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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [ Additional Contacts: Texas: Tom Harvey, 512.389.4453, email@example.com; Department of the Interior: Nanciann Regalado, 678.296.6805, email@example.com; NOAA: Tim Zink, 206.402.2059, firstname.lastname@example.com; Alabama: Patti Powell, 334.242.3484, firstname.lastname@example.com; Florida: Kendra Parson, 850.245.2089 firstname.lastname@example.com; Louisiana: Olivia Watkins, 225.241.5707, firstname.lastname@example.com; Mississippi: Donna Lum, 601.948.3071, email@example.com ] April 18, 2012 Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Trustees Announce Major Progress in Gulf Restoration Effort An estimated $60 million in early restoration projects soon will begin along the Gulf Coast following the nation's largest oil spill, the Deepwater Horizon Natural Resource Damage Assessment (NRDA) Trustee Council announced today. With finalization of the "Deepwater Horizon Phase I Early Restoration Plan & Environmental Assessment" (ERP/EA), eight restoration projects will be implemented. The projects provide for marsh creation, coastal dune habitat improvements, nearshore artificial reef creation, and oyster cultch restoration, as well as the construction and enhancement of boat ramps to compensate for lost human use of resources. The ERP/EA is the first early restoration plan under the unprecedented April 2011 agreement with BP to fund $1 billion in early restoration projects. The funding enables the trustees to begin restoration before the completion of damage assessment activities. The trustees are working to move the next phase of early restoration forward. The selection process for future early restoration projects will proceed along the same lines as the first. After reaching preliminary agreement with BP on proposed projects, the trustees will seek public comments before finalizing any future plan. "Having carefully planned the projects in Phase I and extensively discussed them with the public, we are confident that the projects will achieve our goal of beginning to heal the Gulf's ecosystem and people's enjoyment of it," said Alabama representative Cooper Shattuck, chair of the NRDA Trustee Council's Executive Committee. The Phase I projects, including two each in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, were the focus of 12 public meetings held throughout the Gulf states and in Washington, D.C., during the months of January and February 2012. In addition to speaking at meetings, hundreds of citizens filed comments by mail and online. Following the meetings, more than 500 people and organizations submitted comments, which were gathered and carefully evaluated. The comments, as well as trustee responses to them, are included in the Phase I plan, which can be reviewed at http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov and http://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon. The NOAA Gulf Spill Restoration site also provides additional information about restoration planning and a status update on the ongoing damage assessment. "We are deeply grateful to everyone who took the time to participate in the process and hope for their continued engagement as we move ahead," said Department of the Interior trustee Rachel Jacobson, Acting Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. "The public's comments strengthen our belief in these projects, and offer some great ideas for the future." "The early restoration projects will drive both ecological and economic renewal," said NOAA trustee Monica Medina, Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere. "Through these and future projects, the trustees intend to build a regional restoration economy." "These projects allow us to begin implementing restoration of Louisiana's natural resources quickly, rather than waiting years for the completion of the full assessment," said Louisiana trustee Garret Graves, chairman of the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority of Louisiana. "But we continue to be focused on pursuing additional projects with BP. Nearly two years after the start of the oil spill, we hope that BP moves quickly to approve future restoration for the Gulf Coast." "The Phase I projects mark an important first step in assuring Mississippi's recovery from the Deepwater Horizon spill, but they are only a first step. We will continue to press for additional projects to restore coastal marshes, damaged shorelines and sensitive areas of ocean habitat and estuaries vital to the sustainability of marine ecosystems," said Mississippi trustee Trudy D. Fisher, Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality. "The health and sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico are vital links to a strong economy and the livelihood of our coastal residents." "Florida's focus on early restoration has been to ensure environmental impacts are addressed as well as to make up for the loss of access to our natural resources by residents and visitors alike," said Florida trustee representative Mimi A. Drew, special advisor to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection Secretary Herschel T. Vinyard, Jr. "Public confidence in a healthy, high-quality environment in Florida is vital to ensuring a healthy economy." "Natural systems are interconnected, and these Phase I projects will contribute to making the Gulf system whole," said Carter Smith, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department executive director, representing the Texas trustees. "As we mark this milestone, we're looking forward to advancing Texas-specific project proposals for the next early restoration phase." -30- [ Note: This item is more than seven years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [LH] April 18, 2012 New East Texas Fish Hatchery to Hold Open House April 27 and 28 ATHENS--Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) officials have announced that the new John D. Parker East Texas State Fish Hatchery (ETFH) will be open for public viewing on Friday, April 27 and again on Saturday, April 28. Open house hours on Friday will be from noon until 5 p.m. Saturday hours will be from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The hatchery is named for the honorable John D. Parker, the late TPWD Commission member from Lufkin who was instrumental in securing regional support for the project. Although construction at the site will continue until July, TPWD has taken possession of a substantial portion of the site and is producing fish at the hatchery this spring. "The open house is being scheduled now to allow the public to see the hatchery in operation during the peak of its production cycle," said Todd Engling, hatchery program director for TPWD's Inland Fisheries Division. Following the open house, the facility will remain closed to the public until construction is complete. The ETFH is located in Jasper County below Sam Rayburn Reservoir. Planning for the new facility began in 2000 due to the need to replace the 70-year-old Jasper Fish Hatchery, in operation since 1932. Jasper County won a competitive proposal process by presenting a plan that furnished the best value to TPWD. A significant part of the package was approximately 200 acres of land provided by Jasper County. Construction started in July 2008 on the hatchery's 64 production ponds totaling 67 acres, a 34,000-square-foot production building and an 8,000-square foot office facility that houses offices for hatchery staff, fisheries management staff, aquatic habitat enhancement personnel and law enforcement. Maintenance and equipment storage areas are also included. "This state-of-the-art facility offers expanded production capability and operational flexibility," Engeling said. "The hatchery is expected to produce four to five million fingerlings of various species--largemouth bass, channel catfish, blue catfish, bluegill sunfish, striped bass and hybrid striped bass--for stocking into Texas' rivers and lakes." Through the purchase of the Texas freshwater fishing stamp, anglers paid for the majority of the $43.3 million project. Additional funding sources include the department's Game, Fish and Water Safety Account 9, assistance under an agreement with the Texas Department of Transportation, and Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration funds. Many other costs of managing Texas fisheries are paid for with funds from the Sport Fish Restoration Program, which returns proceeds from a federal excise tax on fishing-related purchases to state fish and wildlife agencies through matching funds. Additional support and assistance with the project was provided by the Lower Neches River Authority, Campbell Group and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Public freshwater resources in Texas include more than 800 impoundments and 190,000 miles of rivers and streams. An estimated 1.8 million anglers a year fish in those waters, contributing an estimated $2.38 billion in total expenditures to the Texas economy. Texas' five state fish hatcheries play a vital role in maintaining the quality of Texas fisheries. "More fish in more places in support of fisheries management objectives provide better fishing and more fishing opportunities statewide, with accompanying benefits to the state's economy and our citizens' quality of life," said Gary Saul, TPWD Inland Fisheries Division Director. Access to the new hatchery is via Jasper County Road 218, which joins Texas Recreational Road 255 just east of the Sam Rayburn Dam about halfway between Texas 63 and US 96 north of Jasper. Physical address is 900 CR 218, Brookeland, TX 75931. -30-


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TOLEDO, OH — The Toledo YMCA and JCC competed against each other for years until they realized the benefits of coming together under one umbrella. Now, they're taking the next step in their partnership by managing the Morse Fitness Center on the Medical University of Ohio (MUO) campus.
