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Since his youth on an Iowa farm, Norman Borlaug has spent a lot of years in Third World countries, received the Nobel Peace Prize, and garnered honors galore. All this has rewarded him with a bully pulpit that he doesn't hesitate to use.
At USDA's Agricultural Outlook Forum 2005, he minced few words in his remarks, loosely titled "From the Green Revolution to the Gene Revolution — a 21st Century Challenge."
Honored by the Nobel committee for his "Green Revolution" that boosted crop production in Third World nations and saved millions from starvation, his work was with crops bred and developed in the laborious, time-consuming manner. Nonetheless, he is a firm believer in the utilization of genetically engineered crop varieties to help meet world food needs.
"I don't understand all the dread and furor over these products," he said. "There's no scientific justification for it — it's simply resistance to change."
People too often forget their own heritage when it comes to scientific progress," Borlaug said, citing his own example. "I'm a product of horse-drawn agriculture; I attended a one-room country school for eight years. I lived in the 'good old days' that people say they yearn to return to, and I can tell you, they weren't so good. In fact, they were pretty miserable."
Assertions that "we're being poisoned out of existence" by pesticides and bioengineered crops just don't hold water, he said, and life expectancy statistics bear that out. "In 1900, a boy baby had a life expectancy of 46 years, a girl 47 years. By 2000, it was 75 years for a boy, 80 for a girl.
"There will be many more new developments from biotechnology, and we need to use them for mankind's benefit."
And "organic" farming? "All my work has been on worn-out lands — not beautiful soils like in the United States — and fertilizer and nutrients have been of tremendous importance to increasing crop production in these countries. You can't eat superior genetics until it's converted to grain, and that means adequate fertility, weed control, conservation measures, and availability of inputs.
"China is the world's expert in organic fertilizer. I've always said there should be no debate between the use of organic or chemical fertilizers." His voice rises to pay-attention level: "Use all the organics available, but for God's sake, don't try to tell the world that we can produce the food that's needed without chemical fertilizers. Yet we hear it on the television and in great debates. It's nonsense!"
Borlaug is concerned, too, about the diminishment of agricultural research in the public sector. "We need to restore public funding. Maintaining a balance between public and private research is essential."
All the research before World War II was in the public arena, he said: universities, land grant colleges, departments of agriculture, etc. After World War II, the private sector took over, and the network we established in transferring technology and in the training of young scientists to work in the Third World was diminished.
"That system is broken down. We need to be training these young people."
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Kiss Me are such a good Japanese brand and their sub brand Heavy Rotation is even better – they make really nude lip glosses and strong black eyeliner – no holds barred basically (where a lot of other Japanese brands are softer and shimmery).
Heavy Rotation launched a new mascara and a new marker pen liner – I bought both but here is the liner review for you first:
For me, pen liners, especially if they have a slightly bendy tip are the easiest to use. I find it much harder with a liner that has a separate applicator.
My concern with a 'marker' liner is that the tip would be too thick and tricky to use. Not so my friends!Here is the guide on the back:
I think it is suggesting you can use it to tightline (use under the lashes) – what do you think?
This liner has a few selling points:
1. Waterproof-ness-ness-ness
2. Liquid liner with continuous flow
3. Hydration (it contains hyaluronic acid)
4. A deep black pigment
5. Removes with warm water
The pen is slick and compact:
The tip is a foam but a firm one without being too stiff. In otherwords it has a bit of give (good) but is not as soft as Lancome Artliner.
Another problem I have with pen liners is that sometimes the ink doesn't flow evenly. This one has very rich and plentiful ink…it flows evenly and is quite liquid so hopefully it won;t dry out quickly.
You can see here it is quite liquid and takes a second to dry. Once it does it's like a sharpie – it won't budge. Also see how black it is:
The line this liner leaves is quite thick in a good way. If can be thinner if you want, but if you want a thin line all the time, try the normal Kiss Me Heroine Make Liquid Liner which is wonderful and does a thinner line.
Otherwise this leaves a glamourous look – I personally love it. And it's not THAT thick – my crease isn't that big and you can still see a gap between that area and the rest of my eyelid.
It does come away with warm water and it does stay put through nearly everything.
Any faults ? If you rub your eyes a bit like I do, then you may experience slight flaking. It's nothing major but it can happen if you have delicate eyes.
Verdict: Fab!


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Belt Loop Requirements
Complete these three requirements:
- 1. Explain the rules of table tennis to your leader or adult partner.
- 2. Spend at least 30 minutes practicing table tennis skills.
- 3. Participate in a table tennis game.
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Earn the Table Tennis belt loop, and complete five of the following requirements:
- 1. Compete in a pack or community table tennis tournament.
- 2. Demonstrate your knowledge, use, and care of the equipment needed to play table tennis (racket or paddle, table and net, ball, tennis or basketball shoes, and comfortable clothing).
- 3. Practice 30 minutes developing serving skills.
- 4. Practice 30 minutes developing your forehand and backhand strokes.
- 5. Explain to your leader or adult partner how spin affects the bounce of the ball.
- 6. Accurately set up a table tennis table and net according to USA Table Tennis rules.
- 7. Play five games of table tennis.
- 8. Participate in a table tennis skills development clinic.
- 9. Explain to your leader or adult partner how to score a table tennis game.
- 10. Participate in a game of doubles table tennis (four people playing in one game, two people per side).
Webelos Scouts that earn the Table Tennis Belt Loop while a Webelos Scout also satisfy part of requirement 3 for the Sportsman Activity Badge.


