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They always sat in a white ceramic bowl, small and perfect in their imperfection, surrounded by the charcuterie platter and an assortment of dips and overflowing cheese plates. A few times a year, only the most special occasions, my mother would bring out the Maille cornichons—tiny pickles that, to a child's eyes, defied nature and logic. They were the peak of elegance and adult refinement; I could have one, maybe two—the rest "are for guests only." When her back was turned, I'd sneak a few more, savoring the sour crunch of these bite-sized delicacies. Even today as an adult, the sight of a bowl of cornichons, artfully laid out on a silk tablecloth or hardwood table at New Year's Eve, or next to the champagne at an engagement party, adds an air of celebration I have yet to parallel.
A beloved French tradition, cornichons are made by plucking mini gherkin cucumbers before they reach full maturity, ensuring prime tartness. Firmer and smaller than any other type of pickle, today you can buy a range of generic cornichons from your local market or most Whole Food stores. But for me, there's a ritual to the pop of the Maille jar, a sacredness to its elegant gold lettering and built-in "pickle-lifter," ensuring not a single spear is beyond reach.
Since I know I'm not alone in my love for cornichons, to fete Bastille Day I reached out to some of our favorite chefs to learn why they also adore these tiny treasures.
"I like to make my own 'special sauce' for burgers, or even as a quick steak tartare sauce. Stir together two parts mayonnaise with one part ketchup, one part chopped cornichons, and 1/2 part Dijon," Mike Lata, chef/owner of Charleston's The Ordinary.
"I use cornichons in my egg salad with Dijon mustard and a little mayo. I also use them to garnish deviled eggs for parties," Shawn Cirkiel, restaurateur and chef of Parkside Projects (Parkside, Backspace, Olive & June, and Jugo) in Austin.
"When I'm feeling French, I'll throw Maille cornichons and butter on a baguette with some of the ham we make at Turkey and the Wolf. They make for a delightful sandwich. My old lady loves them with a late night cheese plate," Mason Hereford, owner and chef of Turkey and the Wolf, New Orleans.
"Of course, cornichons are perfect to counter something fatty like a pate. My favorite way to use cornichons right now is in a dirty martini. Instead of olives, I use the cornichon brine to make the martinis," Paul Denamiel, owner, and chef of Le Rivage, New York.
"I absolutely love cornichons! My favorite way to use them is in a simple, clean relish for roasted chicken. Maille cornichons, green olive, cucumber and celery with olive oil, fresh lemon, and mint. It's the perfect compliment with a classic roast chicken, simple salad, a glass of white wine and hanging on the patio for lunch," Jason Dady, restaurateur, and chef of Shuck Shack, Tre Trattoria, Tre Enoteca, Two Bros. BBQ Market, B & D Ice House, Alamo BBQ Company, San Antonio.
"Cornichons are such a versatile ingredient for chefs. But my favorite use is in a gribiche. It's a French sauce made by emulsifying hard boiled eggs with Dijon, cornichons, tons of fresh herbs, and olive oil. Throw all those ingredients in a food processor, add some salt, and let it rip until emulsified. If it's too thick, feel free to drizzle in additional olive oil. The cornichons add a beautiful depth of flavor to this sauce and bring acidity to the table.
I love to grill some bread, spread the cornichon gribiche on top, add some poached asparagus and additional sliced cornichon. It makes a wonderful tartine fit for any part of the day. Another fun way to use cornichons is in a salsa verde. Chop some of your favorite herbs (I often use parsley, oregano, cilantro), fine dice some cornichons, & garlic. Add to a bowl and stir in some olive oil and lemon zest. Instantly, you have a versatile sauce that you can use on grilled vegetables, fish, or meat. It tastes good on everything!" -Ethan Speizer, executive chef of Ashes & Diamonds Winery, Napa.
"Cornichons are just great. When not eating them on their own, I like to add them to sauces. Either a cold sauce or hot sauce it's a great way to add a lot of flavor," Mark Dommen, partner, and chef of One Market, San Francisco.
"We always use cornichons to make our gribiche really pop for grilled asparagus."-Eric Joppie, executive chef of Olympic Provisions NorthWest, Olympia, WA.
"Cornichons alongside grilled cheese sandwiches or chopped up in a tuna salad are my go to." -Ben Jacobsen, founder, and CEO of Jacobsen Salt Co., Portland, OR.


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Why Fortnite is the clear winner in the Battle Royale world
Winner winner, royale dinner!
Within the past two weeks, I have dedicated myself to nothing but battle royale games, and the results surprised me. I sat down in front of my computer and made sure PUBG and Fortnite were installed and set off to invest hours upon hours into these games. So far, upon my "research," I have found that Fortnite, as of right now, is the clear winner in the Battle Royale world.
PUBG entered the battle royale world after H1Z1 hit a lull. For a while, H1Z1 was the game to play on PC with tons of competition and a new genre to meet a relatively played out one; shooters. It's hard to innovate a genre that has generated hundreds of games. H1Z1 was the first to risk it and the first to succeed. Then, in 2017, H1Z1 mod creator Brendan Greene partnered with Korean publisher Bluehole to release an early access version of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
Almost any and every gamer has heard of PUBG, the new battle royale game that brought the (sub)genre into the limelight. For a while, PUBG stood uncontested and shot right into fame. Soon, PUBG took over records by being the most popular game on Steam with 3.2 million concurrent gamers playing at the same time on PC. PUBG costs $40 for early access and has sold over 25 million copies on PC. There was no stopping PUBG's rise to the top.
PUBG was blowing up faster than the small team of developers at Bluehole couldn't keep up with. Players started complaining about poor game performance, dropped frames, game crashes, system crashes, and a slew of other problems. PUBG wanted to start hosting esports and competitive competitions, but the game just couldn't hold up to the task. The community has since taken the snarky phrase "#esports ready," stating how unstable the game is.
In mid/late 2017, Epic Games stepped in with their fort-defense, open-world survival, shooter game, Fortnite. Fortnite is also early access and costs $40 to unlock the single-player survival mode. Later, Epic announced their free mode, battle royale, that was a direct rival to PUBG. Players looked at Fortnite Battle Royale as a cartoon knock-off and stayed loyal to PUBG. They did pay $40, right?
Players soon became more and more frustrated with PUBG and decided to give Fortnite a shot. With Epic Games developing Fortnite, and the game running off of Epic's Unreal Engine, Fortnite is a smooth game. Most of the player's issues with PUBG is that the game is not optimized and feels like an alpha over a beta, while it's the opposite for Fortnite.
I played about 10 hours of PUBG over the two weeks I dedicated to myself, and I had issues almost every game. There were times where the game would just lock up and would lead to my death, or would drop frames when I was in a graphics-heavy scenario. There was one game that made me rage quit because my character fell through the map. For a game that costs money, it's frustrating.
Compared to my 10 hours of PUBG, I have played Fortnite for 6 hours in 2 days, and over the two weeks, I have played about 25 across PC and Xbox One. I have invested myself into Fortnite, and it's passed the point of having to play for work because I am genuinely enjoying myself. Fortnite is unique in the way of relying on building instead of tactical strategy. I enjoy running around like a chicken with my head cut off. With Fortnite's smaller map, I can run between towns and designations without wasting time. There is always something to do. In PUBG, games just feel long and drawn out.
Fortnite is an optimized game, even though it is in early access. Sure there are still problems, like the recent server outage, but those are growing pains. Epic lets their players know the game is in an early access stage, but on the other hand, Fortnite Battle Royale is 100% free. You can spend money on cosmetic items, but those do not affect gameplay. For a game that I scoffed at four months ago, my mind has changed completely, and I think gamers are going the same route.
You can agree with me or not, but facts are facts. Gamers love Fortnite and have grown tired of Bluehole's lack of development, especially when it comes to gaming PCs for Fortnite. They released a new map instead of fixing old problems, and the new map has lead to worse problems. It's bad when gamers can't even finish a game. Gamers spent $40 on PUBG only to be lead into a pit that keeps getting deeper and deeper. I enjoyed PUBG before the servers started to get flooded, and I hope they can resuscitate it. However, as it looks right now, Bluehole is drowning in success…literally.
