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It has been amply stated and often proven that pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before stumbling. Donald Sterling's jealous rage and pride in his skin color have left him in disgrace. All of his money and all of his minions cannot undo the destruction he has brought upon himself and his reputation.
All is not lost for Mr. Sterling, though. There is hope for him just as there is for all of us who have stumbled in one way or another. Hope begins with humility, a humility that causes us to see just how fallen and broken we are and how much we need God.
Jealousy blinds our senses and distorts our reason. Pride causes us to believe we are better than others, sometimes that we are above God. It's what led Adam and Eve to sin.
Jealousy and pride have led Donald Sterling to allow his mistress to bait him hook, line, and sinker. How many men have found themselves slammed to destruction over a pretty face and a racist heart? In the gone but not forgotten days of slavery, we found fatal triangles such as the beleaguered Clippers owner is entangled in today. A scorned wife, a tricky mistress, money and racism! Wow!
Yes, like countless others, Mr. Sterling has discovered that his money is not God; his passion is marred with lust; and the world that seemed to love and revere him is fickle.
Pride deceived Mr. Sterling into puffing himself up by looking down his nose at those he considers to be beneath him. Never mind the tawny, beautiful, honey colored mistress who was found in that same position only to rise up and bury a dagger in his back.
All too often, jealousy, greed, and pride allow our society to discriminate against an entire class of people – in this case, skin color is the issue. I wouldn't be true to my calling though, if I didn't remember that the unborn – because they're small, dependent, and helpless – are also a part of the looming presence of The Elephant – Discrimination – in the bedrooms and boardrooms across America and the world.
We don't want to be reminded that we're small, dependent, and helpless – it offends our pride. So we pretend that some "classes" of people like Blacks, or the unborn, for example, are… well… different.
My Uncle M.L. spoke of building a loving community. As a man of God, he understood that love has to be the foundation for any meaningful transformation of society or individuals. He knew that love changes the heart from prideful to humble so that we see our own brokenness. He knew that a loving community has compassion for all of its members, not just those who are like "us."
Donald Sterling has presented us with a teachable moment; a time when we may consider Uncle M.L.'s words and his life and work for a more loving community.
It's also a prayerful moment.
My Uncle M.L. and his brother AD King, my father, died for raising the alarm over racial discrimination and inequity in America. The force of racism remains alive today, in bedrooms, boardrooms and in the wombs of mothers. It is time to face the truth and slay the beast.
Donald Sterling is rich enough and famous enough to catch the eye of the media. Yet, he is just the tip of the iceberg, the festering proof of a splintered society.
Let's pray for Donald Sterling; and indeed all who are victims of the deceptions of racism and classism.
Let's continue to pray that God will open all eyes blinded by pride, lust, greed, jealousy and every human failing. Oh that God will change our hearts and free our souls. There is no evil, be it discrimination against darker-skinned people or discrimination against smaller people in the womb, too great for God to overcome.


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Almaty, Beijing, Oslo make list for 2022 Olympics
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) As the IOC sought to dispel concerns the Olympics are too expensive, two former host cities and one former also-ran advanced to the final phase Monday in the troubled race for the 2022 Winter Games.
Left with little choice following the previous withdrawal of three candidates, the International Olympic Committee on Monday retained the three cities that were still alive.
The Kazakh city of Almaty, Beijing and Oslo made the list of finalists. Whether Oslo stays in until next year's vote remains uncertain.
The IOC executive board agreed unanimously to approve all three as official candidate cities, rather than cut the field.
''Three is a good number to go forward,'' IOC vice president John Coates said.
The candidates must submit their detailed bid files to the IOC by Jan. 7. A panel of experts will then visit the cities next February and March, and the full IOC will decide the winner on July 31, 2015, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
An IOC working group report released Monday gave Oslo the highest technical ratings. The Norwegian capital led in eight of the 14 categories and was tied with Beijing in three. Almaty was last in 11.
Oslo hosted the 1952 Winter Olympics, and Norway held the 1994 Games in Lillehammer. Beijing, which staged the 2008 Olympics, is seeking to become the first city to host both summer and winter games. Almaty bid for the 2014 Winter Games, but failed to make the final short list.
''The IOC is very happy to see three very different approaches,'' IOC President Thomas Bach said. ''This gives the IOC a choice among three diverse bids with different legacy plans, with different approaches, with different budgets.''
Bach said the IOC will contribute about $750 million to the host city and expressed confidence that local organizers will break even or make a profit.
He cited a projected $200 million surplus for Russian organizers from February's Winter Olympics in Sochi on their $2 billion operating budget, which covers games costs only.
However, potential host cities - especially in Western Europe - have been scared off by the overall $51 billion price tag for the Sochi Games, even though Russia spent much of that record sum on long-term infrastructure projects. Bach said the IOC must do better in explaining the different budgets.
The 2022 bid race began with six cities, but has been cut in half by the withdrawals of Stockholm; Krakow, Poland; and Lviv, Ukraine. Earlier, potential bids from Switzerland and Germany were abandoned when voters said no in referendums.
In an unusually blunt admission, a top IOC official said the organization was to blame for not better explaining the financing of the games.
''That's the lesson from this campaign here - we lost good cities because of the bad perception of the IOC, the bad perception of how the concept could be done,'' IOC executive director Gilbert Felli said. ''We have to learn our lesson. The one to be blamed is the IOC.''
Lviv dropped out a week ago amid the continuing political turmoil in Ukraine. Krakow pulled out in May after Polish voters rejected the bid by a 70 percent margin. Stockholm withdrew in January after Swedish politicians refused to give the bid financial backing.
The Norwegian government will decide this autumn whether to back the Oslo bid. The IOC report cited two recent polls showing only 36 percent of Norwegians support the project.
Bjorn Daehlie, the Norwegian cross-country ski great who won 12 Olympic medals, said Norwegians need to be convinced that the games can be staged for a ''reasonable amount of money.'' He said Bach's recent visit to Norway dispelled some misconceptions.
''They thought all this money went into a big sack in Lausanne and these guys were driving around in these black cars spending this money,'' he said.
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TORONTO - The 100th Grey Cup halftime show was as divisive on Twitter as the football game itself.
Fans argued in support of the Argonauts and Stampeders across social media on Sunday as Toronto downed Calgary 35-22 for its 16th Canadian Football League championship.
"All of a sudden there are 10 million Argo fans in Canada," tweeted former NHLer Theo Fleury. "Lol love bandwagoners. I was a Stamps season ticket holder in the 90's."
Fleury began his NHL career with the Calgary Flames.
"And yes I'm watching the Argos game," said Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Ricky Romero. "My boy @ChadOwens2 on the board already, I'm with @Robbiealomar on this one...Go Argos!!!!"
Alomar, a baseball Hall of Famer and former Blue Jay, was more direct in his fandom.
"Yesssss! Touchdown!!! @TorontoArgos Aaarrrrrgggoooooooss!!!" he tweeted.
