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Saturday, December 07, 2013
December 6..
I look back at this year and all I can say say is shit, it has been tough as hell. I have never said those words about a prior year before. I have always said how wonderful the past year was, I list my goals met, my goals for the future, how marvelous the year was. Not this time. It just wasn't. Not that I expect every year to be unicorns and rainbows. I have always felt blessed and thankful for the low stress, non harried life I live. That life wasn't so this year. This puts me in a very uncomfortable place-once that I am not accustomed to nor familiar with.
-I suppose it begins with menopause. I went directly into menopause three years ago next month when I had a total radical hysterectomy for the prevention of ovarian cancer which runs rampant in my family. (I will be putting a blog post together all about running and hysterectomy. It is one of the most hit topics on my blog..and I don't have many of those posts here). Everything is different. My body, my hormones, my moods, me. I am not using hormone therapy. I'm hot flashing not stop, I'm riding waves of emotion, sometimes high anxiety and hysteria. If I had been able to ease into menopause without surgery my symptoms wouldn't be as difficult to manage. Hey, it beats cancer, I keep telling myself. Yes, yes it does!
-Of course the death of my mother made for a horrifying year. She passed last November and it has really been a struggle for me. Duh. The pain is just as raw now as it was last year at this time. Last year at this time it may have been a bit easier..as I was just numb, not able to feel it as I am now.
-Big Life Changes. Tyler moved out three years ago and Troy will be heading off to the college in August. I'm beyond excited and proud of him..but you know, big changes.
-Fracturing my ankle in July really threw me for a loop. I didn't let the damn thing heal and foolishly began Superior 100-I can say foolishly, since I then broke the fractured ankle during this race. Had I not, and finished, I wouldn't say it was foolish.
The recovery has been difficult. Running as much as I do, with as many miles and races I have put in over the past 10 years of ultrarunning-I knew it was bound to happen. I always wondered what would happen to me physically - emotionally - mentally - if I were injured. I now know. Here this is 'only' a broken ankle..what if something happened where I could never run again? I would deal the best I could.
With an MD and orthopedic surgeons telling me I wouldn't run again I had to think about that scenario.
I wondered if I'd pick up my old friend alcohol again. I didn't think so..but with the depression I was feeling, who knows? Thankfully, I did not.
Running replaced drinking for me. I didn't want to drink again. Although I didn't want to drink again I was surprised at how often the thoughts came to me. Not thoughts of planning my next drink, but memories of past drunks. Past life. Many times I woke up, thinking I was drunk, reliving the dream I had just had. Crazy. I didn't want to go there again.
But I didn't drink. I held it together the best I could. I cried. I screamed while walking through the woods. I held Topaz tight. I pretend everything is OK. It's the best I can do.
Addiction. I replaced alcohol and tobacco with running. I then found while I wasn't running I was consuming copious amounts of sugar. Another addiction. Not that I didn't know this would happen, It's always just under the surface.
No running, depression, menopause + eating sugar = weight gain. Sure, I've been lifting and CrossFit, it isn't the same..physically or emotionally.
A few weeks ago I ran my first 5 mile run. I cried almost the whole way. I was so thrilled. You know, it isn't 'just' about running. Running encompasses so much for me. It is so much more, but running started it. Running helped me to become the person who I wanted to be. The person who I didn't think I could become. Running has allowed me to feel alive. Running has kept me sober for 17 years.
I look around my desk and see all of the medals, plaques, 100 mile buckles. Yes, I've obtained quite a few. Here is a sampling. There are many more. Each one is more than an award for a finish. Each one means so much more. Each one has a story. A story about me. Maybe I haven't been sitting here for a while because I didn't want to look. I didn't want to look at what I had been missing. Where I've been. The work and dedication I put in. I didn't want to face how much I missed running. How much I missed myself.
Today Topaz and I went out for an 8 mile snowshoe run at Lake Maria. I was -11F, -25 WC. I smiled the whole way. I thought about next year. I thought about what it will be. I celebrated that I have made it through this year. The best that I can.
Tomorrow I'm running the 25K Donut Run. 16 miles, 5 stops at local bakeries. There is a 5 mile and 10 mile version, too. I've run 8 this week, will try 10 and see if 16 is in the ankle. It will be -30WC, -15F. I think it will be The Hot Coffee Run. Hot Coffee at every Bakery. Nice!
This sat in my draft for a day. Hence the mismatched title :D
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- sea legs girl said...
Wow, Julie, what an amazing piece of writing that was. I feel such a strong connection to you now. I can't believe I had not read your blog before. I am so glad you have started writing again. I could not help feeling we have a lot in common and hoping we have a chance to go on a run together :-). And I am thrilled you have started running again and know exactly what you mean about it replacing worse addictions!! Lots of love to you and your family this winter!
- sea legs girl said...
Wow, Julie, what an amazing piece of writing that was. I feel such a strong connection to you now. I can't believe I had not read your blog before. I am so glad you have started writing again. I could not help feeling we have a lot in common and hoping we have a chance to go on a run together :-). And I am thrilled you have started running again and know exactly what you mean about it replacing worse addictions!! Lots of love to you and your family this winter!
- Julie B said...
Hi Tracy, I have been reading your blog since it began. I remember when I first met your husband and V 50-I felt like a stalker!! I don't believe I met you in person until this past Superior 100. Thanks for the note <3
- Damon said...
It sounds like we've both had trying years, although my year was going pretty well until the last few months. I has some skin cancer removed from my arm last spring, but it was a minor issue. I lost my mom this fall. A loved family pet died unexpectedly. Then, I was diagnosed with prostate cancer about a month ago. It was caught very early and I should be fine in the long run, but the treatment options are no fun at all. The side effects from every choice are terrible. And most recently, I've been dealing with a highly depressed family member - someone who has been contemplating suicide. So far, I'm holding it together, but I know my wife is struggling with all of this very much. Luckily, I still have CrossFit and downhill skiing as outlets that keep me busy and active and somewhat distracted from the negatives at times.
I'm sorry your year has gone the way it has. I hope 2014 is kinder to both of us.
- Julie B said...
Oh Damon, I am so sorry for all that you have gone through in 2013. I am so thankful that your cancer was caught very early but I know how difficult the side effects and treatment options are. Someone close to me is battling prostate cancer now. Life is precious. Damon you take care and fight hard.
Cheers to 2014. A kinder, more gentle year :)
- Cheryl said...
Great post Julie! I always love reading your insights. I am sorry to hear about your troubles over the past year but I'm glad to see you have made it through.