"We're the only one in the country where a J has the equal branch status to the Ys," said Larry Lev, chief operating officer of the Y/JCC. "Others have talked about it, but we're the only ones who have done it at this point in time."
While the Y/JCC faced some operational challenges in the beginning, the Y and JCC have similar missions as two faith-based organizations, which made it easier to combine their membership and business offices under one roof, Lev said. The Y and JCC signed an integration agreement last February, and early last month, the Y/JCC took over the operation of the 42,000-square-foot fitness center. The facility features an indoor track, basketball courts, racquetball courts, and fitness and orthopedic rehabilitation equipment. Lev said the center was in a great physical location, but the MUO staff didn't have much time to spend on programming due to their other responsibilities on the university campus.
"The doctors at MUO are healers and teachers and aren't in the business of running a fitness facility," he said. "What we can bring to the table is the next level of physical fitness for the person. It will be just like another branch of the YMCA."
Y/JCC members can now use the university's rec facility, and students can use their membership to the Morse Center to visit any of the Ys across the city.

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Steelers Player Is So Hairy He Shampoos His Entire Body
Brett Keisel's beard is more than just a pile of facial hair, according to the Pittsburgh Steelers defensive end.
"It's become a part of me, it really has," he said to Armen Williams when he caught up with him on radio row in New York City during Super Bowl week. "It's become a bigger personality than myself."
"I'm just a carrier, I'm just a transporter."
Keisel was given the opportunity to attend Super Bowl week events because of his beard. He's been down at radio row as the official correspondent for Head & Shoulders shampoo. Only, he uses the product himself all over his body.
"I'm so hairy that I use it as body wash," he said.
Armen asked the two-time Super Bowl champion if his beard has been protecting him from the polar vortex and extremely cold temperatures plaguing the northeast this month.
"It's very beneficial to have this mane on my face," he said.
Keisel also chimed in about player safety, how he thinks the Super Bowl will end up and whether Michael Strahan deserves to be in the Football Hall of Fame. Listen to the full interview here:


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Self-taught artist Michael Rees has lived and worked in Cornwall for the past thirty years. His atmospheric and psychologically provocative images of nameless figures in nondescript landscapes are brooding and bleak, yet at the same time suggestive of a darkly subversive wit.
Created using a gritty mix of oil paint and substances such as wax and clay grog, these richly textured bas-relief works on wood, card and board have much in common with the primitive and natraditions of Art Brut. In their simplicity of form and the childlike nature of their compositions, the power in these paintings - which the artist tellingly describes as 'headscapes' - lies in their raw expression of both image and emotion.
Accompanying these works are a collection of Rees's assemblages. Constructed from detritus such as rusty nails, feathers, newspaper cuttings and bits of plastic, these wax figures and creatures in boxes are reminiscent of the rituals of Voodoo and reflect the anti-rationalism of Surrealism and Dada.
Influenced by the work of artists as diverse as Paul Klee, Mark Rothko, Francis Bacon and Matisse and of writers such as Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney and Sylvia Plath, Rees's works are complex, stark and extraordinarily affecting.


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Having a newborn in your home full-time when you weren't exactly planning on having one is a jolt to your reality.
South Africa, hear me out.
We need to do something.
Why I quit ghostwriting.
I will no longer lower my standards again to ghostwrite for another client. I took my listings down.
A Letter To My Daughter
I wrote this a long while ago with the anticipation of giving it to a child of my own one day when the time was right. Right now, I'm a stepmom of two teens and foster mom to a newborn, so they're at very different stages of their lives and I would love to also share it with them.
Change is guaranteed.
I haven't been the best wife and partner, honestly. And this is the story about how I'm going to change that.
I want to be my own success story.
Who knows what brought you here. Maybe you're one of two or three people that aggressively follow my journey (I love y'all) because they genuinely feel invested in it and me. Maybe you're a total stranger. Maybe you're someone who lurks in my social media but we've never (or barely have) hung out offline. Whatever … Continue reading I want to be my own success story.
The Fix Your Hot Mess Challenge: Phase One
The first objective of the "Fix Your Hot Mess Challenge" is ensuring your home is a positive and welcoming space for you. For some of us, that's not a big challenge, especially if someone in the home (or yourself) has a more organizational bone. But for those of us who struggle in that department, it's a biggie.
Life, As Told By Sara (Chapter 8)
That's a large part of why I am uncomfortable talking about what goes on in my life when I don't look at the root cause of what limits me. I am morbidly obese and have yet to honestly do something about it.
5 Ways Working From Home Affects Your Relationship
Working from home seems like a great way to earn a living on your own terms, right? It can be! But if you're in a relationship this can have a great deal of impact on your significant other- especially if you live together.
Life, As Told By Sara (Chapter 7)
May 3rd, 2018 Six years ago today I met my (now) husband in person. We were already friends for a couple years prior to that. It was the most unforgettable trip in the sense that I wasn't at all nervous and embraced the whole process. I had never gone on such an extensive trip by … Continue reading Life, As Told By Sara (Chapter 7)


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I don't know much about Mark Bittman, food-opinion writer for the New York Times, but I know he has some pointed things to say about food production these days. In a recent column entitled Why Don't Farm Animals Get The Respect Pets Do?, Bittman uses an activist-coined term "common farming expectations," to lump together the bad apples in agriculture to paint a rotten picture of the hard-working farmers and ranchers who first, care and respect for their livestock on a daily basis, and two, produce a safe supply a food they are proud to feed the world and their own families.
In his column, Bittman writes, "It's time to take a look at the line between 'pet' and 'animal.' When the ASPCA sends an agent to the home of a Brooklyn family to arrest one of its members for allegedly killing a hamster, something is wrong.
"That 'something' is this: we protect 'companion animals' like hamsters while largely ignoring what amounts to the torture of chickens and cows and pigs. In short, if I keep a pig as a pet, I can't kick it. If I keep a pig I intend to sell for food, I can pretty much torture it. State laws known as 'Common Farming Exemptions' allow industry — rather than lawmakers — to make any practice legal as long as it's common.
"We 'process' (that means kill) nearly 10 billion animals annually in this country, approximately one-sixth of the world's total. Many, if not most, of these animals are raised (or not, since probably a couple of hundred million are killed at birth) industrially, in conditions that the philosopher Peter Singer and others have compared to concentration camps. Might we more usefully police those who keep egg-laying hens in cages so small the birds can't open their wings, for example, than anger-management-challenged young people accused of hamstercide?
"But thanks to Common Farming Exemptions, as long as I 'raise' animals for food and it's done by my fellow 'farmers' (in this case, manufacturers might be a better word), I can put around 200 million male chicks a year through grinders, castrate — mostly without anesthetic — 65 million calves and piglets a year, breed sick animals (don't forget: more than half a billion eggs were recalled last summer, from just two Iowa farms) who in turn breed antibiotic-resistant bacteria, allow those sick animals to die without individual veterinary care, imprison animals in cages so small they cannot turn around, skin live animals, or kill animals en masse to stem disease outbreaks. All of this is legal, because we will eat them," Bittman writes in his article.
