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So in the past few weeks, we've been beating the drum as to why gold is in the danger zone.
In today's carnage we added to our precious metals-related shorts — FCX, silver, and a few other selected plays — as the bearish metals thesis plays out.
While we are not long-term bearish gold (in the long term we are neutral for now), the near term price action has been fairly compelling.
Regarding our "Gold looks terrible: clarifying thoughts" piece, Mercenary community member Luke writes in:
I am an "open minded" gold investor, so I loved the article; however, my concern is that the US Government cannot AFFORD to let interest rates rise at all or the government debt servicing will eat up all of their revenue. I agree with most of your points, and it would make sense that interest rates SHOULD rise shortly – but if that means unsustainable debt servicing, then don't you think the Fed will do everything to fight an interest rate rise?
First off, good on you for being open-minded Luke. As we like to say, "Love your family — not your positions. Be loyal to your friends — not your trades."
Your concerns about debt service issues are valid. The problem has to do with timeframes!
I believe it was Brian Gelber in Market Wizards who first pointed out the timeframe problem. There are significant issues when it comes to pairing long-term fundamental factors with short to intermediate term moves. Simply put, you can't trade weekly or monthly time frames off what could amount to a multi-year view!
Take the mother of all cases-in-point: Japan.
The land of the rising sun has a deadly serious "interest rate affordability" problem too. At some point, in relation to retirement demographics and spender-vs-saver calculus, Japan will experience "exploding debt dynamics" and the fiscal situation will collapse.
But here's the rub: While that statement is true, it has been true for years!
Roughly speaking, the Japanese Goverment Bond (JGB) market is 95% supported by domestic savers. When the demographic tipping point materializes, the JGB market will hit "the end of the line" as Mrs. Watanabe crosses from saver to spender in her advancing age.
When this happens, falling JGBs coupled with rising debt service costs will result in epic disaster… and the vaporization of the yen in monetized support of the bond market, as the BOJ is forced to "destroy the currency for the sake of the economy" (to paraphrase Von Mises' biggest prophecy).
But WHEN will this happen? Heck, it could be happening right now (which is why we're short yen). But it might not happen until 2013… or 2017… who really knows?
Getting back to U.S. fiscal issues: You may be correct that government debt service issues will eventually force the Fed to go "nuclear," essentially vaporizing the dollar (by way of printing press) in an effort to monetize (stabilize) the bond market.
But again, when will this happen? There are duration risk and "can kicking" factors to consider. And what might gold do in the meantime?
Our central argument is not that the long-term gold bulls / dollar bears are necessarily wrong… but rather that gold could fall precipitously between here and there (even if they are right).
For trading and even investing — though far moreso the former — timing is critical, and must be factored into your convictions.
There is nothing wrong with making a conviction-based investment and holding through short-term adversity, if such is your style and temperament… as long as you can quantify the worst case adversity scenarios (in terms of unfavorable price action) and anticipate your reaction to them.
If you are truly committed to the long gold case, for example, you must quantify what that means in regard to near term "uncle points:"
- Will I still like my gold position if we go back to $1500 per ounce?
- Will I still like it if we go back to triple digits ($999 per ounce)?
Both outcomes are entirely theoretically possible, even if your long term forecast for U.S. government debt service issues turns out 100% correct.
(And the question of whether the debt service issue really is a bull factor for gold is a whole 'nother can of worms, by the way — having to do with monetary theory — that we have discussed in past but will not get into here for the sake of time.)
Being traders and Soros-style fallibilists — always aware of our potential to be wrong — we embrace the virtues of flexibility, sticking to the mantra that "the small loss is the best loss" and taking a short bias to gold in the near term (always having the option to flip long later).
Ugly Goldilocks
The real problem with gold right now is a scenario in which the U.S. economy "recovers" at just enough pace for inflation to remain low and stimulus to be withdrawn.
This is the "ugly goldilocks" scenario — one in which things are muddling along, but the poor position of middle class consumers, stubbornly high unemployment and stagnant wages keep inflation concerns in check.
Consider the following headlines, which together paint a very ominous picture (for gold that is):
- U.S. Economy Enters Sweet Spot as China Slows (Bloomberg)
- Car sales surge as recovery gains steam (Reuters)
- Fed turns down volume on stimulus talk (YF/Reuters)
You see the picture that paints?
The average situation for Joe Sixpack sucks and Wall Street knows it. But middle class pain is also reining in "core" inflation — not including food and gas prices, of course, but the Fed doesn't care about those.
This results in a positive equity, "abandon gold" scenario where, once again, the imminent inflation and fiscal destruction is put on Japan-style hold. (Did I mention that bets against the Japanese government bond market have been going sour for so long, they call it "the Widow-Maker Trade?")
Goldilocks could whack equities too
As this note is being written, live trades executing in the background, the S&P is seeing its most meaningful correction in a while (down a little over 1% as I type).
This speaks to another irony — the same hole that gold has fallen into could suck in equities too. It works more or less like this:
- Ongoing Federal Reserve stimulus has led investors to believe Ben Bernanke is their savior and friend.
- But the Federal Reserve's main goals are to 1) protect and enrich the banks and 2) stabilize the economy.
- The banks are doing ok now (seen the share prices for WFC, BAC and C?) and the economy appears to be stabilizing.
- These conditions naturally lead to potential "stimulus withdrawal" of the sort that could lead to a Wall Street temper tantrum (i.e. sharp market correction).
The above, in fact, is what Tuesday's action was all about. The Fed minutes were not a game changer in and of themselves, but a harbinger of probability shifts in the direction of the stimulus withdrawal scenario.
Now, it may be that Bernanke reverses position and starts talking "QE3″ again — sooth saying the market — IF general economic conditions deteriorate.
But if general U.S. economic conditions do NOT deteriorate — if "ugly goldilocks" continues apace — then we could actually see the stock market correct meaningfully!
In this scenario, good news (for the economy) is bad news (for the stock market) due to stimulus withdrawal.
And also bad news for bonds…
"Trade of the Year" Candidates
If you'll forgive an uncharacteristic bit of horn tooting, on February 14th we wrote "Long bonds and Yen: Big Shorts for 2012?"
We put our money (trading capital) where our mouth is on both of those positions, to good result.
Then, on March 30th, yours truly tweeted the following:
http://stks.co/39XI If you want to hop on the bearish long bond train, this may be your chance…
We took that opportunity to agressively pyramid our existing TBT position. You see what happened next…
Furthermore, on March 20th we tweeted the following:
http://stks.co/2xcJ Short Aussie could be one of the biggest trades of the year on global growth fade
And you can see how that one is going:
What's the moral here? Follow our tweet streams?
Better yet, follow the Mercenary Live Feed. That's where we tell you what we're thinking and why, every day, and share our real-capital trade executions, along with position size metrics and portfolio composition, in real time.
Look, there is no crystal ball at Mercenary headquarters. We get our share of stuff wrong. But that's the whole idea behind the trading game… when you are wrong keep it small… "the small loss is the best loss."
Then keep your eyes open.. look for opportunities to ramp up exposure in premium situations as they unfold… and know how to dial it up when Mr. Market tips his hand.
By the way, we love questions and comments in respect to market action, themes and trends, economic theory etc… in addition to discussion points, some of you have even forwarded your own trading theories and high quality research pieces, which we love.
This kind of interaction is what the Mercenary community is all about. Write to us!
You can ping us directly via jack@, mike@ or nathan@, or general purpose via firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Another easy icing, similar in technique to my peanut butter icing, this caramel icing is fantastic paired with Easy Banana Cake, or would be great to top my Basic 1-2-3-4 Yellow Cake.
Quick Caramel Icing
From the Kitchen of Deep South Dish
1 stick of pure unsalted butter
1 cup of packed light brown sugar
1/4 cup of half and half
2 cups of sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
In a heavy bottomed saucepan, combine the butter and brown sugar and cook over a slightly higher than medium fire, until mixture begins to boil. This will take anywhere from 2 to 4 minutes depending on your stove. Once it begins to boil, slowly whisk in the half and half until well blended. Bring back just to a boil, turn the burner to low, remove the saucepan from the heat, add the powdered sugar and vanilla and blend. Return the saucepan to the burner and beat with a wooden spoon until smooth. Icing will get stiff quickly so you'll need to immediately pour over cake and allow it to set.
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The Top 10 ways to Automate Lightroom (Part 2)
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[♪upbeat music♪] [ADOBE TV Presents] [♪♪] [The Complete Picture - with Julieanne Kost] [♪♪] All right, excellent. Welcome back. My name is Julieanne Kost. We're going to continue with the Top 10 Ways to Automate Lightroom. So we left off with number 5. We're now on to number 6. Let's move over to the Develop Module. Here is where you really, really need to start taking advantage of presets in the Develop Module. Most people are pretty aware of how to create a preset. Let's actually pick a different image--maybe this image here-- to look at while we're working here. We know that we can create presets over here. In fact, Lightroom ships with a lot of different presets, and if we show our Navigator here, we can actually see as we roll over the different presets what the image would look like. But I've taken some time and I've actually created some presets of my own. What I found that was very, very helpful was for every group of presets that I have, whether it's Selective Color Removal or Toning or Vignetting, I have a reset preset. [Tip #6 - Create a reset preset in each group of presets in the Develop Module.] So now I can try all of these different presets and apply them, but if I don't like them, all I need to do is reset it. So how did I do that? Let's go to the Selective Color Removal area. You'll notice there's no reset preset here. So all I would need to do is click the Preset icon, make sure that I'm going to save this in the Selective Color Removal, and for me, the Selective Color adjustments remove color using the HSL panel. So I'm going to go ahead and turn off the Vignetting and instead I will turn on the Color adjustments here. And then in order to make this appear at the top, I'll hold down the Shift key and just tap the 8 key in order to give me this character, and I will call it Reset Color Adjustments and hit Create. So now I can go through all of my different options. These may not make sense to you, but they make sense for me. For example, the Reduce ROYM, that's going to be red, orange, yellow, magenta minus 50. Or I could just go in and remove aqua. But I can always come back here and reset them. So most of the time when I make presets I'm really only focused on one thing, like I'm only focused on the color or I'm only focused on toning. For example, here I've got auto black and white, and then I can go in and make it any tone that I want. But that's separate from the Vignette presets because sometimes I might want to tone something with a white vignette, and sometimes I might want to tone it with a black vignette, so I don't want to put those into one preset, I'd rather have them independent. Since presets are additive, I can go ahead and add the white vignette or add the dark black vignette or the medium or the light vignette independently of the Color Toning. All right. But that's not the only place that you can make presets. A lot of folks don't realize that both the Adjustment Brush and the Graduated Filter you can save presets over here. All you do is you set up the parameters the way you want them and then simply Save Current Settings as New Presets. So if you're typically warming up your skies with a Graduated Filter that has a color, then go ahead and set that up. Like this one, I've got the Graduated Filter which has an orange color down here. Set it up once and save it as a preset. Okay, one last thing, and it doesn't really have to do with presets, but it is the Develop Module. If you have more than one image selected, like I'll select these three down here in the filmstrip, of course there's the Auto Sync button. So since we're talking about automating and we're in the Develop Module, the Auto Sync button can save you a ton of time. If you've got 50 images that all need the same correction or all need the same vignette, turn on Auto Sync. You do that by just flipping the little switch here. Turn that on, and then whatever you click on--whatever preset-- will be applied to all of those selected items. All right. Number 7. Before we leave the Develop Module, we should just take a look at the Before and After. Now, if we click this icon, you'll notice that there's actually a Flyout. We can either get a Before and After Left/Right, we can have one image that's Split, we can have a Top/Bottom, and we can have a Top/Bottom Split. So that's up to you how you like to display it. Let's start with the Before and After. What I want to show you is actually down here in the Snapshots and History area because people always ask me, they say, "You know, I've been working along on my image, "and I've got it to a certain point, but then I just want to make a few other adjustments "and I want to see the before and after of just those few adjustments." "I don't want to see the before of when I actually imported the file." So it's a great thing to know that [Tip #7 - You can drag from any state in history into the "before" state.] So if I use my cursor to kind of thumb over the ones that I like-- see how I'm seeing that in the Navigator-- if I want to compare the green 20 to this After state, all I need to do is drag and drop it right there. Aha! And for those of you who are using the Snapshots, because History is great in Lightroom because it stays forever, but some people like Snapshots because it's a real easy way to just pick between two different modes like one color mode and one gray scale mode. You can make a Snapshot of anything. Let's actually switch these so that the green tone is the After tone. I'm going to make a Snapshot, so I'll use the little Plus icon and we'll say, "green tone." All right? Oops. I think I spelled it wrong, but that's okay. Green tone. So my point is that I can click on any Snapshot here, and it'll put it in the After state there, but I can also right mouse click and say Copy Snapshot Settings to Before state. So you can't actually drag and drop like you can with History, but you should know that if you right mouse click, you can copy that Snapshot to that state. All right, excellent. That's the Before and After with number 7. Number 8. Once you're done making all these changes to your images and you go back to the Library Module, now is kind of the time where you're either going to export a lot of images or you're going to go ahead and edit them in Photoshop. [Tip #8 - Make presets in the Library Module to export images and to edit in Photoshop.] Regardless of what you're going to do, you need to make a preset for it because it will save you so much time. For example, if I go into the Lightroom menu and I go here to my Preferences, you'll notice there's an External Editing preference. Sorry. If you're on Windows, you would go into the Edit menu to get your Preferences. In External Editing, these are the default options. When you say, Edit in Photoshop, these are the default settings that Lightroom is going to basically hand off or bake the file. It's going to turn it from that raw file into a TIFF file or a PSD file--whatever you select here, whatever color space, bit depth, and resolution. But if you're like me, you kind of like more options than that, right? So what I've done--you can see down here--I actually have created an Additional External Editor, which is really easy. You just go in and you choose the application. So in this case, I'll click the Choose button, go to Applications, and my secondary External Editor is also going to be Photoshop, and I know that sounds a little funny, but I'm going to use it anyway because what I'm doing is I'm saying, "Okay, sometimes I might like these options, "but other times I want these options." And the great thing is that once you save these as new presets, I don't even have to come into this Dialog box again, right? I can now go to Photo and say Edit In and here are those different presets that I can choose from. All right? And of course I don't have to use the menu items. I can also just right mouse click, say Edit In and again, there are those presets. And if I was going to export instead, I'd click the Export button, I would set up all the different parameters here, click Add, and save it as a preset. So you can see I have presets for HighiResJPEGs, JPEGs at 1000 pixels AdobeRGB, quality of 90, I've got LowRes. When I want to export and I know I'm going to retouch photos, they might be going to Photoshop files at 16 bit. You see what I've done. I've just set up all these great presets. Then the next time I want to export, I just go under the File menu here and say Export with Preset, and here are all of those presets. So again, it's not only that presets save you time just so that you don't have to go to so many Dialog boxes, but they're also really going to save you from making mistakes because we all make mistakes, so I figure the more presets I can have, the fewer mistakes I'm going to make, especially when I'm in a hurry, especially when I'm under deadline. Okay. Number 9. Slideshow, print, and Web. [Tip #9 - Make preset templates for slideshows, print layouts and web pages.] I hate to say it, but it's all about the presets. I mean, I don't think that many people will have a whole lot of different ways that they want to display their images-- maybe five different templates for slideshows. As soon as you set up all your parameters here, all you want to do is just save it in the User Template area here. That way you can quickly move back and forth. Here's a basic black one with a logo. Here's one with an Identity Plate overlay to the right-hand side. Set it up and then just click on the Plus icon here to save your templates. Exact same thing in Print, although I expect in Print you'll probably have a lot more presets. So for example, if I wanted to print this single image up, 17 inches with an overlay here--this is an ID, an Identity Plate that I've just placed in there-- I can do that really quickly. I can move over here if I want to select two images and print them right next to each other as a diptych. If I've got a multipage layout here using the new Custom Layout in Lightroom 3, it's so easy to simply drag and drop my images into these containers. And of course if they're not the right aspect ratio and I want to actually reposition them, I can hold down the Command key or the Control key and just reposition them within that cell there. But my point is that you want to set up all of these different templates because the brilliant thing in Lightroom is that the Page Setup and the Print Settings are all saved as part of this template. So you know how when you get everything ready in Photoshop and then you go to print, you have to fill in all of those parameters like your printer and the paper and the color management and all of that. You can set that up once here, save it as your preset, you can go print 500 images today, not print for a year, come back and use that exact same preset, and all the settings will be correct so you don't have to worry about it. It's just something that's one less thing that I have to worry about. And the same thing for creating Web Modules, right? Once you've got your template set up, you're going to use that template probably over and over again for different clients if they're posting their images on the Web, so just set it up and save that out as a template. All right. Number 10. We're going to move back to the Library Module for a moment because what we found out was that many people are posting images to the Web or they're blogging about them or they're handing them off to clients on a daily basis, and in order to keep track of that, we've come up with these Publish Services. [Tip #10 - Use the Publish Services feature to keep track of the images you send to clients or post in your Flickr photostream.] I've seen this demonstrated a lot, and what we typically demonstrate it is with Photostream. Basically, this is like a collection. You set up your Photostream, your Flickr photostream here, and if I just right mouse click here, we could go into the Edit Settings area. It looks a lot like the Export Dialog box. You set up all the settings like what size and what file naming and what format and quality you want to export the files to your Flickr photostream. You set all of that up here, and then it keeps track of your published photos. So let's say, for example, I wanted to publish another photo. I could come up here to my Digital Illustrations, and I could simply say, "You know what? I would like to also add this image." So we'll drag back down here to my Photostream, drag that right in there, and now look, the screen is split. These photos have all been published, but this is a new photo to publish. Excellent. If I want to publish this, all I need to do is click the Publish button. So instead of me having to keep track of, "Gosh, I'm not really sure if I posted that or not," Lightroom is doing that for me. Again, it's automating the tasks that I really don't want to do. And since it can do it, thank goodness I don't have to. Not only that, but let's say, for example, you do have a published photo-- and it's not just for Flickr either. If I have a client that I wanted to hand off files to, here's Client A. I've just got a folder, so instead of posting stuff to the Web, it's just going to export these images to a folder. So I have a client that's called Adobe, and that's my Client A. I have already published all of these images for that client. But what if I went in to this image and tapped the V key in order to convert it to gray scale? Well, look at this. Lightroom even keeps track of the fact that I've made a change. So now it split the screen and said, "Hey, you've got some modified photos, "so just to let you know, when you handed this photo off to your client, "it didn't look like this. You've made changes." So now I don't even have to keep track of that. If my client told me to fix Picture A, B, and C and I've made changes to it, my Publish Collection will know about those changes, and all I need to do is click Publish in order to update that folder of images so that I can send them off to my client again. So, that was quick, but those are the top 10 ways, in my opinion, that I feel that we can really automate Lightroom. It's been so rewarding for me because there are a lot of tasks that I don't really like to do. I like to spend a lot of time in Photoshop actually compositing and manipulating my images, so it's been quite a relief to allow Lightroom to do all of these repetitive tasks. It does it so well and, honestly, it's quite easy once you set up all your presets. I hope you'll take advantage of all of the automation that Lightroom has to offer so that you can get out there, get away from your computer, and go out and start shooting some more or start spending more time in Photoshop. Thanks for joining me. I'm Julieanne Kost. I hope to see you again on the next episode of The Complete Picture. [♪upbeat music♪] [Executive Producer - Bob Donlon] [Producer - Karl Miller] [Director - Kush Amerasinghe] [Post Production - Erik Espera] [ADOBE® TV PRODUCTIONS] [♪♪]
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In this episode Julieanne Kost will demonstrate how streamline Lightroom 3 by taking advantage of presets, templates, Collections, Virtual Copies (and more) in order to eliminate much of the repetitive post-capture tasks such as importing, tagging, developing, exporting and sharing photographs.
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Charleston, SC: Small Plates and Sizeable Burgers at Big Gun Burger
Big Gun Burger
137 Calhoun Street, Charleston, SC 29401 (map); 843-789-3821; bigguncharleston.com
Cooking method: Grilled
Short Order: A tasty burger with Southern comfort food trimmings
Want Fries With That? Yep! Tasty seasoned fries come standard, so you're all set
Price: Southern Hospitality Burger, $11; Macaroni and Cheese Fritters, $5; Fried Brussels, $6
After a long layover in D.C. and a bumpy descent next to a crying infant, I landed in Charleston jet lagged, bleary eyed, and fiercely craving a burger. Weeks before, I'd purposely booked a hotel within walking distance of Big Gun Burger, hoping I could put my handful of waking hours to good use by reporting on a solid burger find and giving Chucktown some props. The pre-trip research paid off: Big Gun Burger is worthy of a rave review.
Chef Austin Kirkland's burger shop in downtown Charleston has seven beef-based burgers, ranging from a breakfast burger with a poached egg, Canadian bacon, and hollandaise, to the Frenchman, topped with brie, onion jam, and mushrooms. The non-beef options are arguably more exciting, and include chorizo-style and pulled pork, mixed veggie, turkey, duck confit, and catfish. New meats and toppings are tested out each week as a "Meatbangers Ball" special, which Austin says usually end up being top-sellers the week they're featured.
Since I was hoping to jam in as much Southern culture as possible, I opted for the Southern Hospitality ($11), an all-things-Southern burger topped with pimento cheese, a fried green tomato, bacon, and chow chow, plus a few slices of housemade pickles on the plate.
The hefty half-pound burger is composed of a blend of brisket and chuck that's ground in-house and cooked to order. My medium-rare patty sat up tall and was redolent with rich, beefy flavors. The grilled beef was fairly moist, but not exactly dripping with juice.
The Southern trio of condiments (pimento cheese, fried green tomato and chow chow—a pickled relish made of chopped green tomato and onion, not a lionesque pooch) were so well-executed and well-balanced that it was downright magical. Crunchy components like the smoky bacon and green tomato two ways (fried and pickled) contrasted nicely with the thick and chewy patty-like portion of pimento cheese spread on the top bun (a kaiser roll from Normandy Farm Bakery, located only a mile away from the restaurant).
Seasoned fries come standard, and are crisp and tasty, with spun potato fluff inside, but you've got to try a few of the small plates, too.
Crisp and creamy macaroni and cheese fritters ($5) are a great choice, especially when dipped in the sweet green tomato jam that comes on the side. The jelly-like dip is made with green tomatoes, sugar, and a tiny bit of jalapeño for balance. I thought I tasted a pineapple element, but that must have been the jet lag talking.
Deep fried Brussels sprouts ($6) with puff rice and a tangy chili glaze are also a good bet (though not terribly photogenic in low-lighting, so I'll spare you the photo). Small plates start at $4 and max out at $8 (for the fried gator tail and grits).
With only one opportunity to down a burger in Charleston, I can't say for certain how Big Gun stacks up to the competition, but given the scope of burger variations and how precisely executed the one I tasted was, it's got to be a contender.
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One of the NEW Features, with the 580 patch, is a Family View Report. It presents the ancestors, spouse, and children of a person (similar to the People Workspace, Family View).
Publish Workspace, Relationship Collection, Family View Report.
Nice clean report. I didn't have to do anything but select the Focus person.
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Hi all,
Still working on not screwing up my negatives. Seems like an endless problem.
Currently I'm using Chromega 8x10 and 11x14 drums on Chromega bases (the bases have assymetrical wheels that create waves in the tube). I also am using one Unicolor 8x10 drum. I have been doing 4 5x7s in the 11x14 drums, and also 2 5x7s in the 8x10 drums. Also...4 4x5's in the Chromega 8x10 drums.
Problem 1: I'm getting light lines in my negatives parallel to the edge. They are very straight.
Problem 2: I recently switched to all Arista.edu. In the 11x14 drums, they are getting loose and ruined, pretty much 100% of the time. Not sure why.
#1: Some examples:
This is a 5x7
This is happening both on the Arista.edu film and on a couple of sheets of HP5 I had left over. It doesn't happen on every picture, even when I shoot two of the same negative. It generally seems to be paralell to the rails in the tubes, which would make me think it's something to do with the developer splashing over the side, but then in this negative, it's appears perpendicular to the others:
So...any thoughts? My only thought is that it could be from developer splashing over the rails that hold the film in. Not sure though about the last one though. This is from two different cameras, two different films. So it appears I'm screwing something up in development.
#2: I've used these 11x14 drums quite a bit with 5x7 HP5 with generally good results, at least as far as the film staying secured. With the Arista.edu, the film is coming loose almost 100% of the time. I've tried several times and lost a lot of shots. It appears to be secure with the rails and the sliding clips (I only have one per drum), but by the end of development, usually two shots have come loose.
There are several slots to slide the rails into. There is a slightly tighter slot that just almost fits 5x7 but it's a few mm too tight. I'm not able to get my developed film to fit it. I'm just wondering if the film expands slightly while being developed? I think that's a ridiculous thought, but it doesn't, does it? I'm not sure why I had no problem with HP5 coming loose but the Foma is flying all over the place. They appear to be exactly the same size.
I may have to give up this whole rotary thing. I can't afford a jobo and I'm not getting perfect results. But I do enjoy the convenience of it, if I could get it to work, I'd be psyched.
Sorry for another nebulous question, I'm not sure there are going to be any super clear answers for these ones. But I appreciate your thoughts.


