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Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT), a recognized global leader in backup, recovery, the cloud and data management across any hybrid environment, today announced that its IntelliSnap® snapshot technology has been tested and validated to work with Cisco HyperFlexTM hyperconverged systems to protect application workloads, file systems and virtual machines (VMs) without the need for third-party tools, providing customers with control, simplification and flexible architecture options that will meet their business needs now and in the future.
ScaleProtectTM with Cisco UCS® expands many of the capabilities of the Cisco HyperFlex platform with backup and recovery. With the broadest ecosystem of integrated public cloud providers, ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS plus Cisco HyperFlex is a true multi-cloud platform. Delivering proven support for enterprise applications like SAP HANA - for which Commvault is certified - ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS allows customers to run mission-critical applications on Cisco HyperFlex with the confidence their data and applications are backed up and available. Pairing ScaleProtect with Cisco UCS with Cisco HyperFlex provides a hyper-converged, scale-out solution that delivers enterprise-class backup and recovery for end-to-end protection of the software-defined data center.
"The combination of solutions from Commvault and Cisco provide customers and partners with the flexibility to protect and rapidly move data to and from any Cisco infrastructure platform as business dictates," said Wenceslao Lada as Vice President, Worldwide Alliances, Commvault. "The broadening of our partnership to now integrate IntelliSnap with HyperFlex is yet another example of how the two companies are tightly aligned in delivering simple, cost-effective solutions that solve real-world problems while driving revenue for our joint partners."
"We continue to work with Commvault to help enterprise customers reduce IT and data management costs and complexity by eliminating the need for multiple software and hardware products or single-purpose tools," said Vijay Venugopal, senior director, product management, Cisco HyperFlex. "Achieving control and scale in a multi-cloud IT world is essential for infrastructure modernization and digital transformation. Commvault IntelliSnap aids in providing that control and extends the value of Cisco HyperFlex to help customers ensure data is available, moveable, and recoverable across the entire IT landscape."
"In the age of big data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence, backup tools remain very old school. Enterprises need modern analytics to drive intelligence and improve operations, insights about application recoverability and comprehensive support for applications and multi-cloud environments1," said Naveen Chhabra, Senior Analyst, Forrester Research, Inc. "Because of this, the data resiliency market is poised for significant change2 and vendors like Commvault are leading the way in aligning themselves to advancing the technology."
About Commvault
Commvault is the recognized leader in data backup and recovery. Commvault's converged data management solution redefines what backup means for the progressive enterprise through solutions that protect, manage and use its most critical asset - its data. Commvault software, solutions and services are available from the company and through a global ecosystem of trusted partners. Commvault employs more than 2,500 highly-skilled individuals across markets worldwide, is publicly traded on NASDAQ (CVLT), and is headquartered in Tinton Falls, New Jersey in the United States. To learn more about Commvault visit www.commvault.com
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North America is the world leader in food waste, with 1.3 billion tons of food wasted each year. Approximately one third of all produced food isn't used, but there are some simple ways to combat this. Here are 5 tips to help fight food waste in your everyday life.
1. Freeze your food. By freezing fruits and vegetables, they'll last much longer than storing them in the fridge. Any food that's close to expiring can be frozen and cooked later.
2. Take inventory before going grocery shopping and don't be tempted by supermarket sales to stock up. Many times, we end purchasing items we already have at home. Also be careful of supermarket specials that encourage you to buy in bulk for a discount. If you don't end up using it, does it matter that you got a good price? Buy only what you actually need.
3. Consider composting. You can use food scraps and coffee grounds to build a compost pile in your backyard, and compost is a great fertilizer for your garden and lawn. You can also purchase a compost bin.
4. Eat leftovers instead of tossing them. Have extra food from dinner you cooked? You can take it to work for lunch the next day. Dining out at a restaurant and didn't finish your meal? Ask to get it wrapped up and enjoy it later.
5. Keep your fridge, pantry and freezer organized. When you buy new items, move older ones to the front so they're visible and you consume them first before they expire.
By drinking Marvé and using these tips to reduce food waste, you're helping to make our world a better place. Cheers to that!

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Not necessarily Japan-related, but an interesting source for some interesting documentaries... for free!
Free documentaries.org
At freedocumentaries.org we believe strongly that in order to have a true democracy, there has to be a free flow of easily available information. Unfortunately, many important perspectives, opinions and facts do not make it to our televisions or cinemas (you can watch movies in our media category if you want to know why).
For this reason we decided to start freedocumentaries.org, a site where anyone with an internet connection can watch a movie and educate themselves or simply explore another perspective whenever they want.
Providing films free not only allows anyone to watch a film but it also allows curious people who think they may disagree with a filmmaker to watch a film without worrying that they are giving money to someone who's views they don't agree with.
Everyone that watches a film at freedocumentaries.org should learn something, whether it be a new perspective on a topic or simply understanding how others think. We can say that the vast majority of people that watch our films are glad they do so.
Freedocumentaires.org also allows independent filmmakers to have their message heard to markets which they wouldn't reach easily.
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Like most people, I have good days and challenging days. On the good days, my neuropathy is a hibernating bear, a quiet steady sleeping, and if I step with care, it may not notice me passing by. I may go hours or days without a confrontation. We co-exist then, my disability and I. Then other days I wake up and the neuropathy is roaring. Like this morning with a stunning headache and bleary, dragging fatigue. I overdid it yesterday, yes, but still . . . does it have to roar so loud? Does it have to weigh heavy on my bones and make my moods glassy and fragile? Does it have to be right here, right now?
I don't get that choice. Some mornings, the bear, the monster, the pain will not be ignored. And I could let that drag me into despair.
Instead, a moment finds me. Family, laughter, creativity, a sunrise that cannot be touched by my challenges. Love does not break even when I feel broken. This wild vast world has such beauty and discovery waiting. Long ago, I thought, if I couldn't walk so far, that would be horrible. If I needed accommodations, that would be terrible. If people knew, well, that would be embarrassing. And all of those things have happened. Yet I have more love and support and hope than ever. I can face these fears with confidence, not that they will be overcome (because they will not all be overcome) but that they will be accepted. And life will go on. And the seeming darkness can lead to unexpected light.
