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(11 Days - Departs Daily on a Private Basis)
Hanoi, Halong Bay, Hue, Hoi An, Saigon
This comprehensive tour features Vietnam's most popular cities, small towns, and scenic locations. Enjoy luxury hotels, an elegant overnight cruise, and touring with your own private guides.
Begin in Hanoi, Vietnam's fascinating capital and intellectual center. During private touring, visit the city's most important historical attractions, such as the Temple of Literature, One Pillar Pagoda, the House on Stilts and Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum. Take an in-depth tour of Hanoi's incredible Old Quarter, where each street was historically dedicated to a specific trade or material, such as bamboo, silk and lacquer. While touring the narrow streets, learn about the history of the Old Quarter and its traditional architecture, and see how it has transformed into a fashionable district with cafes, art galleries and boutiques featuring the finest Vietnamese design and style. Explore Hoan Kiem Lake and leafy backstreets lined with beautiful French colonial-era buildings, many of which are now upscale restaurants. If desired, also visit Hanoi's top museums, such as the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology and the Vietnam Fine Arts Museum. One day, meet a culinary expert to tour one of Hanoi's excellent markets and sample local street food specialties like bun cha (barbecued pork with noodles) and pho cuon (fresh herb and beef rolls). Also attend a performance of Hanoi's renowned water puppet show, or attend a performance at the landmark Hanoi Opera House.
Continue to scenic Halong Bay for an overnight cruise on a luxurious, traditional junk-style boat. Sail among beautiful limestone islands, dine on fresh seafood, enjoy on-board activities such as tai chi at sunrise, and perhaps explore local caves, hike to a scenic overlook, go sea kayaking or visit a floating village. Also enjoy a scenic seaplane flight over Halong Bay.
Spend the next two nights in Hue, the former imperial capital of Vietnam. Tour the Imperial Citadel, a large complex that includes the remains of the Forbidden Purple City, where the emperor and his family once lived. See the beautiful gardens and traditional architecture at the royal tombs along the Perfume River. Also visit colorful Dong Ba Market and, if desired, sample Hue's famed vegetarian and royal cuisine. Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can also arrange additional activities such as kayaking on the river, cooking lessons, philanthropic experiences, visiting a local children's center, or meeting with monks at a local pagoda.
Continue to Hoi An, an atmospheric port town and UNESCO World Heritage Site. Stay at a luxury beachfront resort, and experience the best of this centuries-old town during private touring. Visit the vibrant morning market, where stalls are piled high with fresh fish and produce. Explore the colorful backstreets, and tour well-preserved historic homes, temples, the Japanese Covered Bridge and other interesting attractions. Perhaps visit a local tailor for custom-made silk clothing, a Hoi An specialty, and enjoy a boat ride on the river. Also visit the nearby Museum of Cham Sculpture, as well as the Marble Mountains, which contain Buddhist cave temples. Upon request, we can arrange additional activities in and near Hoi An, such as visits to local villages, cooking lessons and farm visits, an excursion to the Cham ruins in My Son, biking through the countryside, or a silk lantern-making lesson at a Confucian temple. There will also be time to relax and enjoy your resort's beautiful architecture, spa and beach.
Finally, travel to Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), Vietnam's most dynamic city. With an expert private guide and driver, learn about the city's history while touring French colonial-era landmarks, as well as the mid-century Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum. Visit interesting neighborhoods like Cholon (Saigon's Chinatown) and explore busy markets and temples. Perhaps stop for a refreshing Vietnamese iced coffee, or snack on a typical Vietnamese banh mi (baguette sandwich). If desired, browse the boutiques of Vietnamese designers and renowned art galleries and museums. One day, take an excursion into the countryside to tour the Cu Chi Tunnels and observe a colorful religious ceremony at the Cao Dai Temple. Upon request, Artisans of Leisure can also arrange additional activities such as river boat rides, meeting with historians, visits to private homes, private musical performances, philanthropic activities, art and design touring, an excursion to the Mekong Delta, private cooking classes and tasting tours, and more.
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Seven of the nine SCIAC teams, plus Biola University, converged on the University of Redlands on Saturday for the annual Bulldog Pentathlon. The swimming competition called for each competitor to compete in the 100 yard butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 breaststroke, 100 freestyle and 100 yard individual medley. When final times were added up, the CMS Athenas produced five of the top ten finishers, while the Stags tallied five of the top eleven.
Senior Michele Kee led the way for the Athenas. Kee finished as the women's top overall finisher with a composite time of 5:05.19. Powered by individual event victories in the 100 butterfly (58.05), the 100 free (54.05) and 100 IM (1:00.37), Kee out-distanced Biola's Christine Trixier by 1.7 seconds in total.
Sophomore Matt Valentine earned the top overall finish for the Stags, placing fourth in 4:38.09, a mere 0.30 seconds ahead of teammate Marc Blumberg. In the five individual races, the Stags produced two event winners. Matt Williams won the 100 backstroke in a listed time of 52.00 and then Alex Poltash led a 1-2-3 sweep in the 100 free for the Stags, clocking in at 46.98.
Other top three finishers in individual events for CMS included Annika Jessen (100 fly), Marc Blumberg (100 fly), Erin MacLean (100 back), Kelly Ngo (100 back), Kee (100 breast), Joey Hinton (100 free), Williams (100 free) and Ngo (100 IM).
Head Coach, Charlie Griffiths said, "We saw a lot of fast swims today. In the previous seven years we've attended the Pentathlon, a total of three Athenas had broken a minute in the 100 butterfly. Today we had four under a minute. For the Stags, I was happy to see eight guys under 50 seconds in the 100 free on their fourth event of the day." Griffiths continued, "There's so much talent and depth in the SCIAC, a meet like this provides incentive for us to keep working hard and smart toward our bigger championship meet goals."
While the Pentathlon was a swimming-only event, the CMS divers will compete at Redlands on Saturday, November 16 at the Bulldog Diving Invite. Similar to the Pentathlon environment, most SCIAC teams will attend, along with a few non-conference opponents. Competition is slated to begin at 10:00 a.m.
The CMS swimmers will enjoy its annual Alumni Meet this Saturday, with warm-ups at 12:30 and the meet scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. The meet will precede CMS's "Wall of Fame" recognition of 2013 graduates Jordan Lieberman, Carmen Lundell, Emily Ott and Blake Weber and then the CMS Athletic Hall of Fame induction of multi-time NCAA D-III National Champion Nick Bagatelos (CMC 1986).


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I had a madeleine the other day.
Not the tea cake, but y'know, one of those things that jogs you, like a cobblestone sticking up that catches your foot and makes you stumble into the past. A wine remembered from earlier times, one that conjured up those times. So I thought it would be interesting, amusing and perhaps even illuminating to submit this blog (and myself) to the vinous version of the (in)famous Proust Questionnaire.
Forthwith, rendered into terms propitious for wine:
1. Your most marked characteristic?
In wine, I like being (as they say in French) a horse that eats from all the troughs. There are styles of wine I like less (moelleux springs immediately to mind), but I like to test periodically my so-called wine prejudices. Sometimes there have been fabulous turnarounds. I've been seen proselytizing for chenin, of late!
2. The quality you most like in a
I like ethereal red wines. I also like a certain rusticity. What I don't like is overbearing viscousness or jammy fruit. My gamut might span from Pineau d'Aunis to Cornas by way of Pinot Noir and cru Beaujolais. (And indeed, I am mixing up grapes and appellations. At least I don't say "varietal.")
3. The quality you most like in a
I like slightly oxidative whites. Like a woman showing her flesh. Or a barrel giving a sigh.
4. What do you most value in your friends?
I'm friends with those wines that take themselves seriously. Not in their outer trappings (unless we're talking high-quality corks)—heavy bottles, designer labels or consequential pricing. But wines that are not funny. They don't referment or reek, just as they don't float, aromatically, with the remnant particles of toasted wood chips. They are honest but honed.
5. What is your principle defect?
I break stemware.