"Hey just saw Doug Flutie on sidelines...maybe he could suit up??" asked women's hockey player Hayley Wickenheiser. "Just sayin...LOVED watching him play!#greycup"
But there was just as much buzz surrounding the halftime show which featured legendary folk singer Gordon Lightfoot, rockers Marianas Trench, ingenue Carly-Rae Jepsen and teen hearthrob Justin Bieber.
"Grey Cup Day! Lightfoot at halftime...more Canadian than spaghetti and mooseballs!" tweeted actor Alan Thicke.
Emily Zurrer, an Olympic bronze medal winner with Canada's women's national soccer team, was amazed by the talent on stage.
"Gordon Lightfoot and Biebs on the same stage," said Zurrer with the hashtag "#onlyinCanada."
However, the choice of musical acts was criticized by some.
"Is this Hedley or something? When's the football start again," said former CFLer and current bobsledder Jesse Lumsden during the performance by Marianas Trench. "Who ever he is I think he needs to pee."
Jepsen, who scored an international hit with the song "Call Me Maybe" last summer, also drew attention.
"Seriously: Call Me Maybe is a great song," tweeted National Post columnist Bruce Arthur.
Olympic kayaker Adam van Koeverden replied to Arthur almost immediately: "it really is."
Bieber was a lightning rod before the game even kicked off after he wore overalls and yellow sneakers during a photo op with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
"In fairness to @justinbieber, I told him I would be wearing my overalls too," tweeted the Prime Minister from his official account, adding the hashtags "#cdnpoli" and "#beliebers."
Bieber closed out the halftime show with the popular songs "Boyfriend" and "Beauty and the Beat," but still drew the ire of football fans.
"Justin Biebs........ UNCLE !!!" said NHLer Jordin Tootoo. "#greycup #halftimeshow #painful"
The Stratford, Ont., native had his defenders though.
"Let's Go Biebs -- Stratford pride buddy," said Peter Mansbridge, news anchor and a resident of Stratford.
"I love how everyone is giving bebs heat right now, leave the kid along he's untouchable in the leather vest!" said Kaylyn Kyle, another player with Canada's women's soccer team. "#deadserious I want it!"
For his part, Bieber ignored the critics.
"(H)onored to perform for my country," said Bieber. "#ProudCanadian . Good luck in the second half. thanks"
"Raise your hand if you stopped watching the Grey Cup after Biebs," said Zurrer. "#every13yroldgirlinCanada #slowlyraisingmyhand.."
During the game's third quarter all 10 trending topics in Toronto were related to the Grey Cup or its halftime show.


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My freshman roommate was accepted as a football player from Texas, but got a Rhodes, and then became a strange and cultish movie director.
Terry Malick. You can google his movies.To be honest, he seemed such a corn-pone Southerner, with such a thick accent, that I saw the surface only, and not the unique creative mind within. I began to see the light when his philosophy prof requested to keep his straight-A term paper on "Ontology in Heidegger," saying"I've never seen a better treatment of this subject."A wealthy alum tried to persuade him to go out for the Freshman football team . . . the reason he was admitted. Terry (we called him "Blanket-ass" for being from Oklahoma) invited me along to the dinner at the alum's Boston mansion. It was all small talk, but in the car on the way home,Mr. Holloway popped the question, like we knew he would. Terry simply replied, after a long pause. "Waaaaallll, Misser Holloway, ah don think ah weel." Four years later, he was off to Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship.On topic: I don't recall him liking hockey
We roomed together with one other guy (who became my roommate for the final three years) in Matthews 38, which was JFK's freshman suite it seems, judging from the tourists who occasionally knocked on our door. After freshman year, Terry went to Adams House, known then as the house for artsy, bohemian intellectuals. It's where he belonged.I can't tell more stories here . . . this is really OT. Anyway, Terry *loves* his privacy!


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Change it to _/Byrd. Or JByrd. It honestly doesn't matter. As long as you capitalize it.
Take your time but, I just rebranded my whole channel and will be uploading stuff soon. I'm now known as KensonPlays. Could it be updated to this at some point? Thanks!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Freudian defense mechanisms: The good, the bad, and the ugly
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Monday, February 27, 2012
Is trust Jeremy Lin's secret weapon?
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"It's just us, being us, playing for us." –Jeremy Lin
I've got a confession to make: I've caught the Linsanity along with everyone else. It's only been two weeks, but in that time former Harvard point guard Jeremy Lin has transformed a failed Knicks season into the most compelling storyline in the NBA. And make no mistake, Jeremy Lin is at the very center of this transformation.
But what is it about Lin that has transformed the Knicks' season? An astute statistician might say it is his on-court production: Lin has been scoring, hustling, dealing out assists, navigating the pick-and-roll, and hitting open shots better than any Knick point guard since, well, since I can remember. That is definitely part of the equation. But a single player does not make an effective basketball team. When I watch the Knicks these days, I see something else about Jeremy Lin that makes me believe that his influence goes beyond simple numbers: His teammates trust him.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Placing Trust in God and Nation
Posted by Amie
Guest blogger Olga Antonenko is back with another great post! This time she's talking about the link between God and government.
Does the universe have meaning and structure? Is there some kind of force or power that controls events and preserves order in our lives?
These may seem like questions for philosophers or theologians, but some social psychologists have chimed in with their own evidence-based opinions. Their answer is a resounding … "Well, people certainly think so!"
Most people live with the assumption that there is an order and reason underlying the things that happen in the universe. In fact, it could be said that one of the larger cognitive motivators in life is the preservation of that belief. Without this sense of order, we would be left with a terrifying and chaotic existence in which a terrible fate could befall us at any time.
Some may argue that this chaotic view of life is closer to reality than any sense of meaning or order. We do, indeed, live a life in which something terrible can happen at any moment for no reason. Innocent people die every day and horrendous criminals get away with terrible acts. Senseless natural disasters befall thousands of people every year. So, is this sense of stability and rationality a false hope held by the feeble minded among us? Probably not.
In the face of senseless tragedies, we feel a sense of anger, injustice, and confusion. These reactions are quick and automatic. They indicate that, at our core, we all feel that the things that happen need to have a reason. The deaths of innocent people don't pass without notice. It shakes our internal sense of order, which needs to be restored.
While many of us look inside ourselves for a sense of stability, we also look for external sources of order. Today, I want to talk about two sources of stability that many people rely on – God and government.
Monday, February 20, 2012
The Psychology of Hazing
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|Paddle to the back side - a classic hazing strategy
Would you join a new club if you knew it meant you had to sing an embarrassing song in public, do someone else's laundry for them, or make prank phone calls? What if joining the club meant that you had to lay still as someone poured boiling water over you, drink alcohol until you threw up, eat dog food, have your physical flaws marked with red pen, or go on an elephant walk? I imagine most of us are strongly shaking our heads "no" as we read this second list of horrors. Yet each year people knowingly join Greek houses, sports teams, the military and other groups in which hazing new members is a long held tradition. As long ago as 1684, students were getting expelled for hazing, and many laws have been put into place to eradicate the practice, yet to this day we continue to see news coverage of horrific hazing rituals gone bad. Why can't we get rid of hazing?
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Can your phone cure depression?
