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There is always hope for a tree: When felled, it can start its life again; its shoots continue to sprout.
Job 14:7
Benedictines have always been attracted to the tree as a metaphor for the growth and dissemination of the Benedictine way of life - most often in the genealogical sense of family tree, growing as each monastery in turn gives birth to new "daughter houses." St. Scholastica Priory, for example, traces its lineage back though houses in St. Joseph, MN; St. Mary's, PA; and Eichstatt, Bavaria; to the convent of Nonnberg in Austria which first adopted the Rule of Benedict in the eighth century. This genealogical tree is somewhat misleading, though, because it invokes an image of unbroken continuity between root, stem and branch which has not always been the case in Benedictine monasticism. A more accurate model is that of the tree repeatedly cut down, but whose roots continually send forth new shoots. Indeed, the motto of the monastery of Monte Cassino is succisa virescit: "cut it down, and it grows up stronger."
Within 50 years of St. Benedict's death Monte Cassino was destroyed in the Lombard invasions as were most other monasteries in central Italy. The monks fled to Rome. For the next 300 years the history of the use of St. Benedict's Rule by monks and nuns is fragmentary and unclear, as monastic houses all over Europe tended to use several rules simultaneously as a guide to their lives. Pope Gregory I, the author of the Dialogues and a great admirer of Benedict and his Rule, sent the monk Augustine to England in 596. There he established a monastery at Canterbury. By 650 the Rule of Benedict was widely accepted in English monastic houses. At about the same time Columban, an Irish monk, set out to establish monasteries in Gaul. By mid-seventh century many Gallic houses had adopted the Rule of Benedict along with Columban's Rule. In 718 Boniface, an English monk, was sent to Germany as a missionary where he reformed the Frankish church and founded monasteries whence the Rule of Benedict spread to Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. These were centuries of noted English Benedictine scholars - Hilda of Whitby (d.680), Bede of Jarrow (d.735), Lioba of Wimbourne (d.782) - authors, patrons of the arts, administrators and consultants to ecclesiastical and secular rulers.
When Charlemagne became Holy Roman Emperor in 800, he set out to create uniform religious practices throughout his empire. This program of reform was continued by his son, Louis the Pious. The Benedictine monks Benedict of Aniane (d.821) and Alcuin of York (d.804), served as advisors to the Carolingian court, and through their influence the Rule of Benedict was mandated for all religious houses in the Empire. This attempt at standardization was brought to an abrupt end by the political turmoil of the dissolving empire, and the Viking, Saracen and Magyar invasions of the ninth century, during which many monasteries were once again destroyed.
In the 10th century and after, new foundations with a new mode of monastic governance came into being: the monastic confederation - groups of monasteries following the same rule and customs, and looking to a centralized authority separate and independent from the local bishop or secular prince. First among these both in time and in importance was Cluny (founded in 910) and its affiliated houses, which was to become a veritable monastic empire of great wealth and refined culture. The 10th through 12th centuries are the "Benedictine Centuries" during which Benedictines were instrumental in shaping the European world artistically, literally, academically, spiritually and even politically. These are also the centuries of reform to the austerity of the "pure" life of the Rule with the foundation of the ascetical orders of Camaldolese and Cistercians. This is the age of the great Saxon nuns: scholars and mystics such as Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (d.1002), Hildegard of Bingen (d.1179), Mechtild of Magdeburg (d.1282), and Gertrud of Helfta (d.1302). It is the era of the theologians Anselm of Canterbury (d.1109) and Bernard of Clairvaux (d.1153), as well as Abbot Suger of St. Denis, who started the fad for the Gothic style of architecture. It is often said that the Benedictines, as they spread through Europe, brought with them "the Cross, the Book and the Plow." In doing so they were instrumental in transforming the barbarian invaders of the late antiquity into the cultured Europeans of the middle ages. In recognition of this, Pope Paul VI declared St. Benedict to be Patron of all Europe in 1964.
From the 13th century onward monasticism and its influence declined. There were a number of causes, including the removal of monastic governance from the hands of monks, a shift from a feudal-agricultural to an urban-mercantile economy, wars, harassment by secular princes, the Black Death, the foundation of popular new mendicant orders which were perceived to be more "socially relevant," and eventually the Protestant reformation which caused once again the wholesale extinction of monasticism in Protestant Europe. It was not until the 19th century that what are now the great men's and women's abbeys of Europe were refounded in Bavaria, France, Germany and Switzerland.
In 1846, from the newly reestablished Bavarian abbey of Metten, a new Boniface - Boniface Wimmer - set out for the mission fields of the New World. He arrived in Latrobe, PA, where he founded a monastery and set to work with the German immigrants who had settled in the area. In 1856 he sent monks to Minnesota to establish what is now St. John's Abbey. Early in his American career he decided he needed nuns to teach the immigrants' children, so he persuaded the nuns at St. Walburg's Abbey in Eichstatt to send a delegation. In 1852 two choir nuns and a lay sister, headed by 26-year-old Benedicta Riepp, arrived in the American wilderness at St. Mary's, PA, to start a parish school in their two-room convent. These nuns, who would later be joined by nine others from Bavaria and a flood of American candidates, faced tremendous challenges. They had not only given up a comfortable, cultured life in their Bavarian convent for one of crushing poverty and unending labor on the frontier, but were also forced to relinquish their ecclesiastical status as nuns because of the impossibility of maintaining the prescribed enclosure and the traditional monastic prayer schedule. Their new candidates were permitted to take the simple vows of active sisters rather than the solemn vows of the enclosed nuns. Although today's American Benedictine women have reclaimed all the traditional monastic hallmarks except for enclosure, and although Canon Law no longer distinguishes between simple and solemn vows, these distinctions still divide us from our European counterparts.
In 1856 Mother Benedicta sent six sisters to St. Cloud, MN, and eventually joined them there before her untimely death at the age of 37. It was about this time, in 1862, the St. Cloud community moved to its present 鸿运彩票下载网址 in St. Joseph, MN, to become St. Benedict's Convent. In the same year a 15-year-old girl from St. Paul, who had come to America from Prussia with her parents when she was five, entered the Benedictine community at Shakopee. Her wealthy father was appalled by the poverty of the struggling community, and in 1877, his friend the Abbot of St. John's, secured her transfer to the community at St. Joseph. Scarcely three years afterwards the 33-year-old Scholastica Kerst was appointed prioress of the St. Joseph community by the same Abbot.
In her nine years in office Mother Scholastica demonstrated a talent for organization, administration and foresightedness that was to extend the mission outreach of her community from the St. Cloud area into much of Minnesota and North Dakota. In her first year as prioress she traveled north to Duluth to investigate the possibility of establishing a school. In 1884, after a couple of abortive starts, a school was opened and in 1888 a hospital - the present St. Mary's. In 1889 her term of office at St. Benedict's ended. The bishop of the newly-created diocese of Duluth, James McGolrick, wanted a Benedictine priory of his very own, so in 1892, 28 sisters and four postulants, headed by the indefatigable Mother Scholastica Kerst, established in rented flats in Munger Terrance the independent Benedictine community which eventually became the St. Scholastica Priory.
Sister Margaret Clarke, O.S.B.