Still, frustrating on these crash-days. We took it easy. And perhaps that will be enough to lull the bear asleep tomorrow. Don't think so, though. Need another day. Guess we'll be finding out how to lure the Hooty-Owl in Viva Pinata :). Or maybe I can play Fable 2 a bit. Or maybe write that story . . . if only Ian wasn't such a tech-kid wanting to pound on keyboards. Off to sleep. The bear is tired. As am I. :)


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A man finds himself on a strange space ship. Where will you guide him? Updates whenever I feel like it.
March 3rd, 2012, 10:40 am
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Reply Lord Enigma, March 3rd, 2012, 10:40 am
As commanded by Smugleafdoofus3.
Reply Advertisement, September 21st, 2019, 12:11 pm
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Reply copafire, March 3rd, 2012, 10:44 am
Edd > evolve into something that can help roger before its too late
Reply Lightning S. 464, March 3rd, 2012, 10:51 am
Edd> bite the monster's face to free rodger
Reply Tex, March 3rd, 2012, 10:57 am
Roger> Use the glass to slice the creature's hands and swim to the surface safely.
Reply The_mad_one, March 3rd, 2012, 11:36 am
Man > Cut her with glass, aim for the neck. If that fails, give up and die.
Reply Ultima527, March 3rd, 2012, 1:35 pm
>Rodger: Try and shake yourself loose
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I second copafire
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Roger: take the heel of your one free foot and slam it into her eye.
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Edd>Sting her in her eye, effectively causing death.
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One of Britain's most senior retired generals has called for the implementation of a no-fly zone in Syria and said the situation in the country is now so serious that "doing nothing is no longer an option".
Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb, a former director of the SAS and one of the architects of the Iraq "surge" strategy, said a no-fly zone over north-west Syria would protect civilians and stem the tide of refugees from the area.
Lamb told the Guardian that the proposition for a safe zone where civilians could be safe from aerial attack by President Bashar al-Assad's forces "demands a careful but quick analysis" before finding regional and international support to put it into effect.
In the last few months Assad's helicopters have dropped crude barrel bombs on rebel-held areas targeting hospitals and marketplaces. In recent months many of those barrels have been filled with poisonous chlorine, causing multiple deaths and severe respiratory injuries.
"This [safe] space needs to be secured by whatever force and understanding necessary and if infringed then the ramifications of doing so must be pre-set, clear, unequivocal and effective," Lamb said, adding that any such agreement would mean the UK talking to Russia, Iran and Gulf states.
Lamb's call, which was welcomed by the umbrella organisation for Syrian medical relief personnel, comes as world leaders including David Cameron travel to the UN on Sunday to try to make a deal that could allow Assad to maintain some authority as part of a transitional postwar government.
Lamb served as US general David Petraus's right-hand man in Iraq during one of the country's most turbulent periods of fighting – but one which was successful for western forces. This week during a hearing by a Senate panel, Petraeus urged Barack Obama to credibly threaten Assad's air force as part of a renewed strategy for tackling the Syrian crisis.
Lamb said the situation in Syria was now so serious that doing nothing, "or at best continuing to attempt to manage the situation … is no longer an option".
He said: "We the British in the 19th century had a foreign policy of 'masterful inactivity' in central Asia. Our policy on Syria to date has embraced the latter and forgotten the former. It is time to engage the very best of our considerable diplomatic skills, underpinned by military force."
Lamb said this needed to be twinned with a plan to "systematically eliminate" Isis's operation in Syria.
"We should not forget that there are just two guilty partners that are the sole reason for this humanitarian disaster: the Assad regime and Isis. It is time to take both seriously and develop an agreed comprehensive response and deliverable plan to remove these sores."
The chairman of the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organisations (UOSSM), Ghanem Tayara, backed Lamb's call, saying that a no-fly zone or enclave free from aerial attack would allow medical organisations to triple their work in the area and reduce the number of refugees.
"With security on the ground provided by the Free Syrian Army and a no-fly zone to prevent the Assad barrel bombs in this region of north-west Syria, I believe UOSSM can provide at least three times the amount of medical care we currently do in this area. This would allow thousands of refugees to return to Syria and prevent thousands more leaving," he said.
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and security adviser to the charity Syria Relief, said a safe zone secured by a no-fly zone would allow the international community to effectively reinvest in Syria.
"A [secure position] in north-west Syria is likely to prevent the 500,000 internally displaced refugees in this area from leaving and begin to encourage the millions of refugees outside Syria to return," he said.


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For May, the Boston & Maine Railroad Historical Society will again return to the hospitable Plymouth, N.H. Regional Senior Center in Plymouth. This is the former B&M RR station on the Boston to Montreal route (via Woodsville, NH). It is conveniently located close to the Plymouth exit from I-93. Program: Through a Trainman's Eyes. Presented by the entertaining Gary Gurske, who began his career as brakeman with Penn Central in 1970, eventually retiring from Conrail. Usually with camera in hand, he worked various locals in Connecticut, then Springfield, Beacon Park and the B&M's Boston engine house. Gary was even part of the crew handling the Barnum & Bailey train. Please note the time. Location is 8 Depot St., Plymouth, N.H. 03264
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How to Be Happy/
At least, my version of how to be happy. Not that I have ALL the answers. Just some of them. Some of them that work for me.
A few weeks ago the lovely Erin of Art Social and Lisa of JoyCreation and Rita of TOMORROWtoday started their own Happiness Project book clubby thingy. I read the book when it first came out and then again earlier this year. And I plan to join them every Thursday or so with some ideas of happiness of my own.
One small piece of happiness for me is something that I recently figured out. You see, I have stacks of journals with all sorts of writing. All sorts of attempts to find out the answer to "how can I be happier"? How can I find fulfillment?
There were career changes (did one of those). I moved (a few times). You know, the big overhaul. The reinvention. Looking back to what made me happy when I was a kid and doing those things again.
I realised that I was making it MUCH TOO DIFFICULT. I wanted THE answer. The penultimate solution, path, direction, goal. And you know what I discovered? What I found out? For me, right now, to be happier is simply to do MORE of what makes me happy and do LESS of what makes me unhappy.
What? Won't I just end up lying around in bed all day eating chocolate toffee covered almonds and drinking pails of coffee? Won't I be running around pell mell doing all sorts of impulsive things JUST because they make me happy? Scratch this itch. Then that one. And the next one.
