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When a young man or woman has discerned a call to the religious life, one of the first things to be considered is what type of religious life will be chosen: contemplative or active? Contemplative orders typically spend a great deal of time in prayer; often cloistered, their primary focus is praying for the needs of the world. Active orders, on the other hand, are more directly devoted to works of charity outside the monastery or convent. These orders, of course, dedicate much time to prayer, but their mission is to perform some service for the Church or the world. Both types of orders have benefited the Church immensely over the centuries, and both have led many people to live lives of holiness.
Lay people, naturally, are not divided into two different groups. With various responsibilities, such as work and family, they are not able to devote many hours each day to prayer like the contemplative orders do. So it might be surprising that St. Josemaría loved to say that lay people are called to be "contemplatives in the midst of the world." He wrote, "The street does not get in the way of our contemplative life; the hubbub of the world is, for us, a place for prayer." Even though most people cannot lead what would traditionally be called a "contemplative" life, St. Josemaría was convinced nonetheless that every Christian is called to be a contemplative. Conversation with God was not something to be restricted to certain times and places, but was instead something that could — and should — be done anywhere and anytime.
The fuel that powers a life of sanctity is the interior life — a life of prayer. It is simply not possible to work toward Christ's desire that we "be perfect" as our Father in heaven is perfect (see Mt 5:48) without a strong interior life. The Sermon on the Mount begins by describing what a life of holiness should look like, climaxing with the command to be perfect (see Mt 5). But immediately following this description of a holy life, Christ details what the proper interior life looks like (see Mt 6). He states, "But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" (Mt 6:6) and "when you fast, do not look dismal, like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you fast, anoint your head and wash your face, that your fasting may not be seen by men but by your Father who is in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you" (Mt 6:16–18). In other words, a relationship with God is primarily an interior one — it is not something we robe ourselves with for others to see, but an ever-unfolding friendship in the most intimate recesses of our heart. The deep wellspring born there will then overflow into all aspects of our life.
Christ himself provides the model of the intimate prayer life necessary for holiness. In the Gospels we often see him at prayer before his most significant tasks. Before Christ chose his apostles, he went out to pray (Lk 6:12–16). Before he gave his life for our salvation, he retreated to the Garden of Gethsemane in order to pour himself out in prayer to his Father (see Lk 22:39–46). As Luke emphasizes, "Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed" (Lk 5:16, NIV). And as this intimacy with the Father in prayer was necessary for Christ, our sonship with him means it is also necessary for us. "The foundation of all we do as citizens — as Catholic citizens — lies in an intense interior life. It lies in being really and truly men and women who turn their day into an uninterrupted conversation with God" (The Forge 572).
But how do we have a strong interior life — how do we build a life of prayer? Over the centuries, countless saints and teachers have given the Church ways of praying. Each of them is valuable, and each can lead one closer to God. Respecting each person's freedom, St. Josemaría did not institute a specific way of praying; instead, he left that up to each person to decide:
There are countless ways of praying, as I have already told you. We children of God don't need a method, an artificial system, to talk with our Father. Love is inventive, full of initiative. If we truly love, we will discover our own intimate paths to lead us to a continuous conversation with Our Lord. (Friends of God 255)
St. Josemaría did, however, suggest certain guidelines and activities — developed and refined over decades of spiritual direction — that his experience showed him were particularly useful for lay people seeking to be contemplatives in the midst of the world.
Eric Sammons is director of evangelization for the Diocese of Venice in Florida and has a master's degree in theology from Franciscan University of Steubenville.
This is an excerpt from "Holiness for Everyone: The Practical Spirituality of St. Josemaría Escrivá." Read the book to discover St. Josemaría's guide to sanctity.
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One of the challenges that comes with moving to MongoDB is figuring how to best model your data. While most developers have internalized the rules of thumb for designing schemas for RDBMSs, these rules don't always apply to MongoDB. The simple fact that documents can represent rich, schema-free data structures means that we have a lot of viable alternatives to the standard, normalized, relational model. Not only that, MongoDB has several unique features, such as atomic updates and indexed array keys, that greatly influence the kinds of schemas that make sense. Understandably, this begets good questions:
Are foreign keys permissible, or is it better to represent one-to-many relations withing a single document?
Are join tables necessary, or is there another technique for building out many-to-many relationships?
What level of denormalization is appropriate?
How do my data modeling decisions affect the efficiency of updates and queries?
In this session, we'll answer these questions and more, provide a number of data modeling rules of thumb, and discuss the tradeoffs of various data modeling strategies.

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Gary Harris, welcome to a new career-high in points, and by all appearances, 100 percent health. Just not quite 100 percent fitness.
Michigan State's star sophomore guard scored 26 points, including nine straight for the Spartans in one second-half stretch, as MSU beat Indiana 73-56 in Bloomington. Spartans coach Tom Izzo said Harris is still building his endurance from all of the time he missed last month as he rehabbed an ankle injury that he aggravated in the Dec. 4 loss to North Carolina.
"He's a special player, and I promise he's not even close to where he's going to be," Izzo said.
Harris, a Sporting News second-team All-American entering the year, started that stretch with a steal and a slam dunk that signaled that the right ankle he aggravated vs. the Tar Heels is no longer an issue. He also nailed five 3-pointers, the most of any game this season.
After the UNC game, Harris missed the next two games vs. Oakland and North Florida to rest, then returned for a Dec. 21 game at Texas and has been playing since. That 17-day stretch to manage the injury should pay off with the Spartans now facing Big Ten competition each night. Harris played 37 minutes and admitted to being "dead tired" afterward.
Harris' play is a big reason why CBS Sports' Seth Davis calls Michigan State the No. 1 team in the country. We'll immediately see if the Spartans are worthy of such praise on Tuesday, when they'll welcome No. 3 Ohio State to East Lansing.
Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart isn't known for jaw-dropping dunks, but the oh-my-goodness moment he provided with 13:07 left in the second half vs. Kansas State ultimately end up costing the Cowboys full use of their best player.
This is Smart going 1-on3 to the tin, rising up for the two-hand flush and the one-hand backboard slap.
The play earned Smart a technical foul, critical because it saddled the Cowboys' point guard with four fouls. Smart, who had 15 points to that point of the contest, did not score another point in the final 13 minutes. Oklahoma State ended up losing the game, 74-71 in Manhattan.
Meanwhile, Cowboys freshman guard Stevie Clark, the team's second-leading scorer off the bench, did not play after being arrested on suspicion of marijuana possession on New Year's Day.
All four college basketball teams who entered Saturday unbeaten remained that way, with Arizona, Syracuse, Ohio State and Iowa State earning victories. A quick look at some significant stats, historical and otherwise, coming out of each contest.
No. 1 Arizona beat Washington 71-62. The Wildcats are now 15-0 for the first time since 1932, the year Johnny Cash was born. Arizona now will enter a burning ring of fire next Thursday at UCLA, then Sunday at USC.
No. 2 Syracuse beat Miami (Fla.) 49-44. The Orange (14-0) won their first ever ACC game, but it was far from easy. Trevor Cooney came in averaging 50 percent from 3-point land (43-for-86), but was just 2-for-12 on this day.
No. 3 Ohio State beat Nebraska 83-54. The Buckeyes (15-0) now have won 79 straight home games vs. unranked opponents. Their last loss at Value City Arena was Dec. 27, 2008 vs. West Virginia, which would go on to the Final Four a season later.
No. 13 Iowa State beat Texas Tech 73-62. The Cyclones (13-0) tied their longest ever winning streak, and their all-time program record is a balanced 1,253-1,253.
The three other unbeatens play Sunday, with one entering as an underdog.
No. 4 Wisconsin (14-0) hosts No. 22 Iowa and is a 7-point favorite at the Kohl Center.
No. 8 Wichita State (13-0) is a 13-point favorite at home vs. Northern Iowa.
No. 10 Oregon (13-0) is a 3½-point underdog at No. 20 Colorado, which knocked off Kansas on a buzzer-beater at the Coors Event Center this season.
Unless you're a Duke fan, you probably enjoy seeing the Blue Devils lose. You enjoy seeing them get scored on and you love seeing them get dunked on.
Notre Dame's Pat Connaughton dunked all over Duke on Saturday, posterizing superstar freshman Jabari Parker, who had his worst game as a collegian to date.
