text: What exactly is earwax?Earwax is made up of shed skin, long-chain fatty acids, cholesterol and alcohols and is something of a wonder-worker in the human body. It has protective properties and provides an important barrier in order to protect the sensitive lining of the ear canal against water. Much the same as mucous in the nose, earwax is a multipurpose fluid protecting the functions of the ear.What happens to the ear when wax is removed?The inner ear canal is left exposed to harmful bacteria when earwax is removed. This makes your child more susceptible to infections. Why you should step away from the ear budsEarwax works its way out of the body naturally, mostly when we chew. The movement of the jaw dislodges the wax and it makes its way out of our ear canal slowly but surely. These tiny bits of wax then get washed away when we bathe. Small instruments such as cotton buds may serve only to force earwax further into the ear canal and harm the eardrum. It seems the old adage is true: "Never put anything smaller than your elbow in your ear."When is too much of a good thing bad?If your child struggles with loss of hearing, earache or constant ear infections there's a possibility that perhaps their ears are producing too much wax. However, in this instance your child will need to see a doctor who will make a diagnosis and remove any excess earwax. This is a simple enough procedure which, under normal circumstances, is done in the doctor's office.What about home remedies?Given the inner ear is so delicate, it really is best to steer clear of home remedies and consult a doctor should you have any questions or concerns about your child's ear or hearing.-Lindsay de FreitasSources: realclearscience.com, askdrsears.com, ncbi.nlm.nih.govCome and like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and pin along on Pinterest.


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Understanding the Role of Tactics
How would you respond if someone asked you: Is a hammer the right tool? Clearly, you would say something like, I don't know. What are you trying to do?. If we think of technique (i.e. how we move our body and paddle through space) as the tools we use to play pickleball, then the question "Is this good?" can only be answered by a follow-up question: I don't know. What are you trying to do?. And that question What are you trying to do? is a question about tactics. And that is the focus of this edition of For The Coaches.
Players stack to make it more likely they get the positioning they want.
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5 Questions to Promote Tactical Thinking
What's your plan? It is amazing how often beginning, novice and intermediate players hit the ball without thinking through what they are doing and why. This is largely because they haven't had someone push them to consider it before.
Can you tell me what you were trying to do? What players do with the ball and what they were trying to do are not always the same. Asking them about what they were trying to do tells you something about their tactics.
What do you think they are trying to do? The less skilled your students are, the less they consider what's happening on the other side of the net. Encourage them to pay attention to that tactics their opposition is trying to use - that is the first step to countering it effectively.
How are you winning most of your points? Even if they can't always execute it, encourage your students to think about their strengths and what is working for them.
How is the other team winning most of their points? Good players don't just use their strengths, they avoid the strengths of their opponents. Have your students articulate what they see as the other team's go-to plays and think about how they can respond.
If a power game is effective, keep using it.
featured: Tao Thongvanh and Jack Oxler.
Teaching Tactics to Beginners
Sometimes coaches think that tactical thinking is only for advanced player. This is wrong. While advanced palyers may use advanced tactics, that doesn't mean that beginning players need to be satisfied with 'just hitting the ball'. Here are some important tactics you can work on with your starting pickleballers.
Pressure with Consistency. All you have to do to win a point is get the ball in play once more than the other team. Make sure your players know this. Encourage them to be a team that is tough to get the ball past. And while it might not always be pretty, an attitude of find a way to get the ball in play can be really helpful for new players.
Take Away Time. Beginning players will know that they'd prefer to have more time to get set rather than less. Encourage them to use this knowledge when it comes to thinking about what they do to the other team. Returning serve and running to the net is a great way to take away time. So is getting the ball when it it high so it is easier to hit down in the court with speed.
Use Your Strengths, Avoid Your Weaknesses. While it may not be the best solution for overall player development, the attitude of do the things you are good at as much as you can and stay away from the things you aren't so good at can be valuable for teams that want to be competitive.
Why You Should START With Tactics
Sometimes you will hear people suggest that players should only learn tactics after they have developed solid technique. In our view, this is misses the mark. Recall that technique is a tool. And tools should be used to do something. And that something is apply a tactic.
Pickleball isn't gymnastics or synchronized swimming; you don't win because it looks pretty when you hit the ball. Technique shouldn't be taught for its own sake. Instead, if you begin by saying something like: So, what should we to to these other players? you have opened up the door to have students who are invested in learning the techniques that will allow them to accomplish their goal. In this construction, tactics begin the conversation about why technique is important.

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There is something magical about bolstering you music collection for free, and legally. If you were an 80's child, or grew up in the 80's then Mötley Crüe most likely had some playtime in your life. I know they hit my CD collection back in the day right along Led Zeppelin and Van Halen. If you want the greatest hits Mötley Crüe ever put out, now is your chance to grab the 23 track digital album from the Play Store for absolutely free. Typically the set costs $12.49, or $1.29 per song.
The album brings the greatest hits from the original line-up of Tommy Lee, Mick Mars, Vince Neil, and Nikki Sixx. That means you will only find the classics and nothing from the albums Mötley Crüe and New Tattoo. You also get a remix version of "The Animal In Me". If you search out the album it won't come us as free. You will need to hit this link to see it populate at no charge. So what are you waiting for, go "Kickstart my Heart" "Dr. Feelgood" and break out those "Girls, Girls, Girls."
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A bson file extension is related to the BSON a binary file format of JavaScript object notation files (JSON).
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BSON file extension - BSON binary JSON code
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The bson file extension is associated with the binary file format for JSON (JavaScript object notation) files.
BSON format is able to storage data and for Internet data transfer.
BSON is used to represent simple data structures and associative arrays in MongoDB database.
BSON can be implemented in ActionScript, C++, PHP, Haskell, JAVA, LISP and other programming languages.
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Beanies are such a staple for Chicago weather. I don't care if I am running out in my pajamas to grab a burrito on a hungover Sunday morning, a beanie is just as important as a coat. They keep the head warm most importantly, but they are also a great, affordable way to make a statement so you want to make sure it's something you love! This particular one, I picked up at the Fairfax Flea Market in West Hollywood. It was handmade by a girl named Casey, and I was obsessed with the large knitting it had. Girl had a great name and could knit a mean beanie! 😉
Photos by James Haschmann
T-shirt – Urban Outfitters, Sweatsuit – American Apparel, Leggings – American Apparel, Leather jacket – Mike & Chris, Bag – Emporio Armani, Shoes – Lucky Brand, Beanie – Fairfax Flea Market in LA


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At times I strugle with pattern paper sometimes. I love it so much (as evidence of my HUGE stack in my room), but I don't always know how or think of how to incorporate it. Lately I have been noticing that people are using to to cover the fronts of their cards completely.
Here is my card
Although I didn't cover it completely, I did use a lot. I also thought it would be a fun boys card since they are harder for me to make. Hope you like it.
It's a good life!
Terri E.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Pattern Paper
Posted by Terri Trotter Earley at 7:52 AM
Labels: Papertrey Ink
2 comments:
- sandyh50 said...
Great card Terri! Love the paper!
- May 17, 2011 at 6:31 PM
- Jill said...