Not really. Not when I take a longer view.
It's the simple things that make me happy. I am happy when I am healthy. I am happy when I eat so that I have good energy for my day. I am happy when I've slept enough the night before.
And that's where I am starting from. Today.


text: Oh man. You guys. I'm pretty excited for Janelle Monae's new record. I really dug the whole sci-fi soulness of The ArchAndroid, but this new 60s ish I can defiantly also get into. "Q.U.E.E.N." was so slick and now this?! Girl has got her hair DOWN! Trust me I loved the suit and pompadour, but it's nice to see this other side of her as well. She's still Janelle Monae, just feeling out a different vibe, and for that I applaude her. Top that off with the creative explosion that is this video treatment and it's all just so groovy. The Electric Lady is due out September 10th 2013.


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FRUIT & BEVERAGES: KWV Sells Grape Juice Operation
Recent Western Cape Business News
With its strategic focus on building alcoholic beverage brands, KWV Ltd has decided to sell its grape juice concentrate plant in Upington to neighbouring Orange River Wine Cellars (OWC) for R70 million. The transaction will see the grape juice concentrate business being transferred as a running concern to OWC on 1 September 2009.
Grape juice concentrate is a commodity product that relies on international market demand and local raw material supply. It was an important mechanism to remove surplus grapes from the wine industry during years of over supply, but more recently grape growers have opted increasingly for higher value options - selling their grapes for quality winemaking, raisins or distillation.
OWC has been a long term partner for KWV, and a sole supplier to the grape juice concentrate plant in Upington over the past few years. The decision to sell the grape juice concentrate plant to OWC was therefore a logical step in optimising this business. OWC as supplier and processor will be in the best position to manage the supply and demand for grape juice concentrate within the scope of its own business model.
According to KWV CEO, Thys Loubser, the decision to sell the plant was in the best interest of all stakeholders. "KWV's strategic focus is on brands and consumers, and although we have always been proud to include grape juice concentrate as a non-alcoholic product in our portfolio, we believe that OWC will be in a better position to continue servicing our current customers."
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The Templeton Touch
It was 1934. John Templeton had graduated from Yale and arrived, a fresh-faced Rhodes scholar, at Balliol. Ready to tackle the world, he breezed into his first tutor meeting.
"[H]is tutor asked him what he intended to read during his time at the school. Sir John looked at the tutor and quite plainly told him that he was going to read 'business'. The tutor recoiled in horror and said, "Oh, no, no, no. We do not do that sort of thing here. You will be reading law."
So he read law. Then he made money for fifty years as one of the most successful investors of the twentieth century, before returning to Oxford and endowing a college to teach business.
The tutor, who remains nameless in the book, would have been amused to have known that such a brief discussion had led to such a profound outcome, no doubt jollying up University thinking on the subject of business, and making the environment fertile for Mr Saïd (even then, there was a vigorous Oxford debate, of course).
Although Sir John is no longer with us — he died in 2008 — his legacy is present in the publishing house that has reissued this book in a new edition. The Templeton Touch was originally published by Doubleday in 1983, and was half and half investment advice and religious contemplation, against the advice of author William Proctor.
Proctor's new preface makes clear that Sir John had the final say on the words — it's still an authorised biography issued by the authorizing press — but in this edition the religious section has been replaced by a revealing series of mini-essays, by nineteen Sir John admirers. Mostly professional investors themselves, they include Oxonian Guy Spier (Brasenose, 1984) who runs the very successful Aquamarine Fund from a Zurich base and US legend and one-time Presidential candidate Steve Forbes.
The nineteen essays are all revealing in subtly different ways, both about Sir John and their respective authors. The dangers of hero-worship and hagiography are mostly absent, but unavoidably there is the tone — and this runs through the first half of the book like a wildfire — of trying to divine the secret that might unlock untold wealth.
Accordingly, Proctor's voice is the gingerbread prose of the self-improvement book. It gets tiring, and is why plenty of people don't like books like this. But look beyond the format and what's left is truly fascinating, particularly in light of the recent world financial fiasco.
In other words, the saving grace of the book is actually Sir John, whose life story can't fail to impress. Born and raised in Winchester, Tennessee — hardly an academic centre — he learned business from his father and ideas from his highly educated mother. He was precocious: he sold fireworks to classmates aged 8, having bought them mail-order at low prices; he part-financed his undergraduate tuition at Yale with poker winnings and of course became a Rhodes scholar.
Reiterated in a hundred ways through the book is that he was incredibly clever, and that in addition, he applied himself far beyond the you expect for a high achiever, even at the level of Rhodes Scholars. Although you can turn this into a formula — (a) be curious; (b) don't waste a second; (c) keep working! — the fact is that Sir John was as particular in his make-up as his successor, legendary Nebraskan investor Warren Buffett.
First, he was far ahead of his time in diversifying risk by investing globally, not just domestically. Second, he was a contrarian, value investor: he looked for bargains and sought to buy them at the maximal point of depressed sentiment and price. It's easier to comprehend than to do. Just try it for yourself and you'll see.
The story actually becomes more interesting when it touches on the assertion in the title: that Sir John's touch was not the destructive one of Midas, and thus that the true clue to worldly success is to be otherworldly. This paradox was experienced very keenly by the generation who came of age in the Great Depression of the 1930s — as did Sir John. He experienced the inheritance of Victorian discipline and probity to the economic miracle of the US economy after the Second World War, while never forgetting the value of a dollar. His thriftiness was legendary. In this sense Sir John was a man of his time, and the narrative often strays fruitfully into cultural and intellectual history.
Never forget the ur-source in this genre of writing, Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich (1937). I take it as illustrative, for the purposes of this review, that Hill lived from 1883-1970, and was born in Wise County Virginia, dying in South Carolina. Templeton, meanwhile, was born in Tennessee in 1913, and although becoming a British citizen later by virtue of moving to the Bahamas, was perfectly straightforward in his American identity, as in so much else.
In both narratives we get overlapping testimony to the need for relentless curiosity in all matters, and an equally relentless personal discipline. In both narratives we get an intensely American philosophy of success premised on a red-blooded belief in progress, with negative thoughts consciously and actively banished. While in both cases the pay-off is to 'grow rich', in the crass sense of making a pile of money, the reality is that no secret is offered, no silver bullet. What is offered is hard work, thrift, generosity towards others, and decency in all affairs. The fact that Hill's book sold over 20 million copies is more to do with the tantalizing title, "…and grow rich," than what it actually offers.
