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Take courage, it is I; do not be afraid.
The Gospel for Sunday, August 10, 2008
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Matthew 14:22-33
The passage from Matthew's Gospel… takes us to the Lake of Gennesaret. The Apostles had entered the boat to go before Jesus to the other side. And it came to pass that as they rowed in the chosen direction they saw Jesus walking on the lake. Christ was walking on the water as though it were solid ground. The Apostles were afraid, thinking it was a ghost. Jesus, hearing their cry, spoke: "Take heart, it is I; have no fear" (Mt 14:27). And then Peter said: "Lord if it is you, bid me come to you on the water". And Jesus answered, "Come!" (Mt 14:28-29). So Peter stepped out of the boat and began to walk on the water. He was just about to come to Christ when there was a strong gust of wind and he became afraid. As he began to sink he called out: "Lord, save me!" (Mt 14:30). Then Jesus reached out his hand, caught him and kept him from sinking and said: "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" (Mt 14:31).
This Gospel event is full of profound meaning. It concerns the most important problem of human life, faith in Jesus Christ. Peter certainly had faith, as he later magnificently showed in the region near Caesarea Philippi, but at that moment his faith was not yet solid. When the wind began to blow more strongly Peter began to sink, because he had doubted. It was not the wind that made Peter sink into the lake but the insufficiency of his faith. Peter's faith had lacked one essential element—complete abandonment to Christ, total trust in him at the moment of great trial; he lacked unreserved hope in him. Faith and hope, together with love, constitute the foundation of the Christian life, the cornerstone of which is Jesus Christ.
In Jesus' death on the Cross and in his Resurrection from the tomb God's love for man and for the world was fully revealed. Jesus is the only way to the Father, the only way that leads to truth and life (cf. Jn 14:6). This message which the Church ever since the beginning has proclaimed to all men and all nations was proclaimed anew to our generation by the Second Vatican Council. Allow me to quote a brief passage from the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World, Gaudium et Spes: "The Church believes that Christ, who died and was raised up for all, and can through his Spirit offer man the light and the strength to measure up to his supreme destiny. Nor has any other name under heaven been given to man by which it is fitting for him to be saved. She likewise holds that in her most benign Lord and Master can be found the key, the focal point, and the goal of all human history. The Church also maintains that beneath all changes there are many realities which do not change and which have their ultimate foundation in Christ, who is the same yesterday and today, yes and for ever" (No. 10).
Dear young people, follow Christ with the enthusiasm of your youthful hearts. He alone can calm man's fear. Look to Jesus from the depths of your hearts and minds! He is your inseparable friend…
Faith in Christ and the hope which he teaches enables man to conquer himself, to conquer everything in him that is weak and sinful; and at the same time this faith and hope lead him to victory over evil and the effects of sin in the world around him. Christ freed Peter from the fear which had seized him on the stormy lake. Christ enables us too to overcome the difficult moments in life, if with faith and hope we turn to him and ask his help. "Take heart, it is I; have no fear" (Mt 14:27). Strong faith, from which is born limitless hope, a virtue so needed today, frees man from fear and gives him the spiritual strength to resist all life's storms. Do not be afraid of Christ! Trust him completely!
He alone "has words of eternal life". Christ never lets us down!
...We look once more to the Lake of Gennesaret on which Peter's boat is sailing. The lake evokes the image of the world, also the modern world in which we are living and in which the Church is carrying out her mission. This world is a challenge for man, just as the lake was a challenge for Peter. For him it was so close and familiar, as the place of his daily work as a fisherman, and on the other hand it was the element of nature which he had to face with his own strength and experience.
Man has to enter this world, in a certain sense immerse himself in it, for he has received from God the command to "subdue the earth" by work, study, creative effort (cf. Gen 1:28). On the other hand, man cannot shut himself up exclusively within the limits of the material world, neglecting the Creator. For this is against man's nature, against his inner truth, since the human heart, as Saint Augustine says, is restless until it rests in God (cf. Confessions, I,1,1). The human person, created in the image and likeness of God, cannot become a slave to things, to economic systems, to technological civilization, to consumerism, to easy success. Man cannot become the slave of his inclinations and passions, sometimes deliberately aroused. We must defend ourselves against this danger. We need to know how to use our freedom, choosing what is the true good. Do not let people make you slaves! Do not let people tempt you with false values, half-truths, the fascination of illusions, which you will later leave behind with disappointment, hurt and perhaps with your life ruined…
In the address which I once gave to UNESCO, I said that the first and essential task of culture is to educate man. And that education "consists in fact in enabling man to become more man, to 'be' more and not just to 'have' more and consequently, through everything he 'has', everything he 'possesses', to 'be' man more fully. For this purpose man must be able to 'be more' not only 'with others', but also 'for others'" (Address to UNESCO, Paris, 2 June 1980, No.11; in L'Osservatore Romano, English-language edition, 23 June 1980, p. 10).
...This truth has a fundamental significance for self-education, self-realization, for developing in oneself the humanity and the divine life given in Baptism and strengthened in the Sacrament of Confirmation. Self-education aims precisely at "being" more human and more Christian, at discovering and developing in oneself the talents received from the Creator and realizing the vocation to holiness.
Sometimes the world can be something threatening, it is true; but someone who lives by faith and hope has in himself the power of the Spirit to face the dangers of this world. Peter walked on the waves of the lake, even though it was against the laws of gravity, because he was looking Jesus in the eye. When he doubted, when he lost personal contact with the Master, he began to sink and was rebuked: "O man of little faith, why did you doubt?" (Mt 14:31).
From the example of Peter we learn how important in the spiritual life is the personal bond with Christ: it has to be constantly renewed and deepened. How? Above all by prayer. My dear friends, pray and learn to pray, read and meditate on the Word of God, strengthen the bond with Christ in the Sacraments of Penance and the Eucharist, study the problems of the interior life and of the apostolate in youth groups, Church movements and organizations….
Dear young friends! We are celebrating the Jubilee of the millennium of the martyrdom of Saint Adalbert [who] bore witness to Christ, suffering martyrdom for the faith. This martyrdom of the great Apostle of the Slavs challenges you: today too. It calls for the witness of the life of each one of you. It calls for new men and women who will make manifest in the midst of this world the "power and the wisdom" (cf. 1 Cor 1:22-25) of the Gospel of God in their own lives. This world, which sometimes seems like an untameable element, like a stormy sea, at the same time has a profound thirst for Christ, such a thirst for the Good News. It has such need of love…
Excerpted from JOHN PAUL II's PASTORAL VISIT TO POLAND, YOUTH MEETING ADDRESS, 3 June 1997.
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" Look at the lillies of the fields, the birds in the air, they never sow nor reap, nor gather into barns, yet even solomon in all his glory, was not arrayed like one of these." says our Lord. " Or who among you would give your child a stone if he asks for bread…you know what to give to your children, how much more for your Father in heaven; O men of little faith…" Trusting in our Lord's Providence and Love will see us through in whatever trials in life we encounter. " Seek first God's kingdom and all things will be given unto you. " God bless us!
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Maybe a contradiction in terms, but #4 on the list was Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Journalism.org and the Pew Research Center take on the interesting question, "Is Jon Stewart a Journalist?" and comes up with an interesting answer: yes.
[TDS] draws on the news events of the day but picks selectively among them—heavily emphasizing national politics and ignoring other news events entirely. [...] The program also makes heavy use of news footage, often in a documentary way that employs archival video to show contrast and contradiction, even if the purpose is satirical rather than reportorial. At other times, the show also blends facts and fantasy in a way that no news program hopefully ever would. In addition, The Daily Show not only assumes, but even requires, previous and significant knowledge of the news on the part of viewers if they want to get the joke. [...] at times, The Daily Show aims at more than comedy. In its choice of topics, its use of news footage to deconstruct the manipulations by public figures and its tendency toward pointed satire over playing just for laughs, The Daily Show performs a function that is close to journalistic in nature—getting people to think critically about the public square.