6. What is your favorite occupation?
Two, where wine is concerned. One is obviously sitting at a table with good food and opening bottles with friends, enjoying them over the course of the evening. The other is visiting a vigneron, seeing where and how the wine is made, by whom, and tasting it there.
7. What is your dream of happiness?
A really fine Burgundy with the right amount of age. Or, at the opposite end of the spectrum, something I have never heard of before that turns out to be astounding. I could make my short dream list. I have friends with quirky taste.
Hm, I feel so serious! So sententious! This is the first third. Maybe the others I'll do more Dada in style. Stay tuned.


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battlestox necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 66 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
Battlestox is a small startup by a Dutchie and an English guy. We are building a cool and social fantasy stock trading game which you play by yourself or against your friends. The aim is to make stock trading fun and exciting similar to (for example) online poker games. Battlestox is a stand-alone website but will tap into social networks (updates on games, winnings / purchases of friends, etc).
1. Young, career-minded, male/females, 25-32. Low-mid income. Interested to learn and curious about the stock-market, but not experienced enough to invest for real. Potentially interested to trade for real in the future Social media followers and keen to out-play friends.
2. (University tutors) & students, male/females, 18-24. Low-income. Interested to learn how the stock market functions. Not interested to put money into paid games. Excited by social media platforms and comparing performance to class mates.
It should be as fun and easy-to-use as services like Basecamp, Getsatisfaction or Facebook. The focus on the application will be more about playing `games` (online poker style) than the technical aspect of stock trading.
The logo should be fresh and fun (not aggressive -no handgrenades, tanks or explosions please- nor of a corporate trading style). We'd like to emphasize on healthy competition over destructive tendancies ;)
The logo itself should be able to stand alone without the brand name.
We would like the designer to use mostly primary colours. This colour palette will also be (re)used in the application design.
Feel free to be as creative as you can be. We are looking forward to any ideas!
Any questions? Please feel free to ask.
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Surely you already know that I don't subscribe to the myth of overpopulation. Even if I did, if faced with accusations of irresponsibility I think I would have to quote another mother: "Sir, the world NEEDS my children."
Nonetheless, I enjoy witnessing the debunking of ridiculous theories like evolution and overpopulation. That's one reason I can't resist sharing this video, found via Large Family Mothering.
The other reason?
I love God's sense of humor and timing. I found this video and let it load in the background while chatting online with my good friend, Mother Hen. When it was done loading, I hit the play button. Mother Hen sent me a link while I was watching, but I finished the video before going back to our chat. When I clicked on her link, guess what came up?
Yup. I wonder if she's blogging the video this very moment? Nah…what are the chances of that?


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I would like to explain CQRS to my team of developers. I just can't figure out how to explain it in the simplest way so they can implement the pattern rapidly without any others frameworks. I've read a lot of resources including video and articles but I don't find how to implement CQRS without using others patterns like a service Bus, event sourcing pattern, domain driven design. I know the purpose of these pattern but for the first step, I don't want them to think CQRS and these patterns must be tied together.
My first idea is to say that CQRS is about separating the read part and the write part. The read part is composed only of the UI project, and DAL project. Then the write part is composed of a typical multilayer architecture: UI/BLL/DAL. Then, does CQRS say we must also have two datastore ? What about the notion of commands which reveal the user's intention, is it also something part of CQRS or DDD ?
Basically, how to implement CQRS without using others patterns. I concede it's also not that clear in my mind because I've used to work with NCQRS/DDD/Event Sourcing/ServiceBus in my personal project.


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The threat of paralytic shellfish poisoning means eating shellfish from much of Northland's west coast is akin to playing Russian roulette, Northland's Medical Officer of Health says.
Most shellfish species from the Kaipara Harbour north to Maunganui Bluff remain off limits, Jonathan Jarman said.
Kina, mussels, toheroa, pipi, tuatua, oysters, cockles and scallops in the affected area should not be eaten. Paua, crab and crayfish may be eaten if the gut has been completely removed before cooking.
While there have been no confirmed case of toxic shellfish poisoning in Northland for many years, it can potentially be a very serious disease, Dr Jarman said.
At least 20 people have been poisoned after eating toxin-carrying shellfish collected in the Bay of Plenty last week, with 10 hospitalised and four still seriously ill in hospital.
"People have died overseas. Eating shellfish from areas with shellfish warnings is like shellfish Russian roulette," Dr Jarman said.
"The toxin in paralytic shellfish poisoning is very powerful. It is not affected by cooking and stays just as potent.''
The first symptom is numbness in and around the mouth within 20 to 60 minutes of eating affected shellfish.
This numbness spreads to the face and neck and may be followed by difficulty swallowing or breathing, dizziness, double vision and - in severe cases - paralysis and respiratory failure.
The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) is also warning people they risk their lives if they eat shellfish from areas where warnings are in place.
Algal blooms occurring at some places on both coasts of the North Island are causing some shellfish to become poisonous, MPI principal adviser Jim Sim said.
"Unfortunately shellfish can be toxic for many months and this is a particular problem for tuatua,'' Mr Sim said.
"It's impossible to tell from looking at the shellfish which is toxic and which is not, so when warnings go out people need to take note and act accordingly.''
New Zealand's commercially harvested shellfish are safe to eat because a marine biotoxin monitoring programme ensures commercial operators don't harvest from areas affected by toxic blooms.
Anyone suffering signs of illness after eating shellfish should seek urgent medical attention, and if possible keep any leftover shellfish for testing.


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Tepid jobs news barely dents stock market advance
NEW YORK (AP) -- A tepid jobs report Friday barely dented a summer rally on the stock market.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index ended the week 1 percent higher after breaking through 1,700 points for the first time Thursday. The index has risen for five of the last six weeks. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.6 percent and is on a streak of six weekly gains.
On Friday, indexes dropped in early trading after the U.S. added fewer jobs than forecast. The mar- ket recovered and the gains were enough to set all-time highs for the Dow and S&P.
Investors have been trying to anticipate when the Federal Reserve will start easing back on its economic stimulus. The central bank is buying $85 billion in bonds every month to keep long-term interest rates low and encourage borrowing.
While the jobs report wasn't encouraging, it did make it more likely that the Fed would take its time cutting back on stimulus, said Doug Lockwood of Hefty Wealth Partners. The stimulus from the central bank has been an important factor powering a four-year bull run in stocks.
"As long as there's this concept that the Fed may still need to be involved and stimulate, that's good for both the bond and the stock market," said Lockwood. "You're seeing the trampoline effect; the market drops and then comes back up."
The S&P 500 ended Friday up 2.80 points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,709.67. The index is up 5 percent since the start of July. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 30.34 points, or 0.2 percent, to 15,658.36.
Seven of the 10 industry sectors that make up the S&P 500 gained, led by consumer discretionary stocks. Of the three groups that fell, energy stocks dropped the most.
Investors were also assessing company earnings.
Chevron fell after it became the latest big energy company to disappoint investors with lower earnings. Chevron's profit fell 26 percent to $5.4 billion due to lower oil prices and maintenance work at refineries. The stock fell $1.49, or 1.2 percent, to $124.95.
LinkedIn surged $23.58, or 10.6 percent, to $235.58 after the professional networking company's results topped analysts' estimates. LinkedIn had its biggest quarterly membership gain since going public in May 2011.
In other trading, the Nasdaq composite rose 13.84 points, or 0.4 percent, to 3,689.59.
The technology-heavy index got a boost from PC maker Dell, which gained 72 cents, or 5.6 percent, to $13.68 after a special committee of the company's board agreed to an increased offer from founder Michael Dell. The deal would add a special dividend for shareholders.
Government bonds rose after the weak employment report. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, which falls when the note's price increases, fell to 2.60 percent from 2.71 percent Thursday. Bonds were regaining some lost ground after a sell-off Thursday prompted by a string of promising economic reports.
Investors will have to live with increasing volatility in the bond market in coming months as the Federal Reserve begins to wind down its stimulus program, said Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy for Wells Fargo Private Bank.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note is 1 percentage point higher than it was May 3, when it hit a low for the year of 1.63 percent.
