't expect the controversy to end there, though. Just a few days ago Ultras at a Red Star Belgrade friendly held up placards that read 'UEFA Supports Terrorism'. Serbia, Kosovo's former hegemon, has continued to lobby and complain about Kosovar statehood – and that won't stop when a Kosovo team steps out onto the pitch.
But as Enver Hoxhaj, Kosovo's then-foreign minister, told me as we sped away from Mitrovica that day two years back, football is a great way to build bridges. "It's a way for us to promote tolerance," he said as the city's beautiful, Ottoman-styled Bayram Pasha Mosque disappeared behind us. UEFA and FIFA will certainly be hoping so.
– Sean Williams.


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I took Prep and Del in the old art building on the campus of Freed-Hardeman College (now University). The legendary Billy Smith was my teacher and it was a blessing every day to be in that class with some great brothers who still encourage me. There are certain little things that still stand out in my mind about it all. One of the challenges that most every young preacher expresses is not knowing what to preach. Billy talked about so many different approaches. But one stood out to me. I remember where I was sitting in the room when Brother Billy told about the preacher who started in Genesis and over 40 years picked up at the text he had left off the week before. That amazed me. I'm not sure what impressed me more - the feat of preaching through the whole Bible or the thought of preaching at the same place for 40+ years.
I've been thinking a lot about preaching and the future - I suppose we do that more with each passing year. The unreflected on life is empty! I've preached 1680 Sundays - this week I am 37 weeks from Spring Meadows being the longest I have preached at any one congregation. It dawned on me a while back that this was happening and I calculated at that point I was roughly 100 Sundays away from that and I started thinking. If I only had 100 more Sundays at this place what should I preach. I literally started praying about it and trying to chart it out - not trying to fill every Sunday - need to leave some gaps for stuff that might come up. But what would I regret not having covered, emphasized, strengthened, stressed?
I'm told the average stay for ministers in Churches of Christ is about 30 months now. 130 Sundays. How long have you been where you are? How many Sundays do you have left? What if you knew your time was limited (because it is - you'll either leave in a moving van or a hearse) and determined to chart it out? Here are a few things thinking about this has led me to conclude:
Preach Christ. That may be a little Sunday schoolish in that answer but we must preach Christ and Him crucified! It is what we must "know" among the people. David Shannon asked at the BETTER Conference: "How long does it take for Jesus to show up in your sermon?" Great question.
Thank God for each opportunity. This will bring you face to face with your own mortality or at least your own longevity there. Not many of us will stay for 44 years at one place like my dad OR 58 years like my father-in-law has done. And, friend, preach like you are thankful for the blessing of getting to preach, the joy of getting to share God's Message with people, the sheer blessing of standing before an audience with heaven and hell in the balance! Who else gets to do something that cool?
Give your best to that audience: If you are like most preachers you face the challenge of wanting a different audience than the one in front of you. You wish you preached at _____. Or you preach to folks not present, who left or who never came. Or to rail against the ills of society ignoring the hurt, sin and questions of the people in the pews. This is the audience you have. The audience God allows you to be before. Preach to them!
Preach like you are going to be there forever AND preach like this is your last day. I know it's impossible to do both. But follow me. If every sermon is like a Gospel Meeting/Revival sermon you'll never feed the saved. You'll never help people mine the depths and richness of God's truths. But even when you are deep don't lose your fervor! Preach every time with passion!
Say something! You may not want to be, but you will be remembered! For good or ill or nothing! Do you want to be remembered as a whiner who was always angry about something? Do you want to be remembered as someone who stood for nothing? Do you want to be remember as someone who loved the members and ministered to them? Do you want to be remembered as someone who did nothing impactful but just filled time? Say something!
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