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I own a website design company (sole proprietorship). I have a client (let's call him Joe) who I have been working with for 3 -4 years. The original bill to him as done as I usually do it - 1/2 down and the balance when the site was done. I've clearly explained that all updates (other than very small text changes or swapping out an image or two) are billed at $35 per hour. This person is an elderly man who has dreams of becoming a country star. He has many, many changes and additions, at one point he decided he wanted to be able to make the changes himself, so we decided together to re-design his site in a WordPress format, to make it easier for him to make changes. He still could not make very many changes himself. I continued to work with him, he would call sometimes multiple times per day - some calls lasting an hour or more, sending emails and requesting changes. Many times I would make a change and his reaction would be "that's great" and then a few weeks later he wants it changed completely. These calls and email would come in bursts sometimes several per day for a few weeks and then a month or more might go by and I would not hear from him again.
On September 14, 2012 I sent him an email for work that I had done over the previous approximately 4 months for $565.05. He blew his stack. He didn't want to pay and he decided he wanted someone else to take over his site. I said fine and just pay the invoice for work already done and I'll send you whatever you want. On the invoice, under "Payment Terms" it reads: "PLEASE READ SPECIAL TERMS BELOW". Here are the special terms:
PAYMENT TERMS:As soon as full payment of $565.06 is made to my PayPal account, I will do any and all of the following (choices to be made by Joe):• Send Joe a backup copy of the WordPress Database or give him access so that he or his representative can access the database.• Send Joe a backup copy of all of the website files (including images, text, music, and videos) from the time we began working together or give him or his representative access to those files to copy/download themselves.• Relinquish my login ability to the WordPress site whenever I am asked to do so by Joe .• Continue making any and all updates, revisions, corrections needed from today (September 14, 2012) until the time I am told by Joe that he wants me to hand over full control to someone else. All work done will be billed at $35 per hour.HOSTING is paid in full until August 8, 2013 – at that time – Joe may renew the hosting for one more year (at $125.00 per year) or he may transfer his site away. I agree to facilitate that move in a timely manner.
He did agree to pay, after a very heated phone conversation. I sent him a copy of the WordPress Database and told him that if he needed anything else, to just contact me. I did not hear from him for about a month. Then when he contacted me, he just sent me more updates and changes to his site. I figured he had simply cooled down and/or found that any web designer was going to charge him to do work for him. Since I had very clearly stated on the invoice dated Sept. 14 that "All work done will be billed at $35 per hour." and that he was the one who contacted me to continue to do work, that he realized I was not working for free.
On January 2, 2013 he sent me a lengthy email with quite a few new changes to his site. I sent him back a very detailed response along with an email which read:
"I can make these changes (with some questions and clarifications). Please take a look at my questions/comments below in RED. Also, I want to let you know that the work I have done since the last invoice (September 13, 2012) is now at $264.25 (3.3 hours – phone consultations and 4.25 hours of design work). Would you rather take care of that now or should I do a revised bill once this additional work (below) is completed?"
His first response to that was a email that said "Just disrgard". I followed that up with an email which said:
"No problem. Let me know if you decide to make any of these (or any other) changes/additions.
I've attached my invoice for the previous work; as I mentioned in my previous email. Here is the link to my PayPal payments page."
I have sent that email 4 times. Now today, I get an email from him (and a new web designer that he is working with). He wants all of the files that I have from the last several years of working with him (I have no problem giving him what I have - I don't have everything, some things get written over on the server when you make changes - I also no longer have access to the site because he had the new website designer move everything before he contacted me). But now he is refusing to pay me the Jan. 2 invoice amount of $264.25. He says he didn't know I was going to charge him any more money and that just because it said so on the 9/14/12 invoice - he didn't agree to it.
He is contacting a lawyer. Advice??
As usual, the answer depends on what your contract with him says. If you don't have a contract with him and instead just have your email agreements and the language on the invoice, it might be a little less clear.
I would do the following:
1) Remove his name from the above post. It's very unprofessional to mention him by name, and since this is a dispute it could bring you some trouble.
2) Send him a letter, via registered mail, including your invoices and a SHORT statement indicating that you are due payment for the work that has been performed under your agreement.
3) Send him the same information on the same day, via email.
4) Wait 30 days, don't get suckered into any communications with him unless they are substantial and useful. Then, send the letter/email combination again.
5) Wait 30 days, don't get suckered into any communications with him unless they are substantial and useful. Then, send the letter/email combination again. This time, add that because the payment is so late your next step will be to file in small claims court including legal fees.
6) Then file it in small claims court.
There is no way that someone is hiring a lawyer for a $250 dispute. Just send the invoices, be very clear, and file it in small claims. Take the energy you are putting into this and put it into the next client!
Good advice. I did not mean to put his full name in the post, those sections were copied and pasted from the invoice. You are totally right about that. I don't see a link to edit the post. How do I do that?
Thanks for the quick reply.
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No problem, looks like Guido, did the name editing.
For future projects, always bill every month, no matter how small the amount. My gut feeling is that you surprised him with the size of the invoice and he may also not have remembered the many phone calls you had over that 4 months.
HTH, Jochen
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The victim reported that upon meeting with the males he exited his vehicle near the pavilion area. At this time, one of the males did pull out a gun and demanded victim's property. Victim reports that he was then pistol whipped and suspects took his vehicle, upon driving off, they shot at him. The victim was treated and released at an area hospital.
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Recently, I have done quite a bit of research about teaching English abroad. Right now I am trying to answer some fundamental questions that speak to my current situation so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California Santa Cruz in Business, but I want to try my hand at teaching English overseas to support myself during travels. I hear that the best way to find the highest paying jobs is to get certified to teach. I want to teach English in Germany and I know that this field can be quite competitive in Europe. I was interested in getting a certificate that is very widely accepted like the CELTA or Trinity's certTESOL, but I had a few questions first.
I don't know yet if I want to teach English as a career, but I can say that my goals, at this point, are to make a good wage and teach for 1-2 years, possibly more if I like it.
1. Is it a good idea to get a certificate like the CELTA even if I only plan on teaching 1-2 years. (I know this certificate is quite expensive).
2. Should I go to Germany (or out of the US) to get the certificate?
3. Does anybody know the average wage of English teachers in Germany? Also, does anyone know the average cost of living?
4. Are there any good taster courses or workshops that would help me decide whether teaching is right for me before I get certified?
Thank you for any insight or help you can provide.