Claude Peifer, O.S.B., et all., "The Rule in History" in RB 1980, Liturgical Pess, 1981
Terrence Kardong, O.S.B., The Benedictines Michael Glazier Books, 1988
For additional information:
Colman Barry, O.S.B., Worship and Work Liturgical Press, 1956. (A history of the St. John's Abbey)
Incarnata Girgen, O.S.B., Behind the Beginnings: Benedictine Women in America St. Benedict's Press, 1981 (The letters of Mother Benedicta Riepp and companions.)
Grace McDonald, O.S.B., With Lamps Burning St. Benedict's Press, 1957 (A History of St. Benedict's Convent)
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The cringe-inducing low point of the John Edwards trial so far was when a campaign aide testified about an airport encounter between Edwards and his breast-cancer-stricken wife. Reacting to a National Enquirer report that he was having an affair, Elizabeth Edwards "collapsed in a ball" in a parking lot then got up, tore off her shirt and bra, and told her husband: "You don't see me any more."
That was only one of a long parade of distressing and seemingly gratuitous details in the prosecution's case. Another aide testified that Edwards called Rielle Hunter, the mistress who was then pregnant with his child, a "crazy slut" and insisted there was just a 1-in-3 chance the baby was his. And a campaign adviser testified that while Edwards was juggling his wife, his mistress, and apparently the logistics of paying his mistress's bills, he was coolly discussing his hopes of being appointed to the Supreme Court. And it was all admissible.
How exactly did the august Greensboro, N.C., federal courthouse get turned into a stage for so much tawdry testimony? And more important, were any actual crimes committed?
(PHOTOS: John Edwards' Road to One America Tour)
There's a straightforward answer to the question about talking trash. The rules of evidence are fairly permissive about what kind of testimony can be given at trial. As long as the evidence is more likely to shed light on the relevant issues than it is to prejudice the proceedings, it generally gets admitted. And most of the salacious details of this case are integral to telling the prosecutors' story about why Edwards would be so motivated to engage in a cover-up.
The answer to the question about whether Edwards is actually guilty of the charges against him — that Edwards violated federal campaign-finance law by using nearly $1 million in campaign funds to help hide his pregnant mistress while he was running for President — is less clear-cut. There was evidence that Edwards' campaign-finance chairman, Fred Baron, and a high-ranking aide, Andrew Young, participated in a yearlong effort to hide Edwards' extramarital affair from the news media. That effort included Young, a married father of three, falsely claiming that Hunter's child was his. Young's wife Cheri testified that she reluctantly joined the cause and helped hide Hunter from the media.
There was also plenty of evidence of money sloshing around. That included the $725,000 given by Rachel "Bunny" Mellon, the 101-year-old widow of banking heir Paul Mellon. Some of this so-called "Bunny money," prosecutors say, was used to pay Hunter's bills and buy her things like furniture and a BMW. Baron reportedly picked up the tab when the Youngs and a pregnant Hunter hit the road — traveling to Florida; Aspen, Colo.; and San Diego — to avoid the prying eyes of the press.
(MORE: Judith Warner: Six (Not Sex) Tips from Dominique Strauss-Kahn)
And there was evidence of lying. Edwards long insisted, including in a 2008 Nightline interview, that he did not know anything about payments to Hunter. But at trial, voice-mail messages, phone records and witness testimony suggested that Edwards was keeping in close touch with what Young and Baron were up to.
It has certainly been great grist for the tabloids, but extramarital affairs, cover-ups, clandestine payoffs and lying are not necessarily criminal. The heart of the case against Edwards is the charge that he used campaign funds to cover up his affair. The trouble is, prosecutors did not directly show that Edwards thought the money that went to Hunter was from campaign contributions — subject to legal limits and reporting requirements — rather than just gifts from generous friends. The defense is expected to call former Federal Election Commission members to testify that all of that sloshing money did not actually violate campaign-finance law.
If Edwards is found guilty, he faces up to 30 years in prison. The case could come down to how the jury reads the fine points of law — or not. In some ways, this case has always been about the human drama. And in the end, a lot may turn on how the jurors view the perplexing man at the center of the proceedings: as a Machiavellian schemer willing to run roughshod over anyone and anything to get what he wanted, or as a deeply flawed and troubled man who has suffered enough.

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Reinventing collapse
by Shaun Chamberlin on June 29th, 2008
As George Carlin once said, "they call it the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it".
At the risk of this blog becoming 'review corner', that seems the perfect introduction to the book I just finished reading – Dmitry Orlov's brilliantly enjoyable Reinventing Collapse. This is a true work of dark optimism, with a fair dash of dark humour to boot.
In it, Orlov draws on his experiences of the collapse of the Soviet Union to explore the future American residents like him are likely to face as the effects of the USA's disastrous economic, energy and foreign policies take hold. Read more »


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Dhamtari Christian Academy (Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh State, India)
Dhamtari Christian Academy (later named Mennonite Higher Secondary School), an educational institution of the Mennonite Church in India (formerly the American Mennonite Mission), opened in 1931. It originally consisted of high school, middle school, normal training, and primary practicing school departments; located in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh State, India. In the 1950s it had a total enrollment of 595 in all departments, excluding practicing school. Of this total 462 were boys and 133 were girls. In addition 118 boys and 73 girls, total 191, were enrolled in the primary practicing school, making the grand total of pupils in all departments 786. Thirty-one teachers, 21 men, 10 women, made up the teaching staff at that time. The following have served as principal since the beginning of the academy: E. E. Miller, 1931-1937; J. D. Graber, 1937-1938; S. M. King, 1938-1944; Wilbur Hostetler, 1944-1946; J. N. Kaufman, 1946-1947; S. M. King, 1947-1953; J. W. Samida, after 1953.
The American Mennonite mission maintained primary schools and at least one middle and high school as well as a Bible school from the earliest years. In 1931 the academy was organized combining the various schools into an integrated institution. The normal training department was closed in 1946 but reopened in 1951. The special year of Bible study was discontinued in 1946 and Bible classes are combined with the regular curricula in the various departments. The church cooperated with Bible schools and seminaries in other areas to provide special Christian worker training.
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Graber, J. D. "Dhamtari Christian Academy (Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh State, India)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 8 Aug 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Dhamtari_Christian_Academy_(Dhamtari,_Chhattisgarh_State,_India)&oldid=80128.
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Graber, J. D. (1956). Dhamtari Christian Academy (Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh State, India). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 8 August 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Dhamtari_Christian_Academy_(Dhamtari,_Chhattisgarh_State,_India)&oldid=80128.
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NCAA Basketball 2010: The BCS VersionPosted by nvr1983 on April 2nd, 2010
With all the talk about the coming 96-team tournament, many in the sports media have forgotten that there is already another ridiculous major college sport championship in place: the BCS. We took you through this process in a post last year, but it's worth going over again as the blogosphere is ablaze with opinions on changing our beloved NCAA Tournament.
Here are the basic ground rules:
- We are following the BCS Football guidelines as closely as possible. Obviously there are some differences. A college basketball team is expected to win more than 9 games (we kept a cut-off at a 75% winning percentage). We replaced the Notre Dame rule with the Duke rule since they both have sketchy TV contracts (Notre Dame with NBC and Duke with ESPN).
