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Audi R8 China Edition – Malibu Blue, Suzuka Grey and Shark Skin!
by Audi AG on 6 December 2012 in Audi News
Just before the current-generation Audi R8 ends production, Audi China has announced two limited edition models that are nearly as hard-edged as the vaunted R8 GT. Perhaps the boldest of the two is the Audi R8 China Edition, with just 80 examples planned of this Malibu Blue coupe with Suzuka Grey blade. It even includes shark skin elements in the cabin.
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We totally agree with winning through quantity, but it's a small quantity. We've spent more time creating the rare Audi R8 China Edition, and hope it glow in your hands. There are only 80 such cars. It's not important if it's rare, the important thing is that if you own it.With exclusive colors, LED headlight, ultra-light high strength carbon fiber, 19″ wheel hubs in 5 twin-spoke "Y" design and the spoiler in carbon matt, people will love it at the first sight and be eager to drive it.
Exclusive Colors
We have to admit that jealousy is a kind of deep admiration. The Audi R8 China Edition has two exclusive colors, Malibu blue body with Suzuka grey sideblades or Suzuka body with Malibu blue sideblades. The two different combinations form the unique style of the Audi R8 China Edition. The exclusive colors give out special radiance no matter in the daytime or at the night, showing the extraordinary features of the supercar.
Ultra-light and high strength carbon fiber is the top application of materials engineering in the aerospace field. With stiffness and low weight, it strengthens the safety, reduces oil consumption and achieves an efficient driving performance. However, few luxurious cars use carbon fiber in body and interior extensively due to limitation of manufacture process and price, except for this car.
The Audi R8 China Edition adopts 19″ high-gloss black wheel hubs in 5 twin-spoke "Y" design which integrates dynamics and aestheticism. The superb craft and design make the total look full of the unique technological feel of Audi.
The unique fixed spoiler in carbon matt makes this supercar fancier. The round tailpipes at both sides fully demonstrate the dynamic style. When the spoiler in carbon matt rips the airflow and everything flashes like a blue shadow, it's hard for you to tell which side you will stand by, admiration or jealousy.
Exclusive Interior
Ultimate luxury is one thing, and being incomparable is another. Indeed, the luxury here is excessive to most people. Shark skin and colored stitching, handbrake and steering wheel wrapped in Alcantara, instrument shield in carbon matt, aluminum gear knob engraved with an exclusive number…Sorry, we only can reveal so much. However, the work of masters can't be explained in one sentence.
The design of every detail that people can touch is customized to highlight the driver's nobleness. As the first Audi production car with Chinese characters in interior design, the characters"R8 专享"and the number are embedded on the aluminum gear lever knob, and become an iconic status symbol. To respect the cultural habit of Chinese customers, all numbers with 4 are removed from the serial numbers 1-99.
To most people, the luxury of the interior is excessive. Shark skin and colored stitching, handbrake and steering wheel wrapped in Alcantara, instrument shield in carbon matt, this work of masters leads to your luxurious enjoyment.
The R8 emblem has been deep into people's mind, and signals the engaging sportiness. It reveals the blood of nobleness and gene of a king of the R8 family. The interior with R8 emblems further displays the unruliness and dynamics, stimulating the driving desire. From the exquisite interior to the colors, it catches people's eyes as soon as they see it. The R8 emblems on the dashboard and aluminum door sill trims further give it a special identifier.
The cockpit of Audi R8 China Edition perfectly shows the inheritance of the motor sports gene. The sporty steering wheel in Alcantara fits in to the instrument cluster and the cockpit. The convenient shift paddle triggers the R tronic transmission instantly, full of limitless passion. The big and comfortable leather sporty seats can be adjusted electrically, and the waist support gives the body enough support. In addition, the seat heating function is also available, giving you a warm driving experience in winter. The cockpit sourced from a racing car forms an independent control platform.
Heart beating fast is one thing, and acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h within 3.9 secs is another. Please pay attention to the following seconds. A V10 FSI mid-engine in high speed will make you rediscover heartbeat. Undoubtedly, on the new generation quattro®permanent all-wheel drive, the hybrid of fuel, hot blood and hormone will roar with you along the way. This is not a cold driving machine. Its wild nature has been excited under your call.
Heart beating fast is one thing, and acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h within 3.9 secs is another thing. With a V10 5.2 FSI mid-engine, the R8 China Edition has a maximum power output of 386kW and peak torque of 530Nm. It only takes 3.9 secs to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h. With the passionate roar, you'll realize its power and heartbeat again.
The classical quattro® permanent all-wheel drive system is indispensable in such an ultimate supercar. As the best partner of the V10 FSI engine, the quattro® permanent all-wheel drive system brings you unparalleled dynamic driving experience and outstanding safety.
Every supercar fan loves to control speed. This doesn't mean seeking fast blindly. Experiencing the fun of controlling speed is enjoyment of a higher level. The R tronic is a manual transmission with automatic control. It has a special operating rod, and integrates the fuel efficiency of a traditional manual transmission and the handiness of an automatic transmission. This means that the driver can drive and control the speed freely. In addition, the perfect R8 China Edition can always keep low oil consumption when you experience high-speed driving.
When most of the production cars use conventional steel, we've adopted the lighter and firmer material to build the dream car, such as Audi Space Frame ASF®, CFRP and Al-Mg alloy body. This is a figure that leads the future, but now you master it as much as you like.

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Eosinophilla, parasites, allergies?
Tygo has been ill the last couple of weeks. A little back ground on my Dutchie... he has never had the most consistent poops, varying from good to pudding. Some time ago he started losing weight, and I did not really notice, thinking that it was just variation in the scales. Then he developed some vomiting, usually of water, and at the first sign of blood in his loose stools I took him in. He had dropped from 63 to 58 lbs. A couple of times he refused food, but an anti-nausea pill had him up and running.
Vet did a full work up and all results normal except for eosinophilla, a high level of a white blood cell often associated with parasites, drug reaction, and allergies. So Tygo has been through a week of metronzidole, amoxicillin, and was wormed with panacur. His energy and attitude are normal and high.
He has been off the medication for a week. His stools now tend to start out good but go way loose and in the morning he has 3 bowel movements all progressively looser. I am now in the process of shifting him slowly to Natural Balance Duck and Potato food (from TOTW Boar) and treats as a food trial. My intention is to do this for 12 weeks. I know it is not the best food out there but that is what I decided to do, given, unfortunately that he has been on so many different proteins out there. I am also giving him a probiotic and digestive enzymes. I have stopped fish oil for now.
I just wanted to see if anyone has dealt with this and any recommendations in addition to what I'm doing.
Thank you everyone.
Did the vet do any other labs? High blood count could mean other things as well, so maybe best to rule some of them out.
Did full CBC, tested liver enzymes, tested pancreas, adrenal function, tested for giardia. All normal or negative.
Could it be whipworms? Whipworms often don't show up in a fecal exam. You need multiple treatments with Panacur (3) to get rid of them. My GSD (an adopted stray) had terrible bouts of bloody diarrhea, loss of appetite, and was very skinny. The vet finally saw whipworms in the fifth fecal exam, and after three rounds of Panacur, all that stopped. I remember thinking my dog just had a bad digestive system, but after treatment, she has been totally fine for years.
Sounds a bit like what my dog went through last year: http://www.germanshepherds.com/forum...-diarrhea.html
Has he been tested for EPI? The symptoms don't match exactly, but it might be worth reading up on it a bit, if you're not familiar with it, to see if anything strikes a chord:
Overview - EPI * Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency
A food trial is a very good start, if he hasn't had duck before. Remember to give nothing but the kibble (i.e. no other treats, bones, etc.) to ensure that all his GI tract is exposed to is the new protein source.
Have you considered Tylan? Many people here on the forum have had excellent success with Tylan for large bowel/colitis issues. It's an antibiotic. You can buy it without a prescription online. It comes in a 100g powder form. The dose for a 60-85 pound dog is 1/4 tsp twice daily: SID (SIBO) - EPI * Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency. It is very bitter so many buy empty gel caps at the health food store and fill them with the powder, or mix with a bit of canned food if your dog will tolerate it (NB has canned versions of all their LID foods).
