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Seems at least one former American President may have been a Bigfoot believer. Former President Theodore Roosevelt even wrote about Bigfoot and a possible sighting in his 1893 book "The Wilderness Hunter". Roosevelt himself did not actually come across Bigfoot but he recants a tale told to him by a fur trapper named Bauman. The president relived the tale and was so taken by it that it seemed to have make him a believer in the legendary cryptid. Here is the actual story of the event as told by Mr. Roosevelt in his book. Maybe this Theodore Roosevelt Bigfoot story can make you a believer too if you already aren't. Enjoy !
The event occurred near the Salmon River in Idaho where Bauman and his partner had decided to move from the place where they were trapping to a very wild and lonely pass in hopes of having better luck there. The two were a bit uneasy about trapping at the pass, however, since they'd heard a report that the half-eaten remains of a hunter had been found there a year before. But they concluded that there was plenty of game to be found there, and set up camp anyway.
After heading upstream and returning to camp later, the trappers were surprised t to find that something had ransacked their camp. Of course they assumed it was a bear and began tidying everything back up. However, Bauman's companion later examined the footprints the supposed bear had left, remarking that the creature had been walking on two legs. They investigated them further, pondering over whether or not the creature had actually been a human. They came to the conclusion that it was not, and tried to go to sleep for the night.
Late that night, Bauman was awakened by a noise and the strong smell of a wild beast. He saw a creature lurking in the shadows and fired at it, causing it to flee back into the woods. They didn't sleep well after the event, but left camp again the next morning to check their traps.
When they returned, their camp had again been destroyed by something. The creature left footprints again, and the men were certain it had to be walking on two legs after examining them once more. That night they heard the creature rustling in the woods surrounding their campsite, and even heard it let out a sinister-sounding, drawn-out moan. However, it never came near the camp (perhaps being wary of the men's fire). After this event, the men decided to leave the next afternoon.
After getting the sensation that they were being followed while they checked their traps for the last time, the uneasy men returned to camp. There were still three traps to go nearby, and Bauman volunteered to go gather them up. When he returned to camp, he didn't see his companion. Instead, he found his still-warm body lying beside a nearby tree. His neck had been broken, and there were four fang marks on the throat. Bauman again spotted the two-legged creature's footprints near the body.
And so ends the tale told to Theodore Roosevelt of a creature that sounds remarkably like a Bigfoot, Skunk Ape, Sasquatch, or whatever you like to call the mysterious bipedal humanoids that might lurk in our forests.


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The city — sliced, diced and served with a dash of sauce
Be counted and get a discount
In the race to grab even a sliver of the poll-action pie, many restaurants and shops have announced discounts for customers who show their inked fingers after election day.
A non-governmental organisation, Saarthi Foundation (saarthifoundation.co.in), has tied up with 50 outlets to offer a discount of 5 per cent to 15 per cent to customers showing their polling-inked finger, on April 25.
Then there are eating joints which have advertised and have been featured in the news. There are so many such offers that we think it just makes sense to ask at any establishment you visit, "Are you giving a discount to those who vote?" Who knows, you may get lucky!
Bride is getting the dot before tying the knot
Mumbai's election day, April 24, also happens to be Bharti Kapoor's wedding day. And the Chembur resident will make sure that she casts her vote before she ties the knot.
Bharti Kapoor, complete with mehendi on her hands, holds her wedding card. Pic/Atul Kamble
"The wedding was planned in September and we had no idea that the polls would coincide with the date," reveals Kapoor. She had her haldi ceremony yesterday, and she should actually not step out of doors as per custom — but the 26-year-old will set aside traditional strictures and go to the booth to vote.
Kapoor says, "There is a puja at home at 10 am, so I will go before that to vote. In my view casting your vote is a very important duty and I will not miss it. My family too has been very busy with the preparations, but all of them will also be voting before the ceremony at 7pm."
'Pawar failure'
Sharad Pawar's no-show at the joint Congress-Nationalist Congress Party rally on Sunday became the headline, practically eclipsing the main event. His disinclination to share the dais with Rahul Gandhi was a talking point in the Congress and NCP too.
Party spokespersons echoed the official line that the leader could not land in time on returning from Mahad, due to a technical snag. But, interestingly, during a series of interviews he gave on Monday to various newspapers, Pawar said that since Sonia Gandhi did not attend, he chose to skip the rally.
It was primarily a Congress event, he added, though his party candidate Sanjay Dina Patil from Mumbai North-East was present along with two ministers from his party.
Then, it was red-face time for spokespersons on Tuesday, when the media asked how Pawar had not balked at spelling out the reasons for his no-show. One of the NCP leaders even said, "Our boss has let us down."
Floral laurels
At a time when there are more brickbats than bouquets flying around thanks to the charged atmosphere as Mumbai goes to the polls today, it was a welcome 'saying it with flowers' at Prabhadevi yesterday.