Investors "are used to having stability in their bonds and volatility in their stocks," Florance said. "In the next 18 months it could be exactly the opposite, with stability in the stock market and volatility in the bond market."
The S&P 500 is up 19.9 percent this year, and has gained nine out of the last 10 months.
In commodities trading, the price of oil fell 95 cents, or 0.9 percent, to $106.94 a barrel. Gold fell 70 cents, or 0.1 percent, to $1,310.50 an ounce.
The dollar fell against the euro and the Japanese yen.
Among other stocks making big moves:
• Viacom surged $4.81, or 6.5 percent, to $79.17 after the media company said its income rose 20 percent in the latest quarter, boosted by affiliate fee revenue its cable TV channels and higher advertising revenue. Viacom also increased its stock buyback program to $20 billion from $10 billion.
• American International Group, the insurer the government bailed out during the financial crisis, rose $1.26, or 1.3 percent, to $48.33 after the company said late Thursday that its profit grew 17 percent in the second quarter. AIG also announced its first dividend since 2008 and said its board had approved a $1 billion stock buyback plan.
• Weight Watchers International plunged $9.04, or 19 percent, to $37.99 after the company reported late Thursday that its second-quarter net income fell 16 percent. The company also named a new CEO and said recruitment trends are weak.


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Quantum-Dot bioconjugates for the staining of living glioma cells
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Objective: Recent studies have highlighted the value of complete tumor resection for patients suffering from high grade gliomas. As intraoperative differentiation of glioma cells and surrounding tissue can be very difficult, several techniques for the intraoperative identification of gliomas were proposed. Here we present a technical approach for fluorescence staining of glioma cells, which might offer the means for highly specific identification of remaining glioma tissue. We applied fluorescent nanoparticles, quantum dots (QD), coupled to targeting biomolecules.
Methods: Experiments were conducted with cell-cultures of 15 glioma cell-lines. 3 of these with defined EGFR status were applied in an animal tumor-model (2 mice for each cell line). Finally the method was applied to a human tumor biopsy, taken from a glioblastoma multiforme and brain tissue, which had to be resected during the surgical approach. Staining was performed directly after explantation under physiological conditions (isotonic solution, 37° C, native tissue samples). QD-EGF, QD coupled to 3 antibodies directed against EGFR-epitopes and QD coupled to an anti-PDGFR antibody were applied. Corresponding histologies were obtained for all samples.
Results: Specific uptake of QD-EGF into living glioma cells was found in 8 cell-lines, corresponding to the EGFR status as described in literature. As expected the other 7 cell-lines showed no uptake of QD-EGF or QD alone. Three cell lines were tested in an animal tumor-model. Again uptake corresponded to the EGFR status of the cell lines. No significant unspecific uptake was observed in all 6 mice. Tumors derived from all cell lines with over expressed EGFR and a mutation in the EGF binding site could be stained by application of QD-conjugates of antibodies that target other epitopes on the EGFR only, demonstrating the highly specific binding of QD-bioconjugates. Finally, a human glioblastoma biopsy and surrounding brain tissue were stained, resulting in highly specific binding of QD-bioconjugates. Fluorescence was sufficient to be observed macroscopically but also allowed discrimination of individual tumor cells under higher magnification.
Conclusions: We have demonstrated that QD-EGF staining is a feasible alternative for the intraoperative identification of glioma cells. QD can easily be coupled to all kinds of targeting biomolecules and therefore might offer the means for intraoperative identification of low-grade gliomas as well.


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"Thor" clobbers competition to win box office
LOS ANGELES - "Thor" kicked off the summer movie season by smashing the competition at the box office with a $66 million opening weekend.
The 3-D action picture from Paramount, based on the Marvel comic, was by far the No. 1 movie, according to Sunday studio estimates.
Australian actor Chris Hemsworth stars as the arrogant god of thunder who's sent down to Earth as punishment. It was directed by Kenneth Branagh, best known for making films based on Shakespeare plays such an epic "Hamlet," and featured a supporting cast that included Anthony Hopkins, Natalie Portman and Stellan Skarsgard.
In second place was a holdover from last week, the car-racing sequel "Fast Five" from Universal Pictures. It made $32.5 million for a total of nearly $140 million in just 10 days.
Although the opening for "Thor" wasn't as enormous as those of other superhero movies, it still exceeded studio expectations, which were around $55 million. It was the third-highest opening for a Marvel franchise launch, behind "Spider-Man," which made $115 million in 2002, and "Iron Man," which made $98.6 million in 2008.
Don Harris, Paramount's executive vice president for distribution, thought the film held appeal for both men and women; 37 percent of the audience was female.
"Chris Hemsworth looks like he's going to be a movie star," Harris said. "Kenneth Branagh made a very smart movie, and the idea that the man who's most closely identified with Shakespeare is making a Marvel superhero movie, I always thought was pretty interesting. Audiences connected with the Natalie Portman relationship, between her character and Thor. The movie looks spectacular on the screen. It was fun, and it's a big, epic movie."
Hollywood.com box office analyst Paul Dergarabedian thought "Thor" had a pretty respectable opening given that it's a lesser-known comic book title.
"Expectations always get wildly overblown with superhero movies a superhero movie has the biggest opening weekend of all time: `The Dark Knight,"' Dergarabedian said of the hit in the Batman franchise. "Expectations are always extremely high, especially on the first weekend in May, which is traditionally a huge weekend."
"It may have a solid hold," he added. "Sometimes it's not just about opening weekend. Sometimes it's about playability."
The next big competition for "Thor" comes in two weeks, on May 20, with the opening of "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," the fourth film in the blockbuster Disney franchise. On Memorial Day weekend come the sequels "The Hangover Part II" from Warner Bros. and "Kung Fu Panda 2" from Paramount.
Opening in a close third and fourth place were two wedding-themed movies, both of which served as counter-programming to the effects-laden spectacles in theaters.
"Jumping the Broom" from TriStar Pictures came in third with $13.7 million, higher than studio expectations, which were around $10 million. Angela Bassett and Loretta Devine star as the mothers of two families that clash as they're about to be united in their children's marriage.
In fourth place was the Warner Bros. romantic drama "Something Borrowed," based on the Emily Giffin best-seller, which made about $13.2 million. Ginnifer Goodwin stars as a lawyer who realizes she's in love with the fiancDe of her best friend, played by Kate Hudson.
In limited release, Summit Entertainment's "The Beaver," starring Mel Gibson as a depressed man who communicates through a beaver hand puppet, made $104,000 at 22 theaters. Directed by and co-starring Jodie Foster, the dramedy marks Gibson's first major role since a series of off-screen rants and scandals tarnished his reputation. It expands nationwide May 20.
Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at U.S. and Canadian theaters, according to Hollywood.com. Final figures will be released Monday.
1. "Thor," $66 million.
2. "Fast Five," $32.5 million.
3. "Jumping the Broom," $13.7 million.
4. "Something Borrowed," $13.2 million.
5. "Rio," $8.2 million.
6. "Water for Elephants," $5.6 million.
7. "Tyler Perry's Madea's Big Happy Family," $3.9 million.
8. "Prom," $2.4 million.
9. "Soul Surfer," $2.1 million.
10. "Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil," $1.9 million


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Green Gulch Farm Zen Center offers a unique opportunity for Buddhist practice. It is a place where we learn about Buddhism, not only through meditation and study, but also by through working and living together in ordinary situations. This emphasis on activity, on our everyday life, is traditional in Zen Practice. At Green Gulch, beginning students as well as priests and lay people with many years of experience in Zen Practice, live and work together, "negotiating the Way."
The residential community consists of about 55 people including full-time staff members, short-term residents, and children. Our schedule throughout the year includes zazen (meditation), sutra chanting, lectures, discussions, work and individual instruction with Green Gulch priests and lay leaders.
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Green Gulch has a variety of ways to be in residence.
Guest Students reside in student housing and participate in the full meditation and work schedule and attend classes, lectures, and ceremonies. This program offers short-term residency to those interested in beginning or deepening Zen practice with the support of a community. There is a seven-day minimum. Cost, schedule, program description and an application are on our Guest Student page.