I hate to re-post such a negative article on agriculture because such ill-informed pieces like these are simply intended to rally activist dollars, stir up controversy and impose fear on good-hearted Americans; however, I feel it's vitally important for all of us in the food business to note a few things.
1. Bittman isn't alone in his perception of what American agriculture is.
2. The graphic images developed by activist groups have seriously hurt our image.
3. We have to start doing a better job of TELLING OUR OWN STORY.
Yes, I used all caps to make my point clear. When's the last time you explained to someone what good animal handling practices are and how ranchers follow them? Or, how about enlightening our consumers about the benefits of the industry's Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program for both the animal and the end-product? As a beef producer, I truly believe I'm doing what's right by caring for my animals, being an environmental steward for the land and respectfully harvesting my livestock to help enrich and improve human lives. More importantly, I, too, am upset about the bad apples in our industry; I don't believe in animal cruelty, and I hate when I see another recall in the news. I think these messages are words our consumers are desperate to hear.
My challenge today was going to encourage all of you to respond to the article, but the New York Times is no longer accepting comments on the piece. Instead, I hope you will all look for new opportunities to share your story. Find another online article to post on, and while it's easy to get defensive about a negative blog spot, I hope you won't. Instead, focus your energies on sharing your positive story -- that means sharing something about the many generations of family members in your ranch history, explaining how you care for your animals and providing testimonies about the safe, wholesome food you produce at your place. I promise, a few minutes carved out to do this small task will make a big difference.


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Netrunner is based on Kubuntu and features a highly customized Plasma KDE desktop. It is designed for everyday use for new users and also those with more Linux experience. The development team have built and enhanced the desktop to give a unique look and feel as well as a user-friendly environment whilst still allowing the option to tweak to your specifications.
Netrunner includes a popular mix of desktop applications and support for many multimedia codecs. There is also a free 2 GB account for its Cloud service - Runners-ID. This is based on the open source OwnCloud software stack. It features data storage, music streaming (via webclient and android app over the ampache protocol) and connecting and sharing your content with friends.
Installed software and features include Kwallet for security and simplified system settings plus Dolphin for file management. Software such as Firefox, Virtualbox and Dosbox come installed along with many other applications such as Tomahawk for music and Kate for text editing.
Supplied on: 32GB USB Drive
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October 26, 2005: A Day to Remember
Happy Anniversary, Sox fans. Four years today we were all celebrating our first World Series title in 88 years. For me, the wonderful memories are still as vivid as if it were yesterday.
Yankees-Phillies? Nah, I'm going to be watching the '05 World Series DVD for the next few days.


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SQL injection
SQL injection is a type of security exploit in which the attacker adds Structured Query Language (SQL) code to a Web form input box to gain access to resources or make changes to data. An SQL query is a request for some action to be performed on a database. Typically, on a Web form for user authentication, when a user enters their name and password into the text boxes provided for them, those values are inserted into a SELECT query. If the values entered are found as expected, the user is allowed access; if they aren't found, access is denied. However, most Web forms have no mechanisms in place to block input other than names and passwords. Unless such precautions are taken, an attacker can use the input boxes to send their own request to the database, which could allow them to download the entire database or interact with it in other illicit ways.
The risk of SQL injection exploits is on the rise because of automated tools. In the past, the danger was somewhat limited because an exploit had to be carried out manually: an attacker had to actually type their SQL statement into a text box. However, automated SQL injection programs are now available, and as a result, both the likelihood and the potential damage of an exploit has increased enormously. In an interview with Security Wire Perspectives, Caleb Sima, CTO of SPI Dynamics spoke of the potential danger: "This technology being publicly released by some black hat will give script-kiddies the ability to pick up a freeware tool, point it at a Web site and automatically download a database without any knowledge whatsoever. I think that makes things a lot more critical and severe. The automation of SQL injection gives rise to the possibility of a SQL injection worm, which is very possible. In fact, I am surprised this hasn't occurred yet." Sima estimates that about 60% of Web applications that use dynamic content are vulnerable to SQL injection.
According to security experts, the reason that SQL injection and many other exploits, such as cross-site scripting, are possible is that security is not sufficiently emphasized in development. To protect the integrity of Web sites and applications, experts recommend simple precautions during development such as controlling the types and numbers of characters accepted by input boxes.
|Getting started with SQL injections
|To explore how SQL injections are used in the enterprise, here are some additional resources:
|Book Excerpt: SQL injection: SQL injection is probably the most common vector used to attack SQL Server. Learn about the basics of it in this excerpt.
|Secure SQL Server from SQL injection attacks: Did you know that any Web application using dynamic SQL is at risk for a SQL injection attack? Get precise steps to protect against these attacks.
|SQL injection tools for automated testing: Manual testing for SQL injection requires much effort with little guarantee that you'll find every vulnerability. There is a better way: automated SQL injection testing tools.
Next Steps
Four ways to protect your organization against security threats, such as SQL injection attacks, with database security tools.
Find out what steps to take when buying database security software.


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Part 5: A service catalog will help Vmware admins get ready for cloud computing, public or private.
Part 5 of the series "10 Things VMware Server Admins Should Know About Self-Service Catalogs and Lifecycle Management" that I'll be publishing over the next couple of weeks.
5. A service catalog will help VMware admins get ready for cloud computing, public or private.
When I first came up with the concept of a service catalog to drive fulfillment process back in 1999 (Yep. 10 years ago. Time flies when you are having fun.) it was obvious that internal shared services like IT needed to emulate the likes of Amazon.
Well, here we are in 2009 and the wheel of time has brought us back to the same place. Now it's the data center that is being disrupted rather than end user services. Customers are beginning to ask: Why can't you be more like Amazon EC2? Why can't you provision fast, at guaranteed cost?
Let's look at how Amazon EC2 uses the concept of a service catalog and lifecycle management to deliver cloud computing in consumer-like experience.
There's a lot of talk about the technical aspects of cloud computing, and little the customer side: Amazon communicates with its customers through a service catalog and lifecycle system. The brochure part of the catalog is found here. (I wrote this in more detail in my post: Amazon has written your technical services catalog).
To see the full functionality of this service catalog in action, I broke it down into Structure, Benefits, Pricing and Actionable for simplicity.
The whole structure looks like this:
It covers what it does, what benefits (hightlights), details, major options and pricing! Then what I call the fine print (aka SLA's).
It doesn't skimp on benefits. In fact, benefits and outcomes are front and center. We can do the same with with our virtualization offerings.
They tout their unique differentiators are variable (elastic) cost, while re-assuring that you have complete control, flexibility and of course, it's inexpensive. In fact, if you read that section, it draws a comparison against an internal data center! And it gets to heart of what customers don't like about IT costs; highly fixed, over-bought, hard to plan for, etc.
It also covers the OS, database software and middleware choices. This is an example of going beyond the server.
What are your benefits? What are your unique differentiators?
Next, the catalog outlines the main packages: Standard and High CPU. Two choices, and then some three sub-choicess.
There's a lot more description, links to explanation, FAQs, etc. It's the way they standardize these formerly complicated configurations that is a useful take away.