What's your opinion on this? Who do you think is the clear winner in the battle royale race? Let us know in the comments below!
Disclosure: PUBG was a previous client of media relations firm EZPR, where KnowTechie's editor-in-chief holds a position. However, he did not participate in this post's writing, editing, or publishing. He remains unbiased and independent in his role at KnowTechie. Any potential conflicts of interest have been disclosed.

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An Untold Musical Story of the Most Bewitching and Powerful Woman of All Time: Part Epic, Part Soap Opera, Part Tragedy, Part Historical Fact and Part of the Midtown International Theatre Festival.
Cleopatra as a rock opera star
Belting out sensual romantic melodies, blues-rock rhythms, Latin and reggae, CLEOPATRA transports the audience to a time where the major form of news was gossip and innuendo; where centers of power were hotbeds of jealousy and death; where marriages were often mere things of convenience; and where nations made war against their neighbor simply because they could.
What else is new?
Whether thought of as a beloved Queen or disparagingly referred to as "that woman", Cleopatra wanted only one thing - a strong Egypt. But while she made great strides to that end, she could never win over her detractors, always having to deal with gossip, second-guessing (as portrayed here in the classic Greek chorus manner), and predictions of doom which foreshadowed her final downfall.
It sounds like Hillary Clinton.
Crystal Theatre presents the sensual and wondrous story of Cleopatra, who loved and owned the hearts of two of the most powerful men in the world and ruled Egypt with the strength and passion that only the true "Queen of the Nile" could possess.
Crystal Theatre is an independent, non-profit performing arts school. Cheryl E. Kemeny (book music and lyrics, musical director & co-director of CLEOPATRA) is author and composer of over 30 musicals. Founder of the Crystal Opera in 1993, she is also the co-founder and artistic director of Crystal Theatre. I think that is Cheryl on the right, doing a nip and tuck on a very Hollywood-looking Egyptian.
The show will begin performances on July 16th at the June Havoc Theatre at the Abington Arts Complex, located at 312 West 36th Street in New York City -- and runs until August 3rd.
Every year, the Midtown International Theatre Festival likes to introduce something new for audiences and participants. I wouldn't have thought Cleopatra very new, but I see what they mean and it rocks. And it's all there for you to enjoy, so come out and enjoy the festival!
[My thanks to Kat Newkirk via EEF News]
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Purdue Profiles: Tracie Egger
January 28, 2014
Tracie Egger, assistant director of academic programs in the College of Agriculture. (Purdue University photo/Mark Simons)
Tracie Egger is passionate about showing prospective students how earning a degree from the College of Agriculture can precipitate a lifetime of success.
Egger is the college's assistant director of academic programs. When she's not explaining to high school students how an agriculture degree can lead to a career as a doctor, scientist, business leader or something else, Egger advises the college's undergraduate student ambassadors and its pre-veterinary medicine students.
How do you promote agriculture education and the College of Agriculture to prospective students?
Annually, I travel to 10 to 20 high schools, trade shows and conferences in Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and Illinois to talk about the academic options here at Purdue and to discuss how an education in agriculture opens doors. For example, the fields that address the greatest societal concerns in the world are enveloped in agriculture -- with an agriculture degree, you can go on to so many different careers. There's a misconception among a lot of people that agriculture is only about farming.
What are the benefits of studying agriculture at Purdue?
Overall, when I'm talking to prospective students, I try to emphasize the tie between agriculture and science, business and engineering. That's not a connection most people logically make, but at Purdue it's very strong. For example, families usually don't know that our biochemistry major is a great program for pre-med students. And plant sciences, which is an area of great importance to us at Purdue, is a gateway to so many careers that will lead to feeding the world's growing population.
For example, Purdue students can study plant breeding and genetics and end up working for a seed company. Or, they can study entomology and horticulture and work in the fruit and tree production industry. And agronomy is a fascinating field that allows graduates to work on issues related to world hunger.
How do you work with the College of Agriculture's student ambassadors?
I'm their advisor, so we meet every other week for meetings and discuss team building and other leadership activities. Our ambassadors are invaluable -- they help with our events for prospective students and lead tours for prospective students. They do a great job of explaining the opportunities the College of Agriculture offers from a student's perspective.
Moreover, our student ambassadors do a great job of telling their stories to prospective students. When ambassadors tell prospective students why they decided to attend Purdue and study in the College of Agriculture -- and when they are able to talk about the success they've found here -- it really gets prospective students excited.
How did you become interested in agriculture yourself?
I grew up on a small family farm in Clinton County, and I was very involved in 4-H and FFA, particularly with livestock showing and judging. I received my bachelor's degree from Purdue in agricultural communication and accepted a position at the National Swine Registry here in West Lafayette. Then I attended Oklahoma State University and earned a master's degree in agriculture and extension education.
All along, I thought I would enjoy working for Purdue Extension because I was interested in providing training for youth and agriculture professionals. After I graduated from Oklahoma State, I accepted a position with Purdue Extension in Posey County, which is just west of Evansville. I came back to Purdue's West Lafayette campus to take a two-year position through Extension. Then, I began my career in student services in the Office of Academic Programs in the College of Agriculture. I continued my education in the meantime and received my PhD in agricultural education in 2009.
To me, the most rewarding aspect of my job is watching the growth of our students. I love to see them go from student leaders to young professionals who land great internships to professionals who often end up in the jobs of their dreams. It's incredibly gratifying to be able to help them along their journey while they're at Purdue. When our students are successful, I'm successful -- that's how I see things.Writer: Amanda Hamon, email@example.com, 49-61325


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There's no better reminder that you're not in the midst of your youth any more than a pounding headache and dry mouth after a big night out.
While some surveys have found the effects of alcohol decrease with age, experts say it varies from individual to individual. Factors such as increased inflammation, acetaldehyde build-up, and life circumstances have been found to have an impact on the severity of hangovers as you age.
According to the experts at House Call Doctor, as people age, their body can begin to have naturally low levels of inflammation. Alcohol and its by-products have an inflammatory effect on the body. Adding both these forms of inflammation together might cause your body to experience far worse hangover symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, and fatigue.
Acetaldehyde build-up
While 33 percent of alcohol breakdown occurs in the stomach, the majority happens in the liver. Two chemical reactions are used to do this and one of the by-products of this reaction is a molecule called acetaldehyde.
Acetaldehyde is a harmful molecule that is usually further metabolized into a safer molecule in the liver. As you age, your body's ability to metabolize alcohol decreases and can lead to a build-up of acetaldehyde in your body. With it being an irritant, it is thought that its increased presence in the body can worsen the severity of hangover symptoms.
Life circumstances
Many studies have found people aged between 18-29 and 50-59 drink the same amount of alcohol. Those in their 30s and 40s tended to drink less due to family and work commitments.
When hungover, efficiency is decreased and your brain has to work harder to complete tasks. As a result, the hangover symptoms can feel worse than they used to.
How to help ease symptoms
There is no one 'cure' for the nasty side effects of a hangover, especially if what used to work back in your younger days doesn't seem to be working now you're older. And while the jury is still out on what is the most effective treatment, here are few tactics that may help alleviate some of your pain.
- Stay hydrated: many of the effects of a hangover are caused by dehydration, particularly as you get older when your body water content decreases. To avoid this, it's important to drink water between each alcoholic beverage (and before you go to sleep) to keep hydrated and slow down alcohol consumption.
- Have breakfast: eating breakfast will help steady your blood sugar levels and can relieve nausea, fatigue, and weakness, as well as slowing down your alcohol consumption.
- Get some sleep: catching up on the lost shut-eye is not always possible, but if you can take a nap, do so. It will help reduce a headache, irritability, fatigue and make the hangover more bearable.
- Don't drink more alcohol: hair o' the dog does not stop a hangover, it just delays the effects. Drinking water will be more useful for helping put an end to a hangover.


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Casual style is very fashionable today, and industrial style also because it gives a possibility to find romance in usual and rough things. Designer Maxim Zhukov created a loft in these styles, sort of casually 'thrown-in' style that just works. Industrial style is in every detail – in exposed wiring and ducting above a large extractor fan looming over a modern kitchen island, and the familiar black and yellow sign strips that are usually seen on building sites. There is kind of mezzanine level which is used as a small study area. The bathroom is very dramatic: exposed brick walls, dark tiling and the only bright spot is white sanitary ware. The result is a manly kind of space with its own a little bit rough but dramatic romance.