Posted by Juli
Aside from the obvious convenience of having constant access to email, what I really love are the apps. I love that I can check bus schedules, look up recipes on the go, and take vintage-y looking pictures (thanks Maya!). But as a psychologist, I'm especially excited by the idea that apps can be used in the service of mental health and well-being.
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Sunday, February 12, 2012
Valentine's Day Special: An Insider's Guide to Speed Dating
Posted by Juli
This week's guest blogger is Maya Kuehn, a fellow graduate student at UC Berkeley. We're thrilled to have this talented researcher and writer contribute to the blog. In this post she'll be discussing research on speed dating.
To my never-ending delight, being a social psychologist can sometimes make me feel like I have an insider's guide to social life. When I discovered that two dear friends of mine were about to try speed dating for the first time, I couldn't help offering some (yes, unsolicited) terribly handy research-based advice: "Be selective! They'll like you more if you don't show interest in everybody." My random tip amused my friends, but my outburst didn't do justice to the scope of research done on speed dating in our field in recent years. For you, dear readers, just in time for Valentine's Day, I thought I'd provide a quick and dirty guide to the basics of what goes down in speed dating interactions.
First, a bit of background: speed dating began in the late 90's in LA, and has rapidly spread since. In a typical session people participate in a round-robin series of interactions, meeting each eligible partner for a 3-8 minute speed date and rating interest in them afterwards. If two people indicate mutual interest (i.e., match), each is provided with his or her match's contact info. The super short format of these dates lets people make rapid decisions about each other's eligibility as a mate, and as such provides a rich microcosm of the first impression and romantic attraction dynamics psychologists have speculated about and researched for decades. As you might expect, our field has started studying speed dating interactions to distill the basic elements of initial interpersonal attraction. So what have we found?
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Friday Fun: One Researcher's P-Curve Analysis
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Psychological contagion? The mysterious case of LeRoy, NY
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|LeRoy, NY
In a small country town, population 7,500, a cheerleader and honor roll student woke up from an afternoon nap to discover she had developed a stutter. Soon, the stutter gave way to uncontrollable twitching. When her mother took her to the doctor, they discovered that she wasn't the only one with these symptoms - in all, 14 teenage girls, one teenage boy, and one 36 year-old woman had recently developed Tourettes-like symptoms. The local doctors diagnosed the mysterious illness as "conversion disorder," a disorder in which mental and emotional stress literally plays out in physical symptoms. Sound like the plot of a bad TV movie? Perhaps. But it's also the latest happenings in LeRoy, New York, where sixteen people suddenly developed twitching, facial tics and vocal outbursts last October, 15 of whom attended the same high school.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Good Stress vs. Bad Stress: How Stress can Impair or Improve Performance
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|Some people thrive during stress
Today features another superb guest blog on Psych-Your-Mind! In this post Kate Reilly, outstanding first year graduate student at New York University, discusses how some forms of stress can paradoxically be good for one's performance. Read on!
Imagine times in your life when you felt stress – a job interview, a first date, a piano recital, or a championship soccer game. It's no wonder you may have felt stress in these situations: They are meaningful, they require effort to achieve success, and they involve evaluation by others. Each of these factors can contribute to feelings of uneasiness and anxiety.
The question is: how do these feelings of stress impact performance?
Friday, February 3, 2012
Friday Fun: A few simple tricks for healthier eating
Posted by Amie
|Who could resist?
Here are a few of their scientifically-backed tips for making healthier food choices. Many of these tips have been put in place in lunchrooms as part of their "Smarter Lunchrooms Initiative," but I think they can also be adapted for use at home, particularly if you are struggling with a child who has very particular food preferences.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
The Bachelor: A modern-day replication of the Stanford Prison Experiment?
Posted by Juli
|Bachelor Ben and his ladies.
Thirty-one years later, the first episode of "The Bachelor" was aired on ABC. During the show, twenty-five single women compete for the affections of one man (with the reverse in "The Bachelorette") as they travel to scenic destinations, ride in lots of helicopters and boats, and enjoy lavish accommodations. What could the Stanford Prison Experiment possibility have to do with a fun, light-hearted reality show? A lot, it turns out.
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Regulated Qualifications
Regulated qualifications (also known as accredited qualifications) are those that are reviewed, recognised and monitored by the regulatory bodies in order to make sure that they meet specific criteria and quality standards. The requirements for the qualifications to be accredited are set out in the Regulatory arrangements for the Qualifications and Credit Framework. Once proposed qualifications meet the requirements set out in the mentioned document, they are listed in the Register of Regulated Qualifications where can also be found a list of recognised awarding organisations who have the power to award qualifications within the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), the national credit transfer system in England, Wales and Ireland. Scotland has its own framework – the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework which is jointly regulated by several awarding and regulatory bodies.
What are the Advantages of Accredited over Non-Accredited Qualifications?
The most obvious advantage of accredited over non-accredited qualifications is that the accredited ones provide the learners and stakeholders with a guarantee of quality of both the qualification programme and the awarding body that offers accredited qualifications. Non-accredited qualifications, on the other hand, are not regulated and there is no guarantee that they meet appropriate standards. There is no way to tell whether they are fit for their purpose, if they include relevant content or if appropriate methodology for assessment is used. Sometimes, however, the courses that are offered by non-recognised organisations may lead to a recognised qualification.
Which Types of Qualifications are Accredited by Regulatory Bodies?
The regulatory bodies are responsible for accreditation of a wide range of qualifications ranging from Entry Level Qualifications to the Higher Level Qualifications (Level 4 in the QCF or above) including vocational and work-related qualifications.
Who are the Regulatory Bodies?
There are four main regulatory bodies in the UK who recognise awarding organisations and their qualifications. The Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation (Ofqual) regulates qualifications in England and vocational qualifications in Northern Ireland, the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) is Wales' qualifications regulator, the Council for the Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) regulates qualifications with the exception of vocational in Northern Ireland, while the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) regulates and awards all qualifications except of degrees in Scotland.
How the Regulators Ensure High Quality of Accredited Qualifications and their Compliance to Appropriate Standards?
The regulars use several methods to ensure high quality of accredited qualifications before and after they are listed in the Register of Regulated Qualifications. In order to be recognised and have their qualifications accredited by the regulators, the awarding organisations have to submit their proposition to the regulator which then carefully reviews both the awarding organisation and the proposed qualification. If the qualification programme meets the regulator's criteria, it is recognised and listed in the Register. If they do not meet the set criteria, they are rejected. In order to make sure that the accredited qualifications maintain appropriate standards and quality, they are kept under review by the regulators who also have the power to withdraw accreditation.


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"Eleanor Farjeon's stories and poems have been a delight to children for many years, and here she has brought together a new collection of some of her own favorite stories…Storytellers will welcome it." — Library Journal
"A selection of treasures from Eleanor Farjeon's full store of writing for children. Including some stories which have not appeared before in book form. They make a rich combination: gems for storytelling and reading aloud, for children's own reading, and a few that may be appreciated most fully by adults." — The Horn Book
"27 heartwarming tales…" — Publishers Weekly
"Twenty-seven of Eleanor Farjeon's stories have been selected by the author herself to make an anthology in the classical fairy tale tradition yet lit with the sparks of reason needed to pry young minds loose from their moorings and to widen reading." — Kirkus Review
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Automatically wind feeding,compact structure small area occupation,good cleaning effect, low noise and power consumption,stable operating,a good mate for many kinds of milling machines.