As an example of why rational observers conclude TDS is something of a legitimate journalistic enterprise, I offer you this interview with Republican nominee John McCain:
I cannot recall any "news show" interview where McCain was asked point-blank how he intended to distance himself from the most unpopular president ever. He called him on the Hamas thing, too. Was it a soft-ball interview? Maybe a little; it was funny, too. But when you see Stewart's serious take on the important issues, expertly interweaved with light humor, it's hard not to come to the conclusion that this is a program which is genuinely interested in public discourse.
I wish we had more "journalists" like him.
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Most admired journalists
Maybe a contradiction in terms, but #4 on the list was Jon Stewart of The Daily Show. Journalism.org and the Pew Research Center take on the interesting question, "Is Jon Stewart a Journalist?" and comes up with an interesting answer: yes.
Posted by shadowfax at 12:05 AM
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I think stretching our definition of "journalist" is not a good thing. I wish fewer journalists were like him.ReplyDelete
I love the show, however.
I would tend to disagree. John Stewart has been shown to keep the younger generation more in tune with the news and with political events in general, then the news of earlier generations.ReplyDelete
And anytime that the youth know what the hell is going on (by whatever medium they choose to be informed) it is a good thing for our country. The fact that he happens to blend humor with information, proves that we may just have to change our definition of "journalist."
And the show totally rocks, as an added bonus.
I enjoy his show as well. I'm kind of curious to see what will happen with his political commentary if a Democrat is elected.ReplyDelete
Right now, he seems to be pretty left leaning in his bias. I hope that he is just as hard on a Democrat President as he was on the Republican one.
Doing so would elevate him (at least in my eyes) to a great anti establishment provoker of thought. If he goes soft on President Obama (or Clinton, the Gods forfend) I will be very disappointed in him.
He's done a good service by making folks think before drinking the Republican Kool Aid. I hope he will choose to do the same instead of chugging down the brand of Kool Aid the Democrats sell.
What do you think about the fact that Fox News is so denigrated for being a news program that mixes in commentary that is so partisan? My problem is this (and I am no conservative, by the way): if we give Jon Stewart a pass on this mixing commentary with news because he's a comedian, we then can't come back and say he's a journalist.
If he's a comedian, fine. If he's a journalist, fine. But if he's a journalist, then he's one with an unequivocal political leaning, and he lets that out in his broadcasts. Fox News does just the same thing, but they don't do this dance of pretending they're cute.
Interested in your thoughts on that angle.
First off, my comment was meant merely to highlight the fact, absolutely free and clear of any political opinion, that if more people are tuning in to his show (either because they like his style or they find themselves agreeing with what he says), then he's probably hit on something that people are looking for. It's not about "mixing commentary with news," it's about looking at the news and the facts without blinders on. It's about stepping back and realizing that sometimes what the government is saying is a total load of bull.
He has said on his show that should a Democrat be elected, he will likewise be as critical of that government as they allow him to be. That is, if their actions warrant it, then he's not above drawing our attention to it. Can I hold him to that promise? No, but I agree with 'Savage Henry' (see comments) that keeping that promise would elevate him in a great many people's eyes as a great provoker of thought.
Your comment overall seems to presuppose that in order to qualify as "news," or at least, news worthy of attention, it must be straight-laced and devoid of any humor or satirical qualities and that the definition of journalist is etched in stone. And thats not something I agree with.
Not sure if that answered your question.
I don't know about etched in stone, but I do think we can't leave all of our reporting to comedians. In fact, I think John Stewart is almost exclusively a commenter on news -- I don't think TDS does any original reporting or investigation. And for investigative journalists, I do think the only ideal has to be objectivism.ReplyDelete

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It's not often that a Sepia Saturday image prompt gives me the opportunity to include a profile of a Victorian Derbyshire photographer, and it seems unlikely that this week's photograph of a horse rider in the Australian bush should do so. Thanks to sharp-spotted fellow photohistorian Marcel Safier, I am able to present a Derbyshire photographer who emigrated to Australia, and spent most of his life in a remote town on the coast of Victoria.
Granby Street, Ilkeston, 1964 (Ref. DCER001377)
Image © NE Midland Photographic Record, courtesy of Picture the Past
William Snowdall Anderson was born in 1867 in Surfleet, a small village in rural south Lincolnshire (coincidentally only a couple of miles from the village of Pinchbeck, a name which featured in an article here last week). He was the third child of a wandering blacksmith; by his early teens the family had lived in at least five different villages. Little is known of his early career as a photographer except that by late 1886, when the 1887 edition of Kelly's trade directory was published, and by which time he was not yet 20 years old, he had opened a photographic studio in Granby Street, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Adamson shows him operational at this address for at least a year until 1888.
Camperdown Chronicle, Saturday, 20 April 1895, page 2
Image courtesy of Marcel Safier
In November 1889 Anderson emigrated to Australia on the steamship Port Caroline, arriving in Victoria in early 1890, and was married to Bertha Wardle later that year. He worked as a photographer, initially with a studio in South Yarra, later touring Victoria as an itinerant photographer in a mobile caravan.
Mount St. George, Lorne, 1901 (Acc No H96.160/606)
Silver gelatin print (210 x 160mm) by W.S. Anderson, Lorne
Image © and courtesy of State Library of Victoria
In December 1898 he purchased a photographic business from J.S. Norman and J.W. Brown in the township of Lorne on the coast south-west of Melbourne.
Phantom Falls in flood, Lorne, 1902 (Acc No H96.160/682)
Silver gelatin print (157 x 210mm) by W.S. Anderson, Lorne
Image © and courtesy of State Library of Victoria
Lorne was then a fairly remote community, situated at the mouth of the Erskine River on the shores of Louttit Bay, accessible only by sea or by a long dusty road journey through the forested hills of what is now the Great Otway National Park. Anderson was not the only one drawn to it; Rudyard Kipling penned the following after a visit in 1891:
Buy my hot-wood clematis,
Buy a frond of fern,
Gathered where the Erskine leaps
Down the road to Lorne.
W. Mountjoy's Coach, Erskine River, Lorne, c. late 1890s-early 1900s
Mounted albumen print (165 x 107mm) by William Anderson of Lorne
Image © and courtesy of Museum Victoria
Judging by the number of similar photographs of Mountjoy's coach full of passengers crossing a bridge over the Erskine River, complete with characteristic Eucalyptus-clad backdrop, in the collection of Museum Victoria, these customers must have formed a significant part of Anderson's business. Over time, however, his output varied considerably, picturing both the beauty of the landscape surrounding Lorne and the lifestyle and character of its inhabitants and visitors.
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The same view today is different, naturally, but still recognisable.
Unidentified woman, c.late 1920s-early 1930s (Ref. MM 109704)
Silver gelatin print (89 x 137mm), attrib. William S. Anderson
Image © and courtesy of Museum Victoria
The following is from Museum Victoria:
From 1898 until his death in 1948 Anderson photographed the changing surrounding landscapes and visitors of guest houses in the area. His practice also included panoramic photography, stereoscopic photography, portraiture and experiments with trick photography.
Wagon, team of oxen and dog, 1905 (Acc No H96.160/1042)
Mounted silver gelatin print (205 x 150m), by W.S. Anderson
Image © and courtesy of State Library of Victoria
William S. Anderson died at Ormond, Victoria on 2 July 1948, aged 80, leaving four children and a legacy of five decades' worth of photographs, many of which survive in the State Library of Victoria, Museum Victoria and, no doubt, tucked away in innumerable family archives.
Barrie, Sandy (nd) Biographical notes for William Snowdall Anderson, (pers. comm., courtesy of Marcel Safier)


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Was Javier Vazquez Worth It?
Last December the New York Yankees made a trade to get a number four starter. Only using three pitchers in the postseason, and unsure of who was going to be the number five man, they got it done.
So long Melky Cabrera. Hello (again) Javier Vazquez.
Boasting a 15-10 record in 2009 with a minuscule 2.87 ERA and 238 strikeouts, some people were happy with the move. I, on the other hand, was not a proponent of this trade from the get go, remembering how poorly he had performed in his first stint in pinstripes.
Vazquez, a member of the Yankees in 2004, was the losing pitcher in Game 7 of the 2004 American League Championship Series, surrendering the infamous grand slam to Johnny Damon–a blast that basically put the Yankees away.