I do have one question, you mention the different addictions - sugar being one of them. I am right there with you. My question is, what do you do to stay on top of it. I know that it will be there, for me, right under the surface but I feel totally out of control with it right now. Christmas and both of my kids b-days in December doesn't help but I definitely need to find a way to reign it in a bit. Any help would be appreciated.
- Julie B said...
Cheryl, it is a daily struggle for me. I find that when I totally abstain, I do best. Sometimes my mind gets me to thinking that I don't need to abstain, that moderation is OK. I know that doesn't work for me, but I am at times my own worse enemy.


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PORTSMOUTH — Discover Portsmouth and George Hosker-Bouley present the 2013 Discover Thursdays Performance Series featuring Amare Cantare on Thursday, May 2, 7 p.m.
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Amare Cantare is an auditioned chamber chorus that strives for musical excellence in the performance of challenging and diverse repertoire. We seek to foster a vital arts community, to collaborate with other organizations, to provide opportunities for artistic fulfillment for our singers, and to share our love of music with our audiences. Since its creation in the late 1970s, Amare Cantare, which means, "to love to sing" in Italian, has been performing masterworks and intimate choral music from five centuries. Its 28 members come from all over the Seacoast, ranging from Kittery, Maine to Middleton, N.H.
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How much praise does Jonny deserve for England's success in this world cup?
You just know if England win people will be all like, "He lit up the world cup like last time etc." But in all honesty, I think he hasn't been that influential in England's success. His kicking hasn't been great... I think he's kicking at about 60% and he's making the goals that any world class kicker from any side can kick. His general play has been pretty poor... England can't get a try! Admittedly his defence has been awesome as always.
It just bugs me how everytime I hear about England winning it's "Wilkinson does it again!" or "Wilkinson kicks his side to victory". That's hardly the case. I give him all the credit in the world for that drop-goal against France, but he took about five shots at drop-goal before that which missed. His biggest contribution has been kicking penalty goals which aren't too hard. Granted I think his mere presence on the field is invaluable.
I just wish people would talk about the pack more often. I wish they'd talk about the tight five and how the loosies are playing well. This world cup belongs to England's forwards IMO. I love Jonny and think he's probably one of the ten best fly-halves in rugby history. It's just irritating me how he's getting all the praise when he's playing below his best. I wish they'd praise the team as a whole.


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Nearly a quarter of a century (1989) after Washburn Law's Oil and Gas program was developed to meet the ongoing and ever-changing demands of the industry, the Oil and Gas Law Center was established in 2013.
Because of our program's solid history, national prominence, and location, we have one of the most extensive oil and gas law programs in the nation.
Students may also choose to complete a Certificate in Oil and Gas Law. The Certificate is an acknowledgment by the Washburn Law faculty that the student has successfully completed a focused course of study addressing oil and gas law issues frequently encountered by attorneys.
To augment an already extensive curriculum, Washburn Law offers students a number of extra-curricular opportunities throughout their law school experience. Symposia, conferences and visiting practitioners and scholars provide our students a well-rounded, diverse exploration into natural resources and oil and gas law. Washburn Law students graduate with solid skills required in today's environment.
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Memphis --- The attorney who represents the racist piece of trash, Daniel Cowart; says that too many blacks sat on his client's jury. In case you have forgotten, Cowart was arrested for making death threats against black students and president-elect Obama.
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The National Insurance Crime Bureau has released its annual list of most stolen vehicles and once again imported sedans rule the list.
Nationally, for 2011, the 1994 Honda Accord and 1998 Honda Civic retained their 2010 positions as the No. 1 and 2 most stolen cars.
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Woman charged with manslaughter in crash that killed young son
The heart of a 3-year-old boy who died when his mother crashed her car in Worcester has been donated, the family said Friday.
Jayden Figueroa died last week when his mother, Christina Castro, lost control of the car she was driving and slammed into a parked minivan, police said. She had three children in the car at the time of the crash.
The boy's heart was made available through an organ donor program.
"It was a difficult decision but we wanted to give life to someone else," said the boy's uncle, Nelson Torres.
Jayden's brother, Luis Figueroa, 7, suffered serious injuries in the crash and is being treated at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston.
"Luis is doing better, but he has a long way to go and will need months at Spaulding," Torres said.
The boy is now able to move both his arms and legs. At first, paralysis was feared, the family said.
"He says he wants his room. He wants to go home," Torres said.
Castro is being held on high bail, facing vehicular homicide charges.
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The Best Turkey: What's Your Favorite?
Just consider what we are confronted with: fresh, frozen, frozen basted, free-range, free-roaming, all-natural, heritage fresh, heritage frozen, organic, wild, kosher fresh, kosher frozen. It's mind-boggling.
Maybe that's why one year I switched to an all-pie Thanksgiving dinner. I didn't have to choose one pie. I just bought a dozen pies of every variety imaginable, including a turkey pot pie. I thought it was genius, but my wonderful mother-in-law (and my wife) could not wrap her traditionalist head around it. She thought it was too radical. So I learned the hard way that you can't mess with your mother-in-law's expectations when it comes to holiday foods.
My favorite turkey to date has been the Eberly Farms organic bird, raised in Pennsylvania in apparently humane fashion. A couple of years ago I had great success brining an Eberly Farms turkey on a friend's penthouse roof. Of course it was incredibly windy the night before Thanksgiving that year, so I was worried that my brining turkey was going to fly off the roof of the building and kill someone 15 floors below. Now that would have given fresh-killed turkey a whole new meaning. How did I choose the Eberly Farms organic turkey? I read a 1996 New York Times turkey taste test article.
But 1996 predated the resurrection of heritage turkeys, so I thought it might be helpful to all the Serious Eaters out there to gather a flock of experts to weigh in on this weightiest of all Thanksgiving issues.
I spoke to Chris Kimball, the man who has built a media empire (think Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen) tasting, testing, and telling us what the best is. In the November-December issue of Cook's Illustrated Chris and his merrily opinionated band of testers tasted eight turkeys, though not the Eberly Farms organic bird.
Their verdict: Their two favorites were the Rubashkin's Aaron's Best frozen kosher turkey and the Walters Hatchery Heritage Breed frozen.
The Rubashkin's frozen kosher bird costs an extremely reasonable $1.99 a pound. Kimball's people found this turkey to have plenty of fat and salt (all kosher turkeys are essentially brined in the slaughtering process) and moist, flavorful white and dark meat.