Aw, this is nice, Terri--that patterned paper is SO great, I love that you can circle the age! Pretty ribbon too!
- May 18, 2011 at 12:54 AM
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Global Sunroof Manufacturer Empowers Employees, Inspires Culture
AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS--(Marketwired - Jul 11, 2016) - Workday, Inc. (
With over 5,000 employees across 9 countries, Inalfa Roof Systems is a global designer, developer, and manufacturer of sunroofs and open roof systems for some of the largest automobile brands in the world. To support continued growth across its global operations, the company was looking for a single, unified HR system to replace a series of inefficient legacy HR solutions.
With Workday, Inalfa Roof Systems expects to:
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"Equipping our people with HR tools that enable them to drive world class execution, recognize employees' contributions, and fuel our focus on being a great place to work supports our mission to maximize customer value and lead the industry," said Henk Heijnen, group vice president human resources, Inalfa Roof Systems. "Workday's cutting-edge system, combined with its dedicated focus on the success of a customer community with an extensive set of HR best practices made the decision to move HR to the cloud easy for us. With Workday, we will have an HR system that not only meets our existing needs, but is future-proofed to support the changing requirements of our business as we grow."
"To fulfill our mission for a new way of working in HR, we gathered the requirements of Inalfa's managers, employees and HR colleagues globally," said Bas Eggelaar, HR director, Inalfa Roof Systems. "This extensive list was the basis for executing a very thorough supplier selection, and ultimately choosing Workday because it not only offers an HR system that meets our existing needs, but is a partner who will support us in our continuous growth."
"At a time when the disruptive nature of business can make planning for and supporting future growth a major challenge, it's crucial to have a unified global view of HR information across the organization," said Chano Fernandez, president, EMEA & APJ, Workday. "Forward-thinking companies across EMEA are transforming their HR operations by moving to the cloud, and are now empowering their employees with the data they need to be more effective and deliver better customer service."
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. More than 1,000 organisations, ranging from medium-sized businesses to Fortune 50 enterprises, have selected Workday.
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This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected performance and benefits of Workday's offerings. The words "believe," "may," "will," "plan," "expect," and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks, uncertainties, and assumptions. If the risks materialize or assumptions prove incorrect, actual results could differ materially from the results implied by these forward-looking statements. Risks include, but are not limited to, risks described in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), including our Form 10-Q for the quarter ended April 30, 2016 and our future reports that we may file with the SEC from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. Workday assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
Any unreleased services, features, or functions referenced in this document, our website or other press releases or public statements that are not currently available are subject to change at Workday's discretion and may not be delivered as planned or at all. Customers who purchase Workday, Inc. services should make their purchase decisions based upon services, features and functions that are currently available.
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The sumer time is when I have some of the most fun creating my shots from the sidelines of various tournaments. This past summer I was on the sidelines of the Tri-State Classic, Hoops in the Sun, the World Famous West 4th Street, the Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park, Watson, the Nike Tournament of Champions, Dyckman, the East New York Classic, FIBA's 3x3 World Tour, and the FIBA Americas tournament in Venezuela to name a few (Phew! Looking back, I don't know how I made it to all of those games this summer!).
I recently thought to myself that I have taken so many shots in the summer of '13, that I can't possibly remember each one. With new and exciting projects always on the docket, I don't always have time to go back and reminisce on my images. I'll confess that I actually don't even remember them all after a while.
After receiving some requests from my Instagram followers, I thought it might be interesting to go back and assemble a top ten list of images that focus on my best dunks of the summer. So, I started culling through images and tagging some of my favorites.
This is not to be confused with a list of the top ten dunks of the summer. While I did make my rounds throughout NYC and in South America, I could not possibly capture all of the top dunks of the summer. So, this list is simply the top ten images I was able to create based on where I was this summer.
Feel free to follow me on Instagram @jonlopez13 to see them in real time as I post them. So far, I am up to number eight. I will update you here on the blog when I make it to the top three or five.
These are not easy decisions to make, but I am having a blast making time to reflect on what was an incredible summer of basketball in New York City and beyond. I hope you enjoy the images.


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To the Editor:
Re "Some Faculty at Harvard Oppose Policy on Assaults" (news article, Oct. 16):
From reading some of the student responses to the letter written by Harvard Law School faculty members opposing the new policy on sexual assault, one would be led to believe that we face a choice between adopting the extreme measures found in this policy and maintaining the status quo. This is a false dichotomy.
As a society, we have a moral obligation to prevent rape and to bring those who commit this heinous crime to justice. We also need to ensure that the innocent do not have their lives destroyed by false allegations and wrongful convictions. We can — and must — find ways to do both.
Stop Abusive and Violent Environments has proposed an alternative approach that aims to address both these issues. Our Safety of Our Students Act, a proposal for federal legislation, would engage the criminal justice system to handle allegations of sexual assault on college campuses. Cases would be investigated by trained professionals, and findings of guilt or innocence would be made by impartial judges and juries.
We believe that this would be a far better approach than what is currently being done at many schools.
New York, Oct. 16, 2014
The writer is the state coordinator for New York with Stop Abusive and Violent Environments, a victim advocacy group.


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From Cafe Brazil to Jimmy John's, we covered a handful of spots near and dear to our hearts here at City of Ate's Oak Lawn H.Q. Dave, meanwhile, highlights a place where it's no problem feeling right at home. But if there's one lesson to draw from the week, it's this: get out of New York. Even if you're in Oak Cliff.
The Week in Review(s):
- Your own Dallas Observer: Dave enjoys the friendly atmosphere at Nick & Sam's Grill, and tries to enjoy the food too.
Dallas Morning News: Leslie Brenner takes on Brazilian-Vietnamese fusion at Lumi Empanada and Dumpling Kitchen, while we imagine the hilarious TV sitcom possiblities. Brenner also checks out Citrus Bistro this week.
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How 'Bout Them Knockers: N.Y. Pizza
We finally find someone who'll deliver food to your door in Oak Cliff. Turns out, starvation might have been better.
Girl Drink Drunk: Bolsa
No better time than a workday lunch for fruity summer drinks.
Dude Food: Jimmy John's
Because a dude never likes to wander too far for his grub.
Veggie Girl: Cafe Brazil
In which Veggie Girl tackles, in fairy tale form, that great pitfall of strict vegetarianism: drunken late-night dining.


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Our Cuba Partnership
Riviera UMC has a strong partnership of prayer and support with our sister church in Babujales, Cuba. Each year, we send a team with supplies and funds. Throughout the year we pray for each other, our pastors support each other, and we are reminded that God's church is large and uncontained by cultural or national boundaries. The Holy Spirit connects us always.
Cuba Mission Trip 2018
David's Story: Cuba Mission Trip 2017
2016 Team
In January 2016, a team from Riviera UMC visited Babujales, Cuba. Riviera's sister church presides in Babujales, a small village nestled in sugar cane fields. The team delivered supplies, explored the area, but most importantly, connected with our brothers and sisters in Cuba. Check out the video below for a glimpse into their experience!