Based on what I went through with my own dog, my advice would be to continue the food trial and start your dog on Tylan. If his stools improve, continue giving the Tylan for 45 days total. And consider looking into EPI and see if Tygo's symptoms match up at all- if they do, it might be worth it to have the blood test, just to rule it out.
When he was on the meds your vet prescribed, did his stools improve?
Thank you Zero. I'll keep EPI on the radar. This is the test he did have:
Pancreatitic Lipase Isoenzyme (test for pancreatitis): normal
Probably not the right test?
I will also ask about Whipworms. He has been wormed twice in 2014. But I'll keep that on the radar as well after reading about it.
I have Tylan powder left from my old dog that had chronic colitis. I'm familiar with it and will give it a try but first I'm going to see what happens when he is completely on the duck and potato. His stools have been good today.
Thank you for your ideas.
The EPI test is different than that for pancreatitis (PLI). It is a TLI test (trypsin-like immunoreactivity). Most people also recommend measuring cobalamin and folate levels at the same time as an indication of small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) which usually accompanies EPI.
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CHICAGO, Ill. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Senior Megan Braatz (Waukesha, Wis.) found the back of the net in the 86th minute, leading the visiting Green Bay women's soccer team to a 1-0 victory over Loyola on Wednesday evening in Chicago in Horizon League action.
With the win, the Phoenix improved to 5-10-1 overall and 2-3-1 in Horizon League play, and in the process vaulted into the important sixth spot in the league standings with seven points. The top six teams in the conference make the Horizon League Championship, and Green Bay concludes its regular season at home against Valparaiso at 1 p.m. at Aldo Santaga Stadium.
With the teams scoreless heading to the final five minutes, Braatz provided the offense she has provided throughout her senior campaign. Sophomore Hannah Kernen (Belleville, Wis.) found Braatz with a pass, and the senior found the back right corner of the net from 18 yards out for the gamewinner.
"I'm really happy for our players, who have outplayed teams this year and come away with nothing," said head coach Trevor Warren. "This may have been a case of winning ugly, but I can't deny how hard the ladies worked for 90 minutes. It was a great finish by Megan Braatz, who has been absolutely deadly in those situations recently."
Braatz now has five goals and three assists on the season, ranking in a tie for second in the Horizon League in goals and a tie for third in points.
The shutout was the second of the season for the Phoenix and first career for freshman keeper Nastacia Behle (St. Paul, Mo.), who earned her first win in goal. Behle made four saves in net for Green Bay to help the Phoenix down the Ramblers.
Loyola held an 8-0 edge in shots in the opening half before Green Bay had a 6-4 edge in shots after halftime.
"It was a tough match," Warren said. "We had to deal with a high-pressure, direct approach from Loyola. We struggled a bit in the first half matching their intensity, but we did a better job in the second half."
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (GreenBayPhoenix.com) - Freshman Jordan Fouse (Racine, Wis.) had his first career double-double and tied the school record with seven steals as Green Bay (7-9, 1-2 HL) locked down visiting Loyola (10-5, 1-2 HL) and posted a 58-45 win in Horizon League men's basketball action to open a four-game homestand Wednesday night at the Resch Center.
Green Bay held Loyola to just 2-of-19 shooting with 10 turnovers to start the game and led 21-5 with 5:15 remaining before halftime. Even when the Ramblers beat the buzzer to end the first half, they had shot just 5-of-26 from the field and trailed 28-12. The 12 points were the fewest scored in a half by a Phoenix opponent this season.
Sophomore Keifer Sykes (Chicago, Ill.) hit a pair of early three-pointers as Green Bay led 14-2. The Chicago native scored or assisted on eight of the team's 11 first-half field goals. He finished with 11 points and nine assists to improve to 6-0 in his career against schools from his hometown.
In the second half, Fouse stole the show. A 6-foot-7 freshman who has started since the opener for head coach Brian Wardle, Fouse had 11 points, four rebounds and five steals after halftime and finished with career highs in points (13), rebounds (11) and steals (7). Fouse finished the game at 5-of-6 from the field and 3-for-3 from the free throw line.
After Loyola had closed the margin to 31-17 just four minutes into the second half, Green Bay went on an 8-0 run capped by a pair of buckets from Fouse that made it 39-17 with 14:09 left. Loyola cut the margin to 15, and Fouse converted a three-point play to push the Phoenix lead to 44-26.
Back-to-back Loyola threes cut a 20-point edge down to 14 with 6:35 remaining, but junior Kam Cerroni (Sussex, Wis.) drained a three-pointer and senior Brennan Cougill (Sioux City, Iowa) scored inside to put the game out of reach for good. Cerroni made all three of his long range shots for nine points and added 10 points (5-6 FGs) and four rebounds as the tandem combined for 19 points off the bench.
Led by Fouse, Green Bay's defense held Loyola to just 31.6 percent shooting on the night (18-57) and forced 18 turnovers. Highlighting the effort was the defense on All-Horizon League senior Ben Averkamp, who was held to just four points and committed five turnovers.
In its four-game home winning streak, Green Bay has held its opponents to 47.5 points per game and just 33.8 percent shooting from the field. The Phoenix also holds a plus-3.2 rebounding margin in that stretch, including a 37-34 edge on Wednesday night.
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Laurent Koscielny's friends have responded to his recent positional switch by jokingly comparing him to the legendary Brazilian full back Cafu.
The French international has featured on the right side of defence in recent weeks after injuries to both Bacary Sagna and Carl Jenkinson.
With Johan Djourou also set for a spell on the sidelines, Koscielny's versatility will be useful once more when Arsenal visit Aston Villa on Wednesday night.
"My mates tease me calling me the White Cafu!" he told the Official Arsenal Magazine.
"It's a position I knew as I started as a professional in France at left full back. At the time, I was playing with Guingamp in the Second Division and I was very young.
"Obviously, it is not my favourite position but I am happy to help the team and do my best there."
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Do you want to push Ruby to its limits? The Ruby Cookbook is the most comprehensive problem-solving guide to today's hottest programming language. It gives you hundreds of solutions to real-world problems, with clear explanations and thousands of lines of code you can use in your own projects.
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If you need to write a web application, this book shows you how to get started with Rails. If you're a system administrator who needs to rename thousands of files, you'll see how to use Ruby for this and other everyday tasks. You'll learn how to read and write Excel spreadsheets, classify text with Bayesian filters, and create PDF files. We've even included a few silly tricks that were too cool to leave out, like how to blink the lights on your keyboard.
The Ruby Cookbook is the most useful book yet written about Ruby. When you need to solve a problem, don't reinvent the wheel: look it up in the Cookbook.
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Ruby for beginners and experts!
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Published by acclaimed authors Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson, The Ruby Cookbook is both an excellent learning tool and reference manual. It is organized into 23 chapters delineating all capabilities of the object-oriented scripting language. Each chapter is broken down into numerous subcategories describing operations, tips and tricks, common problems and their solutions, and other concepts pertaining to the topic of the chapter. Finding what you are looking for is not an issue since all topics are structured seamlessly.Unlike many other programming books I have read, this one does not cut corners and overlook the menial steps experts, such as the authors themselves, would assume the reader to know intuitively. I find this aspect to be exceedingly beneficial in learning how the language behaves and what discrepancies may present themselves as a result of coding between a number of programming languages. While reading this book and learning the language, I had never been confused as a result of missing or vague information. The writing style is captivating, concise, and understandable. I enjoyed reading this book.What I prefer most about the manual is that it is suited for newbies as well as experts. The introductory topics include the common data structures and how they are implemented, while the later chapters specify advanced functionality and extensions to the language. I recommend this book for all of those who have had some object-oriented programming experience as well as to those who have not but are interested in learning a computing language.
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A really good book
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This book is a must-have for any programmer just discovering Ruby. The examples are straight forward and relevant. Combine this with a good Rails book and you have just what you need to get started on a serious project.
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This book is excellent. If it had more swing stuff I'd probably be using it exclusively.