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Dancing with the Stars unveiled its Season 17 cast on Wednesday's Good Morning America — and it includes an ex-Scientologist, a Showgirl, the Science Guy and a comedy legend.
PHOTOS: Meet the Dancing with the Stars Season 17 cast
Valerie Harper, who was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer earlier this year, will hit the parquet with pro partner Tristan MacManus. The Emmy-winning Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda star announced last week that her cancer is close to remission.
Harper was among the rumored names leaked last week. The other leaked names — Saved by the Bell and Showgirls star Elizabeth Berkley, Glee star Amber Riley, former Scientologist Leah Remini, Jersey Shore's Snooki and The Voice's Christina Milian — are all confirmed to be in the cast. Riley is partnered with four-time and defending champ Derek Hough.
Fall TV: Hot scoop on your favorite returning showsThe other stars include Jack Osbourne, whose sister Kelly finished in third place in Season 9, Corbin Bleu (High School Musical), Bill Nye (Bill Nye the Science Guy), actor Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars, Days of Our Lives), comedian Bill Engvall and Super Bowl champ and ESPN analyst Keyshawn Johnson, who will fill the show's requisite football player slot.Burlesque star Tyne Stecklein and troupe members Sasha Farber and Emma Slater.Check out the full cast and pairings below.
Elizabeth Berkley and Val Chmerkovskiy
Corbin Bleu and Karina Smirnoff
Brant Daugherty and Peta Murgatroyd
Bill Engvall and Emma Slater
Valerie Harper and Tristan MacManus
Keyshawn Johnson and Sharna Burgess
Christina Milian and Mark Ballas
Bill Nye and Tyne Stecklein
Jack Osbourne and Cheryl Burke
Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Sasha Farber
Leah Remini and Tony Dovolani
Amber Riley and Derek Hough
Dancing with the Stars premieres Monday, Sept. 16 at 8/7c on ABC. Who's your early favorite? Vote below!


