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Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
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Product Details
|Solvent extraction oil from various raw material seeds
|Oil solvent extraction
|Automatic Grade:
|Production Capacity:
|Place of Origin:
|Jinan,Shandong, China (Mainland)
|Brand Name:
|Model Number:
|According to the capacity
|According to the capacity
|According to the capacity
|After-sales Service Provided:
|Engineers available to service machinery overseas
|Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
|12 Months
|High output
|Oil Production Line
|Manufacturing experience:
|Edible Oil Field
|Professional engineer team in oil extraction plant design
|Type of extractor:
|Rotocel extractor, Loop type extractor,Chain Extractor,
|Main market:
|Asia, Europe, Africa, South Ameriaca,
Product Description
leader edible oil refining processes co., ltd supply the complete set of cooking oil production line machinery including sunflower oil production line, palm oil production line, soya bean oil production line, peanut oil production line, cotton seeds oil production line, maize corn germ oil production line, clamelia oil production line, rapeseeds oil production line, canola oil production line, coconut cropra oil production line, shea oil production line, groundnuts oil line, sesame oil production line,black seeds oil production line, jatropha seeds oil production line,moringa seeds oil production line.
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Deacidification of palm oil refining machine :This part adopt alkali refining method, that is use alkalis lLD (NaOH) to neutral the free fatty acid in oil, during this process it will produce soapstock , then separated from the oil by setting several hours. NAOH solution, not only neutral free fatty acid, also can act with other matters lLD protein, mucus, phospholipid, pigment. After settling, release the soapstock from the tank bottom. Adding hot water to rinse, remove off the leftover lye , soap and some unhydrated phospholipid in the oil. Finally pumping out soapstock from the tank bottom.
Deodorization and Dehydration of palm oil refining machine :Usually ,there are some odors in the crude oil , it affects the quality of the edible oil . About our refining process , we usually use the direct steam to take odors away in the vacuum condition . General speaking there is about 0.5% water in the alkali refined oil, in the deodorization pot, thetemperature is very high , it also can finish the dehydration section.
Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production LineCompany Information
Company Brief Introduction
LD LD Heavy Industry Machinery Co., Ltd. is a Group Company, professional modern enterprise which specialized in manufacturing cooking oil machines for various oilsees crops for many years with rich experience, including both small scale cooking oil production line and large scale cooking oil production line. We can realize total turn-key project from design to installation and commissioning. Our products have obtained certificates of ISO9001:2000, ISO14001 and CE .
our services About Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
1.Pre-sale services
System evaluation: Project basic situation.
Solution: The investment budget, feasibility, rationality.
Product selection: Factory inspection; Site measurement; Technical discusion; Supply professional drawing and lists.
Win-win Cooperation: Sign the contract; Establish mutual benefit, strategic cooperative partnership.
2.In-sale Services
Design evaluation: Detailed technical assessment & arrangement; Design of process and equipment layout.
Procurement: Strictly inspection, optimized selection.
Installation: Quality and quantity guaranteed; Completion of hand over.
Acceptance: Acceptance test; Accepted deliverables.
Technical training: On-site installation and products training; Operation skills training; Maintenance training; Centralized technical training.
3. After-sale Services
Technical service: Long time technical service.
Accessories supplying: Supplying spare parts with cost price.
Complaint handling: 12--24 hours response mechanism.
Client Review: Call-back; Regular return visit.
FAQ About Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
Q1 : Which kind of materials can be processed?
All kinds of oil seeds. For example, sunflower seeds, rice bran, corn germ, palm fruit, palm kernel,coconut,peanut, soybean, sesame, cottonseeds, rapeseed, etc.
Q2 : What's the capacity?
Generally, 10-3000 tons per day. We can also manufacture as per customers' requirements.
Q3 : How long is the warranty?
The main parts of the machine come with one year warranty and after the expiration our engineer is available overseas to do the maintenance work.
Q4 : Can the machine be installed locally?
We can do the turn-key projects or other services according to customers' requirements, according to this condition,our services can be manufacturing, purchasing, transporting, installation, training labors etc.
Q5 : How to operate the machine?
Our engineers will be available to guide and train your labors how to operate and run the machine.
Our Business Scope
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Product Description
Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line Flow Chart
Introduction Of Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
1) Function: Oil extraction machine is an oil extractor through soaking or spraying pre-pressed cake by a certain organic solvent. The principle of this part is the different solubility of solvent.
2) Use range: Oil extraction machine fits for pre-press extraction of high-oil-content materials and direct once time extraction of low-oil-content materials.
3) Main parts: Oil extraction machine series includes rotary extractor, toaster, 1st evaporator, 2nd evaporator, stripping tower, condenser,etc.
Main Parts Of Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
1) Solvent pumps: continuously spray solvent to the rotary-type extractor.
2) Rotary extractor: spray and soak the pre-pressed cake with solvent so that oil fats can be dissolved in solvent (form miscella). After processing,you can get wet meal and miscella (mixed oil).
3) DTDC: used to separate the solvent from the wet meal.
4) Miscella tank 1st: pump the miscella (oil with solvent) into the miscella 1st, then add 10% saline water to it. The phospholipids and impurities in the miscella will react with the saline water, at last the reactant precipitate, reaching the goal of purifying.
5) Miscella tank 2nd: the purified miscella will be pumped into it.
6) Miscella stripping: it will remove the remaining solvent in miscella. And the solvent will be discharged to condenser for recycling.
7) Condensers: used to cooling the solvent gas separated from the wet meal and miscella for recycling.
Main Process Of Complete In Specifications Corn Germ Oil Processing Production Line
solvent extraction Process
After pressed or pre-pressed, we get the cake, the cake has about 7% or 12-13% oil residual. In order to make the oil in the cake is less than 1%, we need to solvent extraction. And Firstly, we need to by the scraper convenyor, send the cake to the solvent extractor, then leach them is about 90-120 minutes, keep the temperature 70-80 degree.
Wet Meal Desolventizing Process
The desolventizer has the three layers, the first layer is pre-desolventizing layer. The second layer is ventilating layer. The third is desolventing layer. The fourth layer is drying layer. The fiveth layer is cooling layer. This process of pre-desolventizing, we use the indirect steam to heat, the tempreature is 70-80degree. Then the cake enter the ventilating layer, the size of hole is 25 and 30mm, the we can open the hole by the steam, which make us easily make the solvent evaporate. The Desolventing layer, the temperature is 107- 108 degree, this layer, we main desolventize the solvent by the superheated steam. Then the cake enter the drying layer, the process, its temperature is 110-120 degree, and this process we can make the moisture is 12.8-13.2 in the meal. Then the cake entre the cooling layer, cooling the temperature to understand 40 degree. And in the meal, the solvent residaul is less than 500ppm.
Miscella Evaporating Process
This process is main includes three parts: first tube evaporating, second tube evaporating, and Solvent stripped by the steam process. The temperature is 70-75 degree in first tube evaporating process, the solvent will become evapour by indirect steam heating. In this process, the solvent will be evaporated 65%. The temperature is 105 degree in second evaporating process, the solvent will become evapour by indirect steam heating. In this process, we can make 30% solvent become evaporate. The least 5% solvent in oil, we will make it evaporate by direct steam heating, the temperature is 105-110 degree.
Solvent Condensation & Recovery Process
Solvent condensation system combines with evaporation system closely, and evaporative condenser and steam stripping condenser all work under negative pressure. Noncondensable gas enters the enerLD saver from the shell of the first evaporator. In enerLD saver, noncondensable gas exchanges heat with condensate from the evaporative condenser. Finally, the condensate temperature discharged from enerLD saver is increased, and the solvent separated from water goes to solvent holding tank. The high temperature makes it unnecessary to be reheated for the recycling, so as to save enerLD. Noncondensable gas from enerLD saver enters desolventizing condenser, in which a great deal of gas is condensed, and the tail gas is dischargd into the final condenser. The solvent gas from the extractor enters extraction condenser, and the noncondensable tail gas enters the final condenser. For the free gas in final condenser, diversion box, holding tank, underground solvent library and miscella tank, cool them with lowtemperatured cold water to recycle most of solvent gas. The tail gas with little solvent goes to paraffin recovery process.
Paraffin Oil Recovery Process
Tail gas first enters paraffin absorption tower, and then comes the countercurrent absorption of paraffin and tail gas, which can reach the ideal state when the stainless steel packing has large surface area. The solvent content in discharged liquid paraffin (called rich oil) is not more than 5%, so as to ensure the maximum absorption rate. The paraffin rich oil is pumped into the heat exchanger to exchange heat with paraffin lean oil, and then goes to paraffin heater, and finally enters paraffin analysis tower. In the analysis tower, the steamliquid heat exchange is conducted on the surface of stainless steel packing surface with direct steam and rich oil paraffin, which can remove the solvent in the paraffin. This kind of paraffin, also called lean oil, exchanges heat with rich oil, and then is cooled to the ideal absorption temperature through the cooler. Next, it enters absorption tower for recycling. The gas mixture from the analysis tower enters enerLD saver, and the tail gas from the absorption tower is discharged from workshop with the fan.In solvent recovery system, the solvent enters the holding tank through water tank, and the condensed waste water is discharged from water tank. If the tail gas contains certain solvent, cook it with the cooker to make it meet the emission requirements.
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If I don't update with something, I probably won't until post-baby, and who knows what's that's going to be like (aside from everything I've read and been told…). So here I am, with a few paragraphs. 38 weeks tomorrow, and J was full term (technically) last week, so I've been waiting impatiently, doing whatever I can to encourage her that now is the time for her to take action. Yesterday, I even mowed both the front and the back lawn. And … nothing.
Two weeks ago, my Chicago girls all came down and threw me a beautiful shower.
I took so many more pictures, but they're all at home on my other computer, so this will have to suffice for now.
Let's see. I've been on a cloth diapering kick – who knew one can obsess about that? But it's completely possible, and how absolutely FUN it's been. I think there's going to be a lot of trial and error once J is born, and figuring out what works for us and for her (since apparently, it really depends on how skinny/chunky the baby's legs are), but I'm very, very excited about it, and I'm pretty sure we're relatively prepared for whatever she hands us. The nursery/still my office is put together apart from a few shelves John is going to put up, the car seat needs to go in, we need a baby thermometer, and other than that, we're just waiting on her.
We saw Prometheus over the weekend. By the time we did, I'd read enough WTF reviews from friends that made me slightly skeptical, but then one wise woman suggested that what you get out of the movie is what you bring to it, that the responsibility lies with you and how much you decide to enjoy it. So I went into it hoping desperately it would help me fix "Sarscon 8," written just before Clarion last summer and still suffering from some structure issues, and I think it may have done that, or at least inspired me to give it another shot. It's a stunning movie, visually, with a few scenes that are just excellent – enough so that I didn't care about the plot devices or lack of character development or some of the campy alien shots. I mean, compared to the hot mess of John Carter with its 100% cliche dialogue, and then Cowboys and Aliens from last summer? This trumped both of those so much. So that's my stance.
Hopefully, by my next entry, there will be a baby in the crib, I'll be fighting lack of sleep instead of the nausea that's persisted (and come back with a vengeance in the last 2 weeks) over these nine months, and my body will slowly be becoming my own again – that's been the hardest part of this. I suppose, from a rational point of view, I didn't really think pregnancy would be awesome, but I honestly never expected it to be this difficult.
Here's to the next stage!

