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About The Foundation
The Brighter Together Foundation was established in 2017 and is led by Limelife by Alcone sales directors and corporate officers. The purpose of this foundation is to foster the innate entrepreneurial spirit of women in the most impoverished societies around the world.To serve this mission, the Brighter Together Foundation is a global partner with Project Concern International's (PCI) Women Empowered (WE) Initiative. This highly-successful, savings-led microfinancing program teaches women how to:
- • start and build a business
- • save profits from that business, and then
- • combine the savings to create community-led microfinancing programs.
- • Be powerful leaders in their communities
WE members pool their own savings and make loans to one another, and PCI provides these women with comprehensive knowledge, training, and guidance to start and build their own successful business. What makes the WE Initiative special is that PCI further trains these female business owners to become leaders in their community, increasing their economic, cultural, and political status. WE members have demonstrated a 17% increase in their participation in household decision-making, and are better able to provide for their families' health and education needs.
Funding for the Brighter Together efforts comes from rank promotion donations, sales of custom collections, and contributions from our sales field. Our foundation passes the majority of its funding directly to PCI and uses a small portion to host the bi-annual Women's Leadership Summit.A significant 89% of PCI's funding goes directly to entrepreneurial field training and support.
The Brighter Together Foundation has already helped over 13,000 women receive entrepreneurial training in Tanzania, India, Guatemala, and Burundi.
About The Women
Londy and her husband and three children live in the community of Cipresales in Mixco, Guatemala. Londy and other moms were skeptical at first about joining a WE group to learn business skills and save money. But as they shared their experiences, supported one another, and saw their group savings add up, they began to invest back into their neighborhood. Londy saved enough money to have electric service installed in her home and fix the roof. She then began to set goals for herself and her family.
"Now I am beginning a new cycle, and I want to save this year so that my husband and I can enroll our three children in school next year and give them the opportunity to study that we didn't have."
"My dream to become an architect is reflected in one of my children and that is why we want to keep saving," she shared.
"What begins as a dream based on the confidence we are building as women, can become a reality just like the savings we are building."
"I have learned something very important," said Londy.
"We women can make decisions and we have rights; we can be leaders and we play an important role in the community and in our families."
Damas De Ahorro/Guatemala
PCI's Women Empowered (WE) group in Nojaya, Guatemala, "Damas de Ahorro" (Ladies who Save), demonstrated the importance of working together and following an action plan to achieve their collective vision as a group. When they reached their savings goal, they felt a sense of overwhelming confidence and thought, "We can do anything!" They developed a second group action plan to install a micro-irrigation system on a piece of rented land, test a small harvest, and gauge yield and profitability.
With technical support from PCI, the group members purchased the materials and learned how to install and manage the system. Many of the group members' husbands got involved, supporting the installation, bringing organic fertilizer and helping to manage the harvest. After four months, the group used the first yield of corn to make cornbread and sold it in the community.
The women of Damas de Ahorro recognize these successes as a result of their ability to band together as a group. They say that the most important lesson they have learned through WE is there is a great strength in numbers. With the new micro-irrigation system, their next steps are to plan for a larger investment and yield in order to maximize profits and continue to prove themselves as real change agents for their families and in their community.
Chunchun's village is isolated from most of the world for several months of the year to seasonal flooding, causing food shortages and a lack of access to clean water and health care. Sadly, Chunchun lost a newborn boy and girl because of no access to proper care. She also experienced a devastating miscarriage.
Chunchun's neighbors reached out and invited her to meet with a group of women in her community for support and advice about healthy living. The women's group is part of Project Concern International's Women Empowered (WE) Initiative group called Parivartan- which means "transformation" in the Hindi Language. The program empowers thousands of community groups in India.
With time, Chunchun became pregnant again but she developed severe swelling in her feet and hands after seven months into her pregnancy. Panicked, she reached out to the women in her Parivartan group for guidance and the women took her to a primary health clinic. With proper care, the swelling subsided and Chunchun returned to the same clinic two months later and gave birth to a healthy baby girl. She received antenatal care and learned how to keep herself and her baby healthy. Today, Chunchun is a leader in her own right by stepping out of her comfort zone and seeking guidance and support. And thanks to the unique collaboration of Parivartan, Chunchun's baby has a healthy start at life.
PCI's pilot partnership in Tanzania with Solar Sister is providing opportunities for new electricity access and economic empowerment for women and their families. The confidence, leadership skills and social cohesion women gain through our WE program, combined with economic access through partners like Solar Sister, result in real and sustainable impact. PCI and Solar Sister are working together to scale this win-win partnership to bring clean energy access to many more communities.
Zuhura is a WE group member and social entrepreneur in Tanzania who purchased portable solar lights and energy-saving cook stoves through her local Solar Sister who is also a WE member. The savings by switching to clean energy is helping Zuhura expand her personal business of selling secondhand clothing and provide for her six children. She replaced the family's old kerosene lights and stove, and her family can now breathe easier.
For Jovina, Zuhura's 12-year-old daughter, having a solar light at home also means being able to finish her homework. The solar light produces reliable, brighter light, and Jovina can focus on her studies and her future, even after dusk.
You'd be hard pressed to find a time when Lemmy isn't laughing or wearing a smile. Even so, the 51-year-old mother from Tanzania has known profound grief and loss.
After losing a teenage daughter to a sudden case of malaria and her husband to diabetes, Lemmy was left to care for her remaining eight children alone. Despite the adversity, she fought hard to support her children, prioritize their education and use her skills as a farmer and tailor to stitch together a better life.
Eventually, through PCI's Women Empowered (WE) Initiative, Lemmy and other women from her village formed a savings and lending group called Tumaini. In Swahili, this means "Hope." In addition to helping Lemmy gain access to small loans to support her children's education and generate more income, the WE group also helped her find strength in a new role. Recognizing her leadership abilities, Lemmy's community nominated her to become a WE Community Facilitator. Now, she oversees eight WE groups that help other local women connect to life-changing activities and support.
Join Our Efforts
If you want to join our efforts, you can send a donation to:
The Brighter Together Foundation
c/o Limelife by Alcone
5-45 49th Avenue
Long Island City, NY 11101
Shop our Custom Collections with the Brighter Together icon.
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Last week, selectmen were expected to review the proposed budgets for the town's planning board, library, summer recreation department, code enforcement office, Memorial Day observation, dispatching service, highway department and relief funds. On Wednesday, Jan. 30, selectmen will meet to review the proposed budgets for the Lebanon Rescue Department, the town's insurance, legal fees, General Assistance and contingency funds.
The Lebanon Budget Committee will hold its first meeting of the season in the professional development classroom at the Hanson School on Wednesday, Feb. 6, at 6:30 p.m.
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All of the meetings are open to the public.
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FOOTHILL RANCH, CA – August 10, 2009 – Arnette is proud to announce that Ford Archbold is the newest member of its surf squad.
"Ford is an amazing addition to the team," says Arnette Brand Manager, Joe Freitag. "He represents the next generation of surfers who are taking the sport to a whole new level. His positive attitude and unique, progressive style make him a perfect fit for Arnette, and we are truly excited to welcome him to the family."
Born and raised in Newport Beach, CA, Ford grew up surfing with his legendary dad, Matt Archbold, and it shows. Now 18, Ford has been killing it for years. Known to rock an ear-to-ear smile all the time, in the coming year he will hit the road for photo shoots and to compete in ASP North America Pro Junior contests. Ford is extremely motivated and hopes to earn a spot on the WCT sometime within the next six years. Definitely keep an eye on this kid, because he's the real deal!
"I'm psyched to represent Arnette because they have a long history of having amazing surfers on the team," Ford says. "I'm stoked to slap a sticker on my board and represent them in and out of the water."
In addition to Arnette, Ford also surfs for RVCA and Etnies.