The Walters Heritage bird was a much pricier $7.14 a pound. The Cook's Illustrated gang found this turkey's meat to be mild, sweet, and flavorful. There was a caveat with the Walters turkey. The Walters family has moved its farm to another state, and though they are using the same breed, there is no guarantee that the turkeys will taste exactly the same.
Almost as Good
Just to confuse us even more, Kimball's tasters and testers also liked the Butterball frozen basted turkey ($1.49 a pound) and the Jennie-O fresh basted bird (also $1.49 a pound), though not as much as their aforementioned two top choices.
The million-page Gourmet Cookbook recommends using a kosher turkey, though it did not specify a brand. It should be noted that the most widely distributed kosher bird, the Empire Kosher brand, was only recommended with reservations by the Cook's Illustrated folks.
So what's a Serious Eater to do?
I'm going with the Eberly Farms organic turkey. According to Eberly Farms's literature, they're raised humanely and all that good stuff. And I've gotten terrific results using them in previous years. I'm considering it my own traditional Thanksgiving choice.
I would be curious about the Rubashkin's Aaron's Best kosher turkey. It's priced right, that's for sure.
And if you can't find either of the above where you live and you are not concerned about organic or other ethical issues surrounding your Thanksgiving turkey, Kimball says you could do a lot worse than a Butterball.
What turkey does Kimball himself roast for his family's Thanksgiving dinner? He gets one from his neighbor's farm in Vermont. That's what I call a hyper-local Thanksgiving bird. Unfortunately hyper-local is not an option for me here in New York, unless I switch to pigeon. I don't think my mother-in-law would like that.
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NBC's TV Show Smears Homeschooling
- 2004 20 Feb
On February 17 NBC's 'Law and Order - Special Victims Unit' - a legal drama produced by Universal TV Productions - aired a show about homeschooling.
It portrayed homeschooling as a cover for child abuse.
Needless to say NBC and Universal were unconcerned about offending hundreds of thousands of honest, law-abiding homeschool families.
For over twenty years modern homeschoolers have fought successfully against negative stereotypes.
Homeschool critics are now desperate and have resorted to equating homeschooling with child abuse - an extremely rare occurrence in comparison to children in the public school setting.
Regrettably NBC and Universal have succeeded in perpetuating this latest attack on homeschooling.
It is blatantly unfair to negatively portray a minority and tar every homeschooler with the same brush.
The consequences for innocent homeschool families can be serious. Some people might actually believe the picture painted by Law and Order SVU and use the anonymous tip procedure to report homeschool families for abuse and neglect without any factual basis. Child Protective Services are obligated to follow-up these reports and homeschool families will face unwarranted harassment. This already happens all too frequently to families all across America. More importantly, real abuse will be missed because the system may be clogged with false reports.
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High school senior suing parents for college tuition
- Rachel Canning is suing to force her parents to pay an unpaid private school bill and her college tuition
- Private school said Rachel can continue to attend school but parents are obligated to pay the tuition bill
- Rachel has been accepted at four colleges and has applications pending at other institutions
MORRISTOWN, N.J. — An honor student and athlete who claims her parents threw her out of their home when she turned 18 has taken the highly unusual step of suing them for immediate financial support and to force them to pay for her college education.
Rachel Canning, a cheerleader and lacrosse player at Morris Catholic High School who has aspirations to be a biomedical engineer, filed a lawsuit last week in the Family Part of state Superior Court in Morristown that seeks a judge's declaration that she is nonemancipated and dependent as a student on her parents for support.
Judge Peter Bogaard, sitting in Morristown, has scheduled a hearing for Tuesday. Rachel Canning's lawyer, Tanya N. Helfand, will ask that parents Sean and Elizabeth Canning, who haven't paid an outstanding $5,306 Morris Catholic tuition bill, be ordered to settle that debt, pay Rachel's current living and transportation expenses, and commit an existing college fund to their daughter, who has received acceptance letters from several universities and has to make a decision this spring.
Since the alleged "abandonment" by her parents, Rachel has been living in Rockaway Township with the family of her best friend and fellow student Jaime Inglesino, whose father is attorney and former Morris County Freeholder John Inglesino. Inglesino is funding the lawsuit and hired attorney Helfand, who included in the lawsuit a request that the parents pay their daughter's legal fees that so far total $12,597.
Sean Canning, a retired Lincoln Park police chief who currently works as Mount Olive's township administrator, said his daughter's representation of the facts is not accurate and he fears she is being "enabled" by well-intentioned but ill-informed people who include the Inglesinos. Sean Canning said that Rachel voluntarily left home in October and was never thrown out.
"We love our child and miss her. This is terrible. It's killing me and my wife. We have a child we want home. We're not Draconian and now we're getting hauled into court. She's demanding that we pay her bills but she doesn't want to live at home and she's saying, 'I don't want to live under your rules,'" Sean Canning said.
The father said that he and his wife did stop paying the Morris Catholic tuition and have kept Rachel's car because they paid for it. The father contended that Rachel moved out because she didn't want to abide by simple household rules — be respectful, keep a curfew, return "borrowed" items to her two sisters, manage a few chores, and reconsider or end her relationship with a boyfriend the parents believe is a bad influence.
"We're heartbroken, but what do you do when a child says 'I don't want your rules but I want everything under the sun and you to pay for it?'" Canning said, adding that his daughter's college fund is available to her and not withdrawn or re-allocated, as she has alleged.
In New Jersey, emancipation of a child "is a fact-sensitive analysis that looks at whether the child has moved beyond the sphere of influence and responsibility exercised by a parent and has obtained an independent status of his or her own," Helfand said in court papers.
The mere fact that a child has turned 18 is not an automatic reason to stop financial support, according to Helfand and several longtime family attorneys in Morris County. A key court decision in the state specifies that, "A child's admittance and attendance at college will overcome the rebuttable presumption that a child may be emancipated at age 18."
Prominent family-law attorneys Sheldon Simon and William Laufer both called the lawsuit highly unusual and Laufer said he has seen nothing like it in 40 years of practice.
"A child is not emancipated until they're on their own," Simon said. "Even if a child and the parents don't get along, that doesn't relieve the parents of their responsibility." Laufer noted that under New Jersey law, a child can still be declared nonemancipated even if there is a hiatus between high school graduation and college.
Rachel Canning filed a certification with the court that contends her parents jointly decided on Oct. 29, 2013, that as of Nov. 1 — her 18th birthday — she would be cut off "from all support both financially and emotionally." She said in her papers that Morris Catholic advised her not to return home and contacted the state Division of Child Protection and Permanency (known as DCP&P and formerly as DYFS) after Rachel alleged abuse.