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Ages 4 – 7 years
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This 30-45 minute structured storytime is designed specifically for children ages four to seven years only. Parents may enjoy the storytime with their children or stay in the Children's Room while their children attend by themselves.
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New York, NY – Golden State Warriors head coach Mark Jackson has been fined $25,000 by the NBA for making public comments in an attempt to influence the officiating in the Western Conference quarterfinals.
After the Warriors' Game 5 loss in Denver, Jackson was vocal about his feelings regarding the Nuggets' physical play.
Jackson was especially unnerved by the treatment of his star player, Stephen Curry. Jackson believed Denver forward Kenneth Faried specifically targeted Curry's ankle on a play when Curry went through the lane.
"Some dirty plays early," Jackson said after the game. "It's playoff basketball. That's all right. We own it. But make no mistake about it, we went up 3-1 playing hard, physical, clean basketball -- not trying to hurt anybody."


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When we finally closed the store and got home, Christmas Eve was family time. We would eat, tell stories and open presents. My family is not much on hoopla. My parents grew up in the Great Depression, so money was never wasted. Every dollar spent had to have a purpose. If you gave a gift, the gift had better make sense.
So, the things on our Christmas lists were things we needed. This particular year, mom told me she needed a robe, and she told me exactly which robe she needed at J.C. Penney. I got her the robe. I bought it with my own money. It was a snazzy red, white and blue polyester robe -- classy but practical.
I wrapped it and put it under the tree. I had taken care of my Christmas shopping with my own money by driving to the mall by myself. I was becoming a man, and I took care of my own business.
Mom taught the senior adult ladies' Sunday School class at our church. She called the class "the DMA (Don't Mention Age) class," and they loved my mom. That Christmas, the ladies gave my mom a present. You guessed it: a robe. Not just any robe, mind you, a hand-embroidered, silk velour robe.
It was time to open our presents that Christmas Eve, and mom said, "Did you see what my Sunday School class gave me?" As she pulled the robe from its box, I felt my heart fall on the floor. My robe looked like the cheap, tacky polyester monstrosity it was.
What was I going to do? It was too late to run back to the mall and exchange it for something else. I dreaded the moment she opened my present. In fact, I pushed it back under the tree until it was the last present. I couldn't put off the moment any further. She opened it. I was mortified.
I told mom I had saved the receipt just like she had taught me if she wanted to exchange it. Then, mom did what only a mom can do. She knew just what to say. "Mike, the robe my Sunday School class gave me is beautiful, but you gave me a robe I can use every day. I can't cook or clean in that robe, but I can in the one you gave me."
I don't know if she meant it or if she was just trying to make me feel better. All I know is it worked. Every time I saw my mother wearing my robe I was proud I had given her something she could use.
I love hearing missionary stories, but sometimes Jesus wants someone who'll go to the hospital and visit a sick friend rather than a country across the ocean. We want to give exorbitant cathedrals and buildings to better reflect His glory, and what He really wants is for us to buy a cup of coffee for a friend who's broken, confused and trying to find his way home.
Maybe this Christmas, Jesus wants a gift He can use -- someone who will minister in the ordinary moments of everyday life. We all want to give something He'll never forget, and He won't if we give Him something He'll use every day.
Mike Glenn is pastor of Brentwood Baptist Church in Brentwood, Tenn. In January, Glenn will begin serving as executive editor of Mature Living, where this article first appeared. His blog is mikeglennonline.com.
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Forge, Dec 2000, 250 pp. ISBN: 0312871929 US Olympian Beth Chang nee Connor married fellow Harvard graduate Michael Chang. They left the United States for Hong Kong where Michael is THE HEIR to a large business dynasty. Her in-laws treat her like a devil except the family patriarch Chang Wing Hing who respects Beth for her business acumen, and ability to adapt and learn a new culture. With the transfer of power from England to China ...