Working Principle:
It is consist of an inclined oscillating porous deck on which the wheat passes.Controlled air flow through the deck fluidises the wheat and by gravity is discharged of the end of the deck,the stones and mudballs etc. Being heavier move up the deck due to the oscillating motion of the machine.
Note that due to water conservation,pollution control,general operating efficiency and reduced maintenance dry stoners have largely replaced wet stoners in up to date screenrooLD.
Model Power (Kw) WeigLD (Kg) Dimension (mm)
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3) lower temperature of the finished product due to a more efficient process, thereby greatly improving the flour's quality.
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Name:Horizon Bran Finisher
Brand: LD
Original: CHINA
Horizon Bran Finisher is specially used to scrape endosperm from the bran with out undue production of fine stock,and to reduce oversize semolina during the milling process,then could increase the flour yield and lower the flour ratio of bran.
Main Machine 2
Name: Wheat Flour Purifier
Brand: LD
Original: China
Flour Purifier Machine is used to separate the mixtures of bran and endosperm particles,according to their terminal velocity,by means of air currents. Also could remove Bran slag, coarse core,powder material from the flour,in order to get highly refined flour with low ash content.
Main Machine 3
Name: Pneumatic Double Roller Mill
Brand: LD
Original: China
Pneumatic Double Roller Mill is the main device for flour milling plant (wheat,corn,bean,etc.).The operating of the feeding roller and cluth could be controlled Pneumatically,the configures adjust according to different grinding characters.
The grinding of the most cereal grains,particularly those grains having a crease,is done with a roller mill.The roller mill system lends itself to a gradual reduction process.
Main Machine 4
Name: Small Scale Stone Roller Mill
Brand: LD
Original: China
Nowadays,Stone Mill is widely used in wheat flour milling production for pure natural flour(wheat,rice,corn,etc.). Comparing with large steel mill,Stone Mill could make flour with much higher nutrition value.
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Packaging Details
|The normal package is wooden box(Size: L*W*H). If export to european countries,the wooden box will be fumigated.If container is too tigher,we will use pe film for packing or pack it according to customers special request.
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Chance Cessna has a vibrant, loving personality and her confident, assertive attitude posture her to be one of the most distinctive leaders in broadcast journalism of her generation. With a passion to cover and shed light on underreported, controversial issues, Chance is devoted to discovering and sharing these truths with the world. This same passion translates when she's interviewing some of the hottest celebrities. Born and raised in Chicago, IL, her tenacity and commitment to excellence allow her to radiate from the newsroom to the red carpet.
Chance has a bachelor's degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from George Washington University ('12). While in school, she completed several internships including celebrity gossip site YBF.com, CW Television Network, and WUSA 9 News. She also hosted a campus-based weekly radio program at WRGW radio and worked as a freelance journalist. Chance developed a keen understanding of both radio and television production for which she was highly regarded and sought out for in the community. In 2011, Chance placed second runner-up in the Miss DC International Pageant. Chance's success has led her to interview notables such as Hill Harper, Yolanda Adams, Soledad O'Brien, Ne-Yo, Robin Thicke, and Gabrielle Union. Her background in both entertainment and hard news make her a versatile, distinctive, and precious asset to the world of broadcast journalism.
In a recent interview we learned a bit more about Chance.
In December of 2012, you won Miss Congeniality 2013 and appeared on the Steve Harvey talk show on NBC. What have you been up to since then?
Chance: A lot! (laughing). In February I moved to Los Angeles from Chicago to pursue my career in the entertainment industry. I started in television when I was 15 and I have been trying to get to Hollywood since then and it just amazes me to see my dreams coming true right before my eyes. I have made several appearances in commercials, TV shows since moving out here and recently got back from filming "Think Like A Man Too" in which I will make a small featured appearance in. So everyday is different and I am at a very exciting time in my life.
You also made the big chop and cut your hair since the pageant. What inspired you to do that?
I always loved the short look. I feel like you can just see my face better and it's a lot easier to maintain. I couldn't keep up with all the hair weaves! (laughing) So the short hair is a different look for me but I feel a lot more comfortable wearing it.
You are a TV Host, Actor, Producer, and Motivational Speaker. You are like superwoman! How are you balancing it all?
Well I just take things day by day. I try not to get overwhelmed and when I do, I just pray and ask God for peace and clarity. I started off in radio and television in college and did several internships while taking a lot of classes so I am use to working a lot. I have always been a go-getter and always desired more out of life than what I was given. Yet, when you truly love what you do, it doesn't feel like work.
I know you are also very active in the community. What kinds of organization are you apart of?
Since I moved to Los Angeles, I have done a lot of work with an organization called Burgers and Bibles. We go out every other Wednesday and feed the homeless on Skid Row. Every time I go, I come back a changed and better person and I love it.
Who do you admire the most?
My father raised me, my brother, and sister by himself. And to see how hard he worked for us all to be successful and all graduate from college blows my mind. My father is truly my hero. He taught me to think like a man and act like a lady when it comes to business! (laughing) So I definitely get my work ethic from him.
What future projects do you have coming up?
I am in the process of writing my new book and just working on several other industry projects that I can't go into to much detail about. I will also be doing a lot more public speaking engagements which I love to do.
On August 31, 2012, Chance launched It's By Chance, an online publication featuring the latest lifestyle news, entertainment and fashion trends. In December of 2012, Chance won the title of Miss Congeniality at the Miss Illinois USA 2013 pageant.
In the summer of 2013, Chance will launch her first production company, IBC Productions, an extension of It's By Chance LLC. Follow Chance on Twitter or join her on Facebook!


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To launch the 40th anniversary celebrations of the World Heritage Convention, UNESCO offered the World Heritage iPhone/iPad application (app) free for one day. On Wednesday, 16 November the app was downloaded 13,343 times from the Apple iTunes store. It proved to be most popular in France, the United States and China.
An update of the App, which now features the 25 new sites added to the World Heritage List in 2011, is now available with the following enhancements:
- You can now share details of each site via facebook, twitter or email
- You can select the sites you have visited, record the date of your visitand share with friends
- You can now search by UNESCO regions
This update is available to all current users of the app. To buy the UNESCO World Heritage app go to iTunes and search "UNESCO World Heritage".
Note: due to technical reasons the app is not currently available in all countries.


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This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene.
Lady Lamb the Beekeeper might have an adorable moniker, but there's nothing cute about her music. Lady Lamb, more conventionally known as Aly Spaltro, has fearlessly conquered huge stages, having played SXSW and opened for the likes of venerable guitarist Kaki King. Now the 20-something old soul has boiled down her numerous bedroom recordings into one equally audacious debut record, Ripely Pine.
Spaltro's two biggest assets are her fearsome pipes and intricate lyrics, and Ripely Pine displays both with rich flavor. A mix of new tracks and burnished live-set standards, the album has an earnest, arts and crafts feel, the tracks as varied in style as they are in length.