Connaughton may never play in the NBA. In fact, he'll probably end up playing Major League Baseball (he's a standout pitcher for the Irish too), but he'll always be able to say he posterized Parker.
The Irish upset the No. 7 Blue Devils in their ACC debut, 79-77.
Since successive losses to New Mexico and then to Xavier in the Crosstown Shootout in mid-December, Cincinnati has rolled off six straight wins, with the most recent one coming Saturday at No. 18 Memphis, 69-53.
The streak has included victories over three other power conference foes in Pitt (at Madison Square Garden), Nebraska and SMU. The Bearcats are now 2-0 in league play and showing that it they may be Louisville's toughest competition in the race for the first American Athletic Conference championship.
Such a streak, capped by a road win over a ranked opponent, produced this locker room jubilation at FedEx Forum, courtesy of star senior Sean Kilpatrick, who had a game-high 18 points.
"This is a huge win, and we have to keep everything rolling," Kilpatrick said. "This is just a stepping stone for us, and we have to keep it going as we continue conference play."
If Cincinnati (13-2) wins its next game next Tuesday at Houston, a team coming off a win vs. Connecticut, its schedule lends itself to staying unbeaten in league play until a Jan. 30 date at Louisville.
To beat the Cougars, Cincinnati's first order of business will be to stop 6-8 forward TaShawn Thomas, who's averaging 17.5 points per game. Justin Jackson, who's taken a major step forward for the Bearcats in his senior season, should be a big part of the plan to stop him, given his shot-blocking ability. He had 7 in the win at Memphis.
In case you missed Pitt's road win at NC State after starting the game in a 17-2 hole and an 8-point deficit at halftime, Sporting News' Mike DeCourcy did not:
"If only Pitt played tougher schedule, would have avoided this disaster in the ACC road open... Oh, right, never mind," DeCourcy tweeted.
DeCourcy was referencing something he wrote earlier in the week regarding one of the ACC's newest members.
"Lots of my colleagues in the media think nothing of blasting a coach for compiling a schedule that is deemed to be too easy," DeCourcy wrote. "Jamie Dixon should get some sort of Purple Heart for all the times he's been beaten around on this subject, even though his non-league schedules somehow managed to prepare the Panthers to earn double-digit Big East wins in nine of his 10 seasons as head coach."
The Panthers shot 63 percent in the second half, with much of the production coming in the paint. Lamar Patterson had 17 of his team-high 22 points after halftime, and finished with eight rebounds, six assists and two steals.
"We've got a long way to go," Patterson said of the 18-game ACC schedule. "It's something to build off now. I know what this team is capable of. We know what we need to do in order for us not to be down. We know what's best for our team, and that's playing defense, rebounding and getting to the rim."
Providence freshman Brandon Austin — widely touted as a huge commitment for the Friars entering the 2013-14 season — will not be returning to the school following winter break.
Austin was suspended indefinitely on Nov. 6 for violating the school's Student Code of Conduct.
Nearly a month and a half later, on Dec. 23, head coach Ed Cooley announced that Austin would be barred from playing in any games during the entirety of the Friars' season.
Rather than wait around, the top-50 ranked freshman is leaving the school to begin his college career elsewhere.
Providence announced on Saturday that Austin was released from his scholarship.
The 6-6 guard out of Imhotep High School in Philadelphia had offers from Connecticut, Texas, Georgetown, Penn State, Rutgers, Temple and Xavier before committing to Providence in October of 2012.
Some schools touted as potential landing spots for Austin include Oregon, Penn State and Temple.
A return home to Philadelphia could sway Austin's decision, particularly because Fran Dunphy has only nine players on scholarship.
Additionally, the recent loss of Owls' sixth-man Daniel Dingle to a torn meniscus leaves Dunphy looking for bodies off the bench to fill major minutes.
Contributing: Troy Machir, Kami Mattioli and The Associated Press


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Robert Byrd
|Robert Byrd
|U.S. Senator from West Virginia
From: January 3, 1959 - June 28, 2010
|W. Chapman Revercomb
|Carte Goodwin
|U.S. Representative from West Virginia's 6th District
From: January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1959
|E.H. Hedrick
|John M. Slack, Jr.
|Erma Ora Byrd (deceased)
Robert Carlyle Byrd (November 20, 1917 - June 28, 2010) was a Democrat Senator from West Virginia. He was the oldest member of Congress at his death at age 92, President pro tempore of the US Senate, and was the longest-serving Senator in history, having been first elected in 1958.
Byrd twice held the position of Senate Democrat Leader, was a crucial 60th vote in holding a filibuster-proof Senate in 2009, and remained a Democrat Party legend and icon until the end. He was third in line to the Presidency behind Vice President Joe Biden and Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Klan Membership
Byrd first joined the Ku Klux Klan in the 1940s and attained the rank of Exalted Cyclops, the leader of the local chapter of the organization.[1] He repeatedly expressed his desire for the Klan to expand to its previous size and power, once remarking in a letter that "The Klan is needed today as never before and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia" and "in every state in the nation." [2]
Byrd commented on the 1945 controversy raging over the idea of racially integrating the military. In his book When Jim Crow Met John Bull, Graham Smith referred to a letter written that year by Byrd, when he was 28 years old, to segregationist Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi, in which Byrd vowed never to fight:
|Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.
He had earlier written Bilbo:
|I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side
By the 1950s, he was no longer publicly involved with the Ku Klux Klan. In recent years Byrd has made public statements about poor choices he made, and like Strom Thurmond, (who at one time ran on a segregationist platform) says he regrets being involved with the group. However, he was involved in a controversy in 2001 over his use of a racial epithet as part of a metaphor during an interview on race relations by Tony Snow.[3]
Congressional Service
Byrd was elected as a member of the United States House of Representatives in 1952 for the 6th district of West Virginia, succeeding E.H. Hedrick, who had decided to step down to run for Governor of West Virginia. Byrd was reelected to the House twice. In 1958, he was elected to the United States Senate, defeating the Republican incumbent W. Chapman Revercomb. He has been reelected eight times. For his first four terms, Byrd was West Virginia's junior senator. This was because his colleague from 1959 to 1985, Jennings Randolph, had been elected on the same day in a special election to fill the seat of the late Senator Matthew Neely.
While Byrd faced vigorous Republican opposition in the past, he has not faced truly serious opposition since freshman congressman Cleve Benedict ran against him in 1982. He has since won by comfortable margins. Despite his tremendous popularity in the state, he has only run unopposed once, in 1976. On two other occasions — in 1994 and 2000 — he carried all 55 of West Virginia's counties. In his reelection bid in 2000, he won all but seven of West Virginia's precincts. Shelley Moore Capito, a Congresswoman and the daughter of one of Byrd's longtime foes—former Governor Arch Moore, Jr.—briefly weighed a challenge to Byrd in 2006, but decided against it.
In the 1960 Presidential election primaries, Byrd, a close Senate ally of Lyndon B. Johnson, tried and failed to derail the Democrat front-runner and ultimately successful candidate John F. Kennedy in the crucial West Virginia primary.
On November 7, 2006, Byrd was elected to an unprecedented ninth consecutive term in the Senate. He became the longest-serving senator in American history on June 12, 2006, surpassing Strom Thurmond of South Carolina with 17,327 days of service.[4] Previously, he already held the record for the longest unbroken tenure in the Senate (Thurmond served 48 years in total, but vacated the office between April and November 1956). Counting his tenure as a West Virginia state legislator from 1947 to 1953, Byrd served as an elected official for almost 60 years and never lost an election. Byrd cast a total of 17,745 votes as of September 13, 2006 — the most of any senator in history. Upon the death of Senator George Smathers of Florida on January 20, 2007 — Byrd became the last living United States Senator from the 1950s.[5] This means that not only did Byrd outlive every other Senator who had seniority over him, but he is the only person to ever have remained in the Senate the entire time while doing it. He surpassed Carl Hayden of Arizona as the longest-serving member of Congress (House and Senate tenure combined) in American history in early 2010. Byrd was the last remaining Senator to have voted on a statehood bill and has served longer in the Senate than eight of his colleagues have been alive (those being Bob Casey, Jr., Amy Klobuchar, Blanche Lincoln, John Thune, David Vitter, Barack Obama, Mark Pryor, and John E. Sununu).
Byrd was, at his death, the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Appropriations. Byrd was first appointed to the committee by then-Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson when he first entered the Senate in 1959. Since 1989, he was the committee's top Democrat and had chaired the committee when the Democrats had control of the Senate. Byrd was also a member of the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Rules and Administration and the Committee on the Budget.