- I used the AP and ESPN/USA Today polls as the human polls and ESPN.com's InsiderRPI, KenPom.com, and Sagarin's ratings as the computer polls. The computer polls include data from the NCAA Tournament, but as you will see it didn't affect the results that significantly.
- We used the traditional BCS calculations for determining each team's score weighing the two human polls and the combined computer poll average as 1/3 of a team's total score each.
Here are the results:
We will let you digest that for a minute and will provide more information/analysis and the BCS Bowls after the jump.


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An eagle-eyed tipster alerts us to this revision on Donald Sterling's Wikipedia page, which scrubbed the six-part "Controversies" section but added some heartwarming notes.
Did you know, for example, that Sterling "was also named Humanitarian of the Year by the Los Angeles Police Historical Society at its 1999 Jack Webb Award gala?" Practically knighted.
Sterling's "areas of expertise are diverse and many: he has been a prominent attorney, real estate developer, and entrepreneur," the revision writes, which is a fuzz more flattering than "Sterling has been sued multiple times for sexual harassment."
The edits' origin makes this story a little more interesting; they came from Wikipedia user Sburtonclips3335. As our tipster noticed, one Seth Burton is the Clippers' assistant director of communications. The new page was Sterling's official Clippers bio. Better still, Burton's first job in sports came with a franchise very skilled in bullying and manipulating the media: Dan Snyder's Washington Redskins, in 2000.
We can't be sure that Burton is the Wikipedia user, although it's hard to believe that exaggeration is necessary to mock the Clippers organization. We've put in a call and an email to Burton, and he's responded to neither. Perhaps we should have tried calling to offer a humanitarian award for his boss.
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40 Years Ago: Humble Pie Release 'Thunderbox'
Released in February 1974, Humble Pie's seventh studio album, 'Thunderbox' was pivotal for the seminal hard rock group led by legendary vocalist and guitarist Steve Marriott. But not in a good way, as it signaled their commercial fall from grace.
Starting with their modest 1969 debut, 'As Safe as Yesterday,' Humble Pie had grown from strength-to-strength, quickly earning their reputation as one of the world's first supergroups (along with Small Faces alum Marriott, they featured former Herd lead guitarist Peter Frampton and ex-Spooky Tooth bassist Greg Ridley — plus teenage drummer Jerry Shirley), and achieving a career milestone with 1971's exuberant 'Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore' live album.
But then Frampton quit, promptly signed a solo deal with Humble Pie's record company, A&M, and while Marriott efficiently replaced him with the more-than-capable Clem Clempson, things would never be the same.
Subsequent offerings like 1972's 'Smokin'' and '73's 'Eat It' (a four-sided behemoth, split between studio rockers, acoustic fare, and live cover material) did manage to capitalize on 'Performance's' breakthrough with Top 20 chart showings, but their sales were still no match for those of competing stadium-filling titans of the day like Led Zeppelin or The Who.
Fairly or not, A&M Records expected more, and after indulging Humble Pie's grand ambitions on 'Eat It,' the last thing they were expecting from the band's next studio venture was a rush-recorded follow-up boasting seven cover tunes (out of twelve total tracks), named after a 17th century slang term for toilet.
This was 1974's 'Thunderbox,' which A&M nevertheless packaged in a lavish sleeve (boasting a keyhole view into the water-closet of some scantily clad models) and trotted out to record stores and radio stations, in the hopes that its powerful title cut and many soulful remakes — including the Rolling Stones-like 'Ninety-Pounds' — would prolong Humble Pie's relative career winning streak.
Instead, they saw 'Thunderbox' fall short of the U.S. Top 50 (stalling just outside, at No. 52) and miss the U.K. charts completely. But in Humble Pie's defense, they had dutifully worked their butts off to promote this and every prior album, undertaking some 20 tours over the previous four-year span, only to find themselves exhausted, broke and with precious little else to show for their efforts.
As a result, Marriott and co. would delay their return to both the studio and the road in late-'74 in an attempt to recharge their batteries. But this sadly prompted A&M and manager Dee Anthony to backstab the band, heist whatever working demos they could from Marriott's proposed solo LP, and release the rough and substandard contents in early-'75 as the much-maligned 'Street Rats' LP.
By doing so, they effectively killed the golden goose and derailed Humble Pie's once high-flying career, while leaving an emotional toll that the band members and leader Steve Marriott, in particular, would never fully recover from.


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And I had an extremely productive weekend in the country! In my last post, I mentioned that I had cut the Prairie Paisley II charms and pieced a whole bunch of flying geese blocks for Summer Day - the April Schnibbles.
Saturday morning, I completed the Summer Day top and took it outside for a few shots in the sunshine, but it was so windy, it was really difficult to get a nice picture of it lying flat.
|How do you like the cute garden gnomes holding Summer Day up for the picture? :-)
|Close-up of some of the blocks. I really like the red, white and blue!
I loved working on this Schnibbles pattern. The method described in the pattern to complete the Flying Geese blocks was so fast and accurate... and easy! Loved, loved, loved it! :-)
Linking up at Sew Many Ways for Sew Darn Crafty!
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Between 1801 and 1803 Benjamin Woolsey Dwight studied medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he also practiced at Pennsylvania Hospital, and at Columbia College in New York. Francis E. Dwight was the grandson of Benjamin Woolsey Dwight. In 1882 he took medical instructions at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York, New York. The Benjamin Woolsey Dwight and Francis E. Dwight Papers contain material relating to their medical education - mainly notebooks for lectures attended, and admission cards for Benjamin Woolsey Dwight.


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During the Core Mat II (Intermediate Mat level) weekend, you will learn 12 intermediate level exercises, including where to add them within the sequence of the beginner level mat class, and continue to work on your teaching skills. Our students say that "everything starts to click" during the Core Mat II weekend. Completing the Core Mat II weekend expands the range of clients you can work with and strengthens your teaching ability. Core Mat I & II are required to progress to the Comprehensive program.
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You probably never laid eyes on him, but unless you've been in a cave for 35 years, you've heard Charlie O'Donnell intone the intro to television's long-running game show "Wheel of Fortune."
O'Donnell, who was 78, died late Sunday, according to his agent. No cause of death was released.
A New York deejay before switching to television when he joined Dick Clark's "American Bandstand," O'Donnell was the voice of the game show even before hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White appeared.
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He also served as announcer for Oscar and Emmy telecasts and other game shows including 'The Newlywed Game.'
His signature phrase "Wheeeeeeel of Fortune," could be heard on the show from its beginning with host Chuck Woolery in 1975. He worked on the show until 1980, and again from 1988 until his death.
Selected Reading: Popeater, Wheel of Fortune, USA Today.


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Use network watcher to check connectivity between virtual machines in peered networks
Azure Network sample for enabling and updating network peering between two virtual networks Summary ...
- This sample uses Azure Network Watcher's connectivity check to verify connectivity between two peered virtual networks. Details ...
- Define two virtual networks network "A" and network "B" with one subnet each
- Create two virtual machines, each within a separate network
- The virtual machines currently must use a special extension to support Network Watcher
- Peer the networks...