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Perennial volleyball powerhouse Penn State is in town this weekend for the Active Ankle Challenge, hosted by the University of Louisville. Louisville native Deja McClendon, one of Penn State's star players, is a 2010 graduate of duPont Manual High School. Her senior year she was named Miss Volleyball Kentucky and Kentucky Gatorade Player of the Year. Thursday night, the Crimsons retired her no. 8 jersey, cementing Deja's legacy as one of the greatest athletes to ever come out the city of Louisville. McClendon was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule to sit down with Louisville.com and talk volleyball, national championships, future goals, and also do a little reminiscing.
Louisville.com: So, you were born in Cincinnati but raised in Louisville. When and why did you move here?
Deja McClendon: We moved here because my dad got a job here. I honestly can't remember (the move). All I can remember is from Louisville. I started school here and everything, so I'm not really sure when we moved.
Lou.com: Were either of your parents athletes?
DM: Yeah, my dad actually played basketball at the University of Cincinnati.
(Side note: I didn't' ask—but should've—but Deja's father, Roger, is of Cincinnati lore. He scored 1,789 points in his career, second only to the great Oscar Robertson. Roger scored a career-high 35 points Jan. 20, 1986 to lead Cincinnati's comeback from a 17-point second half deficit to beat, you guessed it, the Louisville Cardinals 84-82.)
Lou.com: When did you start playing volleyball?
DM: I started playing when I was about 14. My best friend was playing and I just wanted to hang out with her. She told me I should try out and I started playing on my middle school team (at Kentucky Country Day). A club director (Ron Kordes) came to one of my games and told me I should come try out for the KIVA (Kentucky-Indiana Volleyball Academy) team. I started playing club then and it all goes from there.
Lou.com: What was the first award you ever won?
DM: Probably in middle school; we had a serving competition that I won. I think that's the first award—and we won candy so it wasn't anything big.
Lou.com: Did you play any other sports:
DM: I played soccer when I was young and played tennis all the way up until high school. I ended up having to quit tennis because it was conflicting too much with volleyball.
Lou.com: Go back to the day you got your acceptance letter from Manual. What kind of feeling was that like?
DM: Getting into Manual was the first thing I ever really, really tried hard for on my own. It's a pretty tough process. You have to write an essay and I remember writing and re-writing and editing my essay over and over because I really wanted to get it in. Getting the acceptance letter was just amazing.
Lou.com: In your time at Manual, you won a lot of awards. What did you to keep your edge and pushing to get better?
DM: Public schools in this area have never been able to compete with private schools like Assumption and Mercy; that in itself was all the motivation me and my teammates needed. We though to ourselves, "We can do this, we can build this team up, we can get girls to come here and play," and that was our motivation every day.
Lou.com: Being recruited by a school with as much volleyball tradition as Penn State, was it ultimately an easy decision to decide to go there?
DM: The recruiting process is very difficult. You get a lot of people saying they're interested and pointing at new facilities and locker rooms and things like that; but for me, it never really was about that. It was mostly about the coaches and the girls. I wanted to be the best volleyball player I could be coming out of college and I don't think there's a better coach out there than Russ Rose (Penn State's head coach). All the girls here are open, outgoing, and fun. That's what I love about the girls here.
Lou.com: Ever get homesick?
DM: I like being out on my own and I was glad to get that time on my own, but I do miss my brother and sister. Mostly, I just miss my family.
(Side note: Both Deja's brother, Marquis, and sister, Maya, currently attend Manual)
Lou.com: Your freshman year you guys won the National Championship. What kind of feeling did you get raising the trophy?
DM: I learned so much in such a short time my freshman year; I had a lot of people giving me feedback and I was just trying to soak it all in. All the girls on the court had so much experience and there was so much to learn, I wish I could get that time back to learn more.
Raising the trophy was the best feeling I've ever felt to this day. It's just seeing something you've worked hard for everyday come to life. It's just a feeling of pure joy; you dream about it, sweated for it, cried and done everything you could to get it and it finally happens. It's just amazing.
(Side note: Deja won Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament her freshman year. When asked about it, naturally, she gave all the credit to her teammates.)
Lou.com: You're an upperclassman now, so you're obviously taking on a new leadership role. What are you taking on this year that you haven't in the past?
DM: Coach Rose expects a lot out of you regardless of what year you are. As upperclassman, our job is to pick up the freshmen and teach them what's going on. At times, we have to complement each other; sometimes we may not have a good day on the court, but we have to pick each other up and keep everybody's confidence up.
Lou.com: What's the ultimate goal for you as a volleyball player?
DM: I've never really thought that far. I've really always tried to be the best player I can be and just see where that takes me. I would love to travel and see the world; if volleyball can help me do that, it would be a dream come true.
Lou.com: Having your jersey retired by Manual kind of cements your legacy in this city; Everyone who comes in the gym is always going to see your name and your number. How special is that?
DM: It's one of the most amazing feelings I've had. I can remember stepping into the gym for the first time and being so excited to play there. To have my jersey on the wall and have other girls come in and think, "Hey, someday that could be me," it makes me so proud. I love representing Louisville and duPont Manual.
Lou.com: What's the biggest piece of advice you could give a young girl that might see you on TV and want to become as great a volleyball player as yourself?
DM: Just keep playing. A lot of people give up early; you're not always going to be the best and it's not always going to be fun. You have to work at it, keep playing, and have a love for the game. If you do that, you're going to go really far.