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Quick Fact: IBD again pushing discredited claim that affordable housing caused financial collapse
An Investor's Business Daily editorial advanced the discredited claim that efforts to "facilitate homeownership among minorities" and the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) "undermined the financial system" and "started" the "financial collapse." Numerous experts, including Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke, have said that the CRA did not contribute to the crisis "in any substantive way."
IBD claim that CRA "started it all" echoes previously debunked claim that the law "forced banks to make many more subprime loans"
IBD states that minority homeownership initiatives and "the Community Reinvestment Act ... started it all." From the January 21 IBD editorial:
But Wall Street didn't cause the collapse -- government did . And this call for tougher rules is yet another attempt to escape blame. All Glass-Steagall did was let bank holding companies buy into investment banks. What undermined the financial system was a fanatical application of rules aimed at getting banks to lend as much money as possible to facilitate homeownership among minorities.
It was the government, not Wall Street, that created the subprime market by compelling banks to make bad loans and urging Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to cash out the banks by putting more and more of the toxic mortgages on their balance sheets.
The administration apparently hasn't given a thought to limiting, let alone blocking the proposed expansion of, the Community Reinvestment Act that started it all. Or to reining in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-created monsters that aided and abetted the meltdown.
Echoing numerous other conservatives, previous IBD editorial claimed that CRA "forced banks to make many more subprime loans." A September 25, 2008, Investor's Business Daily editorial claimed the CRA "forced banks to make many more subprime loans." As Media Matters for America has documented, numerous media conservatives have advanced the discredited claim that the CRA was responsible for the financial crisis.
FACT: Experts say CRA did not contribute to financial crisis "in any substantive way"
Bernanke: Experience "runs counter to the charge that CRA was at the root of, or otherwise contributed in any substantive way to, the current mortgage difficulties." In a November 25, 2008, letter, Bernanke stated: "Our own experience with CRA over more than 30 years and recent analysis of available data, including data on subprime loan performance, runs counter to the charge that CRA was at the root of, or otherwise contributed in any substantive way to, the current mortgage difficulties."
SF Reserve Bank's Yellen: "[S]tudies have shown that the CRA has increased the volume of responsible lending to low- and moderate-income households." Janet Yellen, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, stated in a March 2008 speech that "studies have shown that the CRA has increased the volume of responsible lending to low- and moderate-income households."
Slate's Gross: "[t]he notion that the Community Reinvestment Act is somehow responsible for poor lending decisions is absurd." In an October 7, 2008, Slate article, Daniel Gross, a business columnist for Newsweek and author of Dumb Money: How Our Greatest Financial Minds Bankrupted the Nation, criticized the notion that affordable housing initiatives caused the financial crisis, writing that "the notion that the Community Reinvestment Act is somehow responsible for poor lending decisions is absurd" and that "lending money to poor people and minorities isn't inherently risky. There's plenty of evidence that in fact it's not that risky at all." Gross further explained, "On the other hand, lending money recklessly to obscenely rich white guys ... can be really risky. In fact, it's even more risky, since they have a lot more borrowing capacity."


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|Hidden Full Moon
|Ghost on Stairs
And we love to hear them, to be scared by them. Just look at the number of urban legends, ghost stories and horrifying tales that are on the internet. Not to mention the recent incursion of paranormal shows on television and radio.
|Old Man
|Pliny the Younger
|Soul Departing Body
|Pirate Ghost
|Ann Boleyn's Ghost
|Haunted U.S.
Native Americans would tell spirit stories around campfires as a way to instill values, strengthen their history, and help preserve their culture. Most of these stories involved morals aimed at making the younger members of the community think about their actions and decisions.
|From Lithobolia
|New Hampshire
|George Washington
|Union Troops
President George Washington's ghost appeared to Union soldiers outside of Gettysburg during the bloody battle. Washington appeared on a white stallion, raised up his sword and issued the command, "Fix bayonets. Charge!" The Union soldiers, following his order, charged down the hill and forced the Confederates into a full retreat. It is said that Washington can still be seen each summer, galloping across the battlefield of Gettysburg.
|Benjamin Franklin
|Franklin's Statue
|Abraham Lincoln
|Lincoln's Ghost
|M.R. James
|Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol
|The Turn of the Screw
Today, we can sit in the comfort of our living rooms and be scared silly watching such television shows as Ghost Mine, Ghost Hunters, Stalked by a Ghost, and Notorious Hauntings. And since the 1970s, movies about ghosts have been an extremely popular genre.
Urban legends are our modern versions of folklore; they change as our world changes but they still echo our fears and provide us with an ethical message couched in a cautionary tale, warning us about what could happen if we take something too far.
|The Hammersmith Ghost
~ Joy
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This passage has a brighter, bouncier sound. It doesn't require as much from your hands physically, but all of the fun factor is still there. Clean up your sound a bit and give this one a try!
Taught by Stuart Ziff in Rockabilly With Stuart Ziff seriesLength: 4:16Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
Learn the styles of Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and more! Join Stuart Ziff in a comprehensive study and application of Rockabilly guitar.
Lesson 1
Learn the styles of Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Gene Vincent and more! Join Stuart Ziff in a comprehensive study and application of Rockabilly guitar. Learn with real musical examples and composed material...Length: 4:41 Difficulty: 0.0 FREE
Lesson 2
Stuart will go into detail about what you need to know and be able to play in order to get the most out of this series. He'll discuss certain stylistic techniques and talk a little about gear and setup....Length: 10:16 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 3
Begin the journey of digging into the style of Carl Perkins. One of the most important aspects of Rockabilly is the 'feel'. Learn the style of one of the original guitarists that made Rock SWING!Length: 7:06 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 4
Start to look at Carl Perkins style of soloing. It's not all that different than Chuck Berry, but it tends to swing differently... Maybe a bit more Bluesy in some ways.Length: 7:42 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
Lesson 5
Continue looking at Carl Perkins and rhythm guitar. Look at an example that resembles "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby. It's a nice familiar 12 Barre Blues sound.Length: 6:17 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 6
Look at Mr. Perkins solo over an "Everybody's Trying..." style tune. He used a lot of rhythmic hooks and didn't focus too much on single note lines, but rather would use chords and single notes within...Length: 8:48 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 7
Look at another Carl Perkins rhythm loosely based on "Honey Don't" which was recorded by the Beatles. Get ready to play some seventh chords!Length: 4:53 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Now you'll get to work on the electric style of Carl Perkins as played in a song like "Honey Don't". You'll be fully exposed to the stop time feel after this lesson!Length: 5:43 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 9
Look at another interest stop time Carl Perkins rhythm on your acoustic guitar. Remember, feel and groove is the most important aspect of this style. The more you learn and practice these rhythm patterns,...Length: 5:23 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 10
Classic Carl Perkins electric guitar playing can be found HERE. Rhythm is such an important part of his lead playing. You'll also incorporate a lot of 6th chords and study the dynamic style of one of...Length: 6:33 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 11
Chord riffs and rhythm playing in the style of "Matchbox" are on the menu for this lesson that is continuing on in the style of Carl Perkins. Keep the feel!Length: 4:57 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Elvis and Rockabilly. You have the opportunity to play a rhythm that the King himself played many years ago! There's no drums on this track so the acoustic part must especially groove!Length: 5:03 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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Learn the "Tick Tack" rhythm. Dial in a subtle slap delay and play along with the bass part. The solo that you'll hear will be rooted in this rhythm and employ many double stops.Length: 4:03 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
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In this lesson you'll get a taste of the rhythm playing of Scotty Moore. Get ready to do some muting and precise, short strums. You'll get to get warmed up over a familiar E Major progression.Length: 7:25 Difficulty: 1.5 Members Only
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Back to some electric picking with this lesson. Learn about the guitar player who contributed his talents to songs like Heartbreak Hotel. Scotty Moore was ahead of his time and his style remains timeless...Length: 7:25 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 16