Practice Period is an opportunity to live in our community and intensify your practice over an eight week period, through increased meditation and study and contact with Zen Center teachers. These are times of intensive formal Zen training emphasizing zazen, ceremonies, study and daily work. Practice Period students commit to be in residence for the entire term. Space permitting, we may also accept short-term participants.
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Work Practice Apprentices participate fully in the daily life of the residential community. Work apprentices reside in student housing and are asked to remain at Green Gulch during the first month of residency. Upon successful completion of the program, students are eligible for Practice Period scholarships. A two-week stay as a guest student is prerequisite for applying for this program. For more information and an application see our Work Practice Apprenticeship Program web page.
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Washington (CNN) - Former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel has met with both President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, as the president considers tapping him to replace Leon Panetta as defense secretary, according to several knowledgeable sources.
Several sources familiar with the process say Hagel appears to have the inside track for the job. CNN has previously reported Hagel is on the short list of potential nominees. One Democratic source familiar with the process simply dubs Hagel "the frontrunner." Another Democrat with knowledge of the process calls Hagel's nomination "almost a done deal." But according to an administration official, no decisions have been made.
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Reuters reported that Obama and Hagel met early last week.
Hagel, who serves as the co-chair of the president's Intelligence Advisory Board, is someone well-known to the president. He crossed party lines to endorse Obama for president in 2008, and traveled with him to Afghanistan and Iraq. He is also friendly with Biden because both men worked together on a variety of foreign policy issues when they served in the Senate.
Since leaving the Senate in 2009, Hagel has remained engaged in public policy. He now heads the nonpartisan Atlantic Council. But he is known as someone who supports "engagement" and "soft power." He opposed President George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq and was against the Bush administration's troop surge there in 2007.
Many Senate Republicans would no doubt raise questions about Hagel's foreign policy positions.
If nominated and confirmed, Hagel would be Obama's second Republican defense secretary. Bob Gates stayed on when Obama took office after having served in the role under Bush. If not nominated for the Pentagon, there is also a possibility that Hagel might be considered for another post.
Sources say others under consideration for the defense post include Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Michele Flournoy, who was previously a top Pentagon official.
Carter, who has helped oversee the Pentagon's recent belt tightening, would be viewed as well suited to lead the sprawling agency during a period of fiscal austerity. Flournoy would make history as the first woman ever to run the Pentagon.
Panetta has indicated he would like to return to private life in California in 2013.
Both sources also confirm, as CNN has previously reported, that current chief of staff Jack Lew is likely to be nominated as treasury secretary.
One knowledgeable source says that any changes at the staff level- or in the economic team- are likely to be put on hold until there is a clearer picture of the fate of the fiscal cliff negotiations.
The question of who will be asked to replace Secretary of State Hillary Clinton-and when-remains unanswered. One of the Democratic sources says the president remains a "very big Susan Rice fan," but also adds that "the longer he lets her (Rice) hang out there, the harder it is. The last week was not good for her."
Rice, the U.N. ambassador, traveled to Capitol Hill recently to meet with skeptical Republicans about her role in the controversy over the administration's public response to the deadly attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, in September.
The sessions seemed to do little to assuage their questions. One moderate Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, emerged from her session clearly unenthusiastic about a potential Rice nomination.
Both sources say that the question of Rice's future is very closely held, as is the question of the timing of any nomination. One knowledgeable source indicated some announcements on the foreign policy front could be made next week. Sources also caution that these nominations should be seen as part of a larger picture: As in a chess game, each move affects the next move.
For instance, there is a consideration of working relationships, the president's "comfort level, and issues like diversity. If Rice were not to be nominated as secretary of state, the top four Cabinet posts-attorney general, defense, treasury and state-would all be filled by men, if the State Department nod was given to Sen. John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) instead of Rice.
One of the knowledgeable sources says the White House is considering former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland or outgoing Washington state Gov. Christine Gregoire for the position of transportation secretary.
Good to see a Republican being considered for the position. I can't remember the last a Republican nominated a Democrat for a position. I am a Republican and appreciate President Obama's willingness to work with both sides of the aisle. It's certainly refreshing to see.
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He's a reasonable Republican. Not a tea party type. I would approve him in this role.
The President is a very smart man, if he is comfortable with Hagel, then bring him aboard!
I have a ton of respect for Senator Hagel.
Many times he demonstrated that he cares more for what is best for our country than what would score him or others political points.
Uncompromising socialist liberal Obama! This must be some kind of trick. I am tuning into Fox News right now so they can explain this tomfoolery in a way that fits my deeply distorted political viewpoint.
Why is it always assumed that only Republicans can handle the military? Since 1951, we've had 10 years of Democrat secretaries of defense, and 51 years of GOP SoDs; even though we've had 25 years of Democratic presidents and only 36 years of GOP presidents.
If we wanted a GOP vision for our military, we could have voted for John McCain. For once let's get a different perspective.
Uncompromising socialist liberal Obama! This must be some kind of trick. I am tuning into Fox News right now so they can explain this tomfoolery in a way that fits with my completely manipulated political views.
Chuck Hagel would be an excellent choice for Secretary of Defense.
Chuck Hagel has spoken with a forked tongue. I supported him based on his policies when he first ran in Nebraska. He switched parties and has been a big suck-up to Obama. I do not trust this man at all. To say he is a Republican is not true at all. So, let's not advertise that he is because he is NOT.
If there is such a thing as a 'Good Republican' Sen Hagel is it. If the President wants him, I'm good with that.
Good call!!
I would be very pleased to see Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary. He is very knowledgeable on foreign policy issues.
Hagel at defense is almost a certainty. Kerry will have for now to Hold his senate roles until 2014.
Mostly a rehash of previously reported material.
Condoleeza Rice lied repeatedly and knowingly about WMDs in Iraq where tens of thousands died and Ambassador Rice reads some talking points. Republicans love Condoleeza and crucify the Democrat Rice. What a bunch of frigging lying hypocrites the republicans really are.
getting set-up to be a scapegoat is the only contest in which he is a "front-runner" ...Gut the military...check, Turn the Arab world into a powder-keg...check, Appoint someone to take the blame...Check and Check...This guy must not be very bright
Chuck Hagel is a fantastic choice roll him into the role
Smart move
i liked Gates until i watched The Invisible War which calls attention to little-known facts about the high prevalence of rape within the ranks of America's armed forces. Interviews with military personnel, elected officials and rape victims provide alarming evidence. i was appalled. and after years of trying to figure out why we still have to deal with rape in this country the way that we do, i get it. men hate women and the military promotes it. hopefully they will find someone with a clue. and stop treating our own like they do.
He looks like an upstanding young man, I think he might do, then he took off his hat and imagine that... him ....working for you. signs, signs, everywhere signs!
So Nebraska FINALLY gets rid of this guy and now he's secretary of defense. Might want to really look into his background and how he made his money.
Yes i agree with allthree choice that ispick for the three prosition hope it works J.T


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QB Josh Graham, Sr., Waynesburg
Graham had a breakout game by throwing for 311 yards and six touchdowns in a win against Geneva. The senior completed 19 of 29 attempts and his half-dozen scores was just two shy of the school record set in 1968.
OL Jace Werkheiser, John Cannova, Nick
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The Cardinals offensive line did not allow a sack for the second straight week and helped North Central dominate time of possession, 36:43-23:17 in a 24-3 win against Augustana.
RB Connor Dahlstrom, Jr.,
Dahlstrom ripped off runs of 68 and 83 yards en route to 225 yards on the night, on 24 carries. He scored two touchdowns in Wartburg's 42-39 win against Dubuque.
RB Trevor Manuel, Jr.,
Manuel accounted for 236 all-purpose yards and four touchdowns in the win against Wittenberg. Manuel scored twice in the final 2:34 of the first half (68 yard TD reception and 10-yard TD reception) to open up a one-point game. He had 34 carries for 152 yards.