- the peering will initially have default settings:
- each network's IP address spaces will be accessible from the other network
- no traffic forwarding will be enabled between the networks
- no gateway transit between one network and the other will be enabled
- Use Network Watcher to check connectivity between the virtual machines in different peering scenarios:
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- virtual machine A accessible to virtual machine B, but not the other way
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git clone https://github.com/Azure-Samples/network-dotnet-use-network-watcher-to-check-connectivity.git
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dotnet build
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MELLOW TIMES: There are words that wine critics often go to when describing a bottle of wine. "Nose" is up there, as are "bouquet," "legs," and "perky" (okay, maybe we don't see that last one as often, but we totally want to). But surely the word "mellow" is somewhere in the top ten of oft-used terms. It's not a word you hear applied much to white, but the reds? They practically own the concept. Mellow flavor, mellow mouth-feel, mellow after-note. There is another part of the wine world that can lay claim to "mellow," however: wintertime. It's a mellow season for many a vineyard, as it follows the harried-hurried nature of harvest time and the bustle-hustle of the holidays. Winter slows down, at least a bit, the crowds are less crowded, and oenophiles can flock to their favorite wineries like so many birds toward something desirable the birds would like to alight upon.
WINTER IN THE WINERIES: We appreciate that Calistoga's area wineries love and honor winter's mellow nature. Not simply in spirit, but the wineries offer a yearly passport in the heart of the coldest time of year. It is indeed called Winter in the Wineries, some 15 wineries participate, and it is on now through Sunday, Feb. 10. Pay $50 and get one taste at each winery. Best of all? You don't have to get all 15 under your proverbial belt in a day or even a weekend; you could spread it out over 15 days, even. Again, that's just a taste per winery, but still, we like the loosey-goosey time rules on this one. Plus, winter. Shouldn't more wineries celebrate its mellowness? Vineyards of the world, embrace the cold.


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Actor/director Mel Gibson pleaded no contest Friday to misdemeanor battery for allegedly striking ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva at his Malibu home last year. He was placed on three-years probation and ordered to enroll in a year-long domestic violence counseling program.
The 55-year-old "Braveheart" star entered the no contest plea Friday afternoon at the Airport Branch Courthouse.Grigorieva did not attend the hearing but was represented by one of her attorneys.
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Gibson's attorney, Blair Berk, said in a statement released Wednesday that "Mel's priority throughout all of this has been that the best interests of his young daughter, Lucia, and the rest of his children be put first in any decisions made."
"It is with only that in mind that he asked me to approach the District Attorney with a proposal that would bring all of this to an immediate end," Berk said in the statement.
Celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred said she was disappointed Gibson didn't have to serve time behind bars.
"I'm really disgusted with the system where the first-time batterers receive probation," Allred told ABC News. "I do think that there's a potential risk of harm and for batterers that have significant anger management issues and express that in criminal conduct, we do need to do more than giving them probation and ordering counseling."
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigated the Jan. 6, 2010, run-in between the actor and Grigorieva, in which he allegedly struck the mother of his daughter Lucia. Investigators also looked into allegations that Grigorieva tried to extort money from Gibson through taped phone conversations.
Prosecutors said Friday Grigorieva won't be charged in the extortion case, People reported.
Gibson has kept a low profile since leaked recordings over the summer purportedly showed Oscar-winner using racist and sexist language against Grigorieva. His longtime talent agency dropped him and he became a running late-night punchline.
His new movie "The Beaver" has been delayed for months, but is now expected to hit theaters in May.
Gibson and Grigorieva, meanwhile, are still locked in a bitter child custody dispute over their daughter, who was born in October 2009.


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In this lesson, Peter discusses the two bar clave that is common to the Brazilian style. You'll put together several patterns before combining it with chord movement.
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Learn to play Brazilian style guitar like the Bossa and Samba
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In the first lesson of his new Brazilian genre series, Peter Einhorn will be discussing what you'll cover in this series as well as some basics on the style.Length: 4:22 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Much of the sound and style of Bossa and Samba comes from the picking hand technique utilized. In this lesson, Peter discusses and demonstrates the basic pinch pattern and rhythmic variations you'll be...Length: 6:06 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Now that you've learned some basic rhythms and pinch patterns, Peter discusses the basic major chords that are used in the Brazilian style.Length: 5:38 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Getting back to some more chord work in the series, Peter discusses and demonstrates the minor and dominant chord voicings common to the Bossa and Samba styles.Length: 13:29 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In this lesson, Peter discusses the two bar clave that is common to the Brazilian style. You'll put together several patterns before combining it with chord movement.Length: 6:54 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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In this lesson, Peter discusses and demonstrates a progression you might find in a Brazilian Bossa or Samba tune. Additionally, he discusses the use of suspended chords in these progressions.Length: 7:59 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Today's bake was Ciabatta bread... and actually we ended looking pretty similar this time... Helen's bread leads into this post... you can see the similarity of our efforts this week. ;-)... This was Helen's and my first time making ciabatta and we will definitely do it again. Barb had made it before but likes today's end result so much better than her first adventure. Here are the photos... and as usual it was fun to share the baking and the love.
Just take a look at those great loaves. They are golden iand lovely... She, and I, used the KAF recipe... Mine are below... I love the texture of this bread... Helen made a sandwich and said that hers is delicious.. You can see that, I say!!!
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. My loaves turned out pretty derned good, if I can so so myself!... I will definitely make this bread again, and again. Barb's loaves are wonderful also... but she had more than loaf making going on in her Washington kitchen... Her great-granddaughter Maria, our great-great-niece... made pizza and salted the pretzels... that is taking it to another generation... I don;t know why she skipped the two in between... yeah... I do know... but shhhh!!! There is nothing like inspiring a sweet great grand babe! ... Check this out!
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CHICO — After a dozen years of discussion, the community will have a public rose garden, thanks to a joint public-private effort.
Marilyn Warrens of Chico forwarded the idea in 2001. In 2013, the Chico Area Recreation and Park District said it liked the area, and on Monday, the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission gave conceptual approval.
Money in hand, Warrens came to CARD after being turned down by the city, which didn't support the places in Bidwell Park that Warrens liked.
The CARD board embraced the idea of a rose garden near its Community Center on Vallombrosa Avenue, but the property is leased from the city and CARD needed Park Commission approval for the project.
The unanimous approval came after Jake Preston of CARD said the design is an early one, but that the concept of a rose garden could be used as a wedding setting or party area, and could help CARD with revenue.
He said there were some CARD concerns about covering long-term maintenance costs, but those would be worked out.
Park commissioners were concerned about pesticide and herbicide use, and that the garden is close to Big Chico Creek. Commissioner Mark Herrera noted there are guidelines about chemical use in the park that would offer protection.
Saying she wanted to give back to Chico "because it's been good to my family," Warrens has set aside $100,000 to start the garden. Warrens has asked the Butte Rose Society to be involved, and CARD staff would be helping, Preston said.
The final design will come back to the Park Commission before construction starts.
Parks and natural resource manager Dan Efseaff noted that the area is already developed and is used publicly, so the active use wouldn't change. The location is between the CARD building and the bike path.
Woody Elliott of Friends of Bidwell Park said the group didn't object to the rose garden, but objects to a proposed donor wall on the creekside of the project, saying it should be closer to the building.
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I'm very excited about the publication of the third volume in our new e-Book series!