The sound of twang is very important in Rockabilly. It's a tone... A sound... A vibe. The master of "Twang Guitar" was a gentleman named Duane Eddy. Take a melodic idea and make it a twang-influenced...Length: 9:08 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 17
Brian Setzer brings Rockabilly into the modern era. He brought the classic swing and attitude of the music in the past and added a modern energy to it that really cooks!Length: 4:21 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 18
You got a taste of Brian Setzer rhythm in the last lesson. Dive head first into Brian's lead playing. Rhythm is such a key component to his lead style. High energy and groove are some of the main ingredients!Length: 6:15 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 19
Dive in to some Mystery Train style grooves. The Stray Cats made this kind of playing really shine. Grab your acoustic and your electric for this one and lay in to that downbeat!Length: 10:11 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 20
Clean twang sounds and nice rhythms abound in this Duane Eddy style solo. After mastering the rhythms of the last lesson, try your hands at this solo!Length: 6:57 Difficulty: 2.5 Members Only
Lesson 21
Consider this lesson as possibly your first introduction to Gene Vincent. His playing, in this context really encapsulate what Rockabilly is all about. You've got to get this and the next rhythm part...Length: 6:37 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 22
Let's look at the electric guitar part present over the acoustic part learned in the last lesson. You'll get to play in the style of Cliff Gallup and pick up some tasty licks! This will be good prep...Length: 8:43 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 23
You were warned! Hopefully you're good and warmed up from practicing the last two parts and ready to take on a new challenge. There's a little speed and some classic Cliff Gallup phrasing in this solo!Length: 4:38 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 24
This passage has a brighter, bouncier sound. It doesn't require as much from your hands physically, but all of the fun factor is still there. Clean up your sound a bit and give this one a try!Length: 4:16 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 25
We've been studying the style of Cliff Gallup over the last several lessons, specifically looking at his lead style. This is the last passage of this solo spanning multiple lessons. It contains some...Length: 3:03 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 26
The artist is Ricky Nelson. The legendary James Burton is represented here. You'll get to work on both electric and acoustic guitar parts.Length: 7:27 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 27
Look at a solo by one of the greatest Tele players that walked the planet! They start out a bit like Chuck Berry, but higher up on the neck, and there is a bit more 'range' to them... Kinda like blending...Length: 3:20 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 28
Work on a song based on the legendary "Waitin' In School" featuring Joe Maphis. Maphis was the kind of Country back in the 50s and 60s... A fantastic flatpicker! Combine some cool Country with some Rockabilly...Length: 5:36 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 29
In this lesson we're going to look at the solo from Joe Maphis based on the track that we worked on in the last lesson. Mr. Ziff reveres this solo as one of the best of all time!Length: 7:10 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Again, featuring Joe Maphis on guitar, you'll get to learn a style based on a song called "Stood Up". In this lesson, look at the rhythm part. It's simple and straight forward.Length: 3:59 Difficulty: 1.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
This lesson is going to be flavored like a jam between Joe Maphis and James Burton. You'll get to dive into two distinctive Rockabilly lead styles!Length: 7:14 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 32
Learn the solo like what Joe Maphis may have played from this track based on "Stood Up". It's based on a lot of cool rhythm stuff, but you're not just playing chords. Dig in and have fun!Length: 5:19 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 33
Let's look at some Cliff Gallup in this lesson. Cliff had a lot of influence on guys like Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck. As usual, we'll look at the acoustic part of our track first. Become part of the groove...Length: 6:13 Difficulty: 2.0 Members Only
Lesson 34
We're going to learn a couple of solo breaks in the style of Cliff Gallup in this lesson based on a tune that Gene Vincent did called "Racin' With The Devil". Roll up your sleeves and lets get at it!Length: 5:49 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 35
Learn a Carl Perkins solo in the style of Matchbox, a song that was covered by the Beatles. You'll start off with some lower register single notes and then work up the neck in typical Perkins fashion....Length: 3:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 36
You'll be playing over a Carl Perkins track, but you'll get to borrow from many of the influences you've been studying over the length of this course and working on improvising your own solo!Length: 5:57 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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A veteran guitarist fluent in, Blues, R&B, Funk, Rock, Reggae and everything in between. As a Studio Musician playing guitar on numerous commercials, demos for singer-songwriters and records.
A career as a songwriter that began with Warner Bros recording artist David Ball's first Nashville CD in 1994 " Thinking Problem ." Stuart was co writer on the hit song " Thinking Problem." Also playing on the record supplying acoustic and electric guitar. Since 2000, He's been living in Los Angles.
Presently the Guitarist for the band WAR, touring and recording with them. As a songwriter for Film & TV: " National Lampoons Cattle Call ," Americas Funniest Home Videos and Bad Girls. Songs on recordings by Eric Burden, Johnny Adams, Gary Hoey and Theresa James. Since 2005, a member of the faculty at Musician's Institute in Hollywood.
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It's all about summer festival fun here at Bluestone this August. But don't just take our word for it… Welsh rugby international and Ospreys No.8 Ryan Jones has been finding out for himself, and he loved it.
Our Summer Festival is all about getting the family together for some free range fun activities and enjoying the carnival atmosphere in the spectacular 500 acres of Pembrokeshire countryside we have here.
Ryan decided to come to Bluestone after his hectic rugby season – what with the Six Nations and all that – and the Wales tour Down Under. What better way to relax and recover than a luxury short break at Bluestone National Park Resort!
"When you've been playing all season, then having the Six Nations Grand Slam success before the tour Down Under, there comes a time when you just need to say 'right, we're getting away to chill.' And that's what we've done at Bluestone," said Ryan.
"But as usual I can't sit still and the preparations for the Bluestone Summer Festival looked like a bit of an opportunity to have some fun. We've been trying out the samba drum session which is just great – plenty of energy used and a lot of fun – as well as loads of other activities."
He added: "A week away from it all and it puts everything back in to perspective. Chilling with a few cheeky drinks, a splash about in the Blue Lagoon waterpark, some great food, and a bit of a treat at The Well Spa. Well, we all need some TLC. And I know the other lads and their families will be doing the same."
From samba drumming, coracle racing, street dance and all kinds of messy fun for the little ones, there's a host activities that'll suit everyone. And these all culminate into our great Carnival Parade each Thursday and Sunday evening when the youngsters show off everything they've learned and made.
They tour the village with new friends they've made banging their drums, wearing there face masks and street dancing before meeting in the village green for a party with family, friends and other guests before the lighting of the fire sculpture.
The Bluestone Summer Festival culminates in a flamboyant Summer Carnival weekend on the 1st and 2nd September.
Our team have been working with the great people at SWICA (who run the Cardiff Carnival that we sponsored this year) to put on some great carnival capers and activities.
So come along to Bluestone for a great short break and get into the summer festival spirit.
Categories:Events and Whats On, Activities, Summer


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Reading english proverbs in english articles that are equal to german proverbs always makes me ask if the article has been written by a german trying to write english (much like I do ;-). So I found some proverbs that I just wanted to archive for later reference. If you know some more, let me […]
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[misc] Incomplete List of Proverbs Equal in German and English
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Mulling syrup
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal15
- fat0g
- saturates0g
- carbs4g
- sugars4g
- fibre0g
- protein0g
- salt0g
- 250g caster or granulated sugar
- 2 oranges, halved
One of the best-known citrus fruits, oranges aren't necessarily orange - some varieties are…
- 6 whole cloves
A clove is the dry, unopened flower bud of the tropical myrtle tree family used to flavour a…
- 6 whole allspice
- 2 cinnamon sticks
- ¼ nutmeg, freshly grated
One of the most useful of spices for both sweet and savoury…
- small piece ginger, sliced
Mainly grown in Jamaica, Africa, India, China and Australia, ginger is the root of the plant. It…
Put all the ingredients into a saucepan with 1 litre water and bring slowly to a simmer, making sure all the sugar has been completely dissolved. Turn down the heat and simmer for 20 mins. Leave to cool, then strain through a very fine sieve.