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The 20 New Personal Style Bloggers You Need To Know About
There are loads of talented people who are creating sites that are totally worth bookmarking—and we have 20 up-and-comers for you to peruse now. Some are fresh faces, other simply deserve a little more love, all are awesome in their own ways. So click through to see the next crop of personal style bloggers you should know now—you might just discover the next Chiara Ferragni in the mix!
The Olso, Norway-based personal style blogger has that minimalist Elin Kling-like Scandinavian style down pat. Always chic in a palette of muted grays, blacks, and whites—plus an occasional punch of leopard—Strand manages to make basics look incredible.
In a world in which so many street-style looks seem overbaked, Barcelona-based blogger Saray Martin is definitely different than the norm. Her relatively simple outfits are refreshingly realistic, plus she has that slept-in, perfectly rumpled, model-off-duty vibe we still can't get enough of.
Run by twins Fabliha and Tasfia Reza from Brisbane, Australia, this blog offers twice the stylish outfits to peruse. The sisters' looks are an excellent introduction to their country's best designers, as they are always wearing a mix of Aussie labels ranging from small brands like Friend of Mine and August Street to established brands like Ksubi.
A mini mogul in the making—she's a blogger and stylist, and has both a haircare and shoe line—the 24-year-old Danish blogger favors outfits that are uncomplicated, slightly louche, and very European. If you're wondering how to use Birkenstocks or sneakers to add a relaxed element to a fashion-forward outfit, she's your spirit guide.
Olivia Kijo definitely falls on the daring end of the spectrum. The Polish blogger isn't afraid to try dramatic silhouettes—like wildly wide jeans—and trends that the less bold would leave to the runway. Think: Man Repeller, but more austere.
Run by Sarah Mikaela (a part Danish, part Australian blogger living in London), the site features a mix of her relatively minimal, slightly tomboyish style—boxy coats, clean shift dresses, tailored shorts—showcased in lovely, personality-filled photos.
If you're a fan of Marc Jacobs' social media, you simply must see the personal site of the girl behind it: Tessa Mu. The New York-based social guru and style blogger launched her site Anecdoche two years ago—she styles, photographs, and creative directs the whole thing—and the aesthetic is totally clean and cohesive. We love the way she pairs vintage with H&M and Dior, plus a healthy splash of Marc Jacobs, of course, and are pretty certain you will too.
It's no secret that we're quite fond of Australian style and designers, and are especially keen on the country's blog scene too, including Mandi Lamattina's Melbourne-based site. She combines personal style photos—she likes a little bit of edge, and goes for fashion-insider favorites like Kenzo, Acne, and Balmain—with runway shots and trend roundups, so there's something for everyone.
Featuring San Francisco-based blogger Julia Engel, Gal Meets Glam is a little bit like the love child of Cupcakes & Cashmere meets Atlantic-Pacific. But don't get it twisted: Engel's definitely doing her own sweetly feminine-meets-classic California thing, and it's definitely worth checking out.
Okay, so technically Hallie Swanson should already be on your radar. The LA-based blogger is blowing up in the the personal style blogosphere, and just made Vanity Fair's International Best Dressed List, thanks to her often colorful, typically feminine sensibilities.
Sea of Shoes and Snob Essentials aren't the only amazing sites to come out of Dallas; Krystal Schlegel's blog is also on our up-and-coming radar. Personal style is only part of her focus; she also includes outfit collages, editorials, and some cute vacation/lifestyle photo roundups, too. If you like ladylike looks with a touch of edge, this girl's for you.
While the word "effortless" is hopelessly overused, it's really applicable to the way 21-year-old Amsterdam-raised, Paris-based blogger Lizzy van der Ligt creates her outfits. Featuring equal parts Zara and Isabel Marant, she assembles outfits that are wholly inspirational, but also seemingly easy enough to replicate. Also worth noting: she's got a fresh-faced look we just adore.
Although she posts jaw-dropping editorials and lookbooks most often, Nasty Gal's Senior Stylist Ashley Glorioso also gets in front of the lens from time to time. The result: outfits that have a West Coast cool girl vibe, with plenty of layered Pamela Love rosaries, oversized pendants, and enough turquoise jewelry to execute that desert-meets-downtown-tough-bohemian look just right.
There's something about the Amsterdam blogger Rebecca Laurey that just makes us happy. She seems like she's having fun, plus our editorial training appreciates her simple layouts and big, gorgeous photos. There's something a little Dree Hemingway-goes-on-a-European-vacation about Laurey's look, think: blazers, skinny jeans, Converse, and maybe a leather baseball cap.
Australians do a lot of things well, particularly a mix of sporty minimalism with plenty of sex appeal, as evidenced by Melbourne's Lisa Hamilton. Her great personal style shots—currently she's mad for mixed media, like sequins or leather with knits—are supplemented by beautifully curated imagery gathered from all over the web.
You can always expect colorful and exuberant outfits from the 23-year-old Geneva-based rising style star—a nice contrast to the recent spate of minimalist bloggers who wear only neutrals. Bakhitar always wearing the piece that is going to become your next purchase, so be sure to hide your credit card before visiting her site.
Josephine Meng is a 19-year-old Berlin-based blogger who highlights her edgy aesthetic with body chains, black leather, and knee-high boots. There's something a little Rihanna-esque about her look, think: jerseys, mesh dresses, always a lot of sex appeal. That said, Meng always does it in a fashion way—Alexander Wang, Alexander McQueen, and Givenchy are her favorite labels—which makes her blog one to keep tabs on.
If you, like us, love a combination of very clean lines and a high/low mix, you will definitely appreciate LA resident Ann Kim's site. She knows how to style Zara and Everlane with Celine and Alexander Wang in a most luxurious way—and make everything look both high-end and truly cohesive.
Pajama dressing, bold black and white stripes, exposed midriffs, sporty track pants, Birkenstocks, overalls, grunge—Zina Charkoplia of Barcelona's Fashion Vibe is not afraid of a trend, and with good reason. With model-like good looks and an eye for the latest looks, it's no wonder she's street style photographer and editor bait alike.


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Mayor Chris Beutler today announced the formation of the Mayor's Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Health Care Safety Net. The task force will address the increasing number of uninsured individuals in Lincoln who rely on "safety net" providers, such as community health centers, free clinics, hospitals, other nonprofit organizations, private physicians and local government.
"Lincoln's safety net providers are experiencing an increased demand for their services without a corresponding increase in revenues to meet this need," said Mayor Beutler. "The purpose of the task force will be to develop ambitious recommendations to make sure that a strong, coordinated and sustainable health care safety net catches the uninsured and low-income families in Lincoln."
Kim Russel, President and CEO of BryanLGH Health System, will chair the 26-member task force representing health care providers and policy makers, elected officials, ethnic and minority communities and nonprofits. The task force will be assisted by a group of advisors who are affiliated with local safety net providers.
"There is no question that Lincoln's health care safety net is under immense pressure," said Russel. "As the economy continues its bumpy ride, the health care safety net will only be further strained. That is why the work of the Mayor's task force is timely and urgent."
"Health care is assuming center stage in local, state and national conversations," said Lori Seibel, President and CEO of the Community Health Endowment of Lincoln, one of the agencies involved in the task force. "We believe that this effort represents a timely and strategic opportunity to examine Lincoln's local safety net system while keeping a close eye on the implications of national health care reform."
The task force will meet for the first time Friday, April 24 and is scheduled to release recommendations in six to eight months. Funding for the task force has been provided by Health Partners Initiative of Lincoln. Ellen Beck, who will coordinate the task force, has 15 years of experience in analyzing and reporting on health care policy and business. She can be reached at 436-5178 or email@example.com.


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But they're still awesome.
Here is the current list, which I am trying to back-source as I write this, which will be the actual point of a follow up post about tracking gifs down (otherwise I'd feel guilty).
Update: IT IS HARD! If you want to chime in with some information before I finish backtracking, be my guest).
The overused gifs are:
Better than the "sketti" gifs, I guess.
(via Tumblr, traced back to at least last year, when the show was peaking)
2. Sax playing walrus
The gif mashup 'Mythbusters' walrus gif was posted on Imgur at least 2 years ago.
Also, Walruses cannot play saxophones. MYTH BUSTED!
The gif mashup 'Mythbusters' walrus gif was posted on Imgur at least 2 years ago.
Also, Walruses cannot play saxophones. MYTH BUSTED!
(via Photobucket, with 4Gifs.com watermark)
3. Colbert dancing behind man in suit.
The man in suit is Barney Frank, then a Congressman, appearing on "The Colbert Report"'s in November 2005 after Colbert's second "Better Know A District" segment, originally airing Oct. 25, 2005.
(via Imgur)
4. Colbert techno/rave dance
Many a dubstep track has been mashed with this.
(via Imgur)
5. Bane dancing
(via Imgur, with senorgif.com watermark) The Batman would not nod at this.
6. Neil Patrick Harris and Elmo
Yes that's NPH with Elmo. True story.
(via Imgur, from Sesame Street.)
7. Fresh Prince Will Smith dancing in bedroom with drummer
(via Imgur)
8. Preacher turns into a jet
(via Imgur)
9. Camping WASP family wearing Snuggies.
(via Imgur)
10. Spider-man dancing
60's Spider-man would probably say some nasty things about this.
(via Imgur)
11. Dancing two-man zebra
(via Imgur)
12. Obama and Romney headbanging
(via Imgur)
13. Patrick on a pony ride
(via Tumblr)
14. Colin Mochrie raptor dance
(via Imgur)
15. Cartoon bird & raccoon Snoop dance
(via Imgur)
16. Dr. Who in the rain
(via Imgur)
17. Obi-Wan blue screen drive
(via Tumblr)
18. Miguel playing guitar
Can be mashed with any Mumford & Sons song.
(via Imgur).
19. Middle-aged man and woman disco dancing
(via Imgur)
20. Ned Flanders freaking out
(This one goes back to at least 2011 as well), mashed most time with Daft Punk's "Technologic."
(via chongas.com)
21. Older man moving eyebrows
(via Imgur)
22. Chubby shirtless boy dancing
(via Imgur, with 4gifs.com watermark)
23. Batman and Robin head nod.
At least they're not running away from things.
(via tumblr)
All the way to the end?
Now, play this as you scroll back up.
This post is also a test to see if or when this post gets ripped off somewhere else. And, yes, I'm channelling my inner Buzzfeed, but I'm trying to see how hard it would be to have one of its posts sourced all the way to the original, which might be time-prohibitive or impossible.