No Definite Plans: Eleven Stories of Laughter, Love, Travel, is now available on Amazon's Kindle Store and Barnes and Noble's Nook Book Store. This new offering is by Townsend 11 (my writing collective), edited by Larry Habegger. I contributed a story ("Chartres: Ecstasy at the Altar," about my family's odd visit to a venerable landmark), as well as one of the two cover photos.
In this third book, No Definite Plans, you can learn how to hold it while rafting the Amazon, have an animated dream, witness a unique spectacle in a French cathedral, visit a women's only sanctum in Morocco, and head for home in the Midwest. You will contemplate an emperor's curiosity, discover the unexpected aftermath of adventure, and confront the inevitability of aging. And, in our first fiction offerings, you'll meet unforgettable characters in China and India and ponder the generation gap in modern language. . . . CONTINUE READING: OUR NEW BOOK—No Definite Plans: Eleven Tales of Laughter, Love, Travel—Volume 3 from Townsend 11


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Citygarden Tour GC2AX7Q GEOCACHE OF THE WEEK – April 2, 2012
Urban Multi-Caches can reveal take geocaching a park, new vantage point, or hidden gem in a city geocachers never expected. "Citygarden Tour" (GC2AX7Q) delivers adventurers to a sculpture park in the middle of an American city better know for blues music and barbeque than public art.
St. Louis geocachers tracking down the answers for this difficulty three, terrain two Multi-Cache walk away discovering a slice of St.Louis culture.
The cache requires adventures to answer six questions they unlock by exploring the park. The questions ask people to find the birth year of artists, count wind chimes, and more. The answers are then plugged into a formula that is found on the cache page. The results complete a set of coordinates which lead geocachers to the cache.
Strider hid the micro cache in 2010. It's accumulated more than 30 Favorite Points. Cache who logged the "Citygarden Tour" write, "This was a totally awesome cache. We thoroughly enjoyed taking in all the features in the park… Thanks for bringing us here, and for an imaginative cache."
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Tapas (or "small plates") have been a popular restaurant trend for quite some time now; the fad of ordering multiple small plates filled with smoky chorizo, spicy tomato sauce and garlicky shellfish (to name a few) for sharing with tablemates is still going strong. Plus, they're a great way to try an array of dishes without having to order huge portions that will just end up in a doggy bag.
Here's a novel idea: You don't need to venture out to enjoy these dishes, as many of them are pretty darn simple to whip up at home. The ingredients are easy to find at your local grocery store and you may even have most of them in your pantry.
Here is an amazingly simple and exotic tapas dish to get you started on your culinary tour of Spain: stewed chickpeas with chorizo, aka "habas con chorizo." Smoky and slightly spicy cured Spanish chorizo rendered and sauteed with onions and garlic, then simmered with cinnamon, cloves and broth until the liquid and aromatics have reduced and are absorbed by the chickpeas. Sounds complex but, trust me, it's pretty foolproof and 100 percent delicious.
The key to getting the liquid to reduce is all in the pan. A large sauté pan with sloping sides will allow steam to be released, thus aiding in the liquid reduction process. A pan or pot with high, straight sides will keep more of the liquid vapor trapped inside the vessel and it will take the liquid twice as long to reduce; only choose this type of pot or pan if you're making a soup or stew.
This dish hails from Catalonia, located in the northeastern region of Spain's Mediterranean coast. Catalan dishes rely heavily on ingredients used in Mediterranean cuisine — tomato, garlic, olive oil, legumes, eggplant, etc. One legume, the garbanzo bean (or "chickpea"), is used often in Mediterranean dishes either whole in salads or stews, or mashed up to make hummus or falafel. Pork products are widely used in Catalonia — since they're the main producers of pork products in Spain — and cured chorizo (a hallmark of Spanish cuisine) is often used to flavor soups, stews and a range of other dishes. Put chickpeas and chorizo together and you've got a hearty, smoky dish that's adaptable for any occasion (save for Jewish or Muslim holidays).
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If you've been shopping for a copy of Office for Mac lately, you'll be paying higher prices than you would have just a few months ago. On Monday, Mac users began to realize Microsoft's quiet price hike thanks to an investigation by Computerworld—Office for Mac Home & Student went from $120 to $140, Home & Business went from $200 to $220, and multi-license editions no longer exist. This reflects as much as a 17 percent hike for the same product.
But while this was brought to the public's attention today, the price hikes most likely came last September when Microsoft announced the pricing of Office 2013. Though there's no clear evidence that the price of Mac Office was raised in September with the Office 2013 lineup, it seems the most likely explanation, as the prices now match across platforms. Computerworld, meanwhile, speculates that Microsoft raised the price in late January when Office 365 Home Premium was launched.
Regardless, unlike our Windows-using counterparts, Mac users are not getting any fancy new software for the newly bumped price. Office 2013 for Mac today is largely the same as it was in 2012 and 2011, but for $20 more. On the upside, a number of other retailers have held off on adopting Microsoft's pricing—Amazon, for example, still offers Home & Student edition for $121.


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Right-Wing Media Cheer SCOTUS Case That Could Make The Government Even More Dysfunctional
Right-wing media are championing an appellate decision currently before the Supreme Court that upended the ability of presidents to appoint nominees during Senate recesses as a repudiation of President Barack Obama. But National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning was a radical decision that ignored long-standing precedent, and if the Supreme Court finds such appointments unconstitutional, governmental operations could be hindered to a historic degree.
Panel Of Conservative D.C. Circuit Court Of Appeals Judges Ruled Obama's Recess Appointments Unconstitutional, Supreme Court To Review
SCOTUSblog: NLRB v. Noel Canning Is "A Major New Opportunity For A Minority In The Senate" To Block Temporary Recess Appointments. Supreme Court reporter Lyle Denniston points out that the D.C. Circuit Court's ruling has the potential to encourage the "thwarting of presidential nominations" not just for open positions at the NLRB, but at other federal agencies as well:
Strictly curbing the President's power to temporarily fill government posts to keep an agency in operation, the D.C. Circuit Court ruled Friday that the constitutional authority to fill a vacancy can only be used when one Congress has ended and before a new Congress comes to town, or when there is a formal break at the end of one session, but not during any other mid-session break.
In the current atmosphere of partisan gridlock, which often involves thwarting of presidential nominations, the ruling provides a major new opportunity for a minority in the Senate to deny the President the authority even temporarily to put a new government officer to work in a vacant spot. When a vacancy arises while Congress is in session, and the Senate does not act on it, the President will not be able to fill it during the next time the Senate takes a break. The ruling came one day after the Senate chose not to make a major change in its filibuster rule, which is the main weapon of a Senate minority seeking to challenge presidential action.
The decision nullified President Obama's temporary appointments a year ago to three empty seats on the five-member National Labor Relations Board -- an agency that has often been the target of conservative opposition, and that frequently has been unable to function because it did not have a sufficient number of members at work. The President had made those three appointments while the Senate was out of town, except for intermittent, routine sittings, between the two sessions. Each Congress sits for two sessions over two years.