Participant Radhika Shah with her design on the theme of accountancy. Pics/Shadab Khan
The Institute of Floral Design held its graduation ceremony at the Ravindra Natya Mandir where students passing the nine-month course displayed their work. Topics and themes as prosaic as accountancy and dog training got a floral touch.
Director Seema Jhaveri
Said student Heena Doshi, whose dog training design featured a kennel and a bone, "My topic was challenging and unconventional but these themes prove that flowers can be used aesthetically for practically anything." Heena put the wow into the bow.
Institute director Seema Jhaveri said, "Our three branches in Mumbai aim to bring floral education into the country. This time, our theme was 'professions' and that is why you see designs for accountant, sailor and even undertaker.
Flowers bring beauty and most importantly, in a violent, tumultuous world, there is also a sense of serenity when doing flower arrangements." The Institute holds advanced courses, and students can go ahead and make careers as professional florists or go work with event management teams.
Contributed by: Ravikiran Deshmukh, Sujit Mahamulkar, Hemal Ashar, Maleeva Rebello, Vidya Heble

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Flights, Hotels, etc
This page provides basic information on traveling to the field school, including airlines, insurance, languages, and more. An extensive checklist is provided to enrolled students.
Note that for the field school, all in-country expenses are included (hotel, meals, transportation, insurance).
However if you chose to stay longer or explore the region, you might find useful this information on hotels, visas, etc.
Students will be insured by HTH Worldwide as part of the program in Rwanda. The cost is included in the program fee. Click here for further info on insurance coverage during faculty-lead Study Abroad programs.
Additional insurance is optional and can be purchased through travel agents. This kind of additional insurance often covers baggage loss/delay, trip cancellation, and additional medical evacuation.
Travel Agents in the US we like
STA Travel 1-800-495-5832
Tatum International 1-800-628-5722
Baobab Expeditions 1-516-622-2279
Travel Agencies (from US Embassy in Rwanda)
Travel Agents and Hotels in Rwanda (from ORTPN- Rwandan Park Service)
Flights to Rwanda from the US range from ~$2,000 (from the East coast) to ~$2,600 (from the West coast).
Following are some travel routes and airlines to Kigali. You have the option of stopping along the way, stay a while and explore, then continue.
Phoenix - London - Brussels - Nairobi- Kigali (British Air, Brussels Air)
Tucson-Houston-Frankfurt-Adis Ababa-Entebbe-Kigali (Continental, Lufthansa)
Tucson-Dallas-Frankfurt-Adis Ababa-Kigali (USAir, Lufthansa, Ethiopian Air)
Phoenix-WashingtonDC-Johannesburg-Entebbe-Kigali (South African Airways)
Phoenix-New York JFK-Johannesburg-Entebbe-Kigali (South African Airways)
- The best time to find cheap seats is Tuesdays 3pm
- Shop for 1 person then buy for more together 4 (eg if you are looking for seats for 4 but 3 cheap seats available, then you pay the high price for all 4, instead of 3 cheap and 1 expensive, as a separate transaction/reservation)
Hotels- Kigali
Hotel Chez Lando- $65-100 good food, internet, our favorite place to stay
Hotel des Mille Collines - ~$300 we know it very well, historically significant, good central location, internet, exercise room and pool
Umubano Hotel- $135-200 very pleasant grounds with pool, tennis courts, exercise/weight room and spa facility; often used by locals as a weekend club (daily fee)
Hotel Gorilla- $110 good price, good reviews, good location in town, good food (internet?), no personal experience here
Magnolia B&B $75 no personal experience here
Hotels- Ruhengeri
Fatima Hotel- $35 clean and cheap; convenient location; internet
Hotel Muhabura- $45 well-known local hang-out/meeting location, very basic, not very clean, best fish & frites (fish & chips) in Rwanda, good location near Park office and Karisoke Research Center office
Gorilla's Nest - $300 all meals and drinks included, stunning location near Volcanoes National park making it easy to access gorillas
Ishema Hotel (Anglican mission) $80, no personal experience here
Hotels- Akagera
Akagera Game Lodge- $150 baboons everywhere
Hotels- Butare
Hotel du Mont Huye- $? lowish, in Butare, clean
Hotel Ibis- $160 ok, know it well but never liked it
Hotel Credo $75
Travel Agents and Hotels in Rwanda (from ORTPN)
Accommodations with prices (from US Embassy in Rwanda)
Travel Clinic
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In Rwanda
In Kigali, King Faisal Hospital is a private facility that offers 24-hour assistance with physicians and nurses on duty in the emergency room. King Faisal Hospital at (250 country code) 078 830 9003
The U.S. Embassy maintains a current list of healthcare providers and facilities in Rwanda on its website.