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2018 Trends in DevOps and Cloud Computing
DevOps at its core is a methodology comprised of people, process, and technology, and organizations are quickly taking advantage of its transformational capabilities to knock down organizational boundaries and optimize the flow of work.
This applies to cloud computing, as well, with organizations employing DevOps principles to inject security into all iterative phases of cloud implementations—plan, build, test, deploy, and operate—to reduce costs and better protect data.
Sila sees the following specific trends making an impact this year and beyond.
DevOps in enterprises will continue to gain traction, peaking this year. The focus will be around adapting automation standards/utilization and tooling. Organizational and cultural aspects (and how that lends to processes) will continue to be considered, but the focus will be on the nuts and bolts, as well as related key performance indicators to accelerate and measure DevOps adoption.
DevSecOps will continue to gain momentum in the overarching DevOps conversation. Security is continuing to grow in pertinence, and there is a solid home here in the DevOps conversation. Tooling, process maturity, and organizational adherence will only continue to get stronger.
Cloud Computing
Organizations will obtain measurable benefits by investing in optimization and refinement of workloads. Organizations have jumped on the cloud bandwagon, and businesses will continue to migrate workloads. Organizations will now move to optimize and refine those workloads by refactoring designs and architectures, adapting development/release processes, extending security capabilities, increasing availability and redundancy, and identifying cost management techniques.
The intersection of cloud and identity and access management will continue to evolve. There will be continued emphasis on enhancing and strengthening this connection as organizational data, applications, and activities get dispersed across more diverse boundaries. As both the perimeter and attack surface continue to expand across this federated landscape, new and enhanced identity and access management standards and processes must be deployed and leveraged by both cloud-service providers and organizations.


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Fauzia's Heavenly Delights is serving NY with some, well, heavenly delights. For the past 26 years, the name Fauzia has been synonymous with the city's best Jamaican fusion food, garnering a following of local foodie fans. And for good reason. To last that long in any business, let alone a food truck, is no small feat. But considering the big time flavor she's packing into every inspired dish, it's easy to see why she's made a lasting impression on the food truck scene.
Transport your tastebuds to island bliss with a menu full of the best in authentic Jamaican and Caribbean cuisine. And Fauzia knows just how to bring the heat to the meat and the jerk to the chicken, offering plates filled with traditional spices. From her famous jerk and curry chicken to lamb, fish, and vegetarian gyro, Fauzia's out to satisfy every palate with a world of flavorful offerings. You'll find Fauzia's Heavenly Delights in the Bronx, New York City proper and beyond, so be sure and track this food truck down. Unless you'd rather not experience the best the city has to offer. Your loss, then.
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Girard Perregaux 1966 Small Seconds - SIHH 2011
Girard Perregaux present a new model in the build up to the Salon Internationale de la Haute Horlogerie (SIHH) 2011 - the Girard Perregaux 1966 Small Seconds. The latest model represents the 1966 Collection, which celebrates a time when the brand received recognition for their research and development of high frequency movements beautifully.
The piece features an enamel dial created in the totally traditional Grand Feu technique reminiscent of classical pocket watches. Created using fine powders which are applied then fired using high temperatures it is a process which can perplex even the most patient of Master dial makers, but is one which produces the most pure and pristine of dials - a beauty which is unattainable by any other method. Further traditional touches are the blued feuille-shaped hour and minute hands and the blued seconds hand on the subdial at the 6 o'clock position. The little red "60" on the small seconds dial is the only feature which rebels from the overall classical styling of this elegant piece.
Inside is a new automatic movement, a modified version of the Girard Perregaux Calibre 3300, its traditional decorative techniques of Côtes de Genève and Perlage visable through the sapphire case back. Available in 40mm pink gold or white gold case, the Girard Perregaux 1966 Small Seconds is presented on an alligator strap.


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Feb. 8 — CoolIT Systems, Inc. (CoolIT), the world leader in energy efficient liquid cooling solutions for HPC, Cloud and Enterprise markets, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. 9,496,200 covering modular heat-transfer solutions to cool an array of independent servers for rack based data center installations.
This proprietary modular heat-transfer system consists of a rack, heat-transfer elements (heat exchanger), component heat-exchange modules with distributed pumps, manifold module and a coolant heat-exchange module. CoolIT Systems has exclusive rights to the patented technology.
"U.S. Patent 9,496,200 protects the invention of utilizing a modular, building block approach for datacenter cooling with direct contact liquid cooling," said Geoff Lyon CEO, CoolIT Systems. "CoolIT's commitment to developing and patenting unique solutions provides our customers with the assured competitive advantage they are looking for. The 60 patent milestone adds confirmation to CoolIT's leadership in developing innovative liquid cooling solutions for modern data centers."
The latest patent comes just a month after CoolIT Systems was issued a related patent (U.S. Patent No. 9,453,691) that defines a fluid heat exchange system used to cool heat generating components of a computer with a fluid heat exchanger that splits a mass flow of coolant. This Split-Flow invention is another one of the company's key performance differentiators. High levels of performance enable the effective cooling of server CPUs using very warm cooling liquid that eliminates the need for expensive chiller plants and bulky air conditioning units. The potential for reducing both the capital expense and on-going operating expense that direct contact liquid cooling provides is motivating adoption at an increasing rate.
The recently issued patents join CoolIT Systems growing intellectual property portfolio that includes more than 60 issued patents and numerous patent applications, to which CoolIT Systems has exclusive rights in the U.S. and major international markets.
About CoolIT Systems
CoolIT Systems, Inc. is the world leader in energy efficient Direct Contact Liquid Cooling for the Data Center, Server and Desktop markets. CoolIT's Rack DCLC platform is a modular, rack-based, advanced cooling solution that allows for dramatic increases in rack densities, component performance, and power efficiencies. The technology can be deployed with any server and in any rack making it a truly flexible solution. For more information about CoolIT Systems and its technology, email or visit http://www.coolitsystems.com/.
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A lot of people love swimming on the Irish coast, sure, how could you not with our incredible coastline?
Keeping an eye on water quality is a part of what City and County Councils do and and they have to identify official bathing areas in their area every year.
So this is where you come in.
Fingal County Council are asking people who swim at beaches, lakes and rivers to tell them if they think they should maintain existing identified bathing waters designations or give a new official bathing area designation to areas that are commonly used for swimming but not designated at the moment.
Public consultation on identification of bathing waters in Fingal. Make sure you let the Council know where you swim. https://t.co/Iu7uhcxdlr https://t.co/QRyJFYlfWS Areas not currently recognised include Balscadden Beach, High Rock and Broadmeadow Estuary! pic.twitter.com/EOYuyPwEJN
— David Healy (@davidhealyv) December 13, 2017
If you are a regular swimmer, help decide which bathing areas should be identified for 2018, it might be helpful to consider the following:
- How your swimming area has been used up to now;
- How many people use the site;
- What facilities (e.g. signage, parking, toilets, picnic area etc) exist at the site and how accessible it is;
- Any safety issues.
Visit here for official information and how to make a submission
Closing date for submissions is 31 January 2018.