WR Michael Zweifel, Sr.,
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WR Eric Rogers, Jr., Cal
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WR Rico Wallace, Sr.,
Wallace caught 12 passes for 127 yards and two touchdowns in a 27-20 overtime loss to Christopher Newport.
DE Peter Ford, So., Louisiana College
Ford had 10 tackles, six solo, with two and a half tackles for loss and one and a half sacks in a 31-24 win against East Texas Baptist. He also broke up a pass and recovered a fumble, while on offense.
DT Rian Younker, Jr., Cal
Of his six total tackles (five solo) Younker led the team with 4.5 tackles for loss including 2.5 sacks during a 56-0 win over Whittier. The nose guard spearheaded the effort against the Poets' rush attack which was held to 45 yards on 35 carries.
DE Ben Lyons, Jr.,
Lyons had three tackles -- all for sacks in Willamette's win over Pacific. His sacks resulted in 22 yards in losses. His sacks were recorded on third-and-7 at the WU 36 on Pacific's first drive of the game, fourth-and-2 at the WU 24 on the final play of the half and on third-and-11 at the WU 41 on Pacific's opening drive of the second half.
LB Devin Worthington, So.,
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Clearly opened the scoring in Bowdoin's 27-6 win at Tufts on Saturday with a 99-yard touchdown return for a touchdown, establishing the longest play in the 120-year history of Polar Bear football. It was a record he held for almost two quarters, until Griffin Cardew returned a pick 100 yards to paydirt. In addition to his go-ahead score, Cleary had seven tackles, a sack and two tackles for loss.
LB Javicz Jones, Sr., Mary
Javicz had 11 total tackles, intercepted two passes, blocked a punt that UMHB recovered for a touchdown and added a half sack in a 35-12 win against Mississippi College.
CB Dylan DeFauw, Jr., Illinois
DeFauw picked off two passes and forced a fumble in the Blueboys' 48-34 win against St. Norbert. It was just their third win in 20 meetings. DeFauw's second pick led to a key fourth-quarter touchdown. He also had three tackles, two solo.
S Tony Faller, Sr.,
Faller led the Muskies defense to a 32-0 shutout of Rockford. Faller led the team with 10 tackles, two tackles for a loss of 19 yards and one sack for 18 yards. He added three pass breakups and have one interception for 19 yards. He also blocked a punt.
S Dan Calabrese, Jr., Case Western
Calabrese recorded a career-high three interceptions and ran two back for touchdowns in a 47-21 victory vs. Oberlin on Saturday. Calabrese, who also recorded two tackles, had TD returns of 55 and 56 yards, respectively.
S Dan Wirkowski, So., St.
Wirkowski helped lead St. Vincent to its biggest win in modern program history, a 35-27 upset of Washington and Jefferson. In the game, he made seven stops (three solo) and provided a crucial interception and 61-yard return to the W&J 22-yard line set up an SVC touchdown that tied the game. Later, with W&J driving deep in SVC territory, he recovered a fumble that helped thwart the Presidents' scoring threat.
CB Blaek Combs, So., Trine
Combs bookended the game at LaGrange with two interceptions. His first, on LaGrange's first play of the game, set up Trine on the LaGrange 24-yard line for their first score of the game. His second ended LaGrange's overtime possession, setting up Trine with a chance to win in the first extra session. He finished with six tackles, four solo.
Special teams
K Garrett Biel, Jr., Trinity (Texas)
Biel kicked a pair of field goals to lead Trinity to a 27-9 win against Sewanee. Biel had field goals of 34 and 33 yards and also kicked three extra points to give him nine of Trinity's 27 points.
P Jeff Sauer, Jr., Chicago
In a 38-23 win over Denison, Sauer averaged 50.2 yards on four punts, which he placed at the Denison 1-, 2-, 7-, and 10-yard lines.
ST Ryan Seymour, So., St. John
Seymour blocked an Ithaca field goal in overtime that would have extended the game. The block gave St. John Fisher a 13-10 victory.
RET Tony Sierra, Jr.,
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After a college class a very long while ago, I sat in the late morning drinking Guinness in an old pub on Grafton Street, in Dublin, with author Alec Reid, a close friend of Samuel Beckett, the Irish playwright and novelist. In Ireland then, barmen took a brief afternoon lunch break, and brought down a gate between the customers and the publicans, during which no one would be served. The bartender loudly proclaims this sacred pause: "It's Time, gentlemen. Time!"
I knew that Reid was a thirsty man, and I — thrilled to be talking Beckett and his writing for hours with a man who knew him better than most — was concerned that without renewed libation, the lessons would soon end. Having had experience with this siesta, I rushed up to get another two pints. As I was on my way back to our table with the refills, the room filled with the booming call: "It's Time, gentlemen. It's Time." Down came the rackety gate. And as only a Beckett-lover would appreciate, Reid looked at me with a twinkle of amazement as I set the dark porter down and said, "Thank you, John. You got these after Time, but not too late."
Time: the unmerciful ruler of life, the essence of relativity, the measurement between events small and large, or, simply, the bread upon which the butter of our days is spread.
Last month, I went to the reunion of my high school class. Fifty years. The experience has got me thinking about time, as if someone plugged an amplifier into a grandfather clock.
We all get our secret sack of time at conception. Time and Life, as existentially married as mustard and hot dogs. We think we'll just never get to that 4-foot mark on the wall, graduation day can't get here soon enough, the day we get our driver's license, can't wait to meet that special someone, and, all of a sudden, retirement and 50-year reunions. What was so slow to happen is so fast to become a memory.
Time defies definition, but is hidden beneath other words: memories, regrets, joys, losses, mistakes, accomplishments, celebrations, anniversaries, funerals, baptisms, wedding days, battles and births.
"How much time do I have?" the student taking the test asks the teacher. "How much time do I have?" the reporter asks the editor about the deadline. "How much time do I have?" the patient near the end asks the doctor. Time is history. Time is now. Time hasn't happened yet.
At the high school reunion, it was at once awkward and joyous to meet people whom I knew, spent four years of hours with, and now didn't know any more. Actually, I knew younger versions of them. Their eyes proclaimed that who they were, they remain. But their eyes told, too, vaguely, a little of the intervening sadnesses, the aches and pains, the changes they've seen along the 50-year-long roads we traveled.
We each thought we knew back then something about the now that would happen. Some of us saw more clearly than others. I had a plan then. It didn't happen. Other things happened instead. Dublin happened. New Jersey and Pittsburgh and New York happened. Work happened. Happily, my honey happened. Traveling happened. Terrible lows and flying highs happened. Days, weeks, months and years of other things happened. People came, and mostly left. Family stayed, and loved. I'm with the best people now. A grand outcome.
The reunion dinner was too short to get into my classmates' days since we traded homework and worried and laughed together. I learned that the courses of their lives ran about as roughly as mine, and that they've reached about as happy a place as I have.
The reunion reminded me what was. But, more important, it showed me the present faces of what the past became. Phil and Joe, Sean, Jim and Mike. They looked great. I was glad for all of us. I wondered about the missing ones.
I think we all became who we always were.
Happiness doesn't always come at the time we choose. Each moment is invisible and weightless, so there's no way of knowing what's in the sack we were given in our life's beginning. So I've learned, slowly, that we can't wait for better things to come, like the characters in Beckett's "Waiting for Godot."
We cannot master time, but we can always act now. We can go get what our souls need. We can go let the people we love know. We can go thank the deserving, help the needy, inspire the hopeless, join others who are doing good. No matter how old we are, we can go get the important stuff of life. Even if we get it after Time, it will not be too late.
John O'Connell retired as the Herald's executive editor in 2016.


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Andre Villas-Boas has no qualms about throwing Emmanuel Adebayor into the Tottenham team even though he is likely to have just one training session before Saturday's game against Newcastle.
Adebayor has not played for Spurs since January 12 as he has been taking part in the African Nations Cup but Togo were knocked out of the tournament on Sunday night. The striker has yet to return to Tottenham's Enfield training base but Villas-Boas insisted on Thursday the club had given him extended leave following the tournament.