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They will present and discuss new sound work using field recordings taken during experimental, critically-engaged walks or dérives in London's Edgware Road.
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What follows are just a few ideas based on my own menu and test results. Experiment, base your choices on the foods you like and develop your own choices to fill those "gotta have something" moments or to be sure you graze properly.
An occasional handful. My preferred mix is unsalted roasted cashews, brazils, hazelnuts, almonds and walnuts (or pecans). Peanuts are not nuts.
Eat them in any form you like. I stopped buying pitted olives because I ate too many at a time. I found that eating marinated whole olives slowed down my snacking because it takes a little longer when you have to munch around the seed. I buy them cheap in large bottles and add chopped hot chili, onion and herbs to my own liking to the bottle to flavour them.
Cheesy dips.
Check labels for carb content or make your own. Use low-carb crackers or vege strips as dippers.
Other dips.
Try guacamole, hommus and similar.
I slice an avocado in half, twist so that I have a free portion and a seed portion, put the seed half in the fridge for 'Ron (later on:-), sprinkle a little salt and maybe a squirt of lime-juice on the other half and eat it direct from the shell with a teaspoon. If it's a big one I may get four serves out of one. Another option is to spread avocado on a cracker.
Half and quarter portions of fruit.
A quarter or half portion of an apple or orange or pear or similar can fill that gap without leading to a BG spike, the leftovers become another snack later in the day.
Left-over salad from an earlier meal.
Makes another good 'tween meal snack, dressed with a lttle balsamic vinegar and extra-virgin olive oil.
Check the carb content. I use a version that is 6gms carb per cracker and spread peanut butter or real butter with the secret Aussie wonder food on them. Consider fish (sardines, tuna etc) or cold cuts on crackers.
Celery and PB
I cut off a chunk and spread PB in the channel.
Pork Crackling/Crisps
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"Seeds are a gift of nature, of past generations and diverse cultures. It is our inherent duty and responsibility to protect them and to pass them on to future generations. They are the first link in the food chain, the embodiment of biological and cultural diversity and the repository of life's future evolution."
— Manifesto on the Future of Seed


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Gentle Parenting in Plain Sight
July 2, 2013 in Uncategorized
Galatians 5:22-23
By contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. There is no law against such things.
We enter Saint S— from the back door and then come in at the front of the nave (sanctuary, for you non-Episcopalians). When we walked in today, we were greeted by a flash of smiles spread throughout the room. Those bright faces have made a home for us at Saint S—, a rest from the world outside. That is why we come to Saint S—, to recharge our batteries and bolster our spirits for another week on our own mission of love.
From my place on my knees two little feet entered my sphere. My son's tiny toes, nails trimmed with two straight, quick snips, were framed by foot-shaped green flip flops.
"Mama??" came his sweet whisper, "Can I sit with my friend?"
"Which friend?" I asked him.
"The one who showed me those moves, you know, the one with the ball that has all the lights."
I had no idea who he meant.
"J, if you go sit with someone else you need to be very quiet, ok? So they can pray? When people are in church they need to concentrate and pray. Can you sit with them quietly? And when you need to say something, remember to use whispers?"
"Sure!" came his excited answer.
"Ok," I said. "And remember to walk, ok?"
"OK!" came his whispered exclamation. A few running steps turned into a walk as he disappeared down the side aisle.
I listened for him, but heard nothing. Where were his friends? Outside? Up a tree? There was always at least a little rustle around him. Then, from the back of the church, a tiny whisper traced its finger across the silence. There he was.
He sat with his friends for the entire service. Turns out, they were people from our confirmation class. He has grown very fond of Mike, whose easy open way makes lots of room for J. I gave a few looks to the back. Mike smiled and pointed to his tiny companion. Sounds of peace let me know that all was ok. I returned to prayer.
When it was time for communion, I went up alone. That hadn't happened since J and I started going to church. As I knelt at the rail, my heart felt behind me. His silence was wound in with the music, contentment and adventure being brought through his devotion to God.Without my guidance, would he make it to the altar?
From my place back in our pew, I looked for him. I found him in line for communion between our two friends. My heart pressed up, pushing out my tears. My beautiful child. When it was his turn he took his place at the rail, little hands out and waiting. Tears streaked my face as I watched him. I'd never seen him from this point of view. His chubby little cheeks flexed as he chewed the bread. His mouth strained forward to sip the wine. It was all his own. He connected to his creator and his community of friends in worship and renewal. My child. God's child.
The man he knelt next to walked by me in my reverie. I grabbed him with both hands as he passed, my eyes reaching for his. "David!" I choked, "Isn't he beautiful! Isn't he such a beautiful soul!"
My son's devotion to God and church is very moving to me. His newness and tenderness is cradled in a deep love for peace and compassion. I have so much respect for the depth of his spirit, which has always been the oldest part of him. From the day he was born, something different showed in his eyes. Since then, I have watched it seek out the world.
After communion, he sought me out. "Come on, Mama! Come sit with the friends! You are welcome to join us!" Half delirious with emotion, I followed. In the pew, I dropped onto the old, familiar comfort of a kneeler. It felt strange after many months on the floor in our family pew. My heart was on God, but on God as experienced through my son. Every breath was a wisp of magic as I joined him in his experience. Invited in. My cup was running over.
At the end of the service, Mike and Lucy turned towards the door. J wasn't used to this. What about coffee hour? We still had more time together, right? But Mike and Lucy were going home to a busy day. They melted into the crowd and were gone.
"NO!" my little one cried. "I still want to be with them! Where are they going! I need to know!"
I looked into his pained face for an instant, then I grabbed his hand and we ran. From my taller place, I could see they were approaching the corner. My son and I, both with bare feet, tore for the door. Team Q! Catching up with our friends!
"LUCY! MIKE!" I called. They stopped and turned, surprised.
My sweet one let them know how much he was enjoying them, how much he wanted it to continue. They let him know that their day was busy and they really needed to go. And they did.
J collapsed in my arms. "No…" he sobbed. "I need to be with them and I WILL be with them! I will!"
I picked him up and carried him to coffee hour as he wept. I whispered to him as we walked. "You love your friends. You love to be with them! You want to be with them all day. It is hard to say goodbye. You don't want to say goodbye. You want to be with them and be with them and be with them. I am so sorry they had to go."
I talked at coffee hour with my child in my arms. He is four and kind of heavy, but my shoulder was wet with his tears. He was ready to be put down. I continued to whisper my words of comfort as I talked to a few friends. One dear friend, Cathy, listened with a face of compassion as I explained J's unusual state. She is so good, so kind. It was hard to connect with what she was telling me about her upcoming absence from church with my little one still crying silently into my chest, but our souls were entwined as we stood there. In her face, I saw it all. Love, understanding, empathy and respect. The lessons I hope for my own parenting were being given back to me. Nourishment.
Finally, my arms got tired. I sat down on the floor with my child still pressed into my shoulder. I gave him more of what he needed, more understanding, more patience and more love. Finally, his head came up and he looked at me.
"Mama," came his tear-strained voice, "you know what I want to do? Go for a walk!"
It was hot and getting hotter, but our town has a lot of shady trees along its streets. We got some water, some snacks, and I braced myself for the road. My sweet one needed cheering. How could I say no.
On our way to the door, we met one of the elderly women from our congregation. She stopped us to ask me about my stretched ears. As J listened to us converse, he raised his tank top over his head and then snapped it back down over his face with a smile. A few more times he snapped it, and then our companion erupted.
"NO!" she boomed.
I froze.
"NO! You do not take your shirt off in church! I am going to DISCIPLINE you!"
I couldn't move for a second. Then I heard the crackles. They were coming from inside. It was the sound of her rapid chill thawing against the heat of my rising anger.
I used the tools I have learned from gentle parenting to calm myself quickly.
"No," I said evenly, "You won't. I am his mother. That is not your place."
Her upset was irrepressible. "You don't take your shirt off in church!" She didn't address me. She was looking down into the face of my tiny, fragile child.
"He is FOUR," I told her. "He is doing nothing wrong."
"A few weeks ago he had his shirt off in church!" came her curt retort.
She was right. He did.
"I remember that," I told her. "The collar on his shirt was stiff and was hurting him. He asked to take it off and I did. There is nothing wrong with that. He is FOUR. It was hurting. I am not going to force him to wear something that is hurting."
Honestly, I don't remember the final words of this conversation. But I do remember a small, happy hand holding mine as we walked away. I remember gratitude for that tiny anchor, and I remember feeling the deepest of gratitude for the kind of relationship I have with my son, one that allows for him to choose a walk to lift himself on a sweltering afternoon. Or one that let's him remove an uncomfortable shirt in church.
At some point on the walk, we both wore out.
"Mama, it is too hot to walk! I'm tired!" I knew this was probably the case before we started out, but he didn't. In the process of his learning, we had enjoyed an amazing afternoon of conversation. Across the street, I saw someone selling local, seasonal berries. "Berries!" I cried, "Just what we need to keep going!"
With a small container of raspberries and one of marion berries, we pressed on. Sweet bursts of flavor punctuated our steps and we talked of our luck and gratitude. Cutting through a park, we saw a homeless man ahead. We were carrying two small containers of the sweetest berries I had ever had. I felt a force from within grab my arms and lead me. The berries were extended beneath his gaze.
His eyes met mine with surprise, and he blinked. "Thank you!" he said as he ate one.
Impulse grabbed me. "Hold out your hand," I told him. He did, and I filled it with berries from our containers. Each movement of my hand felt like a lick of energy, a jolt that filled my entire being.
The man looked into his hand with grateful surprise, and then up at my face. Our eyes held one another in a flash moment of seeking; a touch was passed . I put my hand on his head. The words I said so often in church came out.
"God's Peace"
"And to you," he said, holding my eyes.
As we walked on, I didn't feel the same. The impulse that had guided me was just that. Impulse. Its energy was still moving through me. I was keenly aware of my son's eyes on me when I acted, and I felt a force beyond me move. J looked up at me. "Why did you give the man those berries, Mama?"
"Jesus told me to," I said.
"Did he really?"
"Yes. I felt myself doing it without thinking. Jesus tells us to love each other. To give to each other. To take care of each other. When we do that for each other, we do it for Christ. That is what we are here for, on this earth. To love each other. Now, with each berry that man eats, he tastes God's love inside of it. Isn't that awesome?"
My child erupted in a fit of giggles. He leaped from the ground, twisting in the air.
"Yeah, Mama! That's GREAT! WOW!"
"We're almost there, babe!" I told him. "I knew we would make it! Team Q! Getting back to the car!" I turned my face to the sun and cried, "Hallelujah!"
"Hallelujah!" my tiny guru shouted.
And then,with his sweet berry-covered lips, he kissed my hand.
Galatians 5: 25
Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.


