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The theology of the body is not just a theology for Marriage Encounter weekends, Pre-Cana classes or high school classrooms. It's also a theology for the public square.
Of course, Pope John Paul II's collection of teachings has a lot to say about sex and sexuality. When it comes to communicating the Church's understanding of marital love and intimacy to contemporary culture, the theology of the body has been a game-changer, helping countless people grasp for the first time the sacredness and power of giving one's body to another.
But it's not called the theology of the body (as opposed to the "theology of sex") for nothing. Pope John Paul II's teachings are, at their heart, not a sex-ed curriculum, but rather an anthropology of what it means to be a human person. They are a prism through which Catholics can view themselves and the world rightly.
That's why the theology of the body has something to say about what happens outside, as well as inside, couples' bedrooms. It is, at its most basic, not just a guide for how we are to love, but also for how we are to live.
And, when properly understood, it sheds light on the root causes of some of our culture's most pressing social concerns: the spread of pornography, the rise in out-of-wedlock births, the culture of divorce, support for abortion and embryo-destructive procedures, and the push for same-sex marriage.
On all those issues and more, the theology of the body can illuminate and clarify the Church's teachings and solutions. Here's how.
Emily Stimpson is an OSV contributing editor.
On the surface, pornography seems to be a sin rooted in desire.
But it's not. It's a sin rooted in a misunderstanding of the human person and the universe itself.
"Why do artists spend their entire life trying to master the human body?" asked Father Thomas Loya, founder of the Tabor Life Institute. "Because the human body is the sum total of all the elements of beauty. … The invisible principles of truth, goodness and beauty — those things which are of God — have been enfleshed. They've been made real to us in the created order, and the human person is the high point of that."
Pornography, however, never allows the eye to see that. It stops the eye, Father Loya explained, and holds it on the surface, isolating the physical from the spiritual and rendering the body into an object to be used for another's pleasure.
"When we look at porn, we're looking at a counterfeit of beauty," Father Loya said. "We're not looking at real beauty at all."
And that's where the theology of the body comes in.
It gives man, explained Father Loya, "a way of seeing correctly, honestly, sacramentally," training the eye to recognize that all of life, including the naked human body, reveals God.
That training, he continued, is training that all men and women living in the West today need.
"We are immersed in a 'pornographied' culture," he said. "But we can't drive down the street with bags over our heads. We have to learn how to be in it. We have to learn how to see, not run."
Learning how to see, he said, begins with recognizing that the image of God has been incarnated in men and women.
It also requires recognizing that the beauty and form of the naked human body reveals the spousal mystery of the human person — that men and women are created to give themselves in life-giving love to one another as the Three Persons of the Trinity give themselves in love to each other.
Finally, it requires integrating that understanding into the way we look upon other persons.
Practically speaking, Father Loya explained, that integration demands that we never choose to use or view pornography, which uses every artistic trick in the book to focus the eye on the sexual and not the spiritual dimension of the person.
When an alluring image or person does capture the eye, he recommends people, "See, pray, then pass on."
He explained: "See the beauty and acknowledge it. It reveals God and is meant to be seen. But then pray for that person, and move on. Don't let your thoughts dwell there."
It's important, he continued, "to make the image into a real person. Don't think of them as an object."
It's also important, he added, to regularly view "honest works of art" — keeping pictures in the home and viewing art in museums that treat the naked human form as it's meant to be treated — with reverence, awe, and as a window to the sacred.
Above all, Father Loya counsels people to turn to the sacraments and prayer, calling on Jesus fervently and frequently, to help reorder their vision and refocus their sight.
"God is a communion of persons, who has entered into a spousal mystery with his own creation," he concluded.
"If we keep seeing sacramentally, keep seeing the center, looking at the interior life of the Holy Trinity, we will see human sexuality as we're supposed to see it. If we don't, if we look at it with no context, we will not only open ourselves up to all sorts of addictions, we will also end up with a skewed concept of God."
55.5% - Teens who have viewed pornography
25 million - The number of adults in the U.S who spend 1-10 hours every week viewing pornography online
25% - Web searches exclusively for pornographic content
$13.3 billion - The annual revenue of the porn industry in the U.S.
56% - Divorce cases involved one party having "an obsessive interest in
pornographic websites"
— According to statistics compiled by Covenant Eyes (www.covenanteyes.com)
Over the past decade, same-sex marriage has been on the fast track from idea to reality. Now legal in five states (and recognized in three more) and the District of Columbia, same-sex marriage is still opposed by the majority of the public. But the tide continues to shift in proponents' favor.
According to Janet Smith, who holds the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair in Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, that shift is due to three fundamental misconceptions about marriage and the human person.
First, she told Our Sunday Visitor, "people think marriage is not a reality that we have to abide by, but a reality that we can decide. It's like arguing that we can say trees are not trees, but tomato plants instead."
The second misconception, she continued, is the belief that, "sex is simply for pleasure. It doesn't have a larger meaning."
And third is the belief that opposing same-sex marriage is the equivalent of "condemning people who struggle with same-sex attraction to a loveless existence."
But the theology of the body, she explained, when properly understood, has the potential to turn all those ideas on their head, reordering cultural conceptions of marriage, sexuality and fulfillment and bringing them back into line with truth.
For Catholics who absorb the teachings, Smith explained, Pope John Paul II's meditations on the human person can reorder their thinking about marriage because it uses Sacred Scripture as the basis for the anthropology developed. There, she said, "it is very clear that marriage is supposed to be between men and women. 'Male and female he created them.'"
Likewise, she continued, "there's no indication anywhere in the text that sex can be used for any other purpose than to create an indissoluble bond between man and woman that's open to life."
Coming to understand those two truths is critical, Smith asserted, because before Catholics can understand, accept and advocate the Church's position on same-sex marriage, they first need to get their own house in order.
"Most people aren't living respectable sexual lives," she said. "They know if they start to ask if same-sex marriage is wrong, they'll also have to ask, 'Is fornication wrong? Is contraception wrong?' They don't want to ask the questions because the answers might force them to examine their own lives."
"Our outreach has to be first to Christians and Catholics," she said. "We have to get them to think rightly about this and convince them there is something radically wrong with this behavior."
And what about those struggling with same-sex attraction? For them, Smith said, the theology of the body offers a clear path to finding the love and fulfillment for which they long: the path of self-gift.
"We don't want anyone to be lonely," Smith said. "But you don't have to be in a sexual relationship to be loved. There's great joy and fulfillment to be found in familial relationships and friendships — natural relationships free from disordered desires."
Even more important, she concluded, "the theology of the body tells us that we're all meant to be in a spousal relationship with God, a relationship where we give ourselves entirely to the good, the true and the beautiful. That's where we find our ultimate fulfillment. That's true happiness."
6 - The number of states and federal districts where same-sex marriage licenses are granted (Iowa, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, the District of Columbia)
3 - The number of states that recognize same-sex marriages from other states (Rhode Island, New York, Maryland)
50,000 - The estimated number of same-sex marriages contracted in the past five years
10-20 -The average number of additional sex partners most men involved in same-sex unions have each year
39% -The rate of domestic violence among homosexual "married" couples. The rate of domestic violence is 7 percent for their heterosexual peers.