"My parents have rationalized their actions by blaming me for not following their rules," Rachel said in her court papers. "They stopped paying my high school tuition to punish the school and me and have redirected my college fund, indicating their refusal to afford me an education as a punishment."
The court record includes a letter from Morris Catholic English instructor and campus minister Kathleen Smith, who wrote that she was a witness to a rough encounter between Rachel and her mother in mid-October 2013 and heard Elizabeth Canning call her daughter a foul name and say she didn't want to speak to her daughter again.
Sean Canning said that a DCP&P representative visited his home for about three hours last fall, found nothing amiss, determined that Rachel was "spoiled" and discontinued the investigation. He said that he and his wife are beside themselves that discord with their daughter has reached this level.
Attorney Laurie Rush-Masuret, who represents the parents, said in court papers that Rachel emancipated herself and removed herself from her parent's "sphere of influence" by voluntarily moving out of their house "as she did not want to abide by her parents' rules...."
Rush-Masuret and Sean Canning said that Rachel was seeing a therapist long before moving out and is supposed to take medication. The parents contend she had disciplinary problems at school last term, was suspended twice, ignored her curfew at home and bullied her younger sister.
According to letters included with the lawsuit, Rachel has been accepted at the University of Vermont, William Paterson University, Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla., Wells College in Aurora, N.Y., and has applications pending to other institutions. She has been offered scholarships — including $20,000 a year to study at Wells — but also would be reliant on the college fund established by her parents and other financial aid and grants.


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Another "Comparative Character Generation" essay; Two to go.
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I've written another in the Comparative Character Generation series. I'm only going to do two more, since a) I've examined most of the systems I'm likely to find players for, as far as I know, and b) my real problem isn't the system I run.
So if anyone wants to see something besides PDQ, PDQ Sharp, FATE, Fudge, GURPS, BRP, MRQ, MRQ2, WFRP2, WFRP3, Unisystem, Barbarians of Lemuria, NWoD, Savage Worlds, Risus, or several variations on d20 ... speak now.


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Earth! render back from out thy breast
A remnant of our Spartan dead!
Of the three hundred grant but three,
To make a new Thermopylae!
These lines from Byron's Don Juan are justifiably famous. They conjur up how Byron and others saw the cause of Greek independence in the 1820s, the chance to reawake the soul of European civilisation and to vindicate in its homeland the cause of freedom. The moment that they commemorate is equally famous. Thermopylae has been remembered again and again in story and in song and probably will be remembered long after everyone who reads this will be forgotten. Part of the reason for this is that the story itself is so evocative: 300 Spartans facing, according to Herodotus, several thousand Persians. The world could be seen to take a different turn on those days when the Greeks through a glorious defeat helped cement a future victory. Paul Cartledge's book about Thermopylae is an interesting guide to the battle and its importance and I think its worth reading- if like me your Persian and Greek history are rusty. Most of what Cartledge argues is based upon the ancient historian Herodotus: Herodotus wrote about 50 years after the events of the Persian war that he chronicled and wrote them by talking to people in Athens who knew about the war. Cartledge tells a conventional story: the Spartans were outnumbered, but assisted- the world forgets Thespians and others who fought with Leonides and his men. The battle was significant because it helped to inspire the Greeks to fight back against Persia.
Lets think about those points. The presence of others on the battlefield, particularly the greater proportional effort of some cities who dispatched their entire army to the field (not as in Sparta's case 300 alone) means that many popular accounts of the battle miss something important. What they miss isn't important in the sense that it should change our judgement of the Spartans, its important in that history in part functions as Herodotus tells us in the first lines of his history, we must remember great deeds because that is what is due to those deeds. We have an obligation not to forget. But this points us on to something that is very important. Herodotus on whom Cartledge bases his account is one of our only sources for events at Thermopylae, we have the odd scrap of poetry (which I'll come on to) but we must remember the fragile nature of the thread that binds us to our past.
Secondly the battle inspired the Greeks to fight against the Persians and victor at the battles of Salamis and more importantly at Plataea. Its tempting to suggest that therefore Thermopylae is a crucial moment in the history of the world: and it is probably so. But its worth also considering whether actually it did matter as much as we argue. The problem with history is that we can never replay the tape with an item altered. Greek history may have been very different- but Greek intellectual life survived Alexander's empire and it may have survived a Persian empire. Though Cartledge assumes that Thermopylae helped the Greeks later- it reinforced a Spartan theology of suicide- there is no evidence to suggest it was decisive. Nor is there neccessarily evidence to suggest the Persians were the evil freedom hating monsters of films like 300, the Bible sees Cyrus in Palestine as the refounder of Israel!
Thirdly there is Thermopylae as an idea. Here the poetry left at the monument to the dead is fascinating- 'Go tell the Spartans, passerby/ That here obedient to her laws we lie' is the wonderful epitaph composed by Simonides. Perhaps most importantly, the epitaph says all the things that we would want it to reaffirm for ourselves and Byron- it restates the Stoic suicide commited by the 300. Its worth reading again though- if one is ever tempted to consider the Spartans or Greeks fought just for freedom then that line should be an answer. Spartan law was unique and the Spartan command to fight was unique- the principle of the line though, and the principle in part of Plato's Crito are the same: Greek politics was based on obligation as well as freedom, duty to law as well as freedom from law.
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MEDINA, Ohio, Dec. 21, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- RPM International Inc. (NYSE: RPM) today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire SPS Group (SPS), a Dutch decorative and specialty coatings company with annual net sales of approximately $60 million. Located about an hour south of Amsterdam in 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, SPS will operate as part of RPM's Rust-Oleum European business. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. It is expected to be accretive to earnings within one year, excluding one-time costs.
SPS offers a complete line of topcoats for interior and exterior walls, primers, lacquers, floor and roof coatings, metal coatings, wood stains and finishes, plasters and more. Its major customers are large home center chains and builder merchants based in the Netherlands. Its products are used by painters, plasterers, industry and do-it-yourselfers.
"By leveraging the manufacturing and distribution strengths of SPS, we expect this acquisition to accelerate Rust-Oleum's growth in the Netherlands and other nearby European countries," stated Frank C. Sullivan, RPM chairman and chief executive officer. "It will also allow the existing customer base of SPS to benefit from Rust-Oleum technologies and innovations."
