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Obama in 'O8! (and Forever)
So next I read this insightful piece by Dinesh D'Souza on just what motivates D'O!bama. Then I thought to myself, I wonder when was the first time the name "Obama" was uttered on this blog?
Turns out that it was in early '08. No, I don't have any magical powers. It was just a case of using my 20/∞ cʘʘnvision to see into the shadowy future casting its darkness into the past for any gnocturnal b'atman to see. Let's face it, it doesn't take much to know more about Obama than Obama knows about America. So here's my first and last impression of him in '08:
Will brought up a very important point in a comment yesterday. It was in response to my questions, "What great world-historical events are invisible to the jaded elites of the present? What great vertical energies (↓) are entering the world today, undetected by a spiritually oblivious moonstream media?" Will's reflections on this are worth reproducing in full:
"There is a danger here, I think, given that this might be the age when 'Spirit pours out on all flesh,' i.e., the vertical energies actually do become, in a way, more visible, more tangible, even to the oblivious MSM.
"The danger is this: the influx of vertical energies for the most part cannot find suitable spiritual anchoring, do not result in a growth of spiritual insight and wisdom, but rather the vertical energies might be suborned by the horizontal in an entirely unwholesome way.
"An example: hypothetically speaking, let's say... oh, let's say, some political candidate who's running for... oh, let's say, for president of the United States... Let's say this candidate uses the influx of vertical energy in such a way that it does not invest him with any particular wisdom -- in fact, this candidate mouths and apparently believes in the same old amorphous lefty platitudes. Only... this candidate seems invested with a peculiar type of charisma that has citizens from coast to coast virtually swooning in some orgasmystical ecstasy... no one's higher intellect is sharpened, only their *feelings* are set on fire by this candidate in some peculiar way...
"Well, as was said re: the days when the Spirit pours out on all flesh, one must be very careful not to fall for false messiahs and whatnot... meanwhile, there are those who indeed are spiritually anchoring the vertical energy influx and are doing so invisibly and with a certain amount of travail, as is necessary at this time."
First of all, let's get this out of the way at the outset. Are we calling Obama the antichrist?
Yes, of course.
Nah, just kidding. Let's just say an unwitting vehicle of the antichristic principle, which anyone can be at one time or another. Please, let's be mature, and discuss this in terms of abstract cosmic principles, without getting polemical or personal. No need to demonize someone just because he's an instrument of satan. Besides, he's just the vehicle, not the driver. The surfer, not the wave.
Now, what do we mean by "antichrist?" I would say that, as Christ is Word-made-flesh, the realm of the antichristic would analogously represent the "lower principle" made flesh -- the instantiation, as it were, of the energies of the Fall.
So first of all, to go along with our analysis, one must believe that man is in some sense a fallen being with a built-in -- or at least inevitable -- dasein flaw. You certainly needn't be a fanatic about it, since this comports with common sense and with virtually infinite historical examples.
You have only to know that "something ain't right" with the earthlings, however you wish to conceptualize it. Being aware of this principle is one of our greatest inoculations against utopian leftist schemes to perfect mankind, which always result in unanticipated cosmic belowback, AKA "hell on earth."
Secondly, you would have to believe that it is possible for the energies responsible for the Fall to be personified -- or, let us say, both focused and dispersed like a beam of darkness through the concavity or convexations of man's heart. As Christ is a blinding light, antichrist would be, oh, a hollow darkness visible.
Thus, to those who live in spiritual darkness, it would appear as a false light -- as, say, a single match is brighter than the sun in an enclosed room, cut off from the real source of light. And the hollowness would be mistaken for fulness as a result of its receptiveness to primitive projection. Thus, a spiritually normal person sees Obama as unusually empty while others project all sorts of wonderful things into him -- intelligence, wisdom, sophistication, prudence, courage, temperance, etc.
The Serpent -- to paraphrase our best Unknown Friend -- sssymbolizes advanced intelligence ("the most cunning of the beasts") turned wholly toward the horizontal. Thus, it is a perversion of man's intellect, as it represents a self-sufficient naturalism and total (small r) realism that betrays -- literally, for it turns against it in rebellion -- the vertical source of human intelligence. As such, we would expect one aspect of the antichristic to be high intelligence combined with extraordinary vapidity, at least for those with spiritual discernment.
But this cannot merely be the philosophical vapidity of the doctrinaire atheist or scientistic materialist or ideological Darwinian, or it could never gain traction in the human heart, which always hungers for Spirit, even (or especially) if it is the false and meretricious kind (otherwise, Balthasar or Schuon would sell more books than Deepak or Marianne Williamson).
Rather, it would have to come cloaked in some sort of seductive or hypnotic faux verticality. It would indeed have to be charismatic and charming, bearing in mind the root meaning of former, which is "divine gift," and of the latter, which is "incantation" or "magic spell."
A spiritually normal person would be alarmed and even deeply creeped out if he possessed this kind of influence over others. At the very least, it would be an occasion for the deepest humility, combined with concern over the precarious state of the spiritually famished souls under his influence.
Most people, if they knew the implications, would not want this power, because they would know that they are neither worthy of it nor competent to deal with it, any more than they are competent to perform brain surgery. But a person with narcissistic issues will be too intoxicated by the feelings of adulation to care about the souls with whom he is toying. They are just props, part of his psychic furniture.
This power is a serious responsibility and is not to be taken lightly. The spiritually normal person knows that this charis is only on loan to him (or courses through him locally from a nonlocal source), and that he is not free to use it as he will. At the very least, one could not purposely lie to those who place their trust in you, let alone on the grand scale committed by Obama.
Rather, one is only free to use this power if it is aligned with its vertical source and with vertical principles, i.e., Truth, Love, Beauty, and Unity (not relativism, idiot compassion, aesthetic barbarism, and fractious pseudo-diversity).
There is something coming through the charismatic, not from him, and as soon as one realizes this, it is an occasion, yes, for gratitude, but also fear and trembling. It is analogous to the power to send men to die for their country, only on the vertical plane. It is the ability to inspire selfless martyrs, but for what purpose? Our satanic Islamist enemies are clearly selfless idealists under the influence of charismatic leaders. So what?
Our Unknown Friend asks the questions, "Can one produce artificially intellectual, moral or spiritual inspiration? Can the lungs produce the air which they need for respiration?" No, of course not: "the very process of breathing teaches the laws of obedience, poverty, and chastity, i.e. it is a lesson (by analogy) of grace. Conscious breathing in of the reality of grace is Christian Hatha-yoga. Christian Hatha-yoga is the vertical breathing of prayer and benediction -- or, in other words, one opens oneself to grace (↓) and receives it."
Unknown Friend goes on to say that the antichristic represents "the ideal of biological and historical evolution without grace." This is a key idea, for what is a progressive? A progressive is someone who believes fervently in progress while fanatically denying its possibility, since progress can only be measured in light of permanent truths and transcendent ideals. Absent the transcendent, there is only horizontal power.