— According to statistics provided by Dr. Rick Fitzgibbons, director of the Institute for Marital Healing, at the National Theology of the Body Congress
For almost a generation, half of all marriages have ended in divorce. Depending on the year, that number is sometimes slightly less, sometimes slightly more. And while unique and valid reasons for the separation of spouses can and do exist, Gregory Popcak, Catholic marriage counselor and founder of the Pastoral Solutions Institute, sees the same fundamental problem at work in the breakup of most marriages.
"People tend to love their own comfort zone more than they love their spouse," he told Our Sunday Visitor. "They don't think marriage is supposed to change them or teach them something. They think they're getting married so that they can be affirmed in their 'okayness' for the next 60 years."
But marriage isn't about affirmation. It's about a husband and wife helping the other grow in holiness. Which always requires change.
When couples don't grasp that, Popcak explained, they end up "either constantly fighting or terminally dissatisfied by the lack of generosity their partner shows."
And that's where the theology of the body can help.
On one level, said Popcak, it articulates what people need to be truly happy.
"The theology of the body says that the pursuit of your own personal pleasure isn't going to make you all that happy," he said. "It can help a little bit, but it's only going to get you so far. People are actually happiest when they're loving and serving others, not thinking of themselves."
To live a truly happy life, he continued, psychologists have con-cluded that people need to pursue three things: meaningfulness (using one's gifts and talents to serve others), intimacy (maintaining deep and lasting relationships) and virtue (using the circumstances of life to learn and grow).
"That is the same thing the theology of the body tells us — God gives us our bodies to be in communion with others and work for the good of others," he said. "Everything about our wiring says we need to resist the temptation to be affirmed, and stretch ourselves instead."
When it comes to marriage, the theology of the body also lays out a plan for how couples can integrate that understanding into their relationships.
Describing it as a "blueprint for loving," Popcak explained that the theology of the body rejects the idea that the key to a successful marriage is simply learning to tolerate one another. Rather, it asserts that both husband and wife need to go beyond that, changing and growing to accommodate the other and be who God is calling them to be.
In practical terms, Popcak said, that means doing things that might not come naturally or be a bit of a stretch in order to make one's spouse happier: staying home when you would rather go out, watching baseball instead of HGTV, forgoing meat and potatoes and cultivating a taste for Indian food.
It also means being open to seeing yourself through your spouse's eyes, recognizing your own sins and weaknesses, seeing how you're hurting others, and taking steps to change your behavior.
Above all, it means giving yourself entirely to the other, making loving your spouse your most important job and holding nothing, including your fertility, back.
"In the very fabric of our bodies, we are ordered to giving ourselves to another," said Popcak. "Our bodies our basically screaming out that we're here to do more than be affirmed in our okayness. If we listened to that, we would see a lot fewer divorces and have far more happy marriages.
7.1 - The number of marriages per 1,000 people in the United States in 2008
3.5 - The number of divorces per 1,000 people in the United States in 2008
63% - American children living in a home with both parents
10.7% - Americans over the age of 15 who are divorced
— According to statistics compiled by the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia (www.virginia.edu/marriageproject)
"More birth control."
That, said George Mason University law professor Helen Alvarè, is the prevailing government solution to the problem of out-of-wedlock births.
"The idea is that unwed mothers simply lack information and access to birth control and abortion, or that there are insufficient material incentives for avoiding pregnancy," Alvarè said. "Most of the programs currently funded are all about the functioning of the women's bodies, the availability of abortive technology, and subsuming their desire for a relationship in favor of goals like education or a better job."
But a lack of access to birth control is the last reason why most single women find themselves with child. According to Alvarè, who serves as an adviser to the Pontifical Council for the Laity, both the qualitative and quantitative data that has emerged in recent years makes it clear that many unwed mothers choose pregnancy, while many others "allow it to happen" when they're in a relationship they hope will last. In both situations, one of the reasons they do that is because of a desire to have a deep, long-lasting relationship with another to whom they can be a giver.
Alvarè explained: "You often hear women use the language of 'wanting to be a gift.' They say they 'don't want to be a taker.' They want 'people to think of me as a giver first.' A common phrase is, 'The baby saved me.'"
What Alvarè sees in that data is the essential understanding of the human person's deepest desires as described by the theology of the body.
"The theology of the body tells us that we all long for human communion that is permanent, fruitful and faithful," Alvarè said. "And, in the absence of intact families and close loving peers, whether male or female, motherhood becomes a way of satisfying that in-built orientation."
That, she believes, is why throwing more birth control at women at risk for unwed pregnancies or encouraging them to delay sexual activity in order to secure their future career goals is an ineffective way of combating the problem: It doesn't address the core issues.
What does seem to work, according to the data Alvarè discovered, are pregnancy prevention programs that incorporate the principles of theology of the body. Those programs foster close and ongoing relationships between young women and their mentors, and encourage the women to pursue activities that fulfill their desire for communion — activities such as service learning, sports teams and church groups.
"The theology of the body helps us understand the nature of this problem," she said. "It correctly articulates the very basic source. Now we need to use that understanding to craft a more appropriate response."
5% - Children born to single mothers in 1960
40% - Children born to single mothers in 2007
28% - White women who gave birth out of wedlock in 2007
51% - Hispanic-American women who gave birth out of wedlock in 2007
72% - African-American women who gave birth out of wedlock in 2007
9.8 million - The number of single mothers in the United States in 2008.
— According to statistics provided by the U.S. Department of Labor, the Center for Disease Control, and Helen Alvarè, professor of law at George Mason University, at the National Theology of the Body Congress
What are proponents of abortion, embryo-destructive stem cell research, and in vitro fertilization missing? According to Peter Colosi, assistant professor of moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Wynnewood, Pa., two things.
First, he explained, "they don't recognize that the human person is a physical and spiritual unity all the time, even when they're a one-celled embryo. If the person isn't manifesting their spiritual side, they seem to think it's not there." Second, he added, they're missing an "awareness of the mystery of the human person. They don't see that each person is an unrepeatable thought of God."
Instead, behind the push for both abortion and research and technologies that destroy human embryos, Colosi sees a wrongheaded dualism that separates the human body from the human person, and then treats the body as if it weren't human.
"A pro-abortion advocate once said, 'God doesn't care what we do with our bodies; He just wants us to respect each other as persons,'" Colosi said. "They've somehow convinced themselves that the two can be divorced."
But they can't. And that's a message at the heart of the theology of the body.
Colosi explained: "One of John Paul's favorite phrases was, 'Man is a body.' Not, 'Man has a body,' but, 'Man is a body.' The minute you say, 'Man has a body,' you introduce a degree of separation. And there is no separation. There is an intimate closeness between spirit and matter."
Helping people grasp that truth, Colosi said, enables them to understand that abortion violates persons in two ways. On the most obvious level, it takes the life of an unrepeatable human person, one who will never come again. It destroys the child body and soul, a soul known to be present because a living body is present.
But abortion violates not just the child, but the mother as well.
"The theology of the body helps us understand the spiritual and emotional consequences of abortion," said Colosi. "It explains the connection. Sadly, many women discover this only after the abortion, but what a woman does to her body and to the baby within her has a profoundly negative impact on her soul, her inner life."
Something similar can be said of embryo-destructive research and technologies. According to the principles of theology of the body, scientists aren't simply creating bunches of cells when they create embryos in a laboratory. They're creating actual people, some who will come into the world — albeit treated initially more as a right and a product than as the embodiment of the conjugal act of love between two people — but many more who will die in the womb, remain frozen in perpetuity in a storage facility, or perish under the researchers microscope.