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MW GOLDEN CONSTRUCTORS receives 2011 Excellence in Safety Award from the American Subcontractors Ass
MW GOLDEN CONSTRUCTORS (MWGC) received the American Subcontractors Association of Colorado's 2011 Excellence in Safety Award in the general contractor category of up to 100,000 man hours. MWGC is a member of the ASAC Work Comp Dividend Group. Its safety program was developed by the company president and is implemented by the safety officer, superintendents, project managers and project engineers.
MWGC is a proud recipient of numerous industry safety awards, including an Associated Builders and Contractors Platinum Step Award announced earlier this year.
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Improper dosing of anticoagulation can result in stroke, pulmonary embolism, bleeding, or death. Despite the great risk, a recent study published by the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) shows that underdosing and overdosing of newer blood thinner medications is rampant. The study focused on the use of novel direct acting oral anticoagulants (DOACs), such as Pradaxa, Xarelto, Savaysa and Eliquis, in people with atrial fibrillation (AF).
AF is a condition where the heart beats irregularly due to errant electrical pulses. When at extended rest, blood within the heart can become static (stasis) and form blood clots. The heart then beats forcefully, expelling the blot clot into the blood stream. A mobile blood clot is called an embolism. Embolisms can travel through the blood stream into the brain, where they can block the supply of blood and oxygen to the brain. Blockage, or occlusion, causes brain tissue to die. A "stroke" refers to the clinical effects of permanently damaged brain tissue, which include brain damage, cognitive impairment, motor dysfunction, loss of bowel and bladder control and paralysis.
The risk of stroke from AF is higher in some patient than others. Doctors should determine this risk by calculating the patient's CHADS2 score, as well as consideration of other less common risk factors. The CHADS2 score is based on the fact that (C)ongestive heart failure, (H)ypertension, (A)ge over 75, (D)iabetes and prior (S)troke or TIA symptoms raise the risk of stroke in patients having AF. Anticoagulation is used to prevent clots from forming while the heart is at extended rest.
Older anticoagulation drugs such as Warfarin and Coumadin required that the patient have routine blood work done to ensure that the patient's clotting times remained in the proper range. Too much anticoagulation and the patient is at risk of bleeding, including a brain bleed called a hemorrhagic stroke. Too little anticoagulation and the patient remains at risk of blood clots. The amount of anticoagulation required to keep the patient's clotting times (INR) in the therapeutic range varies from patient-to-patient, and can be affected by diet and other medications. So frequent blood checks were necessary.
The newer class of anticoagulants, the NOACs, were designed to reduce the amount of blood work needed to safely monitor a patient. Theoretically, the hassle and discomfort of frequent blood draws led to noncompliance by patients, thereby putting them at unnecessary risk of an embolic stroke. As an Ohio stroke lawyer, I have monitored the approval process for NOACs. Notoriously corrupt pharmaceutical companies stand to make huge profits by capturing market share in the sale of anticoagulants. Several months ago, I warned that these drugs may not be ready for prime time, given my skepticism about the industry-influenced vetting process. Soon thereafter, a number of fatalities related to side effects were reported.
The NEJM study found that in 43% of patients with AF and poor kidney function, physicians failed to adjust the dose downward to account for drug retention. Those patients on certain DOACs faced an increased risk of a bleeding. 13% of patients with normal kidney function were inexplicably prescribed lower than normal doses. Underdose increases the risk of stroke fivefold when compared with the standard dose for patients on certain DOACs. When a physician fails to prescribe a proper dose of any medication, and severe injury results, they are subject to a medical malpractice lawsuit under Ohio law.
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It's a Frrriiiiddddaaayyyyy peeps!!! So happy the week is drawing a close soon!
J ordered an English drama show - House of Cards as he's a big fan of Kevin Spacey. Season 2 arrived last night and we watched the 1st episode last night with an Almond Magnum Ice Cream each. Yummy... House of Cards is generally a really good show. Kevin Spacey ever did come to Singapore to do a play at Esplanade and both of us caught that as well. Frankly speaking, he's a brilliant actor.
Today's going to be just like any other weekday except that the kiddos will be around this evening, just like any other Friday evenings. I'll have to complete the rest of the Hari Raya cards. Hopefully, I'll get them done tonight. I'm half-way there...
No breakfast. No time for it.
Lunch was rice with assam fish & veggie.
I bought a cup of red apple & yakult juice later in the afternoon.
Dinner will be fried bee hoon.
I'm listening to Cher Lloyd as I'm typing this entry out and I must say I'm falling in love with it. A good mix of fast and slow songs. The name of the album is Sorry I'm Late. Ha ha... What a name!
I realised I've too many photos for PL. Hence, I'm going to be spending some time on PL tonight. Hopefully, there will be time for it. I've to get up real early tomorrow as I plan to go for a morning Prayer Meeting. =)
Well, Friday is more or less gone. I'm going home now and I wish you a blessed and fantastic weekend!
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Waiting here is not idle waiting or killing time. It is an intense preparation, watchfulness, and most interesting of all, waiting with celebration and joy! Let's look at the details:
Moral Attributes:
- 有孚: have integrity, honesty.
- 光亨: have light and smooth flowing
- 贞吉: righteous and goodness
- 利涉大川: suitable to start big project (original: cross wide rivers)
Fun in the Midst of Waiting
The most interesting description is given in the pictorial text : 云上於天,需;君子以饮食宴乐。 Clouds rise up to the sky is, 需-Xu, waiting for the right moment; Wise man has joy with partying with foods and drinks.
The secret of the ability for a long and fruitful wait is the attitude of joy and celebration. In the midst of preparation for the right opportunities, we must work with joy and gladness in our heart. We can intersperse fun times in the waiting period.
The common reaction to delay and waiting is frustration and anger. We wasted much energy in complaining and on futile activities killing the time. This hexagram tell us to make best of the waiting time for preparation and some fun, keeping our expectation and hope alive. We will then be in the best position to exploit the opportunity when the time is ripe. Keeping happy and busy will also make the waiting time seems short.
Stage 1 - Begin Nine: Waiting at the wilderness. Good to have perseverance. No fault.
We are just starting and we must prepare to wait and work for a long time. Remember to have fun in the mean time. Please take note that we are not idly waiting but in preperation and making progress even though progress is hard. We must not loose our calmness and there will be no fault. We can picture army moving forward to take a city starting from a far far place in the wilderness.
Stage 2 - Second Nine: Waiting at the sands. Have some complains. Good ending.
Some more waiting and there are people getting impatience and you can hear some complains. Some encouragement and fun will help and we can continue in a good state of readiness.
Stage 3 - Third Nine: Waiting in the mud. Enemy (original: Robbers) came.
We are getting closer but now there are external harmful factors coming in to interfere with our progress. We need to be watchful and careful to handle them well so that we will not loose out.
Stage 4 - Fourth Six: Waiting in a bloody place. Escape out of danger and traps.
If we are in a war, we are so near the target that the enemy come to attack us and there are injuries and bleeding. If we are in business, the long build up time is bleeding our cash. Being watchful of the external trends, listening to the market, we manage to escape from traps.
Stage 5 - Fifth Nine: Waiting with Drink and Food. Righteous perseverance bring forth fortune.
We are all ready to celebrate. It is like the eve of the product launch. Continue with the care and excellent work and you shall have a good success.
Stage 6 - Top Six: Back to home and meet three uninvited guests. Treat them with respect and you will end up with good fortune.
A successful launch brings forth customers that you have not expected. Respect and understand their requests. Make the needed changes and they will bring you to the next stage of greater success.
Don't waste this waiting time. Get prepared, be watchful, and have a happy and expectant attitude.
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A 9-year-old girl in Charlotte, North Carolina, has captivated the nation with a stirring, emotional speech about police brutality in her home city.
In the days since the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott at the hands of the police and unrest in the city, Charlotte has seen racial tensions reach a boiling point. But few leaders have been able to express the pain Black people across the nation have been feeling quite like Zianna Oliphant.