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I have been regestered here for nearly a year now and realized that I have never made a formal introduction here. I'm Jason. I have been in the 501 for well over a year now. I have always had an affinity for clones. I am working on my third one. I have two EII clones and I am working on my Gree now. I would like to think that my work is up to par and I have a new project to research. I am currently in the reseach phase of a Jango Fett and Zam costume.
My girlfriend has since we met wanted to do a Zam. Since I love her so much, I figured there is only one costume I could do to compliment her. So with that said I am officially starting the reseach phase of my Jango. As always I am going high end on this. So, with that in mind any advice that you have minus time, patience, and money I would love to hear. Jango will be a completely new experience for me. I have been armor for a long time. A cloth based costume is going to be interesting.
How is sitting in this costume? How is the weight of the suit? visibility over all? Is it a black sheild of green one for the bucket? I will do my research, but I figured I may as well ask some simple q's to get myself started. Thanks again and I look forward to joining the ranks of some elite mandos here.


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Hi! I just recently found out about TEFL, CELTA, and anything related. Right now I'm in my first year in college (18 years old) on my way to major in japanese language, and eventually to become a teacher in that subject. However, I'm very curiouse about teaching english in a foreign land.
First off, should I continue college? I know college is always a good idea but I've seen stories from people who went directly with TEFL and are doing great. I already speak spanich, portuguese and english so thats a heads up.
Also, I have been at a website specifically for jobs in japan (http://www.eltnews.com/home.shtml) and from what Ive seen it looks liek a good way to go.
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The biggest reason why my boat is like this is because i want to have the appearance of a large cutter rig boat. I am going to be using small pulleys and everything to give sort of a scale effect. Of course i know that a small dingy with like 60ft2 would be practical for small lake use and the such. Over my past few years i have built plenty of plywood and stitch boats. starting with a Harley 8, then i build a pair of boats for my gf and I, then i built 2 PD racers (My avatar is the latest one) All of them were quick built, covered with cheap house paint and enjoyed for a summer before being recycled.
This boat is actually a senior design project for my college... as such it has to be "professional" and i have to make all sorts of calculations and reports and prove that i am not copying other ideas and all this jazz. That is why my goal has been to make a boat that is short enough to evade needing tagged and such (12' is the length at which boats need to be registered here) which is the reason for the 11.75~' length. The reason for the full keel and the push to make a very sturdy design even in such a small boat is that i mean to take it to a lake around here that is... just terribly shaped. It is a very long lake and it sits in a low valley. The wind that blows along it goes from tip to tip and the waves are known to be in the realm of 8' ad i know of a few stories of even large power boats being swamped by rogue waves. Of course these were caused by a sudden upcoming of a storm.
That being said, i am trying to design a small boat for my girlfriend and i, that from a distance looks like a beautiful, large, classic cutter. Along with that i wish for a very sturdy sailing boat (as much as i can gather with this length) and being able to turn around and such are of no importance to me as this boat will only be used for fun days out on the water. Speed is not important to me either, although i only expect a speed of like 4-5 knots tops out of it anyway. the reason for strip plank and opposed to plywood is Girlfriend is tired of flat boats... she wants a beautiful curve. We are fibreglassing the boat because we are tired of them deteriorating over time... we used house paint of the first boat to save money, and we varnished the one in my avatar quite a few times... but the varnish just didnt like being outside in the winter here so it is toast. Lastly, the reason of this boats design is that we do not wish to build another one for a while and i want to be sure that we love everything about this one. and a open hull dinghy looking thing is not something i am interested in ad i am unable to build a 40' cutter. So a 11.75' cutter it is to the best of my ability.
The front and back of the boat will both be solid air boxes, and the seats will also be sealed so that in the event of capsize the ship will stay on the water... this is one of my major methods of combating the potentially dangerous lake.
Anyway, this is a huge post.
Re: Question about sail area
The drawings look lovely, and the sailplan appears to be well-proportioned. I would question the need and desirablility of a cutter rig in a boat this small, however. If you're likely to be sailing on smaller lakes, you're also likely to have shifty winds and have to tack frequently. Having to tack two jibs can become old quite quickly - right about the time you have to tack again before you have the second jib fully trimmed.
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You're building a 12' boat. Why not build a 12' boat that performs much better all around and give it a flatter dinghy-type bottom and a fin keel? It's not like you're heading around Cape Horn. Design a good grid to spead the load and it will be plenty sturdy.
(I spent a lot of time and love on a full-keeled boat)
(If I was building a 12' boat I would stitch-and-glue plywood and get out sailing but maybe you're really into woodworking or want the experience)
Re: Question about sail area
Strip planking covered in fibreglass following instructions in "Building Strip-planked boats" by Nick Schade
Re: Question about sail area
How are you planning to build?
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Wow, that picture came in much bigger than expected. If you right click and click "view image" itll make it fit your screen better. Also, if you notice i followed some earlier advice and got the transom out of the water. And i smoothed the nose up a lot.
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Been doing lots of looking around and thinking about what i want the boat to be like. Ive decided to go with a much more classic looking hull shape and dropped the fin notion completely. After about 8 hours of work i ended up with this:
I am debating on whether or not i want to flair the waterline out wider or not.
But that aside i am now reworking where i should have my sails.. and how much i want. I am basing a lot of knowledge on existing boats which is leading me to many hours of looking at pictures.
Anyway, this is just my current progress. Ill chime in when ive made it further.
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Hey everyone, sorry for the late reply. I never got a notification of replies! Ive been doing some refining on the boat, and we want to build the keel as more of a full keel than a fin. So i will be extending that keel to the full back of the boat and making it a bit deeper. I know that fins thin and deep are much better for maneuverability and such, but i want a nice sturdy boat. The LOA is 11.5 due to laws in my area (we are striving to miss the criteria to register boats) also the boat is this small because i drive a 4cyl toyota truck. Much bigger and i doubt i can get over the mountain passes here!
The position of the keel in the above design is based on my understanding of the need to centre the keel on the centre of sail effort. This was a large push for my original post involving sail area. However, now that i am considering running the keel full back my large question now is... What is the difference between a keel that runs fully from front to back, and a keel that starts at about 1/3 back and continues all the way back? If i understand right, if all your sail area is forward of your keel resistance your boat will tend to steer downwind - not good in an overboard situation!
If you are doing a full keel does centre of keel really matter?
I cant submit images or links anymore, unsure why.