The antichrist "is the ultimate product of this evolution without grace and is not an entity created by God," since divine creation is always a vertical act or descent. Yes, all things ultimately "come from God," in the same sense that all light comes from the sun, but think of all the infernal uses to which man may put the light, darkling! For the light falls on the righteous and tenured alike.
Now, in this absurcular dialectic, Obama is ultimately a creator of those who created him. Unknown friend writes that, just as there are spiritual beings who reveal themselves "from above," there are what he calls egregores, which are "engendered artificially [and collectively] from below."
Thus, "as powerful as they may be," they "have only an ephemeral existence," the duration of which "depends entirely on galvanising nourishment on the part of their creators." [As Obama's projected power begins to fade and the illusion is punctured, we'll see more and more of his former supporters publicly asking, "what was I thinking?" in empowering this intellectual cypher. The answer is, "you weren't. You were fantasizing." Of course, others -- the true believers -- will "dig in."]
As such, the really frightening thing about these kinds of amorphous demagogues is that they are given life and nourished by the rabble they nourish and to whom they give life, in a spiritually barren cycle. The result is either spiritual asphyxiation or starvation, or probably both. And starved and suffocating men are capable of anything. [So in terms of the future psychic weather, look for a kind of blinding "psychic frenzy" from the left, much of which will be carried out in the dark.]
Ultimately, the antichrist is the shadow of the totality of mankind, as Jesus was the immanent shadow, so to speak, of the transcendent Divine Principle. The antichrist represents all that man is, and can be in the absence of divine grace. It is he who transported Jesus to the highest earthly mountain "and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory" and said to him All these things I will give you if you will fall down and worship me.
The secular extremist or fanatical progressive worships his own creation, and in so doing, gives birth to the antiword. Materially, it results in a lefthound Tower of Babel (i.e, the all-powerful state), whereas spiritually it results in a gelatinous tower of leftist babble (i.e., the vacuous but seductive demagogue who will lead the people in the direction of their most base impulses and envious desires).
Again, please bear in mind that we are simply discussing abstract meta-cosmic principles. The events depicted in this post are fictitious. Any similarity to any biologically living or spiritually dead person is merely coincidental.


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"How Much is that Coin Worth?"
We sell replica coins of the 18th century and we get lots of questions about their respective worth. I thought I would pass along this wonderful website which has links to many useful tools to answer the question. It's called "Current Value of Old Money".

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Congrats to Salem and Kristen.
Congrats to Salem and Kristen.
SouthFork Fly
Yea Zeva and Pat, the girls are on a roll.
Congratulations Pat and Zeva!! She's an awesome dog!
Highland Wish Upon a Star MH, WCX *** (Star) 3/13/00 to 12/2/11
Lt. Farm Green Mountain Gold MH, WCX *** (Sage) 12/15/02
Firemark Gunsmoke's Lawman (Dillon) 4/9/12
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Southland Rusty Nail - derby points, qual placements "Rusty"
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Any news on the AMATEUR?
we know 10 went to the 4th.... how did they fare?
Alex got a Red Ribbion double .
Q for both nationals now.
Great job
Amateur Results:
1st - 39 Punch Punch Chad O'Brien
2nd - 44 FC AFC Texaco's High Tesse Alex Abraham
3rd - 25 High Peak Rebel Ridge's Outlaw Samantha Thompson
4th - 13 Lucky Times Drew Clendaniel
RJ - 9 Roaring Brook's Spitfire "Allie" Phillip Irmischer
8 FC AFC Trumarc's Costalotmore Mark Rosenblum
34 Greenwood Gracie Drew Clendaniel
38 Wight's Goddess of Victory MH Tracy Wight
Congratulations to some really great people with awesome dogs!
Tracy Wight
FC AFC Wight's Goddess of Victory MH "Nike"
Wight's The Dark Side QA2 NDL "Vader"
HRCH UH Zucker's Wight Lightning MH QAA "Zucker"
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You really gotta be careful about how high a pedestal you put your method, your accomplishments, your dog on. There's usually someone who's done more, somewhere. And they may have used a different method than you did! Chris Atkinson 2013
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A Miley Cyrus Picture Scandalby Mischalova at . Comments
Fortunately, this isn't a Miley Cyrus nude picture scandal. We don't think our innocent, celebrity gossip-loving hearts could take that.
But the Hannah Montana star does find herself in a bit of hot, racy water after a pair of questionable photos of her and a friend surfaced on the Internet.
"They're nothing bad!" Cyrus insisted. "At first, I was really upset. It really sucks," but now the singer has seemingly calmed down - and you can see why.
Vanessa Hudgens and Katie Rees would scoff at the notion that the following photos were remotely lewd:
Cyrus added this is "not something I'm going to let slide... I'm really upset about it, 'cause it was, like, not even a big deal," as she's still being asked questions about her partner in quasi lesbian crime.
The photos were reportedly taken at a recent sleepover and Miley said it's just "a friend of mine that's a normal girl."
We believe her. Then again, we also believe that Valerie Begue is simply a fan of evaporated milk and sun bathing.


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By Ben Levisohn
The big news in biotech this week has been the purchase of Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX) by Amgen (AMGN). Amgen popped 7.8% after the purchase was announced, in part for the cheap(er) price it paid, but also for the drugs that would be added to its pipeline.
Now Societe Generale considers the impact of biologic drugs on the stock prices of pharmaceutical companies. Analyst Stephen McGarry writes:
We have previously argued that there is likely to be limited genericisation of complex biologics due to difficult ies in their manufacture and the upfront at-risk capex, among other things, and we repeat those arguments in this report. If this thesis is borne out over the long term, then pharmaceutical companies whose R&D pipelines contain large numbers of difficult-to-copy biologics should be rewarded with higher valuations, since revenues and profits should be more sustainable for those drugs in development that do reach commercialisation. Further, if pharma companies continue to expand the biologics component of their R&D pipelines, they should deserve even higher valuations.
The European pharmaceutical stocks that don't reflect the potential of biologics yet include Novartis (NVS) and Sanofi (SNY), McGarry says.
Novartis has dropped 1.3% to $74.15 today, while Sanofi has fallen 2.4% to $49.57.


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Employee Appreciation Program
November is almost here and that means it is time for the eighth annual Employee Appreciation Program, "Thank You for Making a Difference".
The Office Of Human Resources invites all Ithaca College employees to take a few minutes during the month of November to write a "thank-you" note to a colleague. We are fortunate at IC to be surrounded by people who are dedicated, talented, and committed to excellence. Your co-workers do a great job every day -- so thank them!!!