Pricing follows and there three aspects to highlight. First, it's completely and easily understandable as a unit of measure. They use per hour.
|Standard Instances
|Small (Default)
|$0.10 per hour
|$0.125 per hour
|$0.40 per hour
|$0.50 per hour
|Extra Large
|$0.80 per hour
|$1.00 per hour
Think of all the complexity of running a datacenter: people, machines and facilities, etc. Amazon gets it down to controllable unit of of measure, hours. As a customer, I can choose to consume and hour or not. That's a level of control that's appealing to me. Is this the right unit of measure for every customer? No. It will depends on your customer and the benefit they want to buy. (More in future postings).
Second, they include all the pricing units for network, storage and servers. Your complete datacenter (almost) configuration.
Third, some charges like data transfer charges are harder to map to controllable costs, so Amazon provides a pricing calculator to help translate these costs into the potential bill. And they provide sample configurations and estimates.
Except for chargeback, which you are doing or not, every leson is directly applicable to how we present virtual environments.
How does the catalog play a role? In two ways, it establishes the standards which enable self-service and then uses those to meter and report to your account what your consumed.
Finally, this catalog is NOT STATIC. It's completely actionable. If you have an account and log in, Amazon provides:
- Self-service ordering, configuration and deployment. This request management against known, vetted standards is core to making cloud computing work. Think if Amazon had to go back and forth for weeks with a user about their configurations?
- Account management functions. The customer can perform a variety of actions on their own to manage the lifecycle of virtual instance.
- Consumption management and billing. The customer gets clear, hourly consumption metrics.
In other words, Amazon delivers a very complete service catalog tool set to enable cloud computing. I like that they have brought the ease of their regular catalog to a more complex environment. And ease wins.
Amazon has redefined the expectations and pricing for data center services. Make no mistake, they are your competitors. Now the challenge is to respond with your own service catalog and differentiated service definitions.
So if your plans are to provide private cloud computing to your users, or at least behave as one, you need to consider a service catalog very early on to help you establish standards, service levels, and provisioning processes.
This time, we ought to know one thing: No Catalog, No Cloud.
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I was curious, if an atheist friend of yours showed interest in becoming religious or joining a church... what would you do? Would you try to dissuade him or her? Would you be supportive?
I know many religious people who try to dissuade people they know from becoming an atheists, so I am just wondering if it works the other way around?
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No, I wouldn't stop him. People are free to believe what they want. There is freedom of Religion but also freedom from Religion, although the latter one is often ignored. I would, however ask him why and what his reasons are and explain to him what my subjective opinion of religion is. Maybe I want to achieve that he doesn't convert, but actually I shouldn't. If he is rational he wouldn't convert to religion I think.
Because religious people are trying to convert others and stop people from becoming atheists, it would be unwise to use that method as well. In doing so, we would actually support religion. People who are really true believers can't tolerant I think because every religion claims to be the absolute truth.
I would at very least ask them to examine the decision closely and talk at length with them about why they made the choice. If during the conversation that it becomes apparent that this person has made up thier mind to follow God then I would seriously question their atheism but would leave it there and live with their decision.


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Acne scars are very common in our day. They usually are left behind if you have acne and decide to mess with it too much (pop it, scratch it, etc). Those scars are usually a little indented and darker than the rest of the skin. If you have acne scars and look into the mirror, you'll see dark spots all over the face.
Those scars will most likely pale out after some time, but you'd have to wait for that for a few months or even years. They are not usually swollen or in any way raised, just little dark dots. Sometimes, it's possible for the scars to happen in groups, so if you have really bad acne scarring, you'll see dark patches on your neck or face.
How do they happen?
The only way for acne scars to occur is if you have outbreaks on your face. If you have acne that never reaches the surface of your skin, you'll not have scars.
How to treat acne scars?
Well, the best way to treat acne is prevention. I'll give you some tips for the actual scars in a second, but I just want to make sure you understand that if you leave acne alone, you'll most likely not have any scars at all. They happen if you pop or scratch your acne or pop it, so just don't mess with it.
I understand this can be a little hard because it can be tempting to pop it, but just resist that temptation.
What if you already have acne scars? Tomatoes and cucumbers.
I know you've probably always thought that it's funny to wear one of those facial masks. The fact is that they work. If you have scars, put some cucumbers and tomatoes on your face and you'll see them disappear pretty quickly.
I don't even like eating honey very much, but I appreciate it as a solution to acne scars. Again, just like with the above masks, just put the honey on your face and leave it on there for a few minutes.
Another thing you can do is get some regular ice cubes and rub them on your face. It will feel awesome and relaxing. On top of that, you'll reduce the size of the pores on your face and reduce the visibility of the acne scars.
Egg whites
The last thing I want to talk to you about is using egg whites. It's important for this to work that you leave it on your face over night. Just use a QTip to put the whites directly on the scars and go to bed. Do it a few times and you'll see some great results.
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Finishing off a trio of posts about USC quarterbacks in spring practice, here's Cody Kessler.
Arguably, no USC player did more to improve his stock this spring than Kessler. It's not that Kessler was phenomenal, or that he outperformed Max Wittek and Max Browne by a massive margin.
Instead, Kessler systematically answered the doubts that people have expressed about his game. Is is arm as big as Wittek or Browne? No, but it's good enough to throw 70-yard touchdowns to Marqise Lee. Kessler made smart decisions with the ball and looked to be a good ''field general'' at the line of scrimmage.
If there's one remaining question about Kessler, it would involve his tendency to lock onto receivers, something that could easily lead to interceptions in the fall, but Kessler is hardly alone in terms of that shortcoming. Most young quarterbacks have to overcome it.
The challenge will only grow in August when fall camp begins. Wittek will (presumably) be healthy and Browne will have benefitted from a summer of working out and throwing to receivers. The starting job certainly won't be handed to Kessler, but he showed this spring that he's capable of winning it.
Here are some of Kessler's post-spring thoughts…
(on the quarterbacks' spring…)
KESSLER: "I can tell that our offense, as a whole, has kind of gotten more comfortable together. It's kind of nice to see that transition during the spring, and I'm sure Max and Max Wittek would say the same thing. The offensive connection, as a whole, is just clicking together. I think it showed (in the spring game). Our offense, we had some big plays and we had some drives with rhythm. You have to have chemistry on offense to have that, or else your drives are going to go nowhere.''
(on what changed for the quarterbacks this spring…)
KESSLER: "I think the biggest thing for us is, we both had to step into that leadership role. Being the older guys now, that's kind of weird to say, us being the older guys. But it's kind of like the roles have reversed for us, in a way. Matt (Barkley) taught me and Max everything he knew, and now me and Max are teaching Max Browne everything we know. We're just trying to keep that rhythm going and keep that connection going. We're all competing for the same spot, but at the same time we're a team and the team always comes first. You can never put yourself or your own goals or what you want to achieve ahead of the team.''
(on whether he thinks he did enough to win the starting job…)
KESSLER: "I think that I put everything I had into it. I think that's the best way to say it. I left basically everything I had in spring, and hopefully showed all the hard work that I put in in the offseason, and hopefully showed on film this spring. Because both of these guys are really amazing quarterbacks. We all know we have to come out and compete every day, and you kind of have to have a great day every day. You can't really have a bad day. Personally, there's always room to improve, but I put everything I had into the spring.''