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- Longmont Hackathon winner to finish calendar app this summer
- Jester's trying to liven up Friday nights in Longmont
- Take Two: Longmont man's medical problem leads to legal run-in
- Carbon Valley Coffee Roasters' owners hope downtown Frederick will become destination
- Take Two: Scott Fraser's work reaches new heights
- Longmont's Crossroads School to move this summer
- Boulder County 'Coffee for Carpoolers' program reduced Diagonal traffic
- Take Two: Longmont says new detectors helped winter road clearance
- Take Two: Longmont teen teaches music, attends Front Range Community College
- Take Two: Frederick High School's main office hole repaired
- Longmont's Burch Lake now has 1,800 muskellunge; more to come this year
- Take Two: Niwot High School mascots dedicated to increasing spirit
- Longmont Surgical Mission's free surgeries help uninsured
- Items from Lafayette outhouse show class differences among home's residents
- Take Two: Pacific Auction's new site creates new opportunities
- Longmont musician finds new rhythm after Novus Folium folds
- Longmont lawyer Brandon Shaffer plans to stay in city
- Frederick Recreation Area mural the reel thing: Longmont artist hooking visitors
- Mead High School graduates take on college at CU, CSU
- Longmont's Tyler Hoog continues to make physical strides; eyes college in the fall
- Longmont woman who robbed bank is looking for work, hoping for second chance
- Take Two: Barefoot runner who visited Longmont completes her cross-country trek
- Emma Wallingford: Idol crown propelled singing career
- Boulder County artisans honor champion Hygiene-area cottonwood tree
- Lyons native Rick Hammans carves out masterpieces in new Berthoud home
- Take Two: Longmont to review trash pickup now that some alleys are clear
- Longmont's long-shot presidential candidate withdrew his bid weeks before Election Day
- Longmont man still recovering from pit bull attack in May
- Longmont Symphony Super Conductor William Benedict reflects on stepping up to podium
- Longmont teenager's suicide prevention foundation reaches milestone
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FREDERICK -- Jorge Rangel became a fan of mixed martial arts -- or MMA, as the sport is known -- along with millions of other Americans in the past decade. He likes the mixture of various disciplines such as jiu jitsu and boxing.
When he opened Xtreme MMA Fitness & Training Center in late 2011, he wanted it to be a place that would cater to both experienced MMA enthusiasts and those new to the sport. But he also wanted his gym to be a place where women and children would feel welcome -- someplace they could get a solid workout and wouldn't feel intimidated.
"It's been great, Rangel said. "It took a while. We hit all the St. Vrain (school) district with flyers. ... Kids' classes blew up."
Since opening the gym Rangel has brought in a partner, Hector Sanchez.
"We actually starting training (in MMA) at the same time years ago," Rangel said. "I did it by myself for a bit and I was struggling so I went and talked to him."
As is the case with MMA professionals, each has their own style for training.
Mixed martial arts is just that: a blending of styles including boxing, kickboxing, jiu jitsu and wrestling. Xtreme MMA has an octagon -- an eight-sided, chain link fence "ring" just like professional MMA fights -- but whether someone wants any contact is up to the student, the owners said. When there is contact, it's closely supervised to keep each fighter safe.
The Zumba and cardio classes three times a week are particularly popular with adults, Rangel said.
"This summer we were doing strength and conditioning outside," Sanchez said. "Flipping tires, that kind of thing. We'll probably pick that up again once the weather gets more consistent."
Xtreme offers a variety of contracts, a flat fee with no contract and walk-in classes. Students range in age from a 4-year-old child to men and women in their 40s, the owners said.
"We do the kids classes and the bag classes at the same time," Rangel said. That way, the parents can work on a bag while their kids are working out on the mats.
"They (the parents) still get a good workout," Sanchez said. "I see them huffing and puffing."
Tony Kindelspire can be reached at 303-684-5291 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: Acreage Cost-Return Analysis Spreadsheet November 14, 2012 10:41 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Chris Barron Top Producer Columnist Email The following information is a Web Extra from the pages of Top Producer. It corresponds with the article "Rotate for Success." You can find the article in Top Producer's Mid-November 2012 issue. Use this spreadsheet to plug in your own acreage and production numbers. Download the Excel spreadsheet. Have a question about the spreadsheet? Email Chris Barron at email@example.com. Back to news