Back in pinstripes, Vazquez made his first start of 2010 on April 9. What happened? He picked up right where he left off in '04 and got rocked. He tossed 5 2/3 innings, was charged with eight earned runs on eight hits, walked three, and struck out five.
Not the way he wanted to start the season, I'm sure.
His second start was a little better, but Vazquez still was not good enough to win. Against the Angels on April 14, he tossed 5 1/3 innings and gave up four earned runs on six hits. He walked two and struck out four. It certainly was not his best start, but it was a step up from his first.
Last Tuesday night in Oakland he got his first W of '10 beating the Athletics in a 7-3 Yankee win. This time Vazquez made it through 5 1/3 innings, and gave up three runs on six hits. He walked three and fanned six.
Then we came to today…
Just when it seemed Vazquez was heading in an upward direction in terms of his pitching, he backpedaled and collapsed. He did not make it past the fourth frame, only giving the Yanks 3 2/3 innings of work. He served up five runs on five hits, walked three and struck out three. Not to mention he coughed up a three-run lead.
His pitching led to the Yankees' first series loss of 2010, as they dropped two games out of three this weekend to the Halos. Yes–totally the opposite of cool.
Right now, Vazquez is the weakest link on the Yankee pitching staff. He has not pitched past the sixth inning this season and has given up 20 earned runs in all 20 innings he has thrown. He has failed to locate with his pitches and has been hanging too many breaking balls.
Bobby Abreu was a clear example of that today.
In the third inning, the former Yankee blasted a solo home run to right off Vazquez, a bomb hit off a terribly executed breaking ball. Vazquez threw 78 pitches, 47 of which were strikes.
If you ask me, of those 78 pitches, probably 38 or 39 of them were off-speed. Vazquez has shown no faith in his fastball. It seems he overthrows his fastball too much and subsequently misses the strike zone because of it. He has issued eight walks this season, indicating his location problem.
So far this trade has not paid off and it's looking like a bad one. I'm not concerned with his numbers from last year, his numbers from 2004, or any other year for that matter. What does matter is 2010 and how unproductive Vazquez's outings have been.
At this moment, we as Yankee fans have every reason to disapprove of the trade.
His next time out will come at home against one of his former teams, the Chicago White Sox, on Saturday May 1. I am going to give Vazquez a month. If he is still struggling as mightily as he is now by June 1, I am going to go on a search for a starting pitcher to replace him.
I will look far and wide; I will look at every stat from every Yankee minor league hurler, I will glance at every team in baseball who might need Vazquez–while at the same time finding a suitable replacement; a pitcher putting up numbers in accordance to a good number four starter.
Honestly, at this point in the season, the Yankees could probably throw their bat boy out there and he could do better than Vazquez. He is too inconsistent and does not seem to be moving in the same direction of the team. He is the only starter in the rotation with a losing record.
CC Sabathia (2-1), A.J. Burnett (2-0), Andy Pettitte (3-0), Phil Hughes (2-0)
Vazquez is now 1-3.
Before the season began, an analyst said Vazquez has the stuff to be a number two pitcher. While that may or may not be true, he is not showing that right now. He is only showing that he cannot do the job he was brought on board to do.
We'll see what he is made of. He has until June 1. Then, if he has shown no improvement, I say the Yankees ought to dump him off. It's not like he is under contract for 2011 as it is.
Other Notes
–Marcus Thames has got nothing on Brett Gardner in left field. He started this afternoon, only to misplay a ball out in left. There are some big guys who can move around pretty well in the outfield (like Nick Swisher)
Thames is a big guy who can't move around well. If he had caught the fly ball, it would have been a whole different game today. Thames only started because he supposedly "wears down left-handed pitching," a Scott Kazmir (a lefty) started for the Halos.
Thames did have a hit and a run scored, but that misplayed ball hurt big time.
–The Yankees only have to play the Angels twice more this season: July 20-21 at home in Yankee Stadium. Thank God for getting them out of the way in April! They are too tough to be playing down the stretch.
–As mentioned before, the Yankees are 5-1 in their first six series this season. This past series was their first losing effort. Still, it's not bad to have won five straight to begin the year. Good start!
–Robinson Cano was hit by a pitch in the second inning. Jorge Posada came up to bat right after Cano and launched a two-run homer.
Message to the 29 other teams in the MLB: you hit the Yankees, they will hit back!
Cano also homered in this game, clubbing his fifth of the year, and he now leads the Yankee team in long balls.
–Mark Teixeira needs to get off the interstate and start getting some hits. He did draw two walks today, but he is supposed to be a big threat to the other team's pitching. Currently batting .119, he poses no threat right now at all.
Wake up, Tex!
–Speaking of Teixeira , I really don't know how I feel about him ramming the catcher Friday night. I'm not sure if Teixeira did it because he got hit with a pitch before it happened, but whatever the case, he mowed him down.
It is part of the game and many runners coming hard into home plate do it, but I felt sorry for Bobby Wilson. It's happened to the Yankees before, in spring training prior to 2008. Elliot Johnson of the Rays broke Francisco Cervelli's wrist that way.
It's dangerous! The league should consider regulating collisions somehow, if it's doable.
Teixeira really got him good (giving Wilson a concussion and an ankle injury) but at least he apologized and felt some remorse for the hit. That is the type of personality Teixeira has, but if I were him, I'd watch out in July. The Angels might want some retribution.
And Justin Tuck better watch out. If the New York Giants need a linebacker or a defensive end, Teixeira might be their man. That hit was football-esque!
–On their day off tomorrow, the Yankees will visit the White House in honor of their 2009 World Series Championship. Message to Joe Girardi: tell Obama to fix the economy, create jobs for hard-working Americans who need work, and that his health care bill is trash and should be thrown away.
I think it's nice that the President recognizes the nation's sports titles and invites the Champs to the White House. It's been happening for years and years; I know Clinton and Bush both did the same thing.
–On Tuesday the Yankees go to Baltimore to play the Orioles for three games. Phil Hughes, CC Sabathia, and A.J. Burnett will start those three games, respectively.
–Right now the Yankees are 12-6, in second place in the AL East, a game behind the Rays who are 14-5.


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Earlier this week, Karen and I took a short 28th Anniversary (!) vacation to Monterey and Carmel, two seaside resort towns on the California coast. Although they're just a few hours from our home, I hadn't visited the area in many years (Karen has had a few more recent business meetings there). Monterey is famous for its Cannery Row, immortalized in the Steinbeck novel of the same name, and between Monterey and Carmel lie some of the best golf courses in the world--about which, much to my father-in-law's disappointment, I couldn't care less. But it sure is purty.
There's some interesting geography at work here. Monterey and Carmel lie about five miles apart at the south tip of Monterey Bay, which takes a big shallow bite out of the Pacific Coast. On the map below, you can see how Monterey sits on the protected inland side of a stubby peninsula--when you're standing on the shore you see land nearly 360 degrees around--while Carmel is on the opposite side facing directly into the Pacific. As a result, the waters of Monterey are as calm as a lake, while the coast of Carmel is pounded by frothing surf. Their ecosystems and microclimates are distinctly different. It's a dramatic contrast in a compact area.
I'll tell you all about it with a few pictures and captions, then maybe have more to say on the other side . . .
|Karen shot this sunrise from our hotel room balcony overlooking Monterey Bay.
|One of our favorite genres of photography, the long-armed one-handed self-portrait. I'd be embarrassed to admit how many of these we shoot. So I won't.
|The aquarium has several terrific exhibits but my absolute favorite was the jellyfish. They're housed in featureless tanks with deep blue backgrounds and then lit so that their translucent bodies almost seem to glow.
|More jellies, and a short movie below that captures others in motion. They're so incredibly beautiful it's hard to remember they're alive. They're like works of art.
|Through the cypress trees, the beach of Carmel. We went prepared for cold rain but lucked out and hit amazing shirt-sleeve weather.


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The main cycle will take place on Saturday 27th May with two routes to choose from:
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On the Sunday there will be a family fun cycle and social events throughout the weekend.