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2012 U.S. Seafood Trade Deficit…What Can Pecans Say About Aquaculture?
May 6, 2013
Each spring brings the start of a new hatchery season in US aquaculture. The spring also brings the release of trade data by the US Census Bureau, so once again we take a look at the seafood trade deficit (where imports exceed the exports) and how these figures compare to other trade categories. This year, not only do we take a look at the seafood trade deficit, but also describe an example of how the global food market has greatly changed another U.S.-grown product, which could indicate a potential impact on domestic aquaculture production.
The 12 years of trade data we have has enabled us to employ a basic regression analysis. When we completed the analysis in 2011, we found a strong negative correlation between time period and seafood trade deficit value in US$. That equation predicted a deficit value of $10.82 billion projected value for 2012. The actual value in 2012 is a deficit of $10.96 billion, which grew slightly less than 1% to from the previous year. The regression including the actual 2012 value remains significant (P = 0.000) and the R2 is 0.934. The seafood category also maintained its rank at #17 among all deficit-contributing categories in the U.S. Census Bureau data set.
To give some perspective, the overall trade deficit of $728.9 billion, grew only 0.21% over previous year. (00190) Wine and Related Products ($7.029 billion) captured its former spot as the second largest trade deficit contributor after being displaced by (00000) Green Coffee in 2011. Surpluses in (22090) Civilian aircraft, engines, equipment, and parts exceeded the (00200) Feedstuff and Food-grains category. The (10000) crude (crude oil) deficit declined 5.81% as the deficit in (10110) Gas-natural declined 40.7% in 2012, after a 75.1% decline in 2010-2011. The numbers in parentheses are the five digit NAICS codes of these respective trade categories.
However, one large jump in a surplus caught our attention. In no food category do we see a larger increase in the trade surplus than in (00140) Nuts and preparations. The trade surplus of this category grew 27.89% since last year. This statistic brought to mind an article read earlier this year on the interest in US-grown pecans by Chinese buyers. In one example, an entire U.S. farm's annual production of pecans was purchased by Chinese buyers in advance with 25% cash down-payments. This cash availability lured some pecan growers away from U.S. processors who began selling their pecans to Chinese buyers who either process it abroad or sell the nut whole. 20% of U.S. pecan production is now processed in China.
The pecan case shows that foreign middle-class customers with growing affluence demand health benefits (both real and perceived) from premium products. Within the small amount of promotion and marketing that U.S. aquaculture products receive, health benefits of seafood consumption are common marketing messages. In addition to the nutritional health benefits, the United States' environmental regulatory standards for feed ingredients, aquatic animal health, water quality monitoring and transport and sanitation regulations governing the production and handling of U.S. aquaculture products exceed those of foreign countries with a rapidly growing middle class who demands these health and safety attributes. The concerns for food safety and health add another dimension to potential interest in U.S. aquaculture products that are not an aspect seen in the pecan case.
Given that pecans which topped $470 million in 2012 are a larger sector than any particular aquaculture sector, industry value would not be a barrier to foreign buyers looking to the U.S. for seafood products that meet the criteria as healthy and safe products that deliver on value. Catfish growers for example produced $341 million of product in 2012 down from a record high of about $650 million in the mid-2000s. And production of bivalve molluscan shellfish has grown from $243 million figure reported in the 2007 Census of Agriculture, and could exceed $300 million when the 2012 Census of Agriculture figures are reported in early 2014.
As noted before, there is a stark contrast between growing trade surpluses in terrestrial agricultural products, while products of aquatic origin show a perennially growing deficit. There was a wealth of research presented at the Aquaculture America conference, held this past February in Nashville. The growing surplus on the terrestrial side illustrates the tremendous capacity the United States has to grow its position as a global food provider. The limitations for the U.S to become a major aquatic agriculture producer are not rooted in the scientific or technical challenges to fish and shellfish production. The wealth of research presented at the Aquaculture America conference, which was held this past February in Nashville is a perennial exhibition of the know-how of hundreds of aquaculture scientists in US government and academic institutions. The inability of U.S. aquaculture to grow to the point where we see a change in the seafood trade deficit are instead rooted in other areas such as financial, economic and policy barriers.
Considering robust foreign cash reserves, a relatively weak dollar, declining U.S. seafood consumption, products are a result of high quality and safety infrastructure and similar cases of foreign cash flow into in U.S. agriculture sectors, it is plausible that interest by foreign buyers may be the catalyst to growth of the U.S. aquaculture industry and we may see a reversal of the current trend in the U.S. seafood trade deficit. Growth in U.S. aquaculture has long been predicted but actual production has at best remained flat. It will be interesting to see whether any foreign interest in U.S. produced seafood push the U.S. aquaculture industry beyond those non-technical barriers.
Joseph J. Myers, MS, MBA, PMP®
Aquaculture Development Specialist
Office of Aquaculture Coordination
Division of Agricultural & Natural Resources
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
PO Box 330
Trenton NJ 08625-0330
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Henry's costume is easy: it's a hand-me-down from the cousins' dress-up box, made by my mom years ago. Henry has been trying it out regularly. He's so excited! He did bring up being a ballerina instead this morning, so I hope he doesn't change his mind at the last minute.
Ben's costume, as usual, is not so easy. He knew he wanted to be an animal again, or maybe something from Star Wars. He went down the list of his favorite animals -- including Secretarybird, Mongoose and Krill, I kid you not -- and finally decided on King Cobra.
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My 6-year-old knows exactly what he wants and it is very specific. He wants a costume that looks like a real snake, made with fabric that looks like real snake skin. With a hood that creates a flare on either side of the head. And fangs.
Here's his vision of it, with views from the front and from the side:
I went to Joann's the other day, looking for "snake" fabric. I lucked out in the fashion textile departments with snake prints in black/gold and gold/brown. I also grabbed some pleather in gold and black.
I am still hashing out construction. I found this King Cobra Ninja costume online and like how the costume part fits like a poncho/shell over the black clothing. That might work well for our purposes. I shall report back soon...
Ben keeps asking "So, are you ever going to make my costume?". Gotta love the sassy First Grade attitude, oy! But I realized today that, well, he's got a point. How is it already October 17?!!! I'd better get sewing.
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With the recent reductions in Tendulkar's, Ponting's, and Jayawardene's averages in particular, I was thinking about batsmen's highest averages and how they compared with the final averages they ended up with (Hussey has retired on a high note, but he also is one with a bit of a contrast between his peak average and his final). Ponting was up around 57 at some point wasn't he?
I was wondering if anyone out there has an innings-by-innings record for the top 100 or so batsmen, and could easily put together a table containing :
final (or current) average;
final (or current) no. tests;
highest average;
no. tests after which highest average achieved;
lowest average;
no. tests after which lowest average achieved.
The highest or lowest averages must be 20+ tests - I'm not interested in someone like Gooch whose lowest average was zero after his first test, or Michael Clarke whose highest average would be after his first test I think thanks to a century on debut... though I expect many players (eg Kallis) will have increased their averages since the 20 test mark, so that will be their lowest. And a rare few (Jimmy Adams, Mike Hussey) peaked before 20 tests and so that will probably be their highest averages for the purposes of this exercise.