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Hello, bloglandia! As promised, here are the instructions for finishing a multiple-strand piece of jewelry (like the braided hemp necklace I made with the Kumihimo disk last week) using glue-on bullet ends.
A bullet end is a jewelry finding that hides cord ends and makes a clean transition to a clasp. Bullet ends are also called end caps, barrel caps, and a variety of other creative names. Just make sure the caps you are using have loops on the ends and that they are wide enough to accommodate your cording. (I used these.)
- Tie an overhand knot at the end of your piece.
- Take a piece of thread and wrap it tightly around the end several times (this is also called "whipping"). Tie a double knot to secure, and trim the thread ends.
- Cut the braid between the thread and the knotted end.
- Fill the bullet end about half way with glue and insert the cord. Make sure that it goes in as far as it can, and that the thread whipping is covered by the bullet end. Clean up any oozing glue immediately.
- Use jump rings to attach a clasp.
Make sure to let the glue cure fully before wearing. (For E-6000, this means 24 hours. ) The glue will be dry long before then, but to be safe, let it cure all the way.
E-6000 is one of my favorite glues because it holds up nearly as well as a 2-part epoxy, but you don't have to measure and mix. Whatever glue you use, just make sure that is is compatible with both metal and fibers. Although instant gratification is tempting, super glue (cyanoacrylate glue) is a bad choice for this project because it can't fill the gaps between the cord and the metal very well.
That is all there is to it! This technique works equally well with leather, ribbon, rattail and other types of cord. ~ Cindy


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Did Stanford's Solar Car Project build the fastest solar-powered car ever assembled by human hands? Possibly. We'll now for sure when the vehicle, called Xenith, hits the pavement in Australia during the World Solar Challenge. Updated.
The event is held every two years, with changing qualifications proposed by organizers each time, meaning teams must be on their toes to adapt to new rules and regulations. The major change this year was that the driver needed to be seated in an upright position, like a normal gas-powered car. Previous contests allowed the driver to adopt a lying down position for better aerodynamics.
This year's race will stretch 3,000 kiometers from Darwin to Adelaide, Australia between October 16-23.
One glaring omission from the CNET photo gallery: Xenith's "fastest ever" speed. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Update: Stanford wrote us just now to explain why that omission might be: They never claimed to be the fastest in the first place! Says their PR rep in an email to Gizmodo:
We cannot officially claim to have the world's fastest solar car yet. However, our car has an incredibly efficient motor and we believe that our panels have a chance to break a world record for silicon panel efficiency. We are confident that we are in the running to win the World Solar Challenge this October, but the race hasn't even started yet. That race will be the benchmark for our car and we hope to pursue independently verified tests for speed, motor efficiency, and panel efficiency later in our build cycle.
We've changed the headline of this article to reflect this more accurate information, direct form the source. [CNET]


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When I'm pressed for time, I have a range of meals that I make without having to think about the details. Chop chop and in the pot - curries, stir-fries, etc. So in my new series of Fall-back Favourites, I will note the details of some of these recipes where measurements are open to interpretation, and effort is minimised.
First up, a classic leg of lamb. As an Australian, I take pride in my preparation of lamb, and now that my kitchen is equipped with excellent crock pots, fats and spices, my roasts are unbelievably tasty, even without using sauces or elaborate dressing techniques.
Secret ingredient: organic, grass-fed lamb! I imagine that grain-fed/finished lamb needs quite a lot of dressing up to mask the flavour of rank chemicals and tasteless meat, but pure lamb, fresh from Farmer Dan's farm is the pivotal ingredient. The preparation and cooking technique is to enhance the flavour, not change or mask it.
You will also need: coconut oil, bacon grease or other animal fat, dried or fresh rosemary, dried basil, fresh or dried garlic, salt.
1. Pre-heat your oven to moderate (150 deg C).
2. Place leg of lamb in a pot with a lid - it needs to be big enough to house the lamb comfortably, with space all around the leg.
3. Melt your fats, and combine with the herbs and spices.
4. Rub your seasoning all over the lamb, including the underside and under any flaps of loose fat. If you want to cut strips across the fat so that the seasoning reaches the meat, you may. I don't bother when preparing grass-fed meat.
5. Cover pot and place in oven for a couple of hours. You can leave it for longer if you need to - just lower the temperature to 100 deg C.
6. For the last ten minutes, remove the lid and raise heat to 200 deg C so that the fat on the roast sizzles and crisps.
7. Remove from oven and allow the roast to rest for 10 minutes in the pot, before removing roast and placing on a wooden board. Be ready for the juices - catch them if you can.
8. Carve and serve the meat, drizzling with fats and seasoning left in the pot. You could add some cauliflower rice to the pot to soak up the juice, but this is too fiddly for my fall-back plans.
Et voila!
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Chris Christie Criticizes Obama During Vernon Visit
Republicans accused New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie of getting too cozy with President Barack Obama after Superstorm Sandy.
But during a visit Friday to a Republican stronghold, the governor went out of his way to put some distance between himself and the Democratic president.
Before taking questions from the public, Christie spoke about the problems in Washington and "a president who can't figure out how to lead." The Republican governor, now running for re-election, says Obama is more concerned about being right than "getting things done."
When a woman thanked Christie for his warm response to Obama after Sandy and referred to the criticism he took for it, the governor cut her off.
He says he didn't vote for Obama and added, "I don't want him to be president."
(Copyright 2013 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


text: A New Dawn in Agriculture February 27, 2013 01:15 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Jerry Gulke Top Producer Market Strategy Columnist Email The 2013/14 marketing year might set up as a new dawn in agriculture. The number of acres available for production could yield record corn and soybean crops. High prices have spurred global production and clients of yesteryear, such as Russia, Ukraine and other former Soviet Union nations, now compete with the U.S. Additionally, South America promises to produce a record soybean crop. This means we could see soybean stocks up by 1 billion bushels Sept. 1, 2013 from a year prior. High-priced corn has reduced demand by more than 1.3 billion bushels compared to 2011/12. With record corn acres and a trendline yield of 160 bu. per acre, we could produce 4 billion bushels more than last year's drought-reduced crop. Some believe a crop that size would buy back 2 billion bushels of demand. But at what price and how long would it take? Once our competitors have their factories in place, they won't quit easily. With corn exports projected to be less than half of last year's, it will not be a matter who is the lowest-cost producer, but who is the lowest-cost seller that will dominate. The table below shows different supply and demand scenarios for 2013/14. Two scenarios assume 99.3 million acres planted and 91.9 million acres harvested. With a below-average yield of 125 bu. per acre, we could meet current reduced demand and increase ending stocks. Look back to 2010/11 when yields averaged 152 bu. per acre, production increased 3 billion bushels and carryover for corn was 1.8 billion bushels, even with a reasonable demand increase. Look ahead to 2014/15, it's visible the building of stocks will plague us until we can regain demand or reduce supply. Our memory cannot fathom a normal year, but one must be aware of the possibilities. More export countries means the odds of meeting demand increase. A hiccup in one exporting country can create price shocks. We are no longer an island to ourselves. Jerry Gulke farms in Illinois and North Dakota and is president of Gulke Group Inc., a market advisory firm with offices at the Chicago Board of Trade. Gulke Group recently published Technical Analysis: Fundamentally Easy. For information, send an e-mail to email@example.com or call (815) 520-4227. Back to news