In 2007, after serving in the Senate for nearly 50 years, and holding several prominent Committee chairmanships and Leadership posts, as Appropriations Chairman in the 110th Congress, Byrd finally required Democrat staff on his committee to provide him with a detailed disclosure of any direct or indirect conflicts of interest they may have as a result of actions taken by the panel.[6]
Filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Byrd joined with other Southern and border state Democrats to filibuster the Civil Rights Act of 1964, personally filibustering the bill for 14 hours — a move he later said he regretted.[7] Despite an 83-day filibuster in the Senate, both parties in Congress voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Act, and President Johnson signed the bill into law.[8] He also opposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1968. In 2005, Byrd told the Washington Post that his membership in the Baptist church led to a change in his views. In the opinion of one reviewer, Byrd, along with other Southern and border state Democrats, came to realize that he would have to temper "his blatantly segregationist views" and move to the Democrat Party mainstream if he wanted to play a role nationally.
External links
- ↑ Pianin, Eric. A Senator's Shame: Byrd, in His New Book, Again Confronts Early Ties to KKK. Washington Post, 2005-06-19, pp. A01
- ↑ King, Colbert I. Sen. Byrd: The view from Darrell's barbershop, Washington Post, March 2, 2002
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FIBJt-c2o0
- ↑ The Hill
- ↑ U.S. Senate
- ↑ Byrd Issues Tougher Staff Conflict Rules, By John Stanton, Roll Call, June 27, 2007.
- ↑ Byrd Says He Regrets Voting For Patriot Act, Associate Press, 2006-02-28.
- ↑ U.S. Senate, June 10, 1964: Civil Rights Filibuster Ended


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for the stir-fry:
14 oz fresh rice noodles, cut into 1/2-inch-wide strips*
3 tablespoons canola oil
1/4 lb snow peas
1 bunch green onions, sliced
1 1/2 cup char sui thinly sliced
1 1/2 cup mung bean sprouts
6 dried shiitaki mushrooms, rehydrated and sliced thinly
1/2 cup water
1 cup dried cloudear mushrooms, rehydrated and sliced thinly
1/2 cup dried tiger lily buds**, rehydrated, hard ends removed
for the sauce:
3 cloves garlic, grated
2 inch knob fresh ginger, grated
1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
2 tablespoons oyster sauce
2 tablespoons soy sauce
2 teaspoons palm sugar
2 tablespoons Shaoxing wine
1/2 teaspoon sesame oil
First, tie all of the tiger lily buds into knots, like you were knotting a piece of string, with the knot in the center. Set aside. Heat the oil in the wok. Stir-fry noodle until soft and translucent, 3 to 4 minutes. Add snow peas and green onions, mushrooms, tiger lily buds, and water then stir-fry until snow peas are bright green and crisp-tender, about 1 minute. Add the sauce mixture, and pork and cook, stirring occasionally. Cook until the sauce thickens and all ingredients are well distributed and coated in sauce.
*Or boiled dried rice noddles. If you use the dried noodles add them at the end, with the sauce.
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My thoughts:I love ordering chow fun for take-out but sometimes it is on the greasy side and a little short on the vegetables. To me that made it a perfect candidate for another "homemade take-out" make over. It seems like every Chinese restaurant has their own "house special" versions of dishes that have slightly different ingredients than the usual. I took a cue from that and made my own house special chow fun; my ideal version of the dish. I think it came out pretty good, not greasy at all and full of my favorite vegetables, mushrooms and some exceptionally tasty pork*.
*We actually marinated the pork one night, roasted it the next, then sliced and used it the third day. Yum!
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From the Atlanta-Journal Constitution's interview with 4-time ATWT Emmy Award winning writer Susan Dansby:
But what about the final show? Will she miss the characters whose lives she helped shape? Of course. And she knows fans will too.
"The opportunity to tell a story every day is wonderful," said Dansby. She is most pleased with her work with the characters Carly and Jack, a married couple. Their storyline ended Thursday.
"[Jack] thought he was the father of a child with his ex-wife, found out he wasn't, and found out his wife Carly is pregnant -- all in an hour," said Dansby. "Jack had a a lot of emotional stuff to deal with and I am glad I was able to take him through that."
She wishes the writers had had more time to resolve a crisis in the lives of Luke and Noah, a gay couple. Luke had fallen for a new man, Reid, but he was killed by a train "and it seemed wrong to rush him back into a relationship with Noah," she said. She said she will soon be helping fans write Luke and Noah's epilogue online.
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It's basically the same bag as the Chic Denim Bag but with slight differences to make it a unique bag for my sister.
I used the metal hardware (D ring?) from the dress for this.
I used it here ...
and here. I stitched the strap with the red thread to give it the "sewn" look but then hot glued it to the bag. You can't tell that it's glued on.
Now, I got to go and make the Racheal Bag...yeah, my other sister wants on too.


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"Food that's in when school is out!" is slogan for Summer Food Service Program
Mayor Coleen J. Seng today visited the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) site at the Salvation Army to thank those who make the meal program available to children in low-income areas. Free meals and health education will be provided for ten weeks to more than 1,000 children at up to 30 different sites in Lincoln this summer.
"Good nutrition helps children learn, play and grow throughout the summer months," said Mayor Seng. "The program was established in 1968 by the United States Department of Agriculture to make sure that low-income children continue to receive nutritious meals when school is not in session. This is an important way that we can help children return to school next fall ready to learn."
The USDA funds the program through the Nebraska Department of Education. The Lincoln-Lancaster County Health Department (LLCHD) coordinates the program in Lincoln and is sponsoring the largest number of sites of any Nebraska sponsor this summer. The Nutrition Services Department at the Lincoln Public Schools prepares the breakfast and lunch meals for delivery to the sites by Health Department staff. The LLCHD also provides training to agencies for the food distribution. SFSP community partners include Russwood Chrysler and the United Way.
"In Lincoln, we are fortunate to have many agencies partner with the Health Department to provide meals for the children," said Mayor Seng. "A United Way contribution, for example, is making it possible to expand the program to three new sites this summer. The program also provides more than food. By welcoming all children through age 18, there is an increased sense of community, and the supervised activities provide safe and fun learning opportunities."
This summer, 39 sponsors in Nebraska are offering meals in more than 90 sites. During summer 2005, more than two million children participated in the SFSP nationwide.
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Stop what you're doing ... put down the Cheetos ... and listen to the magic that is Ray J as he sings about banging Kim Kardashian ... 'cause TMZ has the first clip.
Ladies and gentleman ... we give you 30 seconds of "I Hit It First." You're welcome.
Now that you've listened -- and let's be honest it's pretty catchy -- remember why we've gathered here today ... so Ray J can remind Kanye West he's getting nothing but sloppy seconds.
Kanye WOULD respond with a rebuttal track ... but he's too busy releasing chart-topping albums.


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For those of you breathlessly following my journey into the USAF…
Here's another update.
I'm afraid you may be underwhelmed!
I've not done very well on my overall workout regimen. I start out the week strong, but usually derping it through by the end of the week. The scale hasn't moved very much, but it has moved a little. Thankfully in the right direction (Down!). I've gained a little bit of muscle mass, which I'm grateful for.
I am worried about something though. My regimen is good for loosing weight and body transformation. But, I'm not sure that it is good for gaining the strength I need to do my required sit-ups and push-ups. One reason I love it is because it has a 20 minute, high intensity cardio workout. This is also great for burning calories; but I really need endurance. Specifically, I need running endurance. Sure, I've been using the elliptical, but that isn't exactly the same thing. So, I'm considering modifying my workout to compensate for these perceived shortcomings.
I believe that my main problem has been self-motivation. So, I'm doing a few things to help in that direction.
First of all, I made an appointment to be "officially" weighed by a trainer this coming Friday. Not only will he weigh me, but will check my body fat% and my waist inches. Remember, I need to be 195 lbs or less, and a 37 inch (or less) waist to get in. There is nothing like a "Due Date" to kick things into gear. I've noticed that this was the first time in the process when I didn't have a "hard date" by which to get things done. It was more along the lines of, "The Board meets sometime in Feb or March. You'll have to be in shape by then."
Again, no hard date to be done by. So, I'm adding my own artificial dead lines.