Again, sorry for late reply!
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Your rig looks OK to mme.
But I think your keel is too far forward and may result in too much weather helm. I would move the keel as far aft as possible.
Why do you have so much hollow in the bow? On a small boat like this I would give it a lot more deck beam forward. With that rig and keel the boat will not be close winded so why have such a fine entry? I'd push more volume into the bow.
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Chiko you are on the right track :-) I don't know if you realize how lucky you are to have gotten Bob interested, but I think he will have some very constructive suggestions.
I'll just give you my opinion on what you specifically mentioned: the boat in my avatar is my old boat, SA/D around 12-13, long shallow full keel. She was fun, and tracked great, but slow and hard to maneuver especially astern. I sold her and got a much more modern centerboarder with a planing hull and SA/D in the low 20s (depending on crew) - going fast is a blast. In a second I would tell you make the main/fore area as big as possible (and plan for reef points in the main), and go with as high-aspect-ratio and deep a keel (and rudder) as you possibly can.
Other notes: first, get your transom above the waterline a bit. You want a clean exit; what you have now will create a lot of drag. Second, it looks like your LOA is 12 feet, but you're adding a sprit. I don't know about your budget or planned construction methods, but if you can skip the sprit and bring the LOA up, there is no substitute for waterline.
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The Sarvodaya Movement in Sri Lanka, active in over 10,000 villages, is a living example of Engaged Buddhism. My 1985 book about Sarvodaya, called Dharma and Development, may be ordered through Kumarian Press. George Bond's Buddhist Social Change (2003) provides an up to date study of the movement. www.sarvodaya.org
- Description of the Movement
- Meditation That Can End a War
Adapted from World as Lover, World as Self and Joanna's memoir, Widening Circles
"We Build the Road and The Road Builds Us."
"Real development is not free trade zones and mammoth hydro-electric dams," the young trainer told us. "It's waking up to our own needs and our own power."
I was sitting in an open-walled classroom with two dozen Sri Lankan village workers, absorbing the principles of a movement that promised to revolutionize Third World development. "This awakening happens on different levels. It's personal and spiritual as well as economic and cultural. These aspects of our lives are all interdependent." I wished planners at the World Bank could hear him.
A Buddhist-inspired people's self-help movement, Sarvodaya Shramadana Sangamaya was the largest nongovernmental organization in Sri Lanka, active in several thousand villages. It modeled a different kind of development than that preached and promoted by the industrialized countries. I had encountered it three years earlier on a trip to South Asia while I was still at Syracuse. Throughout my graduate studies, I had sustained a strong interest in the potential for social change to be found in Asian religions, especially Buddhism. "Go talk to Ari," a community organizer in Bodh Gaya had advised me. He was referring to Sarvodaya's founder and president, A. T. Ariyaratne, a former high school teacher. "Some call him the Gandhi of Sri Lanka."
I did as I was told, and on that same trip in 1976, I flew to Sri Lanka.
When I walked into Ariyaratne's crowded little office in the Sarvodaya complex outside Colombo, it took me no more than two minutes to know that I wanted to stay and learn from his movement. For in this voluble, diminutive dynamo I found a scholar-activist who took the social teachings of the Buddha seriously and dared to believe that they could inspire change in the modern world. He had banked his life on that conviction, drawing from ancient tradition to empower what he called "the poorest of the poor."
When I completed my dissertation two years later in 1978, Ari invited me to come live with Sarvodaya for a year and study how it worked. And so, as soon as Peggy graduated from high school, I took off. I came equipped with a typewriter. A modest grant from the Ford Foundation, and half a year's instruction in Sinhalese from kind monks at the Washington Buddhist Vihara.
From Sanskrit, Gandhi had coined the term sarvodaya, meaning the "uplift of all." Ari brought it to Buddhist Sri Lanka and recast it in terms of awakening. That's what the Buddha did under the bodhi tree. He woke up. And that is what we all can do--awaken to our innate wisdom and power to act. Ari added the word shramadana, "gift of labor," so the movement's full name means, in effect, "everyone wakes up by working together." I listened with growing excitement. Here was the "liberation Buddhism" that I had imagined might be realized some day, with luck and the blessings of all bodhisattvas.
My fascination with the shramadanas grew. From the start, these village work camps had constituted the movement?s central organizing strategy. When Ari was still teaching high school, he heard about church-sponsored work camps in postwar Europe. He immediately saw how that practice could fit with the Buddha Dharma and how it could generate self-reliance and solidarity. But he didn't say, "Here's a great idea from the West, let's adopt it and imitate it." He said, "Let's draw from our own traditions and our own strengths." Using the word Gandhi had coined for the maintenance of his ashram and the cleaning of its latrines--shramadana, gift of labor--Ari took the concept much further.
Sarvodaya's slogan was "We build the road and the road builds us." The process started early. A movement organizer would invite villagers to gather, perhaps in their temple's preaching hall, to discuss their needs and to deliberate on the choice of a project. Should they first dig some public latrines, or clear the weed-choked irrigation canal, or open a short-cut to the nearest be route? Then they considered where tools would be found and who would do what. This process was slow, involving more and more people, from elders to children. By the time the actual shramadana began, a good part of its purpose--to get the community working together--had already been achieved.
Teenagers were lugging out car batteries and hanging loud speaker's from the trees when I arrived at my first road-building shramadana. "You can't work without music!" they informed me. Huge cooking pots appeared as well, along with baskets of the food that the children had collected from every household. Older women scolded and laughed as they cleaned the rice, chopped pumpkin, and scraped coconut for curries. I joined one of the eight work teams, and we counted off to see who would be our leader for the first shift. The lot fell to a thirteen-year-old who made sure we each got a mamoty--a heavy Dutch hoe--and led us to our work site.
Much of my research entailed interviewing Sarvodaya monks, for the more progressive ones offered vivid examples of the role that clergy can play in social change. They opened their temple precincts to Sarvodaya preschools and literacy and sewing classes. They drew from old Dharma stories to teach courage and self-respect. They used their status to draw villagers together in "family gatherings," recruited school drop-outs to help organize shramadanas, and encouraged the young women and girls to take part. By their very presence they stilled any disapproving gossip about village daughters mixing with boys. My hunger for these lessons was insatiable.