Thank you cards will be distributed by mail with coupons. The coupons will be redeemable at the Employee Appreciation Award Shelf on the Garden Level of the Peggy Ryan Williams Center
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grnhd, the quote was about using a hide during training. I use it in very specific training sessions which emphasize focus, control and responsiveness. I don't use it when doing advanced marking.....just in expectation drills and maintenance. The original OP is dealing with a very young pup where the process of steadying is just beginning.
By the time my dogs are actually hunting, the expectation of "I am available whenever you need me." is well established (from training). When I am hunting...the dog's release depends on the situation. I can either give them a call name release or say "here". The fully trained dog understands the difference (in theory).
If I am field hunting geese, I will call the dog from his/her hide which is almost always near (behind) my layout blind and then send them. However, on a duck hunt late this fall, my dog was placed about a hundred yards away from me in his hide. In that situation, I released him directly to head for a downed, long fall, crippled teal.
To provide some balance in training vs. hunting, here are photos of those two situations.
goose hunt hide positioning with Daisy
duck hunting Gunny in a hide at position #1 and me at #2


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Focus on Funds
Hedge Funds Lose Ground in June: Two-and-Twenty Falls 1.3%
My colleague Saranya Kapur sends over this item on hedge funds:
Hedge funds just snapped a seven-month winning streak, and it looks like you can get back – in part -- to blaming equity strategies.
June was a volatile month: When investors weren't being whipsawed by rising rates and falling bond prices, they were taking a "risk off" attitude to other assets. As a whole, hedge funds shed about 1.3% for the month, according to Hedge Fund Research, which is just out Monday with fresh data. That's a hair better than the S&P 500 (SPY), which lost 1.5%.
Equity hedge and macroeconomic strategies loomed large in the declines, falling 1.5% and 1.37%, respectively. Several types of fixed-income strategies posted their first monthly loss in some time. Healthcare and technology were among the few areas to gain, rising 0.65%, which is notably lower than the previous month's 2.38%.
Trend-following strategies, fixed income, emerging markets and commodity metals each got whacked.
Perhaps most jaw-droppingly bad was the slump in HFR's emerging markets index – it declined nearly 4 percent. Funds that focus on Emerging Asia and Latin America fared especially poorly, declining 5.7 and 5.2 percent, respectively.


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I've mentioned this to a couple of people, but weirdly, the travelling to date had kind of taken it out of me - now, don't all reach for the tissues at once, but packing and unpacking, constantly travelling, always thinking you have to do something is tiring. So, my decision to spend a week in Bali, before hitting Oz was, in hindsight, a very good one. In terms of doing stuff, well other than diving and golf, I've done bugger all. Seen the odd temple from a car, viewed distant rice terraces and even squeezed off a picture of the volcano - but other than that, it's been sitting by the pool, reading loads of books and having the stupidest cocktails in the world at the pool bar (you sit in the water...). So, there you go - if you weren't wound up by the thought of me travelling for 7 months, this little week of sheer laziness should push you over the edge!!
But in truth, the major reason for coming here was to do some diving - Bali's renowned for having some of the world's best dive sites and marine life and I haven't been disappointed. It also gave me the chance to play with my new toy - an underwater case for my camera. Admittedly the first dive was paranoia in extremis - checking the casing every minute to see if there was an sign of water getting in, but after 5 dives, I can report not one drop got even close to breaking in. Hopefully, as you can see from some of the pictures, it's not bad at all!
But, as for the diving itself, one major find - I mean it wasn't that difficult - poodling along in the reefs around the northern part of Bali, there was the anemone and there he was - Nemo!
I mean the little guy's been missing for so long they even made a film about him - admittedly he was a bit phased about being found and dived back into cover as soon as he saw me, but, mission accomplished, thought I. Nope, Nemo's a little bastard. So as soon as we leave him, he obviously gets on his mobile, or whatever they use 20 metres down, and phones his mate Trigger, to "have a word" with us. Now, for those of you who know anything about marine life, you'll know what a problem this is - for those of you who don't, Trigger
is a nasty piece of work and also quite stupid. He's quite a big fish but his biggest attribute is his teeth - big and bloody sharp. First of all he goes for my dive buddy and gets a pretty good bite on his flippers - one kick from the flipper and he decides that's no fun, so he comes after me - It occurred to me as this narky sod swims after me that picture for the police might be a good idea, so I turn and snap him - I think the flash might have distracted him, cause he gave up the chase at that point.
But seriously, the diving's been great - fantastic visibility and water temperature in the high 20's - perfect conditions - wrecks, reefs and hundreds of fish, the occasional shark (Reef one's so not dangerous, Mum!) - really good fun.
And, to complete the overall sense of debauchery, I've managed to squeeze in a couple of rounds of golf
The one thing that has surprised me slightly about Bali is how quiet it's been. Admittedly the bombings of a few years ago still seem to have an impact - every major shop and hotel has security check points, but even so, I'd heard it had recovered. Indeed one of the guys in the hotel said last year had been one of the busiest ever - yet this year, it's been very quiet. One of the problems is that the surf this season has been poor - I'm staying in a place called Kuta which is supposedly one of the best surfing beaches in this whole region. But I've barely seen a wave of note (hugely disappointing as I'd every intention of learning to surf, to add to my skiing experience....) - for this reason the bars have been empty and there's a slightly empty air to the whole place.
As for the Balinese, they've struck me as being incredibly friendly and polite and immensely proud of their tourist trade. Whilst diving the other day, there was some excitement at the hotel we were diving from - apparently a gang had been caught stealing from a room in a hotel - amongst the gang was one policeman. Not being great believers in the Balinese justice system, the locals formed a lynch mob and broke the policeman's arm and leg!! Apparently this kind of thing is quite normal as it sends a better message to the other crooks that robbing tourists is really not a good idea!
And so to Oz - I catch the red-eye to Perth in a few hours and in two days it's the start of the third test. I hope we can extract some kind of performance in this one - it'll be a real bugger to have to spend an entire month with a bunch of Aussies gloating about cricket - if it does happen, might have to pretend I'm Czech again!!
PS Disappointed to read about Arsenal's attitude to the whole Ashley Cole thing at the Chelsea game - I think they should have encouraged the fans to burn effigies of the little shit, not try and pretend he's forgiven.


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Was thinking over Paul Graham's Arc
I get weird feeling from it.. some of the ideas are obviously right and cute; OTOH the language feels to alien to Lisp. Single-dispatch single-inheritance object system also looks awkward.
Then, if Arc is a scripting language, where all the regexps? Why just don't use the special treatment of combinations again, so that ("foo bar baz" ".*ba") will result in "foo ba"?