- If you enter a country and remain "in transit" in the airport, then you do not need a visa. However, if you stop-over and need to stay the night, you will need a transit visa.
- take 2 passport size photos just in case you need quick visas
Listed below are countries exempted from Visa to Rwanda for visits up to 90 days:
- Hong Kong
- Philippines
- Mauritius
- Singapore
- Democratic Republic of Congo
Listed below are countries who can be issued an entry visa ($30) upon arrival without prior application (valid for 30 days):
- United States of America
- United Kingdom
- Sweden
- Republic of South Africa
- New Zealand
- Israel
- Germany
- Australia
Visas (Rwandan Embassy in Washington DC)
Information (Rwandan Embassy in Kigali)
US Embassy in Rwanda
2657 Avenue de la Gendarmerie
mailing address is B.P. 28, Kigali, Rwanda
tel. [250] (252) 596-400; fax: [250] (252) 596-591
American Citizens Services hours are Tuesdays from 09:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Fridays from 09:00 a.m. until noon, except for U.S. and Rwandan holidays. For after-hours emergencies, please call [250] (078)830-0345.
Flights may take you through Ethiopia. You can remain in transit, or take a few days to explore.
Information for Travelers (Ethiopian Embassy in Addis Ababa)
Visas (Ethiopian Embassy in Washington DC)
U.S. citizens may also obtain up-to-date information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 from the United States and Canada, or 202-501-4444 from overseas.
Dept of State Official Rates for Rwanda per diem rates
Rwandans speak French, English, Kinyarwandan, and some Swahili
You can learn some basic conversational Kinyarwandan, Swahili and French through an audio course from your public library or online tutorials.
If you are traveling through other countries, it is worth getting other audio courses as well
Kinyarwandan phrases and lessons
- Murakoze (cyane) - Thank you (very much)
- Oya - No
- Yego -Yes (sometimes just eh)
- Tugende! - Lets go!
- Nta kibazo - No problem Sawa -
- Okay (Sw.)
- Urakire - Get better or rich (said when someone sneezes)
- Twese - All of us (expected response to urakire)


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October 3, 2011Doug Hadden
Doug Hadden, VP Products
IT cartels, IT innovation, and "metamovements." What do these have in common? What does it have to do with Government information technology?
Strategic Inflection Point
I believe that this represents a "strategic inflection point" for Government IT. The same kind of strategic inflection point described by Andrew Grove when Chairman of the Board for Intel:
They represent, in my description of it, what happens to a business when a major change takes place in its competitive environment. A major change due to introduction of new technologies. A major change due to the introduction of a different regulatory environment. The major change can be simply a change in the customers' values, a change in what customers prefer. … But what is common to all of them and what is key is that they require a fundamental change in business strategy, and that's almost a definition of a Strategic Inflection Point. A Strategic Inflection Point is that which causes you to make a fundamental change in business strategy. Nothing less is sufficient.
This is a strategic inflection point for the way that governments manage information technology and the way in which software vendors support governments.
This "double dip" strategic inflection point is driven by:
- Innovation Necessity: Budget constraints at a time of citizens demanding improved government performance and transparency at lower cost.
- Value, Risk and Innovation Paradigm: Traditional methods to understand value have become obsolete in the age of social media.
- Digital Darwinism: IT agility challenges incumbent Government IT providers.
1. Innovation Necessity
John Suffolk, the former UK Government CIO, suggested that governments should not waste a good financial crisis. It's not just about finding innovative ways to reduce IT costs. This crisis has seen the rise of what Umair Haque, Director of the Havas Media Lab and founder of Bubblegeneration, calls the Metamovement:
The Metamovement is a movement of movements. Not all these movements are similar; no two are exactly like; each can be readily distinguished from the next. The Arab Spring is part of the Metamovement; the London Riots were part of the Metamovement; protests spreading across America, under the banner of Occupy Wall St, are all part of the Metamovement.
The Metamovement questions institutions. It demands a change in the status quo of how governments interact with citizens. This has a huge impact on policy and regulation. This is manifested in a demand for improved transparency through Government IT.
As Alex Howard of O'Reilly Radar has pointed out, recent cut-backs in the United States does not mean the death of open government.
Takeaway for Government IT: the government performance and transparency demand is a cornerstone of the Metamovement. Initiatives like the Open Government Partnership is likely the "end of the beginning" for open government data. IT information silos, proprietary technology and focus on IT "control" in government inhibit the ability for countries to respond effectively to citizen demands.
2. Value, Risk and Innovation Paradigm
Government IT decisions tend to be risk-adverse. Small steps are taken, primarily with incumbent software vendors. Yet, this can create an environment that limits innovation and cost savings through what former American Federal Government CIO Vivek Kundra calls "IT Cartels." This can result in attempting to find cost-savings through legacy technology"economies of scale" when modern technology can generate technology can generate more agility while reducing costs and aligning performance with budgets.