Secondly, I'm putting up physical reminders of "why" I'm going through this process. That mostly looks like Notes written to myself in places I'm sure to see them. They articulate the individual, motivational reasons that I'm on this journey. I also take time to reflect upon "why" I'm doing it. Setting some time aside to intentionally remember, not just be intermittently reminded, as to the "why."
These include:
- A sense of doing what I am created to do.
- Expanded life opportunities for my family.
- Better monetary compensation.
- Well defined Promotion/Advancement structure.
- Structure that my personality works well under.
- "The Want" – I have a deep seated desire to do it.
Ok, that's about it. Time to go work out.


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Last Word: Sandy and Mr. Mangrove
Eli Fleurant '76 is a poet, philosopher, lecturer, inventor and historian. He created Diaphanism, a philosophy of reason, harmonic social-interaction, positive emotion and well-being. He received a master's at St. John's University and has taught at CUNY and Hoftsra University. He lives on Long Island and teaches modern languages at SUNY Farmingdale.
He is working on two books: Toussaint Louverture and the Panorama of Haiti: Before and After the Quake and Diaphanism: The Formula of Happiness.


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Bombers use threes, free throws to sink Rebels
The Barnum Bombers continued to be a one-loss team at 11-1 and Moose Lake-Willow River stayed as a six-win team at 6-4 as Barnum used superior three-point shooting and free throws to sink the Rebels by a score of 75-51 in Barnum on Thursday, January 10.
The Bombers, with three players in double figures and led by Brandon Newman's 31 points, raced to a 30-18 lead in the first half. To the Rebels' credit in the game, they had 10 more buckets using a strong inside presence. The Rebels, with two players in double digits, were led by Tony Adamczak's 19 points.
Barnum went 4-for-5 from threeland in the first and 5-for-8 on the long ball in the second half to win with a hot 9-for-13 (69 percent) on the three-pointers. The Rebels were 1-for-5 in the first half and 2-for-5 in the second half on the long ones to go just 3-for-10 (30 percent) for the game.
Meanwhile, ML-WR had the upper hand on the inside as the Rebels went a solid 7-for-14 (50 percent) in the first half in the paint and really heated it up in the second half at 10-for-19 (53 percent). The Rebels went 17-for-33 (52 percent) on the inside for the game. Barnum only had 3-for-14 and 9-for-18 by halves in its inside game for 12-for-32 (38 percent) in the paint.
Sixteen points of difference came at the free throw stripe. Barnum went 12-for-14 and 12-for-17 by halves from the line for a fine 24-for-31 (77 percent) for the game from the stripe. ML-WR had its trouble at 10-for-6 in the first half and 7-for-11 in the second half for only 8-for-17 (47 percent) in the game from the line.
The Bombers out-rebounded the Rebels 10-4 in the first half, but the Rebels out-rebounded the Bombers 14-11 in the second half for just 21-18 in favor of Barnum for the game. Steals and assists were pretty close as Barnum had a slight 7-6 edge in the half on the take-aways and 2-1 in the second half for a difference of 9-7 in the game. The assists found Bombers with only one clean assist in the first half and ML-WR with two passes for scores in the half. Both teams fired five passes for scorers in the second half as the Rebels came out one ahead on the readily apparent scoring plays with a 7-6 edge in the game.
Barnum did a better job taking care of the basketball as they had half a dozen throwaways in the first half, but only one lost possession in the second half for a very manageable seven turnovers for the game. The Rebels had trouble with eight in the first half and five in the second half for a baker's dozen turnovers in the game.
The following represents points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists for the Bombers. Newman: 31 (three three-pointers), 6, 3, 1; Daniel Warpula: 14 (three three-pointers), 3, 1, 2; Zachary Carlson: 12 (one three-pointer),1, 1, 1; Nicholas Jelinek: 7 (one three-pointer), 1, 1, 0; Tory Slater: 5 (one three-pointer), 1, 2, 0; Dakota Haley: 3, 3, 0, 0; Samuel Anderson: 2, 5, 0, 2; and John Zmyslony: 1, 1, 0, 0.
The following represents points (including three-pointers), rebounds, steals and assists for the Rebels. Adamczak: 19 (one three-pointer), 0, 0, 1; Matt Mach: 10 (two three-pointers), 1, 2, 2; Jake Disterhaupt: 8, 3, 0, 1; Ezra Szczyrbak: 7, 2, 0, 1; John Zinter: 4, 6, 0, 1; Michael Pender: 2, 4, 1, 1; Ike Pederson: 1, 1, 1,0; and Ethan Hibke: 0, 1, 0, 0.


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The Holy See might be in for another confrontation at the United Nations based on this year's session of the U.N.'s Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).
In her March 10 opening statements, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, the executive director of U.N. Women, listed family planning, safe abortions and reproductive rights as important principles that need to be protected in the U.N.'s Millennial Development Goals.
A month after a separate U.N. commission said the Catholic Church needs to change its moral teachings on contraception, abortion and homosexuality, the Holy See's delegation at the CSW gathering will be challenged to present a more authentic view of women's dignity and rights than what will be advocated by well-funded, non-governmental groups bent on promoting a secular agenda.
"There is a real conflict about what it means to have gender equality. This is going to be an issue for us," said Teresa Collett, a law professor at the University of St. Thomas School of Law in Minnesota.
Collett, who said she will attend the CSW event, told Our Sunday Visitor that Western nations and U.N. staff members have been "unceasing" in promoting their ideas at the international body. The Holy See, Collett said, plays an important role in presenting its understanding of the human person, which is based on divine revelation and reason, as well as 2,000 years worth of experience in humanitarian endeavors. "To lose that breadth and depth of knowledge would be a huge loss to the U.N.," Collett said.
The Holy See — defined as the central government of the Catholic Church consisting of the pope and the college of bishops — established relations with the United Nations in 1957. In April 1964, the Holy See became a Permanent Observer State, which allows it to enter into treaties, send and receive U.N. diplomats, and participate in debates and U.N.-sponsored conferences.
By its own choice, the Holy See is not a voting member state in order to maintain absolute neutrality in specific political problems, especially in matters of war and peace.
"The Holy See didn't want to be voting ever to go to war. They didn't want to be part of those kind of votes," said Anne Hendershott, a sociology professor and director of the Veritas Center at Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio.
Established a little more than 12 years after the end of World War II, the U.N. early on held great promise as a venue where nations could come together and settle disputes peacefully. In October 1965, Pope Paul VI told the U.N. General Assembly that he saw the United Nations as a "great school" for the education of mankind in the ways of peace.
Thirty years later, Blessed Pope John Paul II told the General Assembly that the 51 states that founded the U.N. "lit a lamp whose light can scatter the darkness caused by tyranny." In April 2008, Pope Benedict XVI addressed the General Assembly, and said his presence was a "sign of esteem for the United Nations."
"I would say the Church looks upon the General Assembly as the most important part of the United Nations since it's the one place where nations can get together and work through the issues," said Austin Ruse, president of the Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), a non-governmental organization that monitors the U.N.
In addition to safeguarding civilians by deploying peacekeepers to various global hot spots, the Holy See has credited the United Nations for doing great humanitarian works in providing relief to areas ravaged by natural disasters, helping alleviate poverty, providing clean water supplies, reducing child mortality and ensuring environmental sustainability.
Some of those humanitarian aims are included in the eight U.N. Millennial Development Goals, a set of international benchmarks for 2015 that also include achieving universal primary education, improving maternal health, combating the spread of HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, and promoting gender equality and empowering women.
"The U.N. believes in development. The Church also believes in development, education and right down the line of the Millennial Development Goals," Ruse said. "When you get to the moral issues, that is when you see the friction."
Tensions have risen between the Holy See and some U.N. member states and non-governmental organizations over what the Millennial Development Goals should entail. For example, the Holy See is adamant that liberalizing abortion laws should not be equated with improving maternal health and empowering women. Despite what some liberal NGOs and activists might suggest, the Catholic Church does not believe that distributing condoms is the answer to stopping HIV/AIDS in Africa.
In February, Archbishop Francis A. Chullikatt, the apostolic nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, told a U.N. working group that while the Holy See supports efforts to improve equality for women, that should not be confused with pushing coercive birth control-based family planning programs.
"The global community must sidestep a simplistic assertion that shortfalls in women's economic and public achievements can be remedied only by the negation of their procreative capacities," Archbishop Chullikatt said.