Sterilise your bottles by washing them in hot soapy water, rinsing well, then drying them in a warm oven. Meanwhile, rewarm the syrup until just hot, then pour into the bottles while still hot and seal.
Before giving away, add labels with serving instructions: Heat 400ml syrup with 750ml red wine or cider and some slices of orange or apple. Syrup will keep in a cool, dark place for up to 3 months.
Recipe Tip
Presenting your giftMake up a kit as a gift by tying some cinnamon sticks to the neck of the bottle with ribbon, and accompanying it with a good red wine. You can buy nice preserving bottles from lakeland.co.uk.


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In Japan, there are tons of adult movies based on video games and anime. A good way to judge the popularity of a game or a cartoon is to see if it's inspiring blue movie adaptations.
Is new anime Sword Art Online popular in Japan? Well, as porn star Hibiki Otsuki has revealed, she is starring in an X-rated version of it, slated for next spring... And that's actually a pretty nice outfit.
In case you missed them, here are Kotaku's impressions of Sword Art Online (the anime, not the adult video.)
衣装はソ◯ド◯ート・オ◯ラ◯ン( ^ω^ )TMAさんから3月頃に発売予定! [@hibiki0221]
Kotaku East is your slice of Asian internet culture, bringing you the latest talking points from Japan, Korea, China and beyond. Tune in every morning from 4am to 8am.


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A reading program on the chopping block drew an overflow crowd to the Pleasanton school board meeting Tuesday night, spilling out from the boardroom and into the hall and entryway.
The crowd, all wearing green "reading is fundamental" stickers, pleaded for the board to save the Barton Reading Program for students who have problems reading. More than a dozen spoke, including some of the students currently in the program, which currently has 150 students receiving tutoring three times a week, with five participating elementary schools, two middle schools, and a high school.
"If you can't read, you can't succeed," said Ed McGovern, a retired pediatrician who told the board he himself has a mild form of dyslexia.
Nancy denBroeder, a Barton facilitator at Foothill High School, told the board her son went through the program with great results.
"I don't understand how anything to do with reading is on the cut list," Dunbarton said, calling Barton an "amazing" intervention program. "Reading is everything. It's the basis of whatever everything else is about."
Emmeline Chen called on the board to make cuts to administration.
"I encourage you to sacrifice at the district level. I implore you -- see what else there is to be cut," she said, asking management to give up some of their salaries and noting that, unlike administrators, Barton volunteers don't get car allowances.
While Barton appears at the top of the cut list, Superintendent Parvin Ahmadi told the crowd that the cuts are not in priority order.
The pleas brought a mixed reaction from the board, with board President Joan Laursen in favor of making the proposed cuts as they are, members Jeff Bowser and Chris Grant encouraging people to support the program through donations, and members Jamie Hintzke and Valerie Arkin asking staff to find other cuts.
"Anything we cut, we do risk it not coming back," Arkin said.
A list of cuts with some potential new proposals is expected to be passed at the board's Feb. 28 meeting.
Ahmadi, filling in for Luz Cazares, assistant superintendent of business services, briefed the board on state budget reductions, which at best would cost the district $150,000 and at worst could mean about $5.5 million in cuts. The difference depends on the passage of Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed referendum on tax increases in November. The district must send out layoff notices based on the worst-case scenario.
Some jobs could be restored by the Pleasanton Partnerships In Education (PPIE), which brought in just over $300,000 from its most recent fundraising drive. The amount donated was down from the more than $373,000 raised last year, meaning some of the programs restored through the current school year won't be funded for the 2012-13 school year.
PPIE, after discussions with parents, teachers and administrators, decided to fund two hours of technology specialists and one reading specialist for elementary schools at a cost of $186,000, three hours of middle school technology specialists at a cost of $56,000, and it donated $44,000 to the high schools for technology, which will be divided based on student population and spent at the discretion of the principals.
Sandy Piderit, a former candidate for the school board, told the board there's a push for a November ballot initiative to create a dedicated fund for schools that could not be diverted for other state purposes and would be locally controlled. Proponents of the idea, called "Our Children, Our Future," are gathering signatures now.
In other business, a search and seizure policy that could bring drug dogs onto the district's three high schools got its first hearing Tuesday night. Kevin Johnson, senior director of pupil services, worked with the California School Board Association to come up with language that would allow for the dogs, but bumped language that could allow the district to install metal detectors.
The proposed policy brought some disagreement about the possibility of setting a maximum number of times a year the dogs could visit any campus. Arkin wanted to set a maximum of eight times a year.
"It would give assurance that we're not going to be bringing in the dogs every chance we get," she said. The idea got support from Hintzke and Laursen, although Laursen wanted a larger number of allowable visits.
Bowser, however, disagreed.
"It sounds like you want to provide assurances," he said, "but in our policy searches are defined. What is it you're trying to protect the students from?"
Ahmadi settled the matter by telling board members that the searches would not be a matter of course.
"I think setting a maximum number is irrelevant," Ahmadi said. "As a superintendent, I would not approve one every week. I'm hoping the community will trust us in making good decisions, knowing that our intention isn't to do this every time we have a chance to do it."
Parking lot searches included in the policy also got questioned by Hintzke. She pointed out that while students at Amador Valley High School aren't allowed to go to their cars during school, Foothill students can come and go from their parking lots.
Johnson said restricting students from the parking lots at Foothill would be more difficult because the layout of the school is different than at Amador. He said the idea of closing the Foothill lots during the day has been discussed with Principal John Dwyer who resisted the idea because he didn't want to punish students who hadn't done anything wrong.
Arkin also questioned language in the policy that allowed administrators to search student desks, worrying that contraband discovered in a search might not belong to the student at the desk at that time; Johnson said, as is the case with drug detection dogs, that every student gets the opportunity to present her or his side of the case.
Arkin also brought up that the proposed policy allows for searches at school events, which, she said, was not discussed when drug detection dogs were first brought up as an idea.
The policy is expected to be approved at the Feb. 28 board meeting.
Board members also got a detailed view of how different minority groups are performing on state tests. Some district schools are on improvement plans to increase scores for specific subgroups, and the data is being used to tailor programs at different schools to address students who are below proficient or well below proficient in math and English.
Piderit was the sole speaker at the board's public hearing on what the district and Association of Pleasanton Teachers (APT) will bring up during contract negotiations.
"It's going to be a tough bargaining year. I'm glad you're reopening benefits," she said, adding she supports the idea of phasing out post-employment health benefits for retirees.
The district will bring issues about retirement benefits, hours of employment, class sizes, salaries and the school calendar to the bargaining table, while APT wants to negotiate on reassignments and transfers, health and welfare benefits, salaries, retirement benefits and the school calendar.
The board unanimously approved a complicated formula that would be used to decide on layoffs and to break ties from teachers with the same length of service, but squabbled over the relatively minor issue of appointing the two members to serve on the board governance committee, which could make changes to how the agenda is formatted. Hintzke and Arkin wanted to be appointed, but Laursen and Bowser wanted Laursen to be one of those appointed. Grant suggested that the issue be discussed before the entire board and that was unanimously approved.


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Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.
– Matthew 28:19-20
– The Tradition of Christianity –
In Praise and Memory of the the Romanovs, a Family of New Saints
This post is in honor and memory of the Romanov family who were murdered by the Bolsheviks on July 17, 1918. They have recently been canonized as Saints by the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and as Passion-bearers by the Russian Orthodox Church. This new family of Saints includes St. Nicholas II, his wife St. Alexandra, along with their four daughters St. Olga, St. Tatiana, St. Maria, St. Anastasia, and their only son St. Alexei. Their new feast day is on July 17.