As Harvard professor Clayton Christiensen has written, there are significant the differences between disruptive innovation and sustaining innovation. Successful leaders in any category, such as incumbent IT providers, are unlikely to challenge the status quo through disruptive innovation because it disrupts business models.
This fact is addressed in Geoffrey Moore's new book, Escape Velocity: Free Your Company's Future from the Pull of the Past. Moore, who developed the Crossing the Chasm technology analysis, addresses this lack of innovation among incumbents. As Mark McDonald of the Gartner Group summarizes:
Moore's central premise in this well written, actionable and highly recommended book, is that companies have a structural bias for investing in things today that cause it to starve out the new products and services that will generate growth in the next 2 -3 years.
My sense is that this "starving out" reflects Government IT and incumbent vendor approaches to innovation.
Takeaway for Government IT: there needs to be a new approach to risk & results in increasingly transparent world. The Metamovement does not demand tweaking. It does not want a 10% improvement. Traditional approaches to risk in Government IT have become increasingly risky because it is almost certain that these approaches will not result in what citizens want.
3. Digital Darwinism
Brian Solis of Altimeter Group observes the change in the IT landscape. As he says in a blog entry promoting his upcoming book Digital Darwinism:
The reality is that we live and compete in a perpetual era of Digital Darwinism, the evolution of consumer behavior when society and technology evolve faster than our ability to adapt.
Nothing today is too big to fail nor too small to succeed. Disruption not only faces every business, its effects are already spreading through customer markets and the channels that influence decisions and behavior. What works against you also works for you. And, it is what you do now that defines your ability to compete for today and the future. You already recognize the importance technology plays in your business. That's why you're here. But recognizing the difference between emerging and disruptive technology and measuring its impact on your business, customer relationships, and products is a necessary discipline to successfully evolve.
Solis also connects the Metamovement with this change in IT in video trailer.
Kay Plantes from the Plantes Company describes some of the fundamental ways that the information age has transformed the economy. She describes the movement from closed to open markets where "there was protection for leaders and leading products." Plantes observes:
In this world, the old strategies of protecting positions through cost cutting, innovating products, branding and marketing just don't cut it anymore.
Citizens are looking for what Ray Wang, founder and CEO of Constellation Research, calls the "consumerization of IT." Wang points out that the CIO focus on safe and secure IT limits organizational effectiveness.
For the next generation of knowledge workers, entering the workplace often feels like entering a computer science museum
Takeaway for Government IT: There are significant limits to innovation among many Government IT providers. Make no mistake, governments will innovate the relationship with citizens. The key is that Information Technology should enable these changes. Old models, legacy technology can ensure that 'big' will fail.
Doug Hadden
Latest posts by Doug Hadden (see all)
- Leadership and Government Digital Transformation - February 22, 2018
- Technology Foundation for Digital Transformation - February 16, 2018
- Government Digital Transformation: From Systems of Record to Systems of Innovation - February 14, 2018
- How Can GovTech Close the Governance Gap? - January 29, 2018


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It only took eleven years.
I'm halfway through my first full week in Arizona, the place so many mostly retired Americans go in the winter to escape the cold at their northern latitude homes. With my second winter season in a warmer climate now under way, I think it's safe to say that I'm officially a snowbird.
I also realized that I've been doing some form of snowbirding for the past eleven years now, although I didn't do it the usual way.
And I think I prefer it the way I do it now.
He's the scoop. Be advised: this blog post includes the airing of some dirty laundry, which, unfortunately, is an integral part of the story and explains what took me so long to get here.
The Reverse Snowbird
For the eight or so years leading up to my eventual divorce and move to Washington state, I was a sort of reverse snowbird. Instead of migrating south for the winter, I migrated north for the summer.
2004 was the first year I did this. That's when I got a job as a seasonal tour pilot at the Grand Canyon. A week in the significantly cooler Grand Canyon area followed by a week at home in Wickenburg. It was a busy summer. I was just another tour pilot at the Canyon, flying over "the big ditch" up to 13 times a day, but in my home office, I cranked out the fifth (or sixth?) edition of my best-selling Quicken Official Guide and got started on an Excel book. When I wasn't home, I dealt with the relative discomfort of life in a horse trailer's cramped living quarters, parked on 40 acres of property I owned with my future wasband five miles from pavement. I'd leave at 6 AM to get to work by 6:45. And yes, sometimes I did fly to work; I had a R22 parked beside my Jeep at the trailer. That's the summer I decided to "go for broke" on my struggling helicopter charter business and order an R44.