"There is a huge gulf between a young couple, preparing the nursery for the arrival of their first child and the scientist in his lab, creating and killing human embryos like disposable matter," Colosi said.
"The young couple is aware of the mystery of the human person, the scientist completely overlooks people.
50 million - The number of abortions in the United States since 1973
Every 26 seconds - How often a child is aborted in the United States
400,000 - The number of human embryos frozen and stored since 1978.
— According to statistics compiled by the National Right to Life Committee and the Rand Institute
Pope John Paul II's theology of the body…
…was first given during the course of 133 Wednesday audiences delivered from 1979 to 1984.
…is an anthropology of what it means to be a human person, a union of body and spirit.
…teaches that the body expresses the person and reveals how men and women are made in the image and likeness of God.
…reveals that the one flesh union of husband and wife points to the life-giving communion within the Trinity.
…shows how using another person for our own pleasure violates the dignity of the human person.
…illustrates how the celibate life is a sign of the total self-gift we are all called to make of ourselves to God.
…calls all human beings to make a gift of themselves to one another in love.
This is the second In Focus in a three-part series that unpacks the topics presented at the first National Theology of the Body Congress held outside of Philadelphia July 28-30. All quotes, unless otherwise noted, are taken from talks delivered at the conference.
The next installment will run Oct. 24.
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By Claudia Assis
Prices of a key additive used in the food and oil industries have fallen in recent weeks, offering an upside for the oilfield-services companies that use the substance in hydraulic fracturing.
That's guar gum, extensively used in the food industry as a thickening, stabilizing and emulsifying agent. If you've ever had ice cream or yogurt, chances are you've had plenty of guar gum.
But guar is a multitasker — it has many industrial applications, and it goes into the cocktail of water, sand and chemicals used in fracking, the method of choice to coax oil and gas from shale rock.
Guar prices have come down about 30% since January and 75% from a peak in March 2012. Retail guar is selling for about $3 a pound, compared with estimates of a $4 to $4.50 range, analysts at UBS wrote in a note to clients Thursday.
The analysts estimated an upside around 5% for oilfield-services shares in the second half of the year, and some upside for 2014 as well.
The call on the humble guar, grown mostly in northern India, bumped UBS's per-share earnings estimates by 4.5% for Halliburton Co. /quotes/zigman/228631 /quotes/nls/hal HAL , 2.5% for Baker Hughes Inc. /quotes/zigman/219109 /quotes/nls/bhi BHI shares, and 1.5% for Schlumberger Ltd. /quotes/zigman/170324 /quotes/nls/slb SLB shares.
Halliburton got the biggest bump in expectations because it is the North American leader in pressure pumping, which makes the most extensive use of guar in the oil patch.
Guar prices could fall as low as $1.50 a pound later this year and into 2013, UBS said.
A good summer harvest is expected in India, and guar futures trading has resumed,with prices for further-out months highlighting market expectations of further price declines, the investment bank said.
Guar prices peaked last Spring, when retail guar prices sold for as much as $15 a pound. Demand from oil companies drove prices higher, and guar is not extensively planted anywhere else other than South Asia.
Farmers in India, responding to the high prices, have planted more of the stuff — UBS estimated Indian guar production is up 50% to 65% year-on-year. India produces 85% of the world's guar.
The guar seeds are processed into guar gum, which has almost eight times the thickening power of cornstarch. A higher grade of guar gum is used in fracking and well drilling to increase the mix's viscosity, and it can be used with fresh, sea, or brackish water.
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VERMONT — The U.S. Postal Service last week put forth a plan it says would save rural post offices, including several in Addison County that have been on the chopping block.
Instead of closing post offices, the agency is proposing to cut down the hours of some 13,000 rural post offices nationwide, including more than 140 in Vermont and 11 in Addison County.
The local towns that could see a change in post office hours are Bridport, Ferrisburgh, Granville, Hancock, Monkton, North Ferrisburgh, Orwell, Salisbury, Shoreham, Starksboro and Whiting.
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BRISTOL — After the better part of a decade searching for the man who stole a Bristol Police Department cruiser while drunk, then crashed it, police last Thursday captured the man in his brother's home in Starksboro.
Later that same day, Addison County Superior Court Judge Helen Toor sentenced Carroll Thompson, 60, to four to six years in jail.
ADDISON COUNTY — The eighth annual Way to Go! commuter challenge kicked off on Monday morning, as people around the state headed to work on foot, by bike and by bus.
The weeklong event, which this year runs from May 14 through 18, invites participation from individuals, schools and businesses, offering awards to those who conserve the most. Last year, the city of Vergennes and the Goodrich Corp.'s Vergennes office both won recognition.
BRISTOL — How do you get a group of teens to discuss and learn about the socially taboo and awkward topic of sex?
Give them $100.
That's the strategy Jim Lockridge, director of The Hub teen center, and Ryan Krushenick, program coordinator at the Bristol center, are taking to engage young adults in a federally funded sex education program. To encourage local teens to participate in the course, which begins Monday, May 14, at The Hub, Lockridge and Krushenick are earmarking for participants one-third of the $300-per-person funding provided by the feds.
BRISTOL — The Bristol selectboard on Monday took its first big step in exploring an expansion of the fire station on North Street.
BRISTOL — On Monday, May 14, the Bristol selectboard will hold its first public hearing on the new draft of the town plan. Before the draft can be presented to voters, the selectboard — by state law — must hold two public hearings without altering the plan. The hearing is at 7 p.m. at Holley Hall.
VERMONT — A proposed law aimed at reducing the financial burden of school meals for children in low-income families has been in the Vermont Legislature for two years now. But with huge financial setbacks following Tropical Storm Irene, legislators say it won't come to a vote this year.
In 2008, legislators passed a bill to provide free breakfasts to all students eligible for the state's free and reduced-price meal program. Before this bill became law, reduce-priced meal students paid 30 cents per breakfast.
FERRISBURGH/VERGENNES — "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime," the old Chinese proverb eloquently says.
University of Vermont professor David Raphael may not teach his students how to fish. But the Panton resident and owner of LandWorks — the Middlebury outdoor design firm — is equipping UVM students in his "Sustainable Landscape Architecture and Construction" class with skills for life.
SEE THE SLIDESHOW for more on the fire that consumed Pete Hawkins' repair shop in Ferrisburgh late Sunday night. Nine fire departments took six hours to fight the blaze, which also damaged Eriksen's Marine. Photo by Chet Hawkins
THE REPAIR SHOP behind Eriksen's Marine on Route 7 in Ferrisbugh was completely destroyed by a fire that started Sunday night. More than 3,000 Green Mountain Power customers lost electricity while nine local fire departments battled the blaze.
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North Central Galapagos (Baltra to San Cristobal)
8 days with Silversea Rating:
Day 1 — Baltra
Embark Silver Galapagos and depart on your exciting Silversea North Central Galápagos Expedition. After settling in, attending a mandatory safety drill and setting sail, you will be introduced to your Expedition Team.
Silver Galapagos will then head for Daphne to do a circumnavigation –usually only scientist are allowed to land. From the ship we will watch for Nazca and Blue-footed Boobies, Red-billed Tropicbirds, Brown Noddies and Brown Pelicans, as well as Swallow-tailed Gulls and frigatebirds.
In the evening enjoy the first of many memorable meals in The Restaurant.