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I've looked at a couple programming "cookbooks" over the few years I've been programming, and none have ever really captured my attention. Most of them I found were lacking in useful recipes for novice programmers, or the recipes used an outdated code style or covered specific areas of a programming language. And with others, I just found it difficult to find useful tips or tricks.The Ruby Cookbook however, provides fresh, easy to read recipes that are full of neat tips and awesome tricks. And it's all provided in an easy to read, and more importantly easy to find, format. Programmers from novice to highly experienced will find this book useful.The book is laid out using general data types as chapters at first, then moves into more abstract topics such as code blocks and modules; databases and persistence; web services and task automation with Rake.Start with the table of contents to learn about a specific area, or thumb your way through the index to find specific topics or that fast piece of code you need to complete your project. No matter how you use it, the Ruby Cookbook is a must have book for any Ruby or Ruby on Rails programmer.
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This Book is a Gem!
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Sometimes, the difference between getting a project off the ground and watching it linger on the launchpad is finding an example of how to do something in code.Perhaps you're working on a project and you'd like to send an email using Ruby. Maybe you'd like to know how to read and write zip files or create thumbnail images from full size graphics files. Sometimes cruising through the API documentation just doesn't quite give you enough info.The Ruby Cookbook fills the void for a portable version of a Ruby code snippet search engine. For each example, there is a Problem description, a Solution section containing one or more chunks of Ruby code and a Discussion section for follow-up. Most examples also have a See Also section for cross reference.A huge amount of material is covered. Topics range from simple stuff like strings, numbers, hashes, arrays and objects to more challenging subjects like code blocks, reflection, metaprogramming and multithreading. It has chapters on Internet services, Web services and distributed programming, and Web development with Ruby on Rails.I'm only just skimming the surface here, this is a big book with 873 pages. It is quite simply packed with goodies. There is something in this book for Ruby programmers at every level. The book is well written and easy to read. You can download a zip file containing all of the code samples from the O'Reilly website.If you want to learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails, there are three books that will help you more than anything else: Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas, Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson and the Ruby Cookbook by Lucas Carlson and Leonard Richardson.
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A 'must -have' book
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This book is a 'must-have' for all the Ruby enthusiasts. I hope they put up a .zip file of all the programs here.
Excellent Book
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Super book from Beginers to Advanced.
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Otalia: Yes It's Patriarchal. So What? [Television Tuesday]
Today's Television Tuesday post is a guest post from Kate. Kate Monteiro has been watching and thinking about television since before she can remember. She sometimes posts and often Tweets under the name ZenobiaDTC. Thanks Kate!
I keep finding myself in some very long Twitter conversations. You know the ones -- where you try to make important points about soap operas, misogyny, homophobia, pleasure -- all in 140 character bursts with something akin to intelligible abbreviated spelling. That doesn't really work well. But basically the discussion boils down to this. "I feel empowered" versus "I've been betrayed." Smart, media savvy women all, and we're getting down right Twitter-pated about a soap. There must be something special going on.
Soap opera is a patriarchal form. I know critics call it a 'women's genre' and I completely agree. But being a women's genre is not the same as being a feminist genre. In this and almost all cases, the phrase 'women's genre' means the form prioritizes emotion over reason, interpersonal connections and connectedness over hierarchical structures, private over public, family over power. But as long as soap operas are produced within the commercial, corporate media of a sexist society, they will always be bounded by the expectations and norms of the genre as we know it. Our task - and our pleasure - as feminist audience (and creators) is to find the fissures, cracks and opportunities within the dominant paradigm -- to write our stories against the grain and in subversion of the dominance. We are -- for lack of a better word -- the resistance.
In late 2007, four strong, smart, modern and by all indications feminist women -- executive producer Ellen Wheeler, head writer Jill Lorie Hurst and actresses Crystal Chappell and Jessica Leccia, set out to create a story within a very specific context -- Guiding Light, the iconic 72 year old US daytime serial drama. Given the necessity for approval from CBS, a fifth woman, SVP of Daytime Barbara Bloom, could arguable be added to that list. The story became the 20 month arc affectionately known to fans as Otalia, the burgeoning friendship and romance of Olivia Spencer and Natalia Rivera. Nearly a year into this slowly developing same sex romance, by spring 2009 Otalia had become the "buzz" of the soap industry attracting both long time soap fans, and thousands of non-soap watchers. Big Purple Dreams, the primary fansite devoted to the storyline, amassed nearly 6000 registered users - nearly twice the users of the show's official site.
Question is did these smart, modern, feminist women produce a story which is free of misogyny? No. One free of homophobia? No. But is it fair to expect that of any text? Even considering texts written and produced by out queer feminist women within this culture -- How many perfect texts can you name?
Okay, so Otalia isn't perfect. But, you say, it was doing great and then they threw in that baby! (Yes, as a result of a little gay panic/she doesn't love me/mercyfuck, Natalia's 6 months pregnant)
Hold on to your hats folks. Otalia -- and I say this with deep love and a fierce belief in its revolutionary character -- has ALWAYS been bound up in patriarchy and homophobia. Yes, you read that right. Always. Inextricably. Completely.
Textual examples? Otalia began as a fight over a man. And not just a competition over sexual conquest of - or even the right to be sexually conquered by -- a man. Otalia started as a fight about a HUSBAND. (Start at 2:00)
There's Natalia and the sleazy sexually predatory lawyer who never gets punished. Olivia can 'save Natalia' from the sacrifice, but only so far. (Start at 2:22)
Then by eminent domain -talk about patriarchal power- widow Natalia's house gets taken and that small patrimony is swindled by the financier and Olivia ends up losing a job to claw the money back. He doesn't suffer any either.
Then there's the question of closeted lesbian Mayor Doris Wolfe using homophobia to further her career. (Start at 3:11)
Viewers have come to love and forgive Doris, but the text never punished her for her actions. Then there's the affectionately named "fornication of denial" when Natalia slept with Frank Cooper and the ensuing proposal of doom, the heteronormativity of the engagement party, and all the symbolism of the eventually disrupted wedding.
Overtly heterocentric (and sometimes outright homophobic) and patriarchal forces circle this text weaving in and out and around. Olivia and Natalia never vanquish them. At best, they carve out small spaces, both narrative and psychological, in which their own desires and selfhoods hold sway. For months careful viewers would get angry when characters (all male) repeatedly barged into the women's farmhouse home without knocking and being invited in. It was a literal manifestation of the precariousness of the boundaries and defenses of the self defined woman and the self defined female couple in this text and in this society.
Frank Cooper was never 'inserted' into this story (loaded imagery aside). He does not put brakes on a free and self realized powerful homocentric relationship. He was there - in one form or another - from the very beginning. The story of Otalia has always been -- and given its context could only ever have been -- about overcoming the forces of patriarchy and homophobia that weigh on us, channel us into conformity, and punish us when we don't surrender to them. Otalia is a story of resistance.
If it ends, as I suspect it will, with resistance rewarded, then it will have done its particular job in the grand scope of things. Because anytime the resistance fighters win, the patriarchy is left just a tiny bit weaker.
Read more about Otalia on Wikipedia and in the New York Times.
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I love this and think that the author is right. Subversion takes place from within and that's exactly what this S/L does again though within the limits of the soap opera world and our current world. Thanks for providing it under guest pieces.ReplyDelete
"Smart, media savvy women all, and we're getting down right Twitter-pated about a soap. There must be something special going on."ReplyDelete
-just the fact that this show and these ladies have brought about discussions like this proves that it is truly something special. i love the way your brain works zen! great article. hope you feel motivated to do more in the future!
I couldnt agree more with this article. Patriachy is evident everywhere in todays society. It's a man made (pardon the pun) construct and it's been great to see the Otalia storyline challenge and resist that. Thanks for taking the time to write this Kate/Zen. Your insight is very much valued and appreciated.ReplyDelete
I just love the points you've made, here. Indeed, we are a patriarchal society; that's all we know from experience. I love seeing how this becomes, if even somewhat, a successful victim of subversion.ReplyDelete
I couldn't be more thrilled with Crystal's upcoming web venture. I look forward to hopefully seeing something that doesn't have the traditional fetters and filters that are otherwise imposed via network television.
Indeed, something special *is* about to happen, and I'm glad to witness it.


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We are members of the International Slow Food Movement living near the Sacramento Delta and in the shadow of Mt. Diablo.We believe in the sustainability of our local food system and honor our agricultural heritage.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Growing Healthy Youth
We submitted our report back to Slow Food USA this week on our fabulous project at Diablo Community Day School. It was received with enthusiasm, to say the least. And in all fairness, it should have been.