For more information and to download a Rider Information Pack see the Cycling in the Straths website.


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Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 1:10 am
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Here is the ice cream we made the CF for. We're having it after BBQ with fresh blueberries. I added the finely grated zest of the lemons I juiced as well.
Créme Fraîche Ice Cream
1 pound (about 2 cups) crème fraîche*
2 cups buttermilk
1/3 cup fresh lemon juice
1 1/4 cups sugar
*see recipe at the top of the thread
In a blender, blend together all ingredients, scraping down sides until very smooth, about 2 minutes. Chill until cold and freeze in an ice cream maker.
Makes about 1 quart, serving 12 as an accompaniment to cake.
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Hope everyone who's celebrating Labor Day will have a lovely weekend.
If it's in your heart, give a thought to how we take care of working people in this country and write to your Senators and Representatives and remind them that the welfare of Americans who keep this country going is the heart and soul of their jobs.
God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 3:55 pm
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Someone help please....
I made the classic recipe Rainey posted - 1 cup whipping cream plus 2 tablespoons buttermilk. It has been sitting on the counter for nearly 15 hours, and it is very pourable - slightly thickened but not really thick like I've had creme fraiche in the past.
Both the heavy cream and buttermilk were Organic Valley products I purchased at Whole Foods. One possible problem is that the cream was ultra-pasteurized (they said that was all they ever had??) and the buttermilk was low fat (is there such a thing as non-low fat buttermilk?).
It is slightly cool here, so I moved the container under a bright light, hoping that warmer temps would speed things up.
Question: do I need to keep waiting? Or is this already a lost cause?
I'm so sad because my tastebuds are set for a horseradish cream sauce meant to accompany some roasted beets - recipe from epipcurious.
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:26 pm
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msue, there is a warning a few posts down from Rainey's original recipe. Georgia says *don't* use ultra-pasteurized ceam, it won't thicken properly.
I don't know if the taste would change, or if there is a way to fix it--at least you know what went wrong..
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Msue, it is possible for the enzymes to take up to 48 hours especially if it is cool in your kitchen area. If the latter is true & you have a gas oven with a pilot light, place the cream in the unlit oven for proper clotting... Here in the tropics that method is not necessary however at the patisserie we often hasten the process by placing it next to our deck ovens
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gingerpale, I saw that warning, but was unable to find cream that was not ultra-pasteurized. Where is it available? I live in Dallas so you think if it is generally available I should have a resource somewhere.
Deni - I'll try the pilot light/oven method if this doesn't thicken by this afternoon. I wasn't planning on using the creme fraiche for a couple of days, so maybe there is still time for it to come together.
Also Deni, I'm on my way to Kona in a few weeks - any recommendations of restaurants (or anything else) that are off the beaten path (non-touristy ideas welcome). We will have a car so almost anywhere on the Big Island is fine.
Our trip is from April 9-19th. We've been there a couple of times before so we've explored a bit, just looking to relax, eat, and listen to the ocean.
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I like to finely chop capers, squeeze in some lemon juice and mix with the creme fraiche - only to dollop it onto a slab of pan fried salmon. Crunchy corners compulsory.[/quote]
Mmmm...that sounds so fabulous, scorchedpeanutbutter! I love salmon! I never knew you could make your own creme fraiche--never thought about it. I'll have to do it just to have it with my salmon. I'll have to try that ice cream recipe too!
a good idea to come to this forum with an empty stomach!)
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Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:39 pm
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A few hours under that bright light seems to have done the trick - the heat source was the under counter light my husband installed a few months back.
The creme fraiche is now thick, almost but not quite the consistency of good Greek yogurt. I'll let it sit out a bit more then put it in the fridge.
Not sure if it was the warmer conditions or the extra few hours that did the trick, but at least it is thick now.
Now if someone will tell me how to consume it without the calories landing on my hips, it will be a perfect weekend.
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Try eating standing up, msue
Doing what you like is freedom
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Excellent plan, Judy!!
You crack me up!
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Msue, here it is in a nut shell...
Kens Pancake House in Hilo for more than pancakes. True local 'grinds' prepared fairly well for where you are.
The Hilo farmers market, most days 10a.m. 8 p.m.
Mauna Kea Observatory for sunrise
Merrimans is a favorite of mine for dining out on island fish 65-1227 Opelo Road, Waimea
There is an orchid farm on route to volcanos national park from Hilo and of course the Volcanos National Park (drive down to the ocean and hike along the shoreline to observe live lava)
Puuhonua O` Honaunau National Historic Park, housing King Kamehamehas temple on the northwestern coast, quite impressive I must say
Quite frankly there is so much to see and do I would need hours of conversation to get it all in.
Please be careful as the locals like to drink n` drive
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Msue, these just came to me while I was having grilled onaga for lunch.
Keei Café, Aloha Angel, Quinns almost by the Sea, Fujimama's, Kona Inn
and finally for the upper range - Hualalai Grill at the Four Season's. The Hualalai Grill @ the Four seasons is pricy but well worth the price of admission. Aloha...
Aloha nui,
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Deni, thanks VERY much for your recommendations. My husband is a seismologist and knows some of the people at Volcano NP - we had a wonderful behind the scene visit a few years ago. And that drive down to the ocean is indeed spectacular; hopefully we can go again this trip.
I can't wait to try the restaurants you suggested. I've never heard of some of them, so it will be a real treat. I'm already dreaming of fish and all those incredible fruits.
We are looking forward to this trip, it has been far too long since we totally escaped.
Mahalo! (oh...if you spot a slightly dumpy woman wearing too-new touristy Hawaiian garb, sunburned but smiling ear to ear, it just might be me
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Good Press is Awesome
I know Jen's already blogged on this, but this is my little contribution to the whole, how cool are we, theme.
Brad Mcgehee just came to speak at our user group and to my surprise he thought enough of what we're doing to write a blog about it.
So I thought I'd take this time just to explain a little more so maybe some more of you can start doing it at your user groups too.
I started doing this last year when it really started bothering me that the user group model is so limited. The problem is that you bring in a speaker to give a session on a topic, and next month you do the same thing with a different speaker and a different topic. The problem is that you don't have time to go deeper into any of the topics. You only get to barely touch on the subject and there's no time to really learn it. So I decided to start up a progressive class before the user group. I lasts like 6-8 mos and each session builds off of the previous ones. The downside however is that it takes you 6mos to complete the class, but it's better than nothing and it's a free class. I actually treat it like a real class that you would go to at a training center only I like to think I go into more depth sometimes.
It's a really good model because if you hold it before or after your main user group meeting the people are coming anyway so you've got a built-in audience. And you'd be surprised how many people show up to the group that never did before. So anyway, that's all I've got on that. I hope some more of you start doing this and if you do I'd like to hear how it works for you. And I'd like to also give a special shout-out to Brad for recognizing my genius.
Petri for us all
The Petri IT KnowledgeBase just opened up its SQL section and Jen and I are the authors. I know, Jen also wrote about this too... what can I say, I have nothing original so I have to steal others' material. Anyway, it's really a nice site they've put together for us so come check it out. Currently we've got some nice barebones "I know nothing about SQL" articles so if you're a complete newbie then you can start here and we'll explain what all this stuff actually means.
New Blog Location
Jen and I are consolidating our blogs in the same location so she's moving too. I'm pretty much up and ready to go in the new location so update your RSS feeds to point to the new location because this'll probably be my last post at this address. Maybe I'll double-post for a while, I'm not sure.
Here are the links to our new blogs, and they're actually on a linux server so the URLs are case-sensitive.
Data Explosion
We had a group of devs who were trying to run a fairly simple insert and it kept filling up the disk. And when I say it was filling up the disk, i mean like 50K rows were filling up like 200GB. So they came to me to see if I could fix it. This is where it gets fun.
It really didn't take me too long in my investigation to find that they had the data file set to autogrow by 131,000%. That's right, I said it! 131,000 percent. So now that I found the problem I was able to set it to something more reasonable, shrink the file and let them get on with their insert.