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Every now and again I get posts like this one, or this one, via google news. While those posts --describing the use of unetbootin to create a 'live' USB analogue to a live CD -- may be technically correct, there's just so much more you can do.
In 1 we do the old boring bog-standard 'write live cd to a usb' thingy that you see pasted all over the web, but using cat instead of unetbootin.
In 2 we make a real, bootable installation on a usb drive.
1. Creating a USB version of a live CD -- the boring option
With the current 'hybrid' Debian iso's it couldn't be easier.
a. Download the iso
Using jigdo is a good option. Downloading a business-card/netinstall iso is another, if you'll have a working internet connection available.
b. Plug in and mount your USB device and find out the device name of your USB drive.
If it's mounted you can use
df -h
rootfs 93G 36G 54G 40% /
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 801M 980K 800M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/..-10a350f85687 93G 36G 54G 40% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.6G 52K 1.6G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 1.6G 816K 1.6G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda6 745G 183G 525G 26% /home
/dev/sdc1 2.0G 434M 1.5G 23% /media/XP-KOMKU
../dev/sdc1 on /media/XP-KOMKU type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks)
to list mounted devices. In my case it's an old 2 G usb stick I used to create a Windows XP installation USB device on.
If you prefer a gui tool, start palimpsest (called Disk Utility in gnome)
It will be something akin to sdb1 or sdc1 etc. That means the device name is /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc, respectively. In our case, it's sdc.
c. Unmount but don't detach the device
You don't want anything else writing to it.
me@beryllium:~/Documents/screengrabs$ umount /dev/sdc1
me@beryllium:~/Documents/screengrabs$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 93G 36G 54G 40% /
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 801M 976K 800M 1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/..-10a350f85687 93G 36G 54G 40% /
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 1.6G 60K 1.6G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 1.6G 820K 1.6G 1% /run/shm
/dev/sda6 745G 183G 525G 26% /home
sudo su
And write (assuming that the device name is sdc and you are using the businesscard iso)
cat debian-6.0.3-amd64-businesscard.iso > /dev/sdc
e. boot from your USB drive and go through the same steps as for a CD.
Plug it in, then start your computer. Hit F12 (or F10 or del or F2) during the bios start-up to select boot medium. Choose to boot from usb. Older BIOSes can't boot from USB.
2. Really INSTALLING Debian on a USB
You can use either virtualbox or quemu for this. Here I show how to use virtualbox.
[NOTE: there's a leaner, faster, better way described here: http://verahill.blogspot.com/2013/03/361-installing-debian-on-usb-stick-from.html ]
- Note that a tiny 2 Gb USB stick isn't suitable for a full Debian + Gnome installation. It may, however, work well with e.g. openbox and xmonad. Or just work in the terminal -- use mutt for email, mcabber for chat, elinks for http/www etc.
- Here I show how to install using the businesscard iso, but I've done this with the regular Debian DVD version in the past.
- Also, few USB devices operate at 480 Mbps -- so be prepared that installation via virtualbox onto a USB device will take considerably longer than a regular installation.
- Solid state devices degrade with I/O, so use your USB stick for back-up use during e.g. travel etc. Don't trust the integrity of it.
There are a few good reasons for installing a full linux version on a thumb drive or a regular but external harddrive:
* a thumb drive will allow you too carry an independent OS with you, allowing you to e.g. temporarily borrow a computer from a friend but running your own system. An installation, as opposed to a 'live cd', allows you to customise the setup and install programs. USB 2 is quite slow, and many thumb drives are slower than that, so you're probably better off running a light system than a full on gnome-shell desktop. That's not so say that you can't -- I have.
* installing onto a usb-connected harddrive will allow you to setup and prepare headless boxes or systems without a direct internet connection.
First you need to install virtualbox, which is available in the debian repos (sudo apt-get install virtualbox virtualbox-guest-additions), and -- in order to enable USB 2 support -- the "VirtualBox 4.1.8 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack" from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Start virtualbox and go to File/Preferences/Extensions to install the extension pack you downloaded.
Installing debian (or any os) on an external USB stick/drive using virtualbox
a. Start virtualbox and click on New.
b. Click through the Name, Operating System and Version questions, Select a memory size which is reasonable for the intended use and target machine. Give it at least 256 Mb. Don't fret about this step -- on each boot your system will autodetect the amount of available RAM. The next question is the key to the whole undertaking: DO NOT SET A START-UP DISK (or any virtual harddisk)
In the next dialogue box you'll be asked if you want to continue or go back - yes, you want to continue.
c. Your new machine is now ready to be set up. Select it and click on settings; Got to storage, IDE controller and choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file. Select the debian installation iso.
e. You're ready to install! Start the virtual machine, and the installation should start without you having to select boot device. Most of the setting are the same as in any normal install. Pay attention when you come to the Partition Disk dialogue though. Make sure that you're not doing something silly and accidentally deleting something you shouldn't be a-deleting, even though the risks of that are very slim.
Delete the existing partitions and create a new one. I added a tiny swap space too, hoping that this will make the difference between a freeze and a slow crawl on underpowered systems.
g. Postscript:
* /dev/sda1 vs UUID. Once you're done with the installation and have shut down your virtualbox, mount the USB drive as a normal thumb drive and have a look at fstab in particular -- if you're using relative paths (e.g. sda) instead of absolute paths using UUID, you may run into problems at some point.
In the screengrab you see that
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=8c0c9c98-e73f-4f5a-b7d7-f91f95c9d8ca / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
Which means we're good.
You may want to comment out
/dev/sda1 /media/usb0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/usb1 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/usb2 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
But I haven't in the past and all has been good.
* network interfaces -- you may find that no network interface is configured for you and that no interface shows up when you use ifconfig. Use ip addr to get a list over interfaces. If the interface is e.g. eth2, you may want to edit /etc/network/interfaces and add
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
or (the ip's are just examples)
auto eth2
iface eth2 inet static
address 192.168.1.100
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
And then run sudo service networking restart
That's it. You now have a full installation on either a 'removable' drive or on an HDD which you can install in a desktop/laptop.
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Bill de Blasio held a wide lead in the Democratic primary for mayor Wednesday, but was still hovering around the 40 percent mark needed to avoid a runoff with his closest rival, former Comptroller Bill Thompson. That margin leaves open the possibility that the two men will battle three more weeks for the party nomination and the right to take on the Republican choice, former MTA Chairman Joe Lhota.
With 98 percent of precincts reporting, de Blasio, the city's public advocate, led the Democrats with 40.19 percent, Thompson had 26 percent and City Council Speaker Christine Quinn had 16 percent.
Lhota had 53 percent and his rival, John Catsimatidis, had 41 percent, according to unofficial returns compiled by The Associated Press.
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Lhota and de Blasio said they were not campaigning Wednesday, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks; during an appearance at a firefighter memorial ceremony, Thompson, the party's nominee in 2009, said he would ask for court supervision of the vote-counting process, and said he had no intention of conceding.
"The vote is so close, and part of the obligation is, did Bill de Blasio get to 40 percent? I mean at this point, with an incomplete count, he might have, but then again, we don't know that," he said.
On Tuesday night, de Blasio called his finish a "victory" -- if not an outright one, then another step in his populist campaign against income inequality and aggressive police tactics.
"What we have achieved here tonight and what we'll do in the next round of this campaign won't just change the view of those inside City Hall, but will change the lives of those outside City Hall," de Blasio told supporters in Brooklyn shortly after midnight Tuesday.
No matter whom the Democratic nominee ends up being, Lhota seemed to sense that it would be a fight.
"Our journey continues, just at a faster pace," he said.
In the campaign for city comptroller, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer defeated former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who had sought a comeback after his 2008 resignation amid a prostitution scandal. The AP's unofficial returns showed Stringer with 52 percent and Spitzer with 48 percent, with 97 percent of precincts reporting.
The public advocate race is looking like it will require a runoff between City Councilwoman Letitia James and State Sen. Daniel Squadron, with James at 36 percent and Squadron at 33.
The final word on the Democratic winner -- or whether there will be a runoff -- may still take a while, due in part to widespread reports of problems with the city's 1960s-era lever-operated voting machines, rushed back into use after the Board of Elections warned they couldn't certify results from the city's new electronic machines in time for a runoff.
All over the city Tuesday, voters reported encountering jammed or broken machines, causing longer lines at the working machines, and forcing many people to have to fill out paper ballots. The reliance on paper ballots has heightened concerns that every vote gets counted, which could lead to a long wait for results.
Lhota was among those who had to vote by pen and paper, at his voting place, Congregation of Mount Sinai in Brooklyn Heights.
Although a Republican has won every mayoral election since 1993, Lhota faces an uphill battle against the Democratic choice. Democrats outnumber Republicans 6-to-1 in New York, and Lhota does not have the extreme money advantage that the billionaire Bloomberg (who switched from the GOP to independent while in office) enjoyed.
Primary day arrived with de Blasio completing a steady, summer-long rise from the middle of the pack, portraying himself as the most progressive of the candidates and pounding at the city's economic inequalities and offering the cleanest break from the policies – particularly stop and frisk -- of three-term Mayor Bloomberg. He also benefited from campaign advertisements that featured his black wife and mixed-race children, notably his teenage Afro-wearing son, Dante.
De Blasio's surge, and Thompson's resilience, left Quinn, the one-time front-runner who hoped to become the first openly gay mayor, in distant third -- and facing a questionable political future.
She was arguably the race's most powerful politician, responsible for making council deals and negotiating with Bloomberg. But that record dogged her for much of the campaign. De Blasio accused her of making backroom deals with the mayor, and for backing his bid to change city law to allow him to run for a third term.
Quinn pointed out that de Blasio, as a council candidate, once spoke in favor of overturning term limits, but that argument did not seem to hold much traction. It was as if she was burdened with many of the negatives associated with the sitting mayor, and little of the positives.
Post-vote surveys provided some insight into that divide. Only 22 percent of Democrats told an Edison Research/Marist exit poll that they wanted a candidate who would continue Bloomberg's policies, while 73 percent said they wanted the next mayor to move the city in a different direction. The survey included more than 1,700 voters and had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
Asked to choose what issue mattered most to them in deciding who should be mayor, 30 percent said jobs and unemployment, 20 percent said education, 16 percent said crime, 12 percent said the city's finances and 11 percent said housing.
Those same exit polls showed that support for de Blasio was strong in all segments of society that came out to vote. He defeated Quinn among women Democratic voters and Thompson among black Democratic voters.
The primary could turn out to be the end of former New York Rep. Anthony Weiner's political career. Weiner has longed for the mayor's office, and has been derailed twice before, in 2005 and 2009. In 2011, he resigned from Congress amid revelations that he'd sexted with women, but chose the 2013 mayoral primary to try for redemption.
Weiner enjoyed an early spike in the polls, and sparked an avalanche of late-night talk-show jokes. Then things turned dark again, when he was forced to admit that he'd continued online relationships with women after his resignation. He sat near the cellar ever since.
He was the first candidate to concede Tuesday.
"I have to say ladies and gentlemen, there is no doubt about it -- we had the best ideas," Weiner told supporters. "Sadly I was an imperfect messenger."
The only major Democratic candidate to consistently poll worse than Weiner was Comptroller John Liu, who has been dogged by a federal investigation into fundraising improprieties. In the end, he received more votes than Weiner, who finished in fifth place.