About RPM
RPM International Inc. owns subsidiaries that are world leaders in specialty coatings, sealants, building materials and related services across three segments. RPM's industrial products include roofing systems, sealants, corrosion control coatings, flooring coatings and other construction chemicals. Industrial companies include Stonhard, Tremco, illbruck, Carboline, Flowcrete, Euclid Chemical and RPM Belgium Vandex. RPM's consumer products are used by professionals and do-it-yourselfers for home maintenance and improvement and by hobbyists. Consumer brands include Rust-Oleum, DAP, Zinsser, Varathane and Testors. RPM's specialty products include industrial cleaners, colorants, exterior finishes, specialty OEM coatings, edible coatings, restoration services equipment and specialty glazes for the pharmaceutical and food industries. Specialty segment companies include Day-Glo, Dryvit, RPM Wood Finishes, Mantrose-Haeuser, Legend Brands, Kop-Coat and TCI. Additional details can be found at www.rpminc.com and by following RPM on Twitter at www.twitter.com/RPMintl.
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Morgan Stanley: All grown upJune 12, 2012: 5:50 PM ET
Morgan Stanley (MS) is all grown up, Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said at Morgan Stanley's U.S. Financials Conference Tuesday afternoon.
Gorman painted a picture of a bank that has eschewed the rebellious and risky behavior of its adolescence for a conservative role as a bank -- not a trading outfit in a bank's clothing.
"If investors want to invest in hedge funds, they shouldn't be doing it through Morgan Stanley," Gorman said.
The new and improved Morgan Stanley is "maniacally focused" on cutting expenses, managing risk and aggressively controlling its cash reserves, Gorman explained.
In response to an investor question about Moody's expected downgrade of U.S. banks, Gorman said Morgan Stanley could withstand even a three-notch cut its credit rating, calling it a "manageable outcome," due to the bank's liquidity.
In his presentation, Gorman spent time outlining just what Morgan Stanley got rid of to become a more conservative bank, including spinning off its hedge fund FrontPoint and closing its so-called proprietary desks that made large bets on the market's direction with the bank's money. The bank has also made efforts to divest of other odd investments made during better times.
"We should never have been a part owner of a casino in Atlantic City," he said, referring to the bank's attempts to build Revel, a high-end casino in New Jersey, which it took a $1 billion loss on.
On the eve of when Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan's (JPM) CEO, plans to testify before Congress on the bank's $2 billion and growing loss, Gorman took pains to distinguish his bank's risk-taking from that of its rival, without ever mentioning it by name. Gorman said every position greater than $10 million is scrutinized by a risk committee.
Allowing himself a few pats on the back, Gorman told the audience: "We've probably done more strategically in three to four years than most corporations of our size do in 30 years."
Still, Gorman made it clear that investors aren't applauding yet. "We happen to think we got a lot of the decisions right. The market doesn't reflect that yet."
Meanwhile, Gorman never mentioned his firm's role as lead underwriter for Facebook's (FB) botched initial public offering, and investors didn't either during a 15 minute Q&A session. With a potential Moody's downgrade looming, Gorman doesn't get to breathe too easy, but Morgan Stanley's CEO was probably relieved to avoid the "F" word in public this time around.
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I've always had a love hate relationship with Tiger handheld games. When I was a kid I was easily swayed by their slick commercials promising an arcade in the palm of your hand. Time after time I got them and time after time I was disappointed by an over simplistic repetitive piece of code turd inside a promisingly attractive shell. I know part of the blame rested on me, I mean fool me once... So the other day I began wondering what had happened to them and dare I say it, I missed them.
So in honor of the dead, I decided to do a few updated classics starting with my favorite Angry Birds. While drawing it I came up with a defined set of gameplay ideas while staying true to the Tiger formula, a little bit of the license and a lot of crap gameplay. So here we go!
- Use the Directional Pad to select the trajectory of the bird's flight.
- Hit the fire button to launch your bird.
- The pigs will dance back and forth so it's up to you to time your drop perfectly. Hit them all and advance to the next level, but be warned, they get faster and harder to hit!
- You have three birds, once they are through it is game over!
- If you collect a golden egg you will get access to the Mighty Golden Eagle! A Golden Eagle advances you to the next level.
- Since this is a Tiger game, there is no ending, the game loops past world 4-18.
I'm set to do at least one more so if you have an idea for one, let me know in the comments!


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I was very excited to read this very in-depth review of After Effects CS6: Learn by Video on Amazon today;
5.0 out of 5 stars | August 20, 2012
A good solid base upon which to build
I get many emails asking for the best way to begin learning a new software such as After Effects. My first suggestion is to start with a training video for the software of your choice. This is especially true for a robust and complex software such as After Effects CS6.
I found After Effects to be intimidating in spite of my strong Adobe Flash background but the Adobe After Effects CS6 Learn by Video training course from video2brain gave me a good solid base upon which to build. The authors Todd Kopriva and Angie Taylor share the instruction with Kopriva covering the technical aspects of the software and Taylor covering the creative.
The authors start with a short history of the After Effects software leading to what's new in version CS6. With a panel-by-panel tour of the user interface, you are introduced to the basic project workflow and terminology.
Next, you learn what makes up a basic composition and how to build your own comps from scratch. You first learn how to create a line of text with the Character panel and a block of text with the Paragraph panel and then move on to using shape layers for creating simple and complex vector shapes.
The fun really starts with the Effects and Presets panel. You will learn how to apply a Keylight effect to turn the original background transparent. Then you create a new solid which will be your new background to which you can add effects such as the CC Mr. Mercury effect.
Not all comps are built from scratch. You learn how to import assets such as movies, stills, image sequences and audio. Also introduced is how to manage and organize the various assets for your comp. Of course, you will need to know the options for importing Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro files. You will also learn about interlacing, pixel aspect ratio, and trimming basics.
Halfway through the course, we get to the part I enjoy the most which is animation. First, you cover the basics including how to use keyframes and tweens to control the transformation of various properties. Next, you cover motion paths and how to use Motion Sketch to draw freehand paths. Delving deeper into animation, you learn about the various types of keyframes in After Effects and how to use the Keyframe Assistants and Graph Editor to refine your animations.
The next section covers text animations. Taylor covers options for importing text created in Photoshop and how to edit the text in After Effects. She then demonstrates an easy and fast way to animate each letter individually with the Text Animators. She shows you how to combine animators to create more complex animations and how to save your custom animators as presets. Next we see how shape layers can be used to create many effects, as well as using the Repeater to emulate a particle-like effect.
Switching back to Kopriva, we learn the basics of compositing and how many effects can be created using Blending Modes, Alpha Channels and Masks. Next he discusses common problems and how to correct them with Color Keying, Motion Tracking and Rotoscoping.