Day 2 — Bahía Darwin, Genovesa Island
El Barranco, Prince Philip Steps, Genovesa Island
Genovesa is dubbed "Bird Island", a name it lives up to in a spectacular way. Huge colonies of seabirds create a bird-watcher's paradise. Take a walk on the sandy beach of Darwin Bay, home to one of the world's largest Red-footed Booby nesting colonies. Yellow-crowned Night Herons feed near tidal lagoons, while hundreds of Swallow-tailed Gulls nest in the cliffs. Climb "Prince Philip's Steps", a steep path named after the Duke of Edinburgh who visited the island in 1965, and you will be well rewarded with a remarkable spectacle of Nazca Boobies nesting on the ground, Great Frigatebirds with their fiery red sacs, and, if you are lucky, you might even see the elusive Short-eared Owl on a daytime hunt for Storm Petrels, a favourite prey.
After a morning walk, you will have a chance to enjoy the first snorkelling excursion and experience the diverse, underwater wonderland that surrounds the island.
There will also be the opportunity to kayak around Darwin Bay — which is actually a flooded caldera —and admire the island's craggy landscape.
Day 3 — North Seymour
Sullivan Bay, Santiago
North Seymour is a small up-lifted island close to Baltra filled with a spectacular profusion of wildlife above and below the water's surface. The Magnificent Frigatebird is an opportunistic breeder and at any month of the year one may see males displaying their bright-red gular pouch to attract females.
Galápagos sea lions snooze in the sand. Blue-footed Boobies perform their courtship dance called "sky-pointing". Marine iguanas and Galapagos land iguanas patrol the beach, while Brown Pelicans and Brown Noddies look for food in the shallow coastal waters. Walk through this spectacular landscape and afterwards take the opportunity to go snorkelling—perhaps even spotting the impressive whitetip reef shark.
Witness the marks Nature has left on the islands through its geological forces. At Sullivan Bay we will see lava flows dating back to 1897. Here the very high temperature of the molten material, as well as its gas content, had caused the surface to be quite smooth. The appearance this lava has is almost like frail rope and the technical term for it is pahoehoe (a Hawaiian name that suggests the swirls left behind by a paddle (hoe) in the water). Since the lava has not moved equally in all places, the design of the surface texture induces one to see different objects and images in the lava.
Back at the sandy beach you might want to get ready for snorkelling. Apart from rays in the shallows, turtles are quite fond of the beaches and come there to lay their eggs.
Day 4 — Rabida and Eden, Santa Cruz
Rabida is a small picturesque island with red cliffs and maroon-coloured sand. Here one can see Darwin's finches, lava lizards and Galápagos Mockingbirds. A short but rewarding hike will lead along the cliffs where the red rocks, green Palo Santo trees and the blue turquoise sea create landscapes of stunning contrast. The underwater world teems with colourful tropical species and the vibrant submarine landscape is equally amazing. There will be the opportunity to swim or simply stroll along the beach and admire the sea lions snoozing along the shore. One can also go for a stunning snorkel-excursion with sea lions, reef sharks, marine iguanas, colourful anemones and parrotfish, or kayak along the picturesque Rabida cliffs.
Eden Islet
Silver Galapagos sails to Eden Islet for snorkelling, kayaking and Zodiac rides. Eden is a small, eroded tuff cone and an excellent example of the unique geology of the Galápagos. It is home to Great Blue Herons, sea lions, and Blue-footed Boobies; while the small tidal areas can be a resting place for reef sharks, eagle rays and green turtles. Eden is also an excellent spot for kayaking.
Day 5 — La Galapaguera & Punta Pitt, San Cristóbal
The most emblematic animal in the archipelago is the Galápagos giant tortoise. Over-hunting and competition with introduced animals has left its numbers close to extinction. Nonetheless, since the late 1950s, the work of the Galápagos National Park Service and the scientists of the Charles Darwin Research Station has been bringing those numbers back. See these ancient reptiles and their babies, and learn more about current conservation efforts at Galapaguera Cerro Colorado. Breeding and rearing endemic animals in captivity is part of a much broader conservation programme aimed at restoring and protecting the Galapagos Islands' natural biodiversity.
San Cristóbal is one of the oldest islands in Galápagos and the well-eroded landscape of Punta Pitt creates a dramatic landscape. Three species of boobies can be found there: Red-footed, Blue-footed and Nazca Booby, as well as both the Great and Magnificent Frigatebird. After a wet landing on an olivine beach where sea lions doze, climb up a ravine to view one of the most scenic panoramas in the archipelago. San Cristóbal or Chatham lava lizards guide the way, while Red-footed Boobies and Nazca Boobies fly overhead.
Day 6 — Bahía Gardner and Punta Suárez, Española
Bahia Gardner promises a chance to swim with sea lions from its gorgeous beach. Relax on the white sands of this idyllic location. Further out one can snorkel with large schools of colourful tropical fish and an occasional manta ray, while whitetip reef sharks may nap on the bottom. Paddling through crystal-clear waters in a kayak, marvelling at the natural wonders, will give another view of the islands' treasures.
Punta Suárez is at the western point of Española, the oldest island in the Galápagos. Sheer cliffs provide superb thermals for seabirds. Swallow-tailed Gulls, Nazca Boobies and Blue-footed Boobies can easily be seen. The largest seabird to nest in the islands, the Waved Albatross, may be seen seasonally from April through December and has made Española its home. Mockingbirds, doves, and occasional Galápagos Hawks can also be found, as well as sea lions and colourful marine iguanas.
Day 7 — The Fausto Llerena Breeding Center and Puerto Ayora Town Visit, Santa Cruz Plazas Sur
Silver Galapagos will cruise overnight to Santa Cruz, an island in the central part of the archipelago with the largest human population. The headquarters of the Galápagos National Park Service and the Charles Darwin Research Station are located in the small town of Puerto Ayora.
At the Fausto Llerena Breeding Center, young giant tortoises –both dome-shaped and saddle-backed- up to 5 years old are waiting to be returned to their home island. There is also an exhibit on Galápagos land iguanas; their numbers were once diminished due to introduced animals, but they have had a comeback thanks to the efforts of the National Park Service and Research Station.
There will be time to do some sightseeing and shopping in town as well.
South Plaza is a neat little island located close to the eastern coast of Santa Cruz. Its main attraction is a colony of Galápagos land iguanas, but the setting is also a highlight — giant prickly pear cactus, the reddish sesuvium plant, a mat-like ground cover, and a large nesting colony of Swallow-tailed Gulls make this small island an excellent stop. Marine iguanas and Galápagos sea lions are also around.
Day 8 — San Cristobal
Following breakfast, disembark Silver Galapagos for your return flight from San Cristobal Airport.
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Relay for life was held at NSI's track this year to help raise money for the fight against cancer. Teams signed up to walk all night last Friday to show there support in the fight against cancer, every team was required to have at least one person walking on the track through the night until Saturday morning. People who were cancer survivors and caretakers were there as well walking. Friday evening the event had stands put up by teams providing a verity of things and a band. Finishing off the night was John Rottellini doing a magic show for all
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THE ZEN STOOGES in "BEDLAM IN NIRVANA"
Before we do anything else THERE WILL BE A ZAZEN CLASS AT HILL STREET CENTER THIS SATURDAY MAY 5, 2007. I just now got it together to re-do the calendar for this month. Class will most likely be cancelled the following week (May 12, 2007). In any case I won't be there on May 12th. But I will be there tomorrow.