There is no justice among men.
– Saint Nicholas II
The Legendary Russian Princess Anastasia
Sometimes common sense gets lost in the various attempts by professional, accomplished historians to write and publish the premier text on certain key 20th century events, such as the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Indeed, even Karl Marx himself, who was baptized and raised a Protestant Lutheran, predicted that a Communist Revolution in the Russian Empire would never be successful and that the most likely candidate for a 'Worker's Paradise' was, in fact, Germany, his own native country. Regardless of the numerous, carefully detailed explanations offered by the academics, the ingredients of this real-life story still read like a fictional tragedy straight out of Kafka or Tolstoy. Consider the cast of characters:
MARX: a failed, bitter, angry Communist intellectual and journalist originating from a recently converted dynastic family of Rabbis, who courted and married a beautiful, blonde German girl of noble blood, but then managed to publish almost nothing, except a small book called 'The Communist Manifesto' written mostly by his friend and life-time 'Piggy bank' Frederick Engels.
RASPUTIN: a dirty, lecherous Russian peasant with strange, occult powers that appeared to miraculously heal the Czarevich Alexei of his terminal illness, historically known as the Mad Monk.
LENIN: a stern, politically fanatical, Russian intellectual from a upper-class background with a completely shaven head and a well-trimmed goatee who was sent back to Russia from a defeated Germany on a mysterious black train fully prepared to instigate a Revolution against the Czar.
TROTSKY: a naive, ambitious, internationalist, anti-religious son of a hard-working Jewish farmer from the Ukrainian Shetl, originally named Lev Bronstein.
STALIN: a Georgian Socialist Revolutionary expelled from Orthodox Seminary for spreading Marxism, historically known as Uncle Joe, or even the 'Gorgeous Georgian'.
Czar Nicholas II, with his wife, Alexandra, on the Left and his only Son, the Czarevich Alexei, on the Right
These days the general understanding of the Romanovs, especially that of Nicholas II, is that he was both a brutal Jew-hating dictator and an inept ruler who was destined to lose control of the Russian Empire. In reality, he was deeply Christian man far more concerned with his wife, his chidren and his religious faith, than with the diabolical schemes of Protestant German intellectuals. All things considered, the Romanovs were just as much the pawns of history as any other common family. Needless to say, the greatest tragedy about the Bolshevik Revolution that seems to get lost in the historical milieu is the fate of the Russian people, who went from being ruled by a classical autocracy to a fanatical, anti-Christian (and anti-Jewish) dictatorship who violently persecuted and oppressed their own people most of all. The now indisputable historical facts speak for themselves:
The Saint Romanov Family- Nicholas II, Alexandra, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei
Soviet Persecution and Imprisonment Facts
– In 1917, there were only 28,600 total prisoners within the Russian Empire, which was the largest prison population ever known in the history of Orthodox Christian, Imperial Russia.
– After the Communists murdered the Romanovs and took over the government, the prison population slowly exploded into the hundreds of thousands. By 1927, a mere 10 years after the Bolshevik Revolution, there were over 300,000 Soviet prisoners, tens times more than Czarist Russia ever had.
– Then, between the years 1929 and 1934, the prisoner population increased by twenty-three times, placing the total prison population in the millions.
– In comparison to Czarist Russia, 14 million Soviet prisoners passed through the Gulag from 1929 to 1953, while an additional 6 to 7 million were forcibly exiled to remote regions of the USSR.
– A 1993 study reveals that a total of 1,053,829 prisoners died in the Gulag between 1934 to 1953.
– In reality, Czarist Russia imprisoned very few of their imperial subjects, while the Communists arrested, convicted, and sentenced millions of innocent people to a life of brutal enslavement and inevitable death.
Soviet Anti-Jewish Facts
– In the summer of 1919, nearly all Jewish properties, including synagogues, were seized by the Soviet authorities. Numerous Rabbis and other religious leaders were threatened with violent persecution.
– In the mid-1930s, Stalin had any remaining Jewish leaders arrested and executed, while nearly all the Yiddish religious schools were forcibly shut down.
– By the late 1940s, the Communist party had abolished any and all Jewish religious organizations, leaving only a few, token synagogues still open and kept under strict surveillance by the KGB.
Soviet Anti-Christian Facts
– Within five years after Lenin and the Bolsheviks had seized power, 28 Russian Orthodox bishops and 1,200 priests had been executed by the Soviet authorities.
– Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, the vast majority of the Russian Orthodox Clergy, along with many of its most devout believers had been shot dead or sent to the Gulag.
– Between the years 1927 and 1949, the number of Russian Orthodox Churches dropped from 29,584 to less than 500.
– From 1917 to 1935, 130,000 Orthodox priests were arrested. 95,000 of these priests were eventually put to death by the Soviet authorities.
Czar Nicholas II with his four young daughters and only son
By tradition, individual believers who have been officially canonized by the Church are considered by the living Christian authorities to be in the Kingdom of Heaven. Those observers that continue to believe the Romanovs were arrogant, elitist tyrants, who looked down upon the Russian people, do not know their history and should take the time to look up the many historically accurate summaries of the Romanovs who happen to be some of the newest Orthodox Christian Saints in Heaven.
I have a secret conviction that I am destined for a terrible trial, that I shall not receive my reward on this earth.
– Saint Nicholas II
Saint Nicholas II, a Saint of Orthodox Christianity
As numerous documented eyewitnesses have stated, Nicholas II and his wife Alexandra did anything but spoil their children and were adamant that all of them become as well-educated and intelligent as possible. Except for the expensive outfits worn only on public occasions, they had very few personal possessions that they could call their own. Priceless gifts and diplomatic offerings were taken away and kept as additions to the Imperial collection, which was originally meant as an everlasting heritage for all of Russia. From the beginning, Nicholas II and his wife insisted their children see themselves as having been born with special burdens which included numerous God-given responsibilities and duties they had to live up to and not as superior individuals born to rule over the unruly masses. The loving relationships the children formed with the common peasants, who made up an integral part of the Imperial staff, proves this to be the case.
The Romanov Children: Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, Alexei
Perhaps an atoning sacrifice is necessary for the salvation of Russia. I shall be that sacrifice. May the will of God be done!
Czar Nicholas's Signature
For many reasons, the canonization of the Romanovs means that, even if the Russian Orthodox Church doesn't canonize every victim of Soviet persecution, those who aren't so well-known will still have an entire family of Heavenly advocates that already know first-hand what it was like to be murdered by a tyrannical regime founded upon principles violently hostile to the Judeo-Christian tradition. Likewise, if the Romanov children are anything like they were before their execution, they would probably tell you that their personal Sainthood matters far less than the well-being of every single nameless, faceless victim of the International Communist Empire who never cared for anyone at all.
A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is (just) a statistic.
– Stalin
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
– Lenin
Orthodox Christian Saint Nicholas II, his wife Saint Alexandra, their four daughters Saint Olga, Saint Tatiana, Saint Maria, Saint Anastasia, and their only Saint Alexei
May the LORD God bless you in the name of St. Judas Maccabaeus. God Save the Queen!


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Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
A langouste diver in front of Carti Cohabita. Residents of the island are scheduled to evacuate in August.
Photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen traveled from the southern tip of South America to the far reaches of Alaska on the North American continent to explore migration in the Americas. What he found both supported and defied stereotypes, which he reported on a website and an app for iPad called Via Panam.
Thousands of Kuna — indigenous people living in an archipelago off the northern coast of Panama — are facing a drastic lifestyle change because of rising seas.