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Obama pledges $90M to clean up old U.S. bombs in Laos
VIENTIANE, Laos -- Acknowledging the scars of a secret war, President Obama on Tuesday said the United States has a "moral obligation" to help this isolated Southeast Asian nation heal and vowed to reinvigorate relations with a country with rising strategic importance to the U.S.
Making the first visit for a sitting U.S. president, Mr. Obama said too few Americans know of the United States' covert bombing of Laos during the Vietnam War. He offered no apologies, calling the campaign and its aftermath reminders that "whatever the cause, whatever our intentions, war inflicts a terrible toll."
"Given our history here, I believe that the United States has a moral obligation to help Laos heal," Mr. Obama said, as he addressed an audience of more than 1,000 students, business people and officials.
For nine years, the U.S. conducted a punishing, covert bombing campaign on landlocked Laos in an effort to cut off communist forces in neighboring Vietnam. The bombardment dropped more than 2 million tons of ordnance on the small nation, more than "we dropped on Germany and Japan, combined, in all of World War II," Mr. Obama said.
The bombing left behind deep scars, millions of unexploded cluster bombs across the countryside and decades-worth of cleanup. As CBS News correspondent Adriana Diaz reported, the bombs are still found by Lao children today, who often mistake the small submunitions or "bomblets" they carried for balls, and they can have a devastating impact.
Diaz met Brong Yang, 8, who still has shrapnel in his side. In July, he made the mistake of playing with what he thought was a ball that he'd found near his home.
"There was blood everywhere," his father said. "I didn't know what had happened, but when I felt metal under my son's shirt, I knew it was a bomb."
Mr. Obama is one of several world leaders arriving for a meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Taking its turn as the chair of the regional forum, the Laos' communist government is seizing a rare moment in the spotlight.
For Mr. Obama, the visit serves as a capstone to his yearslong effort to bolster relations with Southeast Asian countries long overlooked by the United States. The outreach is a core element of Mr. Obama's attempt to shift U.S. diplomatic and military resources away from the Middle East and into Asia in order to counter China's dominance in the region and ensure a foothold in growing markets.
Mr. Obama's project -- dubbed his Asia pivot -- has yielded uneven results, as conflict in the Middle East has continued to demand attention and China has bristled at what it views as meddling in its backyard.
Mr. Obama said America's interest in the Asia-Pacific isn't new and is not a passing fad.
"The United States is more deeply engaged across the Asia-Pacific than we have been in decades," Mr. Obama said. "Our positon is stronger and we've sent a clear message that as a Pacific nation, we are here to stay."
With just four months left in office and eying his legacy, Mr. Obama used the moment to reassert his aims. He touted new military aid and U.S. support for regional cooperation in addressing maritime disputes. He made a plug for the massive Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement, the policy's central economic component that is now stuck in Congress. He sought to address worries that United States' new focus on Asia will leave smaller nations as pawns in a chess match between the U.S. and China.
"We believe that bigger nations should not dictate to smaller nations and that all nations should play by the same rules," he said.
As a first sign of a new relationship with Laos, Mr. Obama said his administration would address the legacy of war. Mr. Obama announced he would double spending for unexploded ordnance, committing $90 million over the three years. The U.S. has contributed $100 million to the effort in the last 20 years, as annual deaths have fallen from more than 300 to fewer than 50, the White House said.
The Lao government said it would increase efforts to recover remains and account for Americans missing since the Vietnam War.
As he opened a day of ceremony and diplomacy, Mr. Obama was greeted by a military band, traditional dancers and a warm, tropical rain. He met with Lao President Bounnhang Vorachit, was feted at a welcome banqueted, where he toasted to a relationship he said would "mean greater progress and opportunity for the people of Laos."
Mr. Obama's outreach to those regional powers hit a snag just as he arrived in the region from China. The White House called off a planned meeting Tuesday with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, after the brash new leader referred to Mr. Obama as a "son of a bitch."
Duterte, who had been expecting Mr. Obama to criticize his deadly, extrajudicial crackdown on drug dealers, later said he regretted the personal attack on the president.
In a statement read out Tuesday by his spokesman, Duterte said his "strong comments" to certain questions by a reporter "elicited concern and distress."
"We look forward to ironing out differences arising out of national priorities and perceptions, and working in mutually responsible ways for both countries," the statement said.


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Cripes, that's the best headline I've ever come up with. I'm sure that my cavernous conscience has retrieved it from someone else but sod it. It's mine now. In fact, anyone not living in the UK won't even know why it's so good. I'll shut up now.
Moving on. Jon Lewis, the England and Gloucester wobbler. Jagadish, known here as Jag with a vague and irrelevant nod to the once great British auto manufacturer, has chosen him as his English target for the summer. Last year it was Ashley Giles who bore the brunt of his ridicule, and Giles then proceeded to bowl rather better than most people thought possible (including dismissing Australia's top eight at least once? I think that was the stat-famouse). I'm not suggesting Lewis will have the same effect on this summer, but Jag is unfair on him.
Marcus Trescothick has just made me nearly roll on the floor laughing. He was dismissed twice in a day against Gloucestershire.
Jon Lewis, an unlikely star last year when England thrashed Australia in the Twenty20 game, trapped him in front twice!
King Cricket wonders if he is a forgotten man.
Umm, I don't know. I didn't even remember him!
Now, Lewis is never going to take 200 Test wickets for England, or even 100. But he's a fine county bowler, and absolutely lethal in early season conditions. If England's battered bowlers don't fix themselves in the next few weeks, don't be surprised to see him playing against Sri Lanka.


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Fans have begged studios, stars and filmmakers for an epic rumble between horror movie titans Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees and Ash Campbell for decades. So far, the closest we've come are the unfortunately forgettable mid-aughts "Freddy vs. Jason" flick, and the more recent (and more entertaining) standalone Starz television show "Ash vs. Evil Dead."
It sounds like a no-brainer to throw all these irreverent franchises into a bloody blender, and while that did happen in comic book form, so far the possibility for such a movie still seems pretty grim. Recently, Freddy Krueger himself explained his own theory as to why the match made in Hell never came to be.
RELATED: Bruce Campbell Wants Five Seasons of Ash vs. Evil Dead
"Sam Raimi wanted Ash to win. He wanted him to win the match. Which I thought was a great idea," actor Robert Englund said at Emerald City Comicon earlier this month. "New Line Cinema was against it because I had just had my ass kicked by Jason; they were afraid, 'cause I was the most successful of the three franchises, they were afraid. 'We can't have Freddy killed twice in a row.'"
If Freddy's apparently mortality seems like a flimsy excuse not to make another movie, you aren't alone in your line of thought.
"I was like, 'Wait a minute, guys. You revived me, you resurrected me with dog urine!" England exclaimed. "It's real easy to bring Freddy back. Come on. That's not that hard to do!"
Englund added that he even saw the perfect poster for the film in his mind. "Bruce Campbell with his shirt open and all of his abs spray painted and highlighted, with Freddy Krueger under [one] arm and Jason under [the other] arm. And the poster would say: 'Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: Keeping the world safe from sequels.'"
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If you are a fishing nut, a real true rather fish than eat, don't know when to come in out of the lighting, oh, man should have left an hour ago, spent the last 5 bucks on bait shrimp instead of milk for the baby kind of angler, then Cape Coral is a pretty good place to dock your boat.