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Portland, Oregon's Indie Scene
Portland, Oregon has many sides. Tom Austin favors its idiosyncratic indie scene, where fair-trade cafés and strip clubs draw the same clientele, ethics are in, and music fuels the urban engine.
A swallow flutters about the rafters of the Oregon Zoo band shell and out over a vast green meadow as Thomas M. Lauderdale—the pianist and artistic director of Pink Martini, everyone's favorite postmodern cocktail-lounge orchestra—strolls through a gathering of his tribe and distractedly chews on a slice of pizza. This being the People's Republic of Oregon, the 3,500 or so picnicking audience members include Birkenstock families with Live Green, Live Well stickers on their strollers, lesbian riot-grrrl collectives, cheerful Marxists, and the requisite too-camp-to-live fan pool of the orchestra's neoclassical-goes-international oeuvre: reinterpreted Carmen Miranda numbers; compositions performed in Arabic, Japanese, and 10 other languages; and "The Gardens of Sampson & Beasley," a lilting ode to a wistful Portland afternoon. In an offhand way, Pink Martini, which played Carnegie Hall this summer, concocts a glossy-postcard vision of the city as an eternal carnival of whimsy: the band's brilliantly evocative concerts, with the musicians dressed for cocktails, are about longing—Portland as it ought to be, not as it is.
Then again, Portland is a perverse and obstinate place, adept at resisting the imposition of sentimentality and outside values: this is the city, after all, where a brand-spanking-new Starbucks was firebombed in 2004, shortly before its opening. The citizenry believe in throwing it all out there—rampant political correctness, vice, whatever else might be handy—without sweating the distinctions. To "shamelessly promote" the band's third album, Hey Eugene!, Lauderdale, a self-styled musical archaeologist who serves as the unofficial mayor of bohemian Portland (and toys with the idea of running for the real mayor's office every few years), has his 12-year-old nephew come onstage in a Pink Martini bomber-style jacket inspired by one sold at the circa-1954 Mary's Club, a downtown institution and Portland's first topless bar. This is a pure Portland moment, a long way from the mythological terrain of Cole Porter's New York or even Louis Armstrong's New Orleans.
Alternative Portland is a peculiar utopia that believes in both unbridled sensuality and the notion that doing good actually makes people happy. This may be the most right-thinking community in the United States, brimming with green buildings, biodynamic wine, light-rail systems, homeless programs, fair-trade restaurants like the Proper Eats Market & Café ("organic, local, proper!"), bicycle-commuter lanes, solar-powered parking meters, and such resolutely moral establishments as the Red & Black Café, a collectively run coffeehouse lousy with laptop beatniks conforming in their devotion to the fight-the-power manifestos the management has posted on placards: We Want to be an Example of an Ethical, Nonhierarchial, Worker-Run Operation. The more heedless this country becomes, the more thoughtful Portland tries to be, and the city invariably makes visitors wish their own hometown could be a little nicer.
Even the layout of Portland, founded in 1851 as a shipping hub and logging town hugging the banks of the Willamette River, was intended by the city fathers to be intelligent and vaguely nonhierarchical. The best feature of the city is its classic American urbanism, pockets of bungalows and Victorian houses with howdy-neighbor front porches close to small historic movie theaters, shops, and taverns. In the early 1940's, a grandiose and half-deranged proposal by Robert Moses to carve up Portland with freeways led to a neighborhoods-above-all movement, and the movement prevailed. Today, each little enclave is a small, restful village that's handy to the big bad fray of downtown.
Burnside Street and the Willamette River form a cross that divides the city into quadrants: historically, much of the district known as Northeast was African-American, though that has been changing over the past 15 years in areas like North Mississippi and Northeast Alberta, as the ballyhooed creative class descends on the city; Southeast encompasses the let's-do-the-1968-time-warp Hawthorne neighborhood (head shops, socialists working the streets), Reed College, and the pure Leave It to Beaver charm of the Belmont district. In Northwest, the city becomes more urban and grittier—Chinatown, Old Town—then softens into the monied calm of Nob Hill even farther north and west. Southwest begins as the rough-and-ready nightclub zone around Mary's; then the tone changes with downtown office and government buildings and the cultural district with the Portland Art Museum, Portland State University, and the elm-lined South Park Blocks, a narrow swath of green that's home to the popular Wednesday farmer's market.
Although this city of 538,000 has a knack for inspiring visitors to rise to its level of resolute consciousness, it is also home to swingers' clubs; the tattooed-up-the-wazoo punk stars of the Suicide Girls' alt-porn film studio; several entirely aboveground gay bathhouses; and what must be more all-nude strip joints per capita than any other city in the country. The latter tend to be beat-up neighborhood dumps rather than silicone glitz palaces; oddly enough, reasonable-looking young couples in the crowd are not an uncommon sight. Strip bars are as ordinary as the city's ubiquitous microbrew pubs, which are full of evolved frat boys in SNOB (Supporter of Native Oregon Beer) T-shirts. Mary's, which went all-nude years ago to compete, is the most beloved operation, adorned with vintage glossies of exotic dancers and a beautiful WPA-style mural of heroic, profoundly muscled dockworkers. Courtney Love started out here, and when the 90-year-old owner Roy Keller died last summer—his daughter Vicki runs the place now—the Oregonian ran a story that lionized him as an all-around great guy and visionary of the industry: "...a man who hired gays, African-Americans, transvestites, and snake handlers...." At times, even the voice of mainstream Portland can get a little too dreamy.
Lauderdale lives and works in a converted commercial building close to Mary's. Pink Martini's offices and rehearsal studios are on the ground floor, and their parties—attended by the likes of former Interview publisher Paige Powell, a Portland native who is devoted to causes like the Wildlife Rehab Center of the North Coast—tend to spill out into the street and mix with the after-hours set lurking around Voodoo Doughnut, last call for Red Bull doughnuts and "voodoo" weddings: $25 Intentional Commitment affairs as well as entirely legal ceremonies with doughnuts and coffee. After midnight, Voodoo Doughnut is always full of local musicians, and music, often driven by neopsychedelia conceits and smart lyrics, is the engine that drives this city: Portland has long since surpassed grunge-era Seattle as an indie cultural capital. One young alt-rock snot dismisses Portland as a "retirement home for indie rockers," though the local all-stars include members of Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, the Shins, the Decemberists, Spoon, and the Thermals. (Gino Vannelli, glam god of the 1980's, also lives in town for some reason.) Portland has even entered the Great American Songbook: in "I Will Buy You a New Life," Art Alexakis of Everclear promises to give his beloved a home in the West Hills, the Portland equivalent of Beverly Hills.
Rich or poor, they all come to Portland for the quality of life. In the past few years, Portland has become a metaphor for enlightened humanism and progressive government, a little pocket of Sweden in the States. Richard Florida's The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life has become a bible of development for forward-thinking city planners and politicians, and every city is trying to lure the eminently employable post-yuppie Information Technology nomads who can revitalize a moribund downtown almost overnight. Portland is a city of youth and intelligence, full of microbrew-chugging tech nerds from the campuses of such higher-learning institutions as Intel, Nike, and Adidas. The new people in town are fleeing mainstream America, especially the deracinated, let's-grab-a-bite-at-the-multiplex life of the soul-crushing suburbs.
Portland could be this country's largest European-style city. It has more green space than any other comparably sized American metropolis: in the hills to the west is the 130-acre Washington Park—home to the Oregon Zoo, the International Rose Test Garden, and the exquisitely serene Japanese Garden—plus the 70 miles of trails in Forest Park, the most extensive urban wilderness in America. Portland also remains a capital of environmentally responsible design, as reflected by Holst Architecture's revolutionary Ecotrust Building and Boora's Adidas Village. The city is in the forefront of the national movement toward locally grown organic produce: sustainable-food champions Plate & Pitchfork stage elaborate outdoor dinners at local farms, and such stalwarts as Park Kitchen, Paley's Place, and Higgins Restaurant & Bar have all won or been nominated for James Beard awards. Greg Higgins can whip up a masterful seared Oregon albacore tuna with red wine ragout and knows every corner of the farmers' market, where he combs through free samples of sweet, heart-shaped Rainier cherries. Nearby are fragrant loaves of Pearl Bakery bread and lamb-on-pita sandwiches from the Tastebud Farms mobile grill. Portland is a daily lesson in how simple, everyday food should taste.