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This web site is dedicated to the comic strip created by William Donahey in 1914, which appeared in the Chicago Tribune (and several other papers) until the author's retirement and death in 1970. I met and fell in love with the little people, only two inches high, in 1955, and began collecting them in 1965. I have written several essays about the Teenie Weenies which I share with like-minded friends - now I'm going public with my 45-year-plus love affair.
Here are some of the things you will find on my web-site
1. The History of the Teenie Weenies
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Upaya Newsletter: Zen Brain Reflections, January 12, 2009
"Of all the things I've lost, it's my mind I miss the most."
- Ozzy Osbourne, quoted in Foolish Words: The Most Stupid Words Ever Spoken
"Not-knowing is most intimate."
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The difficulty is to realize
Ludwig Wittgenstein
As our Zen Brain scientists meditated with us throughout the days of this remarkable program, we were reminded again and again that scientific investigation is going through a powerful transformation at this time. Richie Davidson said it clearly: "I am engaging in scientific research to end suffering." On Friday night, for example, Roshi Joan's passionate talk about the profound need for bringing forward this perspective on the mind and these practices into medicine, education and politics lit up the room. This theme was further explored by Dr. Davidson and our faculty later Friday evening as the issue of animal research was honestly and skillfully addressed. This question, among others, is driving an important change and highlighted the insight that science without compassion as a base does not make sense in our world today.
In these five intense days together, we as well explored the neural substrates of various forms of meditation, epistemology and selflessness, systems theory, philosophy, and the application of neuroresearch. Participants spoke about their own research and applications of contemplative interventions in settings as diverse as Gaza, AIDS work, prisons, addiction work, and more.
Zen Brain will again be offered January 20-24, 2010. The ongoing investigation of neural substrates of virtuous mental states, nonself, compassion, and epistomology form a conceptual and inspirational base of our practice here at Upaya.
Photo by Yushin of Zen Brain Retreat
January 11, 2008
The Logic of Selflessness and Compassion. Reflections on Zen Brain (January 7 – 11, 2009)
Photo (left to right): Al Kaszniak, Jim Austin, Roshi Joan, Neil Theise, Evan Thompson, Richie Davidson
Not one single atom opposes us."
Public Dharma Talk: Jan 14, 2009 (5:30 PM): Sensei Beate Genko Stolte
This week, beginning Monday, January 12, we will be in sesshin. At 5:30 pm on Jan 12, we will be doing oriyoki instruction. You are welcome to come to oriyoki instruction. Note, the usual meditation will not take place at this time.
Begining Tuesday, January 13, the Zendo will be open to the public for Zazen at our normal 7:00 am and 5:30 pm periods. There will be no 12:20 pm sit during the Winter Practice Period.
Photo of Sensei Beate Stolte
The great silences of the desert are not void of sound,
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Join us for Winter Practice Period with Roshi Joan Halifax, Sensei Kaz Tanahashi, Sensei Beate Stolte.
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Kazuaki Tanahashi teaches at Upaya several times a year. A master calligrapher, author of many books, translater of Zen Master Dogen, and dedicated social activist, he brings to the Zen Center his rich wisdom, wonderful humor, and great creativity. Many of his calligraphies can be found at Upaya, including the spectacular gold enso in the foyer of the Upaya House.
Kaz has worked closely with Roshi Joan on numerous projects, like the Bearing Witness at Nanjing program, translations of Dogen and sutras, and art events at Upaya and around Santa Fe. Kaz was born in Japan, lived as a young man with Aikido Master Ueshiba, was an early translator of Dogen in Japanese, and has lived in the United States since 1977. He has had many solo exhibitions of his calligraphic paintings nationally and internationally and has taught East Asian calligraphy all over the world. Also a peace and environmental worker for decades, he is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. We are honored that Kaz is a close friend of Upaya.
Jan 23, 2009 - Jan 29, 2009 SESSHIN: Invisible Enlightenment: Dogen's Path of Nonduality with Roshi Joan Halifax. Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi, Sensei Beate Genko Stolte http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=174
Jan 30, 2009 - Feb 01, 2009 ZEN PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP ON BRUSH SAMADHI with Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi. http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=175
Mar 19 — Apr 02, 2009: Japan, with Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi: An extraordinary journey exploring the roots of Buddhism at Dogen's Eiheiji Monastery and more.
Aug 21, 2009 — Aug 27, 2009 SESSHIN: On Dogen's Circle of the Way
Aug 28, 2009 — Aug 30, 2009 CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP: Brush, Mind, Body, Each Other Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi
Dec 01, 2009 — Dec 08, 2009 ROHATSU SESSHIN: Buddha's Enlightenment
For an interview with Kaz by David Chadwick (author of Crooked Cucumber), see: http://www.cuke.com/Cucumber%20Project/interviews/tanahashi.html
UPCOMING PROGRAMS: February, March
"Don't prolong the past. Don't invite the future. Don't alter your innate wakefulness. Don't fear appearances. There is nothing more than that!"
Patrul Rinpoche
February 22: Zazenkai A day-long silent meditation retreat provides us with the experience of deep periods of uninterrupted meditation, led by Sensei Beate Genko Stolte. For more information and to register: http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=176
March 13-15: Fundraising from the Heart with Lynne Twist and Roshi Joan Halifax This workshop, taught by one of the leading experts on philanthropy, equips non-profit leaders with the skills needed to transform fund development efforts. We examine the sacred art and science of fundraising and develop a new ability to raise funds from and for the heart of your organization's mission. For more information and to register: http://www.upaya.org/programs/event.php?id=179
Photo: Zazen in the Circle of the Way Temple, by Richard Miller
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
There are many ways to be at Upaya... come for a personal retreat, volunteer your time, or apply for our Path of Service Program.
Personal Retreat/Guest Practitioner: Quiet, still, peaceful -- Upaya is a special place in February with intimate rooms, kiva fireplaces and breathtaking views. Spend some time here and find your own rhythm. To learn more about enjoying a peronal retreat or coming as a guest practitioner, call 505-986-8518 X12 or visit: http://www.upaya.org/programs/being-at-upaya.php
Volunteer for at our front desk, kitchen, or in housekeeping. Our volunteer program is intended for people who wish to help Upaya in exchange for retreat participation; it is non-residential. A $10.00 hourly rate is credited for your work and a maximum of 80% of the tuition may be earned and must be earned in advance of the event. Contact Roberta 505 986 8518, ext 12 or email@example.com
Path of Service: Live in a practice community for three months to a year in the historic east valley of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Enjoy and learn from the precious opportunity to receive teachings from Roshi Joan and many other extraordinary teachers; hear weekly seminars and dharma talks; attend dokusan and retreats, and experience the deep joy of living in community. Click here for more information: http://www.upaya.org/about/path-of-service.php
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice.
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Fayan was going on pilgrimage. Dizang said: Where are you going?" Fayang said, "Around on pilgrimage." "What is the purpose of the pilgrimage?" And Fayang said, "I don't know." Then Dizang said, "Not knowing is most intimate...."
Mar 19 — Apr 02, 2009: Japan, with Sensei Kazuaki Tanahashi: An extraordinary journey exploring the roots of Buddhism at Dogen's Eiheiji Monastery and more.
As a bee seeks nectar from all kind of flowers, seek teachings everywhere.
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• Roshi Joan's Blog: http://jhalifax.gaia.com/blog
• Roshi's photosite: http://www.flickr.com/photos/upaya/
• Upaya Zen Center Facebook site: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Santa-Fe-NM/Upaya-Zen-Center/28759143075?ref=mf
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• New Facebook page for Chaplaincy: Please join: http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=44265440741
•The Chinese filmmaker Kam Sung has made a fascinating and visually poetic account of Roshi Joan in Tibet. A high-resolution version on DVD is now available from Upaya. Email at email@example.com or call 505-986-8518 to order.
Photo of Roshi Joan at the Refuge
Roshi's new book, Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death can be ordered from Amazon. The book is a powerful exploration of nearly 40 years of contemplative work with dying people.
"In the ages marked by scarcity and want, may I myself appear a drink and sustenance."
Shantideva, Guide to the Bodhisattva's Life
Priest Ordinations: We are happy to announce the upcoming Novice Priest ordinations of Ray Olson, Amy Frankowski, and Patrick Rentsch, January 29, Thursday 11 am. Please join us for the ceremony and celebration lunch!
New Residents: We are very happy to welcome Amanda Karg as a new resident at Upaya. She has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Los Angeles and has practiced Vipassana as well as Zen Buddhism in Santa Monica. Amanda has also lived in an intentional Permaculture community in Hawaii. While at Upaya, Amanda works on our housekeeping team and in the gardens when spring comes. Welcome, Amanda! We also congratulate Cameron Phelps on making a one-year commitment as a Resident here at Upaya!
Happy Continuation Day: Roshi Bernie Glassman celebrates his 70th birthday this coming weekend. We wish him a long, healthy and joyful life and thank him for his great work in the dharma.
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At Upaya last week, we looked at human kindness through the lens of neuroscience. Sociology and economics also have a perspective on kindness -- social capital.
No matter the lens, we could use a lot more kindness in our complicated world. Between Madoff and the Gaza plus so many other acts of human stupidity and selfishness, everything we can do to engender compassion should be done. We need to understand the neural substrates of empathy and compassion and as well to implement compassion in our lives, through practice and direct action.
Some views on social capital:
"Whereas physical capital refers to physical objects and human capital refers to the properties of individuals, social capital refers to connections among individuals – social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them." (Bowling Alone, Putnam, 2000)
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Before Sokei-an came to America, when he was just beginning his study of Zen, his teacher arranged a meeting for him with Soyen Shaku.
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As I prepare to decorate many graves of loved ones, I am mindful of one special person who was in my life. The final resting places of our ancestors are special.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Love of My Life
As I prepare to decorate many graves of loved ones, I am mindful of one special person who was in my life. The final resting places of our ancestors are special.
My dearest husband ...
As I decorate your grave this first Memorial Day after your death, I am mindful of how quickly this first year has gone. Day by day after you left me, I thought the days could not be any longer. They passed so slowly and each step I took seemed painfully sluggish. What was I supposed to do with my life? An empty life without you in it. It was a life that I had known for almost forty-six years with you, by my side, in my arms, my thoughts and in my waking and sleeping moments. Now as quickly as I could blink my eyes, you were gone from me.
Four days before your death, you told me that I should resume my genealogical research, my passion for genealogy, my writing, teaching and lecturing. You knew that you were not going to be with me much longer. I had cared for you for three years. We cried together, laughed together and prayed together. After you left, I knew each day that I must return to my genealogy. I knew you were proud of me and my work. Each day I grew stronger and more secure in what I was doing.
There is not a day that goes by when I am researching ancestors, mine and those of others, that I do not think of you. All the memories of our life together come rushing back. Like a surge of energy, I know you are here guiding and encouraging me. You will always be here in my heart, my mind and soul. I know you are with the ages and those wonderful ancestors and relatives who paved the way for us and our life together.
You are still the love of my life! .... Ruby
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Oh Mom, That is so very touching. I think of Dad and miss him every day too! I know he is watching over us and giving you the guidance you so much deserve with your genealogy! He is still TRYING to guide me too! We love him and miss him very much!
We all love you very much to!
Love your daughter Susie, granddaughter Tyrah and grandson Joshua
- May 21, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Ruby, I have found your blog "googling" Genealogy Lines, trying to come up with a title for my own blog! I also love genealogy and have been delving into it for the past 20 years, with more emphasis the last 10. Your letter to your husband is so touching, so heartfelt, and sincere it's hard not to put myself in your shoes. Thank you for your work and may God bless you and your family.
- May 29, 2008 at 10:19 AM
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David Kitz created the first prototype for L-Lamp in a ceramics class at UCLA. As most lamps spend their lives in the dark Kitz set out to design something that would be visually interesting even when not in use. Paying close attention to the aesthetics of his industrial components he combines a filament bulb with porcelain socket and handmade ceramic base. Either as a desk lamp or wall sconce the L-Lamp is a compact lighting companion with nostalgic charm."
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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
First, Taylor Swift responded to Amy Poehler's jokes. Now Poehler is responding to Swift's response. I wrote Tuesday (March 5) that Swift told Vanity Fair magazine there's "a special place in hell for women who don't help other women," a possible reference about Poehler and her co-host Tina Fey making Swift's love life the butt of their jokes at the their Golden Globe Awards. (Fey had joked that Swift could use some "me time" to learn about herself.) But it was Poehler who was one of the first responders. After hearing about Swift's "hell" comment, Poehler told the Hollywood Reporter how she felt. "Aw, I feel bad if she was upset. I am a feminist, and she is a young and talented girl," she said. "That being said, I do agree I am going to hell. But for other reasons. Mostly boring tax stuff." Both Poehler and Swift are such good role models for girls of all ages, they would probably see eye to eye on everything if this little joke hadn't gotten in the way.