Kuna Yala, or Kuna Land, is comprised of 365 islands and a narrow, 250-mile-long strip of land on the Caribbean coast. Thirty-six of the islands are inhabited.
In August, the first round of evacuations will force some Kuna to the mainland because of dangerous living conditions, affecting 65 families. Ultimately, all of the islands will be evacuated — affecting 36,000 people — and new dwellings are being built and funded on the mainland by the Panamanian government.
Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
This family has to evacuate to the mainland in August 2012.
The inhabited islands are chock full of houses built of reeds and palm leaves and no match for storms and rising water. Historically, flooding was comparatively rare, but residents now regularly contend with surging water.
Experts say sea levels rose nearly seven inches over the past century, and levels could rise another two feet by the end of this century.
The Kuna have lived on the Caribbean coast in autonomy for more than 80 years. Two centuries ago, most Kunas lived on the mainland, but they relocated to the islands following an epidemic. They make their living from fishing and farming. They grow manioc, pineapples and bananas in their small fields on the mainland, but their most lucrative crop is coconuts.
Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
One of the Carti community's two political and spiritual leaders -- and his entourage -- visit the main land where the first 65 houses will be constructed.
The Kuna form a tight-knit community, have their own language, and are well-organized. Decisions are made collectively in the Onmaked Nega — the assembly hall. Meetings are presided over by a saila, a political and spiritual leader.
The coming evacuation was debated at the hall, and was eventually approved after long discussion. Many residents are still afraid of being tricked by the state. Because they have no financial resources to build new accommodations for themselves, they ultimately agreed to the evacuation plans.
Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR
Multiple generations of this family live together on one of the islands.
K. van Lohuizen / NOOR
From Colombians fleeing war to North Americans retirees moving to Nicaragua, a photographer's journey from Chile to Alaska explores both the expected and unexpected patterns of migration in the Americas
Across the water, on the mainland, lies a 4-year-old road — the only one in the vicinity. It used to be a 12-hour walk to reach the Pan American Highway, which connects to Panama City, the country's capital. Now it takes three hours.
As a result, many of the young Kuna have left for the capital city. Conversely many more consumer goods, like televisions and Coca-Cola, now reach Kuna Yala.
Experience the entire journey, from Chile to Alaska, by exploring the slideshow at right, the Via Panam website or by downloading the app for iPad.
More Photoblogs from the Migration in the Americas series:
Mom works in US while family stays in El Salvador
US retirees flock to Nicaragua
Bolivia hopes for windfall from producing lithium for batteries


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Tabán Teázó 1013 Budapest, Attila út 27. map
Date and Time
18 June 2009 19:00
Brandon Ulrich, B2 International
If you would like to present at the DemoCamp, please feel free to add your name and topic to the list. Depending on the number of people interested we may have to limit the number of presenters and time of each demo.
- Gergely Nagy, Dependency management with Ivy and IvyDE
- Bence Oláh, JBPM Eclipse integration
- Zsolt Török, Introduction to Eclipse Riena
- Jason van Zyl, Next Generation Enterprise Builds: Maven, Mercury, and Tycho
Who Is Attending
If you plan on attending please add your name and company to the list below. We'd like to see as many people show up as possible.
- Brandon Ulrich, B2 International
- Balázs Bánfai, B2 International
- Zsolt Török, B2 International
- Szabolcs Bárdy, B2 International
- Gergely Nagy, B2 International
- István Benedek, B2 International
- Bence Oláh, B2 International
- Leo Devai, B2 International
- Orsolya Bali, B2 International
- Auth Gábor, CIB Bank ZRt
- Akos Gabriel, I-Logic Ltd
- Balint Pato, ApPello Ltd
- Ferenc Boldog, Ustream
- Tamás Magyar, I-Logic Ltd
- Nándor Előd Fekete, Quark Solutions
- Karoly Belovitz, CIB Bank ZRt
- Viktor Tamás
- Laszlo Hornyak
- Istvan Viczian, JTechLog
- Matlak Zoli
- Jason van Zyl, Sonatype
- Cservenák Tamás, Sonatype
- Tibor Kiss
- György Rácz, GFTH Kft.
- Fülep Lajos
- Gergely Nyilas, Lufthansa Systems Hungaria Kft.
- Radvanszki Tamas, Maven Kft.


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Readmit Student Orientation
Welcome Back!
Any time a student has been out of attendance for 12 consecutive months (thus becoming a Readmitting student) he or she is required to follow the catalog in effect at the time of readmission. The current catalog is available online at http://catalog.umflint.edu/.
As a Readmitting student, you are eligible to register during open registration. You can view the semester calendar for open registration dates here: http://www.umflint.edu/registrar/reg_dates_times.htm.
Registration is completed online via the Student Information System (SIS) at https://sis.umflint.edu.
It is highly recommended that you meet with your academic advisor. If you are uncertain where you should be advised contact us at (810) 762-3085 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
You should plan to work closely with the Career Center on career planning. They will assist you with career exploration, preparation, coordinating co-ops or internships, preparing resumes, and preparing for job searching and interviewing. Please see their web site for more details on the career services available to you at: http://www.umflint.edu/careers.
While orientation is not required, we recommend that you attend a Transfer Student Orientation session.
If you would like to attend a Transfer Student Orientation session, please contact the Student Success Center at (810) 762-3085 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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How to Be a Smart IT Customer?
This is the last note I took from LISA 2010 conference. It's a great talk by Loren Jan Wilson drawing his experience with vendors while working at a super computer center.
The super computer, Intrepid, consists of 40,960 nodes on 40 racks. Each node has 4 core CPU. Of all the nodes, 640 nodes are dedicated for I/O. There is no local storage at each node. The super computer links to a very large tape library for archiving.
While operating the super computer, the speaker had some issues with high-speed network switches, e.g. 6% random port death, 15% quad port flaky but never fail 100%. To complicate the issue, there is no log and CLI for troubleshooting, but Web interface.
I believe the trouble the speaker faced before is not a single case in the industry, and never be. As long as you have to buy equipment/software from vendors, there will be issues one way or the other. A great thing the speaker did is to summarize and share the tips on how a customer should work with an IT vendor for a successful IT project.
I find these tips are very helpful, and think customers and vendors should all know about them as listed below:


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ROCHESTER - There are company towns, and then there's Rochester — where waiters make meal recommendations based on what sort of blood work you're having drawn at Mayo Clinic the next morning.
So when Mayo announced this month that it wants to spend billions of dollars to expand its facilities and remake this quietly prosperous city of 100,000 into a vibrant destination spot for Mayo's global clientele, that hit the top of Rochester's agenda, too. Mayo employs more than 34,000 people — one-third of the city's population. If you try to play the Mayo version of six degrees of separation with anyone in Rochester, it's going to be a pretty short game.
"I don't think anyone is more than one degree away from Mayo," said Tessa Leung, owner of Söntés, a wine bar and tapas restaurant in Rochester. Leung's mother worked at Mayo and Leung herself spent years as a nurse in Mayo's bone marrow transplant unit before launching a new career as a chef. Now her former patients and colleagues browse her wine list and seasonal small plates menu. In Rochester, she said, Mayo "is a way of life."
Mayo wants to spend $3.5 billion over the next two decades, doubling the size of a campus that already takes up large swaths of downtown Rochester. It also plans to leverage another $2 billion in private investments to turn the rest of Rochester into a destination city in its own right, bristling with high-quality hotels, restaurants, sports and entertainment facilities and amenities.
The catch? Mayo wants Minnesota to contribute more than $500 million to fund the infrastructure improvements needed to kick-start such an expansion. That's on par with what the state contributed to the new Vikings stadium.