To those of you who've bought my new book, Sit Down & Shut Up! — Thank you! You may yet save me from becoming a hobo in the streets. I'm really worried about my "real job." Gotta go back to Japan next week & argue with them. I may have to stand out on the freeway offramps with a sign that says, "Will teach Zen for food" after I come back. I ain't gonna make a living on book royalties, that's for sure!
ANYWAY, I found a mistake in the book. Those of you who have the book, turn to page 74. Look at the bottom of the second complete paragraph. What's written there says: "To really suppress anger, you have to suppress the urge to avoid the beautiful juiciness of it all." It's supposed to say, "...suppress the urge to enjoy the beautiful juiciness of it all." So go get your Bic and fix that. It's OK. I told you to do it. So don't worry about messing up the book.
Here is the second of my Zen versions of the Three Stooges. As before, if you click on the cartoons you'll get larger versions.
I present it complete with spelling mistakes and the wonderful notion only a 20 year old could concoct that getting up at 5 AM is really early. If I ever revise this Shemp will say "No more gettin' up at 4 AM."
The point of this comic was to illustrate the idea of "makyo." I talked about this in Hardcore Zen. Makyo literally means "world of demons." It refers to hallucinations and altered states that can be encountered during Zazen practice. The so-called "heightened states of consciousness" that are the goal of many meditative practices are regarded in Zen as states to be avoided. Here we see Shemp get it all wrong. The comic is also based on the Three Stooges short "Bedlam in Paradise" in which Shemp dies and goes to Heaven to be greeted by his Uncle Mortimer, played by Moe. That was one of my personal favorite Stooge comedies. I always liked Shemp a lot. His best work is often every bit as funny as Curly's, though he rarely gets the recognition he deserves.
I really tried to be a cartoonist there for a while. But nobody ever bought my submissions. In retrospect I might've broken thru if I'd kept after it. But I knew I was never gonna draw superhero stories or any of that garbage. When I discovered Peter Bagge's work in Weirdo Comics that was a big revelation. But even he took a while to create his masterpiece, HATE! That's pure genius and there's still nothing else like it. If I'd stayed with cartooning I'd like to think I would've gone a similar direction. Maybe Hardcore Zen would've been a graphic novel instead. It still could be. But I dunno if I wanna draw it. I can still doodle. But I don't really have any technique to speak of. It's hard work making a character look the same in consecutive panels. I remember really laboring over that. And backgrounds. Christ, you have to draw the backgrounds over and over in each panel and get them right each time. It takes a lot of patience. Kinda like zazen...


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
"Obscure, but fine drawings for "pen and ink" fanatics"
"Pitz's book for Watson-Guptill on pen and ink drawing is a treasure. I was lucky enough to find a hardback in good condition (from about 1949) pretty cheap at a used bookstore-- when there were many good used bookstores around."
A few days later Norman sent me an email:
"Inspired by your recent Pitz postings (I consider Pitz one of my most important "teachers", his books have tutored me since I was 15), I scanned some crisp repros from my pristine hardback edition of PEN, BRUSH AND INK, published in 1949 by Watson-Guptill. I was lucky enough to find a clean copy in a used bookstore a few years ago."
"These are masterful pen-and-ink drawings by relatively unknown artists whose work appeared in THE SATURDAY EVENING POST."
... and soon after the following scans I'm sharing with you today arrived. I've posted these scans extra large so you can click on them and marvel at the details as I did. Norman adds some brief, appreciative remarks:
"The Paul Nonnast and Fred Freeman drawings are, I think, superb. The Justis "worksheet" a treasure, and the Coll-- well, what does one say about the music of Chopin and Beethoven on the same page... ?"
"I love the combination of freedom and control in this drawing, and the sense of the wind's power... "
"The variety of marks Justis uses is apparently inexhaustibly inventive... "
"Not much to say about this beauty-- except the influence of Vierge is strong here. Coll got bolder toward the end of his short life. The Flesk books, with generous sized repros and details, show that clearly."
"I thought, possibly, that [these images] might find a home among your magnificent archive of postings. I know there must be more "pen and ink" fanatics who would like to see these obscure, but fine drawings."
And I'm sure Norman is correct. With many thanks to him for sharing these beautiful examples of the art of the inked line - as well as his fine commentary!
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- Remo2:53 PM
The Nonnast drawing is really nice.Harold Von Scmudt did some excellent black and white along with Frederick Chapman.I've never felt that Henry Pitz,despite being a great educator, was a truly top quality line artist.ReplyDelete
I keep meaning to do a post on Chapman... just haven't gotten around to it yet - but thanks for the reminder, Remo. I've never seen much by Von Schmidt in the way of ink drawings - just paintings. I'll have to hunt some down.ReplyDelete
Pitz is worth a closer look - although I've tended toward the same opinion as you about him in the past.
That Collier's piece I posted today: click on it and look at the largest size. There's a lot of very nice, sensitive drawing, esp. in the still life set up at lower right. His approach to ink line is very different than most of these others, but I am growing more appreciative of his work as I study more and more of it.
Apparently the handwriting was on the wall that pen and ink was on its way out, by the time I was in art school in the late 1950s'. Conventional tonal development in pen and ink was basically ignored in my illustration classes in the three different art schools I attended. The emphasis was to "edit out" and "simplify" the line.. to "say more with less".ReplyDelete
I don't remember Paul Nonnast at all during the mid century illustration era, but more recently have come across some of his full color renderings. He was a top notch academic literal illustrator with excellent drawing and painting skills, but after seeing his pen and ink drawing posted here, he obviously could stylize his approach with great success. The composition is quite unique and design oriented, compared to the literal color renderings I have seen of his. Excellent draftsmanship always allows an illustrator to go any direction and technique desired, with effective solid results.
I always felt Henry Pitz's work was hit and miss.. not one of the top illustrators, but not a bad illustrator. His best illos that I saw, were always a bit short of being really good. But, maybe it depends on ones personal taste.
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He's a re-discovery... I grew in a house full of old Reader Digest's (40's-70's) and now I realize who was the artists behind those line drawings... Well, the old magazines carried a good fun just for the illustrations.ReplyDelete
Thanks to your blog, I purchased "The Ink Drawing Techniques" old copy... I became addict of Pitz's loose pen style!


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The Skype team have published a new entry on the official blog that details changes applied in the latest version of the popular message and calling app for Windows Phone 8. Version 2.1 was recently pushed to the latest hardware running on Microsoft's platform. We previously looked at the update and noticed a number of changes, but with the official changelog it's now easier to list everything that's included in the release. So what's new in 2.1?
As mentioned above, previously we noticed that Skype contacts are no longer synchronised with the People Hub, which is confirmed in the changelog. This has been temporarily disabled due to issues with device stability. The team reports they are indeed working with the folk from Windows Phone to sort out issues raised and hopefully the functionality will return in a future update.
Issues fixed in this release:
- Significantly improved the reliability of presence and chat and call notifications when the app is closed
- Calling Improved call reliability
- Chat In some cases, chat messages would appear in incorrect order. Chat messages will now appear in correct order, by timestamp
As well as bug fixes, optimisations and reliability improvements, the 2.1 update also contains the following:
- Updated chat keyboard with improved autocomplete/autocorrect is now available
- Buddies from Windows Live Messenger are labelled in the People list
- Added option to enable toast notifications for Windows Live Messenger buddies
It's a positive release that shows the team is working valiantly to squash all bugs present in the app and to improve the overall experience. While it's not a perfect solution for the service on Windows Phone, we're slowly getting there. Remember folks, the app is still a preview and is by no means a final version.