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Marion Wildlife Area News
Waterfowl Hunters MUST Do Their Part To Stop The Spread Of Zebra Mussels:
Wood Cutting on Marion Wildlife Area:
Waterfowl Hunters need to help stop the Zebra Mussel:
With waterfowl season just around the corner, hunters need to be aware that Marion Reservoir now is infested with Zebra Mussels. Hunters need to follow three simple steps to ensure they do not spread these invasive mussels to other bodies of water. CLEAN, DRAIN, DRY:
- Hunters should clean and remove all visible vegetation, mud and debris from decoy's, bags, waders, boats, and any other equipment that gets wet.
- All water should be drained from boats, decoys and decoy bags, etc. Research has found that vellegers (young Zebra Mussels), which are microscopic, are transported in large volumes of water.
- Hunters should allow their equipment to dry for a 5 day period before returning to their favorite duck hunting spots. However, if hunters wanted to hunt before that, they can run through the car wash and hose their equipment down with high-pressure, hot water.
If hunters take a few minutes to inspect their equipment before leaving Marion Reservoir, they will keep Zebra Mussels out of other bodies of water.
Wood Cutting on Marion Wildlife Area:
This winter, KDWPT have sheared trees in a few spots around the wildlife area. These trees have been piled to be burnt at a later date. If you are interested in cutting some of the wood for personal use, a wood cutting permit is required. You can pick up this free permit at KDWPT headquarters located at Broken Bridge.


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Ness is in the north part of the island, the west coast is known as the West side. Uig is in the far west bordering Harris and Lochs is in the South. Point is the peninsula to the east of Stornoway and Back is directly to the north of Stornoway on the east coast.
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Religion still plays an important part in many people's lives. In Lewis and Harris this is often in the form of Protestant Free Presbyterian Churches. As a result the Sabbath (Sunday) is respected, so you are unlikely to find shops etc open on a Sunday. Activities happening on a Sunday often are opposed locally.
The Gaelic language and culture is appealing. At a practical level this means that place names on road signs are in Gaelic, but the bus timetables use the English names! Gaelic is widely spoken, but locals are happy to change to English if a visitor joins the conversation.
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Caledonian MacBrayne, [1]. The national ferry service. Citylink coaches generally connect with the ferries on the mainland. Details below are for Summer 2011:
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There are good bus services during the day Mon - Sat, but little in the evening and no buses on a Sunday. Western Isles bus timetables [2].
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There are many fine sandy beaches, mainly on the Western side.
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Kite surfing and buggying at Uig Bay
Scotland is becoming increasingly popular as a surfing destination. Despite the lower temperatures compared to traditional surf spots, Lewis offers clean, beautiful and empty beaches and arguably the best breaks in Europe. Lewis offers both west and east coast surf spots, giving a good choice of locations for a variety of wind directions.
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See Stornoway for accommodation there. More rural places are listed here.
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Some can be found on the tourist board website [8], but many are no longer listed due to the charges and "hassle".
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Renting a house for a week or more is a popular option. Such places are generally let from Saturday to Saturday. Some of these can be found on the tourist board website [10].
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Fisheries biologists use microchip tags to gain knowledge about the natural history of the mighty muskellunge.
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Discover the ways wild animals survive winter's frigid temperatures.
Shedding Light on a Conservation Officer's Job
A conservation officer shares a night of adventure in pursuit of justice.
Genetics and Fisheries Management
Studying a fish's genes can help anglers in the long run.
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Thanks. I got a hi-res one that I can put on here as well.
Here is the final and hi-res one ready to use. Not sure about the spacer at the end, but I tried to incorporate some room to accommodate the search bar, but you can always crop it out or I can delete the image and just make a blank blue area that you can expand.
8th ave wrote:Great job, man. Is there a better picture of Bogut that we can find, though? He sort of looks like a child predator to me in that photo.
I agree with 8th. That photo of Bogut is going to give children nightmares. Creepy. The rest looks awesome. Well done.
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With Bogut being limited in games, its hard to find pics of him, but I'll look around and try to find a better one.
Its hard to find a pic of Bogut in his Grizzly Adams beard while not looking like a pedophile.