We have been working in a school with students most people would have written off as too difficult in a school district struggling to keep schools open. The students we have spent our time with this year have been transformed in different ways. Some have embraced the garden as theirs and are planning on maintaining it over the summer to attain community service credits. Some view eating new things in a more positive light. Some have decided that they actually like eating fruit and green vegetables. Almost all of them have become more tolerant of us and our crazy ideas.
I encourage all members of Slow Food Delta Diablo to take advantage of the opportunity to meet some of the amazing and inspiring DCD students this summer. Contact one of us to volunteer your time.
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Very cool. I think you'll find this story inspiring; it's about the impact of such a garden program on the lives of both the students and the person administering the project. Check it out at www.ahamoment.com/pg/moments/view/2261; it's part of a site created by Mutual of Omaha to highlight such good works and inspiring stories as yours. Well done and thank you.ReplyDelete
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Queen Esther Hadassa of Persia
Hebrew: Queen אסתר of Persia, Arabic: Queen ا لملكة استير النبي of Persia
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|505 BCE, Persia
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About Queen Esther of Persia
- Wikipedia: Queen Esther and אסתר המלכה.
- Book of Esther, Wikipedia.
- Book of Esther - English & Hebrew.
- Mordechai, Esther's foster-parent and cousin on Geni.
- List of links about Esther.
- Queen Esther / Purim
Esther (Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר, Modern Ester Tiberian ʔɛster), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther. According to the Bible she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus (traditionally identified with Xerxes I). Her story is the basis for the celebration of Purim in Jewish tradition.
The Book of Esther, tells the story of the Jewish orphan who became queen of the most powerful land of her time, a woman forced to risk her own life in order to save the lives of her people.
Esther, one of the Bible's most powerful women, a tale filled with political intrigue and palace conspiracies. Born a beautiful Jew of lowly birth, Esther became queen of the mighty Persian empire, using her intelligence and sexual wiles to save her people from certain genocide. Ester was a refugee from the fall of Jerusalem, moving east to the capital of Persia, where King Ahaseurus ruled. When the King divorced his wife, he sought the most desirable woman in his empire, and ultimately chose Esther. As queen, Esther had to survive, the evil intentions of the king's chief official, Haman, who consistently plotted against the Jews. Through courage, planning, and sacrifice, Esther managed to save the Jews from persecution, becoming one of the greatest heroines of the bible.
While biblical sources explain that indeed he was her uncle and adoptive parent, Talmudic source add the he was ALSO her husband. So the tree was probable reflecting that connection. This is "derived" from the end of the quote that Henn mentioned: "TOOK her for his own DAUGHTER." One does not "take" a daughter. In the context of male-female relations this verb indicates "taking in marriage", and the word for "daughter" is one minor letter different than "home". Bet-Taf vs. Bet-Yud-Taf.
Esther's tomb joins Iranian National Heritage List.
On December 9, 2008, Iranian news outlets reported that the tomb of Mordechai and Esther, would now be under official government protection and responsibility.
The mausoleum housing the shrine of Mordechai and Esther consists of a simple brick structure crowned with a dome which was built some five to seven centuries ago over the underground gravesites. It is located in the northwestern Iranian city of Hamadan, which is about 335 kilometers west of the capital, Tehran. According to tradition, Hamadan is believed to be the site of the city of Shushan, which played such a central role in the events described in the Book of Esther.
Various travelers down through the ages took note of the site, with the first having been Benjamin of Tudela, the famed 12th century Jewish explorer.
Interestingly, there is a competing tradition which identifies the traditional burial place of Queen Esther and Mordechai as being on the outskirts of the village of Baram, in the upper Galilee, near Safed. As early as 1215, Rabbi Menachem Ha-Hevroni wrote that while visiting the Galilee, he came across the tomb of Queen Esther, "who, during her lifetime, had instructed her son Cyrus to bring her there [for burial]". Later pilgrims mentioned the site, and noted that special celebrations were held there on Shushan Purim.
Marriage: 1 Artaxerxes I of Persia Children: Darius II of Persia
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Queen Esther (1878) as imagined by Edwin Long.Esther (pron.: /ˈɛstər/; Hebrew: אֶסְתֵּר, Modern Ester Tiberian 'Estēr), (Persian: استر), born Hadassah, is the eponymous heroine of the Biblical Book of Esther.
According to the Bible, she was a Jewish queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus. Ahasuerus is traditionally identified with Xerxes I during the time of the Achaemenid empire. Her story is the basis for the celebration of Purim in Jewish tradition.
Contents [hide] 1 Biblical story 2 Origin and meaning 3 Interpretations 4 Persian culture 5 Modern retelling 6 References 7 Further reading 8 External links
[edit] Biblical storyMain article: Book of Esther King Xerxes held a 180-day feast in Susa (Shoushan). While in "high spirits" from the wine, he ordered his queen, Vashti, to appear before him and his guests to display her beauty. But when the attendants delivered the king's command to Queen Vashti, she refused to come. Furious at her refusal to obey, the king asked his wise men what should be done. One of them said that all the women in the empire would hear that "The King Xerxes commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not." Then the women of the empire would despise their husbands. And this would cause many problems in the kingdom. Therefore it would be good to depose her.[1]
To find a new queen suitable to King Xerxes, it was decreed that beautiful young virgins be gathered to the palace from every province of his kingdom. Each woman underwent twelve months of beautification in his harem, after which she would go to the king. When the woman's turn came, she was given anything she wanted to take with her from the harem to the king's palace. She would then go to the king in the evening, and in the morning go to the harem where the concubines stayed. She would not return to the king unless he was pleased enough with her to summon her again by name.[2]
For his wife and queen, King Xerxes chose Esther, an orphan raised by her uncle, [3] Mordecai, to replace the recalcitrant Queen Vashti. Esther was originally named Hadassah, meaning myrtle.
"Esther 2:7 And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter." Esther was the daughter of a Benjamite, Abihail. When Cyrus gave permission for the exiles to return unto Jerusalem she stayed with Mordecai.
Shortly, when Mordecai was sitting at the king's gates, he overheard two of the king's officers guarding the gates plotting to assassinate the king. Mordecai let Esther know, and she warned the king about it, and Mordecai was given credit. The two conspirators were hanged on a gallows.
Soon after this, the king granted Haman the Agagite,[4] one of the most prominent princes of the realm, special honours. All the people were to bow down to Haman when he rode his horse through the streets. All complied except for Mordecai, a Jew, who would bow to no one but his God. This enraged Haman, who, with his wife and advisers, plotted against the Jews, making a plan to kill and extirpate all Jews throughout the Persian empire, selecting the date for this act by the drawing of lots (Esther 3:7). After laying charges of sedition against the Jews, Haman gained the king's approval to write a decree for their destruction; offering ten thousand silver talents to the king for approval of this plan, but the king refused to take them (Esther 3:9-11).
Mordecai tore his robes and put ash on his head (signs of mourning or grieving/anguish) on hearing this news. Esther sent clean clothes to him, but he refused them, explaining that deliverance for the Jews would come from some other place, but that Esther would be killed if she did not do what she could to stop this genocide — by talking to the king. Esther was not permitted to see the king unless he had asked for her, otherwise she could be put to death. Esther was terrified of this (she had not been called to the king in 30 days), so she and her maid-servants and her people the Jews of Persia fasted earnestly for three days before she built up the courage to enter the king's presence. When King Xerxes saw Esther, he was pleased and held out his scepter to her, showing that he accepted her visit. He then asked Esther what she wished of from him, promising to grant even up to half his kingdom should she ask. Esther requested a banquet with the king and Haman. During the banquet, she requested another banquet with the king and Haman the following day.
"Ahasuerus and Haman at Esther's Feast," by RembrandtAfter the banquet Haman ordered a gallows constructed, 75 feet (23 m) high, on which to hang Mordecai. Meanwhile, the king was having trouble sleeping, and had some histories read to him. From the reading the king remembered that Mordecai had saved him from an assassination attempt, and had received no reward in return. Early the next morning, Haman came to the king to ask permission to hang Mordecai, but before he could, the king asked him "What should be done for the man whom the king delights to honor?" Haman thought the king meant himself, so he said that the man should wear a royal robe and be led on one of the king's horses through the city streets proclaiming before him, "This is what is done for the man the king delights to honor!" The king thought this well, then asked Haman to lead Mordecai through the streets in this way, to honor him for previously telling the king of a plot against him. After doing this, Haman rushed home, full of grief. His wife said to him, "You will surely come to ruin!"