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9 tips for travelling in Costa Rica
Inspired by pictures of Costa Rica's primordial-looking shores, rainforests bristling with exotic creatures and steaming volcanoes that tower above the clouds…25 Oct 2016 • Chloe Cann insert_drive_file Article
The beaches of Guanacaste are scattered along the rocky coastline that runs from Bahía Culebra in the north near Liberia to Sámara on the west of the Nicoya Peninsula. Few of those in the north could truthfully be called beautiful, and most are quite small, located in coves or sheltered bays that makes them good for swimming, and relatively safe – though they lack the impressive expanse of Playas Flamingo and Tamarindo a bit further down the coast. The waters in the Bahía Culebra (marked on some maps as Playa Panamá) are some of the clearest and most sheltered in the country, with good snorkelling.
The landscape of the Nicoya Peninsula is changing rapidly and many of the northern beaches, such as Tamarindo and Playa Panamá, are being aggressively developed for mass tourism. The nearby airport in Liberia exists mainly to service the package and charter market along this coast. Sprawling across nearly the entire Bahía Culebra is the Papagayo Project, the country's largest tourist development consisting of hotels, condos, a mall and a golf course.
The signs of mass tourism lessen as you head further south towards Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas, where droves of leatherback turtles come ashore to lay their eggs between October and February. The beaches here have drawn foreign expatriates in pursuit of paradise, and these cosmopolitan enclaves are in sharp contrast to the rest of the region, with resorty Tamarindo being the top spot for surfing. The beaches of the southern part of the Nicoya Peninsula are covered in the Central Pacific and Southern Nicoya chapter.
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RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
You forgot the most important lesson. GO! Staying home bites.
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
Just a couple of comments from an observer/reluctant intruder:
Beware of overplanning/organizing these events. From my vantage point the ingredients for success are venue, a group of good people with a common passion and some solid pre-planning. Spontaneaity, I suspect, gives each of these events its own character and unique set of memories.
John and Juro's imprompto casting clinic was great. I've watched the Mel Krieger video, read the Lefty casting tips, and been a lurking info. sponge on these sites for the past year or so. But the hands on instruction and tips are unbeatable. Should really be paying for that stuff. The flipping the meatball analogy helped establish an intuitive understanding of the acceleration part of the casting stroke.
On my way to Dennis Saturday I decided, what the hell, and continued to Nickerson to check out the clave HQ. This is kinda out of character for me and I was a bit uncomfortable. The people there were great and any apparent angst on my part was my problem.
Thanks and regards,
Fred A.
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
Looking back at Saturday on South Beach I will have to chalk that up as one of my favorite spots. The changes during the dropping tide were very revealing and put into perspective why that spot was fishing as well as it did. I can't wait to go back! Also when talking with some of the locals it seems that they have a consensus that when the water warms a bit the whole place is really going to pop.. I agree the water was chilly!!
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
Then on the other hand Juro, you had a cell phone and it was on when I needed you. The fact that you were not as organized as you wanted was ok. Passion for fishing is understood, and heck "less spontaneous activity"? I have the rest of my life to be old with memories. Ok a cleaner campsite, no problem. Can't wait till the Boneclave. But ah yes..now it's vacation with the family time...4th July hot dogs and burgers, camping with little ones etc. etc. We'll turn up the heat soon enough.
TerryW (who saw 3 skunks in camp, and a couple down by the water)
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
Another lesson learned -
The contact protocol for those arriving at different times needs to be more stringent. I am not pleased with my handling of the arrangement for Mike Powers, Fred, Brian and Rick to name a few.
In future claves it will be imperative to provide better coordination and also course-correction notices by cell phone, email or normal land-lines.
a) establishment and adherence to a core clave plan
b) better contact info per claver, and an awareness of deviations from the stated plan with proper notification
c) less spontaneous activity, particularly by the clave meister who's responsibility is to coordinate all named participants
Sounds pretty serious but it's inconsiderate to leave folks hanging. I hope all had a good time anyway, lessons learned.
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
I already had an Idea for #3; next Clave I am going to bring a case of Frapachino's chilled in my cooler.
As far as #1 goes, are you saying that if you almost lop off the tip of your index finger because your thinking only about getting your lure retied instead of thinking about the fact that you are using a very sharp knife means your fishing too much?
I wonder how big of a fine we would have been slammed with if the park ranger had come to our site with everyone gone & the camp fire burning (on a breezey night)?
It has been said before, but "Claves take on a life of there own." There's usually about 1/2 the people who want to fish at a reasonable pace & also do the social thing. And the other half that wants to fish a lot & squeeze in a little social activity. But the ratio for this clave was about 5%/95%. We all egged each other on & there was no room for a voice of reason.
I feel bad for missing Jay & Diane's Friday dinner, sorry, but The Race waits for no man.
I think we all learned a few things. I for one will no longer cast near cruising seals; I saw the result.
Maybe mid-day meals would be better than suppers, but at other claves (Rhodey) we had a great time sharing stories around the fire. One problem was that we were at Nickerson Park & you could point your finger in any random direction & was probably a great fishing spot within 10 miles. That's just TOO tempting to a group of fishin finnatics!
RE:Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
I agree with the mid-day food fest leaving the evening open for those who need to get back out.
Three additoinal suggestions:
1. Hire 1 or 2 college kids as camp attendants. Their responsibilities could include; always have coffe ready, beer cold, sandwich makings available, wake up calls, guard the communal money we leave lying on the table as we run off...
2. Set a schedule of events; Friday afternoon fly tying, Saturday afternoon first aid & wound dressing seminar, Sunday afternoon rod repair.
3. Find a way to alleviate the need for sleeping 3 - 4 hours Friday & Saturday. It's just too much time taken away from fishing.
Lessons Learned - Monomoy Clave
It was yet another great clave. I learned a lot, which always seems to be the case at claves. I think it would be a worthwhile topic to recap what we all learned while it's still fresh on the mind.
1) One of the things I learned is the great fishing on South Beach. I usually opt for the classic flats experience and 'famous' North Monomoy flats, but I'll have to say that South Beach sure had a lot of fish!
2) Another is a distinct south-north movement of large fish at the edge or on the flats during the dropping tide. This was evident on both sides (ocean and inside). In fact I did not see any fish moving from north to south during the entire time, although I did see lots of fish going the other way. In fact, right after Chuck hooked his 34" 50 yards to my south, I hooked a fish over 30". It was trailed by another keeper sized fish and I hooked a second fish the same size right after the first.
3) Third is the predation of released fish by seals who target fishermen for their tendency to tire fish out and release them haplessly into the seal's death trap. I will avoid fishing near seals for this reason.
4) Fourth is a timely reminder that the bentback fly can be used as an unweighted alternative to the clouser to construct a fly that not only rides point up but conceals the hook well, allowing it to slide thru more junk than conventional hook designs. Roops affinity for the price of tides and the fish he caught convinced me of the need to explore this area further.
5) Another was the role of bright flashy flies and stealthy transparent flies with respect to conditions. My luck during low light and deep dark pools was better with bright or flashy flies, my luck during high sun and bright water was better with dull or clear colors. Of course I already knew this but every visit to Monomoy and it's surrounding flats (summer on Brewster flats, etc) re-inforces this message.