In 2005, I had a brand new R44 helicopter but virtually no summer flying work. (Seriously: who wants to fly when it's 110°F out?) When the Quicken book revision was done at the end of June, I headed back to the northern Arizona property with my horse trailer and horses. In a compromise with my future wasband, we'd had a prefabricated custom wooden shed delivered to the property. While he worked at one of the many jobs he bounced between in the Phoenix area, I spent all of July at the "cabin," fitting its walls with hard foam insulation and building an interior wall to divide the main room from the future bathroom. On weekends, my future wasband would join me, handling tasks I couldn't do then (but can certainly do now): wiring, plumbing, cutting lumber, fitting large sheets of T111 (think plywood paneling) on walls and ceilings. Together, we turned that shed into a very cozy four-season escape in a place where the Grand Canyon was our local park. But when the work was done, it was still too hot to hang out at home. So I hopped into my 2003 Honda S2000 (which I still own), and headed out on a 19-day road trip by myself to explore points north. I visited places (and friends) in Arizona, Nevada, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah, getting a real feel for a lot of the off-the-beaten-path places. I came back with a lead on a hangar home in Cascade, ID — perfect for a summer home — and even flew my future wasband up there with me to see it after I got home. (What a waste of time and money that was.)
In 2006, I made the mistake of marrying the man who would, six years later, leave me for a desperate old whore he met online. (Yes, I do realize now that the marriage was his attempt to "lock in" on the considerable financial, real estate, and business asset investments I'd been making since I had my first best-seller in 1998. But back then, I couldn't imagine anyone I loved plotting to use family law to try to screw me over. Silly me.) I had some surgery in May and then went on a road trip with my wasband in that Honda to Napa Valley. That trip, which was the closest I'd get to a honeymoon, was probably the last fun trip we took together. Then it was back home to Wickenburg for the summer, with occasional trips to the cabin. That was also the first summer I heard about cherry drying, but my contact couldn't guarantee me any work and I wasn't willing to take the helicopter to Washington without some sort of guarantee of revenue.
In 2007, I worked on books, including that Quicken book again. Cherry drying was an option but again, without a guarantee of work, I wasn't prepared to go north. But I was prepping for a seasonal lifestyle. Financially and mentally, I was ready for it. My wasband promised to join me on the road during the summer when he turned 55. In 2007, he was 51. My goal was to have enough work lined up by the time he was ready to join me to support both of us, so we could work together in the summer. Then we'd return to Arizona in the winter and he could do what he wanted to do — he'd talked about a bike shop, solar power consulting, being a flight instructor, and a few other things that interested him. Since we'd also need a place to live on the road, bought my first RV, a hybrid pull trailer that turned out to be a less than satisfactory choice. We used it at a rides event in Kingman, AZ and may have taken it on one or two other trips. In the meantime, he started learning how to fly helicopters so he wouldn't be stuck driving the trailer all the time; when we traveled, he could reposition the helicopter and I could do the commercial flying at destinations. That was the plan. (Or at least I thought it was.)
In 2008, everything changed. My wasband bought a condo in Phoenix, closer to his job, where he began living four or five days a week. My office was in our Wickenburg home and due to the amount of computer equipment I needed to write, I stayed there with it. Between my wasband's weekday life in Phoenix and his numerous trips to the New York area to visit his family, I didn't spend much time with him at all. And then I got a contract for seven weeks of cherry drying work in Washington state. I left in June, making two trips to get the helicopter and RV up there by myself. I worked on my Quicken book in the trailer. My wasband joined me for a week in July. We stayed at a lakeside motel with the helicopter parked on the lawn and toured a lot of central Washington while I waited for a call out. Then he went home and I finished the season alone, making two trips to get the helicopter and RV back by myself.
Life fell into a routine from that point on, with me becoming a sort of reverse snowbird. I'd live in Wickenburg from September through May, mostly by myself, while my wasband lived in his Phoenix condo with a roommate and spent just about all of his vacation time visiting family in New York. Because his roommate was openly hostile toward me and I was still writing several books a year, I didn't visit very often. In early June through August, I'd head to Washington alone — making two trips each way every year — for cherry drying work. I was building up a good client base, extending my season, and my flying business was finally making a decent profit. I even added winery tours and a profitable annual rides gig. In early 2010, I replaced the pull trailer with a very large and comfortable fifth wheel trailer — again, with the goal of living on the road every summer with my wasband. But in 2011, when he turned 55 and was in yet another dead-end job, he said he "wasn't ready" to join me on the road. (It wasn't until much later that I realized he never intended to join me, that it was just another empty promise.) That winter, I lived with him in his dark and dreary Phoenix condo, even moving my office there when he finally kicked his roommate out. Silly me: I was trying to bring us closer together. I even went to the marriage counsellor he wanted us to see.