As I called on these monks and we spoke of village plans and scripture passages, what I loved most was the scent of courage. I never heard a word of complaint from Sarvodaya monks, but I began to realize the price they paid for engaging in community development work. It was more than the time it took, added on to hours of puja, temple care, and pastoral duties. It was more than the physical exertions involved: leaving the tranquil comforts of the temple for the wattle and daub shacks of the poorest families, or suffering the brain-addling sun of a shramadana, or trying to navigate the daunting bureaucratic labyrinths of government. The harshest cost was in reputation and prestige. One was not applauded by the larger, traditional Sangha, nor by the larger, conservative laity. On ' the contrary. The forest-dwelling monks in meditative retreat and the scholarly ones in their libraries received the most reverence. Their kind of renunciation did not rock the boat. When I had the nerve to raise the topic outright, the Sarvodaya monks responded with a calm yes. "Yes, that is true, by engaging in social change work we lose some measure of respect, we are considered a lesser kind of monk. It doesn't matter. It makes no difference."
Sarvodaya amidst Civil War
Ethnic conflict between Hindu Tamils, residing largely in the North and East, and the majority Buddhist Sinhalese erupted into civil war in 1983, a bloodletting that lasted 19 years. Sick at heart, I wondered for years how the violence and polarization was affecting Sarvodaya. Returning for short visits, I found the Movement heavily engaged in relief and rehabilitation work, along with occasional marches for peace. Its most distinctive contribution to easing hostilities lies, I soon realized, in the way it embodies the tolerance and nonviolence the Buddha taught, and his rejection of dogmatism. This stands in sharp contrast to the nationalism and anti-Tamil chauvinism displayed by powerful elements within Buddhist clergy.
Today in Sri Lanka Sarvodaya plays a critical role in modeling an understanding of the Dharma that is consonant with a pluralistic society. At a time when the Buddhist majority often finds itself in a narrowly defensive posture, acting as if Sri Lanka were by right a Buddhist Sinhalese state, Sarvodaya demonstrates the tolerance and respect for diversity that is integral to the Buddha's teachings. To Gautama, the notion of possessing an absolute truth or exclusive historical privileges was a dangerous delusion, leading to attachment, aversion and suffering. Hence, the inclusivity he taught, which Sarvodaya exemplified from the outset by engaging with people of all faiths and ethnicities. So the Movement can offer to the Sri Lankan Buddhist majority a way of being true to the Dharma while working actively for the needs and rights of all, and not falling prey to Buddhist nationalism.
Article appearing in Inquiring Mind, 2002
When I heard about the plan to bring a half million people together for a peace meditation, I dropped everything and traveled to Sri Lanka to participate. I didn't only go to show solidarity with my beloved Sarvodaya movement, but also for myself. Because of the ongoing violence in the world, including my country's "war on terrorism," I longed to see a saner dimension of the human spirit. I needed a hit of peace just like I need oxygen.
I was first introduced to Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya movement during a visit to Sri Lanka, twenty-six years ago. Ariyaratne, or "Ari" as he is called by his friends overseas, had worked in India with Vinoba Bhave and other Gandhians, and in 1958 started a movement in Sri Lanka which he named "Sarvodaya." Gandhi had used the term to mean the uplift of all, but Ari added a distinctly Buddhist flavor to the name, using sarvodaya to denote the awakening of all, as well as the awakening of the whole person: "sarva-udaya". As I saw how this movement was applying the Buddha's teachings to social and economic situations, I was deeply inspired.
In 1979 and 1980, I spent a year with Sarvodaya as a participant/observer, and went through trainings for village workers. Eventually I wrote a book about the movement, entitled Dharma and Development. Over the years, my connection with Sarvodaya has been a river of blessings in my life. The many lessons it taught me about dharma and service include: trust the intelligence of people; enlist the young; and give everyone a chance to experience their innate generosity, or dana.
Shortly after my year with Sarvodaya, the Sri Lankan civil war erupted on a major scale. The Hindu Tamils in the north and the Buddhist Sinhalese in the central and southern regions had inherited divisions and animosities fostered by the British colonial administration. Extremists on both sides took hold--the right-wing Buddhists in the councils of government and the separatist Tamil Tigers in their rebel strongholds. The spiraling violence of military offenses and suicide bombers cost 65,000 lives, traumatized a whole generation, and wrecked the Sri Lankan economy.
Sarvodaya, which had worked with both sides of the civil war, ran refugee camps and restoration and rehabilitation projects. A couple of years ago, when hopes for a peace were at a nadir, Ari decided to emphasize what he called "changing the psycho-sphere:" he started organizing peace meditations. When my husband and I visited Sri Lanka in the winter of 2001, the first of these had just been held in Colombo, drawing 170,000 people to meditate for peace, and others were held around the country as well.
Last December, the "psycho-sphere" had changed enough to allow Ranil Wickremesinghe to be elected prime minister with a mandate to negotiate peace. By February, a cease-fire between the government and the Tamil Tigers was brokered by the Norwegians. Immediately thereafter, in order to give the cease fire a solid chance, Sarvodaya announced a mega-peace meditation, "Maha Shanti Samadhi Day." It called for a gathering of half a million people at Anuradhapura, the sacred royal city located toward the north of the island, near the areas of the worst fighting.
I arrived at Anuradhapura on the day of the meditation. The sacred site, probably half a mile in diameter, contains several great stupas and the world's most ancient bodhi tree, grown from a cutting taken from the tree that sheltered the Buddha during his enlightenment, brought to Sri Lanka by King Ashoka's daughter, Sakyaditta. When I got there, people were streaming in from all directions. In the tradition of these events, everyone was dressed in white and moving in silence. They had arrived from all over the country on foot and on trains, bicycles, and, according to one person's count, four thousand buses.
Young Sarvodayans had put up scores of loudspeakers in the trees, and I was wondering whether they were going to play Buddhist or Hindu music. What I heard coming over the speakers was Kitaro's "Silk Road;" it created an ambiance of sacred adventuring across vast expanses for the well-being of all.
The meditation ceremony took place at 3 PM. Members of the clergy of all the religions of Sri Lanka were gathered on a platform, and each said a few words. In front of them on a slightly lower stage, surrounded by flowers, was Ari. After the spoken prayers, he began to lead us all in anapanasati, mindfulness of breathing in and breathing out. The silence was the most exquisite sound I've ever heard. It was the sound of a half million people--actually it turned out to be 650,000 people-- being quiet together, in the biggest meditation ever held on planet Earth. I said to myself, "This is the sound of bombs not exploding, of land mines not going off, of machine guns not firing. This is possible." That is what I went to Sri Lanka to hear.