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Corporal exercise is not only necessary for the health of students, but for qualifying them for the business of life. When such exercises are chosen by students they are not always judiciously selected. Such exercises as running, jumping, climbing, scuffing, and the like are calculated to detract from that dignity of deportment which becomes a man of science. Therefore a system of exercises is adopted at this school which, while it improves the health, also improves the mind and excludes those vulgarisms which are too often rendered habitual among students. Such exercises as land surveying [and] general engineering... are made the duties of students for a stated number of hours on each day.
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Ladies and gents, today we're SO pleased to feature the wedding of our fabulous contributor Heather (our resident "Can't Afford It/Get Over It" maven), and her adorable new hubs, Chris. You can tell from these pics (and her regular blog posts) that Heather has excellent taste and fab personal style – and she absolutely brought both to her wedding day. Heather and Chris opted for a time and cost-saving wedding package from a gorgeous golf course in Burlingame, CA, which is half an hour outside of San Francisco. Metro area weddings can be twice the price of this beautiful celebration, but Heather and Chris have graciously provided us with an extensive wedding budget breakdown that shows how they pulled off a wedding with 120 guests for around 20K. So without further ado…
Your names: Heather Murtagh, Chris Vega
Occupations: Reporter at the San Mateo Daily Journal, Vice President for a San Francisco-based R&D startup, respectively
Wedding location: Burlingame, CA
Wedding date: Aug. 31, 2012
Wedding budget: $20,000 (But we went a bit over)
Approximate guest count: 120
How would you describe your wedding? Short reception, big party
What was your favorite part of your wedding?
Heather: The moment we first saw each other. We decided to see each other before the wedding so we could get some of our wedding party photos done before getting things started. The photographers set up a moment where Chris had his back to me and turned around to see me. He was so happy I actually thought he was drunk. He wasn't. It was very sweet.
Chris: The time we spent together, the alone time.
What did you splurge on? Alcohol. We wanted to have an open bar for longer. And we really wanted to have a big party. We succeeded.
What did you save on? We went with a venue that offered a package deal. That was really helpful in keeping costs in check as well as for planning. Also, my dress was much cheaper than we originally budgeted thanks to a going-out-of-business sale at Priscilla of Boston.
Was there anything you would have done differently, in retrospect? We would have gotten a videographer.
What was your biggest challenge in planning? Gathering contact information was difficult at first. Other than that it wasn't too difficult. We went with a location that offered package deals. That made things much easier.
What lessons did you learn from planning or from the wedding itself? Don't be afraid to ask for help. Everyone wants to help, they just need to know how.
What were your top 5 favorite things about your wedding?
Heather's list:
The first time we saw each other
Spending 30 minutes after the ceremony alone taking pictures. It was really nice to have that time to
ourselves. Turns out we giggle a lot when left alone.
Having so many friends and family together in one place.
My brother marrying us! It was so personal. He took it very seriously but also got in some jokes, which is what we wanted. There was a moment when he got really emotional; thinking about it gets me emotional. But my favorite part was when he said to Chris, "You may now kiss my sister."
The after party! We went to our favorite local bar after with a smaller group of people. It was so much fun. The owner knows us and was very sweet by letting us stay late and providing free drinks for the bride.
Chris' list:
Heather – she showed up.
My groomsmen were awesome.
Great supportive family and friends.
Photographers were great.
Venue and DJ were great.
Top 5 least favorite? (We failed and only came up two each… I guess that's a good thing.)
Heather's list:
Some people had attitudes on the big day. It was hard to not let that get to me. But ultimately no good would have come from focusing on it.
Our venue had a new person on hand to coordinate on the day. We made it work, but it was an inconvenience. Everything did work out though and we'd still recommend them highly.
Chris' list:
The hangover.
Delta canceling our honeymoon flight multiple times the morning after.
What was the worst piece of wedding advice you received? …
The best? It's your day. Enjoy it.
Any other bits of wisdom?
Heather: We both were a bit bummed when everything – wedding and honeymoon – was done. It was like there was nothing big to look forward to after having a year of so much activity. It was weird to get back into the swing of non-wedding planning life.
Chris: Remember to savor the moment. It goes by so fast. Also, if you can, get away on a honeymoon right after. It will give you time to enjoy the high of your new marriage.
Heather & Chris' wedding budget breakdown:
Venue: Crystal Springs Golf Course – $14,028.23
Food/Drink: Included in our Venue fee — We opted for a lower per person package cost then added on additional hours of a open bar. In total we covered the cost of three hours of bar and had a cash bar for two hours.
Attire/Accessories: Dress – $700 from Priscilla of Boston during their going-out-of business sale. Spent $150 on alterations. Bought Badgley Mischka shoes through Rue La La's Sunday sale for $50 with tax and shipping. Rented Chris' tux for $120 from Men's Wearhouse.
Flowers: Flowers for the reception were included in the package. Paid $936.36 for the bouquets from Rosedale Floral Design – one for the bride and six for the bridesmaids; 10 boutonnieres and two corsages for our moms.
Décor: We really didn't do much in terms of decor except add votive candles and little hershey kisses on the table. We had enough children for a kid's table. So I went to the local dollar store and grabbed $15 worth of stuff. It was actually a total hit and hilarious to watch the kids decide who got what.
DJ/band/entertainment: Our DJ was included in our venue package.
Photography: Paid $2,706.25 for the Kermit and Miss Piggy package from Chasing Glimpses Photography, which included: 6 hours of photography at your wedding and nearby locations, Two photographers, 2500+Photos Taken, 6 hours on Site; 20 hours Post production, 75 photos in a modern flush mount photo album, Private 60 days Online Gallery for viewing, sharing, and purchasing DVD of approximately 500 of the best images of your wedding day. All images are enhanced, retouched, if necessary, for beautiful reproduction. We ended up with a DVD of 850 photos. Also, the girls were willing to stay an extra hour with no notice when I realized we hadn't really gotten some shots during the reception.
Videography: Didn't do it, but we regret that.
Cake: A delicious cake from Burlingame Cakery was included in our venue package. It was delicious and super easy to get put together. I emailed a photo of the cake design I liked and tried all the combinations. I think Chris liked this part of the planning the best.
Favors: $130 — I made our favors. I'm a huge supporter/volunteer of Make-A-Wish. Using scrapbooking paper, I put together little paper favors that asked people to "Make-A-Wish for the Bride and Groom." Each had a $1 coin attached. We asked people to either put the coin in a vase near the door or make a larger donation. Anything collected we donated. In the end, we donated $310 to the Greater Bay Area Chapter.
Invitations/printing/postage: My friend designed the invitations and RSVPs. I work at a newspaper. After I asked the publisher about a printing contact, he offered to cover the cost as a gift. We spent $91.75 on postage. Our Save the Date was a video made by a friend who is starting a side business. Check it out here!
Hair and make-up: $120 for a friend who is also starting a business. She did a test and also bought new makeup on the wedding day which I kept for touch ups.
Wedding bands: $600, we got simple bands and ordered them through a family connection who works in the jewelry industry.
Bridal party: Necklaces for the girls, personalized on etsy. $85
Coordinator/planner: Didn't use one.
Officiant: My brother got ordained online for free.
License: $40
Other: $500 for rehearsal dinner. We hosted it at Chris' grandfather's house, which was less than a mile from the ceremony site. We hired a local taco vendor to come and make food. Then we took advantage of a local winery's case sale for the booze. We ended up with lots of leftovers.