So it started me thinking about what other DBs in the place had similar issues because I've been hearing about disk space problems here and there. So I wrote a powershell to go out and check the file growth rates for every SQL box and I found a lot of the same type of stuff. There were a lot of them set for several thousand percent growth, several of them set for 1MB growth, and everything in between. In general, as a good generic setting to start from, I like to grow my files 1GB at a time. It's a good round number that works in a lot of cases and then you can snipe the ones that need something else. And then I altered the powershell to go out and change the growth rates of all the DB files out there to 1GB. Life is good again and we have the beginnings of a happy shiny environment.
Oh y, and in the same discovery I also found 110 DBs set to autoshrink and I also took care of those.
Powershell 2.0 Get-Member Enhancements
The other day I blogged on a cool way to alter database file properties. And I promised I would film the solution for you. Well, I got home that night and started filming but when I pulled up sqlps I was stopped dead in my tracks by something I couldn't explain. The methods to get and set were missing. I checked my other box and they were there, so what happened? The only difference was that the box I wrote the blog from was XP and the box I was filming from was Win7.
So I pinged a couple really smart guys as MS (and I cc'd Buck). So after a couple of days we have an answer. There's a new feature in powershell 2.0 that hides the getter and setter methods from you by default in get-member. They're officially calling it an enhancement.
There are 2 new parameters that get-member supports that allow you to control what you see. You can now use –view and –force.
-view takes the parameters Extended, Adapted, Base, All
-force doesn't take any additional parameters.
However if you're looking specifically for getter and setter methods, you'll have to use –force because –view doesn't display them. Here's what that'll look like:
dir | gm –force
Now you can see everything. It's interesting though is that by defalt, PS loads all the methods, it just doesn't show them to you.
Here's the MSDN blog that explains this and so much more.
And I'd like to give a special thanks to Robert Hutchinson at MS for chasing this down for me while Buck and I sat on the sidelines helpless.
Powershell to Alter Database File Properties
So this time we've got like 85 DB files for our main DB. I know that's a lot but it's been spread across so many LUNs for so long and it's just grown and grown as it's filled up the LUNs. Now we finally got a couple really large LUNs and we're trying to consolidate the files. And now that we've moved most of them to a single LUN, we want to stop the autogrowth on most of them so they don't grow anymore before we empty them and then drop them. Because what's the point really in putting them all on a single LUN if you're not going to get rid of some of them. So we definitely don't want them to grow anymore before we can empty them.
The task at hand was to set all of these files (most of them really) to not autogrow. The choices were do it in the GUI, or write a T-SQL cursor to go through all the files and create an alter database command in dynamic SQL for each one. Neither of those is very attractive considering that there are so many files. Of the 2 of them though, the cursor is the more attractive solution. Then I thought of powershell. I hadn't specifically done anything like this in powershell before, but I figured I'd be able to get some love. I'm not going to teach you powershell here, or explain the script too much. I'm just gonna give you the code and if you have any questions you're free to write, but it's pretty straightforward. I'll be making a video on this tonight for those of you who like to see things in action.
PS SQLSERVER:\SQL\MYSQLBox\DEFAULT\Databases\MyDB\filegroups\data\files> gci | where{$_.Name -ne "MyDB_Data"} | %{$_.set_GrowthType("None"); Alter();}
OK, so a quick glance at the important parts.
1. Make sure you're in the right node. Notice I'm in data\files.
2. Here I'm filtering out the one file I don't want to be effected. So the main data file I want to still be able to grow. I'll talk about that more in a min.
3. Don't forget to use the Alter() at the end. Usually whenever an object has an alter method it wants you to use it. If you don't it'll change it in cache in your powershell session but you won't see the change persisted to the DB. So you're not really making the change to the object in SQL, just in your powershell pipeline. You can tell if something has an alter method by doing this at the cmdline 'gci | gm'. If there's an alter method there, then use it.
OK, you don't have to filter. If you find it too much trouble or if your files are named in such a way that it would be too hard to snipe a single file for some reason, then you can change them all and then just go back to the GUI to change the last one back to what it was.
So there you go. We have a nice 1-line script to alter as many files as you need. And you can clearly tack as many file changes on there as you need. And the best part about it is that the code doesn't really change if you need to do another file operation. All you do is change the method call. Ahhh, the power of powershell.
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Sunday, August 13, 2006
Yes well done, he's:
1. Reached the age of one million years old
2. Has taken a metric shitload of drugs and is,
3. Still alive.
The same could be said of my gran, and she's skint, which is much more impressive.
This is like when I was working in a factory, listening to Radio 4 for the rare twenty minutes a day when the Sodding Archers* wasn't on, and the Queen Mother was going into hospital for a hip operation. Anyway, whatever idiot news presenter happened to be standing outside the hospital that day was lucky enough to have QM driven past him in a enormous gold taxi, at which point he brought SHAME ON AN ENTIRE NATION by calling out 'Good luck, Ma'am!'. You could actually hear his massive erection, never before have I believed in the magic of radio, but that day there it was.
I think it was one of the Dimblebys.
* Ah, now, it may look here as though I'm dissing the Tamster, but I had a chat with her about the fact that I can't stand the Archers, although I did listen to the episode in which Debbie (Tamsin) departed, which left me with a bit of a lump in my throat, because I thought to myself 'She's leaving, because she's COMING TO WORK FOR MEEEEEE!'.
She laughed, thankfully.
Also, bloody also (no more coffee for me tonight, but the underlying feelings are true and noble, and cannot be denied), whilst I was working in that factory for two years, I listened to Radio 4 on my radio walkman every hour of every single day (apart from when the Soddding Archers came on, when I put a tape on instead).
And over those two years, I heard precisely ONE RADIO PLAY that wasn't shit. ONE PLAY. It was about the Molly Maguires and how the Pinkerton Detective Agency tried to crush striking miners in the US in the Nineteen Umpties, and it was brilliant. Every single other radio play, over a period of, I repeat, TWO YEARS, was absolutely rubbish. I'm sorry, but there it is.
However, this was the period when the John Major government was imploding, and the Radio 4 political coverage was brilliant, like the greatest soap opera ever. Conniving Tory bastards all denying leadership ambitions whilst installing extra phone lines, giving coded press releases and the like, magic stuff.
37 comments:
- Izzy said...
aaaaaand - relax?
- 7:01 pm
- Rose said...
Wow, that sounds like it was building up for some time. Feeling tense, James?
Have some coffee, should cool you right down.
- 7:33 pm
May I suggest a nice cup of tea, and maybe an afternoon nap, or a neck massage, or something.
PS word verification - brkytbx. Some sort of breakfast cereal perhaps?
- 7:44 pm
- Matt said...
ever such a lot of anger.
- 7:49 pm
- james henry said...
You bet your bum.
- 8:13 pm
Blimey, what did Keith Richards do to you? Why don't you put all this anger into a best selling screen play then get back on with smelling the flowers...
- 8:58 pm
- james henry said...
I'm going to play Warcraft now, see if that calms me down.
- 9:03 pm
- Kirses said...
yeah cos that'll work
- 9:28 pm
- james henry said...
I will never reach the dizzy heights of level 40 when you can ride your own tiger my life sucks
- 9:34 pm
- Sal said...
Nothing that a hot cuppa with 2 sugars can't sort out. Failing that listen to one of those 'chillout albums' either from Classic fm or the Ministry of Sound. Neither of which are particularly relaxing but they make you think you're relaxing and so somehow you do relax.
One thing that maybe I should point out is that you have indirectly criticised Tamsin with your negative words at The Archers. Next thing you know you'll be saying 'fuck' infront of her.
Word Verification: kgvzyurr - Yurr.
- 9:43 pm
do you really call her "the tamster"?
I heard her on radio four the other night, she was guest hosting or something. she has a beautiful voice. i sort of have a crush on her.
it's late. i speak/write in short sentences.
what did the factory produce?
- 11:18 pm
- cello said...
I feel much the same way about Russell Brand (I assume you were reading The Observer). Not quite so old as KR in fairness.
I only noticed him about 6 weeks ago and I'm already sick of his pointy nose, heroin-chic body and shouty voice.
- 11:31 pm
- cello said...
Oh, and I also HATE The Archers. The music actually makes me retch.