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Florida redshirt sophomore tight end Colin Thompson is in the process of transferring from the football program.
Florida redshirt sophomore tight end Colin Thompson is in the process of transferring from the football program.
"We granted permission for schools to contact Colin," UF sports information director Steve McClain said. "The SEC approved a medical exemption for him in May and we will share that information with the other institutions."
Thompson has been dealing with foot injuries since he arrived in Gainesville and played just three games in two years.
He's already exploring his transfer options and reportedly visited Penn State on Thursday.
With his departure, Florida has now lost both tight ends from its 2012 recruiting class. Kent Taylor transferred to Kansas last December. He and Thompson were ranked No. 1 and No. 2 respectively at their position by Scout.
However, Thompson leaving is not a big blow for the offense, and not just because he had yet to produce or that former Virginia tight end Jake McGee is eligible to play for UF this season.
At the time of Thompson's signing, his blocking ability and 260-pound frame gave the Gators an important and missing piece in their pro-style system.
But under new offensive coordinator Kurt Roper, that type of tight end is no longer needed for his spread offense. Florida is now looking for pass catchers who can play the B-position, which is combination of tight end, H-back and fullback assignments that include lining up in the slot, out wide or in the backfield on any given play.
The ideal skill set for the B-position is a player who weighs 220-230 pounds and runs the 40-yard dash in the 4.6-second range. The three tight ends signed by the Gators in their last class — DeAndre Goolsby, C'yontai Lewis and Moral Stephens — and the one they have committed for 2015 — Camrin Knight — all fit that mold.
"We're not asking a guy to play on the surface (line of scrimmage) as much and get movement on a six-technique (defensive end) in our league, which could be a 270-pound kid," UF coach Will Muschamp said last month. "So that's different, and it's not necessarily what we're looking for now as far as from a blocking description. That part has changed. We still want them to be able stretch the field (in the passing game) and get the matchups on the linebackers and safeties."