Before breaking into sobs and in between pauses to compose herself, she said,
"I've come here today to talk about how I feel, and I feel like that we are treated differently than other people," she said. "I don't like how we're treated. Just because of our color — doesn't mean anything to me. I believe that. We are Black people, and we shouldn't have to feel like this. We shouldn't have to protest because y'all are treating us wrong. We do this because we need to and have rights."
She explained to council members she's been living in Charlotte for all of her nine years, but she has "never felt this way."
"It's a shame that our fathers and mothers are killed, and we can't even see them anymore. It's a shame that we have to go to that graveyard and bury them. And we have tears, and we shouldn't have tears. We need our fathers and mothers to be by our side."
Zianna told NBC News that she spoke up because she is "not shy" like other kids and wanted to express how she feels about police brutality.
"I was just feeling like what the police are doing to us, just because of our skin, is not right," she said, "and I was kind of emotional because, like the things I said is like powerful to me, so that's why I started crying."
You know what they say about "out of the mouths of babes."
Check out the whole video in the clip above.
SOURCE: NBC News | PHOTO CREDIT: Getty
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Jesus told us, his disciples, to make disciples of all nations. One of the most important values of Clarkston UMC is our mission to the world. It begins in our own community, and spreads overseas to every nation. Clarkston UMC members are involved in a variety of ministries. We invite you to join us as we work together to spread the Good News throughout our community and in the world.


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Do you want to create a brand online?Try content marketing and get yourself noticed. There are two things that I learned early in my internet marketing career that must be done to even think about becoming successful online – Getting Seen, and Becoming Known.With content marketing strategies you can accomplish both those things.Content marketing is […]Read More
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Things are happening and changing FAST on the internet today!Every marketer wants more clicks. It's their lifeblood and their path to success. If you are in the business of selling or team building online you are in an extremely competitive space … and I'll bet you've figured that out already. The popularity of the internet and particularly […]Read More
Getting yourself noticed online will be necessary if you are to find people that might be interested in your products, services, or opportunity. There's a lot of competition so you need to be a little bit different from most. Once you are known for providing high-value content that people can benefit from, then you'll start […]Read More
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It's been two years since I first visited Koko Head Cafe, so I thought I was overdue for another visit!
|Breakfast Bibimbap
|Hawaiian-Style Pancakes
|Volcano Eggs
The Breakfast Bibimbap is a top-seller at Koko Head Cafe. Crispy garlic rice is topped with bacon, Portuguese sausage, ham, kimchi, mushrooms ong choy, carrots, bean sprouts, and an egg. So many ingredients in a single skillet! The flavors were fantastic!
The Hawaiian-Style Pancakes were really good. They were moist and complemented nicely by the fruit syrup and coconut.
The Volcano Eggs was recommended by our server. Baked eggs in a spicy tomato sauce was topped with cheese and a choice of veggies or Portuguese sausage (my husband opted for both).
Koko Head Cafe is definitely one of my favorite brunch spots on the island!
Koko Head Cafe1145C 12th Ave.
Honolulu, HI 96816
(808) 732-8920


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Midafternoon at Millenium Park
(a Norman Rockwell afternoon)
in the past two years-but hey!
She's having a blast!
So's the dog........What's this?
Percent for the Arts sculpture-wowee-quite the hat rack!
Great tunes to listen to-
and other smoky Lions to BBQ that chicken-
Obviously Russell approves-
He liked it! Happy 4th of July!


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By Jim Blakley, Living Edge Lab Associate Director, Carnegie Mellon University
In 2014, when my team at the time began working with modern artificial intelligence technologies, industry innovation focus was on neural network architecture . Every day, it seemed a new, more complex neural network was introduced (e.g., AlexNet, GoogLeNet, ResNet, MobileNet, VGG and beyond). We were amazed at the rapid accuracy improvements achieved for tasks like computer vision and object detection. That innovation vector was quickly joined by two others: large scale dataset collection and labeling (e.g., ImageNet , Flickr100m , YouTube8m and CIFAR-10 and 100 ) and training process scaling and optimization using hardware acceleration with GPUs, FPGAs and ASICs and smarter algorithms like reinforcement learning and neural network compression. The next vector, training and inferencing framework innovation, was kicked off with The University of California, Berkeley Caffe 1.0 release. Then followed Torch, Tensorflow, PyTorch, MXNet, Keras, PaddlePaddle and others . While research and innovation in these for areas is still very robust, the next vector – application creation -- the one that brings home the bacon – is moving into prominence.
Applications are by definition diverse, specific and fragmented. There are artificial intelligence applications across every industry and many types of problems (e.g., traffic intersection management, medical image analysis, fraud detection, securities valuation, crop monitoring). Turning core technologies into solutions to real world problems involves two main tasks:
- Customization and improvement of the technologies to make them "fit for purpose" for the specific application.
- Stitching together the individual technologies into an integrated whole so that the application actually does what it is intended to do.
These tasks are the domain of systems research and systems engineering – where I've spent most of my career and are the focus of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Edge Computing Research Team and the Living Edge Lab .
In my last blog , I described an important class of augmented reality applications (AR) called Wearable Cognitive Assistance (WCA). WCA applications provide automated real time hints and guidance to users by analyzing the actions of the user through an AR head mounted display (HMD) while they complete a task. For his PhD thesis , recent CMU graduate Junjue Wang looked at two WCA systems challenges and created open software frameworks to begin to address them.
- WCA applications are inherently video based and require real time video detection of application specific objects. Application creation is usually iterative and, over time, the object types that need to be recognized change as the application workflow evolves. Rapidly collecting training data for application-specific objects, labeling that data and retraining the application detectors is necessary to make WCA applications practical. Since collecting and labeling data is still a very manual process, automation can help speed up the data scientist's dataset creation efforts. The OpenTPOD framework helps here.
- Like many user interactive applications, WCA applications have at core a user workflow model for executing a series of steps in response to user inputs. A primary task of the application developer is designing this workflow – with all its failure cases – then implementing and evolving it. OpenWorkFlow is a framework for WCA-specific workflow creation and editing.
Here's an example from my "FlatTire" application from my last blog . In this application, the first two simple steps are:
- Collect the tools and supplies you need (bicycle pump, tire levers and a new tube). This step requires an object detector for each of the three items and to recognize that all three are present at the same time before it moves to …
- Remove the tire and wheel from the frame. Now, the application looks for a bicycle wheel on a bicycle fork. It first must see those two objects followed by a bicycle wheel alone to determine that the wheel has been removed.
Suppose I now wanted to insist that the user also has a patch kit before starting. I need to train a patch kit detector and update the workflow to now look for all four objects before moving to step two. The many necessary changes and error handlers that will come up during user testing mean that this modification process must be repeatable and streamlined.
OpenTPOD (Tool for Painless Object Detection) accelerates the WCA object detector development process by automating many of the human steps and integrating training platforms directly into the tool. To use OpenTPOD, I collected a series of short videos of bikes, wheels, tires, etc. in a variety of lighting and positions. I uploaded them into OpenTPOD and used the GUI based labeling tool [1] to put bounding boxes around the key objects on a few frames. OpenTPOD extrapolates those labels across the video set to create a large set of labeled training images. It then uploaded the images into Tensorflow to train a downloadable object detector. While OpenTPOD was designed as a WCA tool, it can be used for creating object detectors for any video-centric application. The OpenTPOD GUI is shown at left.
Once I had the detector, I used OpenWorkFlow to define the
state machine
for my application. OpenWorkFlow has both a GUI and a Python API. I found the API easier and more flexible for both initial design and modification. The output from OpenWorkFlow and OpenTPOD can be used directly by the
framework to execute the application. The state machine code for the first two states described above are shown below.
Here's a diagram of how OpenTPOD and OpenWorkFlow and Gabriel fit together.
We continue to evolve these three frameworks with a current focus on making OpenTPOD support more training frameworks and enabling easier labeling iteration with new data and object classes.
To try out the code, visit https://github.com/cmusatyalab/OpenTPOD and https://github.com/cmusatyalab/OpenWorkflow . To learn more about Wearable Cognitive Assistance and our efforts, check out the references below.