- 11:32 pm
- Rose said...
So we don't mention upcoming Radio 4 plays featuring Messrs Mangan and Rhind-Tutt then?
- 11:42 pm
- james henry said...
I heart cello.
Rose, this was ages ago, I'm sure r4 plays are all brilliant these days.
- 12:06 am
Heroin-chic? Dear God let it not become common parlance for that would be frightening, because it's so accurate,and then all the kidz would think it kool.
- 8:22 am
thats okay anonymous.
They'll all be too poor to achieve the look anyway.
- 8:55 am
- realdoc said...
I had an archers habit for 10 years on which I have recently gone cold turkey.I hated it but I couldn't stop listening to it. I used to spend most of the programme shouting at the radio anyway. Ruth was a particular hate figure for me.
I agree about radio 4's dramatic output being crap for a long time. Have to say I think it has improved lately.
Russell Brand? Tosser!
- 9:27 am
- Hamilton's Brain said...
The Archers is there for you to shout at whilst doing last night's washing up. Currently hooked on the Eddy's a Junkie plot...
"Moybe I don't want to deal with it. Moybe I jus' wanna drink booze and smoke craaaack!"
It's like your great aunt trying to talk to you about the hookers in Grand Theft Auto. And then there's a certain phrase that crops up with alarming alacrity (not that there's any other kind of alacrity, you'll notice). We turned the Archers on the other day just as the coke-addled Eddy shouting out "It's moy loif!" I suspect the writers have a side-bet going on how many times they can get it in in the space of a month. We have since realised that "It's moy loif" is actually the words for the theme tune.
And then there's the agricultural story editor bits, that fall delicately into place like anvils on egg shells:
"Oi see you're 'avin' a bit of repair work done on your dry stone wall, Tom?"
"'ass roit, Tom, oi am, but it's expensive work"
"You do know, Tom, that there's a graaant available from the government for dry-stone wall repairwork? Part of naaaaational heritage."
"Yep. Which is rich seein' as they still owes us haaaaf a million for the foot and mouth forago. Any ways, oi can't stand round here chattin' - Oim off into Ambridge to score some crystal meth."
That's my Archers material done with.
- 10:23 am
Agree with you James about the bloody Archers, whenever I turn on R4, there it is, dumpty dumpty dumpty dum.. And when its not on, they're trailing the stories with inappropriately tense and dramatic music.
"Crossroads" with added yokels.
I'm sure Tamzin/Debbie was great, but I'm not listening to it, even for her.
- 10:52 am
The wonder of the Archers is that, in all those years, they've never managed to come up with a character that was less than destestable. You'd think they might have slipped up once...Radio 4 drama is still rather variable and can tend toward a lot of clunky explanation. I heard this parodied very amusingly once, along the lines of:
"Well met Brother Friar, on this shingle beach, in the year of our Lord, 12umptyum, year of the Black Death..." Well, roughly along those lines anyway!
P.S Check out The Archers Addicts message board - those are SCARY people!
- 11:09 am
One of the manifold benefits of jacking in your job and buggering off around the world is that I have absolutely no idea who Russell Brand is. In fact, I've just beguiled at least half an hour with mental pictures of roly-poly 80's has-been Russell Grant looking emaciated and Pete Docherty-ish in a once-brightly coloured now seedily-stained jumper depicting the signs of the zodiac. Also, I was under the impression that Keith Richards had been killed by a falling coconut in Papua New Guinea or something.
Now James - calm down, take deep breaths and just think about that fold out map of The Nautilus in the next LOEG... That should do it.
- 11:15 am
- james henry said...
Hellooo nanga!
Mmm... Nautilus...
I barely know who Russel Brand is myself, to be honest, although I stood next to him briefly at the GW2 launch and he was wearing expensive looking leather evening gloves and lots of eyeliner, so on that basis alone I think I can forgive him quite a lot.
- 11:22 am
- JonnyB said...
I live in Norfolk and I have no idea who Russell Brand is. Well. I know who he is, cos I saw a picture. But I haven't a clue what he does.
I think, possibly, in the history of 'bigging up articles to try to get people to buy the newspaper' against 'the content of the articles themselves', that piece he did probably won't go down as a classic.
The Archers? Magic. Is Walter Gabriel still in it?
- 11:34 am
- belladona said...
Russel Brand. Huh. He actually has a stylist. I'm not a fan.
There were any number of things in the Observer which I got annoyed about. I almost wrote A Stern Letter about the whole thing. Lethargy took over after about ten minutes though.
Possibly you should try camomile tea for a while, James?
- 1:29 pm
- baggiebird said...
I have never heard an episode of the archers, and I don't ever want to.
Russell Brand - complete tosser who's on everything = over exposure or what !
- 1:34 pm
- Billy said...
The Archers has my favourite theme tune ever.
The programme itself is rubbish though, like old style Emmerdale Farm with no pictures.
- 2:18 pm
- Jools said...
Also 'read' the observer but actually didn't read one wee bit of the music bit as I'm old now and am entitled to like what I like, and none of this new rubbish ;)
Have never listened to the Archers as the only type I'm interested is the type that tastes like peach fuzz and leaves your tongue in much the same way
Jonny B - I don't think most of the UK or Russell himself knows what he actually does, but he has taken Billster's advice and flung himself whole heartedly into the new eyeliner for men trend (soon to be sweeping the nation)
word vert = nilsu, some sort of japanese soup?
- 3:27 pm
I hope that the eyeliner for men trend may blossom into the full Adam Ant style pirate/highwayman look.
- 3:31 pm
- Hamilton's Brain said...
I saw Adam Ant was in the news a while back. The papers thought he'd cracked because he was seen in an old man's coat and cap, playing with a toy gun. Adam Ant dressing in strange, outdated clothes and playing with fantasy weapons? Surely that's business as usual!
*scuttles off to watch Jubilee under the covers*
- 4:35 pm
- Billy said...
The problem with my new 'eyeliner for men' trend is that I'm yet to adopt it myself.
I was in Boots today buying some smellies and as I walked past the make-up I giggled to myself as I remembered.
I must have looked like a right idiot.
- 7:04 pm
- belladona said...
'full Adam Ant style pirate/highwayman look'
Maybe there's a point to Russell Brand after all if he encourages this sort of thing.
- 8:01 pm
I'm the only one who likes the Archers, then, yes? Being intensely annoying is part of its charm. In fact it may well be the sum total of its charm. Ah well, just me and the nutters on the Archers Addicts messageboard then (by the way I am not one of them. I would never get involved in an obsessive online community about some kind of fictional programme. God no).
- 9:31 pm
- patroclus said...
They can't prove a thing now, Pash. Let us give thanks for C4's wanton and savage annihilation of all old forum threads.
- 6:25 am
- Paul Pennyfeather said...
I'm with pash on this one- I love it because it is so middle class and middle aged that it make me feel young and smug.
- 5:46 pm
- cello said...
I am all for eyeliner for men. Mr C was actually best friends with Adam Ant (Stuart something or other) at school so I am very susceptible to leather trousers, make-up and flowing shirts - which is why I rather enjoyed Pirates OTC 2 despite it being shit.
So that's not the problem with Russell Brand. I think it's because he clearly thinks he's so clever and handsome and outrageous when he's really not that different from anyone else.
And Billy, it's not humanly possible to love the Archers music. Perhaps you really are a rabbit. I will try out the music on the rabbits eating my lettuces and report back. Please let me send you some good music in the meantime.
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I worked in a factory for a year. The foreman was female (not that you could tell). She was in love with Elvis the recently dead. She had one half hour tape of Elvis hits. Nothing else was ever played on the factory tannoy. I've fucking hated Elvis ever since.
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We included Udemy in our recent survey of leading MOOCs, putting it in a category with Coursera and edX, which offer massive open online courses from major universities for free. Udemy has some MOOC-like characteristics, offering about 75% of its courses for free, but it charges for the other 25%, said Dennis Yang, president and chief operating officer. "They're more like massively affordable online courses," he said.
Udemy's courses are also offered for "anywhere, anytime" consumption, rather than following a regular weekly schedule the way Coursera and edX classes do, and they focus on teaching specific technical or business skills rather than academic subjects.