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The disc starts off contemplative on "Hair to the Ferris Wheel" and ends in the smoldering ruins of "Taxidermist, Taxidermist." In between, Ripely Pine explodes into a constellation of emotions: joy, desire, regret, sadness, anger — the experience of being a twenty-something in 2013, detailed in such powerful poetry that our own youthful writings pale in comparison.
"Aubergine" re-creates those tumultuous feelings in its structure. Spaltro starts with a quick-fire alliterative line, building one decibel louder on each word as she sings, bursting into full-hearted, open-throated glory by the third line. She backs off a bit on the chorus but grows each line as it repeats. "Absence makes my heart grow hollow," she intones, almost hollering by the end.
The doors really blow off on "Crane Your Neck." Spaltro lets her voice turn into an ugly, courageous bellow that mirrors the same courage the protagonist needs. "You've got to be starving for it / And if you're crying by the moon, in the sun you better lift up that chin," she cries before she offers a solution: "Twist your hips / Crane your neck." Salvation by way of dance music.
"Bird Balloons" lies along that same open vein, lines like "It was a fragile thing and I goddamn dropped it" throbbing with the pain of young love and loss. Elsewhere, heavier arrangements envelop some of her emotion ("Aubergine" is still a heartbreaker, but if you think you like it now, catch it live and brace yourself), but "Bird Balloons" makes good use of production to ratchet up the drama.
Her weird, wonderful poetry weaves through the album, a super-saturated thread of love and mortification that unites all the diverse styles into one cohesive record. "I still need your teeth 'round my organs," she begs on "You Are The Apple." Her opposite in "Regarding Ascending the Stairs," "handled me like an infant skull / and I cradled you like a newborn nightmare." She's more plain elsewhere: "It's a goddamn joke how we can hurt even in the sun," she baldly cries on "Crane Your Neck."
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While it may have the wild enthusiasm of a youthful art project, Ripely Pine lacks the scattershot results that such an approach often entails. Quiet moments do not suffer from lack of drama; "Florence Berlin" is a dignified, folksy lullaby, the prettiest example of Spaltro's vocal prowess, while seven-minute epic "You Are The Apple" breaks down uptempo guitar and reforms into several distinct movements. It's only the chorus that repeats the title of the song, a pleasant reminder we're still in the same place.
Ripely Pine pulls us back magnetically, offering a song for any mood, a howl for any weather. But it's on late track "The Nothing Part II" where Spaltro displays her true potential. "Oh no, we're singing / lay me down, lay me low, let go your crown, disarm me," she sings softly. And then it becomes a "we," a weighty pause before the chorus erupts behind her, a riot of handclaps and percussion, an anthem, a hymn. They let the Lady give her benediction alone: "that we may ripely pine in the mammoth nothing of the night / left to our own devices / and we'll know, we'll know, we'll know just what we want."
Plenty of albums mine youthful angst; far fewer offer any answers. Spaltro pleads and howls her way to the crux of the matter, finds her own way out, and leaves a poetic map behind for the rest of us. Would that we all pined as ripely.
Essential Tracks: "Crane Your Neck", "Aubergine", and "Bird Balloons"
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Far away from the bustling cities, Mother Nature shows her own unique charm when darkness falls. Therefore, nowadays, more and more people tend to choose the outdoor sports lifestyle so that they can get close to the nature to feel the comfort, mystery and quietness of the night outdoors. Meanwhile, high quality lighting devices are required to bring more pleasant experiences and safety for those outdoor sports lovers at night. Thus, Fenix is going to initiate the plan for sponsoring the 2013 "illuminating the night outdoors".
If your team has such plans for night outdoor sports activities in 2013, then chances are that you may apply for some Fenix products and souvenirs yourself and become our sponsorship target for the activity "Fenix illuminating the night outdoors".
The range of the sponsorship activities: including but not limited to night climbing, camping, hiking or cross country at night, night running, etc.
Qualifications for the entries
1).The entries shall be the organized teams, and their activities shall include the night outdoor part.
2).The number of a team shall be no less than 5. Besides, it shall be an influential and sustainable activity in the local area.
3).The applicant shall be active in media platforms such as well-known outdoor forums and he /she would like to share the activity on such platforms after it.
4).The recipients shall provide some feedbacks of high quality materials including but not limited to pictures, videos to Fenix for publicizing.
The sponsorship setting
1).Each team will get six free trial products and an accessory(e.g.HL30, HL10, LD22, PD32, HP25 , AOD-M/AOD-S. etc)to use in the activity;
2).Each team will get a Fenix flag and 15 reflective bands;
3).We will choose four of the best sharing teams and give each team flashlights/headlamps worth 350 USD as prizes.
Note: Only one team with one type of outdoor activity will be selected in each city.
Registration time:
From May, 1st, 2013 to May, 1st, 2014
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...and there are milestones and landmarks along the way of which to take note. The naming of finalists for league awards is one such measure.
While the Stanley Cup tournament proceeds, the Caps and Caps fans can take pride and pleasure in seeing some of their own recognized for their accomplishments this season – accomplishments that suggest there are great things ahead for this franchise…
Nicklas Backstrom – Calder Memorial Trophy Finalist (rookie of the year)
Alexander Ovechkin – Hart Memorial Trophy Finalist (most valuable player), Lester B. Pearson Award Finalist (outstanding player), Art Ross Trophy winner (top scorer), Maurice Richard Trophy winner (top goal scorer)
Bruce Boudreau – Jack Adams Award Finalist (top coach)
Quintin Laing – Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy nominee (perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey)
Mike Green -- Although there is no memorial award for the achievement (call it the Ray Bourque award (410 career goals) or the Paul Coffey Award (48 goals in a single season), Green led all NHL defensemen in goals scored.
Karl Alzner -- Four Broncos Memorial Trophy (WHL Player of the Year), Bill Hunter Memorial Trophy (WHL Defenseman of the Year), WHL nominee for CHL Player of the Year
The disappointment of a season ended too early can be soothed somewhat by the promise for the future that such recognition suggests. Congratulations to all.


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Further to the announcement in April, Continental confirms that it has now received the necessary regulatory clearances and has completed the acquisition. Both parties have agreed to keep other commercial details of the transaction confidential."The acquisition of MTCL underlines our commitment to the Indian market. It is part of our strategy to invest into local production of both passenger car tires and truck tires in growing markets in Asia," said Nikolai Setzer, member of Continental's Executive Board and head of the Passenger and Light Truck Tire (PLT) Division.For the commercial vehicle tire business, for which Setzer will be responsible within Continental as of August 1st as well, the move is an important signal."India's truck tire market is of outstanding relevance worldwide and exceeds with a size of 18 million tires per year already the Western and Central European market. As well the PLT market shows substantial growth rates, both in replacement and original equipment business, where Continental has a strong position and long-standing expertise. Thus, we are confident that our premium technology combined with the new local presence will make Continental a reliable and strategic partner both for the tire replacement business and original equipment manufacturers in India," Setzer said."The highly motivated employees in Modipuram, Partapur and Delhi are looking forward to contributing their profound knowhow of the Indian market as well as the company's local distribution structure to the success of the internationally renowned corporation of Continental in an increasingly competitive market environment," Alok Modi, former CEO of MTCL, pointed out at the closing of the deal.Continental Tyres India Ltd will have its registered office in Delhi with manufacturing facilities both in Modipuram and Partapur. Currently, an integration team works jointly with the new employees on achieving an optimal start for Continental Tyres India with the full set of resources now available from Continental.With sales of €26 billion in 2010, Continental is among the leading automotive suppliers worldwide. As a supplier of brake systems, systems and components for powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers, Continental contributes to enhanced driving safety and global climate protection. Continental is also a competent partner in networked automobile communication. Continental currently employs approximately 155,000 people in 45 countries.