After a period of anapanasati, Ari led a metta meditation, guiding us into lovingkindness. This was followed by a practice that I always associate with Ari, not having learned it from anyone else. It is adhisthana, or "settling into firm resolve." He does this practice every morning, making the firm resolve to establish peace.
What moved me the most of all was a ceremony held just before the massive meditation itself. In the sacred compound around the bodhi tree, a smaller group of 50 to 100 gathered to inaugurate the village-to-village "link-up" program Sarvodaya is organizing. A thousand villages selected from the Tamil area are paired, one to one, with a thousand villages in the Sinhalese area; people from the latter, less devastated villages will go to the villages in the more devastated areas and help them rebuild. I heard about one village that had received advance notice of this link-up program, and overnight had loaded two lorries with roofing materials and were ready to go.
There is an ancient bell in the bodhi tree compound, and at one o'clock the presiding monk rang it to inaugurate this link-up program; at that precise moment bells were rung all over Sri Lanka. Then young people came forward dressed in white. They had been chosen from two of the villages that were linked up, one Tamil and one Sinhalese, and each group carried a tray of specially prepared food. With the food they brought there, they fed each other; then the food was passed around and we all took some. I cry every time I remember this moment. I still imagine that I can taste that sweet coconut and rice, because I knew for certain as I ate it that what we want most is not to blow each other up, but to feed each other.
I want you to know that the peace meditations and the link-up program are both part of a larger Sarvodaya vision called "The 500-Year Peace Plan." When I heard about this 500 year plan and how serious the Sarvodayans are about it, I could actually feel a sense of release in my chest. I suddenly realized, "Oh, of course. We don't have to do it all in one year, or even one lifetime." This 500-year peace plan acknowledges the long, hard path to true peace and sets forth the concrete steps along that path.
One of the first steps is to publicize the plan, and then to conduct a variety of peace activities throughout the country, including amity camps, community dialogues, and inter-religious gatherings. These will set the intention. After five years a plan for the economic development of the poorest parts of the country should be in full operation. After putting down the guns you must find ways to alleviate poverty, irrigate the dry land and provide people with jobs--or else the causes of war will persist.
The peace plan document envisions that in five years, the former armed youth of both the government and the Tigers will be active participants in a nation-wide reconstruction and reawakening program. In ten years, all refugees will be resettled. In fifty years, Sri Lanka will abolish its standing military army and start a peace army of non-violent volunteers trained in conflict resolution. In one hundred years, Sri Lanka will become "the first country to totally eliminate poverty, both economic and spiritual"--and "the main destination for spiritual tourists looking to experience peace and serenity."
In 2500 A.D., the document says, "global warming may cause changes to the Sri Lankan environment; however, because of the people's history of working together over hundreds of years, these changes will not be disastrous." The Sarvodaya Peace Plan concludes with the words, "In 500 years, people might be living on other planets; however, Sri Lanka will remain their image of paradise on Earth."


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Dear TWiPers,
I just finished listening to the superb Twip #56 and I am thrilled because I am a huge fish nerd. In fact I spent much of my youth catching and chasing fish on the same lovely New Jersey barrier island mentioned in that episode. In my enthusiasm, I wanted to write in with a few thoughts.
The first is nit-picking, but the gar discussed around the 13:00 minute mark is more likely a specimen of Atlantic Needlefish, Strongylura marina, than a member of the "true gar" family Lepisosteidae. Like members of Lepisosteidae, needlefish have elongated, tubular body plans, and are sometimes referred to in common usage as gar. Needlefish often spend time at the surface, but do not gulp air in the cool way fish such as the Florida Gar do. This mix-up might explain Dickson's surprise at hearing about gar so far north.
As an aside, I might add that I have heard that --if presented with a fly small enough to fit in their diminutive mouth--needlefish make for wonderful sport fish. I myself have caught a needlefish on Barnegat Bay, although not in the manner one might think. I spend my free time sailing a catamaran around the bay. On one windy day I had the rude surprise of a large needlefish jumping out of the water and landing in my boat! My crew and I were as shocked as the fish! It was a memorable experience; particularly because, like many angry fish, the needlefish displayed a heightened, more vibrant coloration than I usually get to see. The fish was promptly returned to the water and I was left relieved that I hadn't been added to the list of people who have been impaled by needlefish (http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jul/30/ln/507300340.html).
In the spirit of "This Week in Fish" I would like to suggest "The Founding Fish" by John McPhee as a pick of the week. The book is a wonderful examination of everything Shad, written by a wonderfully gifted writer. I'm picking it because Twip #56 included a question about shad's tastiness. As the book points out, the species name of the American Shad, Alosa sapidissima translates to "most delicious". I am salivating just thinking about a meal of baked shad, perhaps with a side of Atlantic blue crab, whose species name also derives from sapidus the Latin word for savory.
As always, much thanks for all the work that goes into the TWiX podcasts. I am about to leave on a road trip across the US in order to start grad school for biology, and I am looking forward to having tales of viruses, microbes, and parasites keep me company along the way.
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First of all, thank you for producing such fascinating podcasts! I got interested in parasites when I read Carl Zimmer's book - I've just discovered TWiP, through Professor Racaniello's course on Coursera, and I intend to try and listen to them all!
I've just got one question so far: is the cover photo for the page of Trichinella?
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I enjoy your show although parasites are not related in any way to what I do for a living.
You have mentioned the death of the S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 crew in a couple of TWIPs including in episode 60 and how they probably died of Trichinosis from eating polar bear.
I was fascinated by this and repeated it a couple of times to friends, but when I was looking for details I came across this entry in Wikipedia which says this theory was "discredited in 2010." The cited links are in Swedish and one appears to be broken at this time. The other one is very brief but using google translate it says they think it was polar bears instead. Obviously anyone can put whatever they want on the internet, but I wonder what your thoughts are on this?
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Dear Vincent and Dickson,
Just a note about something that Dickson mentioned in TWiP 60, I am sure Dickson realised that he simply misspoke after it went on air, but the digenean responsible for the "Barber Pole Effect" - Leucochloridium paradoxum - is not a schistosome but belongs to the Leucochloriidae family which is on an entirely different branch of the digenean/fluke tree to the schistomes.
There are many different species of Leucochloridium and they come in different colours. For example Leucochloridium paradoxum have green bands or red-brown bands on its sporocyst brood sac (the structure which invades the tentacles of the infected snail) whereas Leucochloridium millsi has yellow or orange-yellow bands. A good paper on this topic can be found below.