The ruling, however, is not confined to the situation at the NLRB. As an interpretation of the Constitution's words dealing with temporary government appointments, it would extend to all federal agencies whose officers are nominated by the President and require Senate approval -- including federal judges. [SCOTUSblog, 1/25/13]
Right-Wing Media Claim Unexpected Decision Is Proof That Obama Administration Is Lawless
The Wall Street Journal: Recess Appointees Are "Illegal" Because They Were Appointed During A "Non-Recess Recess." In an editorial, the WSJ accused NLRB appointees Richard Griffin and Sharon Block of "breaking the law" because they accepted appointments while the Senate was still holding "pro-forma sessions" :
If at first you don't succeed in breaking the law, try getting a promotion. That's the formula now at work at the National Labor Relations Board, where deposed Board member and Big Labor loyalist Richard Griffin is poised to become general counsel.
Mr. Griffin was one of three non-recess recess appointments President Obama made to the NLRB while the Senate was still holding pro-forma sessions in January 2012. Those appointments have since been ruled unconstitutional by three federal appellate courts including the D.C. Circuit, and the Supreme Court will take up the issue in NLRB v. Noel Canning this term.
Mr. Griffin would be the agency's top legal official, yet as a member of the Board he and the other non-recess recess appointees continued to issue decisions even after the courts had declared their appointments illegal. Altogether, the Board continued operating without a legitimate quorum for months, issuing hundreds of decisions that are presumptively invalid and will potentially have to be reconsidered after the Supreme Court's decision in Noel Canning. [The Wall Street Journal, 10/21/13]
The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin: Obama Views Congress As An "Inconvenient Distraction;" Recess Appointments Are A "Power Grab." The Washington Post's conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin praised the conservative judges on the D.C. Circuit who found Obama's NLRB appointments unconstitutional, calling it a victory for small government:
It was a bad day for the lefties afflicted with the totalitarian temptation. (Relax: It is a term of art, a well-known one, and I am not calling Democrats totalitarians.) Two significant developments point to the importance for conservatives -- who worry about unlimited, intrusive, abusive government and the squelching of political minority rights -- of the rule of law and constitutional structure in preserving liberty.
First we have a devastating blow delivered to the administration by the federal appeals court over the president's power grab on appointments[.]
Although [Obama] often talks as if Congress is an inconvenient distraction, the president has been reminded that he does not reign supreme and must actually share power with the legislature. The decision throws into doubt the validity of a slew of egregiously pro-union decisions by the board. [The Washington Post, 1/25/13]
But The Noel Canning Decision Reversed Decades Of Precedent And Over A Century Of Practice By Both Democratic And Republican Presidents
Constitutional Accountability Center: The D.C. Circuit Court Decision Was "Extreme" And "Contradictory To Settled Executive Branch Practice." Elizabeth Wydra, chief counsel for the Constitutional Accountability Center, called the circuit court's decision "bewildering," noting that previous presidents have made hundreds of appointments during "intra-session" recesses:
Few, if any, Supreme Court observers were surprised when the Court granted review in National Labor Relations Board v. Noel Canning. The D.C. Circuit's decision not only threatens to invalidate every order issued by the Board - which handles matters regarding workers' rights to improve their workplace conditions and wages - since January 4, 2012, but is also contradictory to settled executive branch practice and inconsistent with the Constitution's text and history. It's an extreme decision that deserves to be taken up by the High Court.
The facts underlying the D.C. Circuit's decision would be almost as bewildering as the ruling itself, if they didn't represent the obstructionism that has sadly become business as usual in the appointments process. As the Senate went into recess in January 2012, the Board -- with three vacancies -- faced the prospect that it would no longer be able to operate. The Supreme Court had held in the 2010 case of New Process Steel v. NLRB that the Board could not act if three of its five positions were vacant, and the Senate had failed to act on President Obama's three pending nominations to the Board, one of which had been pending for nearly a year. To enable the Board to continue to function, the president made three appointments pursuant to the constitutional power that presidents of both parties have used for decades to make temporary appointments while the Senate is in recess. Indeed, during oral argument in New Process Steel, Chief Justice John Roberts asked then-Principal Deputy Solicitor General Neal Katyal why this very power might not be a solution to the problem of vacancies on the Board.
With the Board's authority to act restored thanks to the recess appointments, the battle over the NLRB shifted from the Senate floor to the courts. Conservative judges on the D.C. Circuit and the Third Circuit have recently held, in conflict with prior decisions of other federal courts, that President Obama lacked the authority to make these recess appointments. While this has been made into a partisan issue - every Republican senator signed on to a brief at the certiorari stage in Noel Canning arguing against the President's NLRB recess appointments -- it shouldn't be. The George W. Bush administration zealously defended the presidential recess appointment power. It was used by Presidents Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Ronald Reagan before him. All told, presidents have apparently made more than five hundred recess appointments during intra-session recesses, including appointments of three cabinet secretaries, five court of appeals judges, ten district court judges, a director of Central Intelligence, a chairman of the Federal Reserve, numerous members of multi-member boards, and holders of a variety of other critical government posts. [Constitutional Accountability Center, 7/17/13]
Bloomberg: Pro-Forma Sessions "Last Only A Couple Of Minutes," And Were Called By Republicans To "Block Presidential Recess Appointments." Republican presidents have repeatedly made recess appointments during "intra-session" recesses, but Republican senators took issue with this previously uncontroversial practice only when Obama made his recess appointments to the NLRB:
The Noel Canning decision arose in the context of an ongoing struggle between presidents and Congress over the use of the recess appointments power. The Constitution conveys that power in a paragraph that authorizes the President "to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session."
When the Democrats regained control of the Senate in 2007, they began a practice of conducting so-called "pro forma sessions" during those recesses that occur within sessions of Congress. These pro forma sessions typically last only a couple of minutes, if that, during which the only business conducted--often by a single senator -- is simply a call to order and adjournment until the next pro forma session. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) -- now a supporter of the contested Obama appointments -- originally took the position that such pro forma sessions converted otherwise lengthy recesses into shorter adjournments, each of which would be too brief to trigger the president's recess appointments power. Although apparently advised by the Justice Department that his recess appointments power remained intact, President George W. Bush declined to challenge the Reid strategy.
Between Dec. 17, 2011 and Jan. 23, 2012, the Senate again met only during ten pro forma sessions -- but this time, not at the Democrats' behest. Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution provides that "[n]either House, during the session of Congress, shall, without the consent of the other, adjourn for more than three days ... ." The evident purpose of this clause is to enable each House to keep the other in town in order to assure that business between them may be conducted. House Republicans, however -- who were by no means staying in town to conduct business of their own -- used this clause to deny the Senate permission to adjourn for more than three days between the end of the first and the start of the second session of the 112th Congress. The intent, once again, was to block presidential recess appointments. [Bloomberg, 2013]
Obama Has Faced Unparalleled Republican Obstruction Of His Nominees, And His Recess Appointments Are Necessary To Prevent Even Further Governmental Dysfunction
The New Yorker: A Supreme Court Ruling Against Recess Appointments Will "Create An Entirely New Level Of [Government] Gridlock And Inaction." As CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin explained in The New Yorker, Obama's nominees to federal agency positions and to the judiciary have faced "unprecedented obstruction" from congressional Republicans and a Supreme Court decision finding such appointments unconstitutional will be a huge blow to regular government operations:
[T]he case before the Justices will determine whether some federal agencies will exist at all.