text: Planter Prep December 16, 2011 10:31 PM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Rhonda Brooks Editor, Farm Journal MagazineEditorial Director, Farm Journal Media Email Corn yields improve an average 4.2 bu. per acre as a result While there's a lot of winter left, many farmers have planting on their mind. They're not wasting any time getting started with their corn planter preparations. That's true for Leon Knirk, who farms near Quincy, Mich. It pays for itself, he says, to spend up to three days and $150 per row prepping his planter. Plus it minimizes potential downtime in the field during planting season. "Improved stand counts and ear counts in my fields have repeatedly proven that this process is worth the effort," Knirk says. Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer says farmers who properly prepare their planter, maintain its performance during the season and drive no faster than 5 mph when planting corn can achieve a final ear count that is within 1,000 to 1,200 of their targeted population. A split-planter study by Pioneer Hi-Bred shows an average yield improvement of 4.2 bu. per acre when a planter is suitably prepped. From hitch pin to closing wheels. The key, Bauer says, is checking each facet of the planter and making adjustments before and during the season. "I tell farmers to inspect everything involved with the seed transmission: chains, sprockets, bearings, idlers and clutch assembly, including all seed metering components as well as the meter itself," Bauer says. Other factors farmers need to evaluate include: parallel arms, row cleaners, no-till coulters, gauge wheels, disk openers, seed tubes, closing wheels and seed placement. This winter, Bauer is hosting five hands-on Corn College Planter Clinics throughout the Midwest and mid-South. For a list of dates and locations in addition to registration information, see the box at right. All major planter makes and models will be covered. Start in the shed. In late winter, Knirk pulls the planter into his machine shed, where he checks each part and replaces any worn items. "We routinely replace all of the disk opener blades each year," Knirk says. "We also look for any bent machinery pieces, parallel arms that don't seem to be quite square and gears that have shifted. We lubricate everything." One of the best investments Knirk says he has recently made is purchasing a mechanized spinner that allows him to check the performance of planting row units with little effort. A small motor similar to those used to calibrate dry insecticides can be hooked up to the main driveshaft and used to spin the planter, Bauer says. "First, spin the planter with the boxes on to help you determine if there are issues with the seed shaft alignment to the meter," she explains. "Then, with the planter boxes off, run the planter and look for frozen links or problems with idlers or rollers." To check bearings, Bauer suggests farmers take a long screwdriver, place the tip on the bearing housing and hold the other end to their ear. Bearings that are beginning to fail will have a gravelly sound. "When you're out of the tractor, and at those low revolutions per minute, you can hear anything that's too tight or if the bearings are bad," Knirk adds. He says an investment in mechanized spinners is less than $500. Knirk also reviews the comments that he wrote in a pocket-sized notebook during the previous planting season to identify any problem areas he recorded that might need some additional follow-up attention. "We've followed this same process for seven years, and we hardly ever have downtime anymore during planting season," he says. "It gives us a great deal of confidence when it's time to head to the field." To the field. Once the indoor planter checkup is finished, Knirk moves the unit to a sod area behind his shed to check the alignment of the starter fertilizer openers and make sure that closing wheels are centered. "We measure the distance between slices to see if the cuts are uniform and that the closing wheels are hitting squarely," he explains. Knirk then moves to the field and starts planting. He makes a partial pass and then stops to evaluate down force and planting depth. "We'll dig out the corn in a couple of rows to see if it's being dropped consistently at the right depth," he says. In addition, Bauer recommends that farmers dig a cross-section of the seed trench to make sure the seed is being placed at the proper depth with good moisture and good seed-to-soil contact. "You won't get even emergence otherwise," she says. As a rule of thumb, proper planting depth ranges from 1¾" to 2". Early in the season, if it's cold, farmers might want to plant a bit shallower, to 1½", but they should never go more shallow than that. If there isn't good moisture at 2", going to 2¼" might be OK. Bauer encourages farmers to check planting depth in each field and to respect changes in soil types. Sign up today for a 2012 Corn College Planter Clinic! Join Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer and fellow experts at one of the five Corn College Planter Clinics this winter. Back to news


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Gustavo III / Un Ballo in Maschera
Giuseppe Verdi stayed more or less true to historical facts when composing Gustaf III in 1859. However, Verdi lived in a time of unrest, with Italy on the brink of achieving national unification. The power game had started. The King of France, Napoleon III, had been attacked. An opera on the assassination of a king was not what those in power wanted at that particular time. The censors banned the work, demanding that Verdi transfer the plot from the Swedish Royal Family to, first, Swedish Pomerania and then Boston, where it told the story of a fictitious governor, the work entitled A Masked Ball.
Up until today that has been the most widely performed version even though certain attempts to reconstruct the 'Sweden' version have been made. With the opening of the Verdi Archives, closed up until recently, opera researchers have made unique discoveries, allowing the Göteborg Opera to present a world premiere, 'A Masked Ball Behind the Mask', a reconstruction of how Verdi had imagined the opera, had it not been for censorship.
Our title is the one Verdi had originally intended for the work: Gustaf III (Gustavo III). However, masks and various power games – in politics, theatre and human relations – play a large role in our production, and we will subsequently be keeping the subtitle A Masked Ball.
Conductor: Mauricio Barbacini / Finn Rosengren
Director: Anthony Pilavachi
Set Design: Piero Vinciguerra
Costumes: Marcus Pysal
Maurizio Barbacini
Finn Rosengren 30/10, 1/11, 7/11
Gustaf III
Tomas Lind
Krister St.Hill
Hillevi Martinpelto
Helena Holmberg 3/10, 30/10, 1/11, 7/11
Susanne Resmark
Maria Andersson 25/9, 28/9, 30/10, 1/11, 7/11
Carolina Sandgren
Jonas Landström
Mats Almgren
Åke Zetterström
Primo Giudice
Harald Tjelle
Un servo d'Amelia
Tore Sverredal
GöteborgsOperans kör och orkester.
Med reservation för eventuella ändringar.
Mauricio Barbacini / Finn Rosengren
Anthony Pilavachi
Piero Vinciguerra
Marcus Pysal
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Founded by his grandfather in 1920, the Italian tradition of fine jewelry is carried on today by Daniele Valabrega at Vaid. "Our vision could be compared to any well-known fashion house. We see the trends, changes in color, but we still filter the change through our own classic vision." The name Vaid, explains Daniele, is comprised of the "Va," the first two letters of his surname and "id" for "ideas." Their expert use of color in gemstones and metals has made their work a favorite of women self-purchasers.
Vaid ROMA 18K Rose Gold, Turquoise & Tourmaline Earrings
Vaid ROMA 18K Rose Gold, Quartz & Turquoise Ring
Vaid ROMA 18K Gold Quartz, Peridot & Diamond Ring
Vaid ROMA 18K Gold, Quartz, Coral Paste & Peridot Pendant
Vaid ROMA Oxidized Silver & 18K Gold Textured Cuff