If you studied history at Oxford, there is another book that springs readily to mind at this juncture: English historian R.H. Tawney's Religion and the Rise of Capitalism (1926).
Funny that Tawney (1880-1962) was just three years older than Hill and also attended, like Templeton, Balliol. It would be fun to imagine sitting them down in the SCR for tea and conversation.
As a reminder, Religion and the Rise explored the relationship between Protestantism and economic development in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tawney, notes his Wiki entry, "bemoaned the division between commerce and social morality brought about by the Protestant Reformation, leading as it did to the subordination of Christian teaching to the pursuit of material wealth".
Both Hill and Templeton would have said bosh to that. They would have told Tawney to wise up and stop thinking negative thoughts. Beyond the apparent disagreement, however, they were stumbling around on common ground. What Tawney observed, with misgiving, Hill and Templeton proclaimed with a drum-roll. Where he saw subordination, they saw complementariness. Where Tawney, in that characteristically English way, worried about the effects of capitalism, Hill and Templeton saw unparalleled good, and unlimited progress.
Hill was influenced by the new-thought movement while Templeton inherited his mother's Presbyterianism mixed up with the Unity movement – panentheism that claimed to take the best bits of all religions and blend them into an idealistic, progressive gospel that promised individual salvation on earth, if you followed the rules.
Interestingly, Templeton believed that intuition and prayer are a basic source of knowledge and reality, in addition to revealed authority from, say, the Bible and the Koran. In practice, 'in addition' allowed him and many others like him to jettison theological precision and refocus on what was around them — and, of course, investing. The results were self-evident. You do well by doing good; a giddying spiral of positive feedback. Templeton says, as one of his pieces of advice: "If you begin with prayer, you can think more clearly and make fewer stupid mistakes" (p155).
It sounds almost repulsively utilitarian, and yet in essence very little different to the Oxford Today cover story of Trinity 2012, when a Buddhist divine and an Oxford don evinced the case that meditation helps cure depression, whether it has deeper spiritual meaning or not.
A religious life means disciplined living, even if a disciplined life need not necessarily lead to religion.
As for the Oxford college that Sir John endowed in 1983, subsequently merging in July 2007 with Green College, it describes itself today as "friendly, informal, outward-looking, and future-focused." This was not the Oxford Sir John encountered as a young man, but to a significant degree it was a vision he still nurtured for his alma mater. I'm sure Oxford is the better for it.


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Pacific Costa Rica covers a vast sweep of territory along the wide side of the country, from Nicaragua down to the Panamanian border. Overlooking a complicated, varied terrain are the volcanoes and mountain peaks of the Guanacaste, Tilarán, and Talamanca mountain ranges, which largely block the rains that blow across Costa Rica from the Caribbean. Winds from the Pacific blow rain clouds ashore from May through October, while the rest of the year is dry.
But there are exceptions to this general picture. The Guanacaste lowlands of the northeast, hemmed in by coastal mountains, are subject to periodic droughts. In the south, on the other hand, near Golfito, the coastal mountains act as a watershed, and it rains throughout the year. In general, rainfall, humidity and discomfort increase toward the south. The daytime temperature throughout the area is generally in the nineties Fahrenheit (32 to 37 Centigrade).
Puntarenas is a one mile-long sandspit (which is what its name means), sticking out into the Gulf of Nicoya, a narrow, muddy estuary on one side, clear water on the other. Opened to shipping in 1814, the port was for many years Costa Ricas only outlet to world commerce. The coffee crop moved down to the coast from the highlands on oxcarts with a legendary breed of driver, rough and ready, but scrupulously honest.
The location of Puntarenas would appear strategic for the visitor. Ferries provide the easiest access to some of the nicer beaches on the Nicoya peninsula. Cruises touch the many islands in the Gulf of Nicoya. Puntarenas is the nearest Pacific point to San José.
Unfortunately, though, some of the city is a dump. I dont mean only that the beach is contaminated for its whole great length along the south side of town The central part of the city is composed of dismal, rotting and rusting, ramshackle structures, cheap flophouses, and bar after bar oozing drunks. A stench often permeates the humid, dense air.
Beyond the commercial center, the sights are more pleasant. There are some nice residences and hotels near the western tip of town and back toward the mainland, and a substantial yacht club. The headquarters of the port, at the main pier, are in a lovely old building. On Calle 7, there is a marvelous tan, crazy-stone church, looking quite English. Eating in the open-air diners along the beach and mixing with the crowds that come down for the day from San José can be pleasant. But you didnt come all the way from home to linger here. Costa Rica has much nicer seaside places to offer.
Southwest of Cañas, near the mouth of the Tempisque River, is Palo Verde National Park, a reserve of seasonally dry tropical forest of the type which once covered much of this area. Birds flock to Palo Verde, and so do birders: the leafless state of the trees during the dry season mates it easy for the latter to view the former. At least 300 species have been recorded at Palo Verde. There are hiking trails and observation points.
Less developed for visitors is the adjacent wetland Lomas Barbudal Biological Reserve, a refuge for migrating waterfowl, including herons egrets, ducks and grebes. The station for the reserve is reached by taking an unpaved road from the kilometer 221 marker on the Pan American Highway, negotiable in a sedan in the dry season. Six kilometers out, the terrain drops off sharply, from bare flatlands with scattered trees to a river bottom that remains moist throughout the year, alive with bird songs and dense with trees and bushes. If you arrive by car, continue to the second parking area, adjacent to the station, if road conditions look promising. Here bird lists and T-shirts are on sale, and there are exhibits of butterflies and other fauna. There are trails from this point, and a picnic area nearby.
At the mouth of the Tempisque River is the Rafael Lucas Rodríguez Caballero Wildlife Refuge (Refugio de Vida Silvestre), which encompasses passes a variety of habitats ranging from dry forest to marsh to lagoons to pasture and evergreen groves, where peccaries, deer, white-faced monkeys, waterfowl and crocodiles can be observed, among others. The Rodríguez Caballero Refuge may be reached by raft and motorboat from the La Pacífica ranch and hotel along the Pan American Highway.