That night, during the banquet, Esther told the king of Haman's plan to massacre all Jews in the Persian Empire, and acknowledged her own Jewish ethnicity. Haman then pleaded with Esther to save his life. Seeing Haman on Esther's couch begging, the king became further enraged and had him hung on the gallows he had built for Mordecai. The king then appointed Mordecai as his prime minister, and gave the Jews the right to defend themselves against any enemy. The king also issued a second edict allowing the Jews to arm themselves, and kill not only their enemies but also their enemies' wives and children, as well as partake of the plunder (Esther 8:11). This precipitated a series of reprisals by the Jews against their enemies. This fight began on the 13th of Adar, the date the Jews were originally slated to be exterminated. The Jews went on to kill only their would-be executioners, and not their wives and children,[citation needed] altogether eight hundred killed in Susa alone, 75,000 in the rest of the empire. The Jews also took no plunder (Esther 9:10,9:15-16).
The Jews established an annual feast, the feast of Purim, in memory of their deliverance. According to traditional rabbinic dating, this took place about fifty-two years after the start of the Babylonian Exile.[citation needed]
[edit] Origin and meaningAccording to Esther 2:7, Esther was originally named Hadassah. Hadassah means "myrtle" in Hebrew. It has been conjectured that the name Esther is derived from a reconstructed Median word astra meaning myrtle.[5]
An alternative view is that Esther is derived from the theonym Ishtar. The Book of Daniel provides accounts of Jews in exile being assigned names relating to Babylonian gods and "Mordecai" is understood to mean servant of Marduk, a Babylonian god. "Esther" may have been a different Hebrew interpretation from the Proto-Semitic root "*?aθtar- 'morning/evening star'",[6] which descended with the /th/ into the Ugaritic Athtiratu[7] and Arabian Athtar.[8] The derivation must then have been secondary for the initial ayin to be confused with an aleph (both represented by vowels in Akkadian), and the second consonant descended as a /s/ (like in the Aramaic asthr "bright star"), rather than a /sh/ as in Hebrew and most commonly in Akkadian.
Wilson, who identified Ahasuerus with Xerxes I and Vashti with Amestris, suggested that both "Amestris" and "Esther" derived from Akkadian Ammi-Ishtar or Ummi-Ishtar.[9] Hoschander alternatively suggested Ishtar-udda-sha ("Ishtar is her light") as the origin with the possibility of -udda-sha being connected with the similarly sounding Hebrew name Hadassah. These names however remain unattested in sources, and come from the original Babylonian Empire from 2000 BCE,[citation needed] not the Chaldean Empire or Persian Empire of the Book of Esther.[citation needed]
The Targum[10] connects the name with the Persian word for "star", ستاره setareh, explaining that Esther was so named for being as beautiful as the Morning Star. In the Talmud (Tractate Yoma 29a), Esther is compared to the "morning star", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a "song for the morning star".
[edit] InterpretationsFurther information: Esther in rabbinic literature Esther is considered a prophet in Judaism. She is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod on May 24.
Dianne Tidball argues that while Vashti is a "feminist icon", Esther is a post-feminist icon.[11]
Abraham Kuyper notes some "disagreeable aspects" to her character — that she should not have agreed to take Vashti's place, that she refrained from saving her nation until her own life was threatened, and that she carries out bloodthirsty vengeance.[12]
[edit] Persian culture The Shrine of Esther and Mordechai in Hamedan, Iran Tomb of Ester and MordechaiGiven the great historical link between Persian and Jewish history, modern day Persian Jews are called "Esther's Children". A building known as the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran,[13] although the village of Kfar Bar'am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.[14]
[edit] Modern retellingThe Italian Renaissance poet Lucrezia Tornabuoni chose Esther as one of biblical figures on which she wrote poetry.[15] In 1689, Jean Baptiste Racine wrote Esther, a tragedy, at the request of Louis XIV's wife, Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon. In 1718, Handel wrote the oratorio Esther based on Racine's play. In 1958, a book entitled "Behold Your Queen!", was written by Gladys Malvern, and illustrated by her sister, Corinne Malvern. It was chosen as a selection of the Junior Literary Guild. The play entitled Esther (1960), written by Welsh dramatist Saunders Lewis, is a retelling of the story in Welsh. A movie about the story, Esther and the King 1962 musical entitled Swan Esther was written by J. Edward Oliver and Nick Munns and has been performed by the Young Vic and some amateur groups. A 1978 miniseries entitled The Greatest Heroes of the Bible starred Victoria Principal as Esther, Robert Mandan as Xerxes, and Michael Ansara as Haman. Episode 25 of the 1981 anime series Superbook involves this story. The novel 'Hadassah' by J. Francis Hudson (Lion Publishing 1996) integrates the Biblical narrative with ancient Greek accounts of the reign of Xerxes (Ahasuerus). A 1986 Israeli film directed by Amos Gitai entitled Esther. A 1999 TV movie from the Bible Collection that follows the biblical account very closely, Esther, starred Louise Lombard in the title role and F. Murray Abraham as Mordecai. In 2000, VeggieTales released "Esther... The Girl Who Became Queen." In May 2005 the musical Luv Esther was first shown. It is written by Ray Goudie. Esther is the titled heroine in Ginger Garrett's novel Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther A 2006 movie about Esther and Ahasuerus, entitled One Night with the King, stars Tiffany Dupont and Luke Goss. It was based on the novel Hadassah: One Night with the King by Tommy Tenney and Mark Andrew Olsen. In the 2006 Melbourne Fringe Festival, The Backyard Bard toured a Biblical Storytelling production of 'Esther', featuring four women storytellers telling the story word-for-word from the Biblical account. In the anime Trinity Blood Esther is the main character, a nun with a star on her side. She is prophesied to be "the morning star" who will lead the people to peace. In the 2008 HBO television movie Recount, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (portrayed by Laura Dern) compares herself to Queen Esther, of whom she says "was willing to sacrifice herself to save the lovely Jewish people." Esther is one of the five heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star. Esther (opera) was composed by Hugo Weisgall. Debra Spark's 2009 Novel, Good for the Jews is a modern day retelling of Esther set in Madison, Wisconsin. On March 8, 2011, the Maccabeats released a music video called "Purim Song"[16] "A Reluctant Queen" by Joan Wolf is a fictionalized re-telling of Esther's story. [edit] References1.^ Esther 1:16-20 2.^ Esther 2:14 3.^ Esther 2:7 4.^ A descendant of the Amalekite people, of King Agag, whom King Saul of Israel was commanded by the prophet Samuel to utterly destroy because of their wickedness; but Saul chose to spare their king instead.(1Samuel 15:1-33) Haman's hatred of the Jews may have had its root in this event. 5.^ John Barton, John Muddiman, The Oxford Bible commentary, entry Esther, Oxford University Press, 2001 6.^ John Huehnergard, "Appendix 1: Afro-Asiatic," In The Languages of Syria-Palestine And Arabia, edited by Roger D. Woodard, 225-246. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008: 243. 7.^ Aïcha Rahmouni, Divine Epithets in the Ugaritic Alphabetic Texts, Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1, The Near and Middle East. Translated by J.N. Ford (Leiden, 2007), 86. 8.^ Joseph Offord, "The Deity of the Crescent Venus in West Asia," JRAS (1915): 198. 9.^ NeXtBible Study Dictionary, entry "Ahasbai" 10.^ Targum to Esther 2:7 11.^ Dianne Tidball, Esther: A True First Lady. Christian Focus Publications, 2001. 12.^ Abraham Kuyper, Women of the Old Testament (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1941), 175-176. 13.^ Parvaneh Vahidmanesh (5 May 2010). "Sad Fate of Iran's Jews". http://www.payvand.com/news/10/may/1135.html. 14.^ Jacqueline Schaalje (June 2001). "Ancient synagogues in Bar'am and Capernaum". Jewish Magazine. http://www.jewishmag.com/44mag/synagogues/synagogues.htm. 15.^ Robin, Larsen and Levin. p. 368. 16.^ "The Maccabeats - Purim Song". YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgJInVvJSZg&feature=player_embedded. Retrieved 2011-08-09. [edit] Further readingBeal, Timothy K. The Book of Hiding: Gender, Ethnicity, Annihilation, and Esther. NY: Routledge, 1997. Postmodern theoretical apparatus, e.g., Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas Michael V. Fox Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther, 2nd ed. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmanns, 2001. 333 pp. Robin, Diana Maury, Larsen, Anne R. and Levin, Carole (2007). Encyclopedia of women in the Renaissance: Italy, France, and England. ABC-CLIO, Inc. Sasson, Jack M. "Esther" in Alter and Kermode, pp. 335–341, literary Webberley, Helen The Book of Esther in C17th Dutch Art, AAANZ National Conference, Art Gallery NSW, 2002 Webberley, Helen Rembrandt and The Purim Story, in The Jewish Magazine, Feb 2008, [1] White, Sidnie Ann. "Esther: A Feminine Model for Jewish Diaspora" in Newsom Grossman, Jonathan Esther: The Outer Narrative and the Hidden Reading, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 2011. [edit] External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Esther
"Esther". New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
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Hebrew to English Translation Queen Esther prophet Queen Esther is a biblical character, the heroine Esther's rescueJones Purim. Described in the Book of Esther as the wife ofAhasuerus, after two. According to the Sages, is also one of the seven prophets who were the people of Israel in biblical times. http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/% D7% 90% D7% A1% D7% AA% D7% A8_% D7% 94% D7% 9E% D7% 9C% D7% 9B% D7% 94
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الملكة استير النبي الملكة استير هو حرف الكتاب المقدس ، والبطلة استير الانقاذ جونز البوريم. وصفها في كتاب استير وزوجة أحشويروش بعد سنتين. وفقا للحكماء ، هو أيضا واحد من الانبياء الذين كانوا سبعة شعب إسرائيل في العصور القديمة.