Tensions have been increasing since the Holy See, under Pope John Paul II's leadership, fought back efforts to declare abortion to be an international human right during a 1994 U.N. conference in Cairo.
With increasing regularity, the U.N. treaty commissions have interpreted U.N. human rights treaties to cover topics not mentioned in the actual documents, such as legalized abortion, homosexual rights and wider access to birth control.
In mid-February, the U.N. committee tasked with monitoring nations' implementation of the Convention of the Rights of the Child issued a report that said the Catholic Church should change its moral teachings and amend canon law to spell out the circumstances under which abortion could be permitted.
"For the U.N. to lecture the Holy See on canon law is just completely unprecedented," Collett said, adding that the commissions undermine the United Nations when they overstep their mandate.
In 2006, the Holy See declined to sign the U.N. Convention for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities because of problematic language that appeared to include a right to abortion, and that undermined parents' rights to raise their children with Christian values. At last year's U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, the Holy See criticized the commission's final document for not including the freedom of thought, conscience and religion.
"I'm concerned about where things are headed," Collett said. "We're seeing a real campaign to disregard the rights of conscience and to impose a worldview contrary to what we know to be reality."
Despite the increasing clashes, Hendershott said it would be a bad idea for the Holy See to walk away from the U.N. The fact that some U.N. bureaucrats and NGOs have called the Holy See an obstructionist force, and have even tried to remove it from the United Nations, speaks well of the Church, Hendershott said.
"The Church is still something to be reckoned with at the United Nations," Hendershott said. "And I'm proud of that."
Brian Fraga writes from Massachusetts.
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BEEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL and Mount Abraham Union High School students play a game of capture the flag during a two-school cookout in New Haven last Thursday. The lunch was shared after 80 Mount Abraham seniors walked from their school to Beeman to raise money for the Have a Heart Community Food Shelf in Bristol. For a full story, see Page 2.
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Drag Me To Hell
Sam Raimi's grim, whacky, scary, and hilarious return to horror gets the fancy Shout Factory treatment. "Drag Me To Hell" didn't make much of a blip at the box office, but it's gotten a much-deserved second life on home "video" formats. While it's been on Blu-ray before, Shout Factory gives the film a slight upgrade and adds some new bonus features that might be of interest to die-hard fans.
The story about a loan officer named Christine (Alison Lohman) who denied an old woman a loan that will result in her being evicted from her house. The woman (Lorna Raver) puts a curse on the poor girl who spends the entire movie being haunted and tortured in over-the-top and often uproarious ways.
The two versions on this release feature a 2k Upgrade of the Theatrical Cut and an HD Master of the Unrated Cut which simply adds extra seconds of full-on gore originally cut to get a PG-13 rating.
Special Features are a mix of old and new and depending on your fandom of the film, whether you want to upgrade is up to you.
One Disc One we have the old:
One Disc Two we have the new:


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Judge P. H. Napier, probably the most widely known man in this county, died at his home in Wayne at five o'clock last Thursday morning, following an attack of grippe and influenza which confined him to his room little more than a week. But Judge Napier had been in declining health for sometime although this fact was little understood among his acquaintances since he was not the kind of man who would complain when in ill health. The end was possibly hastened by injuries he received last fall when [a] N. & W. passenger train. . . wrecked. He was badly shaken up and was [compelled] to walk with a cane [after the] accident.
Judge Napier was born in this county December 12, 1849, being 73 years old at the time of his death. He was the grandson of Thomas Napier, one of the . . . most prominent settlers in what is now Wayne county who came here when it was a primeval forest little known to the white man. The closest neighbors of Thomas Napier were miles away. The dense woodland was infested with wild animals which were routed long ago by the advance of civilization.Thomas Napier was a soldier in the war of 1812, and following his discharge from service he studied in Virginia and later moved to Wayne county where he taught school for the greater part of his life. Patrick H. Napier, Sr., was the son of Thomas Napier and father of Patrick H. Napier, Jr.
Born of pioneers, Judge Napier naturally inheried many of the strong traits of character common to our forefathers. When he was a boy, the school system in Wayne county was meager in comparison to the present opportunities offered; hence, he was deprived of educational advantages other than those he made for himself. Early in life he aspired to study law, and he did study law in his own home around a flickering light.
But he overcame those handicaps, and when he died, Judge Napier was everywhere regarded as one of the most eminent trial lawyers in West Virginia. When young in years, he was a timberman in this county; he was later. . .in mercantile business; he was elected county clerk and prosecuting attorney. He was for many years a prominent figure in State politics and his influence was instrumental in [determining] the fate of many office aspirants. He was a Republican, but his views were not of the narrow partisan kind that prevented him from respecting the views of others.
Judge Napier was successful as a practicing attorney; he had native oratorical ability which prominently identified him with many speaking campaigns in the State. He was a friend to the poor man, and it is a well known fact that he never turned a client away for the mere fact that he was penniless.
Judge Napier was everywhere known as "Uncle Pat." His term as judge of the Wayne-Logan circuit, under appointment from Governor Hatfield to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judge J. B. Wilkinson, was a responsible office which he well filled. He was the same unaffected gentleman, regardless of whether he was practicing in justice's court or before the State supreme court or sitting on the bench in his own court.
Funeral services were conducted at the home in Wayne Friday by Rev. A. W. Davison and Rev. W. H. Beale, pastors of the local Baptist and Methodist churches respectively. The services were largely attended by people from the county and from Huntington. Burial was made on Little Lynn creek, near East Lynn, alongside the grave of his brother, W. S. Napier, who preceded him by less than a year. Through the courtesy of C. Weller, superindendent of this division of the N. & W., the East Lynn train was delayed for two hours, thus enabling people to attend the burial services and return to Wayne the same afternoon. The last rites were the charge of the Wayne Masonic Lodge, of which the deceased had long been a member.
Surviving relatives are his wife, Mr. Delilah Napier; two children, Mrs. J. R. Keesee, of Huntington, and W. J. Napier, of Wayne; and one sister, Mrs. Chapman Fry, of Ceredo.
The death of Judge P. H. Napier in his Wayne county home might well be compared to the removal of a sturdy and loyal familiar land mark. For almost fifty years he had been one of the outstanding figures in the affairs of Wayne county. Somehow or other he was the kind of man whose death one did not expect to hear about. Despite his more than seventy years, he was erect and vigorous and possessed of a vitality that seemed invincible.
If one of his numerous distinguishing traits stood out above all the others it was his unfailing courtesy. Kindness, genuine, helpful kindness, was another part of his character which deserves special mention.
And "Uncle Pat," as thousands affectionately called him, knew far more about neighborliness than the average man knows. He was a neighbor in the truest sense. With money or with personal service, he was ever ready to go the limit of his opportunity for helping others. Whan a fellow human being was in distress, "Uncle Pat" was not like the Priest and the Levite who passed by on the other side. Instead, he was the Good Samaritan, who poured out the oil of healing and bound up wounds.
And "Uncle Pat" knew far more about hospitality than the average man knows. His home was the home of his friends. There they found cordial welcome and unstinted entertainment. His home was the home of plenty sweetened by unaffected simplicity.
"Uncle Pat" knew better how to understand and sympathize with boys than the average man knows. Many a youth found him a sympathetic listener and invaluable counsellor (sic). Boys trusted him for the same reason that men trusted him. Trustworthiness was written upon his countenance and vibrated in the tones of his voice. . . .
The measure of "Uncle Pat's" faith in men was large. He believed men were trustworthy and accepted all as such until shown to the contrary. It was inevitable that he should at times find his confidence betrayed. But these few exceptions to the rule of his belief did not embitter him.
Without a doubt at the day of his death he had personal acquaintance with more men and women than any other citizen in Wayne county. Fifty years as county official, business man and attorney brought him into contact with thousands, and thousands were proud to refer to him as their friend.
Sprung from sturdy pioneer stock, he lived true to the teachings of his forbears and emulated their high examples of good citizenship and right living. If he had an enemy and knew it, he would have exhausted all reasonable efforts to win him back as a friend.
Despite the fact of limited opportunities in early life, "Uncle Pat" was a successful lawyer. What he lacked in the technicalities of the law he made up for in the fine common sense that was his and the native shrewdness that was a part of his mind. In whatever he undertook, in whatever duties were thrust upon him, he filled his place and filled it well.