6) There is such thing as over-exhuberance in fishing. We overdid it a little by dropping our forks and running to the water leaving the fire burning and a buffet for skunks, racoons, squirrels, and foxes on the table. It had the effect of tapping out our energy when needed, and made it difficult for some folks who were trying to join up with us (sorry Fred!) for some fishing. I would suggest in the future to do a 3pm luncheon (opposite of brunch) in the afternoon on Saturday to save enough time for an evening run at 5 pm. Clean-up can begin without giving too many chances for animals, large tubs can be brought for dumping dirty dishes into until return, etc.
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So you're diving through folders, looking for some files or data. Of course you're using Nautilus since you're running GNU/Linux and Gnome*. You get to your file, "ah ha, you found it" only to realize that you really wish you had a command line to slice and dice the file. What you'd love is to be able to just "open a terminal here". I just had that experience, and like usual (thanks to the long tail), someone else has already done this. If you're using Ubuntu (or possibly Debian) you can simply 'apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal'. Enjoy!
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There is a duckboat show and waterfowl festival Sunday, Oct. 28 at Cedar Beach Marina, Babylon, NY. There will be vendors, contest for neatest duckboat, decoy head painting contest for kids, raffle, shooting competition and more.
Come on down. It's a great place for ideas for your rig. (I even saw a guy and his son rig a cabin cruiser and grass it and did all their scouting electronically.)
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Description ADULT MALE In winter is pure white, except for black tail, bill, and eye; hint of red eye wattle is sometimes seen. Acquires summer plumage through gradual spring molt; finally appears mainly reddish brown, but with white wings and belly. Note red wattle above each eye. ADULT FEMALE Has paler, more buffy red and marbled plumage than male; well camouflaged when nesting. JUVENILE Resembles summer female.
Dimensions Length: 15-17" (38-43 cm)
Habitat Usually common, but numbers fluctuate. Favors willow scrub (diet includes shoots and buds). Mainly sedentary, but some move south in winter.
Observation Tips Easiest to see in spring.
Range Western Canada, Eastern Canada, Alaska
Voice Call is a distinctive, nasal go-back, go-back....
Discussion Similar to Rock Ptarmigan, but larger. Both have white wings, but black tail feathers are often concealed by white upper tail coverts. Willow's larger bill is not easy to discern, but difference in calls is more obvious. In summer, Willow has reddish plumage tone overall (gray-buff in Rock). Separation in winter is problematic: pure white plumage including lores, plus dark eye and bill is common to both sexes of Willow, and to female Rock. If alarmed takes flight explosively: bouts of rapid wingbeats are interspersed with long glides on bowed wings.


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Monday was a big day. No. 3 turned 16 and got the best present a 16-year-old could wish for — his driver's permit. Yee-haw.
I now have three assistant drivers to help with the workload. Well, No. 3 is not quite ready to strike out on his own yet. He will have his permit for at least another eight months, after which, once he completes a credited driver's training program, he can go for his licence. Then, for a year following that, he has to be home by midnight unless an employer writes him a note.
Regardless, it's a giant step in the direction of adulthood and we're all ecstatic. After we paid the $40 and got his picture snapped, we left Motor Vehicle Registration in Mount Pearl and headed straight to an empty parking lot. No. 3 hadn't felt the weight and power of the van before. He liked what he felt. The power, the freedom. It's almost like flying.
Not quite, but you know what I mean.
It might be a few weeks before I let him loose at the more complicated intersections in the city, especially considering I just learned that I have had some intersection rules wrong for years.
For almost three decades I was sure that cars entering Rawlins Cross from Monkstown Road had the right of way over Prescott Street even if they were turning left and going around the circle.
Not so, I just learned.
Vehicles entering the Cross from Monkstown Road only have the right of way when continuing down Prescott Street towards Duckworth. If they go around the circle to go back to Monkstown Road, Rennies Mill Road or to turn right on Military, then Prescott has the right of way over them.
Prescott also has the right of way over vehicles entering Rawlins Cross from Queen's Road which has a yield sign and Flavin Street which has a stop sign. So all other streets stop to Prescott and then Flavin would stop to Queen's.
Confused yet?
Imagine the poor sod from away trying to figure it out. Make no wonder it was the site of the first traffic light in the city.
Surprisingly there are very few accidents at this intersection as drivers usually proceed with caution and are respectful towards others entering the Cross.
The big switcheroo
My father used to tell me the story of the night of Jan. 2, 1947 when, at the stroke of midnight, all the cars in the city switched from driving on the left to driving on the right.
My father, 18 at the time, stayed up with his buddies hoping to see a couple of cars run into each other entering Rawlins Cross the wrong way, but alas Dad and his buddies were disappointed. They had no accidents to report.
He said those most confused by the switch from left to right were the carriage-pulling horses who, up until that night, would have been whipped had they strayed to the right. Now they were being whipped if they didn't go there.
Downtown St. John's, as we all know, is not exactly laid out on a grid system.
I've met lots of oil folk and their spouses who are astonished that if they drive east on New Gower Street past city hall, their lane just seems to disappear into Never Land near Gower Street United Church.
The city, however, has done a good job of adding signage to make it evident that all drivers must veer right on this stretch.
Streets converge
Another tangly intersection is where Temperance Street meets Duckworth Street.
If you leave the St. John's Port Authority and Terry Fox statue and head up to the base of Signal Hill, you'll go up one of the steepest hills in the city.
This intersection can freak out the most seasoned standard vehicle drivers who get to the yield at the top and say their prayers before proceeding.
Cars are pointed at them from three other streets: east from Duckworth, west from Signal Hill and the Battery and straight at them from Quidi Vidi Road.
But all these other cars have full stop signs so the yielding Temperance Streeters are the ones who get to go ahead.
Then, if that same driver decides to proceed west on Empire Avenue, it may look like he has the right of way over traffic heading towards the hotel off Quidi Vidi Road, but that's not the case.
That first chunk of road that leads west from Signal Hill is actually Quidi Vidi Road, so the driver must yield to westbound traffic coming from Belbin's and the penitentiary if he wants to drive straight up Empire towards Forest Road.
It's a lot for a 16-year-old to keep in his noggin when he's on his first laps around the city.
I remember teaching No. 2 to drive around Pleasantville where traffic was scarce and there were lots of parking lots in which to take refuge.
We were over near the chicken factory when I suggested he continue up to the dump for a spin. I had a brain blip and forgot that the dump marks the beginning of the highway and before I could say "Oops!" we were headed towards Gander doing 100.
I calmly grasped the passenger door and suggested he turn off onto Stavanger where he could pull in and I'd take over to get us home.
Yes, I think my lovely 16-year-old and I will stick to parking lots for a few weeks yet.