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Today, although they'll always be Texans at heart (and proud graduates of UT), she and her husband are happily retired on a mountaintop in Washington doing whatever they feel like doing—which in her case is writing, enjoying the wildlife, and watching her husband do the cooking for a change. Kaki is very generously giving a copy of COLORADA DAWN to one lucky commenter. So sorry but this is for US residents only.
Thanks, Ruby, for inviting me to share with you the exciting world of research.
Actually, it can be a pain. Especially if you're up against a deadline and are easily distracted.
There I was, doing research for the Blood Rose Trilogy (about 3 brothers struggling to save their ranch in New Mexico during the 1870s), reading up on pepperbox pistols versus double derringers when an odd word caught my eye. Epizootic. Hmmm…
I remembered my grandmother used that word to scare us kids away from something we were about to touch, eat, drink, poke at with a stick, or whatever. "Ya'll quit that," she'd yell out the screen door. "That thing'll give you the epizootic." At the time, I thought it was some sort of digestive disturbance—the word just has that kind of sound, doesn't it?
Naturally, I had to look it up.
Not only is there such a word (any rapidly spreading ailment that strikes a single species), there was also something called The Great Epizootic of 1872, which struck only horses. Ga-zillions of them. So many that the entire transportation system of the US was brought to a standstill. Cargo ships went unloaded, deliveries stopped, locomotives ran out of coal, fires when unchecked without horses to pull the water wagons, and out West, Indian wars were fought on foot. By the time the epidemic ended, four million horses were dead, with urban areas being the hardest hit because of overcrowding in downtown horse hotels. Wait. Horse hotels? Hmmm…
Naturally, I had to look it up.
Four stories or more, with an outside ramp up to each level, where open stalls stood side by side. Having raised horses, I can promise they're the most inefficient food processors on the planet. Feed a flake of hay, shovel twice that in residuals. I won't even mention the flies or stink. I'd think they'd have to build a slaughterhouse next door just to sweeten the air. And did they stall mares next to stallions? If so, how did they keep unwanted fraternization from taking place after lights out? It isn't like they had floor monitors passing out horse condoms. Or did they? Hmmm…
Naturally, I had to look that up, too.
No, they didn't have floor monitors or horse condoms. But they did have human condoms, patented in 1844 by Charles Goodyear and marketed a few years later as Dr. Power's French Preventatives. And they were actually made of vulcanized rubber. Which is probably where that expression "laying rubber" originated. Or did it? Hmmm…
You see why I struggle with deadlines.
Mostly, I bring it on myself. Remember PIECES OF SKY? Book 1 of the Blood Rose Trilogy? 2011 Rita winner? No? Well, read it. You'll like it, I promise. Anyway, I decided for authenticity and since it's set in New Mexico, I should include some Spanish-speaking characters. So I dredged up the few Spanish words I know (mostly food items), augmented that with a Spanish-English dictionary, had a friend supply a substantial dirty word list, and typed away.
Book 2, OPEN COUNTRY. Same characters, fewer dirty Spanish words, but then this crabby Scotsman shows up with an entirely different accent and speech pattern and some weird phrases of his own. Yet that wasn't as hard as studying up on medical procedures back then without nauseating myself. But I persevered, because I'm that kind of person.
Book 3, CHASING THE SUN. Some Spanish, a little Scots Gaelic, and just for the helluvit, national monetary problems and Catholic nun stuff. (Those folks have a lot of rules. Just so you know). But I was learning.
Or so I thought.
Then I start the next trilogy—The Runaway Brides—about four women heading West in 1870 to start new lives but get more than they bargained for when they're stranded in a dying Colorado mining town. Four women. How hard could that be? But for variety, I decided to give each of them different backgrounds, voices, and speech patterns.
Enter the cast from Book 1, HEARTBREAK CREEK: a Southern princess and her half-black half-sister (not too hard, since I'm sorta from Louisiana), an Englishwoman (I'd done an Englishwoman before, so that wasn't too hard, either), a Yankee (not bad, since they're all over the place), and…wait for it…a Cheyenne Dog Soldier! YEA! So now I have to study up on them (a tough group for sure), the Sun Dance Ceremony (Gads!) and the language itself (do you know how many vowels those guys use? In a six letter word there might be three in a row: Haaahe (hello). Try saying that three times without laughing).
But then in Book2, COLORADO DAWN, I entered a whole new realm of insanity by adding photography (really dangerous back then—as in blow off your fingers and set your hair on fire), issues with Colorado statehood, railroads, PLUS a Scottish cavalryman, which necessitated research on the British peerage, military stuff, Scotch-Irish-Gaelic dialects and creating an entire new dirty word list. I could be a sailor, I swear. Heck, I should just write gibberish and call it a whole new language.
Research. A pain, but still fascinating stuff. Unless you're in a rush, or are easily distracted.
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Timothy Bradley won a split-decision over Manny Pacquiao on June 9, 2012 at MGM Grand in Las Vegas, according to the judges. But few others had Bradley winning the 12-round welterweight title fight, and Bradley was never given any credit for the victory.
Not only that, he received death threats over a result that was out of his hands.
Though strange to say a fighter needs redemption for a victory, that will be the case when Bradley steps into the ring with Pacquiao in an April 12 rematch at MGM Grand (on HBO pay-per-view). An accord was reached late Saturday morning.
Bradley, who will be defending his welterweight title in this return bout, followed the victory over Pacquiao with a gritty win over Ruslan Provodnikov on March 16 at Home Depot Center. About two weeks before that fight, he sat down with this newspaper and spoke sadly about the aftermath of the Pacquiao fuss.
"There was really no joy in beating Pacquiao," he said. "There was really no joy after the fight itself. You know, all the backlash I took, all the comments I had to deal with. Walking down the street, feeling like, you know, that I got a gift was … it's the worst feeling ever.
"Especially for an athlete and a person. To have people talk about you in the media and don't give you no credit whatsoever."
Bradley, 30, of Palm Springs, is 31-0 with 12 knockouts. He most recently won a split-decision over Juan Manuel Marquez on Oct. 12 at Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.
Pacquiao, 35, is 55-5-2 with 38 knockouts. He is coming off a 12-round decision victory over Brandon Rios on Nov. 24 in Macau, China.