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2001-12-13 / Obituaries
Thomas Lozada, former firefighter and son of local residents
When Javier and Madelaine Lozada had their first child, a son Thomas, Javier was struck with the tremendous responsibility of being a good father. He thought about how he could go about giving his son direction in his life and decided the best thing to do was to immerse him in sports.
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
The Fine Art
of after Illustration
Ten years later, this typical 1964 issue of the Post has gone on a diet. Instead of 170 pages, it weighs in at only 92. The total count of all types of illustrations: 10.
Extrapolate this change in illustration usage across all magazine publishing and it becomes easy (and alarming) to see that employment opportunities for magazine illustrators plummeted over the course of a decade. It might even be fair to describe the decline as "catastrophic."
In the '50s, advertising clients (who provided the best paying work for illustrators) sought out well known illustration mainstays like Edwin Georgi (below, right) featuring their work in major national print campaigns. Smaller market, anonymous 'journeyman' illustrators could make a decent living providing illustrations in a variety of styles for clients who purchased small-space ads, like the ones on the LH page, over many pages in the back of consumer magazines like the Post.
Ten years later, very few major ad campaigns were using illustration ... and small space ads had all but disappeared from the Post's pages.
Rubbing salt in the wound was the change in page design.
In 1954 (and during most of the '50s) multiple double page spreads featuring gorgeous artwork by the likes of Joe DeMers, Coby Whitmore, Joe Bowler and others were a common weekly feature in the Post, Ladies Home Journal, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, etc.
By 1957 Collier's was gone - along with a raft of other magazines - and by the early 1960s the Post (and many other magazines) had redesigned their page layouts in a way that didn't often allow for lavish displays of illustration... of any kind.
Illustration (when present at all) was more typically relegated to isolated islands of colour in a sea of white space and separated by multiple columns of type.
Interestingly, this particular 1964 issue of the Post features artwork by Jan Balet - a veteran Collier's illustrator who could never manage to get his work in The Saturday Evening Post during the '50s.
Like many other prominent mid-century illustrators, Balet must have seen that times were changing. Even the occasional assignment like this one could not sustain a career built on the 1950s illustration economy model. Many illustrators found refuge from the shifting fortunes of the magazine industry by refocusing his energies on establishing a presence in the fine arts market.
Jan Balet moved to Europe and successfully produced paintings, limited edition prints and lithographs for the remainder of his career.
Close friends and former Cooper Studio artist associates, Joe Bowler, Joe DeMers and Coby Whitmore all moved to Hilton Head Island, where they also pursued fine arts opportunities.
Joe Bowler, the youngest of the trio, became a renowned portrait painter. A series of illustrations of fashions for young girls (one example below), which Bowler did for McCall's in 1960, was pivotal in the transition. Its publication brought Bowler his first requests to paint the portraits of children of prominent families.
Bowler continued painting and showing new work - even as recently as March of this year. His fine art paintings can be see on his website.
There was also an exodus of illustrators to the South West - where many became well established ( and well compensated ) painters of 'western art.'
Don Crowley, another Cooper Studio alumnus told me, "[An old friend] visited me in Connecticut. He was opening a gallery in Tucson featuring western art... and that sounded kind of intriguing. So I sent out a couple of paintings and he sold one. And it really sounded like it might be a new direction for me."
There are too many more examples to list here - but suffice it to say, there are many. In his autobiography, "My Adventures as an Illustrator," Norman Rockwell wrote, "It is rare to find an artist who is successful at one and the same time in commercial and fine art."
At a time when many under-employed illustrators needed an exit strategy, transitioning to fine art after doing commercial art proved to be very successful.
* This evening from 7 to 9 pm I'll be in Toronto at The Nook giving a talk about mid-century illustrators whom I've written about over the last six years. I'll share stories and anecdotes - some from my research but also many from personal interviews I've conducted with many Canadian and American illustrators of the mid-20th century. I'll be looking at changing styles and technology and how both have impacted the business of illustration over the last half century. Perhaps we can learn something from the lessons of the past... or perhaps we are doomed to repeat it.
Also, there will be treats.
If you think you might like to attend, the details are at The Nook Collective website
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Any idea who did the Phillip Morris ad? It's breathtaking.ReplyDelete
I wonder if illustration could get a shot in the arm through the likes of the iPad/tablets. The comics industry sounds like they are having some success through apps like Comixology and Apple's Newstand seems to be moving magazines, too: http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2395329,00.asp.
Anonymous, that's the work of Edwin Georgi -- and you can see quite a few more pieces by him in my Flickr archives:ReplyDelete
I've been wondering about the cause of this for a while now. Do you think it mirrors the rise of electronic media like Television? It seems there is a current parallel with the internet and gallery art. The last ten years shows a drop in people able to make a living as gallery artists anymore (sorry, I hate the phrase fine art).
It seems personal media allows the easy spread of content and people stop wanting to pay for it because of its abundance. You see this in News organizations too that use amateur film in newscasts now and the lack of investigative staff writers in local markets.
Leif, I hope your talk went well. Will it be posted on the internet?ReplyDelete
You really are an inspiration.
Wish I was in Toronto to attend your talk.
Best of luck with it.
Armand; That's a very astute observation, in my opinion. One I was planning on exploring in today's post. Yes, I do believe there's a parallel situation today to what happened half a century ago with the emergence of new media technology. TV and photography captured the attention of the public, the dollars spent by advertisers, and the efforts of creative workers and those related to their industries.ReplyDelete
The process has been cycling through again with the arrival of the personal computer, the Internet and most recently, personal mobile devices like smartphones and tablets.
(I agree about that term 'fine arts' as well, by the way. I debated with myself about whether 'gallery painting' might be a better description of what I was referring too. ;^)
The talk went extremely well! I think about 25 people attended - a full house for the space (a very nice space!) and the audience was very warm, attentive, and receptive. I brought 4 hours worth of material to a 2 hour lecture! Ugh! A great discussion followed.
The good folks at The Nook made a valiant effort at live-streaming the talk and apparently some people saw it, but unfortunately I don't think a recording was successfully made.
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We skied and snowboarded for two days in St. Johann in Tirol at Berg Bahnen. Surprise, surprise- but skiing the Austrian Alps did not disappoint. Definitely the best skiing of my life. The snow was perfect even for late season, spring skiing. The runs were probably on average 15 minutes long. Amazing compared to the short runs we were used to on the east coast on the Appalachian mountains. The first day we got our "ski legs" back and mostly stayed toward the bottom half of the mountain. I have to admit I was a little timid to go to the top of the mountain in THE ALPS. Ross probably would have gone all the way up on his second run, but by the end of the day we made it to the top of the mountain and it wasn't that bad. Turns out we're not shabby skiers/snowboarders for east coast Americans. :) We held our own and didn't embarrass ourselves by falling in front of these European pros.
Added benefit of skiing from the top of the mountain..... the view.
We also took a couple videos on my waterproof Olympus camera. It's an older camera and not the best quality, but I'm still glad we decided to film our trip. In the first video Ross started filming at the top of the mountain. Amazing video! The second video I took of Ross snowboarding down the bottom half of the mountain. Enjoy! :)