Many of the President's most important powers come from his ability to appoint the members of quasi-independent agencies, like the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board. All of the President's appointments to these bodies are subject to approval by the Senate. This case concerns what happens when the Senate refuses to take up-or-down votes on the President's appointments. If the Senate refuses to vote on a President's nominees, how can the President fight back?
This is far from a merely theoretical issue. Since Obama became President, Republicans in the Senate have engaged in unprecedented obstruction of his nominees to these agencies. Worse, Republicans have been able to thwart the President even though they have been in the minority. Filibusters (once extraordinary measures) have become routine in the contemporary Senate, so as few as forty senators can prevent any nominee from coming up for a vote.
In response, Obama has done what any number of his predecessors have done--make recess appointments.
A conservative panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled against the Obama Administration, declaring that intra-session recess appointments (like several to the N.L.R.B.) were invalid. Most important, the Court ruled that all actions taken by these recess appointees were invalid. This meant that more than a thousand N.L.R.B. decisions were suddenly declared null and void.
If the ruling by the D.C. Circuit is upheld [in Noel Canning], the result will be a massive shift of power from Presidents to Senate minorities. Forty senators will have the power to stop an agency from functioning. Given the general political inclinations of the contemporary G.O.P., this would be a tremendous victory. They don't want an N.L.R.B. at all, and they don't care for most other regulatory agencies, either. The D.C. Circuit decision is more than a gift of a minority veto on individual members of a commission; it's a minority veto on the very existence of venerable federal agencies. [The New Yorker, 10/16/13]


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You knew Charlie Sheen was going to comment on this one.
Within hours of Ashton Kutcher confirming he'd signed on to "Two and a Half Men," Charlie Sheen weighed in with kind words for the "No Strings Attached" star but still predicted the CBS hit would flop in the ratings.
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"Enjoy the show America," he said before leveling another dig at his ex-boss, Chuck Lorre, and other suits.
"Enjoy seeing a 2.0 [rating] in the demo every Monday, WB," he said. "Enjoy planet Chuck, Ashton. There is no air, laughter, loyalty, or love there."
Earlier, Kutcher made a preemptive effort to stay on Sheen's good side in an official statement about his new venture.
"I can't wait to get to work with this ridiculously talented 2.5 team and I believe we can fill the stage with laughter that will echo in viewers' homes," said Kutcher in a press release. "I can't replace Charlie Sheen but I'm going to work my ass off to entertain the hell out of people!"
Kutcher had teased the announcement on his Twitter page Thursday evening, writing, "what's the square root of 6.25?" (That's 2.5 for those too lazy to look it up).
He'll bring a devoted, young fanbase to "Men," according to The Hollywood Reporter. Long before Charlie Sheen discovered the joys of tweeting, Kutcher boasted millions of followers on Twitter. Speaking of millions, there are talks that Kutcher will be getting a "huge payday" to join the CBS show, The Hollywood Reporter said.
Embattled show creator Chuck Lorre also weighed in on the announcement.
"We are so lucky to have someone as talented, joyful and just plain remarkable as Ashton joining our family," he said in a statement. "Added to that is the deep sigh of relief knowing that our family stays together. If I was any happier, it'd be illegal."
Earlier this week, Hugh Grant was said to have been in the running to join the show.
Kutcher joins the cast of "Men" after having starred in a string of not-so-Oscar-worthy films like "Killers" and "Valentine's Day."
The Iowa native is also responsible for MTV's "Punk'd" and has etched a spot in stoner-film history for his role in 2000's "Dude, Where's My Car?"
No word on whether Mr. Demi Moore's wife will cameo on his new gig.


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I was watching a set of five clips from ANC Talkback two nights ago. I downloaded these video clips during the most recent Observance of the EDSA Revolution this year, but did not have the luxury of time to view them then. Also available in YouTube, the clips were originally aired live in 2010 during the 25th Anniversary of EDSA. Tina Monzon-Palma hosted the ANC Talkback: Remembering EDSA, PMA Class of 1986 and asked: Have PMA Graduates lived up to the values of Courage, Integrity and Loyalty?
The talk show featured four PMA Alumni from Sinagtala Class of 1986, namely: Sr. Supt. Guillermo A Molina, LTC Gilbert I. Gapay, Sr. Supt. Archie F.F. Gamboa, and Capt. Irving D. Fajardo [PN. Ret.]. Except for Molina, a turned-back cadet, the three were original Sinagtala mistahs. What interested me was the second segment of that show. The following transcript is the gist of that conversation:
ANC Talkback: Remembering EDSA, PMA Class of 1986 2/5
Gapay: In fact, it was in 1983 also, wherein the whole class walked out. We were the only Class who [sic] walked out.
Tina Monzon-Palma [TMP]: Walked out of classes?
Gapay: Yes . . [inaudible]
TMP: And then what did you do?
Gapay: We're protesting a decision of the PMA leadership then, regarding some of our classmates ah who were involved in hazing . .. apparently in a hazing incident wherein we strongly believe that not all those in the room were actually . .. involved in the hazing incident, but ah everybody was summarily ah judged upon and ah meted with a serious punishment [Emphasis added.]. And we believe ah three of ah our classmates were not really involved in that incident . . .
Gamboa: . . . just for countenancing.
Gapay: Just for countenancing. That's why ah we're standing firm. The Class' decision about it . . .
TMP: What was . . . What did the walkout consist of? You did not go to class? You left your barracks and you went to Burnham Park?
Gamboa (waving his hands): A little backgrounder. . .
TMP: Yes
Gamboa: There were seven cadets, seven [Emphasis added.] of our classmates were charged of hazing, but three were charged of countenancing, meaning to say . . .
TMP: Did hazing related to a death?
Gamboa (seemingly unsure): No, not at actually (smiling). The three were charged for countenancing, meaning, despite their witnessing the event, they did not report the incident, which is actually a violation under the regulations, The Grey Book, our Regulations book in the Academy. So, we appealed the decision, meaning to say, we wanted to appeal for a lesser penalty for these three, because . .
TMP: And what . . .What were you in PMA then? You were the Baron?
Gamboa: We were second years [sic]?
TMP: Ah, okay.
Gamboa: We had a set of officers . . . I think you were president then [to Gapay] . . . the President was Rozz Briguez.
TMP: And then what happened?
Gamboa: So when we appealed . . . ah to put it mildly there was a process supposed to be followed under administrative remedies were not followed. So, the. .. . the appeal that we had falled [sic] on deaf ears. So even if we talked to the higher-ups in the Academy from the Commandant up to the Superintendent they did not really know about the idea because the case did not choose them. But nevertheless, there was no action, so what we did was we had a coordinated action to resign en masse, so that the Academy authorities . ..
Gamboa: en masse?
TMP: What is resigning en masse?
Gamboa: Meaning to say, we resign as a class . ..
Gapay: . . as a group.
TMP: You gave up all of the . . . two years?
Molina, Gapay, Gamboa: Yes, yes.
Gamboa: So when we . . . when we resigned, the final act there was, we went walking out of the Academy.
TMP: You submitted a Letter of Resignation? Each one of you?
Gamboa: Yeah. Yeah! Yes . . signed by all of us.
TMP: Signed by all of you?