The next section concentrates more closely on how to create custom effects. Beginning with a discussion of the Effect Controls panel and categories. Taylor also covers how to use keyframes to animate properties and how to apply easing. One nice feature is the Brainstorm viewer that lets you preview variations of effects and save them as presets. She also discusses what she calls fixer effects for solving common problems such as rolling shutter. She ends this section by covering how to edit layer styles and adjustment layers imported from Photoshop to create effects.
When working with video, you can manipulate the frame rate to achieve various effects. Kopriva first discusses frame rate in general and then covers common retiming tasks such as Time Stretching, Time Remapping, Freeze Frame, Slow Motion and Reverse Frame.
The next section concentrates on your workflow and ways to use grouped and linked layers as well as nesting and pre-composing. One example of character animation demonstrates parenting hierarchy and IK. You also learn about expressions and how easy it is to write your own for complex animation.
Animating 3D effects can add realism to your projects and this section of the course begins by discussing how to use the 3D wireframe and other views needed to work in 3d space. Once you are familiar with working in 3d space, Taylor moves on to how to animate by bending layers. She also covers the basics of using camera presets and controls for depth of field and point of interest. Next, she adds lighting to the 3D scene and walks you through the various types of lighting such as Environmental, Point and Spotlight and how to work with cast shadows and reflections. Reflections can be very important to the realism of your scene and Taylor discusses the various controls such as Reflection Intensity, Sharpness and RollOff, as well as Specular Intensity and Shininess and Environmental Layer maps.
Switching back to Kopriva, we discuss optimizing software performance by adjusting the default preferences and taking advantage of Ram and Disk Catching. Next, he covers After Effects default render order and how this order determines the final render, much like the hierarchy in Cascading Style Sheets determines the final HTML document.
After Effects has several options for exporting your projects and in this section Kopriva discusses how to use the Render Queue. Much like other video exporting, he shows you how to set the various format options. He discusses how to use preset output templates and how to save your own custom settings as a template. He demonstrates how After Effects can save time by rendering several formats simultaneously. Next, he does a walk through of how to use the Adobe Media Encoder to choose output presets for Vimeo, Apple and Android.
The final section is a wrap up and final thoughts. It examines several projects and discusses how they were made. It also covers how to integrate After Effects with Cinema 4D.
The course includes 10+ hours of the video2brain Learn by Video series and supporting files for following along for a hands-on, watch-and-work teaching approach. Also included with the DVD is a small booklet with additional information. As with all the Learn by Video series, you have an easy-to-use control panel for viewing the videos.
Todd Kopriva has been with Adobe and After Effects since version 7.0. He creates Adobe documentation and training materials. Angie Taylor has worked 14 years in motion graphics and animation. Examples of her work have been featured on the BBC.
*Peachpit Press provided a copy to me for review purposes.


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Tuesday, February 07, 2017 - 1 comment
Leave to Live: First Fruits of the Season
"It is a grand thing to get leave to live."
- Nan Shepherd, Scottish poet
These words - a message from heaven on a five-pound note - were my invitation into the season of sabbatical I'm in now. They carried with them a whiff of freedom, permission - no, a charge - to dream without boundaries, and a beckoning to come test the limits of "life more abundantly."
As I've settled into my temporary Scottish home (has it really been a week and a half already?), I've taken these words to heart. They've guided how I spend my hours and my days. There is a vastness in them, but also an urgency - the sense that this time is a gift and I need to really get down to the business of living.
They've led me on romps and rambles, up into the green hills and down the windswept coastal paths. They've taken me into the depths and dark places in my heart, where lies and hindrances to life are exposed and uprooted and I get to taste the glory of true freedom. And they've called me to create.
So much of this time is about re-connecting with (or discovering for the first time) who I am and how I was designed. Unearthing the "me" that comes to the surface when the weights of fear and over-responsibility are removed and the dust of heart-crushing lies blown off and I'm able to see - and delight in - the good that was deposited in me as I was knit together in my mother's womb that I'm meant to share with the world.
And - surprise, surprise - so much of that has to do with creating.
One of the words I got before moving to Turkey was that I was going "for the display of His splendour." That there is a unique facet of my Father's personality, character and beauty that I'm meant to be showcasing and reflecting and shining a light on. That word still burns in my heart, but it hadn't seen the light of day in a good while. It was high time I pull it out again and give it the place it deserves - in my heart and in my day planner. (Yes, I still use a day planner. Long live paper!) If m1n1stry is "the best of what He's poured into me being poured out into other people", I need to make cultivating that "best" a high priority. And for me, a big chunk of that means creating.
It's always the things we were actually created to do - the ones that shine the best of Him through the best of us - that are so relentlessly and insidiously opposed. This season is about fighting back.
It's a season where I've been given not just permission but a mandate to give space and weight and honour to my creative giftings and to develop them - not for the sake of producing anything, but for the sake of joy. For the sake of coming alive. It's a time to run headlong after those things I always think I'll do "when I have more time" - the ones that get relegated to the bottom of my never-ending to-do list because they don't seem "urgent", but are actually the ones that would infuse life into all the other parts of my life if I'd let them. The ones that allow me to uniquely display His splendour.
All that to say, I've been doing a whole lot of "creating" since I got here. I've vowed that I'll create (at least) one thing every day. Taking photos and logging writing hours and getting down some of the stories that have been percolating inside me for months are an obvious part of that. But I really wanted to find something else I could do - something more tangible and immediate and hands-on - that I could pursue during this time to really get my creative juices flowing on a daily basis.
Half on a whim, I bought a book on creative lettering and had it shipped here so it was waiting when I arrived. I can't draw worth squat. (Remember that grade 6 report card comment from my art teacher? "Great improvement from last year. She now draws her people with necks.") But what I CAN do is doodle letters. And it turns out that's a thing. Incidentally, a very marketable thing. But also just plain fun. It's something I'd love to get good at. But for now I'm just enjoying the freedom to play. And this book has turned out to be one of my favourite companions on this sabbatical journey.
There's so much pleasure in hand-lettering for me. I'm loving playing with fonts and strokes and learning about things like "filigree" and "serif" and "drop caps." It's been a great way to document some of the words being deposited in my heart during this season, and to get them on the wall where I can see them and be shaped by them.
So....here are some of the first fruits of this creative season...
|This one makes me laugh cuz it conjures up images of some
1970s orange juice container...but still, I kinda like it. :)


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Extreme cold winter weather can lead to frozen pipes in your home. When water freezes in a pipe, there is no space for the ice to expand and can create enough pressure to burst most pipes. This can cause damage to your property, costly repairs and unnecessary water waste.