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UniversityNow: Another VC-Backed Online College, but This One's Not Elite
UniversityNow has raised $17.3 million in new funding to make college more accessible.
The company is looking to create a network of affordable online colleges for adults. They will be high quality, but not necessarily elite, like some other new online learning efforts.
San Francisco-based UniversityNow's Series B funding comes from University Ventures, Bertelsmann AG, Kapor Capital, Novak Biddle Venture Partners and Greylock Partners. It also just received a $300,000 research grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
UniversityNow runs New Charter University, a cheap online college that opened in April, and plans to expand to a network of such schools.
The UniversityNow model stresses competency; there's no grading on a curve, and courses can only be compeleted once the system determines a student is ready to pass the final exam.
Students are carefully monitored in their online progress in e-textbooks by individual student advisers and subject-matter experts.
At New Charter, $199 per month gets you as many courses as you can take at one time, including books.
"This is not comparable to a four-year liberal arts degree at a small Northeastern college," said UniversityNow CEO Gene Wade, contrasting the company with other VC-backed college alternatives like The Minerva Project (see our story).
The goal, rather, is to help people who might not otherwise get a college degree, due to cost or other commitments. Typical students are in their mid to late thirties, Wade said, and many of them in the U.S. can get their tuition covered by a tax credit.


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Since my last post i've dropped about $500 playing various rebuy sats and regular $26 tourneys. Just haven't gotten anything going. But i don't feel bad about it, i've been through swings worst than this before and i feel like i'm still playing ok.
The sats that i've done the best in is the $3rebuy 36 player sng satellites to Event #8. But its a winner take all tourney so its perhaps the most difficult to close. I will play more to see how it goes. It usually takes 4 buy-ins or less get deep, so its good value imo.
Tonight i will continue my $26 KO challenge and try to recoup some of the loses.


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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Troy's 16th Birthday: Leap Year Day!
February 29th! Troy finally gets to celebrate a birthday on a birthday and what a birthday it is! Mother Nature did for Troy what I could not: cancel school!
We received 4-6 heavy wet inches of snow last night. You can imagine the happy dance I did when I came down to run on my treadmill this morning before work, I thought. I turned on the news at saw we had a cancellation. Hurray!
Troy came thundering down the stairs a while later ... no school Mom? Really? Really Troy! What a smile! An amazing Happy Birthday for Troy!
We just finished spending a few hours outside having a snowball making contest. Somehow everything turns into a competition! His snowballs are huge, as big as me, and much heavier. Mine as smaller, I ended up making a snowball fort. The snow is heavy and wet, perfect for building.
Topaz even ended up with snowballs! What an awesome day..and it's only mid day.
I baked Troy a Chocolate Malt birthday cake with Chocolate Malt Buttercream Frosting. It looked rather plain, but will taste incredible. I had purchased a bakery cookie yesterday for Troy's "Birthday Eve" treat and placed it upon his cake for some added interest.
On the menu is a first. I'm roasting beef ribs. They have been in the oven since 8 AM, at 200 degrees with a rub and salt, wrapped in foil. I just added sweet potato, brussels and squash to roast as well. Delightful.
I may enjoy a piece of cake today as tomorrow I'm again cutting out the sugar. It has crept back into my diet, I've allowed it and it just takes over. I find sugar for me is much like alcohol is. All or none. I held it at bay for a few years but it has totally become out of hand once again. I feel as though I am mourning it already and I recall having the same feelings about booze.
I found that I was giving 101 excuses as to why I wasn't ready to stop eating sugar. Just as I did when I wanted to quit drinking .. but didn't want to go through the withdrawal detox. It's the same frickin' thing. Sugar is a drug to me now as alcohol and tobacco once was. The problem is, it is more accepted that the later. People tend to think you are even more of a freak when you give up sugar, wheat, corn syrup, etc.
My love for baking isn't surpassed by my love for sugar. The two go hand in hand. I am no longer going to participate in the Daring Bakers, the Tuesday's with Dorie, the Cake Bakers. It would be like belonging to Wine Club or a Home Brewery Club. Yeah, I don't think so.
This blog has been a great tool to hold myself accountable, I may use it as such again. I'm just not sure how much I am comfortable sharing here. So many people I know in real life read this now, not just my running friends who I shared with before and am comfortable sharing with again, too many others may make me feel too uncomfortable, at first, maybe not. Time will tell.
OK and this font is crazy. It is either so tiny I can barely read it or huge like this. What's up with this.
2 comments:
- Olga said...
I agree on giving up completely. Every time I tried before and would end up either being around friends who smoke I get slid right back in. Took some planning, now it doesn't bother me anymore. I gave up drinking like that too, for many years, before I am able to handle a sip now. Just don't care for. Rid of sugar, feel better!
Happy birthday to Troy too!
- Julie B said...
Olga, us ultra types seem to be an all or nothing group. Seems we just like to go big or not at all. Something not all others understand. Thanks for the support ;)
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A life of love and compassion
By Tammy Simmons
My Aunt Sandra was born in 1945. As a child, her parents taught her to put God first, to work hard and help others. When she was only 15, her mother became ill and was hospitalized for 16 days. Aunt Sandra stayed home from school and took care of her two siblings and her crippled father. She cooked, cleaned and led her family through the daily tasks. When her mother came home, Aunt Sandra returned to school.
At age 16 she met her husband while working in the fields, and two years later they married. Aunt Sandra left her parents' home and started one of her own.
In 1974, her father died, so her mother came to live with Aunt Sandra. While working a full-time job, my aunt tended a garden and took care of her mother and husband.
In 1989, her mother became ill again, so Aunt Sandra for two months stayed by her mother's side as she grew weaker with each passing day. As she lay dying, Aunt Sandra's mother told her that Jesus was coming to take her home, and He did.
Ten years later, Aunt Sandra's husband became ill, so she stayed by his side until he died in 1999.
Then in 2003, Aunt Sandra's brother became ill and went to a nursing home. Visiting her brother three to four times a week, she sang and played gospel songs on the piano for him. After her brother was released from the nursing home in 2006, she still sang and played music for him when he visited on the weekends. She also read The Holy Bible to him in the afternoons as they sat together on the front porch. Sometimes they would pick blueberries in the backyard. When her brother died in 2009, doctors told Aunt Sandra he had lived three years longer than they had expected.
Now 68 years old, she continues to make a difference, serving her church's food program, participating in a local clothes closet, and visiting family and friends in nursing homes. Aunt Sandra's devotion to helping others with love and compassion has set an example for me to follow.