I had my hopes up in the spring of 2012 — my fifth cherry drying season — when my wasband got what looked like might be his "dream job." He said he could work from anywhere and that he'd join me in Washington for the summer. Finally! I began prepping the RV for his arrival with our dog. But then he called me on my birthday in June to tell me he wanted a divorce. He wanted to stay friends, he told me, as he was secretly giving my investment statements and tax returns to a lawyer to estimate his take.
What followed was the beginning of four years of insanity, with him calling friends and family members to tell them that he still loved me, changing the locks on my house and hangar, trying to lay claim to half of everything I owned, harassing me at home, sending a private investigator to spy on my future neighbors in Washington, lying and making absurd statements under oath in court, making false accusations about me trashing the house, claiming I'd hid property and money from the court, losing in the divorce decision, appealing the divorce decision, putting the house on the market without informing me or getting approval from the court, hacking into one of my old investment accounts, losing the appeal, begging the appeal judges to reconsider, and then doing everything he could to delay paying me what he owed me for the Wickenburg house that he wanted and got in the divorce. Along the way, he went through three lawyers — one of whom he neglected to pay who then put a lien on the house — drove a court-appointed Realtor and a title company person nuts, and sent me a ridiculous email threatening me with legal action that I knew would fail.
In the span of four years, he made so many often comical errors in strategy and judgement that I find it hard to believe I could ever love someone so unimaginably stupid.
Yeah, there's definitely enough material for a book.
Anyway, the winter of 2012/2013 was the last one I spent in my Wickenburg home. When I didn't have house guests, I was alone — at least while I was there; I traveled a lot that winter — but it really didn't feel that different. After all, I'd been living mostly alone there since my wasband bought his condo in 2008. I spent the winter packing my belongings and discarding the things I didn't want, waiting for the divorce trial. When the court stuff was done at the end of May 2013, I left my Wickenburg home for what I thought would be the last time, and headed north.
Real Snowbirding
The day after the divorce decree came down from the judge and I was finally free, I bought 10 acres of land in Malaga, WA, at the heart of the area where I did my cherry drying work. Over the following two years, I designed and built a home there and moved in. Ironically, my new home has all the features my wasband would have liked, from the wrap around deck with endless views to the huge garage and shop area to the limitless space for gardening. It's perfect for me and I don't need (or really want) to share it with anyone.
And the weather? No, it doesn't rain all the time like it does in Seattle. Malaga (and the nearby "big city" of Wenatchee) is on the dry side of the Cascades. Annual rainfall is less than 10 inches. The weather is very similar to Prescott or Flagstaff, AZ: dry, but with four seasons. Warm and dry in the summer, sometimes reaching the low 100s for a few days with low humidity. Cold with snow in the winter, sometimes dipping into the teens at night for a few days but usually warming to the 30s or 40s during the day.
Summer is perfect, as far as I'm concerned. And that's when I do my work there. But winter? Sure, my home is cozy and warm and the views out to the valley can be magnificent when the snow falls and the sky clears just enough to offer glimpses of brilliant blue between the clouds. But the days are short and sunlight is limited. It gets cold in December and January. And 15 years of living in Arizona taught me one thing: I like sun and warmth in the winter.
Late winter is not an issue. In 2013, I began doing frost work with the helicopter in central California. So I'd head south with the helicopter and RV — remember that big fifth wheel? — in late February and could stay until late April.
But early winter? The way I saw it, the winter's "dark days" were during December and January. That's when I really needed to head south.
It took a few years, but I finally got a routine figured out.
In January 2015, when my home was partially built, I accepted an invitation to house/dog sit for a friend in Wickenburg. That gave me an excuse to head south for two weeks in the coldest part of winter. I stayed in my friends' comfortable guest house with my dog Penny and cared for two very large golden retrievers.
Much later that same year, as the days shortened and the air chilled, I realized that I had exactly what I needed to be a real snowbird: that big fifth wheel. Although my home was done and I was moved in, the short days were getting me down. After my annual Christmas cross-country ski trip to the Methow Valley, I packed up my rig and headed south to join some friends camped along the Colorado River south of I-10. The trip itself was a bit of an adventure — requiring me to buy a new truck along the way — but my first full-time snowbirding season was a real win. You can read about it starting here.
I spent all of January and half of February in Arizona, in my fifth wheel and in my friends' Wickenburg guest house. Then I moved my helicopter to the Sacramento area for frost season and made my way there with my fifth wheel by way of Valley of Fire and Death Valley. Because of engine problems, my truck and RV never quite made it to Sacramento, though — at least not in February. While the truck's engine was replaced with a new one (under warranty, fortunately) in California, I returned home in March, prepared to fly down to Sacramento when called out. In April, I made the two trips to get the truck with RV and helicopter home.
That was last year. This year, I've made some equipment changes, got a reliable house sitter, and set out early on my snowbirding trip.