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עברית ייִדיש
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אסתר המלכה נביאה אסתר המלכה היא דמות מקראית, גיבורת מגילת אסתר ונס ההצלה של חג הפורים. מתוארת במגילת אסתר כאשתו של אחשורוש לאחר ושתי. על פי חז"ל, היא גם אחת משבע הנביאות שהיו בעם ישראל בתקופת המקרא.
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Information from your City Offices | Meetings/Events this Week | Things Happening Around our Community
A Letter to our Residents from Charlie Francis, Director of Administrative Services/Treasurer
RE: City's Pension Debt
Recently, a letter to the MarinScope editor claimed that the City of Sausalito's pension debt is $40 million; and that this debt is growing. The total pension liability of the City is definitively not $40 million, and the City has taken specific actions to substantially reduce its total remaining pension liability to less than $5 million.
On the agenda of March 27, 2012, during the open and regularly scheduled City Council meeting, staff reported that the Unfunded Actuarial Accrued Liability (UAAL) for all three City pension plans was $4,547,328 as of the latest June 30, 2010 CalPERS actuarial valuation. This amount was determined using the methodology prescribed to the City Council at the January 10, 2012 open and regularly scheduled City Council meeting by the City's Actuary, John Bartel.
Actuary John Bartel further recommended to the City Council in his report that "the City can realize significant savings by paying off its "Side Fund" balances for each plan (Miscellaneous, Fire Safety & Police Safety) early because balances are charged 7.75%." The Pension Side Funds total an additional $4,879,925.
Accordingly, the City Council adopted the FY13 budget that includes an appropriation from unencumbered and available funds to pay-off the Fire and Miscellaneous Side Funds (approximately $2 million). The remaining Police Side Fund obligation of $2.8 million is scheduled to be liquidated within the next 3 to 5 years.
In another significant step to further reduce its pension liability, the City negotiated agreements with its labor force that includes substantial pension reform for both current employees and for future employees. Not only do all City employees pay 100% of the employee's share of pension costs (as promulgated by the Governors Public Employees Pension Reform Act "PEPRA") but all employees are paying a portion of the City's share of pension costs! Additionally, all future employees will be in a lower pension tier than existing employees.
As of June 30, 2012, the net assets of the City exceed its liabilities by over $47 million. The City's UAAL is less than $5 million. The City has a long-term fiscal plan that provides resources to continue balancing the budget, to preserve providing the excellent level of services, to preserve the City's infrastructure with a robust capital improvement program, and with adequate reserves to safeguard future challenges. As the City's annual financial reports confirm: the City can pay its bills, and the City's ability to pay its bills is improving year over year.
More information , including the City's complete actuarial reports, can be found on the City's website or by calling me at 289-4105.
Halloween Festivities
On Wednesday, October 31 the Halloween Festivities will ramp up for a fun evening of events beginning at 4:30 pm. Come and have a wonderful, safe, and fun Halloween experience:
SAUSALICIOUS! - A community event celebrating local education, art, music and delicious Sausalito Restaurants
In celebration of Willow Creek Academy's 11th Anniversary, Willow Creek Foundation and the City of Sausalito Parks & Recreation Department present Sausalicious!.
Come and view over 20 local artists in their studios and enjoy some of Sausalito's best restaurants; Plate Shop, Osteria Divino, Sartaj India Cafe, Saylor's Restaurant, Sushi Ran and many more offering some of their best dishes to celebrate this wonderful community event. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun.
Where: 10 Liberty Ship Way, Artist Studio's Bay 2, Sausalito
When: Saturday, November 10th
Time: 5:00 to 7:00 pm
Cost: $25 per person
Willow Creek Foundation and Sausalito Parks & Recreation will stage a Silent Auction to benefit children's programs with many coveted auction items such as special getaway vacation packages, Jazz by the Bay tables & picnics, 49er 50yardline tickets, dinners and gift certificates to all your favorite places. All proceeds benefit Willow Creek Academy and Robin Sweeny Park Playground.
Children's Halloween Event
Big Pumpkin: A Halloween Puppet Show from Teatro Calamari Puppets
A pumpkin too big to move . . . a small bat with gumption . . .join us for Big Pumpkin, a whimsical show combining puppetry, masks and fun! From Teatro Calamari Puppets. Everyone is welcome.
Tuesday October 30, 3:30 pm - Free!
Vehicle Amnesty Days
Do you have a vehicle in your private driveway or in your garage that you want to get rid of? Running or not, ownership documents or not, the Marin County Sheriff's Department and Pick-n-Pull are offering to pick it up and tow it away. Now through November 17 you can call for limited free towing to have your vehicle removed. Call 866-520-9749. For additional information about this program, call Deputy Andy Smith at 479-2311. Vehicles will only be removed if it is on your residential property and you can prove so. (all vehicles will be verified before being removed)
Nov 1
3:30 pm
Storytime with Phil
Council Chambers
Explore Sausalito's Paths and Walkways
Dorothy Gibson will once again begin her famous walks throughout Sausalito's Paths and Walkways. Meet at the Historical Society's Visitor Center (the Ice House at Bridgeway and Bay) at 10:00 am. The walks are held every Saturday beginning November 3 and ending December 15. It is the 10th year that she will be doing this – RAIN OR SHINE. Allow three hours. Call 415.332.1935 if you have any questions.
Sausalito Historical Society hosts their fall fundraiser, Wine Tasting & House Tour at The Pines
The Pines: Wine Tasting & House Tour will be held from 3 to 6 p.m.on Sunday, November 4, 2012, at the fully restored 1888 Sausalito mansion, The Pines. This is a rare opportunity to visit the private home as the property is seldom open to the public. Local wineries will be featured along with entertainment by Bay Area musician Marilyn Cooney. Light hors d'oeuvres will be served.
Roxanne Sheridan and Gil Purcell are opening their home to friends and guests of the Sausalito Historical Society for a wine tasting and self-guided house tour. The 14,000 square-foot, 23-room Queen Anne Victorian home was originally built by Major Orson C. Miller. Over the years the home underwent many alterations until the Sausalito couple bought the property and began their own meticulous restorations.