Located 36 kilometers north of Liberia, Santa Rosa National Park was established in 1971 as a historical monument. The natural treasures of the park, which were originally included only incidentally, are now the main attraction for the foreign visitor.
The Santa Rosa hacienda was the scene of one of Costa Ricas most glorious military episodes - an episode that lasted the approximately fourteen minutes it took for a Costa Rican force to defeat the invading army of William Walker on March 20, 1856. Walkers army -and much of the opposing Costa Rican army as well- was finished off not long afterward in a cholera epidemic. The original great house of the Santa Rosa hacienda still stands as a monument to the victory.
Among the many natural features of the park are an extensive protected area of deciduous dry tropical forest; and Nancite beach, where hundreds of thousands of Pacific Ridley turtles nest from August until December every year.
Partly because of its historical importance, the park is quite well run, and is one of the most visited in the national park system. Best time to visit Santa Rosa is in the dry season, when thirsty animals congregate around the permanent water holes and streams making for easy viewing. During the rainy season, when few visitors appear, markers along the nature trail mar be down.
Facilities at or near the park center include a historical museum in the old great house of the hacienda, seven kilometers from the Pan American Highway, and a nature trail nearby. The campsite, about a kilometer away, back toward the park entry, then down a side road, near the administration building, is basic, with showers and latrines, as well as many picnic tables. Theres a small fee to camp, in addition to the admission fee to the park.
The casona, or great house of the Santa Rosa hacienda, is a large, whitewashed building with an aged tile roof and wooden verandas. Part of the casona might date from the colonial period, though the age of the building is indeterminate. Houses of this sort were continually repaired, remodeled and expanded during their useful lives. The stone corrals around the house are almost certainly a few hundred years old, and were in use until the hacienda was nationalized. Great wooden mortars and pestles lie in the shade of the eaves. In the clearing in front of the casona is a huge guanacaste tree, witness to past battles.
Nancite Beach is one of two known nesting areas in Central America for the Pacific Ridley Sea Turtle. During the rainy season, the turtles crawl up onto the beach, first by the dozens, then the hundreds, then thousands, to shove each other aside like so many commuters fighting for space, dig nests, and lay eggs before departing for the open sea. Green and leatherback turtles nest at the beach as well, but in smaller numbers than the Ridleys. With humans and other predators scooping up eggs when park employees arent looking, and vultures and frigate birds diving down for bits of hatchlings, less than one percent of the eggs make it to the young turtles. Crabs and sharks lie in wait to further deplete their numbers.
Access to Nancite is controlled, in order to protect the turtle eggs. Inquire at park headquarters before heading for the beach, by trail or in a four-wheel drive vehicle.
Naranjo, a larger beach than Nancite is an excellent locale for bird watching. You can camp here along the shifting estuary. The Mirador Valle de Naranjo trail affords a view of Naranjo Beach, as well as of the Peña Bruja outcrop.
Cuajiniquil ("kwa-hih-nih-KIHL") Canyon, at the northern edge of the park, contains a series of waterfalls, as well as numerous palms and ferns in its moist environment. Platanar Lake, covering a hectare, is four kilometers north of the great house and administrative area, and attracts varied waterfowl as well as mammals during the dry season.
North of the main section of Santa Rosa Park is the Murciélago Annex, a rugged, seaside strip of scrub forest and rocky outcrops where jaguars and mountain lions roam. Notable in this section of the park is Poza El General, a year-round waterhole, which can be reached by trail.
The Murciélago section was expropriated by the Costa Rican government from former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza. Access is via the Pan American Highway to the turnoff for Cuajiniquil village, 30 kilometers north of the junction for the main section of Santa Rosa Park. The entrance to the park annex is eight kilometers past Cuajiniquil.
There are also several isolated beaches near Cuajiniquil, both within and without the park. Playa Blanca is especially pretty. You can sometimes hire boats to poke around the inlets or to take you to the Murciélago ("bat") Islands, about 25 minutes out to sea.
Junquillal Bay Recreation Area (Area Recreativa Bahía Junquillal) including turtle nesting sites, dry forest and mangroves, is currently being developed for visitors, with campsites and trails.
About 14 kilometers northeast of Nicoya, off the road that leads to the Tempisque River and the Pan American Highway, is Barra Honda National Park, with its extensive limestone caverns, and peaks offering long distance views out over the Gulf of Nicoya.
Barra Honda mountain, once thought to be a volcano, rises 300 meters above the surrounding plain, and is pocked by holes where the roofs of underlying caves have collapsed. The caves were formed - and are still being formed - by the rapid erosion and chemical decomposition of layers of limestone sediment that once lay on the bed of a prehistoric sea. A geological fault line runs roughly along the nearby Tempisque River; the former seabed was steadily lifted as the Nicoya Peninsula slid alongside the mainland.
There are more than two dozen caves in Barra Honda, some of them still hardly explored.
Facilities in Barra Honda Park include trails, latrines, drinking water, and a campsite. The bluffs are high, and will require quite a lot of exertion to ascend. Park headquarters are in the town of Barra Honda, four kilometers west of the highway from Nicoya to the Tempisque River. Its another six kilometers meters to the center of the park.
Playas del Coco (El Coco Beach) is a dramatic setting on a large horseshoe bay with great rocks offshore, sailboats gliding around, and dozens of fishing boats tied up or on their way in to or out from shore. But this is one of the Pacific points most easily reached from San José, and it shows. The little town and the central part of the beach are dirty, though theres less litter the farther you walk from the center.
Three kilometers south of El Coco, Ocotal is reached by an unpaved road, rutted and difficult to negotiate in the rainy season. But there are rewards, if youre interested in a secluded hotel, deep-sea fishing, or diving.
Four kilometers onward from the turn for Villas Pacífica is Flamingo Beach, a stunning horseshoe of white sand in the web of a hand-shaped promontory, bordered by cliffs and a large hill.
What distinguishes Flamingo is what man has added to nature: a marina which, though small, is the most complete in the region. For all the money that has been poured into the attractive facilities at Flamingo, theres no town, and little shade. If youre not into fishing, sunbathing and real-estate pitches, and dont have a car to circulate to other locales, Flamingo can get old rather quickly. Flamingo has the air of a town looking for the next rich sucker to come along.