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Comments on A Standardista's Alphabet
by Jack Pickard
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You write, "Konqueror is part of the KDE and claimed to have been the first browser to pass the Acid2 test for CSS rendering compliance (although it has been claimed that it failed to apply a rule properly)"
I don't recall Konqueror making any such claim. Even then it would have been silly, as development builds of Safari had passed a month earlier:
* April 27, 2005: Internal builds of Safari pass.
* June 5, 2005: Development builds of Konqueror pass.
* October 31, 2005: Safari 2.0.2 passes
* November 29, 2005: Konqueror 3.5 passes
Sources at http://www.hyperborea.org/journal/archives/2005/11/01/acid2-timeline/
haha, very funny. Here's a another one: "P is for 'pinch of salt', what the article should be taken with".
If I point out that the latin classification (_Standistus argumentatavum maximus_) *must* be marked up as i instead of em — does that make me a _Standistus argumentatavum maximus_ or am I just an idiot who should go out more often?
Nice joke, man ;)
Of course Z should be for Zeldman.
Great compilation Jack!
I love the GrayBit thingy.
I loaded some sites with their engine and besides being helpful as an accessibility tool, it also gives a sense of nostalgia.
Very cool indeed.
Z is for Zen Garden, of course
Is it just me, or there are a lot of sites that look far better after you run them through Graybit?
Kudos to you, Jack, for putting all of this in such a good light. And kudos to the ALA for publishing it!
@Tomas: Don't forget the lang="la" on that <i> element ;-)
@Mauricio: Funny, like the old "I Love Lucy" episodes.
@Michelangelo: How true!
For users on OS X, "Sim Daltonism":http://www.michelf.com/projects/sim-daltonism/ is a fantastic tool.
Nevermind, that'd be PigLatin I suppose ;-)
lang="~la" perhaps?
Great article Jack… perfectly balanced.
*L* is for *Lynx*, one of the most sophisticated browsers the web has ever seen. Lesser standardistas would have heard of Lynx, but would not have actually used it, as it requires using a command-line interface, and _nobody_ (except for wild-haired geeks with hexagonal glasses) does that anymore. Greater standardistas would claim that no web site can truly call itself accessible until it has been tested on Lynx (by someone else, such as a lesser standardista).
*N* is for ... um ... what was that other browser? You know the one - nep ... net ... something or other. I could have sworn I knew its name in 1998; but now, when I try to recall it, the only thing that comes to mind is a tombstone, with these words engraved on it: _this memory has been erased from your brain; for further enquiries, please contact Microsoft support_. Oh well, I guess some things are "best left to the past":http://www.scottandrew.com/ns42002/
Konqueror was not the first to pass Acid2, but rather Safari. A KHTML developer was even quite miffed at the expectation that Konqueror would magically pass as soon as Apple released its changes. WebCore, the Safari rendering engine, is now a separate branch of KHTML.
Had a good laugh at this one. :) Nice job, Jack.
Konqueror and Safari both used the same rendering engine (kHTML), so distinctions between older version Safari and Konqueror are splitting hairs at best. Supposedly they're re-converging now.
H for handcoding:
Let's face it. Anyone who really wants a great standards-compliant website knows that without handcoding you're just lost.
Design tools are there to help prototype page design etc… but for the finishing touch keep your "vi" handy.
M for Microsoft:
Microsoft is one of the greatest standard plattform out there. Let's not forget this.
H for handcoding:
Let's face it. Anyone who really wants a great standards-compliant website knows that without handcoding you're just lost.
Design tools are there to help prototype page design etc… but for the finishing touch keep your "vi" handy.
M for Microsoft:
Microsoft is one of the greatest standard plattform out there. Let's not forget this.
if A is not for ala, then Z must be for zeldman for bringing this great alistapart. what say u?;)
for me is G for Google not for Grayscale ;)
Brilliant Jack! Just the way to end my virtual evening.
One comment about G is for Greyscale…that is so very 1999…in WCAG 2.0 we will get to use the Lumonisty Contrast Ratio….perhaps G can be for Gez Lemon who is my hero for creating the Colour Contrast Analyser Firefox Extension!
*Z* - is for *Zealot*
Zealot like standards zealot, Maczealot etc.
Whatever people think about Google, they're big and just getting bigger. I never used to be a fan, but they generally just do things right.
Nice article by the way, really enjoyed it and learnt a few things along the way.
This is a great primer for those new to web standards. And it was a pleasant lunch-read for a seasoned veteran like myself.
Nice work, Jack!
Zeldman? O is for Orange book.
Which open source licenses don't let you charge for your product?
Great work Jack!
I'll bookmark this to read every time I start taking things a bit too seriously…
Great work Jack!
I'll bookmark this to read every time I start taking things a bit too seriously…


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If you thought nothing could amplify your feverish excitement for the arrival of The Avengers, these new T-shirts could prove you wrong. WeLoveFine has selected the winners in its Avengers T-shirt design contest, and they include some pretty sweet art by Dean Trippe and a host of other great artists. Check out the winning designs below.
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"Assemble" by Antony Rozwadowski
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"Avengers Assembled" by Dean Trippe
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"Avengers Inked" by Jerry Bennett
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"Avengers Nouveau" by Timothy Lim
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"Avengers Revolution" by Dominick Cabalo
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"Assembly Required" by Russell Conway
"The 8-Bit Avengers" by Drew Wise
"Avengers" by Phillip Giarusso
"The Mighty Fonts" by Brian Kesinger
"Little Avengers" by Mandolin Basinger
The winning Avengers T-shirts are available over at WeLoveFine.


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WTVC 9.2 Fox Chattanooga provides local news, weather forecasts, entertainment programming and notices of items of interest to the southeastern Tennessee community including East Ridge, East Brainerd, Ooltweah, Middle Valley, Cleveland, Georgetown, Hopewell, Dayton, Dunlap and Jasper, Tennessee, and Oglethorpe, Chickamauga and Dalton, Georgia, Bridgeport and Stevenson, Alabama.


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Part frustration with banal programming and part fascination with the television image itself, this series has grown with my conviction that TV still has the power to amaze us, eluding our best efforts to lock down and commodify its meanings.
The events described by these photographs have been
shaped through layers of representation generated by the media and processes
involvedfilm, video, cable signal, scrambled signal, and unknowable
2nd- and 3rd-generation conversions. But for me they exist best as photographs,
their protean fluctuations held still and subjected to a more contemplative
gaze than we normally bring to the television image. As such they are
documentsrecords of visual events that flickered across my screen
and that I acknowledged with a click of the shutter because they spoke
to me of strange processes, lost landscapes, and the renewed potential
for discovery in the living room.
May 2002


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Most things in life require energy. From the refrigerator and the microwave to the iPhone and the iPad; nearly everything we touch uses some form of embedded energy. Cloud computing is no different, except in one crucial respect: it's the most efficient — and energy-efficient — form of computing yet invented.
This fact is worth keeping in mind amid the confusion spread lately by some writers who observe that cloud data centers consume lots of electricity and assume that's a negative development. Rackspace uses 0.00081 percent of the world's energy to deliver one of the most innovative and flexible cloud portfolios that provides social and economic benefits for over 180,000 customers.
Of the more than 7 billion people on the planet, 80 percent have access to electricity, 75 percent have cell phones and yet only 35 percent have Internet access. It's an unprecedented time of global innovation and instantaneous knowledge sharing. Computing and data center companies continue to meet the demand to connect, communicate and exchange information. Innovations like the cloud are key to insuring that growth becomes more efficient.
Computing gets more efficient and specialists like Rackspace know how to do it best.
We at Rackspace think about sustainability in a holistic manner, and we want to share a few thoughts specifically about how we think about the power we use. We are specialists in driving infrastructure at scale. It's at the core of our business.
Powering our business: every watt counts!
Rackspace is acutely aware of the cost of power. It's one of our biggest expenses. We actively manage energy spending to drive value for customers and efficiency for our business. Every watt Rackspace uses is tracked — It came from somewhere (a power company, a generator) and it went somewhere (an office, a data center to power a server or power infrastructure). Understanding our power use helps us identify new ways to conserve resources – both natural and financial. Our Global Energy Team comprises sustainability, finance, sourcing and data center experts and sets the company strategy and policy focused on renewable energy, advocacy and efficiency.
Investing in renewable energy
Rackspace purchases 25 percent renewable energy worldwide (and our UK data center and office are powered by 100 percent renewable energy). We evaluate existing and potential data center sites to understand our impact before we invest and built it into our long term plans. We evaluate sources of purchasing additional renewable energy and generating renewable energy to move more of our energy demand off the grid completely.
We continually take steps to improve energy efficiency and reduce consumption of other natural resources. Whenever possible, we select data centers in cooler climates and choose energy efficient facilities and hardware allowing us to deliver more computing performance per watt. Our recently announced data center in Australia will be among our most efficient.
When it comes to our product portfolio, our Global Infrastructure Team matches the expected workloads to the hardware and infrastructure build-outs to look at reliability and performance per watt. This approach drives efficiency throughout our operation — from building location and materials, HVAC, power distribution, containment, virtualization and compute performance per watt. Even the software that runs on machines makes each generation of computing more efficient. We expect our work with The Open Compute Project to yield additional benefits in this area going forward.
One thing that really has moved the needle for efficiency is virtualization. It lets us consolidate the work of many systems to function on fewer servers and delivers efficiencies in memory, hard drives and processors, as well as in power consumption. Our annual reports indicate that from 2009 to 2011 our total customers have grown by 90 percent but our number of servers has grown by only 41 percent.
Our advocacy strategy enables us to work with upstream partners and providers to continue to improve the long term outlook of reliable, affordable clean energy. We see it as a way to sustainably deliver value to our customers.
A word on generators
On-site generators provide important back-up power for our data centers, but part of our efficiency strategy is to NOT run them unless we need to. Given total costs to purchase, maintain, test and fuel them, generators are more expensive per KWH than purchasing power off the grid. They are a backup plan used by mission critical services in cities, hospitals and factories around the world in case they're needed for short amounts of time. No one running a mission critical enterprise wants to be on backup power for very long. As a company, we track our emissions from power, generators, business travel and even the commute Rackers take to work. It's all part of the bigger picture: emissions matter and continually driving down our intensity is an important business metric.
Bottom line: Power is integral to our customers, we take it seriously and we manage it well.
P.S. Rackspace was also recently named to the 2012 Dow Jones Sustainability North American Indexes (DJSI), which rates the 2,500 largest companies in the Dow Jones Global Index based on economic, environmental and social performance. I'll talk about that more in my next post.