Relocated from the frozen north? No need to trade that Ranger for a flats boat as we have arguably one of the best bass lakes in the world pretty close by (Lake O) and it's no secret the Cape's hundreds of miles of fresh and saltwater canals hosts largemouths.
I've had several big number days on plain black or purple plastic worms and flipping docks with the same colored small flipping jigs and creature lures.
Get the urge to pull on something that can really test your physical stamina and determination? Want to do it with rod and reel, or how 'bout hand to hand with a rope, your back and a pair of gloves? No problem, got you covered.
Just a short ride you're into Boca Grande and the home of the Goliath grouper.
Fish of nearly 500 pounds dare you to test them. How amazing is that?
It's tarpon time and the Cape not only hosts the world's oldest active tarpon club, but the local passes are known as the birthplace of big game fishing with an incredible angling history.
Here, anglers can try their luck on tarpon in the rivers, along the beaches, in the passes or softly poling a quiet skinny backwater while quietly presenting a fly to a laid up silver rocket.
The Cape's shark fans can enjoy world class sharking. Where there are migrating tarpon there are, unfortunately, submarine sized sharks looking to pick them off.
Want a 1,000 pounder? Bigger? No problem! It's very possible here. Motor over to Boca Grande again; there are several there waiting to play tug of war with you.
While playing the tarpon game at Boca or anywhere, give your hooked tarpon a chance when Big Jaws comes calling to eat your 150-pound trophy. Free spool or cut the line so it can get away or it may be eaten boat side.
It takes 50 years to grow a tarpon like that. It fought you with everything it had, so now do your best to protect it.
Many newbies to the Cape are surprised to find that there are sharks in the over hundred pound range that are happily swimming in their backyard canal mere paces from the kitchen table.
The Cape also allows you to have the double option.
Where I live I not only have sharks but small to medium-sized dinosaurs they call alligators in my backyard. Pretty cool!
Snook? Yes, as long as your leg. Walk the beaches, hit the passes, the snook are doing their summer vacation thing and having a ball. Live baiters and lure guys are catching their share.
Walking the beaches early casting a white bucktail could result in you running madly down the beach trying to keep up with a fat 40 pounder bent on testing your spool capacity.
Year around trout and redfish angling draws anglers to our city with really good shallow water red fishing.
Redfish Pass is a great place to hook a big one as well as a jumbo snook. Get in line with the other boats and fish along the rocks. Late September redfish school up and ply the flats in Matlacha Pass or Pine Island Sound allowing great sight fishing to schools of 5 to 15-pound redfish, sometimes all the way to Christmas.
This is all just local fishing in and near the Cape.
Offshore, and even near-shore, Cape Coral anglers have nearly every species imaginable to make an old or young salt happy.
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I have the pleasure to invite you to yet another major exhibition - what a great year!
A part of my "ATM" - series will be on display as part of the "Schule Friedl Kubelka" group exhibition at the famous Parallel Vienna 2018.
Our group of aspiring artists (see the picture on the right) created a unique room dedicated to analogue photography and combined it with objects, sound and a lot more to honour the great tradition of our school's founding mother Friedl Kubelka.
The exhibition was curated by the well-known Austrian artist and current head of the school Anja Manfredi.
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I try not to apply American standards of self-defense to the rest of the world, because we are kind of insane, but I am not convinced that even in the UK 'I came home and found my friend tied up and a guy with a knife torturing him, I punched the guy once and he died' would actually result in significant legal trouble. Generally the 'eggshell skull' rule only applies when the underlying violence is illegal in itself.
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36°N Editor's Note: We recently had the pleasure of hosting Kristel Buurmans and Miranda Pauw, two teenagers from the Netherlands, in our space for a school project. We so enjoyed watching them learn all about Tulsa's entrepreneurial ecosystem. To conclude their visit, they wrote the following essay about their experience.
For our school in the Netherlands, we had to find a short internship in an English environment where we could gain business experience. Luckily, we had an acquaintance that owns a business in Oklahoma and offices at 36 Degrees North. Thus, we travelled to Tulsa to experience a new work environment: co-working space. This is unlike any office we had been to in the Netherlands.
We were at 36 Degrees North for six days in total, and during those days we got to meet so many nice people. All these people had different jobs for different companies or universities, yet they worked in the same building. We found this to be very cool. In our opinion, 36 Degrees North is very convenient. Small businesses pay less for a membership there than they would if they rented their own offices. As we got to meet so many people, we noticed that everyone seemed to be happy at this co-working space. 36 Degrees North has done such a phenomenal job at creating a space where everyone can work in peace despite the variety of people and backgrounds.
Not only are there small businesses and different people working at 36 Degrees North, the office also hosts a lot of events each month. In the six days that we were there, we attended a brown bag lunch and a seminar. This was just a small portion of the activities that were planned for that week.
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Pineapple on a pizza? People that stop in the street? Going out on penalties? Yes they are all annoying AF!! But surely none of them are quite as irritating as an umpire that is not up-to-date with all the current rules, interpretations and areas of focus in the NSW area?!
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The force of being torn away from my nightmare left me trembling and gasping for air. Liam was phased too, and his presence in our dimension comforted me for a heartbeat before his anger registered. It chilled my bones. Alarmed, I tried to shake off the heavy blur of sleep but couldn't—until Liam's roar cut through it.
And the dream came back to me.
Oh no.
I opened my eyes and took in the mess surrounding me. It was as if a wave of energy had blasted through the space. Things were strewn everywhere. Stumbling from the bed, I rushed after Liam, following his racing heartbeat down a flight of stairs.
"Liam! No!" I yelled in my mind and out loud.
Startled family peeked into the corridor, their mouths agape. Artfully arranged flowers now lay haphazardly by their vases in puddles of water, as if they'd been ejected from the opening. Liam hadn't been emotional enough to affect water since after Madison Blake's interview.
At a huge crash down the hall, Robert and Joey hurtled out of their rooms and joined me. I rounded the last corner to the wing Ciarán used and heard the clanging of metal objects, fists on skin, and Liam's pained growls asking, "Why?"
Tears filled my eyes. I couldn't let him kill his brother. With a burst of speed, I darted into his sitting room and found them rolling on the floor amidst all sorts of clutter, spilled bookshelves, and upended furniture. On the other side, Liam grasped his brother's throat, body slammed him against a credenza, and used him to sweep off the antiques on top, letting Ciarán crumple to the floor when he let go.
"Liam, please don't kill him," I said in our minds, but he wasn't listening.
"Why?" he shouted at Ciarán again, standing over him. Liam's face was red, the iridescent brown of his eyes pulsing. Pain contorted his features, the roots choking his soul…my soul.
Liam reached for him again, but Ciarán lunged for an ornamental shield that had fallen and struck Liam on the side of the head, stunning him.
"No!" By the time I climbed over the upturned furniture, Ciarán had grabbed the mace that must have hung with the shield and pulled back to swing it at Liam.
In the second it took me to scream, the air sizzled and ionized around me. I threw my hands forward, directing a bolt of electricity straight at Ciarán's chest. It lifted him off the ground in a dazzling flash of blue and pinned him to the top of the wall.