Tamarindo is a wide, mostly empty beach curving around a miles-long bay, with rocks and little sandy islands offshore. Pelicans float overhead and dive into the waters, skiffs bob up and down in the gentle surf. The setting is nearly perfect. And yet, many who know the Nicoya beaches say that Tamarindo is spoiled. Which is a measure of what some of the other beaches are like.
The village is fairly peaceful and low-key. The tamarinds that give the beach its name are the trees with the dangling seed pods and brush-like leaves. Birding is excellent in the nearby mangroves and tidal pools.
Tamarindo National Wildlife Refuge, south of the village of Tamarindo, is a turtle nesting area that also includes a variety of mangrove types. Birding trips through the waterways of the reserve and turtle-watching trips in the nesting season (November through April) are available from local operators. Typical species are egrets, frigatebirds, pelicans, gulls, spoonbills, and Muscovy ducks.
Opposite Puntarenas are the dramatic bays and inlets and sandy and rocky beaches of the very end of the Nicoya Peninsula.
Despite the proximity of San José in a straight line, limited ferry service, poor public transportation, unpaved roads and the fact that this is a dead end have, until recently, made the area relatively little-traveled. Of course, these are ideal conditions for those who wish to make discoveries away from the crowd at their own pace.
The two gateways to this area, from Puntarenas, are the ferry ports of Playa Naranjo and Paquera.
The southern Pacific beaches of Costa Rica are every bit as inviting and pleasing to the eye as those along the Nicoya Peninsula, though they differ in character. Most are more open, sweeping, and exposed, with fewer bordering outcrops of rocks. The farther south you go, the more humid and rainy is the climate, and the more lush and exuberant the vegetation that runs up to the sand. The mugginess is always relieved and attenuated, however, by breezes blowing off the water.
There is one fact about the southern beaches that is often not mentioned in polite company: they are dangerous for swimming. Large volumes of water flow toward shore across a deceptively smooth, broad front of waves, then recede in fast-flowing, unpredictable streams. If you are not a good swimmer, stay close to shore.
Beach hotels are concentrated at Jacó and at Manuel Antonio (near Quepos), but there are numerous little-frequented beaches as well where cabinas and similar basic accommodations are available. You can poke round and explore for some of these paradisaical hideaways if you decide to rent a car in San José.
Jacó ("ha-KO") has what other beach places in Costa Rica are missing: streets, and life. It is a pleasant community, where you can stroll and look in stores, shop for groceries, choose from a selection of restaurants and snack bars and buy a souvenir at some place other than the captive boutique of your hotel. Vacation houses are scattered on coconut-palm-shaded lots, surrounded by wild grass and carefully manicured gardens. Accommodations range from basic to expensive, and there are definitely places in between.
Jacó is the nearest of the beach resorts to San José (if you dont count Puntarenas), three hours away by public bus, less by car, or a half-hour hop by chartered plane. The beach at Jacó is typical of this section of coast wide, long, curving to promontories, littered with driftwood, palm-fringed in parts, vegetation creeping over some small dunes. There is also a certain accumulation of trash -diapers, bottles, juice cartons- in the most frequented sections, but the beach is large enough that most of it is inoffensive. Surfers have mace Jacó their home away from home.
And there are natural attractions, as well. Sea turtles lay their eggs most nights from July to December at Playa Hermosa, three kilometers to the south.
Corcovado National Park, in the southern part of the Osa Peninsula, includes vast stretches of the only virgin lowland rain forest in Central America. Among the natural treasures of Corcovado are trees of 500 species (including one kapok, or silk-cotton, that is said to be the largest tree in Costa Rica); numerous endangered mammals, among them cougars, jaguars, ocelots, margays, jaguarundis and brocket deer; eagles and macaws, assorted monkeys; snakes; tapirs; and peccaries, which may be the most destructive and dangerous species in the park.
Vegetation zones range from mountain rain forest down to beach, and fresh-water and mangrove swamps. At La Llorona, a river empties in a waterfall directly into the ocean.
You dont just drop into Corcovado. With its remote location, Corcovado attracts mainly scientific researchers, and visitors on all-inclusive packages with boats, buses and oxcarts organized beforehand. There are extensive trails along the beach and in the forested interior, however, as well as campsites. You can do Corcovado on your own if youre prepared with camping equipment, rain protection, high boots, snakebite kit, food, water containers and purification means, and repellent against the sandflies that infest the beaches. For walking along the beaches and up the beds of rivers, old sneakers, rafting sandals or surf shoes will come in handy.
Check with the park service in San José before any visit to Corcovado, or at least with the park of office in Puerto Jiménez (tel. 778-5036). Allow for contretemps - chartered planes that dont show up to airlift you out, never-ending downpours, bogged-down buses, etc.
Admission to the park costs about $6. Meals are currently available at ranger stations at $4 for breakfast, $6 for lunch or dinner; though there is no guarantee that vittles will be available if you just drop in. Advise park headquarters in Puerto Jiménez of your scheduled whereabouts, when possible.
There are no sheltered bays along this stretch of coast, and the breakers are often over ten feet high. Sharks frequent the waters off the entire face of the peninsula (in case you doubt it, look at the skulls that decorate lodges and the general store in Carate). Swimming should be ruled out, except for a wade near shore. Sharks also swim into the rivers of Corcovado when the water is over a meter deep.
Ridges of high jungle run parallel to the beach of pebbles and black sand, split from each other by meandering rivers. Birding is excellent from any vantage point along the beach, (viewing along interior trails in the park maybe limited by the close foliage and lack of windows). The Madrigal River, about two kilometers from La Leona station, is marked by a boulder beach, where broad waves crash against the gentle curve of coast.
Carate, about a kilometer past the eastern edge of Corcovado Park, is a pulpería (general store), a dirt landing strip, and a rusting sluice that remains from the days when gold panning was legal. This is the end of the dirt road around the edge of Osa from Puerto Jiménez, and some camper vehicles make it this far and use the beach as a base for exploring the park.
The lush, rolling landscape south of Puerto Jiménez is cattle country, sprinkled with surviving and second-growth forest, ponds where ducks and geese putter about, and plots of fast-growing pulp trees where cleared and burned-off forest produced luxuriant pasture and abundant crops only until the ashes and humus were exhausted and the hard clay below had nothing more to yield. The bumpy road south fords assorted rivers and streams; bridges are being installed, in some cases by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and National Guard units. The farms and pastures soon diminish in numbers and extent, for there are only limited accessible markets.