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He is based in Ho Chi Minh City, the commercial capital of Vietnam, to which the Abu Dhabi-based airline will commence daily Airbus A330-200 passenger and cargo flights in October 2013.
Huynh has more than 13 years' experience in the airline industry. He began his aviation career in 1999 as an analyst with Air France, based in New York. Since then he has held a number of commercial roles in France, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates. Immediately prior to joining Etihad Airways, he was Air France KLM's manager for International and Netherlands corporate policy.
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Gizmodo raises the Jolly Roger this morning with news that the scurvy Pwned Project DevTeam has forced the iPhone SDK beta firmware to walk the plank:
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- Unsigned Apps? JAR!
Old Install.app applications will need to be updated to the new APIs, but by using a firmware patch rather than hack, DevTeam believes this Jailbreak will be hard for Apple to counter. Prepare to be boarded!
Has the DevTeam got Apple's treasure for good this time or is Cap'n Jobs already coming around, cannons primed? The cat and mouse game continues!
UPDATE: Ars Technica explains:
The new exploit works by taking advantage of the boot loading process on the iPhone, using the AppleImage2NorAccess extension to load a custom firmware to the device in the same way that the standard restore process works. After the patched firmware has been written to the device and restarted, any unsigned app can be loaded and run.
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So, after a bunch more discussion, I'd like to propose the following, the second point of which involves changing the spec. 1. All dom mutations resulting from composition must be strictly bound between compositionstart and compositionend 2. textInput should be fired before compositionend E.g. to type "wo" -> $B2f(B user "w" event compositionstart ("w") user "o" ("wo") user <space> ("$B2f(B") user <space> (to commit the composition) ("") event textInput (cancelable) ("$B2f(B") event compositionend Notes: I have omitted compositionupdate events for simplicity. The fact that the user hits space twice is just how the IME example I am using works (many pinyin IMEs do this). If the user hit <ESC> instead of the final <space>, the composition would be cancelled - in this case, textInput would simply not fire, and compositionend would be fired with no composition text in the composition state. If the event handler prevents default for textInput, compositionend would again still fire. Canceling the compositionend is meaningless. To summarize again, compositionend must always fire for every compositionstart, and changes related to the composition must always be bound between the two events no matter what. We feel the above is the best option because: a) Satisfies the use case of having mutations being bound by composition events. This is extremely important from our work with using these events to date. b) Preserves textInput's existing semantics of firing before the final composition is committed. This satisfies James Su's concerns stated earlier. c) Is consistent with existing Firefox behavior (to the extent that's possible, given that FF doesn't yet support textInput) Please let me know if I need to clarify anything. Thanks Dan On Sat, May 29, 2010 at 10:39 AM, James Su <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > > > $B:_(B 2010$BG/(B5$B7n(B28$BF|(B $B>e8a(B7:30$B!$(BOjan Vafai <firstname.lastname@example.com>$BReceived on Tuesday, 15 June 2010 06:09:08 UTC
firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: >>> >>> More points about the second proposal: >>> For the second proposal, we do: >>> 1. fire compositionupdate event after mutating the dom >>> 2. delete composition string before firing compositionend event >>> 3. fire textInput after compositionend but before inserting the text >>> So that: >>> 1. We can know when composition mode starts by hooking compositionstart >>> event >>> 2. We can get updated composition string in compositionupdate handler >>> synchronously >>> 3. We can know when composition mode finishes by hooking compositionend >>> event >>> 4. textInput event can be cancelled in order to revert the DOM tree >>> completely. >> >> What's the use-case for canceling the confirmed composition? I can >> see canceling individual keypresses, but I don't see why someone would want >> to cancel the composition when the user just confirmed it. > > textInput event is defined as cancellable. Not sure if there is any real > world use-case. > >> >> Firing textInput before each time the DOM is modified does make >> compositionUpdate a bit redundant, but it makes textInput more useful by >> making it consistently happen before the DOM is ever modified from a >> user-initiated text input. > > The text being composed and the confirmed text are different. I don't think > we should mix them. The effect of textInput event for a node is to append a > piece of text to existing content, while compositionUpdate is not. And > textInput is already in specification for quite a long time, it's not good > to change its behavior which may break backward compatibility. > >>> >>> About the deleting and inserting again issue: because compositionend and >>> textInsert events are fired in the same event loop iteration, it should not >>> cause additional rendering. So the visual and performance impact would >>> be negligible. >>> The only issue of this proposal is: we need to change composition* events >>> to non-cancellable. But anyway, cancelling these events make completely no >>> sense. If somebody really wants to cancel the composition process, he/she >>> can just cancel the keydown event. >>> Regards >>> James Su >>> $B:_(B 2010$BG/(B5$B7n(B18$BF|(B $B>e8a(B7:49$B!$(BDaniel Danilatos <firstname.lastname@example.com>$B https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31902 >>>> Hironori has asked me to write up this email arguing for adjusting the >>>> spec.. >>>> >>>> Summary: >>>> >>>> >From our implementation experience, it is broken not to bound >>>> mutations with compositionstart and compositionend events. not having >>>> this severely limits their utility - and requires large amounts of >>>> hacky workaround code, even involving asynchronous logic. >>>> Firefox already has the correct behaviour, and it is off firefox that >>>> we largely based the spec (so the spec should be adjusted) >>>> The fix for webkit is already implemented - it was just rejected >>>> because it supposedly doesn't match the spec; once the spec is >>>> adjusted, both Webkit and FF will be in line with eachother with >>>> respect to the composition events. >>>> The tricky thing to consider is, when should a textinput event be >>>> fired. This is a secondary issue to the strong requirement, that >>>> mutations must be bounded by composition events. The options then seem >>>> to be: >>>> >>>> (Compatible with existing spec) Fire textInput after the composition >>>> has ended - thus textInput would no longer be a pre-input-event, but >>>> really, it never was, as the dom is mutating before the event anyway. >>>> Currently, webkit creates the composition text, then removes it again, >>>> just so it can then fire the textInput event, and if not cancelled, >>>> will then insert the content. >>>> (Compatible with existing spec) If textInput really, really must fire >>>> before input, even though the dom has already been mutating from the >>>> composition, then delete the composition, but do that BEFORE the >>>> compositionend event. then fire a regular cancellable textInput. In my >>>> opinion this seems wasteful, though. >>>> (Incompatible with existing spec) Fire textInput before every change. >>>> This is more generally consistent, especially with other proposals to >>>> extend textInput (or introduce a similar event) that fires before >>>> every change to the DOM at all, including for things like paste, undo, >>>> and deletion. For the use case where the application wants to know >>>> when some content is ready and in a consistent state (i.e. not during >>>> composition), a post-change event is more applicable. Such an event >>>> does not have to fire after every single change. >>>> We shouldn't fear the final option above - the composition events spec >>>> is still in its infancy. Now is the time to make meaningful changes. >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Dan >>>> >>> >> > >
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Friday, 25 March 2011
Baked & Delicious magazine giveaway!
26 comments:
- verity said...
Fantastic prize! I'd make a super-duper chocolate gateau covered with edible chocolate leaf so that the picture glinted on the cover, enticing people to pick up the new magazine! (and to celebrate the fact that I had a baking magazine!)
- 25 March 2011 at 09:42
- Laura said...