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Drive-in movies are a thing of the past, but stop by the Pike County parks and recreation lower field this Friday to once again enjoy watching a movie under the stars.
Rio will be shown on a giant inflatable screen by Southern Outdoor Cinema Friday, July 29 at no charge. Inflatables and kids activities will be part of the all-night event.
Watch Rio under the stars Friday
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Herby baked lamb in tomato sauce
Nutrition and extra info
- Leftover meat can be shredded and frozen in sauce
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal595
- fat40g
- saturates19g
- carbs11g
- sugars10g
- fibre1g
- protein42g
- salt0.51g
- 1.8-2kg shoulder of lamb
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Olive oilol-iv oyl
Probably the most widely-used oil in cooking, olive oil is pressed from fresh olives. It's…
- 3 oregano sprigs, leaves stripped from 2
Closely related to marjoram, of which it is the wild equivalent, oregano has a coarser, more…
- 3 rosemary sprigs, leaves stripped from 2
Rosemary's intense, fragrant aroma has traditionally been paired with lamb, chicken and game…
- 3 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 600ml red wine
- 2 x 400g cans chopped tomatoes
- 1 tbsp caster sugar
Heat oven to 220C/fan 200C/gas 7. Put the lamb into a large ovenproof dish. Pour the oil into a small food processor with the oregano and rosemary leaves and the garlic, then whizz to a rough paste. Season the paste well, rub all over the lamb, then roast for 20 mins. Cover, lower the oven to 150C/fan 130C/gas 2, then roast for a further 3 hrs.
Remove the lamb from the oven and carefully pour off all the fat, leaving any meat juices in the dish if you can. Pour over the wine and tomatoes, poke in the remaining herb sprigs, then return, uncovered, to the oven for a further 40 mins. The lamb should now be tender enough to cut with a fork or spoon.
Carefully pour or spoon the wine and tomato sauce into another pan, skimming off any fat that rises to the surface, then re-cover the lamb. Let it rest for up to 30 mins while you roast the potatoes and finish the sauce. Heat the tomato mixture until bubbling, then simmer for 10-15 mins until thickened and saucy. Season with the sugar, and some salt and pepper if it needs it, then pour back around the lamb to serve.
Recipe Tip
TipIf you'd rather use leg of lamb, simply rotate it every hour in the sauce so that it stays moist. Whichever cut you choose, buy it on the bone – as the meat cooks it will gain flavour.
Recipe Tip
Tagliatelle with lamb raguShred the remaining lamb into small pieces, mix with any leftover sauce, then pop in the fridge overnight. The next day, stir through a 400g can chopped tomatoes or 400ml passata, 1 tsp sugar and 1 tsp leftover oregano leaves. Heat gently in a pan while you cook 400g tagliatelle, then toss through the drained pasta and sprinkle with Parmesan to serve.


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Q: Are University Affiliates, Alumni, or General Community eligible to enroll for payroll deduction?
A: No, all participants must be employed by Texas A&M International University.
Q: Is there a deadline to enroll for payroll deduction?
A: Faculty and staff are eligible to enroll anytime during the year.
Q: How soon can I use the Recreational Sports facilities after I sign up with the payroll deduction program?
A: Immediately upon submitting your registration packet to the Rec. Sports Department.
Q: Are students eligible for the payroll deduction plan?
A: No, students Recreational Sports fee are included in their tuition payment.
Q: Can I have my account deducted for my spouse?
A: Yes, your account can be deducted for your spouse. Please indicate on the payroll deduction form under Spouse Membership Options.
Q: What if I no longer want to participate in the payroll deduction program?
A: You must visit the Rec. Sports Information Desk to complete the payroll deduction cancellation forms. You will not receive a refund for the current month.
Q: Can the purchase of my locker and/or Personal Training be included in the Payroll Deduction program?
A: No. These are separate fees not included in a regular Rec Sports membership.
Q: Who is eligible to participate in Group Aerobic Classes?
A: Anyone with a valid Rec Sports membership.
Q: If I am an enrolled student and a university employee, do I have to purchase a membership?
A: No. Recreational Sports fees are included in the tuition payment.
Q: When does the Rec Sports membership expire for a 9-month Faculty member that has enrolled in the payroll deduction program?
A: Membership will expire on May 31st; if they wish to continue their membership, summer memberships are available, but not eligible for payroll deduction.
Q: Is payroll deduction available to part-time University employees?
A: No. Payroll deduction is only available to full-time benefits eligible employees.
Q: What are the benefits of obtaining a Rec Sports Membership?
A: Access to the Recreation Center Facility, Group Fitness Classes, personal training, nutrition program, state of the art cardio machines, a well-designed Weight Room, two basketball courts and a staff that is passionate, energetic and committed to creating a positive Rec Sports experience.


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Deerfield Magazine
Deerfield Magazine is the feature publication of the Academy. Published three times per year by the Communications Office, it provides information about campus happenings, the accomplishments of alumni, and the future direction of the Academy. Read current or past issues, or a selection of feature stories.
Annual Reports
Reports of donor recognition are available online. To access the page, enter the password, the last word of this famous Deerfield phrase: Softly from each hidden _____.
Recent Remarks
Recent speeches and comments by invited guests, award recipients, and speakers at events such as Commencement and Convocation.
The Deerfield Academy Press
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>> SEE UPDATE AS OF THURSDAY MORNING …. KEMPER COUNTY — State utility regulators have asked Mississippi Power Co. and the Sierra Club to submit proposals on how to proceed with the Kemper County coal-fired power plant. The Mississippi Supreme Court ruled March 15 that the Public Service Commission failed to lay out its reasoning clearly when it changed the ...Read More »
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Breaking: PSC eases Kemper restrictions
See related video. Today the Mississippi Public Service Commission passed another conditional approval of Mississippi Power Company's $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant, relaxing the financial restrictions imposed in its April order. (Read order.) The Commission raised the plant cost cap from $2.4 billion to $2.88 billion. The Commission also agreed to allow the company to put CWIP in ...Read More »
Commissioners: Law allowing utility to hide rate impact unfair
Two out of the three Mississippi Public Service Commissioners think a law that has allowed Mississippi Power Company to hide the rate impacts of its proposed $2.4 billion power plant is wrong. By law, a utility is allowed to file with the Commission any information it wants to keep confidential. To uncover the information, a third party must make a ...Read More »
Mississippi Power's Kemper decision deadline extended
The Mississippi Public Service Commission voted last week to give Mississippi Power Company an extension on its deadline to accept the Commission's conditions for the proposed $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant. Public Service Commissioners Leonard Bentz, Lynn Posey and Brandon Presley voted unanimously to extend the deadline to May 26. The Commission's April 29 order conditionally approved the ...Read More »
Bentz: The whole Kemper story is not getting told
For better or worse, the economic future for the next 40 years in southeastern Mississippi will be greatly impacted by the decision of Public Service Commissioner Leonard Bentz. Bentz is one of three members of the state Public Service Commission, which voted April 29 to conditionally approve Mississippi Power Company's (MPC's) $2.4-billion Kemper County clean coal plant. The company (then) ...Read More »
Kemper Update: Mississippi Power files for rehearing
Mississippi Power Company has asked the state Public Service Commission for a rehearing regarding its proposed $2.4 billion Kemper County clean coal plant. The Commission gave conditional approval of the plant on April 29. The Commission said the project was too risky for ratepayers, but MPC could get the green light for Kemper by submitting to a $2.4 billion cost ...Read More »
PSC members: Politics played no part in Kemper plant decision
Baseload generation and the virtues of clean coal were not the only players on the roster as the Mississippi Public Service Commission weighed Mississippi Power Co.'s request to build a $2.4-billion coal-fired plant in Kemper County. The political tug-of-war between economic development interests and ratepayer protection got a lot of playing time, too. Commissioners voted 2-1 to conditionally approve MPC's ...Read More »
U.S. Energy Secretary Wants Kemper Approval
The Energy Daily reports today that U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu hopes the Mississippi Public Service Commission and Southern Company can strike a compromise on a proposed $2.4 billion clean coal plant to be built in Kemper County. The Mississippi Commission voted April 29 to allow the plant to go forward if Mississippi Power Company (a division of Southern Company) ...Read More »
BGR website has changed since MBJ Barbour/Kemper story was published
Note: See The New Republic's corresponding story. Gov. Haley Barbour's former lobbying firm, BGR Group, has changed its website since the Mississippi Business Journal published the story "Barbour's Kemper Connection" on April 25 noting Barbour's frequent praise of the proposed Kemper County clean coal project. The state Public Service Commission voted for a conditional approval of the $2.4 billion project ...Read More »


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Polish wargamer and modeler Pawel Chrzanowski ranks among the finest painters of 10mm wargaming figures in the hobby today. He has been a frequent contributor to this blog over the past few years. Run a search for his last name in the search box to obtain a list of the links to previous articles and photographs.
Pawel has used a combination of Pendraken and Minifigs figures as the base for his excellent sculpting and conversion work. The rifles are from Chariot Miniatures.
Here are three more photos of the miniature 17th Virginia Infantry, a regiment which served in the Confederate army from First Manassas to Appomattox Court House.