Like Charleston, Portland is one of the most polite and civilized American cities imaginable. The audiences at the Chamber Music Northwest festival know when and when not to applaud, and even at rock concerts fans actually listen to the music: during a performance by the withered rockers the Bottle Rockets, at the Crystal Ballroom, the rapt crowd resembled Easter Island megaliths with a penchant for beer. America has become a lonesome country, full of isolation and distrust, but strangers actually talk to one another in Portland, and more. One summer afternoon on Northwest 23rd Street, the local equivalent of Rodeo Drive, a homeless woman suddenly began pulling at her face and screaming about dry skin: rather than turn away, two Prada warriors who were passing by rushed over and gave her some moisturizer.
At certain moments, it's very easy to forget that Portland began in darkness. Throughout the late 1800's, during the reign of the notorious kingpin Joseph "Bunco" Kelly, unwary customers in Chinatown gambling dens would be drugged and then carted through "Shanghai tunnels" (tourists can now visit a section of one of these legendary tunnels below Hobo's Restaurant & Lounge) to ships tied up at the Willamette River, then sold to sea captains as indentured sailors. During Prohibition, an era when the Ku Klux Klan put its own mayoral candidate in office, the city moved into smuggling Canadian whisky, then into brothels. Until the late fifties—when Bobby Kennedy and the Senate Rackets Committee dragged assorted politicians and gangsters to Washington, D.C., for televised hearings—it was a dirty little town, a national code word for sin and fun. Tempest Storm was running her own strip show at the Capitol Theater, Justice William O. Douglas and a local B-girl named Little Rusty were taking in an unknown Sammy Davis Jr. at the Clover Room, and Bugsy Siegel contemplated opening a casino in the northwest part of town on Sauvie Island, now home to a nude beach and organic farms. These days, save for a few sputtering neon signs trumpeting the charms of chop suey and cocktails, the mood of even Chinatown is gone, though there's a whisper of the old Portland after dark at places like the Alibi. Downtown property is too valuable to serve as mere atmosphere: the fancy Governor Hotel was derelict when native son Gus Van Sant shot parts of My Own Private Idaho there in the early 1990's. Now, the lobby is connected to—what else?—a Starbucks.
The Pearl District, west of Chinatown, was a seedy, highly cinematic neighborhood not that long ago, the setting for much of Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy, his 1989 elegy to lost squalor. But now it's the pride and joy of official Portland: in 2001, to spur development, the government installed a Czech-made streetcar system linking downtown to the fringes of the Pearl. The North Pearl has become an even more alienating and scary version of New York's SoHo, with the streetcars silently gliding past Liveinthepearl.com realtor signs in a Soylent Green kind of way. Powell's City of Books, widely regarded as America's best independent bookstore, anchors the more seasoned stretches of the Pearl, close to the Bettie Ford Lounge, the new Ace Hotel, gay bars, assorted flophouses, and the hale and hearty Jake's Famous Crawfish Restaurant. In the café at Powell's, Mike Richardson of Dark Horse Comics, which published Frank Miller's Sin City, is chatting about Tonya Harding and selling comics to the followers of Bhagwan Rajneesh, whose rogue-ashram wreaked havoc 22 years ago in Antelope, Oregon.
Like everyone else in Portland, Richardson is sunny as all get-out, pointing outside the café windows to a Brave New Urbanism scene that could have been choreographed by an exceptionally hip Chamber of Commerce: the requisite Wavy Gravy wannabes twirling around as if it were still the summer of love in Haight-Ashbury; an apparently homeless young professional gone astray, lying with his purple hair splayed out on the sidewalk, nodding politely at gaping tourists while he reads Morgan Spurlock's Don't Eat This Book: Fast Food and the Supersizing of America; an earnest businessman on a high-tech tricycle pedaling past hardwired nut jobs, meth heads, and one schlub in ordinary street clothes whose face is completely tattooed in a checkerboard pattern. This human comedy resembles a curious laboratory experiment—it would have gotten B. F. Skinner going in all kinds of different directions—but perhaps happiness can be as effectively engineered as a streetcar system, since everyone in town, as Richardson points out, "just can't stop smiling."
Portland grants the gift of hope: the Holy Grail of freedom, the joy to be found in chance and opportunity are the promises this country was founded on, and more American cities could stand to loosen up and let the possibilities of life unfold. Across the street from Powell's is a stack of 20 or so customized children's bicycles chained to a pole: on Sunday nights, the Zoo Bombers—just one of the local bicycle tribes (two others feature convoys of nude riders and daredevil jousters)—meet at Rocco's Pizza, then ride down the hill from the zoo on busy thoroughfares, dodging cops and cars along the way. Portland changes people: within a few days, I found myself dancing in mosh pits at punk clubs, and one loopy evening, I just narrowly missed the chance to become a middle-aged Zoo Bomber.
Any American Eden is a fragile proposition and Portland is consciously trying not to repeat the urban-planning mistakes made by its traffic-ridden neighbor Seattle. But the money is pouring in at every level, and tract-house developers are continually making assaults on the Urban Growth Boundary, which rings Portland and was designed to contain suburban sprawl. One of the best things about this city is how quickly visitors can get out of town: true bucolic landscapes—right down to the inevitable pickups bearing Confederate flags—commence just past the city limits, and within an hour or two, it's possible to be surfing at Cannon Beach or skiing—even in summer—on Mount Hood, the magnificent dormant volcano that looms over the town.
For aspiring artists and kids just out of college, Portland is still a refuge for the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) indie dream that New York, San Francisco, and Seattle afforded 20 years ago: inexpensive rental apartments, cheap bars, and the chance to jump-start your ambitions with a post-punk band, performance-art collective, experimental film, or a line of clothes that can be sold in local boutiques like Magpie. Failing that, they can hang out at the Black Rose Collective Bookstore & Community Resource Center in the North Mississippi section of town, a fantastic power-to-the-people commune-thrift operation (everything in the shop is free) with an anarchist bent: "Not one yuppie vehicle should be safe...."
The poor and just plain feckless can saunter through all the free gallery openings, concerts, and street fairs, brace themselves for four-inch distended earlobes at the "painfully friendly" Robot Piercing, catch the raucous MarchFourth Marching Band in their flapper costumes and stilt-walking ensembles at Doug Fir Lounge, grab a beer and veggie dog at Acme, or go to the Press Club for some punk history—Dave Allen from Gang of Four, the seminal British punk band, worked at Intel for a time and spins here occasionally. The idle can marvel at the sheer grace of skateboarders at the Burnside Skateboard Park, built entirely by boarders, or shop at the funky boutiques along Northeast Alberta Street. (One morning, the most stylish girl on the street turned out to be a hobo who hops freight trains around the country.) The fashion-forward—pierced and fierce pretenders to the throne of Kurt Cobain heroin immortality, the neo-mods, the gloom- and-doom girls working an emo-lite look somewhere between Emily the Strange and Wednesday Addams—can simply join the Quadrophenia-revisited crowd at Pioneer Courthouse Square, which also happens to be a prime milling area for tourists. Among the kids, the scene is as arcane and calibrated as life among the style tribes of Tokyo; it's enough just to be cool in Portland, and that energy percolates throughout the city.
Courtney Taylor-Taylor of the Dandy Warhols climbed out of the local grit ghetto to a house in the West Hills with songs like "Not if You Were the Last Junkie on Earth" and "Bohemian Like You," a satire of the Pacific Northwest poverty-equals- integrity aesthetic that wound up on a General Motors commercial. The symbol of his DIY-dream-come-true is the Odditorium, a former machine shop north of the Pearl that he transformed into a psychedelic playhouse for sort-of grown-ups, equipped with motorcycles, pool tables, murals of the Sahara desert, medieval-style doors, Victorian chairs, a louche little bar, and a recording space for the band. The Eagles of Portland are living it up at the Hotel California, and at a barbecue one evening—attended by the usual hangers-on and, naturally, a stripper ("I like Portland because it's so clean," she tells me)—the guests debate the grassroots-gone-mainstream KEEP PORTLAND WEIRD bumper sticker campaign. Portland's marketing onslaught began a few years ago, some time after the similarly lame but lasting effort mounted by Austin, Texas (KEEP AUSTIN WEIRD), and now the Portland stickers are turning up everywhere, even in the city's official media kits. To Taylor-Taylor, a "keep Portland weird" groundswell is "precisely the kind of thing that guarantees Portland won't stay weird."