Kagan, I. G. (1951). Aspects in the life history of Neoleucochloridium problematicum (Magath, 1920) new comb. and Leucochloridium cyanocittae McIntosh, 1932 (Trematoda: Brachylaemidae). Transactions of the American Microscopical Society, 70(4), 281-318.
Additionally, there is some indication that the behaviour of the snail is altered, as noted by Carl Wesenberg-Lund in this paper below.
Wesenburg-Lund, C. (1931). Contributions to the development of the Trematoda Digenea. I. The biology of Leucochloridium paradoxum. Memoires de l'Academie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark, Copenhague, section des sciences 4, 90-142.
It was cited in Janice Moore's 2002 book "Parasites and the behaviour of animals". Wesenburg-Lund noted that "It seems as if the infested snail seek the light; they are very often see balancing on the borders of the leaves, or sitting on the underside of the leaves with only the antenna infested with the Leucochloridium protruding from the border
of the leaves..."
Now compare this with the behaviour of most terrestrial snails which prefer more damp and secluded surrounding. Such altered behaviour would expose the snail (and it brightly coloured parasite) to predation by the potential bird host.
As a side note, here is a link to a cartoon I drew about Leucochloridium a few years ago
It contains a pop culture reference, which might not be obvious to everyone, though most people below a certain age would immediately recognise it. For the listener who cannot see the imagine, it is a reference to the 2003 song "Milkshake" by Kelis.
Keep up the good work Vincent and Dickson, I look forward to more parasite tales from you in the future.
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'Tain't just mice that have adverse behavioural outcomes with Toxoplasma.
Should humans attacked or killed by big cats be checked for Toxoplasmosis?
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1) The grease I indicated in the first post, is used in the well and lubes both the upper shaft and the stator as it advances and retards with vacuum?
2) Why does the bottom of the shaft with the oil galley passage have two different sizes? See pic.
3) The vacuum advance cans are different between the two distributors.
4) Another difference between the two are the mechanical advance plates/arms/whatever you call them. One is an "X" (rusty one on left) and the other is an "I" (clean one on the right, see pic. Anything I need to know here? It appears there is no place to put the plastic sliders for the weights on the "I" version.
5) Should I lube the shafts for the advance weights or will that just collect and trap slag and dust?
The distributor shaft that has the gear on it is lubricated at the top by grease packed into the cavity below the plastic disc- if it has a plastic disc, that is.
On some distributors the felt went on top of the grease, others had the felt on top of the plastic disc. The felt lubes the pick up coil/mechanical advance plate assemblies, not the shaft w/the gear. BTW, what I'm calling the pick up coil is the part w/the vacuum advance arm attached to it, sometimes it's referred to as a stator/reluctor. The mechanical advance plate has the pins that the weights and cam attach to. Neither one of these has access to the grease in the well or cavity below the plastic disc or felt, or both.
The grease you show should be fine. In the past I've used a lithium type grease. Wheel bearing grease (non melting) isn't a good choice- you want something that will flow when it's hot, but not be too runny. But whatever you use be sure the small feed holes to the shaft are unobstructed. They tend to clog up w/old, hard grease and always need to be cleaned out on used distributors it seems.
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Earlier this week several websites discovered General Motors' 2014 VIN cards. Housed within the document are all of the theoretical combinations of engines, assembly plants and other details for many 2014 products, including the Buick Verano. According to the Verano's VIN card, for 2014 the small Buick will swap out its base Ecotec 2.4-liter in favor a new 1.6-liter turbo engine.
Wearing the RPO code (internal codes at GM) of LVP, the engine is listed as a turbocharged 1.6-liter four-cylinder with variable valve timing and direct fuel injection. The 1.6-liter displacement is nothing new at GM as the company's European operations have utilized Ecotec 1.6-liters for several years, and GMI has confirmed in the past that this displacement would arrive in North America in the future.
In Europe the 1.6-liter turbo generates about 192 horsepower and 170 foot-pounds of torque. Assuming the engine would generate similar figures in the Verano, the 1.6-liter turbo would be an extremely viable replacement for today's 2.4-liter, which generates 180 horsepower and 171 foot-pounds of torque. Factoring in that the turbo mill generates nearly all of its torque at around 1,900 rpm, and the 1.6-liter quickly becomes an obvious good pick for the Verano.
The 2.4-liter in today's Verano received mixed reviews with the small Buick launched last year. While the power of this mill moves the portly Verano decently, the car has caught flak from journalists for its modest fuel economy ratings, which are 21/31 for city and highway, respectively.
In the past next year's VIN cards have not served as sources of new information, however we can authenticate that the cards themselves are legitimate as they are housed on a GM-owned domain. The question at this point is if someone just put the wrong engine on the Verano's VIN card, or if the car really is getting a new engine that no one really knew about.
No other significant changes are expected on the 2014 Verano at this time. The car will also retain its recently-added 2.0-liter turbo for higher end trim options.


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U.S. District Court Judge Dan Aaron Polster says he's mindful that their immediate detention could leave a number of very young children without parents.
But Polster also said in a ruling Monday that all defendants should be prepared to be taken into custody in late January if he imposes a prison sentence.
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Easily readable and packed with good information, 'Positivity' is important for those who want a step-by-step approach to a flourishing life.
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A bit ironic that I'm saying negative things on a book about positivity, but oh well..
The content of the book is overall ok and gets better towards the end. I think it could be a lot shorter as the author sometimes goes into examples that take too long and are not always as applicable to the point she's trying to make as I would like. Other books based on scientific studies (such as Dan Ariely's) also present studies but in a much clearer and funnier way, which helps us readers enjoy and remember more.
Also the narrator seems like she's reading a fairy tale.
I stuck through the whole thing and learned a few things, but overall it wasn't a ver good experience, in my opinion.
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I found the writing style and narrator a bit difficult to stomach at times. I was able to look beyond what I found objectionable and extract some good information, however. This is how I have approached many (if not all) of the self-help books I have read over the years and it has proven to work for me. If you begin this book and think to yourself "Ug! I can't take several hours of this!", try to listen for the nuggets of wisdom/good info. They are in there!
A must to listen or read. This book can change your life for the better. When life gets tough, this book can be a powerful tool to help you deal with life's struggles.
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I loved the information covered in this book and the author's outlook. Very uplifting and doable, and...POSITIVE!!