Also, we spent $310 on hotels over two nights. We did stay local but wanted to be separate on the day of the wedding. We let our siblings, who couldn't really afford the hotel, crash at our apartment and stayed at the hotel on our wedding night.
Total: $21,792.44
Thanks so much to Heather and Chris, for sharing their big day with BAB, and special thanks to Chasing Glimpses Photography, for providing the gorgeous wedding photos!


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After high school, Yates became an electrician. A fast study, he advanced quickly through the first two electrical certifications, apprentice and journeyman. Finally, when he became a master electrician in 1999, Yates founded KC One, an electrical contracting services company based in Kansas City, Missouri.
"Craftsman is a lost word in our day," says Yates, now 37, who aims to change that by recruiting hardworking high-school graduates with an aptitude for making things. KC One's apprenticeship program provides on-the-job training and certifications for one or two young electricians each year. "Society teaches these kids that they'll become losers if they become electricians. My job is to unteach them."
The perception that the trades offer less status and money, and demand less intelligence, is one likely reason young people have turned away from careers in the trades for several generations. In Yates's school district, officials recently shuttered the entire shop class program. In our "cultural iconography," notes scholar Mike Rose, the craftsman is a "muscled arm, sleeve rolled tight against biceps, but no thought bright behind the eye, no image that links hands and brain." Thinking, it's assumed, is for the office, not the shop.
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The buck stops where ? (part II)
Two days after syndicated columnists Ann Coulter and Linda Chavez blamed U.S. servicewomen in Iraq for the abuse of prisoners, two Washington Times columnists, Deborah Simmons and Diana West, jumped on the bandwagon:
In a May 7 op-ed, Deborah Simmons blamed the "feminization of America's armed forces" :
What were Congress and the Clinton White House thinking when they began, in earnest, legislative moves that essentially led to the feminization of America's armed forces? Did they think that there would be no cultural implications (pregnancies, rape and sexual assault, etc.?) Did they think there would be no effect on America's military readiness?
Indeed, the queen of women in combat, then-Sen. Pat Schroeder, led the phalanx on Capitol Hill, arguing that girls should be treated just like boys.
Look what we have wrought: a woman, with no experience running a penal institution, in charge of all penal institutions in Iraq; scores of reports about women soldiers participating in the mistreatment of male prisoners (including sexual degradation); photographic evidence that the "girls" were equal partners with the "boys" in these criminal acts - during a war, no less; the possibility that one of those "girls," a suspect in these wholly un-American abuses and shameful acts - was impregnated while fighting in a war.
In another May 7 op-ed, Diana West asked that there be "no more women in combat theaters" :
But isn't Abu Ghraib just such an urgent question? No. The humiliations and assaults perpetrated by a "handful" -- and how the media hate that non-collective word -- of American servicemen and women are already against both our laws and our sense of decency. There is nothing here to settle (but please -- no more women in combat theaters). Criminals will be punished. That is why this is not a Big Story, the top of the president's list, the focal point of the world.


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Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,
I just built a few raised beds in our back yard. The soil is in, all loose and black and airy. There's nothing planted yet but possibility. Already I anticipate the particular smell of the tomato plants. And the basil!
It may sound like a strange leap, but the sight of the tomato cages and the plants threading in and out of the wire structure has become, for me, an icon of the spiritual life. Like a tomato plant, I find I need some kind of structure to my life. In my experience, if the plant is allow to just grow along the ground, the fruit gets moldy and mushy. The same is true for us as individuals and communities. We make choices to eat moderately, get adequate sleep and exercise, to keep proper borders around one's work. These choices, after a time, don't seem like choices anymore, but are just how one lives one's days. How we live our days is how we live our lives.
Now, there's an intimidating thought! Without some structure, some architecture, to the day, I would tend to allow the forces of inertia, gravity, sloth, indulgence, or distraction (just to name a few) to take hold of me and keep me from becoming the one whom God intends.
The tomato cage, or trellis, that the Church has given us to support our growing into the full stature of Christ —to quote that baptismal promise — is called a Rule of Life. It is said that St. Benedict and his sister, Scholastica, saved western civilization from total collapse into chaos after the fall of the Roman Empire by creating his Regula, or Rule. By it the monastic community at Monte Cassino was ordered by a schedule of prayer, work, recreation, service, and rest. According toHoly Women, Holy Men, the Rule's "average day provided for a little over four hours to be spend in liturgical prayer, a little over five hours in spiritual reading, about six hours of work, one hour for eating, and about eight hours of sleep. The entire Psalter is to be recited in the Divine Office once every week."
I already hear the groan rising over the White Mountains as the readers of New Hampshire Episcopal News read this! Four hours in prayer? Every day?! Really? But how do you spend your day? Sadly, many of our young (and not so young) people could easily be found for this amount of time before a video screen. Again, how we live our days is how we spend our lives. I find that if I miss reading the Daily Office (that cycle of prayer and scripture reading appointed for Morning and Evening Prayer), I begin to lose a sense of spiritual and emotional stability. Without immersing myself in the stories of the Bible, I lose a capacity to see how the present stories being spun in our churches' experiences have anything to do with God's promise. If I don't take time daily to connect with Polly and our children, we all suffer and get cranky. Without exercise and proper diet…well, there's the image of the rotting and mushy tomato. If I neglect to see my spiritual director regularly, and if I don't practice asking for God's forgiveness and amendment of life in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, I would tend to be even more myopic and self-absorbed than I already am. The fact is that we all have a "Rule of Life" in our patterns of daily living that keeps us stable. The question is, how does that daily schedule either build up or diminish our life in Christ?
Summer is a splendid time to find time with a spiritual companion or perhaps with a journal in prayer and to ask, "What daily habits are working for us? Are there ways we are squandering our time or life-energy? Can we commit to prayer, spiritual reading, even if just for a small portion of the day?" If you are going to make changes to your own Rule of Life, it helps to do so with a partner, perhaps a small group at church, with whom you can find support. Jesus always works with the disciples in pairs or small groups. Don't be too lax, or too rigorous. Allow time for your own nourishment, and allow time to reach out to others.
The beauty of the tomato cage is that those wires are strong and stable, but there are large openings between them so the vine can grow and stretch in freedom toward the light and water that nourish it into fullness. May your Summer exploration in the spiritual life be fruitful.
Your brother in Christ,


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The record rise in U.S. stock prices could be at risk if the Federal Reserve is telegraphing that it's going to raise key lending rates soon, according to Jeffrey Gundlach.
"If you believe [Fed Chairwoman Janet] Yellen is signaling the end of low rates, stocks are vulnerable," the DoubleLine Capital founder said in a telephone interview with MarketWatch.
Gundlach stopped short of calling for a pullback or correction, but he said the S&P 500 index looks like it won't be able to stay above its 200-day moving average for the entire year. Dropping below a 200-day moving average can be a sign that the rise in a given investment is capped.
The S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average continue to flirt with new records, closing lower Thursday after paving intraday highs.