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The Obama campaign is going up with a huge TV ad buy in Florida, including in the expensive Miami market, according to a senior campaign official.
President Obama, alongside Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, condemns "in the strongest terms" the "outrageous and shocking attack" that claimed the lives of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya.
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Last week at the New York Film Festival, I saw one of my favorite films of the year: Ang Lee's Life of Pi. Based on Yann Martel's "unfilmable" 2001 novel, the story centers on a young man (Suraj Sharma) who is stranded at sea with a Bengal tiger following a shipwreck. Loaded with a great script, fantastic direction, amazing cinematography and CGI, and 3D that actually helps tell the story, Life of Pi's universal message of hope, courage, and spirituality is sure to connect with audiences and critics alike when it opens in late November. The film will definitely be up for a number of year-end awards. For more on the film, here's all our previous coverage.
The day after the world premiere I got to sit down with Ang Lee for an exclusive interview. We talked about what it was like to premiere the film at the NYFF, the lightning-fast Twitter reactions, whether he ever thought Life of Pi wouldn't get made given the difficult road to production, how the eventual budget reduction changed the film, deleted scenes and the length of his first cut, the challenges of filming in 3D, whether he'll use 3D on his future projects, how close the film is to completion (he still has 90 visual effects shots that aren't done), future projects, and whether there's a genre he hasn't tackled yet that he still wants to work in. Hit the jump for the video and transcript.
Here's the interview with the full transcript below. Finally, a huge thank you to everyone at 20th Century Fox for making this interview happen.
Collider: You've been working on Life of Pi for years and yesterday was really the day that you really unleashed it to the world. What was that feeling like for you after putting so much of your heart and soul into the project for so long?
ANG LEE: Nerve-wracking. The first show to the journalists, that was the first one, so I was very uptight. Then I felt okay about the reception because we did a press conference with good and friendly questions, although people looked serious (laughs). So really, after the show you went to—the premiere—that reception tells me I think the movie worked, so that was a relief. I started to feel deflated.
Since your last movie has come out, social networking with Twitter and Facebook has really taken over in terms of making and breaking a movie like this with the immediate reactions.
LEE: It's scary.
Did you look on Twitter yesterday or did someone from Fox give you a print-out?
LEE: I haven't seen the print-out yet because I was running around, but I hear chit-chat. When I was in Las Vegas introducing two scenes at CinemaCon, as I walk off the stage [after the presentation] the Fox people told me "Oh the reactions were great." I was like, "I just started," did people start Tweeting halfway through [the presentation]? It's astonishingly fast these days, it's shocking.
This is a project that you've wanted to get off the ground for a while, and it was a tough one to get going. Was there ever a point that you thought, "this is not gonna get made?"
LEE: Only one time in my career I had that feeling, it was for this movie. It was right before we started the physical pre-production. I pre-visualized the whole ocean part before we made the movie, I was that prepared. At one point they seemed to want to drop it because it was really risky. The budget we proposed was a lot higher than they expected, they wanted to [drop it]. After all, it's a philosophical book and a literature property, it's not Batman (laughs). So there was one point I thought I was gonna lose it, but once I get on something I have to finish it; I just kept persuading them and they turned around. One good thing was the international guys really stood behind this movie, they thought they could support this film. So these guys step up and that's really good, and then they turned around.
To get the greenlight, did you have to reduce a large amount of your budget? How did it change in terms of what you originally wanted to accomplish versus what you actually accomplished?
LEE: It was small changes, actually. Things that don't have a big impact seem to be crucial. Always when you go out to make a movie you have questions, "What if this doesn't work? What if that doesn't work?" you want to cover yourself, you want to bring back enough [footage] so you can do something. So anything that's not absolutely needed, we would cut it out, which would make me very insecure; everything has to work, and it's a water movie in 3D with a kid, animals. So the more I do that, the more I'm scared of "What if it doesn't go the way we want it?" But we had to do that to meet the budget, otherwise we wouldn't even have a start-date.
How long was your first cut versus how long the movie ended up as?
LEE: About half an hour I cut out.
So you did have a little cushion?
LEE: Yeah, I didn't think I had that two years ago. But here we are.
Your film has an amazing visual style. How much of the 30 minutes could maybe end up on the Blu-ray, or is it so rough that it would have to be finished?
LEE: I have like four or five pretty good finished scenes, digital, full tiger. Like Pi imitating the tiger, how the tiger responds. I have four or five scenes that I'm gonna put on the DVD, and then some shots I think that are just beautiful that I want to share, that got cut out to make the journey less enduring, so I will put some of that in. I'm not sure about unfinished shots, probably everything on the DVD is finished. Maybe a few unfinished so people can see them.
The scenes is it like five minutes of footage?
LEE: One or two minutes. No more than three minutes.
Are you a fan of doing an extended cut with the footage or are they just deleted scenes?
LEE: They're deleted scenes. There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut. That's Ride with the Devil, and when Criterion made the Blu-ray version of it I asked if I could put those scenes back and they were very nice about it, they support it, so that I did a director's cut. Other than that movie, they're only deleted scenes. No regrets.
The 3D in Life of Pi is just fantastic. Talk a little bit about working with the 3D and how challenging it was.
LEE: 3D is quite a lot more advanced in animated movies; for live-action movies we're just taking baby steps, we're just in the beginning. So when I think of doing that I was very excited. It didn't go as far as I think it should, I'm still a novice, but I think it's fair to say it's a new cinematic medium, experience. I think it should be used as a new artistic form, not as a gimmick, not to impress you but the existence of an environment that you view as a theatrical dramatic experience is—you don't just have the X-Y axis, you have the Z and that makes a difference. You still have the framing, you still use lenses, so most of the cinematic rules and languages still apply but I think it's a different existence. I suspect mise-en-scène, how you choreograph the scene within the wide shot, probably should play a bigger role, that's my suspicion. But we're just in the beginning; I'm just a novice of it. I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily. I think it has its way about artistic approaches.
The flying fish scene where the fish are coming out of the water is an exceptionally well done scene in 3D. How long did it take you to put that together?
LEE: Oh a long time. First we pre-visualized it so the actors could act. It took a long time to get that to come to life and to design those coming out of the screen. We had great fun with that. It takes a long time, a year maybe.
It's a really, really well done scene.
LEE: You feel like you're in the center of the feeding zone.
Do you think 3D, for you, is going to be something that you use on future movies? Or is it dependent on the story?
LEE: Depending on the budget. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film. I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting. Even dramatically how you position some person, the depth, the existence is different than a flat image even though by itself it has depth, we create the illusion of depth. For example, some of the shots I have to stay closer to the actor because it's a young actor, I like it closer for some of the shots. I watch 2D scenes next to the camera, then when I go back to my station and watch it in 3D I have to go back and reduce his acting, he has to shrink a little bit because he peeks out more. So it's something I'm still learning, it's fresh, so if the budget allows I'll do it again and just see how far it goes because it's the frontier, it's more interesting. It's still expensive, the projection system can be annoying sometimes, it's not really regulated or perfected yet, so it's still expensive. If I do a lower budget I'll just do 2D, but if the budget allows I think I'll try 3D.