To say that Judge Napier will be greatly missed and that Wayne county has suffered a very severe loss in his death would be superfluous. Both things are but all too true. If the consensus of his friends could be moulded (sic) into a brief epitaph, it would be something like this: He was just. He was sympathetic. He understood.
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Let's make this easy for you. Beacon, New York-based artist Adam Lister is selling giclee prints of his popular 8-bit watercolor paintings. (Giclee is a fancy 12-color inkjet printing process that produces super high quality prints.) You can take your pick from a wide range of cultural icons, from Walter White to the Mona Lisa to The Girl with the Pearl Earring. Star Wars fans will enjoy an especially wide range of options. Just pick a couple of your favorites and a standard-sized frame from the frame store, and you're good to go!
Check out all of Lister's 8-bit watercolors here.
Walter White
American Gothic
The Kiss
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Pere LaChaise Cemetary, Paris, France
Posted 20 February 2007 - 07:08 AM
Ron Kolek, our Ghost Village Radio star, suggested that I go leave a cassette recorder running in the cemetary to see what I can catch.
Here are the challenges:
- Noisy roads on the other side of the walls, even in the quieter parts of the cemetary
- Birds chirping (we didn't have any winter this year and the birds are already working full steam)
- Passers'by and gardening vehicles
If I sit quietly next to the recorder, I can at least note all the most obvious external noises that come up.
What if I make up a list of questions, and ask them while the tape is running?
I'm not rich, so I can't afford expensive sound equipment, but are there cheap tricks for keeping the cassette sound as clean as possible?
Would anyone want to help me 'clean up' the tape afterwards (remove the noises made by cars and living people)? I don't have more than a Pentium 1 computer at home, and no internet connection (I cruise the internet only at work, where it's free).
Thanks for any input,
Posted 21 February 2007 - 12:45 PM
Posted 22 February 2007 - 07:47 AM
Thank you for the great information. I only have a little boom box with a recorder capability, which I didn't want to drag to the cemetary. I'm going to price recorders. Everything is more expensive in France, though, so I may go to the tape recorder to save money.
Despite the fact that digital recorders offer an easy solution for downloading content, how can one be sure that digital recordings are 'clean'? Couldn't previous recordings corrupt new ones? Or would I just use a new memory chip each time? Fresh audio cassettes are cheaper to buy than memory chips.
Should the microphone perhaps have a foam covering to keep out the air movement sounds (do I sound like a total green horn by asking this question)?
Posted 23 February 2007 - 11:41 PM
I think I'll add my .02 worth here.My DVR is an olympus vn-240 no it doesn't have the usb link its no big thing.I bought a double male jack and connected one end to the earphone jack and the other end into the input jack on the computer.I also use Audacity sound program because I'm cheap and it's free,also it works good for me.Total cost vn-240 was $20.00 + Tax at Office Max ,and the double jack cord at Radio Shack was around $3.00 + tax so I got what I needed for under $25.00 bucks and a working sound program for free. Not bad at all ! I hope this help you Carlotta just remember ghost hunting doesn't have to hurt your wallet.
Posted 02 May 2007 - 06:47 AM
While in the US I found a used Panasonic portable tape player with record capabilities. It must be 20 years old but still in good condition. I hope to get a chance to use it... if I can figure out a quiet location that has activity and is easy to get to without a car.
Posted 11 January 2008 - 07:04 AM
Just an update. I noticed that lots of people have read this discussion, so there must be some interest out there in what's happening in that cemetary.
I haven't returned to the cemetary yet. Does anyone have suggestions about how to tape EVPs in the outdoors, or is it just impossible, given all of the noises that one can't control?
There are little masoleums in which I could sit and run the tape player, as long as I get the feeling that I'm not 'disturbing' anyone. Some of them have a distictly negative feeling that is so strong that I make a wide detour. There are people that sleep in them at night, and maybe even the daytime. Some homeless people keep their pets in them. You can find water dishes and pet beds sometimes.
Just walking through the cemetary can relax me, but also drain my energy. In trying to be 'open' to find a place to take EVPs, I also end up being open to the energy vampires too. Perhaps I'm doing it wrong?
Posted 11 January 2008 - 08:50 AM
Does anyone have suggestions about how to tape EVPs in the outdoors, or is it just impossible, given all of the noises that one can't control?
I don't think it is impossible, it's just there can be many distractions. Most of my recordings are outdoors, and I pick up birds, road noise, bugs flying by...etc. Most of the UAP (shamelessly stolen from Ron) I have recorded I compare to all the other background noises I have heard throughout the recording to ensure it is an uncommon sound.
To me the most annoying, uncontrollable, problem with recording outdoors is wind. It tends to garble the recording and really takes over as the primary sound. I have remedied this by wrapping the microphone in a tube sock. It helps a bit, not completely though.
Posted 11 January 2008 - 09:36 AM
gettin' it done everyday
Posted 11 January 2008 - 10:12 AM
Wow, your friend must really know her rock and roll, who's Jim Morrison anyway?
One of my friends told me this is where Jim Morrison is buried. Maybe you should do an EVP by his grave.
Posted 11 January 2008 - 10:38 AM
gettin' it done everyday
Posted 13 January 2008 - 11:36 AM
In the wake of the infamous Miami trails one may wonder if Mr Mojo Risin is really buried there in France, or if it was a plot to fake his death. Of course there are rumors of his grave site being haunted by the specter of a leather clad apparition as this picture hints.
hi Lizard King...Jim Morrison is the hot looking guy in your avatar, right?...lol... Have there been any sightings of Jim?
Edited by Lizard King, 13 January 2008 - 11:38 AM.
Posted 13 January 2008 - 01:47 PM
One of my friends told me this is where Jim Morrison is buried. Maybe you should do an EVP by his grave.
I don't think she's getting to do one by Jim Morrison's grave. There are so many people hanging around causing trouble that they have a permanent gendarme post right there by his grave. She'd probably be shooed off after a while... and, of course, the problem of people hanging around making noise ALL THE TIME.
I should look through my pictures of Pere LaChaise. There were a couple places that I felt like someone was in there and they might be somewhere that could get some activity. I never went over to the big mausoleums... I only had a morning and the place is HUGE... and I've never had a chance to go back when I've been in Paris since.
Pere LaChaise has to be THE most amazing cemetery I've ever been in. It's truly unique and it's beautiful... whether you're into the paranormal or art or parks or what.
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Recently, my favorite Greek yogurt brand Chobani put out some new flavors, and now you have a chance to try all of them!
First let me tell you, of the three new flavors: Blood Orange, Apple Cinnamon and Passion Fruit, and all three are delicious!
Apple Cinnamon has become my absolute favorite of all the Chobani flavors! It's like Apple Pie Ala Mode. I love to open it up, stir it around, then freeze it and eat it a few hours later, it makes me eat it slower and enjoy each bite. Sometimes I think Greek yogurt of any flavor is too bitter to eat solo, but the Apple Cinnamon is not in my opinion.
I'd be doing you a disservice if I didn't tell you about the new Chobani Champions flavors (the kid version of Chobani as well), including the new Chocolate Vanilla flavor. It is absolutely wonderful and feels like a treat more than a yogurt.
The good people at Chobani have said they'll give one reader a prize package will include a case of the new flavors 12 cups total with four of each of each flavor- 0% Blood Orange, 0% Apple Cinnamon & 2% Passion Fruit.
Here's how you can win:
- Leave a comment telling me your favorite yogurt flavor
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Leave a separate comment for each for increased chances to win.
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*Chobani provided me with a case of the new flavors to try, but did not compensate me in any other way for this post.


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ASPEN, Colo.—Taxpayer-funded incentives are being used to lure Delta Air Lines back to the Aspen market, but officials have not disclosed the price tag.
The airline and the Aspen Skiing Co. announced Wednesday that Delta will begin operating daily flights to and from Atlanta and Saturday-only flights from Minneapolis on Dec. 21.
Officials with the city of Aspen, the town of Snowmass Village, Pitkin County and the Aspen Chamber Resort Association, along with the Aspen Skiing Co., all say bringing more air service to the Aspen airport is worth supporting with tax dollars. The airline has declined to comment.
According to the Aspen Daily News ( http://tinyurl.com/l7tr8zq), the Aspen City Council will vote on the city's portion of the incentive package at its Aug. 12 meeting.