© 2020 Carnegie Mellon University
Previous Blogs
" When the Trainer Can't Be There ", Jim Blakley, Open Edge Computing Initiative, August 2020.
· " Augmenting Cognition Through Edge Computing ", Satyanarayanan, M., Davies, N. IEEE Computer, Volume 52, Number 7, July 2019
· " An Application Platform for Wearable Cognitive Assistance ", Chen, Z., PhD thesis, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University., Technical Report CMU-CS-18-104, May 2018.
· '' An Empirical Study of Latency in an Emerging Class of Edge Computing Applications for Wearable Cognitive Assistance '', Chen, Z., Hu, W., Wang, J., Zhao, S., Amos, B., Wu, G., Ha, K., Elgazzar, K., Pillai, P., Klatzky, R., Siewiorek, D., Satyanarayanan, M. , Proceedings of the Second ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, Fremont, CA, October 2017
· " Towards Wearable Cognitive Assistance ", Ha, K., Chen, Z., Hu, W., Richter, W., Pillai, P., Satyanarayanan, M., Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2014), Bretton Woods, NH, June 2014
· " Scaling Wearable Cognitive Assistance ", Junjue Wang PhD. Thesis, May 2020
· OpenTPOD Overview (February 2020)
· OpenWorkflow Overview (February 2020)
· IKEA Stool Assembly: Wearable Cognitive Assistant (August 2017)
· RibLoc System for Surgical Repair of Ribs: Wearable Cognitive Assistant (January 2017)
· Making a Sandwich: Google Glass and Microsoft Hololens Versions of a Wearable Cognitive Assistant (January 2017)
For all papers, publications, code and video from the CMU Edge Computing Research Team see:
[1] Based on the Computer Vision Annotation Tool (CVAT) .


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Study African Arts and Culture in Ghana
Please note: this page will be continually updated with the latest information about the Ghana program, so check back often.
Short URL for this page: http://tinyurl.com/2epv72
Happy Ghana Independence Day! (March 6th) [1][2]
General information
This 9 credit summer program, entitled "West African Music, Dance, Society, and Culture", comprises social science, humanities, and performing arts components, and is formally equivalent to three semester-long University of Alberta courses, available at both undergraduate and graduate levels.
- West African Music Ensemble (Music 144/244, 544). A practicum developing basic skills required for performance and understanding of traditional Ghanaian music, song, and dance, including music of the Ga, Asanti, and other groups, but with a special focus upon Ewe music traditions of the Volta Region. Includes study on the University of Ghana campus, and in a traditional Ewe village. Note: if you require non-junior credit you can substitute 244 for 144.
- Introduction to Ethnomusicology: The ethnomusicology of Ghanaian music and dance (Music 365, 565) Scholarly study of traditional and popular performance of Ghana, treating the form and meaning of traditional music and dance in cultural contexts, linking music and social identity, and reading Ghanaian culture, politics, history, and religion through music. The music, culture, society, and history of the Ewes will be included, so as to harmonize with the other two courses. The course culminates with the practical experience of doing ethnomusicology in Dagbamete.
- West African culture, language, and society (Middle Eastern and African Studies 300, 500). This course comprises a multidisciplinary investigation of West African culture (possibly including study of literature, linguistics, anthropology, sociology, history, political science, religious studies, or other disciplines), plus a practical introduction to the Ewe language, in conversation and through its oral literary tradition.
The program comprises three parts, of roughly 10-12 days each: (1) classroom study at the University of Ghana's beautiful Legon campus, on the outskirts of Ghana's capital, Accra; (2) travel throughout Ghana, with attention to historical and cultural landmarks, and varied opportunities to observe and study music; (3) cultural immersion in a small village located in southeastern Ghana.
You do not need to be a student at the University of Alberta to attend this program - in fact you don't need to be a student - it's open to everyone. (If you need the credits applied to your academic program, you're responsible for arranging their transfer. The University of Alberta will provide an official transcript.)
Ghana provides a rich learning environment, through four primary modes: (1) classroom study, including lectures from some of the best scholars and intellectuals in Ghana, mainly at the University of Ghana, in Legon; (2) varied travel experiences throughout Ghana; (3) practical study of African music and dance, including both observation and (more importantly) participation; (4) ethnography, especially during our village stay.
Music and dance performance is central, but no musical experience or talent is required to succeed (only a willingness to try!), and there are no prerequisites for any of the three courses. In 2007 and 2008, long-weekend field trips provided additional musical-cultural perspectives. In 2009 we rolled many of these trips into a single continuous week of travel. Field trips typically include visits to Cape Coast, Elmina, Kakum, Kumasi, Tamale, and Mole National Park where it is possible to view a wide assortment of wildlife. We undertake 2-3 day drumming and dancing workshops in many places we visit, such as Kokrobite, Kumasi, and Tamale, focussing on local musical culture (Ga, Asante, and Dagomba, respectively).
In our more sedentary moments, we'll be studying primarily on the beautiful Legon campus of the University of Ghana (Legon is a suburb of Accra, and a bit cooler too, where the rolling inland hills begin) and in the Volta-region village of Dagbamete, approximately two weeks in each location.
Here's a map on which you can find many of the places we'll visit: Legon, Accra, Kokrobite, Cape Coast, Kakum, Kumasi, Tamle (in the north). Kokrobite is around 80 kilos west of Accra. Elmina and Kakum are short drives from Cape Coast. In the Volta Region: Akatsi (a few kilos from our village, Dagbamete), and Ho, the capital of the Volta Region.
For a multimedia introduction to this program, please download this descriptive powerpoint presentation (along with this audio file)
Here's a testimonial from a 2008 summer student enrolled in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Nursing.
To communicate with past or prospective participants, join our Facebook group
2010 program and application procedures...
...are not yet available. But please read the materials posted for 2009 below, and stay tuned, or email me if you need more info. We'll certainly schedule some information sessions this fall for those on the UofA campus.
The start date should be more or less the same as for 2009 (early July), but we may stay a few days longer than 2009. You are certainly encouraged to book your ticket so as to extend your stay beyond the end of the formal program; many students did so in 2009, while others wished they had!
Please note that the program is now available for graduate credit: Music 544 (West African Music Ensemble), Music 565 (Area Studies in Ethnomusicology), MEAS 500 (Topic in Middle Eastern and African Studies). The latter two courses emphasize advanced, critical reading, independent field research, and ethnomusicological analysis and writing. Students pursuing an MA in ethnomusicology could use these courses to develop a corpus of research and knowledge sufficient for the preparation of an MA thesis, or simply to develop a secondary area of ethnomusicological expertise.
Non-University of Alberta students are responsible for ensuring that credit transfers to their home institution and program, and must enroll in University of Alberta open studies prior to enrollment in the program.
2009 program and application procedures
2009 schedule
Following your arrival in Ghana by Thursday July 2, the 2009 program will commence on Friday July 3, lasting a total of 33 days until its conclusion on August 3 (departure August 4), including 3 days of orientation (July 3-5), 8 days of classroom lectures (July 6-9, July 13-16), 12 days of travel throughout Ghana (July 10-12, July 17-24), and 10 days' residence in a small Ewe-speaking Ghanaian village (Dagbamete), located in Ghana's Volta Region, for field study and musical/linguistic/cultural immersion (July 25-Aug 3). Unless you've made other arrangements, you'll be leaving Dagbamete on August 4th, and can catch a flight in the afternoon or evening on that day if you wish. It's also possible to arrange to stay in Dagbamete longer, or to spend time touring elsewhere in Ghana if you wish. But please do not plan to leave Ghana before August 4th.
The Ghana portion of the program will be shorter in 2009 than in 2008, but will provide the same number of credits. You are welcome to plan your trip as you like, arriving before the program begins, or remaining in Ghana afterward, in order to extend your stay. Because the Ghana portion is shorter, I will assign some readings for you to complete before your arrival in Ghana. Feel free to do these assignments at any time before the program commences.
Preparation for Ghana
Here are some guidelines and lists to help you prepare for travel.
Unless you're bringing a computer or e-reader, you should print out online reading assignments prior to departure.