Spiced apple and caramel cupcakes with a penuche and roasted cashew nut topping, delish!
- 25 March 2011 at 10:08
- Deepa said...
Black forest gateau is my favourite thing to make when cherries are in season. Chocolatey, creamy, fruity. yum!
- 25 March 2011 at 10:16
- ilikeyoursundress said...
Red Velvet! I just love when a slice is taken out and you see the white contrast with the dark red. It is always delish too! :)
- 25 March 2011 at 10:24
- Trash said...
My favourite tins to use are the ones that create chequerboards slices when you cut into the cake and to make it work properly you need high-contrast cakes.
I would go for deep chocolate and red velvet a) bc the colours would look great to gether and b) the choc and vanilla flavours are a perfect match. The whole lot would be iced with a floofy Italian meringue to make the cake zing both as a whole and as a slice!
- 25 March 2011 at 11:34
- DrCake said...
Wow, what a website to stumble upon! I would have a matcha chiffon cake because it's unusual and would catch people's attention. The cake would also have a pretty flower patterned dusting of icing sugar on the top to make it more attractive. Nice and light but very delicious!
- 25 March 2011 at 12:26
- Tom said...
I think there's not enough fruitcake in the world, so it would be the St George cake you posted a few weeks ago. I baked it on Saturday and it was exactly what I remember my grandma making when I was little.
- 25 March 2011 at 12:31
- Victoria said...
Red Velvet layer cake with mini red velevet cupcakes arranged around it on the table....my fave cake...our wedding cake...and a total show stopper!!!
- 25 March 2011 at 15:37
- blushingbride said...
for me it would have to be carrott cake because its my absoulte favorite :)
- 25 March 2011 at 16:44
- Choclette said...
as you know I have the first edition of this and would love a few more and as a keen user of silicone would love to get my hands on the complete set.
I think I'd have to have my four bar chocolate cake on the front cover as it's such a winner.
- 25 March 2011 at 20:07
I love the new magazine & i think i would put 'Mile-High Chocolate Cake' :)
Four dark, moist layers are sandwiched with silky milk-chocolate frosting. A new classic.
- 25 March 2011 at 20:11
A wonderful moist, light coffee and walnut cake with a creamy butter cream filling and topping, with big plump walnuts to decorate the top. Photographed with a slice being removed on a shiny silver cake slice. Can you tell I have thought about this? It is my very favourite cake and I always use your light recipe. Readers of the magazine would not believe how easy it is to make with such lovely results. Mmmm.
- 26 March 2011 at 10:57
I'd do a sticky Jamaican Ginger cake with tons of custard. How could anyone not fall for that? Yum yum!!
- 26 March 2011 at 12:00
- TM said...
For me it would have to be banana and chocolate cake - it looks stunning, it's light and moist - but best of all, I remember eating it from being tiny and I still adore it!
- 26 March 2011 at 16:25
- Marina said...
My grandmother, for all of my growing up days, made me a chocolate ice water cake frosted with whipped cream. It was always so perfectly rich, and yet made lighter with the whipped cream topping. And it reminds me of her.
She just passed away, and at her memorial, we pulled all of the baked treats she had made recently out of her freezer and served them, with printed out recipes to go along with them.
- 26 March 2011 at 19:17
My cover star cake for my first baking magazine would be a lemon drizzle cake....my mum and dad are both amazing cooks, I unfortunately never inherited their skills, nothing I attempted was actually edible. Finally after many many years of trying to bake, I somehow managed to make a lemon drizzle cake which my family loved and have continued enjoying since! So this would be on the first cover because everyone has to start somewhere and this cake was it for me! :o)
- 26 March 2011 at 21:56
I think a Delicious Lemon Sponge Cake with lemon curd filling and lemon icing as whenever my six year old son - a keen baker - see's the picture in his Cookbook he asks to make it.
- 27 March 2011 at 13:14
- Suzy said...
I'd have to do a lovely pile of brownies -because they are the first thing I baked and were so successful I haven't been able to stop!
- 27 March 2011 at 21:15
- Aveen said...
Maybe a croquembouche, because they look so spectacular... or a battenberg, because they're so pretty and yet so underrated. I can't choose!
- 27 March 2011 at 21:30
- Aveen said...
(I actually left this comment before reading your previous post and have just discovered that you're also a battenberg fan - hurrah!)
- 27 March 2011 at 21:32
- twannywun said...
Malteser cake! So deliciously bad for you, and reminds me of the ones served at my school :)
karen s
twannywun at hotmail dot com
- 27 March 2011 at 22:22
- Jenni said...
Cheesecake Muffins! Sounds strange but thay are gorgeous. It a muffin, but with a cream cheese filling topped with frosting (like you would get ona a carrot cake). They are my favourite thing because they mix two things that I love - cake and cheesecake! Yum yum! There would be loads of them all piled up on the cover too!
- 28 March 2011 at 09:10
- Maggie said...
I'd put a lemon drizzle on the front cover because it doesn't matter how many times you make it, it still tastes wonderful.
Still haven't seen this in the shops where I live CC!
- 28 March 2011 at 10:05
Something fresh & summery - lush lemon cupcakes with a limoncello frosting and a lemon coloured butterfly perching on the side - tempting on both the tastebuds and the eye!
- 28 March 2011 at 12:44
- Frances Campbell said...
I'd make a Debbie Brown-style fairy castle cake with edible glitter on the turrets.
A great project to let my imagination run wild!
- 28 March 2011 at 17:59
Boring boring i know but it would have to be chocolate cake........... it's my favourite......... Nikki
- 28 March 2011 at 20:12


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Aaron Friedman necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 142 diseños de 52 diseñadores freelance.
2BySea.com is a vacation and charter business within an industry not normally known for marketing to the general vacationing public. The exclusive yachting vacation will appeal to anyone who wants to, loves to, or has vacationed on a cruise ship. 2BySea.com will become the forefront provider of endless vacations and exotic charters with the introduction of its unprecedented penny/dime bidding process.
Consumers and all of the general vacationing public who wants to, loves to, or has vacationed on a cruise ship.
If you were to take Expedia.com and only offer yacht/cruise-based vacations... and were selling these vacations in a penny auction environment only, where the consumer can get a vacation worth several thousand dollars for only a few hundred dollars... that would give you a good example of what we have created here.
To create the logo/brand for 2BySea.com. This logo/brand will be used on all online and offline packaging and collateral. The logo needs to be iconic in effect and have a true Web2.0 look and feel. Our web site caters mostly to consumers, so an iconic logo that represents something related to yacht or catamaran based vacations would be a good place to start. Remember, we are a penny auction site, providing vacation packages by sea. This should be a fun, feel good logo. It should make the viewer instantly feel like they are sailing the caribbean. This means the color wheel should speak caribbean too. Let your vision and talent carry you the rest of the way!
Please take a look at our UI mock-up to get an idea on site workflow: http://2bysea.com/uidesigns/
Color: after further collaborating with all parties involved in this project... it has been decided that the color choice moving forward needs to be a combination of both blue and orange. I will leave it to all of the designers to choose the appropriate color variations/gradations used.
Name: the name 2BYSEA, should be displayed in ALL CAPS and not contain the .COM (take a look at design#-18 for an good example of usage).
Iconic Element: everyone seems to be using a variation of a cruise ship in the iconic part of their designs. Please... NO CRUISE SHIPS!! If using a type of vessel, please use a catamaran or sailboat only. I even suggest doing a variation utilizing each.