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MOTU Fearless Photog by ~CJEdwardsArt on deviantART
An aspiring astrophysicist, quantum engineer and trusted apprentice to Gwildor, one of Eternia's greatest scientific minds, Jey often dreamed of life as a member of the Masters of the Universe in the desperate fight to free his home world from the tyranny of Skeletor.
His dream became a reality when he was personally selected by Man-At-Arms, along with five other promising inventors by the science council to journey to Eternos to present his latest creation; the Photog Emulator. A powerful neutrino based light manipulating device, capable of forming powerful constructs from pure light to aid in building complex structures in low gravity environments, as well as a variety of other focus light related applications. Unfortunately it seemed the universe was not without a sense of cruel irony, and Jey's dream quickly became a living nightmare.
During the presentation, a slight miscalculation led to a flux overload, unleashing an energy field which reacted with a strange mystical artifact brought to the convention by an unseen assassin employed to kill the greatest minds in Eternia. Though the assassin's attempt on the science council was foiled, the combination of energy and magic had a life restoring effect, merging Jey on the atomic level with his own invention, and imbuing him with life. Unable to cope with his condition, Jey became highly unstable, and disappeared from the scientific community of which he had dedicated his life, requiring years of deep preparative therapy under the care of a beautiful nurse, whom he came to love. Though he was more machine than man, they shared a deep friendship, a connection that few understood. Further misfortune was wrought upon Jey, when he lost his beloved during The Horde's return to Eternia. Realizing that he could no longer stand idly by as evil threatened Eternia, Jey grew stoic and focused, finding a new dedication and transformed all of his emotions into an breakable will.
He had long since known that the accident which left him a bizarre faceless cybernetic creation of technology, with only a lens in place of his once human eyes, also granted him amazing energy draining and light bending abilities. As the Fearless Photog, he could create and sustain powerful shields of pure energy to deflect incoming attacks, and even drain all light from the surrounding environment to create instant black outs and confuse adversaries. Even more astounding, he possessed the ability to drain his enemies' biothermic energy and display their defeat on the screen embedded in his torso. He fought heroically during the Second Ultimate Battleground, helping to defeat several of Skeletor's most powerful and menacing warriors, including the mighty Clawful and ferocious Whiplash.
Their defeat at the hands of such an usual looking being, has fostered a bitter rivalry between the villains and the bold hero, both of whom on occasion, will be reminded of their past encounter with the ghostly pixelated images on his chest. The first one into battle, and willing to lay down his life for his friends, his heart is solid and true, despite the unnervingly cold reflective stare, and off putting hum of the inquisitive lens he uses to view the world around him. He lives up to his namesake by standing in the face of danger along side the Masters of the Universe, as the Fearless Photog.


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Fought the hungry ghosts here on Earth
"What is man?" asked the King
Alcuin's reply: "A guest of space." And time yes time:
The past lies before us, the future comes up from behind
Friends and family of Anselm Hollo, a beloved Naropa University professor and widely revered poet, celebrated his life today at Naropa by telling stories and reading his poetry and translations.
Against a backdrop of pictures, those who loved him filled the room with the language his poetry.
"He has the lightest touch with a line of any poet," said Ron Silliman, who took a poetry class of Hollo's in the 1980s in San Francisco. "His work is a delight.
Hollo died at his Boulder home on Jan. 29. He was 78.
A prolific writer, he published more than 40 original titles in the U.K. and U.S. He also translated into several languages the works of authors such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Miguel de Cervantes and his close friend Allen Ginsberg.
Teaching was another passion. He taught creative writing in 18 different institutions of higher education, including the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of Colorado and SUNY Buffalo. In 1985, he settled in Boulder, teaching classes in surrealism, European poetry and contemporary poetry at Naropa's Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
Mairead Case, a student at Naropa, didn't know Anselm Hollo personally, but said she attended today's memorial because "his ghost is here and it's good to get to know him as much as I can."
His second wife, visual artist Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, said Sunday that Naropa "is home." She curated an art exhibit called "Anselm Hollo: In the Company of Poets" that's in display in Naropa's Lincoln Building.
"Friendships were literally the center of Anselm's life," she said. "The most comforting reminder of Anselm I have is his friends."
Walking on Primrose Hill or Isle of Wight beaches
Iowa City streets scrambling up snow-covered deer track
To Doc Holliday's grave in Glenwood Springs
His helmet now shall make a hive for bees
He fought the hungry ghosts here on Earth
Strong & resourceful on his best days,
Patient kind and presente
Those friends noted his resounding laugh — "a bucket of heavy liquid with gravel at the bottom" — his booming voice — "that honey-tinged lion's roar" — his keen intelligence and his wry humor.
His two daughters, Kaarina Hollo and Tamsin Hollo, and his first wife, poet Josephine Clare, all spoke. Tamsin Hollo read the last poem he wrote, "Wild Dreams," about his observations and experiences while recovering from surgery in 2012.
Hollo's best-known works include 1961's "Red Cats" and "Notes on the Possibilities and Attractions of Existence: Selected Poems 1965-2000," with the latter receiving the 2001 San Francisco Poetry Center Award for Best Book of Poems. Other titles include "Maya," "Pick up the House," "Corvus" and "Guests of Space."
He received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, two grants from The Fund for Poetry and, in 1996, won the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry.
Hollo, who fluently spoke English, Finnish, Russian, Swedish, German and Spanish, also accumulated numerous accolades as a translator. In 1996, he was awarded the Finnish government's Distinguished Foreign Translator's Award; in 2004, he won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award; and in both 1981 and 1989 he won the Scandinavian Foundation Award for Poetry in Translation.
Hollo is survived by his wife, his brother Erkki, Kaarina and Tamsin, and granddaughter Johanna. His son, Hannes, predeceased him in 1999.
Returning those with him to here & now
But just as we settle in with our Pepsi and popcorn
THE END rolls up too soon always too soon
— Anselm Hollo's "i.m. Hannes Hollo, 1959-1999"


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Traveling smart can prevent problems
With industry experts predicting international and domestic travel will pick up this year, officials with Citizens Bank of Tunica and the nation's nearly 800 community banks don't want customers to leave home without the information they need to keep their money safe.
Financial professionals agree that the safest and most convenient way to take money when traveling is to bring a small amount of cash and carry a debit, credit or ATM card. They note cards are easy to carry, easy to use and often have the lowest fees and best exchange rates.
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Nevertheless, professionals advise travelers to plan ahead. CB&T offers eight tips to take care of before hitting the road. Travelers should:
• let their community bank know when and where they will be traveling so that they will avoid any potential for fraud alerts when out of the ordinary transactions are posted.
• call or stop by their community bank to find out what ATM or debit car fees they may be subject to in this country and abroad.
• keep in mind that ATMs in many countries only accept four digit personal identification numbers and some countries have keyboards with numbers only, while others do not acknowledge zeroes. Ask your community bank if you should create a new PIN for your account before you take your trip.
• Carry a back-up card that can be kept in a separate place. Families or couples may get even greater back-up coverage if each person takes a different card.
• Make copies of all the cards being carried. Be sure to copy the front and back of the card. Give the copy to someone you trust back home. Be sure to include the security code for the card and the customer service phone number if possible.
• bring a list of emergency phone numbers, but remember, 800 numbers can only be used in the United States and Canada. Be sure to get a number for the bank that can be used overseas.
• ask a community bank if special services are available through your card. Many credit cards provide travel accident insurance and traveler's assistance.
• check their balance before they leave. Know the limits on how much can be withdrawn and save all receipts.
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Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the holiday season are just around the corner, and the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and Ad Council have teamed up for a campaign to promote oral health. This Partnership for Oral Health is designed to raise awareness of children, parents and caregivers about oral health.
Some of the recommendations found online from the AAPD at http://www.aapd.org or the Partnership for Oral Health at http://2min2x.org are:
• Remember to brush teeth twice a day for at least two minutes.
• Parents and caregivers should help or watch over their kids' tooth brushing abilities until they're at least 8-years-old.
• Children should use a soft toothbrush that allows them to reach all areas of their mouth.
• Replace toothbrushes every three to four months or sooner if the bristles are worn out, or if your children have been sick
• Children also should clean between their teeth once a day, every day, with floss or flossers to remove plaque and food where a toothbrush can't reach. Teeth can be flossed as soon as two teeth touch each other.
• Plaque is the sticky film of germs that forms and collects on teeth and gums after eating. Plaque that is not removed by brushing twice a day can lead to cavities.
• Visit your dentist regularly your whole life, starting no later than age one. This is important for good oral health.
• As soon as teeth appear in your baby's mouth, it's possible for your child to develop cavities. It is important to keep your baby's gums and teeth clean to prevent tooth decay, even in baby teeth. Brush for two minutes, twice a day.
• Fluoride helps fight cavities and is found naturally in water and some foods. Fluoride is added to dental products like toothpaste to help protect teeth from cavities.
• Taking good care of a child's teeth reduces the number of bacteria in their mouth that can cause tooth decay.
• A balanced diet helps teeth and gums to be healthy. A diet high in natural or added sugars may place your child at extra risk for tooth decay.
• A sugary or starchy food with sugar is safer for teeth if it is eaten with a meal, not as a snack. Chewing during a meal helps produce saliva which helps wash away sugar and starch.
• Sticky foods, like potato chips, raisins and other dried fruit and candy are not easily washed away by saliva, water or milk, so they have more cavity-causing potential.
• Talk to your dentist about serving foods that foster good dental health.
Stuart D. Josell, DMD, MDenSC
Chair of Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics
East Carolina University
School of Dental Medicine