The big fifth wheel is gone, replaced with a slide in truck camper, the Turtleback. I'm absolutely loving the flexibility this new rig offers; learn more here. I left home the day before Thanksgiving and, after stopping at a Yakima Lance camper dealer to get a part replaced on the Turtleback's huge sunroof, took a leisurely drive south on back roads through Oregon and Nevada. Another stop for two shows in Las Vegas and then more leisurely travel to my eventual destination: more house/dog sitting for my Wickenburg friends.
And that's where I am now: sitting in their poolside guest house with a fresh cup of coffee beside me and three dogs snoozing after their breakfast. At 8 AM, a new friend will come by with her dogs and we'll go for our twice-daily mile-long walk in the wash out behind the house. I've visited my disassembled helicopter in Chandler, seen numerous friends in the area, and even got an invitation to a pilot party on Saturday where a lot of people will be very surprised to see me.
This is only a stopping point, though. When my friends return later this month, I'm not quite sure what I'll do. They've already told me I can stay as long as I want, but I'm thinking about a trip to Tucson and Tubac, which I haven't been to in some time. And another friend was recently at White Sands in New Mexico — how far is that? Can I take a few days to visit? I've never been there. I'm already booked for New Years Eve at La Posada in Winslow and have a chore to attend to on the Hopi Reservation near there. And I'm definitely going to spend a good part of January along the Colorado River with my friends; I bought a new fishing pole just the other day and my kayak is ready to be offloaded when I reach our campsite. After that? Who knows?
All I know is this: my helicopter needs to be in the Sacramento area by the third week in February. So eventually I'll be there. There's a campground nearby on Puntah Creek where I look forward to paddling in again. And lots of wineries to explore in the nearby Napa and Sonoma Valleys. And the California coast. And San Francisco. I really do love late winter in central California.
The lack of definite plans doesn't bother me one bit. I like making things up as I go along. And if you ask me, that's the best part of being single: being able to make decisions for yourself without having to consult or rely on what someone else tells you they want or plan to do. I don't have to worry about anyone letting me down again.
And when the winter is over, I'll go home. That's what snowbirds do.
How ironic: the lifestyle I planned for all those years ago with my wasband is basically the lifestyle I have now without him. And I'm loving it even more than I thought I would.


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Get into the holiday spirit by watching this week's "Greater Somerville Christmas Special." Hosts Joe Lynch and KyAnn Anderson and the studio staff at SCATV were treated to their own private concert Tuesday night when "Reaching for the Stars" talent competition winner, Lilly Testa, appeared and wowed them with some holiday tune favorites.
Testa also performed melodies she incorporates into her frequent local club appearances with her piano accompanyist, Bobby Gadoury.
Watch it here or go to greatersomerville.wordpress.com. The special holiday episode of Greater Somerville will air on SCATV, channel 2 in Somerville, throughout the holiday season.


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Wool: The Graphic Novel
Very interesting. I'd like to see the adaptation but I also don't want to ruin my mind's image of the setting and characters.
Ridley Scott? Are you making the movie yet? So much material to work with. Amazing series. Hugh you are awesome. Sand was great also. Veeery different, but great nonetheless.
Agree with greg - the cover alone is changing my mind's eye's view of outside the silo...
In the end, I was disappointed in this series. It was a fascinating situation, and I liked the first book, but the more he tried to fill in the back story, to the extent it was not murky it was simply not credible. He probably should have left the situation largely unexplained and just dealt with it as is.
Too bad. Given how he got there, I was rooting for him but the series just didn't do it for me.
Am I the only one getting this message from Amazon.com:
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If you aren't already familiar with Dr. Ben Carson and you live in the USA then chances are that in the next couple of years you will be. His life story and rise to prominent humanitarian success has been the subject of a movie (entitled "Gifted Hands" and starring Cuba Gooding Jr.) and he has written several best-selling books, of which "America the Beautiful" is the latest.
Since the release of "America the Beautiful" Dr. Carson has gained popularity as a practical, intelligent and compassionate voice calling for the American people to rediscover what made our nation great. He is seen in many circles as a modern day patriot who even as a registered Independent maintains conservative, Godly principles of government and management. For this reason and others, he has recently been approached by more than one group who wishes him to run for President in 2016.
While he himself has not acknowledged any plans to enter the presidential race as of yet, after reading "America the Beautiful" it is my wish that Dr. Carson be a candidate. He has a clear understanding of how our nation was formed, how we rose to prominence in the world and that we must return to honoring God for our success if we are to continue to survive.
"America the Beautiful" begins with a look back at our nation's history and its key players and events. This was truly my favorite part of the book because I am a fan of history and because Dr. Carson provides plenty of evidence to support the fact that our founding fathers truly wanted "one nation under God". From George Washington to Ben Franklin to Thomas Jefferson, every single one of them at some point publicly acknowledged the role of the sovereign God in their lives and in the formation of this country.