Think of Zancudo as a tropic isle. A beach village south of Golfito, Zancudo can be reached overland if you have a sturdy vehicle and no schedule, or if the bus is running on the day you go. But most of the connections are by water.
"Zancudo" (san-KU-do) is the Spanish word for a particularly vexatious mosquito; though you will usually not be bothered if there is any kind of breeze. The settlement sprawls along five kilometers or so of beach, and at most of the lodging places, youll see sand, breakers, mangrove, coconut palms, and maybe another building down the way a bit, if at all. Surfers have come here for years, and now there is just enough in the way of amenities to make Zancudo the right place for anyone who requires a beach without Big Tourism.


text: Jonathan Forder, a developer at immersive media studio Discover Studios, has used ARKit to bring cartoons into the living room . His prototype, which uses a clip from on of my favourite cartoons The Amazing World of Gumball (a cartoon which is animate using mixed media), shows the two main characters walking in his living room singing away. I am very impressed and with iOS11 enabled products having the power and tools to use AR apps the possibilities are truly exciting.


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It's All in the Logs | TechSNAP 361
Posted on: March 29, 2018
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Embarrassing flaws get exposed when the logs get reviewed, Atlanta city government gets shut down by Ransomware, and the cleverest little Android malware you'll ever meet.
Plus we go from a hacked client to a Zero-day discovery, answer some questions, ask a few, and more!
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Bold Blue Bison
I love a good burger, especially one that's as full of intense flavor and easy to make as these blue cheese-stuffed bison burgers. Bison meat is naturally lean and robust so these burgers require minimal handling and prep work to yield excellent results. And it's no secret that I am totally obsessed with cheese, so the fact that every bite of these juicy burgers is oozing with tangy blue cheese is a huge bonus for me. Call me crazy but I also like to melt some more blue cheese over the top and sometimes I go really crazy and add a couple slices of aged cheddar and bacon. My mouth is watering just thinking about it!
The Ultimate Burger
All you need to make these amazing burgers is ground bison meat, Worcestershire sauce, blue cheese, sea salt and fresh black pepper. I also like to add bacon, caramelized onions and remoulade sauce, while my husband opts for bacon, tomato, more bacon and some barbecue sauce. You really can't go wrong with these. If I happen to have Dale's seasoning on hand I'll use that for the marinade instead of the Worcestershire. I typically shape my burgers to be about 6 oz each but you can easily make smaller "sliders" or a large half pound patty. The beauty about this tasty recipe is that you don't have to follow a recipe. That also means you really can't do anything to mess these up.
12 oz Ground Bison
4 oz block of Blue Cheese
4 Tbs Worcestershire Sauce or Dale's Seasoning
Sea Salt, to taste
Fresh Black Pepper, to taste
2 slices Aged Cheddar Cheese, optional
4 slices of crispy Bacon
- Shape the ground bison into 4 patties of equal size. Spoon about 2 oz of blue cheese onto the center of two patties. Cover each of these patties with the other two patties and carefully seal the edges so that precious blue cheese doesn't seep out during cooking.
- Marinade the burgers in Worcestershire or Dale's for at least an hour or a few hours.
- Let the burgers rest at room temperature for 30 to 60 minutes prior to grilling. Season both sides liberally with salt and pepper.
- Heat an outdoor grill or indoor cast iron grill pan to high. Grill the burgers for 5 minutes per side for medium rare or longer depending on how you like your burger. Melt additional cheese over the top during the last minute of cooking.
- Place the burgers on toasted burger buns and top with any other ingredients you desire. Enjoy!
Suggested Wine Pairings
Bold, intense burgers like these beg for a robust red wine with enough tannins to cut through the rich combination of bison and blue cheese. Try a robust Cabernet Sauvignon or a juicy, spicy Australian Shiraz. For a nice splurge to go with this gourmet burger, my personal favorite is a big, bold fruit-driven red from the Southern Rhone region of France, particularly Châteauneuf-du-Pape.


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jennifer hudson bursts into tears as Mo Adeniran is crowned winner of the voice uk 2017
After months of amazing performances and mentoring from J Hud, Mo Adeniran was crowned the winner of The Voice UK during Sunday night's live final.
Whilst the show was disrupted by a stage invader and Tom Jones accidentally swearing on air, nothing could take away from the 21-year-old's victory as he beat Welsh duo Into The Ark to be named the winner.
Congratulations to them both, we wish Mo all the success in the world.


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Chin Wang, Creative Director at ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine/
SPD: What year?
Chin Wang: Around 1998
SPD: What were you up to?
CW: My first job was at a newspaper in Florida doing mundane production work (coloring in the Sunday comics!).
SPD: What magazine?
CW: Entertainment Weekly
SPD: What was it that so enthralled you?
CW: Back then, I found anything on nice paper glamorous and loved so many magazines, but especially Entertainment Weekly. Every page was a treat and I devoured everything – from the bold illustrations to the expressive typography. One particular layout I remember: Jennifer Aniston's disembodied head set up like a mannequin in a row of dummy heads, opposite the headline "Big Wig" on an illustrated can of hairspray. All the elements seemed to work so harmoniously together: the image, the design, the words. Even now, I wonder about the editor who wrote the headline and imagine that person saying, "Oh yeah? You've got an amazingly styled photo of a breakout star with a cult haircut? And you came up with a hairspray can design and want me to come up with a headline that's six letters or less? (Dramatic pause) Yup, I got it! It's … BIG WIG!"
SPD: Do you know now who the creatives were?
CW: Robert Newman, then John Korpics. I am such a huge fan of both. Years later, when John offered me a job as the art director at ESPN the Magazine, I jumped at the chance. Working for him was equal parts inspiration and hilarity. When I expressed some trepidation about taking over the magazine after he got a bigger job at the company, he shooed me away and laughed, "Chin, get the f*ck out of my office!" It was exactly the kind of Tiger Boss vote of confidence I needed.
SPD: How does that inform your creative now?
CW: Well, I stopped doing text on a curved path years ago, but haven't forgotten that all the things on a page have to speak to each other and that everyone on the masthead has a job to do. It's nauseatingly sentimental, I know, but I really do believe creativity doesn't happen without a good mix of people who champion one another.