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I would recommend this book most definitely. I can't say I am magically more positive, but I know the steps to take and the importance of taking them when I am ready to change. The content was great, the anecdotes were applicable, but had I listened on regular time, I don't think I would have had the same opinion. Speed it up!
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Gave me a lot to think about and do. Really appreciate the overall approach. I can see cultivating a number of habits to help my life flourish.
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I've read the book and wanted to listen to it to review some of the concepts.
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|ON this day one year ago was the mishap.. The local news was all over the issue once again. EVERY, report completely downplayed the Duck "captain's" actions. The frigging idiot dropped anchor and text his girlfriend! In an active shipping channel! Sorry, I just don't feel that because the tug and barge are WAY BIGGER that they should bear the blame alone.
I had a similar thing happen a couple of weeks ago. I was motoring toward southwest past Ft. Mifflin just upriver from 3F, outside the channel but approaching a bulkhead on the Philly side. A large tanker was stationary in the anchorage area across the channel near Riverwinds, but he was pointed toward the Philly side with a tug behind him. I paused for a few seconds to see if he was doing anything, but both visual observation and AIS told me he wasn't moving. So I proceeded past as quickly as I could motor. After I was past the AIS showed them speeding up, and they moved toward the dock and ultimately tied up there. I should have been more aggressive about making radio contact, especially since I knew the tug's name (its name was obscured by the tanker, but AIS showed me the name). If I knew that's where he was heading I would have gladly steered behind them. But for all I knew, the tug could have been intending to back away from the boat and I would have been in the way if I steered behind him.
Yesterday we were tacking downriver against the current in the same area. One of those big white Del Monte freighters was heading downriver in the channel. I ran out of room and had to tack toward the channel. Having resolved to be more assertive with the radio, I wanted to contact the guy to let him know that I saw him and would stay out of his way by coming about before I reached the channel. But instead of sending a general call to him, I selected his vessel on the AIS list and attempted to place a DSC call to him on Ch13. However, he did not acknowledge the call. In the minutes that I waited for him to acknowledge I was almost to the point where I wanted to tack anyway, so I gave up on calling him and just came about to get out of his way.
By the way, for those who think the lack of acknowledgment might have been a bad antenna connection, that's always possible, but I have placed DSC test calls to boats before (nonverbal digital tests), with about 50% success at getting an acknowledgement. My owners manual says that the failures were likely boats whose radios were not configured to automatically acknowledge test calls.
Despite the frustration of not getting a DSC call answered, I am absolutely thrilled with the new AIS radio. I get really clear data on what boats are coming my way (long before I can make visual ID). Often these are boats that are "sneaking up behind me." More importantly, I get very good predictions of how much time I have to get out of their way (the chartplotter program shows me 5 minute vectors for my boat and theirs), and can make decisions with much more confidence that I will avoid a collision.
When near a shipping lane or other heavy traffic area a few minutes laps in a visual watch can end your life.
This was last Sunday midday. I was sailing down river under main only, 5kn breeze not enough for good headsail control with boat wakes, between the shipping lane and the PA bulkhead up river from the Commodore Barry Bridge.
A container ship with tugs came up river under the bridge, about a minute later I could see that it was a Banacol ship and I had just passed the Banacol terminal on the PA side.
Black smoke from one of the tugs suggested they had commenced to move the ship toward the PA bulkead. It was obvious I was close to the area they needed for the turn.
Dropped my outboard back in the water (in while sailing gives me maybe 1/4 kn drag), started and began my turn away from them and down river. By this time I was directly between the ship and the PA bulkhead just down river from the Banacol dock.
More black smoke from the tug. I suspect but don't know for sure, they had planned to exit the shipping lane down river from the facility, but changed to exit up river from the facility to avoid my slow moving sail boat.
The ship and tug exited the shipping lane up river from Green E1, I moved out into the shipping lane and motored up river. The ship and tugs used the entire width between shipping lane and bulkhead to turn and come alongside the PA bulkhead.
Then I exited the shipping lane as a Mearsk ship round the bend down river from Little Tinicum Island.
The ship and tugs maintained a good watch, I was under motor as soon as I could see that they would leave the shipping lane in my direction.
But could'a, would'a, should'a, gave them a call on 13 or 16 to let them know what my plan was.
Last year I stayed for a time in a condo on the pier just below the Maritime museum and the square-rigger "Moshulu" (condo is where you see "Chart House" on the ariel view link in above post). The downbound ships passed *really close* to the end of that pier, say about 150 feet.
So the issue isn't staying out of the traffic because that may be impossible--it's lookout, lookout, lookout. And cell phones, computers (other than live e-chart ones) texting, twitting, are all incompatible with "standing a watch".
"Every vessel shat at all times maintain a proper look-out by sight and hearing as well as by all available means appropriate.."
So please, hang up and friggin' navigate. the stakes are too high.
Oh, one other thing:
"The Coast Guard changed its rules to require ducks to stay within 300 feet of the Philadelphia shore, instead of 1,000 feet. Sumwalt said that change kept the ducks from moving to the relative safety of the Camden shore; instead, they had to stay in the shipping channel..."
This was exactly my point in my April 19 post - just look at the chart I showed. It seems obvious that it would have been safer to quickly cross the narrow channel than to stay in it for their entire tour south along the Penns Landing area. I had noticed that issue a couple years ago when I did the tour with my son's 6th grade class.
As I said in that message, their new rule since restarting operations in April is that they need to stay within 100 feet of shore. I'm not sure if "shore" is defined as the end of the boat ramp, or the end of the Race Street "Pier" (which is actually a seawall filled in with dirt, so it could be considered "shore"). If the former, that would be safer because they would not even get to the channel, but there's absolutely nothing that any tourist would want to see there. It's like launching a boat on a trailer ramp and not even getting out of the fairway.
Click here for a satellite pic of the area. You can see the Duck's boat ramp between the pier and the bridge.
Looks like they've moved the offending tug out of the Philly area:
Daily Vessel's Itineraries - AIS Marine Traffic
She apparently hangs out around Charleston, SC these days.
NTSB report places blame on mate of tug boat not keeping proper watch due to distraction of cell phone and computer.