"When I first heard that figure, I gasped. 'Are you kidding me? A [$585] million taxpayer handout?' " said Fran Bradley, a former state representative and fiscal conservative who has butted heads with Mayo on other issues — but not this one. "I can't be opposed to it. I think the idea is way too creative."
Hospital patients are to Rochester what tourists in mouse ears are to Orlando. The town has a symbiotic, century-old relationship with Mayo that has become part of the culture here. Leung said that when she was little and saw patients around town, "It was never, 'Don't stare,'" she said. "It was, 'They're here to get help.' People just take good care of people here."
By some estimates, Mayo is responsible for $1.6 billion of economic activity in the wider community and the community, in turn, eagerly gives back — whether that means stopping with a smile to give directions to a Saudi visitor trying to navigate downtown skyways, or cheering while Mayo makes plans to remake the city's entire downtown.
"I love this city with all my heart," said Dr. Bradley Narr, a Twin Cities transplant and chair of Mayo's Department of Anesthesiology.
Competing with the bigs
Nestled along the south fork of the Zumbro River, Rochester started life in the mid-1800s as a stagecoach stop between Minneapolis and Dubuque, Iowa. Since then it has grown into a small, stable city that, due largely to Mayo, has long punched above its weight. Though its population is small, Rochester draws 2.75 million visitors a year. A well-skilled workforce in prime earning years means that median family income here hovers just under $75,000 a year. Poverty and crime rates are low, half the households are married and more than 60 percent of the population is under 45.
Mayo grew up right alongside the city. When a tornado leveled a third of the town in 1883, Doctors William and Charles Mayo set up a temporary hospital in a dance hall. They built a reputation for top-quality, innovative care that for years has landed Mayo at the top of world lists for best health care.
But the city where Narr raised his family isn't necessarily one that appeals to the top-flight talent Mayo needs to recruit, or that makes it competitive with first-tier destination medical centers like the Cleveland Clinic or Johns Hopkins, both located in urban areas with far more amenities than Rochester offers. Mayo's challenge, Narr said, "is to create something beyond" its walls that patients and employees will want to visit.
"It's a lot of fun to practice medicine here," he said, but "we're a little bit of a one-horse town." Narr worries that his 130 first-rate anesthesiologists — some of the best in the country — "absolutely" have options. He doesn't want to lose a promising candidate "because somebody on the coast offered her a better balance of work/life."
Rochester has been working to shed its slightly stodgy image. Cutting-edge restaurants and galleries are popping up downtown. In the summer, the streets fill with music and art for Thursdays on First. In the winter, downtown now features the Midwest's largest ice bar. The Rochester Civic Theater just wrapped its February production of the Tony-nominated "Shadowlands."
"This is a city with its own pulse, its own vibrancy," said Gregory Stavrou, the theater's executive director, who left Minneapolis five years ago for Rochester. "Our challenge is, how can we integrate the arts into a community that is unabashedly about the sciences?" Like almost every other nonprofit in town, Stavrou's theater gets a helping hand from Mayo, which regularly pumps millions into community life and charities.
"Mayo supports every arts organization in this town that I'm aware of," Stavrou said. "That's what makes this town very cool, the growth of arts here." He's got his fingers crossed that a fresh infusion would allow the local arts scene to grow along with Mayo.
The state's share, which would come from future tax dollars, would go to upgrade roads, sewers and other facilities to make room for the Mayo expansion and the hotels and businesses expected to spring up around it. Mayo would not get the money upfront, but rather would have to meet a series of growth benchmarks before it could tap state funds.
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The fact that Mayo plans to front $10 of its own money for every $1 from the state goes a long way to easing some of Bradley's concerns, though he remains leery of the unelected Development Authority that would oversee the so-called Destination Medical Center expansion. Right now, Mayo's plans include giving the Development Authority the power to have buildings condemned if they block expansion.
The Minnesota Legislature has just begun working through Mayo's proposal. So far, the main objection comes from lawmakers worried about setting a precedent for future corporate development.
Some communities might take offense at the suggestion that it would take billions of dollars to sufficiently gussy up their town for outsiders. Other communities might fear that such a massive makeover would change the character of their town.
Not Rochester.
"I think most people understand that as Mayo goes, so goes Rochester," said state Sen. Dave Senjem, a Republican who worked for Mayo more than 40 years. "Mayo is so dominantly Rochester, I don't think it changes. I think it just gets better."


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Is the Grilled Cheese Startup Silicon Valley's Most Elaborate Joke?
Three years ago, the powerhouse tech investors at Sequoia Capital announced they were putting $10 million into The Melt, a small chain of grilled cheese sandwich restaurants. Today, The Melt is not only still around, but somehow dumber than ever.
Recode's Nellie Bowles chatted with Melt CEO Jonathan Kaplan, who is either in the midst of a very long midlife crisis, or pulling a wonderful sort of long-ball art performance on the tech business press:
Kaplan, the former hardware executive with deep ties to Silicon Valley, called together his engineers and then built a new delivery contraption called the Smart Box. A delivery box equipped with an aluminum block, motors and fans to monitor both heat and humidity, the Smart Box is "like a sous-vide immersion circulator that uses air instead of water," Kaplan said. It is meant to keep the toasted bread from becoming too soft.
Each "Smart Box," seen above, costs $200. A plain grilled cheese sandwich from The Melt costs $5, which makes it a natural fit for the rich babies of San Francisco, who can't even dress themselves, let alone put a piece of cheese between two pieces of bread over heat without causing a gas explosion. While they're at work devising new ways to add filters to photos, The Melt has been working, as well:
"It took us a little over a year [and] five or six engineers, software and hardware guys from Apple, Google, Cisco."
What could these engineers have been doing if they were working on a box for preventing delivery grilled cheese sogginess? What genuinely cool, impressive, amazing—maybe even useful—things could we have instead of this orange box, this big orange plastic crate-fuck?
We'll never know what we could have had instead of this orange cheese box, and that makes me very sad. Sadder yet is that their talents will remain poorly allocated. Here's the upcoming wave of venture-backed sandwich progress:
The next generation of its Melt app, for example, will sense when a consumer is within a block of the restaurant and prepare your grilled cheese based on distance and speed...When you arrive at the store, the music in the sandwich shop might immediately change to something you recently liked on Facebook, into which your Melt app has hooked.
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Several injuries, dozens of rewrites and 183 previews later and "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" became the most expensive Broadway show in history, to less-than-super reviews.
The lovechild of Bono and The Edge—costing somewhere in the neighborhood of $70 million—has been the butt of many jokes, most recently Neil Patrick Harris' punch line at the Tonys. ("Spider-Man: The only show that warns you about strobe-light and falling actors.")
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Even those critics who didn't have their knives out the first time around - like Time magazine's Richard Zoglin, who says "'Spider-Man' was never quite the disaster the early reviews a little too gleefully suggested" - admit that the new incarnation suffers from dull stretches and too much obvious time-filler.
New York Magazine critic Scott Brown sums it up like this: "Spider-Man is like that good-and-crazy friend with a highly entertaining substance-abuse problem, the one who went off and got clean, and came back a different and diminished person. With his manias and overmuchness, you realized, after he returned, how very little you ever had to offer one another."


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Would You Change Your Name?
It all started after a commentator on Thought Catalog assumed I was married after reading one of my articles. Although the article focused on questions surrounding racial bias in college hook-up culture, there was a full-on discussion about my hyphenated last name, and how people "should never trust chicks with two last names."
I couldn't help but respond, just to clarify. I expressed how I am single, and that my last name is hyphenated because my mother wanted to keep her last name for professional reasons.
"Why is what she does for a living important? It's a weird femmy move chicks do with the hyphen name. Some how they think it empowers them," was the response.