From the property line to your home, you are responsible for plumbing, repairs and replacements. Call a plumber for household plumbing issues.
Check the sections below to learn how to avoid frozen or burst pipes this winter.
Home Prep for Winter
Locate your property's main indoor water shut-off valve and make sure it works before an emergency arises.
- Locate and shut off your property's water supply to outdoor taps. Keep outdoor taps in the open position so that any water remaining in the pipe can expand without causing the pipe to burst.
- Look for drafts of cold air in your home. Weather strip windows and doors, repair broken windows, and insulate areas that allow cold air to enter your home to avoid increased hydro bills.
- Consider installing products designed to insulate water pipes (i.e. pipe sleeve).
- Caulk and seal and openings near your water pipes.
- Check insulation. Wet insulation freezes fast, making it worse than no insulation at all!
- Disconnect and drain garden hoses.
- Winterize sprinkler systems, pools, and spas as per manufacturer's guidelines.
Signs of a Frozen Pipe
- Frost or condensation appears on the pipe.
- Bulging pipe.
- Reduced water flow from tap or no water at all. Other taps in your home may still be functional if they are connected to a pipe that is not frozen.
- Unusual sounds. Pay attention to unfamiliar noises that may come from your toilets, sinks, or other plumbing. Listen for bubbling, whistling, banging, or clanking. These noises may indicate damaged pipes.
It's Frozen! Now What?
Shut off your home's main indoor water shut-off valve, which is usually located in your basement, near your water meter.
Next Steps:
- Open all taps.
- If the frozen pipe can be located, gradually thaw it using one of the following methods:
- Remove obstructions or enclosures and expose the pipe to warm open air
- Wrap the pipe with a heating pad
- Wrap the pipe with rags and pour hot water on it
Do Not use open flames such as a candle or blowtorch to thaw the pipe. Overheating the pipe may cause it to burst or may cause a fire.
Do Not use an electric heater or hair dryer to apply direct heat to the pipe, as leaks may cause electrocution.
What to Do if a Pipe Bursts?
- Shut off your home's main indoor water shut-off valve.
- Open all taps.
- Place a bucket under the leak until the pipe can be repaired.
- Call a plumber.
Winter Vacation Checklist
4 Things to Do Before Travelling During the Winter
- Leave the heat on in your home and set the thermostat to at least 15 Degrees Celsius (59 Degrees Fahrenheit).
- Shut off your property's main indoor water shut-off valve and drain your pipes.
- If you shut off your indoor water supply, make sure to turn off your hot water heater to prevent it from burning out.
- Make sure someone checks up on your home on a regular basis – especially during extreme temperatures.


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Boys high school basketball coach arrested
Noble High coach charged with trying to solicit sex from underage girl online
Noble High School's boy's basketball coach, Kenneth Kimber, is in the Rockingham County Jail.
He is accused of trying to solicit sex from a 16-year-old girl online while working for the Portsmouth school's information technology department.
Kimber is charged with certain uses of a computer prohibited and indecent exposure. Police say the incidents occurred between Feb. 4 and 11 of this year.
Police were tipped off through the Crimestoppers hotline. The New Hampshire Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force assisted in the investigation. Portsmouth police said they are also working with Berwick police.
Following an investigation by Portsmouth schools, the department dismissed Kimber from his job. In a statement, the district said he was in violation of school and Internet policies.
In a response to an email inquiry from News 8 about Kimber, MSAD #60 superintendent Steve Connolly said, "Kenneth Kimber served as a paid coach. MSAD #60 has severed ties with Mr. Kimber."
He is being held on $5,000 cash bail and $15, 000 personal recognizance bail. He is expected to be arraigned in a Portsmouth court Tuesday.
Anyone with information on the case is asked to call Crimestoppers at 603-431-1199.


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Namib Desert Lodge
Namib Desert Lodge is just 60km north of Sesriem on the C19 road, at the foot of a red sandstone cliff, the "fossilised" dunes. It is a large lodge with 68 en-suite rooms set out in rows amongst beautiful gardens; this is one of the less costly options for accommodation in the Sesriem area.
Continue reading our full report on Namib Desert Lodge
Our view of Namib Desert Lodge
The Namib Desert Lodge is a big lodge which is functional rather than full of character. However, it's comfortable, very good value and makes a reasonable base for excursions into Sossusvlei – and with a little more time, the fossil dunes which form its backdrop are well worth exploring.
Read the Owner's description of Namib Desert Lodge
Namib Desert Lodge: Traveller ratings
It has 68 en-suite guest rooms, set in neat rows...


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Were you to count the copies of Naomi Klein's book No Logo that sold globally, you would think that millions of consumers would be switching to green's top values – curb your consumerism and if you have to buy, shop green. It's easy to paint business as the only anti-green boogieman but surely the government (municipal, provincial, and federal) also plays a role. Must government only set rules, impose carbon taxes, freak out oil investors, and make doing business generally more difficult?
Part of being green is caring for the environment and for indigenous people. Tsonga Shoes became "green" and manufactures in an 80%-unemployment-riddled area of South Africa. On-site childcare and educational facilities were established in order to encourage the mostly female workers to create micro businesses and sell their shoes to Tsonga for a living wage. It was working well until, as all manufacturers around the world are discovering, consumers started responding to cheaper goods from China.
Tsonga management visited China to look into combining manufacturing locations and were astounded by their discoveries. The massive, half-empty shoe factory they visited had marble floors. Stunned, they asked the manager how he had raised the capital to build such a place. He told them the Chinese government had paid for the factory. Workers came from hundreds of miles away and stayed in dormitories for stretches of up to a year.
"How can we compete?" asks Russell Lindsey, CEO of Tsonga. "We can put a story about our Zulu shoemaker and her child in each shoebox, but ultimately, the consumer won't buy Tsonga if cheaper shoes are available."
Indeed. Are those No Logo readers in fact rejecting Wal-Mart's cheap goods for Bono's sustainable (but pricier) line EDUN. We seem to have ADHD consumers this side of the world who, once they enter a store, ignore Naomi's advice and stampede for the latest lead-painted Barbies from WTO members, such as China.
How does our government help our businesses compete and how do we reconcile the fact that green is difficult to achieve when competing with China's support of their own manufacturers?Our government talks of Toronto following London's traffic access restrictions. A good idea for London, but Toronto has much fewer travel options in its infrastructure and few trains to link our cities. Indeed, our transportation seems to be planned by Monty Python with Hamilton's train track from Toronto stopping 16km away from the city, while other trains pass through without stopping. A functional train for passengers between Hamilton and Toronto would reduce a wretched two-hour trek to 30 minutes.