Program syllabi
Here are the syllabi for 2009.
Because the Ghana portion of the program is shorter than last year, you will be expected to complete a number of reading assignments prior to travel. Please take note of readings on the syllabi that you should complete before the program begins, namely:
You will prepare final papers after returning from Ghana - papers will be due at the end of August.
For now, please learn to locate all the countries of Africa and their capitals using this interactive map quiz for countries, and this one for capitals.
Costs and scholarships
Scholarships are available!
Fifteen $1,000 scholarship awards are available to early applicants from Canada, with priority to UofA students. Ready to apply? Complete the application. (Note: the application says these grants are only for UofA students, but in fact you can obtain a scholarship even if you're not a UofA student. It's just that UofA students have priority.)
$2,250 scholarships are available for International students (including students from the USA).
Application deadlines:
- Scholarship application: March 16th, 2009
- General application: March 16th, 2009
Past programs
Those considering attending in 2010 might like to examine the 2009 program material (above) and the detailed 2008 program, including course hours and schedule.
Our 2008 and 2009 groups carried out original field research in a Ghanaian village. Read the results of our study here: Music and change in Dagbamete
Student blogs from 2009:
Browse photos from previous programs here:
Experiencing Ghana, summer 2007
Experiencing Ghana, summer 2008
Research in Ghana
Our summer program includes original field research in a Ghanaian village. Read the results of our study here: Musical Change in Dagbamete
Need more information?
Regarding application procedures please contact Caroline Lawson, Study Abroad Student Advisor, University of Alberta International, Education Abroad Program, 8920 HUB Mall, Edmonton, AB, Canada, T6G 2E1 Tel: 780 492 6215 Fax: 780 492 6213 www.international.ualberta.ca
You may also contact Professor Michael Frishkopf for further information about the program itself.
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An Introduction to Quizbowl
by Owen Nguyen '20
Quizbowl is a competition that is similar to "It's Academic." Each round there are twenty "toss-up" questions, and two teams consisting of four to six players try to answer the questions first. "Toss-ups" can vary from art to history to literature to science to "trash" (sports, current events, pop-culture, etc.) The hints given at first are obscure and hard, but gradually become simpler until the answer is basically given. When a team gets a "toss-up" correct, three additional bonus questions are read, which that team only can answer. For every "toss-up" and bonus question answered correct, ten points are awarded, but if a team answers a "toss-up" incorrectly, five points are deducted. At the end round, whichever team that has the most amount of points wins.
I started participating in Quizbowl tournaments starting in middle school. One of the biggest tournaments I went to was the national middle school tournament in Atlanta, Georgia. My middle school sent two teams, and both performed very well—one of them finishing 2nd out of over 150 teams.
When I decided to come to St. Albans, I planned on continuing my Quizbowl career. Halfway through last year, I gathered a group of classmates and formed a history bowl team (similar to Quizbowl but only contains history "toss-ups"). With little practice and experience, we managed to be very competitive in every tournament, and even managed to place 3rd in one of the three tournaments we attended. Because of our placement in these competitions, we qualified two teams for History Bowl nationals, which were held in Washington D.C that year.
Our record at nationals was fair, with us finishing around .500, but that wasn't enough to get into the playoffs. Although disappointed at our result, I felt encouraged and hopeful for next year with a more experienced group.
This year I started an official club with Will Holland '20 and we held a couple of interest meetings earlier in the year. We've held multiple practices and planned out potential Quizbowl and History Bowl tournaments in the future. Just this past week we attended our first History Bowl competition of the year at St. Anselms. Unfortunately we didn't qualify for nationals this time, but we were competitive and every game we played was close. We have many more tournaments ahead of us, and I hope that we will do well enough to go to nationals for both of them. The club is set up for success, and I'm looking forward to a great year for us.
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Terry H posted a topic in General DiscussionI had massive issues before where VWX wouldn't work under a new Mac OS operating system. Each company blamed the other & neither took any responsibility (what a surprise, eh?) Is there any issues with VWX2019 & Mac OS 10.15 Catalina before I upgrade? Thank you.


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Yesterday was a landmark day for type (and type enthusiasts everywhere), as Typedia, a shared encyclopedia of typefaces, was unveiled. Typedia has been in development since 2006 when Jason Santa Maria first had the idea, and I've been watching him masterfully pull together the project since.
It's really an honor to have been part of this kind of team, having the privilege to watch structure and design unfold as ideas and form take shape. Weighing in on features like the Forum (how much do people want to participate?), the Add section (how many fields are too many?), and Good Deeds (how can we engage people to add more?) were enormously interesting to be a part of early on.
The Typedia logotype, designed by John Langdon. The story behind the design in full disclosure here.
The team is planning more posts to explain the information architecture-to-design process in detail in weeks to come. For now, I'm delighted to watch it grow, so if you're one of the few who hasn't taken a look yet, you can follow Typedia on Twitter, or if you want to give feedback directly, drop the team a line.
Thanks to Jason for including me in the project!


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A sermon preached on January 26th, 2020 based upon Mathew 4:12-23, entitled "Learning to Live in the Kingdom of God."
As I mentioned last week, each Gospel writer has distinctive ways of presenting the story of Jesus with particular themes on which they focus. One theme Matthew highlights is the conflict between God's kingdom (reign) and the kingdoms of this world (which in Jesus' day focused on the Roman Empire.) In God's kingdom every human being is cherished, love is the currency and there is always room in the circle. In the kingdom's of this world worth is quantified by one's place in the ladder of status, and fear is the primary motivator.
In Matthew's Gospel this theme arises right from the start when we hear how the news of Jesus' birth leads King Herod to do the "shake in his boots with fear dance". Threatened by the coming of God's reign and its disruption of the status quo, Herod lashes out with brutal violence to try and kill the infant Jesus.
John the Baptizer comes announcing the arrival of God's kingdom, inviting people to be baptized as a sign of their desire to re-aligned with God's reign. Jesus is baptized by John, and as he does hears God declare, "This is my beloved child, in whom I delight."
When we are living in alignment with the Kingdom of God, the fact that we are children of God is our deepest identify.
Immediately afterwards Jesus spends forty days in the wilderness. In Matthew's version of the story the climactic third temptation by the devil Jesus is offered the position of top dog in all the kingdoms of this world. Remembering the One to whom he belongs Jesus turns his back on the devil's offer.
Our reading follows the temptation story and in the first verse we are reminded that the kingdoms of this world use the threat of violence to silence those who would question allegiance to their authority. John, we are told is locked for his audacity.
Jesus takes off where John left off, proclaiming the good news of God's Kingdom, bringing its light into the darkness of the kingdoms of this world.
Later we will be told the brutal story of how John ends up beheaded, and of course, of how Jesus ends up crucified. These acts were meant to induce fear in all who would consider challenging the authority of the kingdoms of this world.
At the end of Matthew's Gospel, the story of the Jesus' resurrection is told in such a way as to emphasize that in the end, God's kingdom will triumph. Roman soldiers are deployed at the tomb in which Jesus' body is buried, and when an angel descends and the tomb is broken open, the soldiers tremble (like King Herod at the outset) and become like dead men. If the threat of death is ultimate weapon by which the kingdoms of this world keep suppress God's kingdom, it is indeed terrifying to the powers in charge if a man executed for challenging their authority rises from the dead.
So with this overview of the conflict between the Kingdoms of this world and God's kingdom we come to the famous story of Jesus calling the four fishermen. Typically we misinterpret this story. We imagine ourselves in the fishermen's sandals and quickly conclude that we wouldn't have had what it took to suddenly leave everything to follow Jesus. But this story isn't about how extraordinary the fishermen were. Quite the contrary, a consistent theme throughout the gospels is just how ordinary the twelve disciples were. They weren't the best and brightest. They weren't particularly brave.