Tickets are $40 for members and $45 for non-members; and can be purchased at the
organization's History Room at City Hall on Litho Street or at The Ice House. Proceeds support the Society's programs and events. For additional information, please contact (415) 289-4117 or www.sausalitohistoricalsociety.com. Only 200 tickets will be sold. There will be no parking at the venue; shuttle service will be provided.
Celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of Sausalito Village
Thursday, November 8, 4-6 pm at The Bay Model
Music, Drinks, Appetizers, Exhibit of Sausalito Village Artists, and More
You are invited to celebrate with us and to learn about this volunteer group of Sausalito
residents committed to helping all of our residents live independently, safely and confidently in their own Sausalito homes as they grow older, and to lead active, socially connected and productive lives.
Membership is only $200 a year for a household of one or two members and new members are very welcome.
Please phone Betsy Stroman at 331-1464 if you have any questions or for further information.
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ABERDEEN, S.D. – Grab your flying discs and warm-up your throwing arm. Disc golfers across the state are invited to compete in the 2005 South Dakota Amateur Disc Golf Championship. Registrations are now being taken for the tournament, which will be held Sept. 9-11at Richmond Lake Recreation Area near Aberdeen.
Participants will play three rounds of 18 holes, with two rounds on Saturday and the final round on Sunday morning. Tees will change with each round to vary the course.
Divisions and entry fees are as follows:
Advanced - $45
Advanced Master - $45
Women - $35
Intermediate - $35
Junior - $20
The tournament is a Professional Disc Golf Association B-tier sanctioned event, and PDGA members can deduct $5 from their entry fee. Pre-registration is required by Sept. 1 and registration forms are available at the Richmond Lake park office, by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com or by calling (605) 226-9917.
Disc golfers can also participate in two additional competitions during the weekend event. On Friday night, Sept. 9, there will be a team putting contest. On Saturday afternoon, players can show off their throwing skills in the distance contest. Entry fees are $10 per two-person team for the putting contest and $5 per person for the distance contest. Prizes will be awarded to the top placers in each of the contests.
The tournament will take place at the disc golf course at Richmond Lake Recreation Area's Forest Drive unit, located 10 miles northwest of Aberdeen off U.S. 281. Camping is available on a first-come, first-served basis at the Richmond Lake campground located across the lake. For more information on the park, visit www.sdgfp.info/Parks or call (605) 626-3488.
The tournament is sponsored by the following agencies and Aberdeen area businesses: Aberdeen Area Disc Golf Association, Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce, Aberdeen Convention and Visitors Bureau, S.D. Game, Fish and Parks – Division of Parks and Recreation, CD Exchange, Creakyback Graphics, Pepsi Cola, Thatzza Pizza and Vistar/Roma.
For more information on the tournament, email email@example.com or call (605) 226-9917.


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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by dba, Oct 28, 2009.
I doubt the Knicks would get past the ECF.
Spurs don't have a prayer. They're a regular season team this year. High scoring, mediocre defense.
JaVale McGee had a triple double in Washingtons loss against Chicago - 12 rebounds, 12 blocked shots (!) and 11 points. He was only 9 assists from a quadruple double.
Looks like he's back in form. Maybe it's time to put him back in my fantasy rotation. For some reason Flip Saunders has some sort of issue with the guy and his playing time had been suffering lately. I don't know why - the guy is an above-average rebounder and a blocks machine.
The 12 blocks is very impressive, but the way he got to the triple double is not: Video: JaVale McGee gets first triple-double, embarrasses self - Ball Don't Lie - NBA Blog - Yahoo! Sports Still, he's an athletic 7 footer, only 23 years old and is a Michigan boy. Wouldn't mind seeing him in a Pistons uniform one day.
You know Joe hates to sign players from Michigan...(The Mateen rule) but if Javale's mother Pam McGee plants a kiss on Joe the way she did on Dr. J at the alstar game then maybe Joe would consider him...
As most NBA announcers say..."very impressive" win by the Thunder over the Heat tonight. 96-85 Heat thought after beating the top two teams in the west >Lakers and Spurs, that they would have no trouble with the young up and coming Thunder...ooops... The big crybaby three shot 21-59 from the field for 61 pts and really shot the ball bad in the second half and are now 4 games behind the Bulls and Celtics. And oh by the way, the Denver Melloless won again, this time on the road in the ATL beating them down 102-87. Spelcheck returned from his injury to score 15 pts and the Hawks held JR Smith in check only allowing him to get off 5 three balls (he made 3 and scored 15 pts too) They are 11-2 since shipping melo and Cbill to the big apple
I think that Lawson and Felton means that the Nuggs are the best team in the league at the PG spot. These guys are double trouble.
Wonder where did George Karl find the minutes for his guards ?
' He knows how to call a TO and adjust and not have starters play for 9-10 minutes before he pulls them....
I never thought I'd like the Nuggets more as a team once Billups left. A Nuggs-Spurs WCF would be wonderful.
I feel the same way. I'm rooting for them because they were on the non superstar side of the trade. They have some real defenders and some hungry, low ego players on the team. Plus they are new, so it will be fun if they can build some real momentum at the right now. I doubt anyone wants to play them in the playoffs right now. The Spurs and Lakers are vulnerable to a good defensive team.
Maybe this years' 2004 Pistons?
And you think we complain??? You have wonder how the Cavs forum fans are getting through this season, when for the second time this season they lose by more than 40 points.... The Blazers beat the Cavs last night 111-70 ....41 pts....remember they loss to the Lakers by 55 back in January......of course the Cavs did strike a little revenge prior to the allstar game knocking out both LA teams, but I think they have only mustered one win since. With Dan Gilberts luck lately, they will probably lose out on the number one pick when its time to drop the lotto balls
I wish Chauncey was still here in Denver but I'm kinda excited to be on the Nuggs bandwagon now that Melo is gone. I wouldn't call myself an actual fan but they've become "watchable" for me. I tend to root for 'em when they're not playing the Pistons. I'm pullin' for either the Spurs of Nuggets to come outta the West and beat whoever reps the East.
I'm sure the Spurs and Lakers aren't too stressed about a playing a team they are vastly superior to. I get the love for the Nuggets being the "team without a superstar", but they aren't a threat to any contender in the playoffs other than the Mavericks. They're capable of giving you a competitive series, but that's about it.
I just hope you eat those words come late May
Nuggs have beat some pretty good teams this year: Celtics, Mavs, Blazers, Heat, Thunder, Magic, Suns, Knicks, Pistons, Lakers. and they're playing better since the trade. According to SRS, it's Spurs, Lakers, Nuggs in the 1-2-3 spot in the West. Heat-Bulls-Celts in the same spots in the East.
Sidenote: everybody is a threat to the Mavericks.
Delfino with 30 points and 11 rebounds in a win over the Knicks tonight! He only attempted 13 shots. Billups played well too, but fouled out. The Knicks' D is lacking... no surprise.
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Cruise Itinerary Details
Norwegian Star
Departing from: Miami, Florida
Ports of Call:
- Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal
- Dover (London), England
- Helsingborg, Sweden
- Copenhagen, Denmark
Bars, Clubs & Lounges
Lounges & Bars
Intimate Lounge
The 5 O'Clock Somewhere Bar
Sugar Cane Mojito Bar
Champagne Bar
Gatsby's Champagne Bar
Juice Bar
Barong Juice Bar
Scenic Lounge
Bier Garten
Pool Bar
Topsider's Bar & Grill
Casino Bar
Star Club Casino Bar
Sake Bar
Sake Bar
Coffee Bar
Java Cafe
Music & Dancing
Night Club
Spinnaker Lounge
Teen Spots
Teen Lounge/Club
Teen Club
The Video Zone
Casino & Gambling
- The Star Club Casino
- Numerous slot and video poker machines available
- Gaming Tables: Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Let it Ride��, Three Card Poker, Texas Hold 'Em, Ultimate Texas Hold 'Em, Mini Baccarat, Pai Gow Poker, Spanish 21
- Tournaments: Blackjack, Slot and Texas Hold 'Em
- Please Note: Tournament game variety varies from ship to ship
- Free gaming lessons offered for table games and slots
- Launch Party
- Currencies Accepted: Credit Cards, Cash, and Traveler's Checks in U.S. currency
- Please Note: Game and machine variety varies from ship to ship
- Mandara Spa
- A wide variety of body treatments from traditional to exotic
- Hair Salon
- Additional charge for spa and salon services
Sports & Fitness
- Barong Fitness Center
- Exercise Classes: Aerobics, Zumba, Pilates, Yoga, and more (additional fee)
- Cardio and weight training equipment
- TRX Suspension Fitness Training (additional fee)
- Classes may vary depending on ship and itinerary
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- Jogging Track
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- Golf Driving Nets
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- The Oasis Pool and 4 whirlpools - Deck 12
- Splash Down Kids Pool - complete with slides, paddling pool, and hot tub - Deck 12
- The Galleria Shops
- Duty free goods, such as fine liquors, jewelry, apparel, and sundries
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- Stardust Theater
- Broadway style shows
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- Second City comedy troupe
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Parties and Theme Nights
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For Norwegian's Youngest Guests (Ages 6 mos. - 2)Norwegian's youngest guests can enjoy up to 2 hours a day of sensory play, painting and other activities with their parents.