[ Like it or not, online education is a growing trend. Read MOOCs Are Here To Stay, Profs Say. ]
At least initially, there is no charge for organizations of 250 employees or more to set up a Udemy subdomain. "We may charge in the future, but for now the platform is free to use, and you pay for the content you consume," Yang said. Large organizations will be able to negotiate a discount or a site license to cover all employees, he said.
For some time now, Udemy has been getting inquiries from companies that like the content the site offers but want to offer it to their employees in a more customized way, with the ability to curate the course catalog, Yang said.
Eventually, Udemy might add more technical integration options, such as single sign-on for corporate clients, Yang said. "Right now, we're focused on making the core experience for administrators and students as easy as possible."
Udemy offers more than 7,000 self-paced courses. The Udemy for Organizations version also comes with analytics for tracking employee progress through the courses.
One early user is Datalogix, an advertising technology company. "Our employees are extremely tech-savvy and extremely busy, so traditional training tools just don't work for us," Chris Scoggins, senior VP and general manager, said in a statement. "Udemy for Organizations gives us the flexibility to let our people take courses when and where they have the time, and lets us take advantage of the amazing content on the Udemy platform -- as well as create our own courses to leverage all of our internal expertise."
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The expansion Philadelphia Union visits Gillette Stadium for the first time on Saturday night to battle the playoff-chasing Revs | VIDEO: Gameday >> | MatchCenter >>
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – The 2010 MLS Cup Playoffs won't officially start until late October, but Saturday night's meeting between the New England Revolution and Philadelphia Union carries as much importance as any postseason clash.
Both the Revs (6-11-3, 21 pts.) and Union (4-11-5, 17 pts.) have work to do in the final 10 games of the regular season if they hope to be part of the playoff picture. New England currently occupies sixth place in the Eastern Conference and 13th in the overall league standings, seven points behind the Colorado Rapids and the final postseason spot. Philadelphia, meanwhile, is second-from-bottom in the league and must make up an 11-point gap in the next two months if it hopes to become the second straight expansion team to qualify for the playoffs.
Opportunities for both sides to pull closer to the playoff pack have gone by the wayside recently. The Revs had a four-game league unbeaten run (3-0-1) snapped last week when they dropped back-to-back road games to the Chicago Fire and Kansas City Wizards, a pair of fellow Eastern Conference playoff chasers. The Union has claimed just three points from its last six league games – going winless with a record of 0-3-3 – including a 1-1 draw with the Revs on July 31 at PPL Park.
With 30 points still there for the taking in the remaining third of the season, there is time to make a run, but consensus indicates it must happen now.
"It'll be a desperation game for both teams," said central midfielder Pat Phelan about Saturday night's showdown with the Union. "They've got some firepower up front, but we're at home. We've done pretty well at home, we're coming off two losses that really set us back a bit, and I think there's no way in heck we're going to let a third one come in here.
"It's going to be a tough game," he continued. "It's going to be physical, it might be scrappy, it might be ugly, but we're going to grind it out and hopefully get the victory."
Shalrie Joseph – who has reached the postseason every year since joining the Revs in 2003 – agreed with Phelan's assessment that this weekend's game is essentially do-or-die for both sides. With that in mind, the Revolution captain doesn't expect either team to hold anything back.
"I think it's one of those games you come out there and it's all guns loaded," Joseph said. "It's going to be physical throughout the midfield the whole game and it's going to be a matter of who wants it most. Right now we know there are points on the line and we need three, especially at home. We've got to get those three points to be one of those (playoff) teams."
The Revs are expected to revert to their preferred 4-4-2 formation this weekend after an unsuccessful attempt with a 3-5-2 setup saw them yield four goals last Saturday night in Kansas City. New England deployed the customary 4-4-2 formation in each of its first 19 games this season before trotting out the three-man backline and five-man midfield on the narrow surface at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
Head coach Steve Nicol – who admitted the decision to play a 3-5-2 was "a gamble" – will have a decision to make with his backline this weekend as right back Kevin Alston is not expected to be available after re-aggravating a left hamstring strain against the Wizards. With Alston likely sidelined, utility man Chris Tierney could serve as a makeshift right back as he did against the Houston Dynamo on Aug. 14. Another option would be for rookie left back Seth Sinovic to return to the starting lineup and have someone else – possibly Emmanuel Osei – shift to the right side of defense.
While the starting backline presents a few question marks, there is no such uncertainty at the goalkeeper position, where Bobby Shuttleworth will fill in for the injured Matt Reis (low back pain). Shuttleworth has made six appearances in all competitions this season, seeing action in the regular season (2), SuperLiga (1), U.S. Open Cup (1) and international friendlies (2). He earned his first career victory in relief of Preston Burpo in the 3-2 win over the New York Red Bulls on May 29, while his only league start came in a 3-0 loss to Seattle Sounders FC on June 5.
Shuttleworth made six saves to earn his first professional shutout in his most recent start – a 1-0 win over Pumas UNAM in the group stage of SuperLiga on July 14 – and the second-year goalkeeper believes he's improved with each successive appearance.
"Playing in as many games as I have this year, I feel a lot more comfortable with the guys and just playing-wise with the speed of play," Shuttleworth said. "I just think I've settled into where I know I'm comfortable at this level, playing here and being on this team."
The Revs could also make changes on the attacking side of the ball, as forward Kheli Dube has recovered from a right knee sprain and will be available for selection against the Union. Dube – who recently spent two weeks in London visiting his newborn son – hasn't played since the group stage of SuperLiga in mid-July, missing six games in all competitions. Still short on fitness after taking part in just three training sessions following his return, Dube will likely be eased into the lineup.
"I'm not going to hurry that," Dube said when asked if he was ready to go 90 minutes. "I'm just going to get whatever minutes I get and try to get my fitness back. It's been two weeks, which [seems] like it's small-time, but it takes its toll on you."
After leading the Revolution with 10 goals in all competitions in 2009, Dube has yet to find the back of the net in 17 appearances this season, but the 26-year-old's hard-working style has produced a team-leading four assists. Even still, Dube is looking forward to getting off the mark with his first goal of 2010.
"Every forward goes through a dry spell and right now I'm going through one," he said. "I'm just hoping next game it'll be over, because as soon as I get one goal, then my confidence will go up."


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The Children's Choir of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Chestnut Hill, hosted the Choristers of Church of the Redeemer, Bethesda, Maryland, and the Choristers of Christ Church, Alexandria, Virginia, for a weekend of music-making. The final portion of the get-together was Choral Evensong, Sunday afternoon, with the combined choirs of young voices singing the traditional Anglican liturgy of the early evening to close out the second Sunday of Lent.
The musical program was ambitious, particularly considering that these three choirs don't sing together on any regular basis. Yet their renditions of Malcolm Archer's "My Song Is Love Unknown," Ralph VaughanWilliams' "Magnificat" and "Nunc Dimittis," and Paul Boumann's "I Lift Up My Eyes" would have made the children's choir of any important Episcopal cathedral proud.
Under the direction of Zachary Hemenway, St. Paul's director of music and organist, the choir sang with admirable ensemble and clean diction. The "Nunc Dimittis," in particular, is a masterpiece, and the combined choirs sang it with focused, haunting spirituality.
West Mt. Airy conductor Jeri Lynn Johnson will lead the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in concert Saturday, March 10, 8 p.m. in the Episcopal Cathedral Church of the Savior, located at 38th and Chestnut Streets in West Philadelphia. The concert is entitled "The Black Mozart."
Explaining the choice of pieces for the concert, Johnson said, "Despite its taking place in March rather than February, this is the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra's concert in honor of Black History Month." Johnson is the founder of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra (BPCO).
"This concert features the work of three musical giants of the 18th century: Haydn, Mozart and Joseph Boulogne, a composer, conductor, violinist, swordsman and revolutionary Parisian of African descent."
Johnson added that the BPCO would be comprised of approximately 25 players for this concert. She is also the newly named director of Settlement Music School's Trowbridge Chamber Orchestra, the school's advanced instrumental ensemble.