This story is ultimately about Jesus rather than the four fishermen. There was something so compelling about his personal presence that made it possible for these four very ordinary men to take the extraordinary step of following him. In our common place interactions in this world, the depth of who we are – our souls – are not recognized. We are merely the cogs of the kingdoms of this world. But Jesus had the capacity to immediately make a "soul connection" – and whenever this happens there is the exquisite experience of joy. They experienced in Jesus a quality of aliveness that was intensely attractive – a kind of love that wasn't clingy but infinitely expansive. A quote by Monica Helwig came to mind: "Jesus lived as if God reigned and none else had power over him." The fishermen immediately sensed they were in the presence of the first truly free man, and found themselves longing for that same freedom for themselves.
In following Jesus, they were initiated into a process of transformation. Although we humans are made for the Kingdom of Heaven, a powerful dark force keeps pulling us back into the orbit of the kingdom of this world. In the course of the Gospel story we often hear Jesus challenging his disciples to live out of their faith rather than their fear, the currency of this world. When terror seizes the hearts of the disciples in a boat at night crossing the sea of Galilee, Jesus asks them, "O men of little faith, why did you doubt?" When a crowd of 5000 follow Jesus and his disciples out into the wilderness, Jesus has compassion upon them for they are like "sheep without a shepherd," a phrase echoing the prophecy of Jesus' birth in Matthew's Gospel that the new king who would "shepherd his people." But gazing at the thousands of people fear trumps the love of the disciples, and they encourage Jesus to send the crowd away because there won't be enough food for them. "You give them something to eat," Jesus says. They give away all they have, and in a miracle occurs – sharing goes viral and there is an abundance of food for all. The Kingdom of Heaven is glimpsed for a moment right here on earth.
Jesus tells the fishermen that they will become fishers of people. The metaphor of fishing is an imperfect one, particularly as we associate the violence of a hook piercing a fish for its capture. But the kingdom of God is not about coercion but rather invitation. As real fisher people know– they cannot coerce the fish to swim into their nets.
Perhaps the image of fishing for people conjures up images of Jehovah Witnesses coming two by two to our door handing out pamphlets for us to read which, in their mind include the unquestioned truth. But that wasn't what it was about when Jesus sent the disciples out two by two into the world. In that case, Jesus explicitly sends them out in a posture of vulnerability – without money or weapons – in the hope of making a "soul connection." To fulfil the mission they must confront their fears and come with open-hearted love. They don't hand out tracks – their message is simple –"the Kingdom of God is at hand." If they find receptivity and are inviting into homes it isn't so they can lecture them regarding the truth, rather as Jesus was for them, they are to be a living embodiment of the kingdom of heaven – a witness to an expansive love that conquers fear. In sending the disciples out two by two Jesus was giving the disciples an exercise of stepping out in faith to live out the reality of kingdom of God.
The famous preacher of a century ago – Philip Brooks – was once asked why he was a Christian. The questioner was prepared for Brooks to give a theological discourse, but instead he answered this way: "I am a Christian because of my aunt who lives in Teaneck, New Jersey." The point is we become a follower of Jesus because we have an encounter with someone who is living out with some degree of authenticity the kingdom of God – their deepest identity being that of a child of God – and in doing so find ourselves drawn to them and the power that flows through them.
This is what the Church is intended to be – a community of people who seek out to live out (imperfectly for sure) the reality of the Kingdom of God as opposed to the kingdoms of this world.
Recently I was approached by a couple of parents of the teenagers of our church because they wanted to get the youth group up and running again. I have always valued the time I have shared with our youth, but the great challenge in getting them together is the busyness of their schedules. I had a meeting with the parents to talk about this. I was moved by something one of the mothers said. The friendships her children had within our church were different, she said from the friendships they had with school. There was less "drama" she said. By this I took it to mean that in the school relationships often there was an undercurrent of anxiety with which to contend – the possibility of rejection – of being left out of the circle. It pleased me to no end that here in our church they experienced a love that wasn't so anxiety-ridden. They received here a glimpse of the Kingdom of God.
The world our youth live in is far less brutal than the world that was common place in the Roman Empire. Our youth are privileged; there are youth in this world that live in places where violence and brutality are commonplace. Nonetheless, the kingdoms of this world continue to hold sway in their lives. One of the things I sensed in the time I spent last Spring when I met weekly with our youth in preparation for confirmation was the immense academic and social pressure the youth live under. They are in a constant battle to maintain their place in this world. And so we are making plans to carve out some time in their busy schedules where they can experience a community of grace where their inherent worth as God's children is our starting point.
The journey in which we come to live more deeply into the truth that we are God's beloved children is a lifelong process, continuing right to our death bed. Along the way, we learn how to let go of the burden of fear, including the ultimate fear by which the kingdoms of this world would enslave us – the fear of death. The resurrection of Jesus declares the triumph of God's love over the powers of death and darkness. We need not be afraid. We can enter the darkness trusting in the light – the love that undergirds all.


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Honestly, I have been afraid lately. I admit, even as a Christian, that I am afraid at times because of this pandemic. I am human. It's my personal opinion that anyone who suggests otherwise is out of touch with their feelings. I'm not worried about myself. I'm totally at peace about my eternal future. It's for the safety and health of everyone else I care about that I afraid.
Yet, while I know my eternity is sealed, I often look down the path and fail to see Jesus in the road. I just see fog.
In our present crisis, that is certainly true. How is this all going to turn out? Will someone in my family get sick? The fog of uncertainty is very thick some days.
What if my husband and I are separated and one of us ends up in the hospital? I can't even imagine how awful it would be to be separated like that and not be able to visit and yet there are many who have already been there and more who will be.
And to be called and told your loved one has died without you being with them, and over the phone? Fear could overwhelm me if I dwell on it so I don't.
I love what Oswald Chambers wrote: "Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is a deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way."
Before we get through this crisis, we will all experience those moments when we are truly afraid. There will very likely come a time when we hear of someone we even only remotely know who has died and it will be all too real.
If we depend on our intelligence to figure everything out, we will be shortchanged because none of us is God. None of us has created a world, human beings, the universe….. I love the last few chapters of Job when God calls up Job short by reminding him of who he is talking to.Tweet
So today I ask that if you are fearful, will you picture God walking ahead of you, preparing the way for whatever happens?
Can you trust with your heart what your mind can't grasp?
That's what faith is.
Finally, please, if you need prayer, a word of encouragement, an idea to occupy your time, please contact me at email@example.com. I mean that. I will respond and offer what help I can. I will pray. I only need your first name.
God bless and stay safe.
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I had learned already many of the Outland methods of communicating by forest notes rather than trust to the betraying, high-pitched human voice.
None of these was of more use to me than the call for refuge. If any Outlier wished to be private in his place, he raised that call, which all who were within hearing answered.
Then whoever was on his way from that placed hurried, and whoever was coming toward it stayed where he was until he had permission to move on.


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We have all heard about the suggestion boxes, located at offices across the country. They are typically positioned in a corner and encourage employees to leave a note with their feedback on any given topic related to their workplace. Recently, I have read a few articles that claim the suggestion box is outdated and inefficient. Why? Because it focuses too much on the problem without offering a solution, its contents often do not get addressed in a timely fashion, and they do not reward those coming forward. Instead, there are better ways to make sure your employees are heard.
No two employees are exactly alike. Therefore, your communication strategy should be one that is flexible and open. One way to achieve this is by remaining positive when speaking with employees. In turn, this will allow them to feel comfortable coming forward with concerns, questions and even policy critiques and suggestions.
If an employee contacts you about a sensitive manner, be sure to treat it with care and make it personal…because it is to them. If an employee confides in a supervisor or manager, it is best that they try to resolve the issue instead of handing it off to someone else to complete. By taking care of the issue, it will demonstrate to the employee that what is significant to them is likewise significant to his/her higher-up. Although this is not always feasible at first point of contact, it is important to try and resolve the issue in order to build trust.
Trust is earned and your employees will value your efforts to make them feel seen as well as heard. So, whether you were using a suggestion box or implement a different strategy, remember it takes gumption for employees to come forward with their concerns, observations and opinions. Implement programs that make employees feel safe to come forward and see your staff transform.
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Ashland's `feel' for what will play. For Elizabethan buffs, though, the Oregon troupe is staging a 1599 comedy
| Ashland, Ore.