NTSB blames distracted operators in Ride the Ducks accident | Philadelphia Inquirer | 06/22/2011
After trying, and failing, to move to the Schuylkill River, the Duck Boats will return to Delaware River in a couple of days. They are shortening their time in the water, putting a permanent lookout on the pier where they enter, and must have a high speed rescue/tow boat available. All of this is because they will still enter the water right into a busy shipping channel (no way to avoid that on the Philly side of the river), which is a very sub-optimal situation:
I'll have to wait to see what their full route is, but this article says they will stay within 100 feet of shore - which means they'll be right in the shipping channel the whole time. It seems to me it would be much safer to just proceed across the channel as quickly as possible (upon clearance from their lookout), and head down the river outside the channel.
Cleaned the carb, cleaned and greased the linkages, reset the idle. The outboard starts after second pull and runs well. But it has tendency to jump out of reverse at he wrong time.
Not a problem if I time my return to the slip at slack or flood tide. At ebb I will be coming into the slip at more than 2 to 4 knots.
Unfortunatley for my sailing but good for my wallet, work has picked-up so less time on water. I will be able to afford installing a new inboard this winter.
Back to topic, I have been on both ends of the pointy stick when it come to lawyers, but I am glad I had one fighting for me. Just hope the crew of both vessels don't get made the scape-goat for company policy, and have good lawyers.
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I agree in general with your views of the bottom of the food chain lawyer, but we do need them every now and again to fight for victims rights and prevent future victims.
After the Tropicana parking lot collapse during construction, engineering inspections are now performed before formwork and temporary supports are remove.
After the Pier 34 collapse, the City of Philadlephia now requires more frequent engineering inspections and reports to the city for all the piers.
Maybe after this incident the tug-barge crews on watch will be increased from 2 to 3 so that a crew member will be on the barge, and stricter controls for commercial passenger craft in the shipping channel.
Sometimes it takes the potential for a major financial hit to change the way things are done.
BTW, we saw your boat in its slip on the way in yesterday evening. We're headed out again tonight - the breezes out on the river make the heat a little more tolerable. Is your motor working better?
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by detteam, Jun 29, 2009.
Who would you like to see in a Piston uniform in Nov?
Hey, where's the poll?
R. Stuckey / B. Gordon / M. Williams / C. Villanueva / C. Kaman W. Bynum / A. Afflalo / A. Daye / J. Maxiell / K. Brown Or something like that. Not great, but competitive and young.
The cap space will help us come July 1st! Also: R. Stuckey / Rip Hamilton / Turk / David Lee / K. Brown W. Bynum / B. Gordon / A. Daye / J. Maxiell / McDyess
The front court pieces I'd like to see are Okafor, Kaman & Marvin Williams I'd like to move Rip, Jmax, picks (current or future) and cap room to make it happen C- Kaman, Kwame, Okafor PF- Oak, Marvin Williams, Summers/Jarabko (or whatever his name is) SF- Marvin Williams, Tay, Twiggy SG- Tay, Afflalo, Stuckey PG- Stuck, Bynum, Rufus What I like about this lineup is the length mismatches. Standing reach (height=overrated): Kaman 9' 2.5" Okafor 9' 2.5" Marvin Willaims 9' 2" Tay 9' 1" Stuckey 8' 4.5" btw Daye is 9' 2" If we realisticlly have sufficient pieces to make this possible could be debatable.
What is his reach when he is lying down?
lol, hard to tell cause he's covering his essentials.
I actually like the looks of this squad......young, energetic and hungry. The only spot I'm not sold on is Kaman at center. He seems too slow to keep up but maybe I just haven't seen him play enough (that, and he's a Chip........Go Broncos!)
Well, looks like one of that starting 5 will be available and he showed a lot of improvement last season. Milwaukee Bucks make offer to Ramon Sessions but not Charlie Villanueva - ESPN
If we trade Capp Spayce we can get Branew Rosta. I think that should be our goal. (Funny thread).
All of the above!
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Hmm, how can I explain my relationship with my baking trays without sounding like a crazy person?
I just feel like…they're my best friends of the kitchen.
You know, I see them almost every day and they're always there to help me with anything I need. Making chocolate bark? Line with baking paper and smooth melted chocolate over one. Cookies? Obviously, they're the one for the job. Granola, salt and vinegar potatoes, roasting veggies…a baking tray is my partner in crime.
I kind of want to sing the Golden Girls theme song now…but I won't. That would be legit crazy.
Roasted vegetable ratatouille is a slightly less saucy version of my stove-top favorite but with a way simpler approach. All you need to do is oil up your veg and bake it on our favorite BTs. I made some rosemary croutons to take the whole thing into roasted summer vegetable panzanella territory.
Serve it up on its own or as a side.
Roasted Vegetable Ratatouille with Rosemary Croutons
Ratatouille recipe adapted from Fine Cooking
(serves 4 as a side)
– 1 medium eggplant, cut into 1 inch/2.5 cm cubes
– 1 large red pepper, cut into 1 inch/2.5 cm pieces
– 1-2 medium zucchini, cut into half moons 1/2 inch/1 cm thick
– 1 medium red onion cut into large chunks
– 1 tablespoon chopped fresh rosemary
– 8 cherry tomatoes cut in half
– 6-8 cloves of garlic still in their skins
– 4 tablespoons of olive oil, divided
– salt
Preheat oven to 400 F/205 C
Combine eggplant, red pepper, zucchini, onion and rosemary together in a large bowl. Toss with 3 tablespoons of olive oil, marking sure everything is coated well. Spread the vegetables out on a large baking tray and sprinkle with salt.
On another baking tray, spread out tomatoes and cloves of garlic tossed with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and a pinch of salt.
Place baking trays on separate oven racks.
Cook the tomatoes for 25-30 minutes rotating and stirring once halfway. Remove from the oven and set aside.
Let the other vegetables cook for about 40-45 minutes (stirring and rotating the baking tray once or twice.) Let these vegetables cool for about 5 minutes.
Remove garlic cloves from their casings and chop them into smaller pieces.
Combine all the vegetables, tomatoes and garlic in a big bowl and mix well to distribute the garlic. Top with croutons to serve. (Can be served warm, at room temperature or cold.)
Rosemary Croutons
– 1 cup of 1 inch/2.5 cm cubes of stale bread (I used sourdough baguette)
– 2 tablespoons olive oil, divided
– 1 teaspoon chopped fresh rosemary
Toss bread with 1 tablespoon olive oil and rosemary. Heat remaining olive oil in a large pan over a medium high heat. Add the bread and cook, turning the pieces of bread over a couple of times, until all sides are golden. About 5 minutes.


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