Plymouth Meeting's Kris Rudzinski, director of Settlement's Mary Louise Curtis Branch, said, "We are thrilled to welcome Jeri Lynn Johnson as the new conductor of the Trowbridge Chamber Orchestra here at the MLC Branch. Her enthusiasm and energy with the students is inspiring to watch each week. The students are performing at a very high level and are extremely proud of their work with her."
The program will feature Boulonge's "Symphony in D major," Haydn's "Symphony No. 44" and Mozart's "Sinfonia Concertante for Violin & Viola." Tickets for "The Black Mozart" are $35 for preferred seating, $25 for general admission, and $10 for seniors & students. Call 215-717-7103 or visit www.blackpearlco.org.
The Philadelphia Orchestra celebrated the musical glories of Spain this past weekend with a set of three concerts performed in the Kimmel Center's Verizon Hall. Spanish-German conductor Rafael Fruhbeck de Burgos was on the podium for the second weekend in a row. Legendary Spanish guitarist Pepe Romero was his soloist in Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" and selections from Palomo's "Andalusian Nocturnes." He opened and closed the program with two orchestral masterpieces: Turina's "Danzas fantasticas" and Ravel's "Bolero." The program drew a full house Saturday night, perhaps pointing toward a potential option for attracting larger audiences by performing music of both beauty and character.
Certainly "beauty" and "character" describe Spanish music of the late 19th and 20th centuries. And with interpretive masters such as Fruhbeck de Burgos on the podium and Romero in the solo spot, is it any surprise that Saturday evening's performances were among the most enjoyable of the season? Most assuredly, this places them in stark contrast to those programs featuring contemporary atrocities that thankfully never seem to be played here again.
In a mark of respect for both Romero and Fruhbeck de Burgos, the composer was on hand to share the well-earned ovation given to the expertly expressive playing of his evocative score.


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PM Abbott says politics 'pretty clean'
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has declared federal politics "pretty clean", despite allegations of influence peddling within the two major parties.
Which means the government won't be banning private donations to political parties.
There are growing calls for political donation reform in the wake of claims against Labor and Liberal figures at NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption hearings.
Federal minister Arthur Sinodinos has stood aside pending the outcome of the hearings, but denies any wrongdoing in relation to his role in a water company that funnelled donations to the NSW Liberals.
It has also emerged a fundraising body in Joe Hockey's electorate, known as the North Sydney Forum, offered meetings with the treasurer.
The ALP has invited executives, under its Federal Labor Business Forum program, to attend a boardroom lunch with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten on Thursday at a cost of $3300 per person.
Mr Abbott said he would not consider a ban on private donations.
"All political parties have to raise money and typically you raise money by having events where senior members of the party go, and obviously, they meet people at these events," he said on Monday.
The alternative was taxpayer funding.
The prime minister earlier this year banned lobbyists from also holding office in a political party and party officials from being lobbyists.
A number of Liberal and Labor party office holders already have quit their posts in order to continue their lobbying work.
Also, federal MPs must publicly declare gifts on the parliamentary pecuniary interests register.
Mr Hockey on Monday sought legal advice on a Fairfax newspaper article relating to the North Sydney Forum, saying allegations were "both offensive and repugnant".
The Australian Greens want the treasurer to reveal details of who belongs to the North Sydney Forum and say the prime minister should follow suit and reveal who belongs to the Warringah Forum in his nearby electorate.
"Wealthy individuals and companies donate money to election campaigns through these shady organisations," Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said.
Mr Shorten said Labor had zero tolerance for corruption and all election funding should be transparent and he'd work with Mr Abbott on improving the transparency of political donations.
Business programs are a common feature of political party events.
The Liberal party's federal council meeting in June includes an $11,000 per person "business observers" program including a breakfast which Mr Abbott will address.
Meanwhile, Queensland premier Campbell Newman has rejected Labor criticism of a Liberal National Party Art Union lottery, with a BMW as first prize, which it hopes will raise $500,000.
He downplayed concerns that developers or companies could bypass disclosure laws for political donations by buying the tickets.
"I'd simply be concerned if people don't buy tickets," Mr Newman said.
Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk said it was yet another unsavoury LNP tactic.
LNP president Bruce McIver said each ticket would have a name and number, and proper records would be kept.


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James Long necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 18 diseñadores freelance.
James Thomas Long Photography - http://www.jamesthomaslong.com
I'm energetic, athletic, fun, and very enthusiastic about my passion - photography! I love kids and have a wonderful wife (who is my wedding photography assistant) and 2-year old daughter of my own. People say I'm also pretty laid back and calm, especially in stressful situations (after all, I survived 6 years as a high school teacher before turning to photography full-time!). I like abstract art, music (I compose experimental electronica too).
I like old, distressed wood, sunflare, damask, peeling paint, interesting textures, and just about anything rusty, vintage, and weathered. I like images that trigger the imagination, making you stop and contemplate... or get lost in a person's gaze or expression.
I specialize in natural and lifestyle photography of weddings, newborns, children, and families. I love to capture spontaneous, natural expressions and movement in my photographs, while incorporating mood and surroundings to create as much impact as possible. Each image becomes a work of art that will adorn someone's home or album. I also do everything I can to ensure my clients have an amazing experience working with me and they appreciate my passion for creativity and the personal attention they receive as my clients.
Most of my clients are women in their early 20s to upper 30s and their partners. They are fun/hip/discerning brides-to-be and fun new moms and dads that want an absolutely fabulous photography experience and are willing to invest in fine photography. I would like my new logo to promote my brand as having a "boutique" feel, indicating to potential clients that we offer something very special, unique, and memorable. We form relationships with our clients and they know that we will do everything possible to ensure that they have a wonderful experience with us. Our clients return year-after-year.
I am looking for a new logo to further enhance our brand of natural, lifestyle wedding and portrait photography.
Specifically, I would like the logo to be:
Cutting edge, fresh, and elegant, with a bit of an old-world vintage feel – aged like fine wine you might say. It should have high-end appeal and contain some sort of symbol/abstract shape(s) (in addition to my studio name) that reflects the above attributes of my brand.
This will be used for:
-as a watermark
-print/marketing materials
Other considerations:
-In terms of colors, I like the blue and white currently used in my website and studio name, but I'm open to changes too! I'd like to have a light and inverted dark version to use in different situations.
-my website currently looks a bit modern/minimal, but I am hoping to infuse some vintage/old world class/elegance with a cutting edge feel in the near future as I continue to build my brand and revamp my website. This logo will essentially be the beginning or catalyst for those changes.
Definitely NO:
-no cameras
-no cheesy fonts
Some of the logos that I really like are at the following:
http://www.danieladegrassi.com (I like the symbols - look like they were taken from a damask pattern)
http://www.triciabphoto.com (I like the "B" in her logo)
Thank you and I can't wait to see what you come up with!
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Are Windowless Offices Bad for Your Health?
A new study finds that health issues come along with sitting in artificially-lit offices all day. Study co-author Mohamed Boubekri discusses on the News Hub with Sara Murray. Photo: iStock/06photo.
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Avengers Get Name-Dropped and Nick Fury Stops By
Oct 1, 2013 9:41 PM EDT
[Warning: This story contains major spoilers from Tuesday's episode of S.H.I.E.L.D. Read at your own risk!] Despite the producers' insistence that Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. would wait to introduce elements from the films, the second episode was… Read more


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One Direction's 2nd CD hits No. 1, sells 540,000
The band's second album has sold 540,000 in its first week.
NEW YORK — One Direction's Take Me Home is the taking the boys to the top of the charts — and to new heights.
The London group's sophomore album has sold 540,000 in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. It's the year's third-highest debut behind Taylor Swift's Red, which sold 1.2 million units its first week earlier this month, and Mumford & Sons' Babel, which sold more than 600,000 albums in September.
Band member Harry Styles says in an interview Tuesday that the group can't thank their fans enough. Niall Horan adds that they initially were nervous about the new release.
Take Me Home also debuted at No. 1 in the United Kingdom. The group's debut, Up All Night, has achieved platinum status in America since its March release.
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