Susan Flanagan will be white-knuckled for a few months yet. She can be reached at email@example.com
Mail carrier feedback
Tim writes: "I am a 25 year letter carrier in Moncton, N.B. Your article has started circulating Facebook walls across the country and has been extremely appreciated. Our jobs are not well understood and you are correct in saying it has gone from being a decent job to a poor one, evidenced by the number of new hires who quit soon into their careers.
"You have really hit the nail on the head when you discussed the lack of concern for workers' health and even more so with your points of 'major misconduct.' I believe the public would be shocked to know the level of hate Canada Post has for their employees and how we are daily working with the fear of suspension and dismissal for the smallest infraction or human error. It is abusive and archaic management."
L.C writes: "Thank you! It's been so long since I've heard anything about the post office or its employees that hasn't been a 'statement' from someone sitting at a desk somewhere. Someone who realistically has no actual line worker experience or has even spent any time in our province. It's actually amazing that someone finally asked the people that work on the job the questions and got answers. Susan, once again thank you for printing the facts. … I almost forgot that some news people actually still care about them."
Joe the Mailman writes: "I am a letter carrier in Montreal. I see you have a good understanding of what we do. In the old system we did just deliver mail in the grey boxes as you mentioned, but our day starts very early sorting mail and magazines in racks in a specific order that follow first, by street and addresses according to the address layout on the route that we are delivering. We then tie up all the mail and put them in relay bag that another driver delivers to those grey boxes along the route. Before you see us on the route we would have worked indoors at the station anywhere from 2-4 hours depending if it's your route or if you are a relief worker where the latter usually changes routes on a weekly basis, meaning he has to learn the sorting rack and that (it) always takes longer to sort mail as opposed to one that has his own route.
"With the new system we now have to, along with sorting mail roughly 20 to 30 per cent, we have to sort all magazines. Canada Post has increased the size of our routes and along with that they have included all parcel and registered letters.
"Some routes have red box collections; some have client pickups and sub pickups; some routes will have a combination of two or three of those that I have mentioned which was normally done by drivers called CSP that handle parcels, client pickups, red box collection and substation pickup or drop-offs.
"To see a letter carrier out late working is a result of many routes that are busted (oversized routes that are longer than eight hours). What I forgot to mention is that along with all that we have to prepare flyers for our route on a daily basis which I'm sure you've noticed that there are plenty of. That takes time to prepare — we get anywhere from two to, if you can believe, up to 10 plus flyers to prepare on a daily (basis). Some days it takes anywhere from 30 min to 2 hours to prepare. Yeah it used to be a great job — all you have to do is ask the roughly 70 per cent of new employees that don't survive past their first week of work. Don't get me wrong, I still love this job and many client's especially the older ones, in their own little way make my day. Thanks Susan for taking your time to notice us and to thank us in your column. Well appreciated."
Too Funny writes: "Mail carriers? What about our newspaper boy who carries a heavier load and is only half the size. On top of that he does it for less pay and without the government issued clothing and boots to keep him warm and dry. I've seen newspaper boys out delivering the papers in weather that kept mail carriers inside."
S writes: "Too Funny. Paperboy half the size? Well I'm a Letter Carrier and I'm only 4'11,'' so that puts that comment from you out the window! Government issued clothing and boots? Sorry? We have to work a good number of hours before getting clothing 'points' (for) which items can be obtained. And nowhere on that items list is boots! I have to purchase my own. If you think it's so great, you get out there and carry the weight I do, at my height, and for anywhere from 9-10 or more hours a day."
Steve writes: "Your local paper boy has perhaps 30 or maybe 50 drops and that is all. He/she does not have to get signatures, collect funds (cash, Visa, mc), and deliver to sometimes over a 1,000 addresses per day. When it is too cold then mommy or daddy will deliver for the child or at least keep the car running. Before TOO FUNNY comments on such things perhaps they would like to walk 17 miles in a POSTIE'S SHOES."
Say it ain't so writes: "What's the math on that. The mail man drops off, maybe, a couple letters at a house. The newspaper boy drops off a paper. Paper probably weighs equal to 20 letters, maybe more. Well look at that, it works out to be the same."
Danielle writes: "I believe in good working conditions for everyone. It doesn't matter to me if you a contracted paper boy (who also is not entitled to basic employment standards) or work in a coffee shop. It doesn't matter to me if you're unionized or not. Instead of saying it's not OK for the paperboy, but OK for the letter carrier because they are paid more, let's all agree it's not OK for either. As a letter carrier I now have 1,233 customers. My route is valued at just over 8.5 hours. I must put in overtime almost every day or Canada Post's solution is to just not deliver the mail. Shame on them."
Fibs writes: "Really great article Susan. ... I am sure every Postie that reads it will appreciate it…"
Craig Dyer writes: "Thanks you Susan for this article, members of CUPW really appreciate your support."
Rhonda from the west coast of Canada writes: "Thank you so very much for printing the truth. The masses are weary and overworked and you are very correct in saying that the pendulum is swinging the other direction. I am a Letter Carrier with 28 years (in). I have three years to go and am doing my best to retire healthy and happy. Both as of late are terribly challenging. This job is definitely not getting easier by any stretch of the imagination. The routes are longer (mine is 15 km a day) and the weight loads have increased. Regardless, a very well written and accurate article. Much thanks for researching and telling it the way it really is."
Dragonfly feedback
Father Frank Puddister writes: "Thank you for your article in The Telegram on Dec. 4, 2012. I was away at the time, but my secretary kept it for me until I returned. The dragonfly story is the best I've heard — and I've heard many — that refer to eternal life.
I first heard it some time ago when it was told at a vigil service by Deacon Ed Bonnell of the Anglican Church. When I see a dragonfly in summer, or see it in decorative art, I am reminded of the story.
The dragonfly was a popular motif in the Art Deco period, and is sometimes seen on Tiffany-style lamps today. I must add one detail. The dragonfly in the story makes an agreement with the others that any of them who feels the urge to crawl up the stem of a plant to the surface of the pond would come back to tell the others where he went and what he had seen. When he goes, he finds he can see his friends below the surface, but cannot return to them nor communicate with them, though he really wants to tell them how beautiful it is above the pond.
I knew your father Dee for many years, and your mother, too, and have long admired and respected them both.
I'll continue to enjoy your column in future. Perhaps I'll pick up a story from you to use in church!"
Note from Susan: A reader named Susan sent me the name of the book By Doris Stickney that deals with dragonflies and the afterlife: "Waterbugs and Dragonflies — Explaining Death to Young Children."
'Tis always the season to fill out scholarship applications
John writes: "I read and printed off your article Scholarships 101. I was wondering about a part in the piece when you stated: 'Back in March, after my son applied in to MUN, he got a letter in the mail saying he had received back a Memorial University Entrance Scholarship. And this was well before final Grade 12 exams were even on his radar.'