You mentioned that you're two weeks away from delivering your final cut to Fox. What wasn't done in time for the New York Film Festival?
LEE: There are 90 shots of visual effects that are still in the final stages.
So basically you have 90 shots that are almost done.
LEE: Almost done. I think for most people, the audience probably couldn't tell the difference, but I know they can be better. And the people working know they can be more precise. I'm still doing another round of sound mixing and color timing, pretty technical stuff. I think the movie's really presentable, nothing was left out that would take you out of the movie. I just need to perfect the job and I still have two weeks to go.
Many filmmakers sign on to a bunch of different projects because it's so hard to get financing nowadays to get anything made. We don't read about you signing on to all these different movies, is that by choice for you wanting to focus on one movie at a time?
LEE: It's just what I am. When I am in the zone making one movie, I just didn't want to read anything else or do anything else, so I don't really develop projects. There's a certain time in the core of making a movie from pre-production to halfway through post-production I don't read any project, my agent will tell people that "he's not reading." And then when I know how the movie's probably gonna work halfway into post-production, I'll come along. So I'm a one movie at a time person, I don't develop. Normally we do a movie then one thing leads to another. If something pops up that catches my attention, then I'll decide. Basically the movies I make are my life, so I choose how I want to live my life for the next two years. So that's a decision I have to make. At some point if I feel there are enough elements—it doesn't even have to have great characters or great stories—it's just elements that can get my excitement and curiosity for one or two years, then I'll jump in and I'll find out what that is. Then I have to do [interviews like this] and rationalize why I do this (laughs).
Mostly it's like, I get inspired by something and I want to learn that part of filmmaking, I want to delve into that kind of depth. And leading, also, a lot of people. A lot of people, for two years of their life they follow me, and they believe what I believe in. So that's some responsibility and I'd like to make it worth the effort.
One of the things I love about your work is your diversity. Is there a genre left that you've not tackled that you're really dying to do?
LEE: No, I don't have a checklist (laughs). Whatever material excites me, they'll call for a certain genre or combination of genres. It'll come naturally and I'll be eager to learn how that thing works. I learn the rules, and I'll probably break some of them. You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work.


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MANATEE COUNTY — In some ways, the barroom has become a second home for Christian Retreat Pastor Phil Derstine.
He still dislikes the stench of cigarettes and stale beer that lingers in the air there, but Derstine has found it's often a gathering place for the broken-hearted.
And that's exactly where he wants to be.
This Christmas Eve, he and several teams of volunteers will head out to area bars and hospitals to spread holiday cheer and demonstrate the love of Jesus Christ by singing Christmas carols. It's the 25th anniversary for the unique Christmas program.
"It's a real attempt to touch people with a real demonstration of love," Derstine says. "We just want to let them know there's hope and faith."
Years ago, Derstine was flying home from a missionary trip in Honduras when he heard God speak: "Take my Word to the streets of your city."
Derstine, who had lived a fairly sheltered life as a pastor's son, took the words to heart although he didn't understand what they meant at the time. But within weeks, God showed him. A police officer at the church offered to show him the streets of the city at night "when good people like you are in bed sleeping."
"He showed me things I'd never seen before," Derstine remembers.
Drugs. Homelessness. Prostitution.
"I couldn't believe it," he says. "I saw so many hurting people."
With a grieved and compassionate heart, Derstine began to leave the safe walls of the church and go out to the hurting.
"I often sat in bars to talk to people," Derstine says. "Bars are a lot like churches. (People) go to talk to people and find friendship. Bartenders are a lot like pastors — they know everybody's names and provide counsel."
Dressed in a T-shirt and jeans and clutching a soft drink in a can or bottle, Derstine would strike up conversations with others there or simply wait until someone began to share.
"I started doing karaoke," Derstine says. "The thought came to me: Why not bring carolers into the bars?"
That was 25 years ago this Christmas Eve.
"The thing that surprised me most was how well we were received," he says. "People recognized we were giving up time with our families on a special day of the year."
Derstine himself is a soft-spoken man, but there's nothing timid about this night of caroling. The pastor and accordion player charges into each bar with a mighty "Merry Christmas" before asking the bartender or owner for permission to bring his group in to sing carols. Once he gets the OK, the rest of the singers enter in the same fashion. In just moments, they are asking for lights for the candles they hold.
Derstine laughs.
"I tell them to capitalize onto their strengths," he says. "Good singers sing loud. Bad singers sing soft. If your music is better, play louder. (Patrons aren't) looking for quality of music, they are looking for people."
The jukebox gets turned back on just moments after the final song ends, in many cases, but carolers take time to mix with patrons, learn about their needs and offer prayer.
Before they leave, they also offer patrons a booklet of Scriptures on comfort, assurance and salvation if they'd like it.
"We wrap it in Christmas paper and a candy cane," Derstine says. "We tell them what's in it."
Fruits of the labor
The memories from the last 25 years are so vivid — and numerous — Derstine throws back his head trying to think of them all —like the time an older gentleman followed the group out and begged them to sing just two more songs. It was his first Christmas without his wife.
Or the time he and his group walked into a bar full of Spanish-only speaking patrons. The owner, who spoke some English, agreed to let the carolers in.
"We sang 'Feliz Navidad' for a really long time," Derstine says with a chuckle.
After that performance, one man ran after Derstine, telling him about some personal hardships.
"He said, 'You came here tonight for me — not anybody else,'" Derstine says. "(Our team) prayed for him. That makes it all work for me."
Some patrons get so into the holiday spirit, they get in their vehicles and follow the group to their next bar stop, where they help rally enthusiasm for the carolers as they come in.
And now after so many years, most of the bars now know Derstine or one of his groups will be coming to spread their Christmas cheer. Sometimes, however, they still stumble across new bars along their routes, often stopping there as well.
"Christmas Eve can be a sad time for people when they don't have family," Derstine says. "We found it was an important time of the year to show the love of Christ."
Derstine heads to his office closet, where he pulls out the accordion his father gave him when he was 10 years old. It doesn't take long before his fingers begin to flicker across the keys, causing a smile to erupt on his face as a song bursts into the air.
The instrument comes out just this one time of year, and Derstine can't wait.
Contact Pam Eubanks at [email protected].


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Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Facebook Intolerance
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This has happened to me and after much deliberation I decided I needed to make a short comment. I awaiting the anticipated backlash and I was surprised at the supportive comments I received. Only one person felt an appropriate response to my comments was 'BNP BNP BNP'... It has become my 2010 policy to remove anyone from my friends list who displays such attitudes!
- February 2, 2010 at 4:41 PM
- Sara said...
Why not to leave a comment and communicate textually in public as we do on blogs?
- February 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM
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I will report it because there are rules and regulations governing such issues. In the first place such thing shouldn't have happen because we all know it's against the terms and conditions of facebook usage.
- February 9, 2010 at 10:52 AM
- thinkingdifference said...
in the end, i decided to leave a comment. a facebook page is, after all, a public space within your network of friends.
- February 24, 2010 at 11:45 AM