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What's that word where things work out in an unexpected but happy way? Well, that's how I feel about this family session with the Lehnerts and their gorgeous baby girl Gabriella. Esther contacted me via a recommendation from the talented Nina Tantzen Photography, needing to arrange a shoot in a hurry before they had to move homes. With a bit of compromise on both sides, we managed to squeeze in a weekday session and I'm really rather glad that we did.
Even though the Lehnerts had not started out looking specifically for a storytelling photographer, they were 100% game and committed to carrying out their cherished everyday routines in front of my lens. I think this was the perfect way to commemorate their first home in Singapore as a family of 3 - not just with beautiful smiling portraits with their house as a backdrop, but with a series of images showing how they lived in that house, how they filled its spaces everyday with love and care and lots of baby cuddles. As a rather super bonus I was able to create some of my favourite intimate images of all time - of Gabriella being bathed and nursed - so yes, serendipity, thank you.


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You can tell Shaylie is a creative soul just by the location she picked, the outfits, and her laid back attitude.
Shaylie actually picked the location for her senior session and with the fall colors and sun peaking out early in the morning it all came together pretty perfectly. This was a very fun laid back session with just a couple outfit changes but the simplicity of it all made for some pretty stunning images.
Thank you Shaylie & Josh for coming out!


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Savings to Put a Spring in Your Step
"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush." – Doug Larson
Every spring brings with it the promise of new beginnings and opportunities, and we're excited to share new opportunities for savings with our spring savings special! For a limited time, we're offering EQP and free set-up on a number of our products, including Euro Balm, Blend-a-Balm, Iced Pear Lotion, Lip 30, and Credit Card Hand Sanitizer Spray!
With plenty of activities taking place during the spring, here are some ways to use these products for a memorable promotion:
Euro Balm: Thanks to the red, white, and blue tube colors we offer, Euro Balm is great for Memorial Day events! Hand it out during a parade, give it to customers who make a purchase during the holiday weekend, promote a Memorial Day special, or hold a raffle drawing with each label bearing a unique number. The item's smooth application is hard not to love, and the twist-up applicator is a nice touch to provide a unique experience for every wearer.
Blend-a-Balm: Spring means outdoor markets start running in full swing, allowing people to see a variety of food and craft products all in one place. Blend-a-Balm is the perfect item for vendors of farmers markets to promote opening weekend and get people excited about visiting their booth. The label could include the vendor's booth location, as well as their website so people can learn more.
Iced Pear Lotion: Mother's Day is coming up on May 14! For every order of a flower bouquet, flower shops can provide customers with a free gift of Iced Pear Lotion. It will add to the wonderful scents that recipients will enjoy, and it's an item mothers can apply to dry skin as they relax. It's a timely and effective way for sharing a company's name.
Lip 30: Thanking people when they volunteer their time is really important, and Lip 30 can help do so during outdoor spring projects. Close to home for Raining Rose, the United Way of East Central Iowa Day of Caring is May 11, which brings employees together to accomplish projects and help meet community needs at schools and not-for-profit organizations. Whether it's a designated day in your community or a monthly volunteer effort, a practical handout like lip balm can keep a business or initiative remembered.
Credit Card Hand Sanitizer Spray: Marathon runners welcome the spring weather, and with lots of marathon events around, it's an ideal time to promote a business with something they can use. Credit Card Hand Sanitizer Spray is a great item to include in race-day bags, as soap and water aren't always accessible before or after their 26-mile run. It's attention to detail that many runners appreciate, and this product offers a simple way to get in people's hands.
What events are you participating in this spring? Consider how you can use these products to promote it, scoring some savings as you prepare!


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Encouragement. It's powerful and life affirming.
The first part of my sabbatical was to focus on family milestones. We had two big events: Boy Scout Eagle Court of Honor for Daniel and High School Graduation for Benjamin.
At Daniel's Eagle celebration, he told a story of one of his "encouragers" in becoming Eagle. Daniel has been a part of the GreyWolf, the Boy Scout leadership program for the past two years. Grey Wolf staffers are held to and hold for themselves to the highest of standards in all areas of scouting, including the uniform inspections. Last year, when Daniel served on Staff, he took note of the following conversation.
Mr. Peterson, pointing to the rank insignia: John, fix your uniform.
John: What? What's wrong with it? I measured it. It's in the right place.
Mr. Peterson: What's the rank?
John: Life.
Mr. Peterson: And what should it be?
John: Life. I'm a life scout....(then...getting the hint) But it will be Eagle soon! I'm working on it!
The funny thing, is the "encourager" wasn't even talking to Daniel. And.... he could have taken this exchange as being "pushy" or as "shameful." But he didn't. Instead, overhearing this little exchange encouraged Daniel. HE did not want to be "called out." But he also realized that he could do it - and he wanted to do it before the next Grey Wolf event this summer. So, even though he is only 15 and scouts have until they are 18 to achieve the rank of Eagle, he pushed himself to complete the Eagle rank and have his Court of Honor before the 2015 summer program began.
It made me wonder: how often do we encourage - or discourage - one another without even realizing it? Reflecting back, the people of Faith-LIlac Way have been particularly good at encouraging my kids - and others - in their life and in their faith. Sometimes we are harder on ourselves. But your word for today is ENCOURAGEMENT! I encourage you to not only be an encourager - but try to interpret the words that others say to you or around you as words of encouragement.
In the scripture that we are dwelling on for this year, the Road to Emmaus, in an exchange that also could be interpreted as "frustrated," or as "shameful," Jesus encourages two of his followers to understand what he had been teaching them all along. Jesus says, "Oh, how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared! Was it not necessary that the Messiah should suffer these things and then enter into his glory?" But Jesus does not stop there. Instead, "beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he interpreted to them the things about himself in all the scriptures."
Sometimes being an "encourager" takes a little patience. Sometimes it takes a friendly nudge. But let us be "encouragers" in our words - and in our actions. That's one of the side benefits of belonging to and being part of a Christian community. We encourage one another - and ourselves -- and those who are "listening in", perhaps without our even being aware.
In my Sabbatical time away, I've attended other churches... but that's another blog for another time.
Until then, peace!
Pastor Pam