Information from: Aspen Daily News, http://www.aspendailynews.com


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The Toronto Maple Leafs announced today that forward Kasperi Kapanen has been recalled from the Toronto Marlies (AHL). In a corresponding move, the Maple Leafs have placed forward Nikita Soshnikov on the injured reserve list.
Kapanen, 21, was previously recalled this season on October 28 and skated in three games with the Maple Leafs before being returned on loan to the AHL on November 7. He has appeared in 16 games with the Toronto Marlies this season, tallying eight goals and four assists for 12 points. In 2016-17, Kapanen appeared in eight regular season games with the Maple Leafs and scored one goal before adding two goals in six Stanley Cup playoff games with the club. He also recorded 43 points (18 goals, 25 assists) in 43 games with the Toronto Marlies last season and had an additional eight points (2 goals, 6 assists) in nine Calder Cup playoff games. Kapanen was acquired by the Maple Leafs in a trade with the Pittsburgh Penguins on July 1, 2015.
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Entrepreneurial ventures are fraught with missteps, mishaps, and mistakes. No matter how steeped you are in business-ownership experience, you are bound to run into problems at some point.
The key to your success is to quickly identify your mistakes, learn from them, and prevent the same mistakes from happening again, says Mike Michalowicz, small business expert and author of "The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur."Most business owners fall into the same traps. It's those mistakes which could make the difference between owning a successful and viable small business, or owning a money pit that could leave you in financial pain for years to come.
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Alright, well, I got the pics up, and now the report is ready! Beware, thee with slow internet, for 59 pictures await you. Now, without further ado, I present Call of Brikthulhu!
Starting positions:
The Rabbi started on top of a hill with a grave. There was a machine gun hidden in there, but no one found it. He was stronger vs. zombies.
Harvey Walters started near a truck. He was able to see other players' pictures.
Dr. Whitman started in his office. He had the ability to heal himself and others.
Sable Epee started in a house. Her special was the ability to counter attack.
Al Hazrad started at the Town Hall, with some zombies. He's in purple. He could control zombies.
First Turn:
Al claims a scythe and orders his zombie minions to scout and guard.
The doctor hides behind a broken ambulance.
The rabbi re-kills a zombie...
...and rides away on a stolen bike.
Sable lunges at a zombie, killing it (technically).
Harvey shoots the Geonosian, killing it (Not in this picture), and makes for the truck.
Turn Two
Harvey gets in the truck and runs over several zombies.
The doctor runs into the square of the mall place and finds a rocket launcher.
Al orders his zombies to attack Harvey.
They do, half-killing him.
Meanwhile, two mysterious figures appear, armed to kill.
Dalek, from the Raiden/Jothan Chronicles, tries to kill them.
Turn Three
Sable barricades the house, and throws out the zombie. It will revive itself soon.
The Rabbi comes up to the bank.
Harvey crashes into Al! This knocks Al down to 1 HP.
In retaliation, Al takes his scythe and causes the first player death! One down, three to go.
At the end of the round, Sable has made it to the roof.
The doctor ran over to the bank's back, and the rabbi is inside. Neither are aware of this.
The zombie hunters take out Dalek.
Zombies storm Sable's house.
A zombie tries to kill the rabbi in the bank.
What is this? A giant monster has appeared!
A Sable's Eye view of the beast, plus others.
Turn Four
Al hops into the truck and runs over one zombie slayer!
Sable's situation looks grim.
So she ducks, and hopes they won't make it up.
The doctor fires off his rocket and kills off two zombies, before running off.
His destination is the yellow house.
The rabbi secures his bank, with his newly found rifle.
The player count is brought down to three as the last zombie hunter avenges his comrade and kills Al Hazrad!
The zombies break through the barricade and enter Sable's house.
Zombies mob the last zombie hunter...
...so he sets off his bomb, destroying all of them!
The monster climbs onto the the doctor's office...
...and onto the rubble of the statue of Lord Brikhart.
A tree is felled by its mental blast, but not the doctor.
Next, the monster flings a fallen tree at the doctor...
...but it misses.
The rabbi is nearly crushed by another projectile, but the monster is having a bad turn for attacking.
Turn Five
Sable decides to make a valiant last stand and leaps down to kill some zombies. Unfortunately, she doesn't.
The rabbi makes for the apartment complex, hoping to escape the monster's wrath.
The doctor makes it into the house, and up the stairs.
Zombies mob Sable, but her counter attack makes quick work of most of them. She gets knocked down to 1 HP, though.
The undead housekeeper attacks the doctor, bringing him down to 1 HP as well.
A street cleaner soars through the air in the first of the monster's attacks. Will the rabbi survive?
The answer is yes. The monster is doing less harm than expected.
However, it still has one trick up its non-Euclidean sleeve.
The pod on the front of the monster bursts off and flies through the air with explosive force!
It goes right through the front of the yellow house...
...and kills Dr. Whitman! Only two remain, now!
An Overwatch before the last turn.
Turn Six
The turn starts off with a splat, and ends just as fast. The rabbi enters the apartment building, where he gets mobbed by zombies, dying quickly.
Sable was not harmed during this turn, and won! Congratulations, Cpl. Halan, for surviving Brikhart!
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A final Overwatch.
That's the end of it, then. Thanks to all who signed up, and for making my first forum battle an enjoyable one! Cpl. Halan, you have the secret mystery faction in my next Forum War, the details of which will be posted when I finish up my renovations to Brikhart.
Things learned about Zombie Survival: Ensure that players have access to better weapons, and vehicles are awesome. Also, killer monsters showing up are a good way to add tension, and to keep people on edge. Also, buildings should be thouroughly infested with zombies, so that hiding out in them (a popular tactic) is a bit harder. I look forward to seeing if anyone will do another one of these!


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Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sharing a Sugar Swan . . .
Sometimes we try to do extraordinary or unusual things in my Pastry II class. Sometimes we succeed. Other times, not so much. Yesterday was one of the good days. We made these delicate swans and I just wanted to share mine with you guys.
The swan's body is made from blown sugar; the wings, feathers, flowers, and leaves from pulled sugar; and the base from poured sugar. Well, not sugar exactly, but a sugar substitute that pastry chefs use for this sort of thing called isomalt, which is derived from sugar alcohol. It's edible, of course, but not particularly intended for consumption.
The swan is no more than 7" tall and perhaps 6" long from front to back, and sits on a base of about 8" in diameter. Here's how it was made, in a nutshell: Its body is formed from a golf-ball sized glob of hot isomalt that you, first, mold with your hands into sort of a light-bulb shape (and, believe me, you're wearing plastic gloves--maybe even two pairs--the entire time you're working on this). Then, you attach the narrower end of that to the tube end of a small, primitive-looking, rubber hand pump, not unlike the pump used on a blood pressure cuff. You gently pump air into the sugar glob, which you're cradling in one hand, and, if you're very lucky, it expands cooperatively to about the size of a large lemon. Then, you pinch a bit of the hot sugar with your fingertips, from the non-tube end of the swan, and pull it upwards, curling it over to form the neck and head. At this point, you let the whole thing cool. Then you heat the tail end so you can remove the air tube (when that's done, you say a prayer of thanks that the whole thing hasn't shattered yet).
The wings are formed from small separate globs of hot sugar. To do this, you grab a bit of hot sugar, hold it tightly between thumb and forefinger, and then pull it out into the shape of a thin wing, and immediately use a pair of scissors to cut the feathering onto one side. The tail feathers were formed similarly, but without any scissor cuts. You heat just an edge of the wing and quickly attach it to the body.
The eyes were made by taking a very small, straight strand of colored sugar, letting it completely cool so it was like a tiny stick, and then reheating just the very end of it so it would melt into a drop. Then that melted tip was dabbed onto the swan's head on each side. The beak was made by pinching off bits of the same color sugar and pulling them into the appropriate shape, then gluing them on by quickly heating them on one edge.
The little flowers were made by pulling a ribbon of sugar and then quickly rolling and tucking it up, very simply. The leaves were formed much the same way the wings were. And the dark blue base that the swan is sitting on was made from extremely hot isomalt that was poured into a shallow, round, rubber mold and then left to cool.