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Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Property Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2011
Government Code Provisions
Provisions Relating to the California Land Conservation Act of 1965 (The Williamson Act)
Chapter 7. Agricultural Land*
Article 2.5. Agricultural Preserves†
Section 51238.2
51238.2. Compatible uses; mineral extraction. Mineral extraction that is unable to meet the principles of Section 51238.1 may nevertheless be approved as compatible use if the board or council is able to document that (a) the underlying contractual commitment to preserve prime agricultural land, as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 51201, or (b) the underlying contractual commitment to preserve land that is not prime agricultural land for open-space use, as defined in subdivision (o) of Section 51201, will not be significantly impaired.
Conditions imposed on mineral extraction as a compatible use of contracted land shall include compliance with the reclamation standards adopted by the Mining and Geology Board pursuant to Section 2773 of the Public Resources Code, including the applicable performance standards for prime agricultural land and other agricultural land, and no exception to these standards may be permitted.
For purposes of this section, "contracted land" means all land under a single contract for which an applicant seeks a compatible use permit.
History.—Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1251, in effect January 1, 1995. Stats. 2004, Ch. 118 (SB 1165), in effect January 1, 2005, substituted "agricultural land," for "land" after "to preserve prime," substituted "land that is not prime agricultural" for "nonprime" after "commitment to preserve," added a comma after "open-space use" and substituted "subdivision (o)" for "subdivision (c)" after "as defined in" in the first sentence of the first paragraph.
* Unless otherwise noted Chapter 7 was added by Stats. 1965, p. 3377, in effect September 17, 1965.
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Laws, Regulations & Annotations
Business Taxes Law Guide – Revision 2012
Tax on Insurers Law
Chapter 6. Suspension of Rights of Delinquent Insurers.
Article 2. Suspended Corporate Insurers
Section 12832
12832. Exercise of rights after suspension unlawful. Every person who attempts or purports to exercise any of the rights, privileges or powers of a suspended domestic insurer or attempts to transact any intrastate business in this state in behalf of a forfeited foreign insurer is guilty of a misdemeanor. Upon conviction he shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars ($2,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
History.—Stats. 1957, p. 746, in effect September 11, 1957, eliminated provision for minimum fine and period of confinement, and decreased maximum confinement in county jail to a period not exceeding one year. Stats. 1983, Ch. 1092, in effect September 27, 1983, operative January 1, 1984, substituted "two thousand dollars ($2,000)" for "one thousand dollars" after "exceeding" in the second sentence.


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Yesterday afternoon my neighbor called me telling me he had just chased a dog that was killing my chickens. I grabbed my rifle and ran up to the barn but the dog was gone. I have about 60 layers. Feathers were everywhere but I could only find a half a doz birds, one dead and two bitten badly and a few in good shape that were hiding. I started walking and found them hiding all over the place alittle raddled but unharmed. I got in my truck and started driving into my back fields and found them hiding up to a 1/8 mile away. The sheriff came out and took a report. Today I'll get with animal control and my township supervisor. Last year almost to the day two stray huskies killed my whole flock. At that time someone told me something that the local government didn't want everyone to know. Because we have a dog ordiance (they must be lic.) that the country would pay for stock damage if the owner of the dog could not be found. I was told this is a 100 year old law. I check and it was true they replaced all my dead birds
Sometimes I feel bad for the dogs, they are only doing what dogs do..it's the owners....I've even captured the dog & taken it to the police station saying I found it in the highway...the owners bailed it out & it was back the next week...If you use the SSS method they don't return. ;) The snares would work though if you can't catch it in the act....We are now in the process of trapping a racoon..little bugger knocked one of my guinnea's off the branch (20ft in the air) at night...I went out to see what the rucus was & the Ba^%$!* had the balls to puff & stand up growling @ me, in MY own yard with the blood of MY pet..I ran in for my pal HK but it wouldn't come out where we could "chat"..I'm sure it's the same one that has gotten my chix...new chix house is going to be varmint proof, w hotwire & anything else I can think of..it picked a bad day to piss me off as my coffee maker had quit & my mare died that morning.... :-x I havn't decided, swimming lessons or animal control to come get it...guess it depends on how soon I get another coffee maker....Jody


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Well it's been a long time coming and I finally have enough progress to throw up a thread. Here's the quick low down.
Complete rebuild
lots of oem replacement stuff
obd2 swap
8.5:1 head spacer
APR Hardware
Kinetic Stage 1 kit (upgraged)
SP Short Runner Intake
A/W intercooler
Innovate Wideband
Non ABS swap
Body (all done by Dave or bmxrado)
Shaved Bay full tuck
Pulled fenders
Shaved Seams, emblems, wipers, rain tray, washer nozzles, antenna, side markers, exhaust port, smoothed rockers, rear wiper, a/c delete
Koni Coils
You'll see!
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A few months back, I completed a installation guide for my harness kits. I had been distributing it to buyers upon their purchase.
It has occurred to me that this guide my be helpful to anyone who has a "proper" harness, regardless of the maker. Below is a link to the PDF version. It can also be found on my Harness sale thread in the Cargo Hold.
I hope you will find this guide helpful. Enjoy!
BBF JP Harness Instl Guide_Mar 2012.pdf
NOTE: This guide is written specifically for the BBF Stainless Steel Jet Pack Harness Kit. It is as concise, but brief as possible. There are no extraneous steps. BBF installers should follow the guide as outlined, heeding all Notes, Cautions and Warning!


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CyHi The Prynce has been making waves with his recent releases. He's leaked two visuals off this mixtape, "Napolean" and "Huey" both of which find the MC going hard, plus a smoother cut, "Coretta" which arrived on Valentine's Day. His new mixtape Hystori: Black History Project, is executive produced by his G.O.O.D. boss Kanye West, and will undoubtedly be filled with bars, as CyHi is a lyrical beast.
The rapper includes 18 new records on Hystori, with features from King Louie, Miloh Smith, Jon Connor, Crystal Renee and a few others-- but for the most part, this is straight up CyHi.
Production comes from M16, Tec Beatz, Sekou Muhammed and more. Enjoy!!
01. Prelude
02. Intro (Black Hystori) (Prod. By TEC BEATZ)
03. Huey Feat. King Louie
04. Mandela (Prod. By Sekou Muhammed & TEC BEATZ)
05. Napoleon (Prod. By M16)
06. Interlude
07. Be Great (Prod. By TEC BEATZ & Anomaly)
08. Basquiat (Prod. By Grizzly)
09. 3 16 (Prod. By M 16)
10. Bury White (Prod. By Million Mano)
11. Is It Me Feat. Tate Dumonde & Crystal Renee (Prod. By Sekou Muhammed Jeff Leahr & TEC BEATZ)
12. February 29th Feat. Jon Connor & Zip K (Prod. By Sekou Muhammed Chris Tucker & TEC BEATZ)
13. Cydel Young (Prod. By M16 & Anomaly)
14. Coretta (Prod. By TEC BEATZ & Jeff Leahr)
15. Good Night Feat. Marian Mereba (Prod. By Watson The Great TEC BEATZ Roark Bailey & Aktual)
16. Guitar Melody (Prod. By TEC BEATZ)
17. Outro Interlude
18. Black Pride Feat. Miloh Smith & Kissielee (Prod. By Jeff Leahr TEC BEATZ & Space Jonez)