"I was wondering if you could recall what that one would have been at that time. Like yourself at that time I'm in the process of going through the myriad of scholarship applications, etc., as my son has applied to MUN for September 2013. There are entrance scholarships that have an 'automatic consideration' without application whilst others have a standard MUN scholarship application form where you tick the appropriate/relevant blocks and provide some general contact info including SIN and MUN student number."
Susan's note: Both the Memorial University Entrance Scholarship and the Eastern School Board scholarships were automatic, based on high school results up to and including the January exams.
Loblaw feedback
Marylou writes: "Enjoyed reading the article. I have been annoyed with the attitude of Loblaw's since the closing of the Newfoundland Drive store. A large corporation who are prepared to pay the leasing cost to keep a storefront vacant rather than permitting a competitor to provide a convenient service to grocery shoppers. I am not sure that the city or provincial government need to enact yet another bylaw. There must be some way to challenge the Mark Boudreaus of the corporate world to do the right thing."
Ron writes: "Talking to a couple of employees of Dominion 2 years ago, they told me that the floor is condemned. It has been rotting away for 10 years. They tried several times to reinforce it over the years. Maybe you can check with the city on that problem."
Susan Note: I'll write more about Loblaw next week.


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What you eat during your pregnancy has a direct effect on the growth and development of your baby. It is important to eat a well-balanced diet that includes lean meats or meat alternatives,
whole grains, low-fat dairy products, and plenty of
fruits and vegetables. In addition to increasing your consumption of healthy foods, there are certain foods you need to limit or avoid. Some foods contain substances that can affect your baby's development, while others put you at risk of developing an infection that can be passed to your baby.
Mercury is naturally found in the environment and is also released by industrial pollution. When mercury settles into water, it is converted into methylmercury, a more dangerous form. Methylmercury can build up in the fatty tissue of fish. Most fish contain trace amounts of methylmercury, which is unlikely to cause harm. But, large, predatory fish can contain high levels of methylmercury.
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provide these recommendations for women who may become pregnant, are pregnant, or are nursing:
Pregnant women should also avoid raw and undercooked fish, especially shellfish, such as oysters or clams, because they can contain disease-causing organisms. Cook fish until it is opaque and flakes easily with a fork.
Unpasteurized soft cheeses and ready-to-eat meats should be avoided during pregnancy because they may contain bacteria that causes listeriosis, a form of food poisoning
that is especially harmful to unborn babies. Listeriosis is associated with
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Pregnant women should also avoid eating raw vegetable sprouts, such as alfalfa, clover, or radish, and unpasteurized fruit or vegetable juices. These can carry disease-causing bacteria.
In addition, pregnant women should limit their consumption of liver, since it contains high levels of vitamin A, which could potentially cause harm to a developing baby.
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Athearn PN, Kendall PA, Hillers VV, et al. Awareness and acceptance of current food safety recommendations during pregnancy.
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Cates SC, Cater-Young HL, Conley S, et al. Pregnant women and listeriosis: preferred educational messages and delivery mechanisms.
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Foodborne illnesses: What you need to know. US Food and Drug Administration website. Available at:
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This pencil "lead" is actually made of graphite. Graphite is a crystalline form of the element carbon.
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- Elements that can conduct electric current are generally metals. However, the nonmetal carbon in the form of graphite is a good conductor of electricity.
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The Swedish metal sextet Soilwork formed in early 1997, fusing the country's signature ultra-heavy death metal sound with the power-groove riffs of late-'70s, early-'80s British and European metal. Vocalist Bjorn "Speed" Strid, guitarists Peter Wiches and Ola Frenning, and drummer Henry Ranta were all veterans of the Swedish scene by the time they recorded their first demo, In Dreams We Fall into the Eternal, in 1997; bassist Ola Flink became a permanent member afterward, as did keyboardist Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg. Their official debut album, Steelbath Suicide, was released in 1998 and wound up landing Soilwork a U.S. deal with Century Media. The follow-up, The Chainheart Machine, appeared in 2000. Predator's Portrait followed a year later. The band kept up the momentum yearly with Natural Born Chaos in 2002, Figure Number Five in 2003, the Early Chapters EP in 2004, Stabbing the Drama in 2005, and the Sworn to a Great Divide CD/DVD in 2007.


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Nice to see your pictures, Illah. Another reason stitcher notes are not there is because the info text setting on the camera is turned off.
Nice shot Illah. Perhaps it will start a new curated collection 'At Home with the Gigapanographers'. If I pose with a pipe and a golden labrador in front of the fire then perhaps people won't notice all the KFC buckets :-) Larry, another reason why some gigapans don't have stitching notes is that some people stitching software other than the GP stitcher.
Hi, Good question-- the newest stitcher versions produce stitcher notes- so older gigapans or those stitched with earlier versions of the stitcher do not have them.
Hi Illah, you commented on my first gigapan, Beautiful Pittsburgh, I've thought of how to thank you, and stumbled on your today's posting, how nice!! I had just came to your collection here, and this one appeared first, neat. Looks pretty good to me, the food and the picture! Question, why don't all gigapans show sticher notes? I've been browsing and some have, but not all. Happy New Year! Larry Hammond


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Besides, any intellectual advancements made in the 80s or 90s were surely wiped out by the deep space vacuum of intellect named "W"! We gotta rebuild!
Besides, any intellectual advancements made in the 80s or 90s were surely wiped out by the deep space vacuum of intellect named "W"! We gotta rebuild!
God Bless PFC Jamie Harkness. The US Army's newest PFC, but still our neighbor's little girl!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP-695ATg-cSo, by your reasoning, if he does not do everything different than his predecessors he fails to live up to "change"? Wow, you must be really bummed that he generally continued Bush's policies on bailing out and stabilizing the banking industry, keeping defense secretary Gates, and now chairman Bernanke. What a disappointment. Perhaps, to sell more cars, create jobs in road painting, and fulfill his promise of "change", he should sign an executive order that turns our transportation system to one where we drive on the left side of the road too. Is that what you are looking for? Would that then meet your expectations for "change".So, out of curiosity, if the presidents before him did this, where is the change?
Hey, I have an idea, why don't we watch the speech and then comment on it.
On which station will it be televised and what time? I would like to record it and watch it later after I get off work so I can make my own assessment of what the speech was all about just so Obama doesn't slip in some mind controlling sublimital messages in there.
Boy, he sure dashed a lot of dreams there...I know that sometimes, you get the sense from TV that you can be rich and successful without any hard work -- that your ticket to success is through rapping or basketball or being a reality TV star, when chances are, you're not going to be any of those things.
Seriously, I dislike Obama as much as anybody, but there is really nothing in that text to take offense to. Sure, something may have been deleted, but we'll never know. Those that want to believe that something was taken out will, and those that don't want to believe won't. He really should have kept it a little shorter though. Somebody didn't think about the attention span of his audience.