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Mt Logan's Hummingbird Ridge - Sept 11
This entry was posted on August 10, 2015.
Hummingbird Ridge
It sounds innocuous enough: Hummingbird Ridge. Its one ascent, however, would suggest otherwise. As Allen Steck was a member of the successful (and very bold) 1967 climb, he included the ridge in the book Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. With very few attempts, and more deaths than summits, it seems a bit of a cruel joke 35 years after publication.
In mid-2014, the team of Mark & Janelle Smiley, Jed Porter, and Reiner Thoni flew in from Silver City in the Yukon Territory to a less-than-ideal Seward Glacier, and got a taste of the infamous ridge, double cornices and all. See what this unbelievable expedition was all about with stellar photos and stories.
As action packed as late 2013 and 2014 have been, Mark will also highlight the Palisades Traverse in the High Sierra, and give a sneak peek at their excellent videos that will be coming out this fall.
Don't miss it!
Where: Feathered Friends
What: Mt Logan: Hummingbird Ridge - a multimedia show with Mark Smiley
When: Thursday, September 11th
Time: Starts at 7:30pm
Cost: $5 at the door - includes a raffle ticket
Bonus: Raffle swag from Arc'teryx, La Sportiva, and Feathered Friends
Be sure to check out Mark & Janelle's climbing happenings at SmileysProject.com


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The Feminist Future: Theory and Practice in the Visual Arts
Friday–Saturday, January 26–27, 2007 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m. both days
This symposium addresses critical questions surrounding the relationship between art and gender, bringing together international leaders in contemporary art, art history, and related disciplines. After the activism of the 1960s and '70s, and the revisionist critiques of the 1980s and '90s, this symposium will examine ways in which gender is currently addressed by artists, museums, and the academy, and its future role in art practice and scholarship.
Friday, January 26, 2007 Panel: Body/Sexuality/Identity Martha Rosler, artist


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An Apostle is one who is sent out by our Lord Jesus Christ to spread the gospel that he is the Messiah, that he is risen, and that we are being saved as a result.
The word apostle comes from the Greek αποστολος, literally meaning "one who is sent out." Originally a military term referring to a sortie sent out against the enemy, apostle has in the Christian context come to refer to a missionary spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.
The Twelve
Our Lord originally appointed twelve apostles as his initial Church community, commissioned with the task of sharing the faith. As told in the Gospels, Judas Iscariot was originally one of them, but with his apostasy and death, he was replaced with Matthias. Their collective feast day is June 30.
After Judas' replacement, the Twelve consisted of the following:
The Seventy
The Seventy Apostles are those whom the Lord chose (described in Luke 10:1-16) in addition to the Twelve and sent forth to assist in the work of preaching. Over time, the Twelve added others to their number, who were sent out with the original Seventy to preach the gospel. Although this number eventually exceeded seventy, they were all nevertheless referred to as "of the Seventy" out of reverence to the number which the Lord originally chose. Their collective feast day is January 4.
It is difficult to determine a comprehensive and accurate list of the Seventy, but here are some of their names:
Achaicus, Agabus, Alphaeus, Amplias, Ananias (who baptized Paul), Andronicus, Apelles, Apollo, Apphia, Aquila, Archippus, Aristarchus, Aristobulus, Artemas, Asyncritus, Barnabas (leader of the Seventy and companion of Paul), Caesar, Carpus, Cephas, Clement, Cleopas (who accompanied the Lord to Emmaus), Crescens, Crispus, Epenetus, Erastus, Evodus, Fortunatus, Gaius, Hermas, Hermes (bishop of Dalmatia), Herodian, James (the Brother of God, also called "the Less"), Jason, Junia, Linus, Lucius, Luke the Evangelist (companion of Paul and author of the Gospel that bears his name), Mark the Evangelist (companion of Paul and author of the Gospel that bears his name), Nathaniel, Nicanor (one of the original seven deacons), Olympas, Onesimus, Onesiphorus, Parmenas (one of the original seven deacons), Patrobas, Philemon, Philip (one of the original seven deacons), Phlegon, Priscilla, Prochorus (one of the original seven deacons), Pudens, Quadratus, Quartus, Rodion, Rufus, Silas (companion of Paul), Silvan, Sosipater, Sosthenes, Stachys, Stephen the Protomartyr (one of the original seven deacons), Terpnus, Tertius, Thaddeus (sometimes confused with Jude of the Twelve), Timon (one of the original seven deacons), Timothy (companion of Paul), Titus, Trophimus, Urban, Zacchaeus, and Zenas.
Other Apostles
The Apostle Paul (June 29) is also referred to as an apostle, though he is not one of the Twelve or of the Seventy. Other missionary saints are also referred to as apostles, though usually not as an initial title, but rather as an epithet, e.g., "Apostle to the North" (though some regard this usage as not traditionally Orthodox). Further, other saints have the epithet "equal to the apostles" (in Greek, Ισαποστολος), usually because of their significant work in building up the Church. St. Paul shares the collective feast day with the Twelve Great Apostles. He was beheaded in Rome during the reign of Emporer Nero.
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Guilty pleasures. For some, it's a "diet" burger with "diet" fries, washed down with a "diet" shake. Others have a penchant for Kurt Geiger shoes. "I'm Welsh and I'm worth it", they may well say. It may even be that Def Leppard track nestled in your playlist between Coldplay and Oasis.
In programming terms, APEX seems to fall into this category for me. On the one hand, it's a declarative development environment. This means that, unless you're very careful, the application you write for it is not going to be too portable to other front-end technologies. But, oh, it's so nice to be able to bang out a bit of SQL and/or PL/SQL, click my mouse in the right place, and have a nice GUI application drop onto my browser.
If you've decided to try the latest and greatest APEX version on your XE installation, you'll notice that the default Database Welcome Page disappears after the upgrade.
Rather than hunting around for it, I've decided to knock up something a bit better…well, different.
So, if you'd like to know how to get some interesting configuration information out of the database…or just want the entertainment value of watching me blunder about in APEX then read on… Continue reading


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The New Science of Who Sits Where at Work
Office workers are being treated to a new game: musical chairs. Rachel Feinzteig joins the News Hub with a look at how companies say they can increase productivity and collaboration by shifting employees from desk to desk every few months.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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Here is an idea on how to figure out who is afraid of the pigs. Find a pic of the challenge with everyone in it. Blow it up until you can determine who is who and where they are standing. The person on each tribe furthest away from the pigs would be a likely guess and then determine which of those 2 is more likely to be afraid of the pigs. Just a suggestion. :\/ I know if I were afraid of something like an animal, I would be as far away from it as possible.
hey all,just a little FYI, Leann's bio on cbs website claims that she is a "huge animal lover". I'm not playing MW but I would guess that Leann wouldn't be afraid of pigs. I'd go with julie or eliza (maybe JK? he is a pretty boy model after all)
Me and my honey had to rewatch the pig chase 3 times..we were laughing our butts off )()thanks for agreeing with me Ruday about Eliza Not being afraid of the pigs..I insist it was her bottom that she was more worried about 8-)'
)() All of that hype and they didn't even show it..I bet noone gets points ..unless of course you picked noone 8-)'
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