Please, God, don't let me kill him either.
The energy receded just as quickly, and I dropped to my knees, pitching forward onto my palms and breaking the connection. George, Robert, Joey, and several of my gendarmes sped past me, jumping over whatever they had to.
"Liam?" I asked in our minds, holding out as long as I could for a response before the blackness closed in.
I came to in small degrees. My entire body felt like a first-degree burn. The cool bedsheets soothed my scalded skin, but I still didn't want to move. It was going to hurt.
"Liam," I tried to say, but my vocal cords would only croak.
"Shh, love." Fingers brushed back hair from my forehead. I felt the tingling and relaxed. Liam.
With what seemed like a Herculean effort, I lifted my eyelids. His bruised face stared back at me, a smile lifting his lips. His sunken, red-rimmed eyes belied the gesture. Several stitches crisscrossed the hairline near his temple—the side where he'd been hit by the shield.
Ciarán. Had I killed him? Please, no. Everyone would hate me. How could I face Moira and Patrick? Liam?
"Dr. Evrard, she's awake."
I tried to ask, but my breath caught in my throat. Tears blurred my vision. Liam moved away to make room for the doctor and his nurse. My anxiety grew, but my voice wouldn't work. When I tried to reach for Liam, my heavy limbs wouldn't cooperate, and pain shot through me at the effort.
I did the only thing I could to talk to him—I phased. Liam's panic hit me instantly, and as he transformed, all felt right with the world.
"Liam, what happened? Please tell me I didn't kill your brother."
That ends the excerpt of Book 3 in the Joining of Souls series. ENDURING DESTINY will be out May 30th, 2019! If you haven't yet started the series, you can find more information about Book 1, SOULMATED, here. Happy Reading!
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Subject: Re: [dss] RE: Public comment, namespace inheritance
Hi Trevor and all,
please see below
best regards
Konrad Lanz
Trevor Perrin wrote:
I agree and I think its worth the effort to make a clear distinction between what is payload and what belongs to dss.
I agree and would use a formulation that clearly expresses that xml payload (i.e. well-formed like xml without
but one or more
that is to be transported inside a sign or verify request) has to be
Hence it can be extracted free of any ancestry context and can be retrieved as it is. This implies not only that the
namespace context has to be removed on extraction, but also that entity references (and the like) have to be
resolved by the client already during compilation of a request.
So a first attempt to give a formulation for dss-xml-payload in using the syntax of grammar of the
XML specification could be as follows:
For XML 1.0:
any namespaces or allowing any entity references but
For XML 1.1 one should additionally specify that any association of the prefix with a namespace
name has to be removed by empty values as indicated in namespaces for xml 1.1 section namespace scoping:
and hence no
and also no DTD and entity declarations
can reside inside a DssXmlPayload if the whole request should be well formed xml.
Hence EntityRef has to have the additional restriction that a valid EntityRef is one
quot only. If external entities should be allowed
some further thought, but it might be dangerous not to resolve them during compilation
of a request.
The reverse implies that as soon as these restrictions are not met the payload should be base64 encoded or
another kind of opaqueness has to be achieved by any means in both directions.
First <dss:XMLSignature> is somewhat similar to <dss:XMLData>. However inside <dss:XMLSignature> only
a <ds:Signature> is allowed whereas inside <dss:XMLData> DssXmlPayload is allowed, which is a lot less restrictive.
However <ds:XMLSignature> is also a kind of payload that has to be treated free of ancestry context as in the
case of an Enveloping or Detached signature the modification of the Signature element would break the signature.
So if the ds:Signature inherits the xmlns:dss=".....xsd" declaration, it is broken.
Second it allows to solve the violation of the "Unique Particle Attribution" constraint mentioned in one of
my last postings as now <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/> can be used instead of
<xs:any processContents="lax"/> as <dss:XMLSignature> does not match namespace="##other" any more.
In the original version either all elements <ds:Signature>, <dss:XMLSignature>, <dss:Timestamp>,
<dss:Base64Signature>, <dss:SignaturePtr> would have matched namespace="##any"
when using <xs:any processContents="lax"/>.
Or <ds:Signature> would have matched namespace="##other"
when using <xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax"/>.
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I hope everyone had a nice weekend in spite of the wet weather. We had a very busy weekend with a friend turning 60 and a celebratory lunch at Ocean View Estates winery which was really lovely. And then my little brother had a Birthday bash for his big 50 birthday. It was lovely to catch up with family and friends.
Needless to say not a lot of stitching has been going on I was a wee bit tired with all the partying.
I also wanted to let you know my friend Tracey has a beautiful website featuring all her beautiful painted projects. She has finished items and patterns for sale. So pop over and have a peep.
Her site is : http://www.rosepetalspast.com.au/ .
Also Sandy at Cookies and Cream has a cute guessing game going on. So there's a couple of things to have a look at while we are stuck inside.
Monday, January 10, 2011
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It's the most romantic stretch of coast in North America, possibly in the world. I've been going there for more years than I care to admit to, and finally came to understand the place with the help of those who live there. Part One:
(Photos by Catherine Karnow)
"Young people were living in cars and under the bridges. Once I saw smoke coming from a field just north of here and went up to find two dozen hippies, their naked kids running around, and fires going. Fire's always a danger in Big Sur."
Don McQueen, 79, straddled an old four-wheeler in his tattered sweater and torn trousers. A daunting figure - six-foot-eight, big hands, size 15 boots – he was remembering the 'sixties in Big Sur, the spectacular stretch of coast south of Monterey where the Santa Lucia Mountains plunge into the Pacific and Highway 1 snakes high above violent surf. "Some of the newcomers were worthless, but some were okay. We were so stuck in the mud around here that the supervisors couldn't even approve another school for the overload. The new people shook things up."
I first saw Big Sur in 1963, and in the intervening years returned several times but never had a clear understanding of its unusual history, complicated geology, or its place in the pantheon of great American landscapes. Beyond extreme physical beauty and the inspirational jolt the first glimpse of Big Sur always provides, it remained for me as much mystery as reality, intimately associated with the Aquarian age McQueen describes.
Then a few summers ago droughty California had some 1,200 wildfires, including one in Big Sur. That became the Basin Complex fire, and it put the famous coast in jeopardy and in the news again after a long hiatus. But many younger people, I noticed, no longer had a clear idea of the place, and those my age had very different notions of it: iconic collision of earth and sea, New Age navel, home of superannuated flower children, prime ocean-front property, and up-scale venue for travelers who could afford $700-a-night beds, infinity-edge hot-tubs, and hundred-dollar prix fix menus.
McQueen's father was the engineer in charge of building the coast highway in the late '30s, and Don assembled his commercial campground on the same road in the '50s, shaded by a 4,000-year-old redwood and now worth millions. "A few hippies thought they could make a living just by breaking into houses," and a rougher element including motorcyclists hung out in the Redwood Lodge just up the road. "It had a hard dope problem, with fights, and gang-banging. I told the owner I'd clear it out if he wanted."