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You know, in and of itself...the contents of the speech are admirable.
It was just the way it was presented and the accompanying class "material" that put off so many folks.
I daresay that no matter the party of the administration that attempted the same action would have met with disapproval.
Parents have a right to voice their opinions on the subject material presented to their kids and how it's presented.
Because of all the previous heavy-handedness from the current congress and administration has left people very jumpy and nervous as to the motives behind everything coming out of Washington, these days.
In cooking parlance, their presentation rates an "F".
Train the dog, the ribbons will take care of themselves.
Very nice...DNF. =)
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From Chennai to Copenhagen, Delhi to Doha, Mumbai to Melbourne the world once again came together on 14 November to raise awareness of the ever-increasing threat posed by the diabetes epidemic in every part of the world, and to help bring about improvements to the lives of the 371 million people currently affected by diabetes. In a powerful display of unity around a shared cause, millions have been going blue for diabetes throughout the month of November.
A debt of gratitude is owed to the more than 200 member associations of the International Diabetes Federation in over 160 countries and the thousands of other dedicated organizations and individuals that organised events and joined together to make the day a special one.
The International Diabetes Federation chose 14 November to announce the latest figures on the worldwide prevalence of diabetes. Those numbers throw into stark relief the real dimensions of the epidemic. The first annual update of the IDF Diabetes Atlas showed that the total number of people with diabetes has risen to 371 million and continues to grow in every country. Our task, to identify and promote for workable solutions to the diabetes epidemic, remains immense. But the millions who went blue for diabetes on World Diabetes Day showed the world that the unity and commitment are there and a healthy future is possible.
The pictures and reports that we have received and which continue to come in tell the story of a remarkable shared experience. Here are some of the initial results:
- Over 600 blue lightings in 60 countries
- Over 400 personalities pinned with the blue circle
- Over 3,500 people have included the blue circle picbadge on their Facebook or Twitter profile picture
- #WDD and #diamundialdeladiabetes were trending topics on Twitter on 14 November
- Over 23,500 followers on Facebook
- Over 9,000 followers on Twitter
- Over 800 pictures tagged #WDD on Instagram on 14 November
- Over 40,000 blue circle pins distributed
See how the global diabetes community went blue for diabetes on 14 November:
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- View World Diabetes Day videos [3] from around the world
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- Send us [5] the names of monuments and buildings that have gone blue for diabetes if you do not see them on our online list [7]
- Share your videos with us by sending them to [email protected] [5]
We would like to offer our congratulations to the Turkish Diabetes Foundation for having set a new Guinness World Record for the number of blood glucose tests carried out over an 8 hour period. Some 7,042 tests were performed at a special event in Istanbul on 18 November.
We would also like to extend our sympathy to the organisers of World Diabetes Day celebrations in San Marcos, Guatemala who were forced to cancel their planned activities as a result of the earthquake that hit the country on 7 November. They are now focusing on ensuring the wellbeing of people with diabetes in the city and hope to be able to organize their awareness events in the coming months.


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More than 200 items went up for auction Saturday, Aug. 10, at the 27th annual Camp Knutson Quilt Auction. The auction brought in a total of $57,472. Camp director Rob Larson said he believes it's the most money the event has ever raised.
In all, 96 items were auctioned in the silent auction and 135 items were auctioned live. Items included wall hangings, baby quilts, bed quilts, table runners and more.
Larson said some of the money raised will be used to reconstruct the camp's bell tower. He said the tower was originally constructed in the 1960s, and the bell is used as a wake-up bell, dinner bell and to alert the camp of an emergency.
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During 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) initiated the process of converting the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve from high sulfur heating oil to ultra-low sulfur distillate (15 parts per million). DOE awarded contracts totaling 1,000,000 barrels to two companies, Hess Corporation in Groton, CT, and Global Companies LLC in Revere, MA, for storage contracts of 500,000 barrels each. These sites began receiving deliveries in November 2011 with an anticipated completion in early 2012. Storage volumes for these inventories will be shown in Appendix C of the Weekly Petroleum Status Report as they are received.
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All ideals are oppressive, and the ideal picnic is no exception. It's not that good food is hard to find, but rather the elusiveness of all the incidentals. You don't have the right blanket, a basket, or even good company most of the time. It's too windy, too hot, or too chilly. So I was glad to try the Picnic Basket in the dead of winter, when there is no reason not to settle in at one of the eclectic set of tables in the cozy second room. The room has a wall of wine and lots of artisanal jars of this or that jam or mustard. It has a very Stonewall-Kitcheny look. There are twigs clinging to the track lighting.
It further favors a winter meal that the hot sandwiches are better than the cold ones. It was good to get a reuben sandwich, for example, that is not all glop and mess. This one was done more in the old Jewish-deli style. We tend to think of an old-fashioned reuben in terms of a cartoonish pile of meat, but in fact it involves a restrained balance between the particular sour flavors of the corned beef and the sauerkraut. Here the balance was just right, with a little dressing to lend some sweetness. A hot roast beef sandwich had just enough little chunks of grilled onion and pepper spotting the cheese to give it some sweetness. The sandwich needed a bit of supplementary mustard, so remember to ask if you get it to go. Hot sandwiches at the Picnic Basket get pressed, rather than pan-fried, and the bread gets a crisp french-fry crinkle without getting greasy.
A restrained approach did not work quite as well on the chicken salad sandwich. The salad was too cold and firm, and did not have enough flavors and textures around the chicken. There was some very sweet cranberry chutney in there, but it needed more mayo for creaminess, more herbs for flavor, and more walnuts for crunch. All sandwiches are served with a big, firm, crisp, mildly sour and salty deli-style pickle. It was so good we ordered an extra.
Punctuating the display case and the refrigerator are several other plastic-boxed options to round out your meal. The best of these was the quiche. It was custard-soft in texture, with a buttery crust and big juicy pieces of ham. With each bite you can taste the richness of cheese and a peppery, cayenne-like heat. A macaroni salad was creamy and almost herbless, with lots of ricotta and a bit of mozzarella, spotted with sautéed mushrooms and onions and topped with toasted bread crumbs. A quinoa salad was filled with flavors of citrus and sweet. The crunchy little granules clung to chunks of soft avocado, and candy-sweet raisins were as juicy as small grapes. Spotted among them were almond slivers and twists of sugared lemon-rind.
There were cupcakes and whoopee pies that looked too big and sweet to be reasonable. If you want wine there are some good bottles available. I noticed a St. Francis merlot for about a third of what it costs on the Fore Street wine list. The proprietor seems to run the place herself, and the slow pace might be more suitable to a lazy weekend than a business lunch. If you are in a hurry, call ahead.
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- The program is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.
- The UCM Interior Design B.F.A. degree has achieved national accreditation by the Council for Interior Design Accreditation.
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