Attractive enough to leave the car behind – you bet!Instead, our government's priority is the bun fight about inter-provincial transfers.
It's hard to believe that Canada is one country. And who suffers? Entrepreneurs. With so much inter-provincial paperwork, it's death by a thousand cuts. Take a lesson from business: Centralized IT departments charged each division service fees so as to share costs. In reality, however, division heads ended up arguing so much about the fairness of the system they eventually turned to outside IT companies to get the job done. Outsourcing became the norm and boomed.
Perhaps we could outsource government action for basic transportation services because there is more argument about payment for services than green action. Indeed, it's time for the government to create joint public-private partnerships with green as the goal.
Canadians balk at these sorts of private-public partnerships despite their success in other countries. Mike Harris' Superbuild project demonstrated how business backs a project if the government provides initial financial support. When ROM received a $30M commitment from Superbuild, Frank Potter, chairman of ROM's fundraising arm, said, "This lead investment from the Ontario government will be leveraged many times over by the private sector." Potter's words were prophetic as the private sector followed the government, contributing the bulk of cash and project stamina.Let's go beyond idealism and get down to action.


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"While on storm chasing expeditions in the Tornado Alley in the U.S., I have encountered many photogenic supercell storms. This photograph was taken while we were approaching the storm near Julesburg, Colorado on My 28th, 2013. The storm was tornado warned for more than one hour, but stayed an LP storm through all its cycles and never produced a tornado, just occasional brief funnels, large hail and some rain."
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Credit: Marko Korošec/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"Mea Shearim is an ultra Orthodox district of Jerusalem. Newly married, Aaron and Rivkeh after the wedding ceremony are to stay together alone for the very first time. Their marriage was arranged by families. The 18-year-old candidates confirmed the choice in result of the one meeting only. Since then until the wedding day they were prohibited to meet or even talk."
Credit: Agnieszka Traczewska/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"Green Lake (Grüner See) is located Tragöss, Austria. In the spring, the snowmelt raises the lake level about 10 meters. This phenomenon, which lasts only a few weeks, covers the hiking trails, meadows and trees."
Credit: Marc Henauer/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"This photo of Český Krumlov, Czech Republic, was captured at noon on December 25, 2013, from the castle which is located on the edge of the small town. It is the perfect viewpoint for the panorama of the almost intact historical town. The fog and mist gave the town a sense of mystery."
Credit: Duowen Chen/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"This photo, taken at the 'end of the world' swing in Banos, Ecuador, captures a man swinging and overlooking an erupting Mount Tungurahua. The eruption took place on February 1st, 2014. Minutes after the photo was taken, we had to evacuate the area because of an incoming ash cloud."
Credit: Sean Hacker Teper/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"While exploring Burough Market in London, I was delighted to come across four lovely young women dressed in vintage white dresses, eating ice cream as the local shopkeeper looked on. Are they brides? Or bridesmaids? I don't know, but they are obviously enjoying a very special day."
Credit: Susie Stern/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"This photo of Moussa Macher, our Touareg guide, was taken at the summit of Tin-Merzouga, the largest dune (or erg) in the Tadrat region of the Sahara desert in southern Algeria. Moussa rested while waiting for us to finish our 45 minute struggle to the top. It only took 10 minutes of rolling, running and jumping to get to get back down.
The Tadrat is part of the Tassili N'Ajjer National Park World Heritage Area, famous for its red sand, engravings and rock paintings of cattle, elephants, giraffes and rhinos that lived there when the climate was milder."
Credit: Evan Cole/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"The 'Mayana Soora Thiruvizha' festival takes place every March in the small village of Kaveripattinam, the day after Mahashivarathiri, the great night of Shiva. The festival is devoted to Angalamman, a fierce guardian deity worshipped widely in Southern India."
Credit: Mahesh Balasubramanian/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"On arrival at Jonathan's Lodge our horses took to celebrating liberation from their heavy burdens. With the backdrop of the 'Devil's Knuckles' and the afternoon's glow, how could I not take advantage of these magnificent creatures rejoicing? This was the end of the first of a three day horse back ride through Bushman's Nek, up the Drakensberg escarpment and into Lesothos' Sehlabathebe National Park."
Credit: Byron Inggs/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest
"A young monk finds a perfect light source to read his book inside of his pagoda in Old Bagan, Burma."
Credit: Marcelo Castro/National Geographic Traveler Photo Contest


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Miggy's new extension loaded with incentives
DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera's record contract extension, guaranteeing him $292 million, is slightly backloaded, recently-released details show. More importantly, it includes some incentives that could raise the eventual total even higher.
Cabrera's $22 million salary remains intact for this year and next. His salary will jump to $28 million for 2016 and '17, then $30 million from '18 through '21. The last two guaranteed seasons of his deal are the most lucrative at $32 million each.
Cabrera will get either a $30 million salary in 2024, if his option vests with a top 10 MVP finish or if the club picks it up, or he'll get an $8 million buyout. The same option is in place for '25, though not with a buyout.
The deal also includes some good-sized bonuses. Another American League Most Valuable Player Award will earn him $2 million. Finishing second through fifth in the voting will earn him $200,000. Placing sixth through 10th will earn him $100,000. Winning the Hank Aaron Award is worth $250,000. He also has a bonus of $100,000 for being voted an All-Star or being named to the Baseball America, AP or Sporting News end-of-season All-Star teams.
Cabrera has $100,000 bonuses for Silver Slugger and Gold Glove awards, $150,000 for ALCS Most Valuable Player, and $200,000 for World Series MVP. If he wins league MVP, the Hank Aaron Award and World Series MVP in the same season, he gets a $1 million bonus.


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i don't know how to start so i'll say I love you so soooooo much my little munchkin <3
Time spent with you is always worth it <3
You can change a person mood from sad to happy So funny , cute , little g̶i̶r̶l̶ boy Your singing skills are too good and i love your confidence
I can never forget the "LOVE" you have given me sssh only we 2 know xD
You've improved yourself so so much i remember the first days but now very very mature
Hope your birthday brings you whatever you want. You deserve happiness, love and, most of all, fun on your special day.
You deserve only the finest...today and all year long!
Never let anyone make you sad okay ? Always keep smiling , cheering specially with me
C'mon fast become 18 so that and you know who loves you the most ?
-Stay Happy-
-Stay Blessed-