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You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life
Alexandra Stoddard, "You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life"
2006 | English | 208 pages | PDF | 11 MB
With her 25th book, lifestyle philosopher Alexandra Stoddard offers simple steps for taking charge of your life—your way. In brief essays filled with useful examples and optimism, she reveals 50 choices you can make to live joyfully in pursuit of what is true, good, and beautiful. Her essays help us trust ourselves ("Intuition is your guiding light"), stay steady in a storm ("Your choices count most in a crisis"), embrace the new ("Accept opportunity"), address unfinished business ("Have as few regrets as possible"), surround ourselves with delights ("Redefine what is beautiful"), and remember to have fun ("Cheap thrills are thrilling").
As a pioneering writer and lecturer on personal happiness for the past twenty years, Alexandra has inspired millions to break the "rules" and pursue fulfillment. Now, as scientists have begun to discover the benefits of living a happy life, Alexandra provides practical ways to live happily every day. She puts us in charge of our choices, reminding us that we always have a choice about what we think, feel, and do. When we are true to ourselves, we can fly above stress and conflict, contented and confident that we are the right path.
Every choice you make is an opportunity to delight in life. You Are Your Choices offers insight and companionship each step of the way.
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- Get out into the audience: Walking into the audience accomplishes all sorts of things that can help speakers before they lose the audience. It puts you on their level, makes you more accessible and humanizes you. Better yet, it almost instantly forces people to follow you--especially if you walk around. Audiences tune out when they think they know what to expect; if you move out from behind the lectern and come down the aisle, there's no telling what will happen.
- Gesture: Judiciously used, a gesture that underscores a point can have the same effect in a smaller way. Look for the points of emphasis in your speech and determine whether a well-timed gesture can bring the audience back.
- Get the audience involved: Instead of lecturing at them, take an instant poll--don't tell them your point, ask them what they think and take the measure of the room. Audiences, more and more, want participation, not passive listening. Engage them by asking questions and commenting on the results, or ask them what their experience has been. You'll learn something about them and you'll get their attention.
Those all are better than overemphasizing your point, increasing your volume or showing your panic--unfortunate reactions I've seen from speakers who fear their audience is slipping away. The best technique? Plan a speech designed to do all these things from the start, and avoid the problem entirely.


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What is Autoproj ---------------- Autoproj allows to easily install and maintain software that is under source code form (usually from a version control system). It has been designed to support a package-oriented development process, where each package can have its own version control repository (think "distributed version control"). It also provides an easy integration of the local operating system (Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, maybe MacOSX at some point). This tool has been developped in the frame of the RubyInMotion project (http://sites.google.com/site/rubyinmotion), to install robotics-related software -- that is often bleeding edge. Unlike [the ROS build system](http://ros.org), it is not bound to one build system, one VCS and one integration framework. The philosophy behind autoproj is: * supports both CMake and autotools, and can be adapted to other tools * supports different VCS: cvs, svn, git, plain tarballs. * software packages are plain packages, meaning that they can be built and installed /outside/ an autoproj tree, and are not tied *at all* to the autoproj build system. * leverage the actual OS package management system. Right now, only Debian-like systems (like Ubuntu) are supported, simply because it is the only one I have access to. * handle code generation properly


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Gulf Restoration Groups Praise Historic Settlement for Oil Spill
Gulf Restoration Groups Praise Historic Settlement for Oil Spill
Transocean penalties a step forward for unprecedented restoration efforts
(WASHINGTON, DC) Gulf restoration and economic development groups lauded the announcement today from the Department of Justice that it has reached an historic settlement with Transocean for its role in the 2010 Gulf oil spill. Today's $1.4 billion settlement will be paid under the Clean Water Act for civil and criminal penalties. A significant portion of those funds will be used to restore the Gulf, as directed by the RESTORE Act.
The groups issued the following statement:
"This is a great day for the Gulf environment and the communities that rely on a healthy ecosystem for their livelihoods," said Environmental Defense Fund, Greater New Orleans Inc., National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, Oxfam America and Ocean Conservancy. "We thank the Department of Justice for their leadership in holding Transocean accountable and look forward to full resolution of the case with other responsible parties, which will allow restoration efforts in the Gulf to get fully underway."
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- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- 1lb ground beef
- 1 medium onion (chopped)
- 1 medium green bell pepper (seeded and chopped)
- ¼ cup steak sauce
- 1 cup beef broth
- salt and ground black pepper (to taste)
- 4 hamburger buns
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 cup provolone cheese (shredded)
Cooking Instructions:
- Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add ground beef and cook while breaking the ground beef up into chunks with a spatula or spoon until browned. Add the green bell pepper and onion and cook for 3-4 minutes, until the onions start to become tender. Drain an excess liquid. Stir in steak sauce and beef broth, season with salt and pepper. Bring to a boil and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly.
- While the meat is cooking, split the hamburger buns and butter each of the cut sides. Heat a large skillet to medium heat. Place split hamburger buns cut side down into the skillet and cook until lightly browned on the bottom. Remove from the pan and set aside.
- Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute. Whisk in milk and cook until the mixture is thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat and stir in the cheese until it is melted and incorporated into the sauce.
- Step 4: To assemble sloppy joes- pile the meat mixture onto the top of the bottom half of each bun, top with the provolone cheese sauce, and place the top half of the hamburger bun onto the sandwich.


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Starting as blog isn't easy. You fret about whether you'll be able to write, whether people will want to read it; after a few posts and only a few hits you start to wonder if it was all worth it. But get through the doubts and before long it all changes. For me, it's been a really positive experience that has opened up doors to speaking opportunities, made me a little extra cash through freelance work, and even helped me get a new job.
Luckily for those of you who are just starting on this road, you can get a jump start thanks to Nick Thacker's 'Building a Blog for Readers: How to Blog In A Way That Matters'. Thacker is the prolific blogger and writer behind LiveHacked, a website aimed at aspiring authors who want to make a living out of writing. I was already familiar with LiveHacked, having used the site's The Fiction Writer's Guide to Writing Fiction content to help me with my writing, so when Nick asked me to review the book, I was happy to do so.
Building a Blog for Readers is set out less as book and more as a guide for the new or nascent blogger (Thacker himself terms it a manifesto). Formatted into 101 questions across seven topics, you can read through or dip in as required. It's clear and accessible, and if you don't think a section is valid for you, it's easy to move on. However, Thacker's goal for the book is that you work your way through each one, answering them as you go, so that you have the confidence to begin writing (or maybe not) when you get to the end. It's not about giving you advice; it's about helping you to understand what you want.
The seven topics are:
- Vision – these questions are focussed on getting out what you want to achieve through writing, your personal goals for the project.
- Purpose – this is about understanding your goals for the blog itself: will it help people, make you famous, what is it that makes you suitable to write about a subject, what makes you hungry?
- Strategy – creating a strategy for your blog. Define your readers and their requirements.
- Tactical – this are the smaller blocks of activity that put your strategy into action.
- Structure – the topics on which you'll write and the USP of your blog. Also, the platform your blog will run on.
- Personal / Lifestyle – creating a writing schedule, outlining your commitment to write and discovering how best to approach writing.
- Inspiration – finally, other writers provide inspiration through sharing their experiences
Read in order, the book makes sense and holds your hand through most of the big questions you need to ask when setting up a blog (and looking to make money from it). One thing to note though: this won't tell you how to write and it won't make you a better writer. It will focus your mind and help you to structure your approach to writing – but if you're hungry, passionate and knowledgeable on a subject, hopefully the writing quality will come with time and practice.
Personally I didn't take as much from the Inspiration section as others have done, but the other questions that Thacker poses are well defined and thought-provoking. If you're looking to start a blog this is worth reading; you'll find you start off running – or at least jogging – rather than walking. And for the small price of £2.62, it's not a massive investment either.
Disclaimer: This is an independent review based on a proof copy of the book supplied to me. I have no business relationship with Nick Thacker or LiveHacked. I have not received any monetary incentives or payments. I don't need to write this bit, but I think it's always good to be completely transparent.
Have you read Building a Blog for Readers: How to Blog In A Way That Matters? What did you think? Has it given you the confidence to start writing? I'd be interested in your comments.