Gamboa: By all members of Class '86.[Emphasis added.] So when . . .. when . . . after that we went out of the Academy, we stayed in Baguio for three days for the negotiation because we have agreed that if they would not act on our request after three days, we would go down to Aguinaldo for . . because the CC . . the Cadet Corps of the Armed Forces of the Philippines is under the Department of National Defense. So, our appeal then was . . . would go to Aguinaldo. But there were negotiations: We went back to . .. in the Academy, our three classmates were retained, they were not discharged but we were punished for a year.
Mistahs, kindly check your facts, your math, as well as your arguments. First, there were SIX cadets charged with hazing: Dodie, Santi, Joel, Boy, Ayie and Gil. Dodie was a turned-back cadet from Class '85, Bart was turned-back from Class '83[?]. The last four were bonafide members of Sinagtala Class of 1986. Two were members of the Class '86 Silent Drill Company and belonged to the top ten academically in two semesters during their plebe years and both were consistent Dean Listers until their second year. The last four names were all present when the Class voted for the name to call themselves collectively, Sinagtala, a beacon of light!
Mathematically, seven minus six is ONE. Six plus three is NINE! Let us then suppose that both the turn-back cadets were not included in the count, thus seven minus three cadets charged for countenancing is FOUR. Eureka! But had everyone forgotten that particular Sinagtala punchline: 'Once a Sinagtala, always a Sinagtala.' When the two turn-back cadets, Dodie and Bart, rejoined the Cadet Corps, they officially became members of Sinagtala Class, too!
The three cadets referred to in the talk show became the prosecution witnesses against six of their own mistahs. Not everybody in that Room 313, which contained five double-decker bunks occupied by ten cadets, in the Melchor Hall was summarily judged upon and meted with a serious punishment. Only the SIX cadets named here, excluding the three cadets referred to in the talk show, were tried under a General Court Martial for Serious Physical Injuries and meted with Three Years Imprisonment with Hard Labor. The SIX cadets named here had no knowledge then about the walk-out, thus were NOT signatories of the Letter of Resignation. The SIX cadets named here only learned about the walk-out when three [3] Lieutenants of PMA Class '83 came to visit them a day after.
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Well, Friday Visuals didn't have quite the right "ring" to it!
I like Fridays. I suppose most people do, especially when it marks the end of the working week. Even when I worked peculiar shift hours, like a 12 hour day on Fridays, and more than one job, I still liked Fridays. Probably something we learn in early childhood when we're shunted off to that nine-to-three-Monday-to-Friday existence for 10 or 12 years.
We used to call it "POETS Day." Desks would be cleared in time for Happy Hour at whichever watering hole was in favour.
In New Zealand and Australia, until the 1960s, pubs closed at 6pm, leading to the mad dash for a pint being known as the "six o'clock swill."
The Station Hotel, in Auckland, worked a neat little loophole in the law: because the Station had a restaurant, patrons could sign "the dinner register" and drink at the bar until "a table became available." Lost count of the times I signed that book! Oh! I've just remembered that I actually did have dinner there one night.A "geen u wine" business dinner!
But what about the visuals? I hear you clamour…how about a picture of an orchid? Dendrobium crenutatum, the dove orchid. You can stand all day with a hose running on it, but it only flowers after rain. And the flowers wither after a day or so, but they are incredibly spicy-sweet!
This one is wired onto a piece of a branch as they're happy little epiphytes, but I've seen pictures of them in the ground.
I think some of my readers might be impressed by this art display. I certainly was! I wonder how long it took her to thread all those things!
Among the sounds I often hear at night, when neighbouring ghetto-blasters and tyre-squealers are silenced, are the calls of Whistling Ducks.
This is a lousy poorly-lit photo I took last week at my local green waste facility (poncey term for rubbish dump!). What about those tiger stripes!This pair seems to have made a cosy home in the dump superintendent's garden area. I say "pair" as they seem to be a ducky item and this is breeding season. I've never managed to get close enough to photograph them til now as wild ones tend to be on the skittish side. But the dump man says they are used to him and would not mind my presence. Too bad they wanted to stay in the shade! Here's a better one.And here's an audio clip.
But Fridays do have a down-side for me – it's mowing day up the back. This means a VERY LOUD petrol-driven leaf blower (the wife hates any mess on her lawn), followed by a petrol-driven line trimmer(weed-eater, I think locals call it), also VERY LOUD. Sometimes, he uses a miniature chain saw to trim palm fronds and, yes, it's LOUD. And for the finale, a !##**&!! LOUD lawn mower. And this morning, I have three neighbours in concert.A sort of four stroke roundelay. Suburban life…
A koel, through the screened (and rain-dirty) window – not bad! Of course, he flew away the minute I went outside!Probably fed up with the incessant bloody noise!
Here's a little something to leave you laughing


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Purdue's beef evaluation program receives 10,000th bull
May 17, 2013
Extension's Indiana Beef Evaluation Program received its 10,000th bull during
the spring 2013 test. The Angus bull, pictured above, was delivered by Mark
Underwood (left) of North Manchester, Ind. Dan Perry (right) of the
Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center, tags the animal's ear for identification.
(Purdue Agricultural Communication photo/Jennifer Stewart)
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue Extension's Indiana Beef Evaluation Program received its 10,000th bull during this year's summer test - the station's 72nd test since the program's inception in 1976.
The test station, part of the Feldun-Purdue Agricultural Center near Bedford, houses bulls for 146 days each summer and fall: a 21-day pretest period and a 125-day test period. Animals are evaluated for genetic defects, growth, meat quality, structural and breeding soundness and expected progeny differences, or EPDs.
The top two-thirds of bulls successfully completing each test are eligible for auction at the end of each test cycle.
"The test provides education and opportunities for breeders to see how their bulls perform compared with other breeders' bulls in a real, on-farm environment," said Terry Stewart, Purdue animal sciences professor and Indiana Beef Evaluation Program secretary and treasurer. "We also feel confident we have been able to improve the genetics of Indiana's breeding herd through the sales of high-quality bulls. But the sale is secondary to educating producers and providing them with reliable data."
The 10,000th animal to enter the test is an Angus bull owned by Dennis Dolph of Walkerton, Ind. The bull was delivered by Mark Underwood of North Manchester, Ind., whose family has been entering bulls into the IBEP since the program began.
"The evaluation program is really neat because bulls are compared with others from multiple states," Underwood said. "The test takes place in a real-world environment. It's what you would see on the farm.
"What's unique about the program is that bulls are tested on the things that matter to cattle producers on the farm."
The summer test, which includes 64 bulls from 28 owners representing four breeds and five states, will conclude in September. Eligible bulls will be offered for sale on October 19 at the Springville Feeder Auction.
For producers who want to enter bulls for the next round of testing, the entry deadline is September 27 and delivery for the winter test will be October 29. Bulls must meet eligibility requirements, including birth date, weight and absence of lethal genes. A full list and more information about the IBEP are available on the program website at http://www.ansc.purdue.edu/ibep/index.htm
The cost per bull entered in the summer test is expected to be about $820, but it fluctuates between tests because of feed prices. The cost includes everything: yardage, feeding, veterinary care and data.
Producers whose animals are sale-eligible are not required to enter their bulls in the auction. But bulls entered in the April 2013 sale earned an average of $3,290 per animal. The sale minimum is $1,700 per bull.
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