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A very funny friend of mine once referred to Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as a "self-esteem serial killer," and although I've never been the type to proactively hold myself to the beauty standards of those who are beautiful for a living, I have to admit that she kind of had a point. That's because not only is Rosie beautiful, but she has such preternaturally perfect "model off duty" style that her very existence feels unfair. You should be able to have one or the other; both is greedy.
The rest of us mere mortals may not have access to Rosie's genetic lottery winnings, but her simple, sophisticated style is a little easier to come by. She tends toward modern cuts in neutral colors and luxurious fabrics, and lately she's bee finishing her looks with the Céline Belt Bag. I've long thought the Belt to be one of the most underrated day bags out there, and frankly, I'm glad Rosie's finally showing it the appreciation it deserves.
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St. Andrew's Church:
Parts of St. Andrew's Church go back to the 12th and 13th centuries although the greater part dates from the 14th century. It is only 10 minute stroll from the station and of particular note is a wooden screen which is reputed to be the sixth oldest in England. St Andrew's also has one of the largest collections of monumental brasses in the country.
- The church is open to the public all week round.
- Church service is on Sundays at 10.00, bells ring from 09.30-10.00.
- Another helpful website on the church with lots of factual information can be seen here.
Directions from station - 10 min walk:
- From Chinnor Station turn left at bus stop and walk through car park.
- Cross road and turn left towards rail bridge.
- Cross over railway bridge.
- Bear right down one-way street (Church Lane).
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I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
— Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, from Frank Herbert's Dune book series
I had to admit to Heather this morning that I'm afraid.
"Afraid" may be a bit strong, in public I would probably say "nervous" or "worried" or something.
But whatever word you use, it's driven by fear. I'm afraid.
I'm nervous or worried or fearful or whatever about the things that I wrote about on here two days ago, particularly the looming financial giants of the potential government shutdown and roof repairs.
And Heather, very calmly and honestly, stated to me that it's going to be OK.
And she's right.
But here's the sad thing:
I know it's going to be OK. I know God's not going to give me more than I can handle. I know that I'm taken care of.
I know all that.
But …
The part of me that is afraid doesn't care.
Not because it doesn't believe those things.
But because it doesn't care.
Because that part of me knows that God will make sure I'm OK, but He'll use His standards for what that means.
I want to be OK by my standard.
That part of me don't want to be OK by the standard of not having to deal with more than I can handle. It wants to be OK by the standard of not having to deal with anything.
I don't want to have to use what I have to survive this.
I want to come out of this continuing to be able to go out to eat and buy books irresponsibly. I want to buy an iPad.
I want to be that sort of OK.
That's selfish, and self-indulgent.
And I'm afraid, because I'm afraid God isn't going to enable those things.
That's rather sad.
And that's been true many times. I had that conversation over a year ago with a good friend. We have trouble trusting God because we judge His trustworthiness not based on whether He does what is best, but whether He does what we want.
Part of me really does trust. Trust that He'll do in this what is good.
And that part of me really does have peace and rest.
Part of me on the other hand is afraid.
Afraid I don't get to be sloppy and self-indulgent and undisciplined.
And it's a good reminder for myself that I'm still very much a work in progress.
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Java programs executes in JVM uses Heap of memory to manage the data. If your Java program requires a large amount of memory, it is possible that the virtual machine will begin to throw OutOfMemoryError instances when attempting to instantiate an object. The default heap size if 1 MB and can increase as much as 16 MB.
Setting/Increase JVM heap size
It is possible to increase heap size allocated by the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) by using command line options.
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Every year, we buy a tree and replant in our yard.
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And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, Lying in a manger.
- St. Luke ii.
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I also use Yanke pine scented candles, but I find that because I have a cathedral ceiling, I can't seem to "hold the scent in"
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Catron County confluence
Water unites ranchers and environmentalists in a conservative corner of New Mexico
In southwestern New Mexico's Catron County, you're more likely to hear the word "en-varmint-alist" than "environmentalist," says Mary Katherine Ray.
A retired schoolteacher and scrimshaw artist in neighboring Socorro County, Ray is the wildlife chair for the Rio Grande chapter of the Sierra Club. She keeps a low profile: "I don't put bumper stickers on my car, I don't wear T-shirts that might be inflammatory, and sometimes I won't say my opinion and just listen."
Many of Catron County's 3,405 residents are wary of "outsiders" like Ray, who moved to the area from El Paso in 1990, part of an ongoing wave of newcomers from urban areas. Locals especially resent outsiders with opinions about what folks should and shouldn't do on their land. The county and its ranchers are notorious for vehemently opposing federal interference, most notably the effort to reintroduce Mexican gray wolves to the area. In the 1990s, the county passed a slew of resolutions designed to challenge federal authority; one land-use plan declared federal agents "a clear and present danger."
Property rights reign supreme in Catron County, says former County Commissioner John Hand Sr., and environmentalists and the government are seen as threats to those rights. That's why it's a bit surprising when everyone -- ranchers, environmentalists and the federal and state governments -- agrees on one thing: water.
In October 2007, Augustin Plains Ranch, LLC, property of Italian recluse Bruno Modena, applied at the State Engineer's Office for rights to pump 54,000 acre-feet (about 17.6 billion gallons) of water per year from underneath land it owns in the northeast part of the San Agustin (sometimes spelled San Augustin) Plains -- a 1,100-square-mile expanse of hills and grasslands in Catron and Socorro counties. The plan called for 37 wells, each 2,000 feet deep, to tap the aquifer beneath the plains.
The proposal sparked more than 400 protest letters. And when the company amended its plan in 2008 -- opting to drill 3,000 feet down instead -- nearly 600 more letters were sent, mostly from local property owners and environmentalists, inundating the office and delaying an administrative hearing.
A couple of weeks after the original proposal opened for public comment, community members ranging from conservative old-timers to liberal newcomers formed an opposition nonprofit that could almost be mistaken for an environmental group: The San Augustin Water Coalition. It's now about 500 members strong, says co-founder Carol Pittman, a left-leaning retiree from San Diego who moved to Catron County in 1995 with her husband. Getting people to work together hasn't been easy, she says, but interests are merging.
Little is understood about how other water systems in the area -- the Gila Watershed, for example -- might be affected by drawing so much water from the San Agustin Basin. The lack of an up-to-date hydrological study worries local ranchers, who fear the proposal would dry up their wells, exterminating a way of life they already see as threatened by government interference and a faltering agricultural economy, sell-offs and subdivisions. If the water coalition decides to seek grant funding, it hopes to pursue its own hydrological study.
Few local landowners drill deeper than 500 feet, and Modena's wells could potentially draw the water table down beyond their reach, says Bruce Frederick, a lawyer with the New Mexico Environmental Law Center, which represents nearly 70 individuals and groups fighting the proposal.
"Everybody thinks if they pump that much water, we won't have anything left," says Roy Farr, vice chairman of the water coalition. Farr's family has ranched here since 1904, but he says that if the proposal succeeds, "Catron County is going to have to get up and leave."
The U.S. Forest Service, along with the Interior Department and the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, oppose the plan because of its potential impacts on ecosystems and senior surface water rights and because no large-scale groundwater study has been conducted.
It's unclear what Augustin Plains Ranch plans to do with the water; the company did not return repeated calls to its lawyers and PR firm. According to a 2007 statement, it wants to meet the growing water demands of the Middle Rio Grande Valley. New Mexico itself might need that water in the future to fulfill its contract obligations to Colorado and Texas, says Craig Roepke, deputy director of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, one of the original protesters. Right now, however, the state has no water debt, he says. And since water speculation is illegal in New Mexico, the proposal's legality is questionable, adds Frederick.
Whatever its fate, the proposal has brought Ray, also a member of the coalition, together with people she never thought she'd agree with. At some point, she hopes, residents will start to see each other as people, not enemies. "If we can do both of those things -- defeat the water proposal and learn to work together -- then we would be a better community for it."
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