Portland is still plenty weird—on the way back to my hotel on the evening of the barbecue, a cab driver affably talked about being the reincarnation of Amun-Ra, a destiny that inevitably inspired the Ammon-Ra Web site, but what is really remarkable is the openness, the willingness to trust in goodwill.
In Portland, anyone who walks into Alma Chocolate, specializing in organic, fair-trade chocolate molded into religious icons, might run into Chuck Palahniuk, the exceptionally fit forty-something author of the novel Fight Club. The exquisitely well mannered Palahniuk is also the author of the new Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey and Fugitives and Refugees: A Walk in Portland, Oregon, the definitive guide to such singularities as the drag institution Darcelle XV, the Vacuum Cleaner Museum, the Van Calvin Mannequin Museum, and the 24 Hour Church of Elvis. Palahniuk moved to Portland in 1980, when it was still a blue-collar town, and the more recent history of his beloved dirty little city is an intensely personal affair: "When I think back and get nostalgic, it's hard to tell if I'm missing the grungy old days of Portland, or being twenty-two and immortal."
When to Go
Summer and early fall have the best weather, though Portland has relatively mild winters and only 36 inches of rain per year.
Getting There
Portland is served by most major carriers. The Airport MAX line (trimet.org/max), delivers travelers from the airport to the city.
Getting Around
No car is needed: Portland's mass transit system takes you everywhere.
Where to Stay
Ace Hotel
A unique little place on the edge of the Pearl District, geared to the creative class.
The Benson
A landmark 1912 hotel with a fantastic old-world lobby.
Hotel deLuxe
A Provenance Hotels boutique property that channels Old Hollywood with vintage movieland photos on every floor.
Hotel Lucia
The sister property to the deLuxe, with David Hume Kennerly photographs.
Where to Eat
Higgins Restaurant & Bar
Jake's Famous Crawfish Restaurant
Paley's Place
Portland Farmers' Market
Proper Eats Market & Café
Simpatica Dining Hall
A Portland favorite open only on weekends, with chef-owners Jason Owens and David Kreifels changing the locally sourced menus nightly.
Where to Go Out
Acme Food + Drink
Alibi Restaurant and Lounge
Portland's only Tiki bar, with plenty of kitsch and charm.
Bettie Ford Lounge
Doug Fir
Jimmy Mak's
Red & Black Café
Voodoo Doughnut & Wedding Chapel
Where to Shop
Alma Chocolate
140 NE 28th Ave.; 503/517-0262.
Columbia Sportswear Company
The flagship store, housed downtown in an 1888 basalt-columned building. 911 SW Broadway; 505/226-6800.
A smart boutique featuring Portland designers. 520 SW Ninth Ave.; 503/220-0920.
Powell's City of Books
1005 W. Burnside St.; 503/228-4651.
Torso Vintages
First-rate vintage clothes with high-end prices. 36 SW Third Ave.; 503/294-1493.
What to Do
Concerts and Festivals
Portland is a great city for the arts year-round. Summer brings Summer Concerts at Oregon Zoo (oregonzoo.org), the Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival (waterfrontbluesfest.com), Chamber Music Northwest's Summer Festival (cmnw.org), and the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's über-edgy TBA (Time-Based Art) Festival around the city (pica.org). Fall and winter's offerings include the contemporary dance series White Bird (whitebird.org), and the Oregon Symphony (orsymphony.org) and Portland Opera (portlandopera.org) seasons. February's big headliner is the renowned Portland Jazz Festival (dx.jazz.com).
Japanese Gardens
In a city of beautiful gardens, this is the prettiest.611 SW Kingston Ave., Washington Park; 503/223-1321; japanesegarden.com.
Live Wire
The monthly taping of this whimsical radio variety show at the Aladdin Theater is a Portland tradition. 3017 SE Milwaukie Ave.; livewireradio.org.
Portland Art Museum
1219 SW Park Ave.; 503/226-2811; portlandartmuseum.org.
Whether it's high-energy rock, angst-driven ballads, or smooth lounge,music from Portland is marked by its intelligence and authenticemotion. T+L corralled a panel of locals and wistful expatriates tocompile a playlist of ten key tracks from the past decade.
—Kathy Roberson
Dandy Warhols "Bohemian Like You" (2000)
Chain-smoking cool pokes fun at itself.
The Decemberists "Engine Driver" (2005)
Music to help you savor a rainy afternoon.
Pink Martini "Let's Never Stop Falling in Love"
For your next tongue-in-chic cocktail party.
The Shins "The New Slang"
Beware: impossibly catchy, though you'll never understand the words.
Stephen Malkmus "Baby C'mon" (2005)
Who knows what he's talking about?It just rocks.
Quasi "Goblins and Trolls" (2001)
A novel twist on love.
Elliott Smith "Waltz #2 (XO)" (1998)
A new standard for ballroom-dance class.
Helio Sequence "Everyone Knows Everyone" (2004)
A strange collision of harmonica and electronica.
Menomena "Wet and Rusting" (2007)
Feels like driving out of town at sunrise.
The Thermals "A Pillar of Salt" (2006)
What if punks took over a Catholic-school graduation?
Hotel deLuxe
Old Hollywood-style glamour prevails at this elegant, slightly-off-the-beaten-path hotel; you'll feel it from the moment you ascend the wide marble steps into the grand lobby, with its ornately carved moldings and coffered ceilings. At the dark, wood-paneled Driftwood Room (one of Portland's iconic lounges), local deal-makers hobnob in cushy leather banquettes; sophisticated diners frequent the restaurant, Gracie's, which serves globally influenced Pacific Northwest cuisine. The old-school plushness is reinforced in the 130 rooms, with their angular Art Deco-esque furnishings, crystal lampshades, and black-and-white stills from classic films adorning the walls (more modern nods to entertainment—flat-screen TV's and iPod docks—are here, too). The extra $20 for a King Feature suite which includes an elongated sitting area as well as a bedroom is worth the splurge.
The Benson
This 14-story hotel with brick siding dates to 1913 in downtown Portland, featuring premium century-old elements like Italian marble, Austrian crystal chandeliers, and Russian walnut. Each room contains flowing drapes, a flat-screen TV, and complimentary bamboo robe; but only the Grand Suite has a baby grand piano, and only the Presidential Suite has hosted every President since William Howard Taft. The Benson has two on-site restaurants. The casual, banquette-lined Palm Court has a breakfast buffet, lunch, and dinner. El Gaucho, an on-site Argentinean steakhouse with shocking blue walls, is dinner only.
Ace Hotel
This hotel is pure Portland: creative, authentic, irreverent. Rooms in the revamped 1912 hotel are decorated with murals and fitted with vintage claw-foot tubs; bedside tables are fashioned from secondhand tomes (the famous Powell's Books is just down the block). It's no wonder bands on tour like to stay here: there are in-room turntables and vintage LP's, and guitar strings for sale at the front desk. Staff dressed in Nom de Guerre–conceived ensembles (button-down shirts, crisp Dickies pants) are as cool as the surroundings.


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Rain Is Falling All Around
35395, Children's Songbook, Nature and Seasons, Rain Is Falling All Around, 241
Rain is falling* all around,
On the housetops, on the ground.
Rain is falling on my nose,
On my head and hands and toes.
Words and music: Moiselle Renstrom, 1889–1956
From Merrily We Sing, © 1948, 1975 Pioneer Music Press, Inc. Used by permission. This song may be copied for incidental, noncommercial church or home use.