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Obama's Watch: 39 Months, 69 Percent of Afghan War Casualties
By Edwin Mora
– Although President Obama has only served 39 months in office, 69 percent of the U.S. military fatalities in the more then 10-year-old war in Afghanistan have occurred on his watch.
Through April 30, the Defense Department had reported that 1,844 U.S. military personnel have been killed in and around Afghanistan while deployed in Operation Enduring Freedom, which was launched in October 2001 after al Qaeda terrorists attacked the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon.
According to CNSNews.com's comprehensive database on Afghan war casualties, at least 1,275 of the 1,844 U.S. troops killed in Operation Enduring Freedom have been killed since Jan. 20, 2009, when Barack Obama was inaugurated as president.
In the more than 10 years the U.S. military has been fighting in Afghanistan, each of the three deadliest years have been during Obama's presidency. The deadliest year was 2010, when 497 U.S. service personnel gave their lives in Afghanistan. The second deadliest year was 2011, when 399 U.S. service personnel gave their lives in Afghanistan. And the third deadliest year was 2009, when 303 U.S. service personnel gave their lives in Afghanistan.
Afghan casualties
Month-by-Month U.S. Casualties in Afghan
In recent years, some U.S. casualties in Afghanistan have come at the hands of the Afghan forces that the U.S. military is seeking to train so that they can defend their own country. Since 2007, when the Pentagon began tracking these killings, 54 U.S. soldiers have been killed by Afghan troops.
On March 22, Gen. John Allen, the top commander in Afghanistan, testified in Congress that as of that point 52 U.S. service personnel in Afghanistan had been killed by Afghan forces. Of those 52, Gen. Allen said, six had taken place this year alone.
Since Gen. Allen's testimony, two more U.S. casualties at the hands of Afghan forces have come to light.
On March 16, the Associated Press reported that the Pentagon failed to identify a U.S. soldier killed by Afghan forces in February. On May 1, the Associated Press reported that on April 25 a U.S. Army special forces soldier had been killed by Afghan forces.
CNSNews.com's detailed count of U.S. military fatalities in Afghanistan is derived from official casualty reports issued by the Department of Defense (DOD), augmented by information taken from ISAF and media accounts.
The database includes all U.S. military personnel who died or were fatally injured in and around Afghanistan while supporting military efforts in Operation Enduring Freedom, which covers multiple countries.
CNSNews.com's total count of U.S. fatalities in and around Afghanistan includes 12 U.S. troops who died in Pakistan and three who died in the Arabian Sea while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.


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And now it's a happy sigh to walk into my little corner of this blog universe. It feels good. I hope you like it too.
I wrote a press release today for work. And it wasn't lost on me that I can actually say that I went to school for this. I usually say that sarcastically while rolling my eyes and pulling out my hair over yet another mail merge. Not one single Communications professor of mine ever said a word about name tags. Then again, I think we might have all changed majors.
Today felt good. I liked seeing my name next to the word CONTACT. I like saying I'm in charge. If you know me, this is not news to you.
I was standing in line at the grocery store the other night and the lady in front of me asked to use my discount card. I obliged of course. Two words- cheaper gas. She then turned to look me up and down and announced that I looked like the AFTER on one of those makeover shows. I laughed. What an interesting choice for a compliment. That was a compliment, right?
I wondered if she has glimpsed a bit of BEFORE in my bathroom mirror. But I left the store smiling and it felt good.
I have one of my favorites sayings up on my banner now....
because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.
And life feels so good.
A bit random today, I know.
But random feels good.


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Relay participants walk for cancer cure
For the Nevada Appeal
A stitch in her side that wouldn't go away changed Sue Gaudiane's life. After a series of tests, her doctor discovered a melon-sized mass attached to her kidney and growing into her liver. It was malignant.
Almost nine years after removal of her diseased kidney and a slice of her liver, Gaudiane is grateful to be cancer free.
"Sept. 9, I'll be nine years cancer free," she said while seated at the registration tent at Carson High School's track before the beginning of the Relay for Life event Saturday evening. Recuperating from torn ligaments in her ankle, she couldn't walk during the relay, but she was there to support those who could.
Through Saturday night, members of more than a dozen teams took turns walking the track in memory of those who had lost their battles with cancer, in celebration with those who survived, and unified in the desire to raise awareness about the disease.
Funds raised by Relay for Life events support services for cancer patients as well as research into treatments and a cure. Starting off the relay, $32,000 had been raised with a goal of $55,000, which organizers hoped to tally by the end of the relay.
"The last cancer drugs for pediatric cancer was developed in the '80s," said Alyna Harrall, whose 2-year-old daughter Samantha is in remission. "There has to be something better out there."
"Everybody you know, knows someone with cancer," said Patty Chang, event chairwoman. Chang became involved with Relay for Life through her employer's volunteer programs four years ago.
Chang kicked off the event with a short presentation describing the reason for the relay.
"We're here to celebrate, remember and fight back and create a world with more birthdays," she said.
"Cancer touches the lives of about everybody you know in the world," said Carson City Mayor Bob Crowell, himself a survivor of prostate cancer. "I thought I was bulletproof," he said, noting the importance of awareness.
If he had been more aware of the symptoms, the cancer could have been caught earlier and possibly eliminated without radiation treatments, he said.
Crowell led the cancer survivors on the first lap of the relay before the support teams began their night-long walk accompanied by music from the Capital City Community Concert Band.
Support from others is important to get through the intense regimen of cancer treatments, said Gaudiane. Single, she is grateful for the neighbors who stepped up to help her manage daily activities that she couldn't do herself.
The memory of those people motivates Gaudiane's involvement in Relay for Life, where she serves as co-chair of the Survivor and Accounting committees.
"Cancer is devastating, financially, emotionally," Gaudiane said.
"I want to make sure the next person that needs that kind of help has it. Or, just to cure it and finish it all."


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Six stamps feature just some of the Jersey Overseas Aid projects that have taken place since the organisation's inception in 1968.
A pair is two stamps taken from the same sheet of ten; selvedges are also retained and will include the traffic lights. Traffic lights are a term used by collectors to denote the check dots (or colour dabs) printed in the sheet margins of stamps printed by modern offset litho or photogravure methods. They assist in checking that all the colours have printed correctly. Blocks of stamps from the corner of the sheet, including the 'traffic lights', are collected as a matched pair with the block showing the cylinder numbers. Most of our selvedge sheets contain a plate number; a numeral, occasionally with a letter suffix, usually inscribed on the sheet margins to denote the plate from which stamps were printed - for example 1A.
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Jersey Overseas Aid (JOA), an independent international aid agency funded by the States of Jersey, celebrates its 50th year in 2018. Its mission is to help reduce poverty and provide humanitarian aid in disasters and emergencies around the world and in doing so raises awareness within the Island, often inviting local residents to take part in aid projects overseas. Six stamps feature just some of the Jersey Overseas Aid projects that have taken place since the organisation's inception in 1968.


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"Equal share of the danger, equal share of the loot I say. Welcome to the party Balthar" says Deccon extending his hand in the warrior's forearm greeting.
OOC: Hey guys can you think of any supplies we could get in town which might help us deal with the giant rats in the tunnels? I was thinking smoking them out with flaming oil might be an option?


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1* Gather, gather yourselves together,
O nation without shame!
2Before you are driven away,
like chaff that disappears;
Before there comes upon you
the blazing anger of the LORD;
Before there comes upon you
the day of the LORD's anger.
3Seek the LORD,
all you humble of the land,
who have observed his law;
Seek justice,
seek humility;
Perhaps you will be sheltered
on the day of the LORD's anger.a
4For Gaza shall be forsaken,
and Ashkelon shall be a waste,
Ashdod they shall drive out at midday,
and Ekron* shall be uprooted.b
5Ah! You who dwell by the seacoast,
the nation of Cherethites,*
the word of the LORD is against you!
O Canaan, land of the Philistines,
I will leave you to perish without an inhabitant!
6You shall become fields for shepherds,
and folds for flocks.
7The seacoast shall belong
to the remnant of the house of Judah;
by the sea they shall pasture.
In the houses of Ashkelon
they shall lie down in the evening.
For the LORD their God will take care of them,
and bring about their restoration.
8I have heard the taunts uttered by Moab,
and the insults of the Ammonites,*
When they taunted my people
and made boasts against their territory.c
9Therefore, as I live—
oracle of the LORD of hosts—
the God of Israel,
Moab shall become like Sodom,
the Ammonites like Gomorrah:
A field of weeds,
a salt pit,
a waste forever.
The remnant of my people shall plunder them,
the survivors of my nation dispossess them.
10This will be the recompense for their pride,
because they taunted and boasted against
the people of the LORD of hosts.
11The LORD shall inspire them with terror
when he makes all the gods of earth waste away;
Then the distant shores of the nations,
each from its own place,
shall bow down to him.
12You too, O Cushites,*
shall be slain by the sword of the LORD.d
13He will stretch out his hand against the north,
to destroy Assyria;
He will make Nineveh a waste,
dry as the desert.e
14In her midst flocks shall lie down,
all the wild life of the hollows;
The screech owl and the desert owl
shall roost in her columns;
The owl shall hoot from the window,
the raven croak from the doorway.f
15Is this the exultant city*
that dwelt secure,
That told itself,
"I and there is no one else"?
How it has become a waste,
a lair for wild animals!
Those who pass by it
hiss, and shake their fists!
* [2:1–3] This oracle is a classic description of the day of the Lord as an overwhelming disaster, concluding with a call for repentance and reform. Nation without shame: Judah.
* [2:4] Gaza…Ashkelon…Ashdod…Ekron: cities of the Philistine confederation.
* [2:5] Cherethites: a synonym for, or subgroup of, the Philistines, which may be associated with Crete, a part of the larger Aegean area from which the Philistines came.
* [2:8] Moab…Ammonites: Judah's neighbors to the East across the Jordan.
* [2:12] Cushites: the Ethiopians, who had ruled Egypt a generation before Zephaniah's career.
* [2:15] The exultant city: Nineveh. Hiss, and shake their fists: gestures of derision.
d. [2:12] 2 Chr 14:7–14.
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