He was also an authority, according to a friend, "on what's required to survive on a 17 percent slope," just one of many descriptions of Big Sur. McQueen admits to "throwing some people through windows." He put two malefactors in a car, "broke their distributor cap with a hammer, so they couldn't start the engine, and pushed them down a hill toward Carmel."
That bar was re-born as Fernwood, a sign of the times. Big Sur, too, is a relatively tame venue for travelers who can afford $700-a-night beds, infinity-edge hot-tubs, and hundred-dollar prix fix menus unimaginable in 1960. But half a century after that restive time Big Sur remains as difficult to define as it has always been: iconic American landscape or New Age navel, home of superannuated flower children, or working community, California's most expensive real estate, or a unique bit of wilderness?
Spanish explorers and colonists didn't know quite what to make of it, either. Seafarers stayed clear of the rock-toothed el pais grande del sur, and missionaries making the long over-land journey from Mexico City used the valley of the Salinas River, miles to the east, not the impassable coast darkened by huge trees and coursed by two un-navigable rivers. Presidio and missionary headquarters were established in Monterey in 1770, then a mission in Carmel. Father Junipero Serra set about enslaving and converting to Catholicism those members of the primitive coastal tribes who lived close by and any who could be enticed out of the rugged and inhospitable "El Sur."
Large tracts of coast were granted to former soldiers and cohorts of provincial governors by the Mexican government in the 1830s, including three near Carmel on broad marine terraces high above the ocean, most of which have survived intact. The 8,876-acre Rancho San Jose y Sur Chiquito, 20 miles south, eventually came into the possession of Captain John Rogers Cooper, who turned it into a cattle ranch in the 1840s, worked by Hispanics and Indians.
Some of the first "Americans" in El Sur were the Posts. William Brainard Post, who had been stranded in lower Baja on a voyage from Connecticut, eventually made his way to the whaling station at Point Lobos, acquired 640 acres just south of the big river, and in 1867 began to build a house. Money was made by others from redwoods and Douglas fir felled in the steep canyons, an arduous, dangerous job, and the bark of tan oaks used in the tanning of hides. Supplies arrived in small sailing vessels braving a coast with little safe anchorage, and timber went out the same way.
The first continuously operating post office south of Carmel called "Big Sur" was in the Posts' house. It had one of the most spectacular vistas ever shared by cattle, hogs, and the 60-residents who dropped by to get mail, talk, peel apples in season, dance, and lament the absence of a good road to "town." That meant Monterey, 30 miles to the north, but the rough dirt tract over which they rode horses and drove wagons meant they were no longer dependent for staples upon unreliable steamboats plying an unforgiving Pacific.
The road was steadily improved into the 20th century, when self-reliance took another hit with the arrival of cars and trucks. They brought new faces, among them homesteaders, tourists who stayed in roughhewn "resorts" run by the Pfeiffer and other families, and what might be called a new creative class. During the '20s and '30s the poet, Robinson Jeffers, praised what he called "the noblest thing I have ever seen," meaning Big Sur, and wrote about the difficulty of maintaining the tortuous road in Thurso's Landing, where "seas thundered on the rock, and rain fell heavily/ Like a curtain, with one red coal of sundown glowing in its dark."
Other new arrivals were more interested in aesthetic adventure than convention. Jaime de Angulo, the son of a Spanish nobleman and a disciple of Karl Jung's, bought property on Partington Ridge and built a house of concrete that was to be a dude ranch but never had a customer. An avid student of native American languages known locally as "the Old Coyote," Angulo wore his hair long in Indian fashion, wrote poetry, and lived in scholarly squalor, according to contemporary accounts, sometimes riding his horse in nothing but a cape and a belt of silver conchos.
Another locally famous European, Helmuth Deetjen, the well-born son of a deacon in Bremen, Norway, arrived in Big Sur with his wife, Helen, circa 1930, bought 120 acres in Castro Canyon, and built a combination home, store, and inn. A devotee of music, philosophy, art, and politics, he had attended the University of Heidelberg with both Rudolf Steiner, founder of the Waldorf Schools, and Adolf Hitler. Deetjen claimed that his last words to Hitler were, "You just don't understand the American cowboy," and that he later fled Europe because he knew what Hitler was capable of.
Deetjen brought a quirky combination of sophistication and hominess to Big Sur, reflected in his quaint construction, in Scandinavian style and in native redwood, of what became both a home and a lodge. One of the locals helping him was the 11-year-old Don McQueen. Deetjen's Big Sur Inn contained Helen's antiques shop and included cabins, some barely big enough to turn around in, with droll names like Chateau Fiasco. Pottery, sculpture, paintings and craft, much of it created by a long succession of Big Sur artists, occupied most horizontal spaces, and still does. Deetjen carved into a lintel in the dining room a quote from Mozart's Magic Flute: "Within these sacred portals revenge and hate must cease/ The souls of straying mortals in love will find release."
In 1937 the coastal highway linking northern and southern California was completed, some say the biggest change to occur since the arrival of the Spanish. Big Sur became accessible to cars from both directions, which meant more sight-seers, more exposure of outsiders to a unique landscape that had largely remained a national secret, and more artists, writers, and mavericks seeking an alternative to what Henry Miller, one of them, would soon be calling America's "air-conditioned nightmare."
Miller himself took up residence on Partington Ridge in 1942 and became Big Sur's most celebrated literary figure. His neighbors included Angulo, Harry Dick Ross, the sculptor and painter, and Emile White, another painter who lived down on the highway and served as Miller's erstwhile secretary. Miller wrote several books while overlooking the Pacific, including The Rosy Crucifixion and Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymous Bosch. He and Deetjen occasionally drank together at the inn, only six miles north of Partington, where an employee once attempted - unsuccessfully - to hide a microphone behind a curtain to record what the great men said.
In 1960, Miller left wife and children to run off to Paris with a woman half his age, dismaying the usually forgiving Big Sur bohemians. Emile White's house on Highway 1 later became the Henry Miller Memorial Library, a trove of Milleriana that today offers a broad retail selection of retail books, and a cultural program popular with both locals and visitors.
Miller himself was quickly superseded by a tide of so-called beatnik and hippie writers, among them Jack Kerouac whose On the Road replaced the once-banned Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn as a must-read for a new, rebellious generation. Kerouac's friend, Lawrence Ferlenghetti, owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, publisher of the poets Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, had a cabin up the coast, on Bixby Creek, that was featured in Kerouac's depressing, eponymous Big Sur novel; another novelist, Richard Brautigan, a suicide, wrote the goofy, charming fictional account of life here the sixties, A Confederate General in Big Sur. By then the place had acquired a reputation as the gravitational center of LSD and "free love," an image it has never really shed.
Deetjen died in 1972, and his inn was transformed into a non-profit, another sign of the times. Patrons in the '80s included John Denver, Robert Redford, Clint Eastwood, Peter Sellers and Mia Farrow. Nowadays in season it's thronged with baby-boomers and young lovers drawn by the fire on the hearth, gnarly authenticity, and the ghosts of a watershed decade still ringing in the speech of occasional regulars ordering blueberry pancakes at the bar.