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OAKLAND — A man shot in West Oakland on Christmas Day has pushed the homicide rate to the highest in five years.
Ronald Lewis, 32, of Oakland was shot multiple times at 24th and Chestnut streets about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday . His death is the 127th homicide of the year. The last time there were 127 homicides was in 2007.
No one has been arrested and no motive was immediately known in the drive-by shooting.
The man was taken to the trauma center at Highland Hospital, where he later died.
Meanwhile, a 23-year-old woman shot about 6 p.m. Christmas Eve at 11th Avenue and International Boulevard remains in critical condition.
Also Christmas Eve, 38-year-old woman inside Centro Evangelistico Bethel church on MacArthur Boulevard near 82nd Avenue was struck by a stray bullet while shielding her children about 9 p.m.
Police said the apparent target was the 17-year-old male who outside the church after leaving a liquor store that shares a parking lot with the church. He was wounded.
Anyone with information about the shootings should call Oakland police at 510-238-3821 or Crime Stoppers at 510-77-8572 or 510-777-3211. There is a reward of up to $10,000 for information leading to the suspect or suspects in the homicide.
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Up Matthew Barney's River of Fundament Without a Paddle
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River of Fundament is a composite of five major plot strands and set pieces that flow into and across one another atop a flotsam of half-explored symbol systems, literary quotations, art historical allusions, pop culture borrowings, and formal motifs. The core sequence spliced throughout the film is a feast and wake in honor of Mailer held at his Brooklyn Heights home, where New York cultural figures from Lawrence Weiner and Elaine Stritch to Jonas Mekas, Salman Rushdie, and Fran Leibovitz come to pay their respects. If that sounds straightforward enough, consider this: The elegant and curio-filled Mailer lair is actually a replica of the original set atop a barge and floating down the toxic creek that runs between Brooklyn and Queens. Still following? There's more: The house's sewage-flooded basement serves as a portal for ancient Egyptian pharaohs and various reincarnations of Mailer himself, whose quest to become immortal provides the film's overarching narrative. In a trio of elaborate set pieces based on performances Barney staged at a Los Angeles Chrysler dealership, an abandoned Detroit steel plant, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 2008, 2010, and 2013, respectively, Mailer's spirit is successively reincarnated as a 1967 Chrysler, a 1979 Pontiac, and finally a 2001 Ford. This grafting of Egyptian death myths onto the contemporary American landscape—cultural, geographic, and psychic—is not as completely arbitrary as it sounds, and it's the bizarre prism through which viewers are left to make some kind of sense of Fundament .
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The Washington Post's Chris Cillizza gives his coveted Worst Week in Washington award to Clint Eastwood. According to Cillizza, at the RNC "Eastwood did everything but stick to any sort of script that would have given the audience a shot at understanding whatever point he was trying to make."
Poltico has posted the text and video of Eastwood's remarks here. The delegates in the hall didn't seem to have any trouble understanding Eastwood's points (he had several). Obama and his campaign team certainly didn't have any trouble understanding one of Eastwood's points — one that I think is going to stick.
At the top of his remarks, Eastwood invoked the spell that Obama cast four years ago and brought it up to date with the cruel awakening:
I remember three and a half years ago, when Mr. Obama won the election. And though I was not a big supporter, I was watching that night when he was having that thing and they were talking about hope and change and they were talking about, yes we can, and it was dark outdoors, and it was nice, and people were lighting candles.
They were saying, I just thought, this was great. Everybody is crying, Oprah was crying.
I was even crying. And then finally — and I haven't cried that hard since I found out that there is 23 million unemployed people in this country. Now that is something to cry for because that is a disgrace, a national disgrace, and we haven't done enough, obviously — this administration hasn't done enough to cure that. Whenever interest they have is not strong enough, and I think possibly now it may be time for somebody else to come along and solve the problem.
Bingo. I didn't find that the least bit hard to understand.
As Eastwood proceeded, I wasn't sure where he was going and I wasn't sure he was going to get there. But he did, and his performance increased the interest and the impact (Sudden Impact, to borrow from the title of one of Eastwood's Dirty Harry films).
Eastwood's imaginary dialogue with Obama in the empty chair included this riff on Obama's campaign promises:
Well, I know even people in your own party were very disappointed when you didn't close Gitmo. And I thought, well closing Gitmo — why close that, we spent so much money on it. But, I thought maybe as an excuse — what do you mean shut up?
OK, I thought maybe it was just because somebody had the stupid idea of trying terrorists in downtown New York City.
I didn't find that the least bit hard to understand, and I appreciated the reminder.
In his dialogue with the empty chair Eastwood moved on from Gitmo to Afghanistan:
I've got to to hand it to you. I have to give credit where credit is due. You did finally overrule that finally. And that's — now we are moving onward. I know you were against the war in Iraq, and that's okay. But you thought the war in Afghanistan was OK. You know, I mean — you thought that was something worth doing. We didn't check with the Russians to see how did it — they did there for 10 years.
But we did it, and it is something to be thought about, and I think that, when we get to maybe — I think you've mentioned something about having a target date for bringing everybody home. You gave that target date, and I think Mr. Romney asked the only sensible question, you know, he says, "Why are you giving the date out now? Why don't you just bring them home tomorrow morning?"
Now here I thought Eastwood was approaching art, packing layers of ridicule into his riff. Regarding Afghanistan, "We didn't check with the Russians." Obama has checked with the Russians about missile defense, among other things. Through his friend Dmitri, Obama has asked Vladimir to give him "space" until he secures reelection and can sell us out with impunity. Why not check with Vladimir about Afghanistan? He might actually have been able to teach him something. I thought this was a subtle reminder of an Obama lowlight.
And the same applies to Obama's announcement of the Afghanistan surge, simultaneously undercut by the announcement of a withdrawal date. It made no sense. It was fatuous. I didn't find Eastwood's point the least bit hard to understand. It all built to this: "When somebody does not do the job, we've got to let him go." I didn't find that the least bit hard to understand either.
I could go on, but it really isn't necessary. In the annals of cluelessness this campaign season, Cillizza's column deserves some kind of recognition — maybe a special edition of Worst Week In Washington.
UPDATE: Let's go to the tape, once more once.
STEVE adds: I still say the Democrats are going to counter next week in Charlotte with . . . Betty White.
PAUL adds: I agree with Scott. Eastwood's points about Obama were easy to understand and in some cases quite powerful. Cillizza understood them; he just didn't like them.


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Monday, February 06, 2012
An interesting thought on delivery from Jerry Seinfeld
Hope everyone had a good weekend!
Mine was tarnished sightly by the Pats losing the Super Bowl but not as badly as you might think as I was convinced they would lose going in, so no biggie.
I wanted to share a quick thought on something I heard over the weekend.
There's this awesome new show on HBO called Inside Comedy or something like that hosted by David Steinberg. Their first show was about Don Rickles and Jerry Seinfeld and they had interviews with both which were pretty interesting.
The thing that stood out to me the most was when Seinfeld and Steinberg were talking about new material and how audiences can sniff it out when Seinfeld said he had a piece of material that always killed but he hated it as a joke, and one night he was about to do it but in his head he was debating and he finally decided to do it because it always got a good reaction, but this time it fell flat because even thinking about it falling flat made it so. He went on to say he was sure he delivered it the right way as well.
I thought this was interesting because I've seen the same thing with pieces of pick up material. I don't think it's any sort of "The Secret" type law of attraction BS but I do think that when you hesitate even mentally people pick up on it through microexpressions or body language or something we all tend to give away our true emotions even if we think we're masking it with good delivery.
So that's an interesting thought for the day.
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It's true you can't fake confidence. You either own the material or you don't. If you don't love your material, then how can your audience possibly love it? If you don't love yourself, how can a woman possibly love you? If you don't own your sexuality and you're afraid of rejection, you will be sniffed out. Women are naturally better at picking up this information than we are.ReplyDelete
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You gotta have good flow. Chemistry is nothing more than stage presence, and this case is an example of missing your fret. Everyone knows you missed a note. So you have to make sure that you dont miss notes, or you end up spoiling the song and getting bad reviews.ReplyDelete
Well, that's very basic Sinn. We're moving backwards. I wonder if you have anything new to offer? Don't get me wrong - you are great teacher, but you seem to fade out like the rest of the community nowadays. Are you being true to yourself while teaching right now? I entered the community because I wanted to know how to talk to that cute girl on the street or on a bus giving me the eye, and I ended up miserabele learning how to bang party girls in few hours being fucking dancing monkey somehow thinking that it is cool. I lost myself in the proces - did'nt you also? Have you got what you needed out of the community after all those years? Can you sum up your expirience? I mean real talk here.ReplyDelete
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This is an interesting topic. I think the essence ov what is going on here is self-criticism. Criticism tends to be habitual. There is def a correlation between external criticism ov others and self-criticism. Personally, when I start criticizing other people, internally or aloud, it tends to become habitual. No sooner, my internal dialogue starts bullying my ego automatically and suddenly, I'm not so happy with myself and the people I interact with pick up on it.ReplyDelete
In this instance, Jerry's internal bully started talking shit, and Jerry prob identified with the bully. He fires off a joke that he actually feels diminished telling, regardless ov the external response. Ov course, everyone else picks up on the emotion and gets to share in the shitty feelings.
Moral ov the story: Poke fun ov that asshole in your head who's always out to brutalise you and everyone else. In TA Psychology, it's called The Pig Parent. I find humor works exceptionally well in stealing the power ov this energy vampire. Keep this in mind the next time you find yourself being an asshole to somebody else, or yourself.


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During intermission I had the pleasure of posing for a picture with him! But after that I listened outside because the high decibles.
The Funky Pirate is also famous for its "Hand Grenade" drink! Another great aspect of New Orleans is its open container liquor laws. Wherever you stroll, you may bring your beverage, as long as it is not in a glass.
Here I am drinking out of my souvenir "hand grenade" cup. Fabulous!
I was not the only animal working on Bourbon street that night, and that is not a reference to the crowd. This is "Ace". He does crowd control and public relations. Here we are watching an impromptu brass band.
"Ace" even had his own squad car number! It is branded on him along with the shape of the state of Louisiana.
Bourbon street is decadent and exciting, and as long as you do not mind a little nudity, you are bound to agree with me and give it 5 meows out of 5.
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