Occasionally, I don't necessarily think all that much of what I've made at school on a given day, but then I get whatever it is home (assuming it's something we get to bring home, which doesn't happen all that often) and have a chance to look at it in a completely different setting. And, I think to myself, "Wow--that's actually pretty cool." That's kind of how I felt about this little swan. I honestly don't know if I could ever reproduce him at home, partly because I don't have any of the needed equipment, but even if I never make anything else like this in my life, I enjoyed working on this feathery fellow.
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17 comments:
- Bakergirl said...
This is so beautiful. I can't believe it's made entirely out of sugar! Wow. My mind = blown.
- May 25, 2011 at 9:57 PM
- Betty @ scrambled henfruit said...
So delicate and beautiful! :)
- May 25, 2011 at 10:41 PM
- pookiepantry said...
Gorgeous! Amazing job!
- May 25, 2011 at 10:51 PM
So pretty! Great job Jane!
- May 26, 2011 at 1:06 AM
- faithy said...
SOO GORGEOUS!! I love it! I always admire people who works with sugar! It is not easy for sure! :) Please do share more from your classes..love to see all your decorated pieces! :D
- May 26, 2011 at 2:06 AM
- kitchen flavours said...
Wow! Your Sugar Swan is so beautiful and elegant! You did a fantastic job! Simply perfect!
- May 26, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- The Vanilla Bean Baker said...
Oh my goodness, it is beautiful. You must be so very proud of this piece of sugar work! I think I'd want to put it in a box of glass and admire it forever.
- May 26, 2011 at 1:17 PM
- Eden of Woolflower Boutique said...
That's wonderful. I wondered how people do that. Great job! How big is it?
I've been popping in to read your blog for awhile. The photos always make me wish it were a menu for a restaurant I could go to every weekend. Thanks!
- May 27, 2011 at 7:23 AM
- michelangelo in the kitchen said...
Wow Jane, your swan is spectacular! This is a fantastic form of art I want to learn after seeing your fabulous work! Thanks for sharing such amazing art work. Just happy to have discovered your site! Cheers!!!
- May 27, 2011 at 1:41 PM
That is incredible!!! Nicely done.
- May 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM
- Cindys Confections.com said...
Wow Jane, that's gorgeous!! I'm getting into the isomalt/pulled sugar thing lately too -- it's a blast!! Great job!!
- May 27, 2011 at 6:13 PM
- Sweet And Crumby said...
That is stunning! I don't think I could ever make something so beautiful from edible anything. Thank you for stopping by my blog as well. I look forward to coming by often.
- May 29, 2011 at 6:24 AM
- ~~louise~~ said...
Oh Jane, I'm in awe of your incredible talent and tenacity.
I'm so glad you decided to share your "Sweet" Sugar Swan with us. It looks simply exquisite.
Bravo to YOU!!!
- May 29, 2011 at 11:01 PM
I don't know what happened, but my comment seems to have disappeared into cyberspace.
This truly is stunning, awe-inspiring and magnificent, Jane. You have a natural gift and flair for making and baking beautiful creations - this is further proof.
If I were the instructor at your pastry class, I'd give you an A++++.
Once again, as always, I am inspired and motivated by what you've shared with us. This is absolutely wonderful and beautiful.
- May 30, 2011 at 4:07 AM
- Avanika [YumsiliciousBakes] said...
That's absolutely gorgeous, Jane! Just wow. Sugar is something I've always wanted to know how to use.
- June 5, 2011 at 5:17 AM
- Voe said...
This is so beautiful!
All the best;
- June 7, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Aveen said...
We did a lot of sugar work at college including isomalt sugar and I've never really thought much of the results, but I love this! Absolutely beautiful.
- June 17, 2011 at 4:37 PM


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One Breath is the moment immediately before everything changes. Anna Calvi's second album teeters on a precipice, that dividing line splitting life into the before and after, the exact point at which inertia becomes action. "I'm calling the album that because that song sums up the feeling of being on the edge of something," she explains. "It's the moment before you've got to open yourself up, and it's about how terrifying that it. It's scary and it's thrilling. It's also full of hope, because whatever has to happen hasn't happened yet."
In the two years since she released her self-titled debut, life has changed for Anna Calvi, and One Breath comes from a very different place. She wrote the first album over a long period of time, not knowing if anyone would ever even hear it, but made One Breath in a few short weeks, determined not to make it a replica.
She spent a year writing 30 or so songs in London, before travelling to Blackbox studios in France to record a narrowed-down list. Daniel Maiden-Wood returned on drums, Mally Harpaz on percussion, and Massive Attack and Portishead-collaborator John Baggott joined for the first time on keyboards. The record was then mixed in Dallas, Texas, during a "bizarre" three weeks of near-isolation in a motel room. The 11 songs that make up One Breath take in a broad spectrum of reference points, from the call-and-response detail of West African music to the transformative conceptual ideas of composer John Adams, via Sing To Me, an homage to Maria Callas. This is an emotional journey through an expansive musical palette.
"I wanted there to be a wider spectrum of emotion on the record, and I wanted this to be expressed in the music. I wanted more moments of ugliness and more moments of beauty. I wanted the guitars to come in at the emotional climax of a song, rather than strumming all the way through. I wanted to work more with textures, so I used tuned percussion, and less typical, bass-drum-guitars band textures."
This compulsion to expand her vision, rather than remain fixed in one sound, saw Calvi playing around with the way she uses her voice. "When I first started and realised I could sing loud, I thought, this is so much fun, I can do it all the time," she laughs. "This time, I wanted to use it as an instrument, like a dramatic device, as I do with the guitar. I learned that powerful moments can be from singing quietly. Some of the riffs are done by the voice, as opposed to another instrument."
Calvi worked closely with producer John Congleton to bring these exploratory strands together, having been introduced to him by a mutual friend, though she was already a fan of his work. "I liked the records he's done. I like Amanda Palmer's records, the work he's done with Bill Callahan." Congleton shared her enthusiasm for experimenting with texture, and offered an added impetus of working quickly, not allowing Calvi to deliberate over microscopic elements of songs as she had done in the past, but rather, get it done, and declare it finished. "That's always a problem with me," she admits. "This encouraged me to just go with it more, and you can hear that on the record."
The heavy, crunching Love Of My Life, which combines wild distortion with moments of unnerving stillness, is perhaps the biggest departure from the past, and its bold new intent is striking. "It's that feeling of really wanting someone, so much that you feel fevered by it," Calvi explains, of its meaning. "If I were to describe that in sound, then that's what it feels like, so it has to sound like that. It makes me feel slightly uncomfortable. John makes an effort to do new things, and not just do the safe thing. I didn't want to make something safe-sounding."
One Breath was made during a tumultuous time in Calvi's life, which may explain this sense of upheaval. "The year I wrote this record was tough but a learning experience. I feel like, in a way, it made me write differently, so at least something good came out of it. The first album was very much a statement of 'This is what I am, I'm strong', whereas this one was more about using music to try to make sense of situations that had happened to me. It's more personal."
The beautiful Piece By Piece is the most literal response, telling the story of how a memory evaporates, as the music slowly disintegrates, too, crumbling as the song reaches its end. "It's about how no matter how hard you try to hold onto a memory it will always dissipate. This can be very sad and difficult, but at times it can also be a very healing thing. The music is made up of all these pieces which get deconstructed, then by the end, they dissipate, as the memory dissipates. The whole song is the feeling of losing that memory."
The album opens with Suddenly, its words telling a very different story to its euphoric sound. "It's about how the memories of any difficult experience you've had are always with you at some level, even after you've re-built your strength again. I like the juxtaposition - the music is in a major key and it's quite upbeat, but the story is more vulnerable."
The soaring Eliza continues that theme, striking a delicate balance between optimism and despair.
"It's about seeing a strong and beautiful woman who reminds you of a part of yourself that has got lost somehow, and striving to become that person again."
Though this is a more reflective record, those fiery elements that so informed her debut remain in place, albeit in an altered state. "The first album was very much about passion. The music still comes from a place of passion, but there are more textures and colours." At this stage, water seems a more appropriate image. "Water is a good example of the feeling of not being in control, of there being something you have to surrender to. If there's a thematic thread, then that's it."
The Bridge, a choral, dream-like work, brings the album to a close with surreal, ethereal poise. "It leads you back to the beginning," she says. "Suddenly is about being on the edge, and imagine being on the edge of a bridge. It's the moment where you have a choice to go forth in life and accept the way it is, which means you're never going to feel stable. I find it terrifying. But it's beautiful, as well." One Breath has been drawn, and everything has changed.
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