Meanwhile, Don McQueen was repairing gaps in the coast highway his father had built, where pavement occasionally slips unavoidably into the ocean, destabilized by torrential winter rains. He worked on other, now famous Big Sur projects, including Nepenthe, the bar and restaurant built on a point just north of Castro Canyon and named for a magical potion in Homer's Odyssey, on land previously owned by Orson Wells and Rita Hayworth.
Nepenthe was patronized by locals and the likes of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton during filming of The Sandpiper, and Kim Novak who once danced on a table there in her almost all-together. "Nepenthe's was incredibly welcoming in the hippie era," says one long-term resident. "Every month there was an astrological birthday party for locals, with dancing on the deck," but all that gradually ended as the contingent of tourists grew exponentially and Nepenthe's expanded, and raised prices, to accommodate it.
The actor, Steve McQueen, visited Nepenthe's in the late '70s, looking for Don McQueen as a possible long-lost cousin, annoyed by the failure – or refusal - of locals to recognize him as the star of The Great Escape and other movies. He and Don McQueen became friends despite the dissimilarities in their lives, and physical statures. "Steve walked around like a bantam rooster," Don said affectionately. They rode motorcycles together on Highway 1, and "my wife and I once took Steve's dinner reservation at Ventana. When he showed up with Ali McGraw and saw us, he just laughed. They came over and joined us."
The Ventana Inn and Spa was, when it opened in 1975, Big Sur's first modern, full-scale resort, and another watershed. Ambitiously designed, lovely to behold, and controversial due to its size and prices, Ventana made Big Sur a "destination," to the dismay of many in Big Sur who nevertheless played dominoes at the bar. By providing beauty, luxury, and whatever else was required for a restorative "California" experience, Ventana brought a new sort of sophisticated, well-heeled visitor.
After a few years the formality in the dining room and bar, like the steep prices, discouraged locals from coming, and in the early '90s, after a succession of owners and infrastructure problems, Ventana's coveted spot as the primo watering hole passed to the Post Ranch Inn. Just across Highway 1, on land once occupied by old William Brainard Post.
There builders took pains to make that resort environmentally friendly, with cottages raised on pilings among live oaks. The restaurant, Sierra Mar, seemed to hang over the ocean, a la Nepenthe, and today guests can dine on ahi and braised Kobi beef while watching gray whales bound for Baja. But beyond the tasteful confines of the Post Ranch Inn and Ventana, life remains a struggle, with relatively few jobs and an acute housing shortage that's getting worse. The chef at Sierra Mar, Craig von Forster, recalls living in a van at the side of Highway 1 in his early days at the inn. Today, he adds, "if you drive south toward Lucia after 10 p.m. at night, you'll see dozens of cars in the pull-offs. In most of them the people who do Big Sur's work are asleep."
The most common definition of Big Sur by people who live here is "the coast between the lighthouse at Point Sur on the north and Esalen on the south." The center of the so-called human potential movement, and a story in its own right, Esalen was founded by Michael Murphy, now 78, whose family acquired the precipitous land in 1910. It was named for the indigenous Esselen people, the shyest of the coastal Indians who left exquisite cave paintings and first used the hot springs that would become notorious. Locals had gone there in number after the completion of Highway 1. Miller reportedly did his laundry in the naturally heated water, and itinerant users included the likes of Aldous Huxley and John Steinbeck. Murphy's passion was eastern religions, and soon after he met Richard Price, a psychology student at Stanford in a meditation class in, the two of them created Esalena.
To be community where no one religion or philosophy was be favored over another, it evolved into a medley of Eastern and Western traditions aimed at transcendent "human potentialities" written about by Huxley. Esalen had an enormous influence on what became the "California lifestyle" and it would flow eastward across the American continent, and beyond. The hot springs were essential to that notion. In the early days, Esalen was open to anyone for a pittance, "and it was free to good-looking women," says Mary Lu Torens, who has lived in Big Sur for 30 years. She remembers when the purpose of the springs was high-minded, based upon the belief of the Esalen Indians that "you went there to heal."
The old concrete bathhouse was divided between men's and women's sides, and everyone was nude. "We all bathed together, but if women wanted to bath without men they could go to the other side. There were two big communal tubs, and two old single, bear-claw ones." Scented tapers were placed on top of pillars at night to counter the odor of sulfur. "I can still smell those lovely candles."
In those days, "no one talked in the baths. You looked out at the ocean, or up at the hills. There weren't many cars in road yet. No negative thoughts were allowed in the baths, and they weren't for partying." That came soon enough, however, along with an ever-increasing presence of drugs, and sex. Eventually Murphy and Price, accompanied by the folk singer, Joan Baez, and some others, walked down to the baths with Dobermans on leashes and dispersed an orgiastic group from San Francisco.
This signaled a change at Esalen. Control was imposed on users, and prices began to climb. Imported psychiatrists, psychotherapists, proponents of Rolfing and various meditative and massage techniques, psychologists – traditional and pop - physicists, and lecturers of all sorts moved Esalen further into the academic and therapeutic fields.
Co-founder Price was killed in 1985 by a falling boulder, after hiking up the springs' origin, what some in Big Sur saw as a karmic event. Money became an issue as never before in 1998, when the rains of El Nino started a mudslide that took away most of the old bathhouse. Replacement cost $25-million and included hillside stabilization and an earth-quake proof foundation. Etched glass doors now admitted spa-goers, and a separate room was devoted to serious massaging by fully clothed professionals. Less than half the bathers were nude, the choice of swim suits and suntan lotion was strictly up-scale. Locals still had access to the baths for $20 – but only between the hours of 1 and 3 a.m.
"The pettiness of the day-to-day operation is annoying," said one Big Sur resident, but Mary Lu Torens pointed out that "many people over the years have had that box inside them unlocked at Esalen. It has done a lot of good."
The sprawling "campus" had an established feel, with lawn running to the cliff's edge, an enormous, carefully maintained vegetable garden, and structures well integrated into the land. Daily guests paid $50 just to stroll around. A mixture of the mostly middle-aged attend one of an impressive array of workshops - Harmonic Presence: Primordial Wisdom and the Music of the Spheres; Moving Meditation Practice: Inspiration, Vision, Ecstasy; Sex, Love and Intimacy: For individuals and Couples, and many more – after paying $150 for a minimum of two days, plus $605 for basic accommodations and meals.
A total of 17,000 people visit annually, most of them "students." The dining hall was crowded at noon; dress was casual. The director, Gordon Wheeler, appeared on the deck in jeans and a flannel shirt. He was a clinical psychologist brought from Harvard in 1999 to run Esalen, with swept-back hair and a scrim of goatee. Michael Murphy had turned 78 and, Wheeler said, "We're all in founder transition." Part of that was Esalen's subtle shift in message. "We've always been about personal and social transformation. What's new is our focus: the personal and the social can't be separated." That meant workshops such as Sustainable Eating for the Planet, and Building Sustainable Leadership for Justice, and a heightened awareness that "the world's in tough shape. We have to step up, locally as well as globally."
Asked about Big Sur, Wheeler said, "it's the land of the individualist, and legendary because of that," adding, "It's outlaw country."
Tomorrow: Part Two - Fire
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