The three most-produced playwrights on the American stage during the past year have been William Shakespeare, Sam Shepard, and Athol Fugard. All three - an Elizabethan, an avant-garde American, and a reformist South African - are represented this summer on the Oregon Shakespearean Festival's three stages, along with other such proven crowd-pleasers as Oliver Goldsmith, Brendan Behan, and Alan Ayckbourn.
This says something about the festival's sense of the modern audience: You don't get to be the nation's largest repertory company, with the second largest audience, without a realistic notion of what plays well (and has done so, these past several centuries). It also helps that the Oregon company handles Shepard's jagged rhythms and bitter anger as skillfully as it does Shakespeare's flourishes and sober musings.
And yet, for habitual theatergoers, the most interesting play may be the one by the least-known playwright, Thomas Dekker, a Shakespeare contemporary.
The festival usually performs three of the Bard's works in repertory on its outdoor Elizabethan stage, but this year an exception was made for Dekker's 1599 comedy, ``The Shoemaker's Holiday.'' The choice exhibits a kind of antiquarian daring: not that Dekker is obscure or challenging, but that he is simply such an ordinary Elizabethan. It is easy to forget how truly Ben Jonson spoke in calling Shakespeare ``not of an age, but for all time.''
``Holiday'' gives us a fascinating glimpse of what late-16th-century Londoners were exposed to most of the time - often witless, overblown stuff.
Director Jerry Turner and his actors provide a thoroughly Elizabethan experience: an uninspired, cobbled-together script, whose plot periodically takes a holiday of its own, but one that can be rescued by a talented troupe through madcap physical gyrations and sheer manic energy.
The story involves a nobleman masquerading as a shoemaker to pursue his love. There are many ludicrous complications, but universal happiness at the end. Like most Elizabethans, Dekker created situation comedy of the purest sort - he devised ridiculous situations and left it up to the actors to make them funny. For the most part, the festival actors are up to the job, although the show does have its tedious stretches.
As the young swain, Dante DiLoreto has a fine time gabbling pidgin-German (the hero, for no particular reason, disguises himself as a Dutch shoemaker) and looks laughably overmatched in the clinches with his unabashedly amorous love (Sheryl Taub).
William McKereghan is in wonderful voice as the owner of the shoe shop, bellowing jocose insults at his wife (an equally stentorian Caren Graham) and gurgling with pleasure when nonsensical plot developments make him Lord Mayor of London. Douglas Markkanen embraces the role of Fife, a low-comedy lead with nary a funny line, and earns his laughs the old-fashioned way, by twitching, sputtering, and jumping up and down. Claudia Everett's costumes get into the act, featuring a color scheme that is attention-getting if not always in the best of modern taste.
Novice playgoers with little knowledge of Shakespeare would be best advised to skip this brawling frolic and head for the Bard. But for those who have seen ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and ``Macbeth'' too many times, Dekker's play is a holiday in more ways than one - an interlude so quintessentially and grossly Elizabethan as to represent a species of time-travel.
The festival's two other outdoor productions are polished, if not fully satisfying. Pat Patton's version of ``A Midsummer Night's Dream'' features a marvelously braying Bottom in Barry Kraft, some splendid mugging by Michelle Morain as the much abused Helena (along with appealing work by Chiron Alston, Jeffrey Nordling, and Katherine Heasley as the other three confused young lovers), and a thoroughly magical set and lighting concept by Jesse Hollis and Robert Peterson.
Matters are a bit more unsettled in the fairy kingdom. Henry Woronicz makes a sweetly fey Puck, but Sheryl Taub's Titania brays awfully boisterously even when not enamored of the ass, and while Derrick Lee Weeden is riveting in his best moments as Oberon, he needs to learn the difference between a gesture and a mannerism.
James Edmondson's production of ``Macbeth'' is oddly but interestingly focused, in part by design and in part by default. Michael Kevin makes a strong but rather stolid Macbeth, and Demetra Pittman's Lady Macbeth embraces evil with giddy enthusiasm. There is no reflection here, no soul-searching, just a straightforward march to destruction.
This throws all the question of motive on the three weird sisters who prophesy Macbeth's kingship. Played by Linda Alper, Ursula Meyer, and Terri McMahon, they are clearly witches in the service of darker powers in this version.
While the rest of the production has been designed with Prussian severity by costumer Deborah Dryden and set designer William Bloodgood, the witches are given some extraordinary paraphernalia with which to entice the gullible Macbeth to his doom.
Edmondson had the innovative notion to combine the roles of Seyton (despite the phonetically intriguing name, a minor attendant of Macbeth's in the original), the drunken porter, and Hecate, the witches' master spirit, in one figure, played with sinister insouciance by Dan Kremer. We thus have Seyton - Beelzebub himself - at Macbeth's elbow throughout, orchestrating his downfall.
Those less inclined toward Elizabethiana or the night air will find a good deal to choose from in the concurrent indoor season, including Goldsmith's ``She Stoops to Conquer,'' Behan's ``The Hostage,'' Fugard's ``Master Harold and the Boys,'' Ayckbourn's ``Taking Steps,'' and Shakespeare's ``Richard II.''
The most compelling work in the repertory is Andrew Traister's fiercely funny version of Sam Shepard's ``Curse of the Starving Class.''
One of the great pleasures of repertory theater is watching actors shift styles when working in radically different plays. Here an excellent cast makes a smooth shift from exploiting the ancient muse to exploring Shepard's mordant vision of an America in which families are ripped asunder and torn from the land by a society of all-pervading fraudulence. Dan Kremer, as the drunken paterfamilias, and Caren Graham, as the disgusted wife making a fumbling effort at escape, are full of grim comic pathos, while Bill Geisslinger, fresh from a forceful Macduff, makes a thoroughly believable sleazy lawyer.
Other good performances are in evidence, perhaps the most affecting being Kimberly Patton's as the screechy but shrewd teen-ager whose terminal exasperation with her family's illusions and the world's deceits leads her to plan a life of crime.
The stretch between Thomas Dekker's antic nonsense and Sam Shepard's deadly earnest attack on modern corruption is a long one, but making the stretch keeps a company fresh and a season both profound and lively.
The outdoor plays run through the first weekend in October; the indoor season continues through Oct. 31.


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Yahoo acquires mobile video app startup Ptch
The Ptch service will be shut down by Jan. 2
Yahoo has acquired Ptch, the startup behind a mobile app that allowed users to combine photos and video on their phones into movies, and the service will shut down by January.
Incubated by DreamWorks Animation, Ptch was positioned as a social media application that enabled users to make stylized short videos, called ptches, and share them with the Ptch network of users as well as on Facebook and Twitter timelines.
"We acquired the company, which includes the people and the technology they built," a Yahoo spokeswoman said via email Tuesday. She did not disclose the terms of the deal.
"As part of the Yahoo team, we'll be able to focus our efforts and leverage our technology to make Yahoo's photo and video platforms the best in the world," Ptch said in a blog post.
Yahoo has been acquiring a string of companies, very often for their talented staff, to boost its expertise and offerings in key target markets like mobile. The acquisition of Ptch comes a day after the company announced it had acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup. "The team of four has built amazing natural language processing technology and we're excited to welcome them to our Yahoo Labs team in New York," Yahoo said.
The Internet giant acquired Qwiki, a New York City company that developed an app for turning photos and videos into short, edited movies, in July. It decided to continue to support the Qwiki app as a standalone service within Yahoo.
Ptch said it will shut down on Jan. 2. Until then, users can download their ptches on the company's website ptch.com or save them to their camera roll from the Ptch app on their phones.
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The new retail shop Laced Apparel is owned and operated by husband and wife duo Nic and Gallia. A true family affair Nic explains their very cute logo was designed by Gallia's brother. "Some people see a honey bee, a shoe or an old man smiling." Nic says that whatever you see in their Laced logo his hope is to "make customers happy." The shoe is most definitely fitting as the new retail shop carries brands like Adidas, New balance, People, Puma, Converse and Hershel to name a few. Laced Apparel is located at 2723 East Hastings Street and conveniently across from the very popular Chatime. If you live in the neighbourhood and need some fly wardrobe updates make sure to drop by. All residents up to 2km away from Laced Apparel can receive 20% off selected items with proof of address from a drivers licence.
Welcome to the Neighbourhood Nic and Gallia!