Also note: The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Thank you!
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Vol. 14, No. 9, Abbey Chronicle, 26 November 1947, 1, 3.
A life devoted to God's service was brought to a close when Rev. Augustine Fox, O.S.B., died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Dickinson, N. Dak., Saturday, Nov. 8, at 2:20 p.m.
John Peter Fox was born April 7, 1875, in Weinsheim, Trier. While he was still a boy, his father and mother immigrated to this country and made their home in the state of Washington. After he had finished his high school education in that state, his parents sent him to Conception Abbey in Missouri for his college years. It was there that he met Prior Vincent Wehrle, head of the new Benedictine foundation in North Dakota, St. Gall's Priory located at Devils Lake. From the Prior he learned of the pressing need for missioners among the settlers in North Dakota. The appeal of this stirring work was strong for him, and he volunteered to become a member of St. Gall's. On April 4, 1897, he was invested as a novice at St. Gall's and then sent back to Conception Abbey for his novitiate. The young religious, now called Fr. Augustine, after completing his novitiate, took simple vows on July 16, 1898.
He professed his Solemn Vows at Einsiedeln in Switzerland, where Prior Wehrle had sent him to complete his philosophical and theological studies. At that famous, old abbey he was also ordained on August 10, 1901, and five days later offered his first solemn high Mass in the Gnaden Kapelle.
Returning to America, shortly afterwards, he was named prefect of the school of St. Gall's. This appointment lasted from Oct. 1, 1901, to Jan. 5, 1902. During this time he was also prior of the Community there.
In 1902 Fr. Augustine first began the work that was to be his life's calling, pastoral duties among the people of North Dakota. His first parish was at Crary, N. Dak., where he built a church which was destroyed by fire in 1930. In 1903 he was transferred to St. Joseph's parish in Devils Lake. During his nine year residence there as pastor he built the church and parish house.
Fr. Augustine was moved in 1912 to Crown Butte as pastor. A year later another change found him pastor of St. Anthony's and at St. Anthony, N. Dak. He remained there until 1919.
A new phase of work began for him in 1919. At that time he was named rector of St. Mary's College at Richardton. During his administration as rector he gained many friends among the student body and others who came in contact with him.
For 1 year in 1924-25, he taught history at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota. Upon his return to North Dakota in 1925 he became pastor of SS. Peter and Paul Church at Karlsruhe. Although he remained there only two years, he was able to build another church and parish house in that short time.
In 1927 he received an appointment that was to last for twenty years. As pastor of SS. Peter and Paul in Strasburg, he encouraged many Catholic activities that made his parish prominent in the State.
Early in 1947, ill health forced Fr. Augustine to give up active pastoral work. On March 25 he returned to the Abbey to recuperate. During the seven months since his retirement his physical condition at times seemed to have improved, but early this month a blood clot in his left leg caused gangrene infection. He was taken to St. Joseph's Hospital on Nov. 4. His changes of recovery were lessened when he suffered several strokes in quick succession. A final stroke on Saturday, Nov. 8, proved fatal.
Funeral services for Fr. Augustine took place in the Abbey Church Wednesday, Nov. 12. The Office of the Dead, beginning at 9:30 a.m., was followed by a Solemn Requiem Mass celebrated by Father Prior in the absence of Father Abbot. Deacon of the Mass was Father Florian, and Father James was subdeacon. After the Mass Father Thomas delivered the funeral sermon.
Present for the services Wednesday morning were 38 Benedictine Fathers, including 17 Fathers in parishes; the Rt. Rev. Msrg. Joseph Raith and 22 priests of the Bismarck dioceses; the Clerics and Brothers of the Community; the student body, and a large group of Father Augustine's friends and former parishioners.
His body now rests in the Abbey cemetery with the other deceased of this monastery, for he is buried beside the grave of Rev. Adalbert Kraft, who died in 1941.


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Cortana will soon be able to help Windows Phone users wake up in the morning, remember important dates in their diary and answer every day questions, Microsoft has confirmed.
Halo's famous AI will soon be available as a personal assistant in the upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update and functions similarly to Apple's Siri, helping users organise their life and assist with daily routines.
"Cortana is inspired by real personal assistants, so she acts like one," explained Windows Phone Group Program Manager Marcus Ash. "A great example of this is for travel. Cortana knows when you're planning to travel. She'll track your flight, advise you when to leave early due to bad traffic, inform you of the weather at your destination, and keep you up-to-date on developments. Only Cortana provides 'planners' for preparing for your day in morning and when you're travelling somewhere new."
Microsoft says that she will also be able to "set people-based reminders, like congratulating a friend on their promotion, then present the reminder when they next call, text or email."
Naturally, she'll be voiced by Jen Taylor who played the character in previous Halo titles, but reports suggest that she won't appear in her human form, instead being represented as a blue circle.
"She has a personality and a unique sense of humour - someone you are happy to have on hand at all times," continues Ash. "You can also chit chat with Cortana - ask her where she comes from or when she was born, ask her to sing a song, or ask her about other assistants, and she'll have an answer."
A release date for the Windows Phone 8.1 update has yet to be confirmed.
Source: news.xbox.com


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Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Borghese Mezzanotte Blue with Sally Hansen Celeb City Stamping :)
I couldn't decide which plate to use (so many options all untried) so I started with the first plate in the series BM-201. For stamping I used Sally Hansen Hard as Nails Xtreme Wear Celeb City... any one else think that name is way too long?! Celeb City is a silver polish jammed full of glitter, shine, and sparkle. I have yet to try this one on it's own, but it looks promising :)
Since the stamps are too narrow for my thumbs when stamping vertically, I decided to try stamping my thumbs with the image in the horizontal position and then stamp above it again to cover the whole nail. Clear as mud? Anyhow, after the first stamp on the thumb, I liked the effect of my tips still being blue, so instead I painted all the tips in Mezzanotte Blue. As an added bonus it covered up some of the tip wear from the last two days. Yay!
This is Bundle Monster plate BM-201 that I used for this manicure. You can click to zoom in for more detail (on any of the photos).
So the stamping is still not perfect by my standards, some gaps near the cuticles, but I'm loving this manicure. Guess I'll won't be taking it off today after all :)
P.S. I just found out that I won a $50 Apothica gift card from Konad Addict! I'm so excited! I have never won a giveaway before... Any suggestions on what I should get? :D
Thanks for looking!
Anutka :)
12 comments:
- AnonymousJune 1, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Well, with $50 you can get a bunch of things! The stamps are awesome and the nails look b e a u t i f u l!.. I wish I could do such a good job like you do!.. =)ReplyDelete
beautiful her nails, I'm following you, then follow me.ReplyDelete
Love the design of your nails! Looks elegant =)ReplyDelete
Thank you very much! I'm glad you girls like it :)ReplyDelete
Great job! I always doublestamp my thumb too :(ReplyDelete
And congrats on winning a giveaway!!
Thanks for following me!ReplyDelete
I love the little rainbow on this plate :)
@ritterbraten, Thanks! How do you get them to align well? I wish my stamper was transparent... lolReplyDelete
@Marisa, I like the little rainbow too! Have not tried it yet :D
I love this mani! It's a really cool take on a funky french, it turned out lovely :)ReplyDelete
Thank you! :DReplyDelete
I love your mani! It looks perfect for a night out!ReplyDelete
Thanks Sarah! I had fun with it :)ReplyDelete