Gundlach is best known for investing in bonds, but he has branched out beyond fixed income, recently launching a stock fund guided by the investing tenets of Nobel Laureate Robert Shiller . More on Shiller: Stock pickers should be 'realistic'
Gundlach said the price-to-earnings ratios pioneered by Shiller are looking "rich", adding that earnings guidance is headed lower. He also cited record levels of margin debt – the amount investors borrow against their brokerage accounts – as another worrisome sign, but said that if margin debt decreases, it would likely push stocks lower.
Yellen riled markets about the potential for early rate hikes last month when she said the central bank may consider hiking its near-zero policy rate about six months after the end of the Fed's bond-buying stimulus program, which is expected to conclude by the end of 2014. However, she said in a speech on Monday that economic conditions continue to warrant accommodative monetary policy.
Gundlach said he was convinced the Fed would not raise its key policy rate before 2015.
"I think Janet Yellen said what she said not understanding that people hang on her every word. And I have a feeling she is going to tighten up the way she communicates," Gundlach said prior to Yellen's Monday speech.
Given his Fed outlook, Gundlach stuck with many of the calls he outlined in his last webinar in March, titled "What hath QE wrought?" He still sees the 10-year Treasury note yield moving lower toward 2.50% in the near-term (it is currently at 2.80%), but expects that it will rise over the long-term. He thinks long-term Treasury bonds will continue to outperform, while junk bonds are still overvalued.
Gundlach spent most of last year saying that Treasury inflation-protected securities are a bad investment, but they've cheapened up enough that he's now "neutral", he said. Nonetheless, he emphasized that many investors mistakenly believe TIPS provide protection from rising rates, which in fact they don't.
– Ben Eisen
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Well it has certainly been a long while since I have written and yet I love to write.
However for the past little while I have been pre-occupied and bound within my own thoughts,seraching to hear from God or better yet trying to hear even more than what I think I am hearing forgetting to just rest in Him.
I have been reading books listening to the radio watching tv going to a conference,praying and having conversations with God daily.
Notice the key words in that sentence was I HAVE
Now not to say that what I have been doing is detrimental as I have learned many things, however I want and need more.
I thirst daily and can't seem to quench the dryness that is in my life.
Last night I decided to go to corporate prayer wanting and needing a quiet place with others that understand the deep love of God and that would leave me alone in my thoughts.
What I got was frustration with the noise
What I got was a stronger desire to hear God with the condition He would shut everyone else up so I could hear Him.
Ya not happening
but still I was determined I was going to hear if it killed me.
So I tried to worship but the focus was so much on me the desire for more became frustrating.
However God works in amazing ways
I heard from God even when I didn't think I was.
Scriptures came popping into my head,so I looked them up and wrote them down.
When all was said and done and no more came to mind and my frustration was growing MORE intense
Barry spoke over me and said
"Your nickname is Mo but I see other letters The Lord is telling me you are MORE
More than what you think you are
More than what others see you as
More to me than what you know
and you will be thirsting for more daily and the more you drink of Me the more you will want"
He saw me dancing in a frilly white dress with the Lord I was a princess all sparkley and pretty.He began to laugh. Not quite sure if he was just filled with the spirit or if he was seeing what I was seeing
Me in a white frilly dress.Too funny!
No matter the main thing is I was dancing with the Lord and at that moment my heart was like the Grinch and grew so large in my chest I thought I was going to burst.
It was then the Lord told me He was right hear with me talking to me but I had to hear Him with not my ears but my heart. He told me to re-read the scriptures I had written.
The tears flowed as separately they were words and promises but together they were my thoughts and my story of late with His promise among them.
Here is what He showed me our converstions have been in one long sentence.(separate scriptures)
"You will joyfully draw water from springs of salvation".
I said to myself,Go ahead,I will test you with pleasure and enjoy what is good."But it turned out to be futile"
STOP (your fighting) and know that I AM GOD exalted among the nations,exalted on earth.Consider ships,though very large and driven by fierce winds,they are guided by a very small rudder wherever the will of the pilot directs.
Although I once had confidence in the flesh too.If anyone else thinks he has grounds for confidence in the flesh I have more.
Not that I have already reached (the goal) or am already,fully mature but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus.
So my lesson here was to Stop
Stop thinking
Stop forcing
Just Stop and rest in Him
When you think your prayers are never going to be answered and the frustration of trying to hear Him is exhausting and the mind will not stop running the Lord is right there saying
Hello I am right here .... No not there..... STOP.... ok now look within.....You got it there I AM..... now sit down get comfortable and just relax and rest in Me...... Ok now what do you want to talk about today?
Friday, September 3, 2010
Well it has certainly been a long while since I have written and yet I love to write.
Posted by Maureen at Friday, September 03, 2010 2 comments
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Pay it Forward in Faith Regardless of Fear
Posted by Maureen at Thursday, June 03, 2010 1 comments
Monday, May 31, 2010
Just had to post this
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Sunday, March 14, 2010
Clinging to my Faith
The recent events that have plague our community has gotten to me.
Missing persons
Murder 4 within the last month
What is happening?
The recent deaths of this past weekend have hit home.
Tracey Hannah and her daughter Whitney,Shannon still in serious condition clinging to life.
Tracey and I went to school together.
Were we close friends No
but our lives did cross paths.
We were in the same classes together
we went to the same parties in Highschool
and her eldest daughter Jamie-Lynne and my youngest son Dave went to school together.
Last month I saw her and we laughed and joked about all the bush parties we went to and how we were getting older and how we couldn't believe our kids have grown so much. We talked about makeup for Whitney for her grade 8 grad and finished with a we should get together for a coffee sometime.
How many times have we said those words never to follow up.
Now I never knew Traceys Married name. My son said I knew her but I just couldn't place Tracey Hannah in my mind,It hit me Friday that could this be Tracey Urch.
Nope couldn't be I was just talking to her.
It was confirmed for me today when they posted her picture on the news.
My heart sank even farther then it had prior to that moment of reality.
That is when clinging to my faith was the most important thing.
Yes I have questions
Typical ones like Why Lord
or Did you know this is how she would die when you created her?
"For I know the plans I have for you"
Does it include this?
Did it include the young woman hiding in the closet?
Praise God in the Highest for that!
I am reflecting on the Friday this all happened and the conversation that took place in the staff room.
One Christian believing in Capital punishment and becoming so intensely upset about this.
Then there was the non christian saying but what about his rights.
Then there was me praying fervourishly in my head to say the right thing.
Speaking about justice will be served and that even the young man is Gods child.
That God will discipline him beit life in jail but will also be patient for his repentance.
Grace and Mercy
Then I ended this with I say this now because stuff like this hasn't hit close to home.
My flesh feels one way but my spirit feels another way and I needed to concentrate on my spirit not my flesh.
Needless to say
WHAM this morning it hit close to home.
So I am battling the anger (Not with God) of the flesh and clinging to the tiniest of mustard seed that God so lovingly placed in my heart so very long ago.
This mustard seed will be my rock in days to come when the conversations get heated in this city.
I emplore all of you to cling tightly to the slightest bit of faith when things get tough in our lives and God will bring us through it triumphantly.
I know it and feel it and most of believe it that God will bring good out of all that has been happening in this city.
I trust my Father and praise Him for giving me but a moment to know such a lovely young woman.
Posted by Maureen at Sunday, March 14, 2010 2 comments
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Saturday, March 6, 2010
For Nana Cheryl September 2011
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