Our nation was founded on "in God we Trust" and the basic ideas that government should not interfere in the lives and freedoms of its people but rather uphold and protect "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" equally for all. When we remember and practice these tenants, we thrive. When we forget and personal liberty is trampled we stumble and fall.
Dr. Carson then goes on to show how our nation has had its fair share of mistakes (slavery, the Civil War, the treatment of Native Americans and Japanese during WWII, civil rights) but also how we have learned from those mistakes. He contrasts those periods in our nation's history with the period we find ourselves in now where there is much uncertainty about our nation's role in the world and the vast split in political ideology that seems to have occurred.
Dr. Carson is hopeful that with the intelligence and potential that the American people possess we can find the answers to the problems that we face. Dr. Carson calls for the involvement of the best and the brightest in the process of government as well as a return to a government that is "of the people, for the people and by the people". In other words, we need real human beings from all walks of life involved in our political system in order for it to function properly and not just those who wish to be career politicians. In this, I agree wholeheartedly with Dr. Carson.
Towards the end of the book Dr. Carson discusses some of the bigger problems facing our nation at this juncture and the Affordable Care Act is one of those topics. Being a surgeon and well respected doctor, Dr. Carson's ideas and suggestions in this area carry a lot of weight in my mind. Dr. Carson is a brilliant man who has real experience working in the medical field and he seems to have an excellent grasp on what is needed to truly provide adequate healthcare for our populace while not bankrupting us in the process.
While the Affordable Care Act is not the only notable topic that Dr. Carson discusses in the latter parts of his book, it is perhaps the most timely. I think what he has to say about this and about the direction our country is headed in is important enough that I would recommend "America the Beautiful" to anyone who wanted to read it.
"America the Beautiful" may not be the most fun or exciting book that I've read lately but it just might be one of the most important. I pray that God is already working to provide the right leader for our country in 2016 and that we as a nation remember to honor and acknowledge God in all of our ways. Dr. Ben Carson might just be exactly what we need and if you read "America the Beautiful: Rediscovering What Made This Nation Great" you will hopefully agree with me.
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David Bennett, head coach of the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, believes that his players should be less like cats and more like dogs. Cats get confused about a one-way screen door because they're too busy looking in the mirror, making sure they have the proper amount of sweatbands and making non-stop cat noises. Dogs, inversely, lie somewhere in another part of the house, barking. At least I think that's what this insane asshole is trying to say, watch for yourself.
For a guy who hates cats, he sure is pretending to be a cat a lot.
This video comes to us from Sportress of Blogitude by way of Off The Bench, and I think it might be one of those things everyone should experience despite no one being able to provide context. It's like listening to the last half of your crazy Uncle's story without hearing the beginning. You know there's a cat in the house, and you know there's a dog, and there's a guy named Mel, but he might also be a dog, because … I don't know.
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People are asking me "What is lifestyle design?"
Because of an email I received recently I decided to really dig deeper into what did Lifestyle Design really meant. I found that a lot of people have put their two cents into it. There are hundreds of new blogs every day writing about lifestyle design grrrrr, yea this word again. Myself included have gotten confused about what it means.
So what's LIFESTYLE DESIGN?
If we ask Google, this is the answer we get: Lifestyle Design is the design of one's ideal lifestyle, especially an unconventional one, providing good opportunities for personal growth, leisure and adventure. Detailed methods include: career planning, entrepreneurship and travel.
Corbett Barr says in one of his posts titled "What is lifestyle design?": It's about designing your life instead of letting society design it for you.
Justin Wright says: In a nutshell, lifestyle design is all about creating your own design and plan for life.
Taner Maluchnik explains it this way: Goals are what you want to achieve, whereas lifestyle designs are the experiences that you want to have in life.
Adrian Koh wrote on a guest post for Litemind: Whether you call it lifestyle design, life design, work-life balance, or enlightened self-management, the central idea is this: life should be lived consciously and deliberately, and not left to chance.
But if we go by what Tim Ferriss wrote on his four hour work week book: The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).
Out of all the interpretations that I found, Corbett really broke it down the easiest way. We live in a society that believes we should go to college, get a good job after graduation, get married…etc…etc then retire when you're 65. That's the way life has been designed for us, and that's the ways IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE. Nooooo, not anymore!!!
I understand it has to be tough for you to know what exactly lifestyle design is when there are so many people blogging about it and so many blogs coming out every day talking about how to live "the lifestyle design". If you ask me, there really is not a one-size fits all to the word.
I got introduced to the four hour work week when I read the book. The best way to get familiar with this whole new movement is to connect with people doing the things that Tim suggests in the book, and reading his blog as well. Go through the archives and learn about all the assumptions we're so accustomed to believing, automation, online businesses, outsourcing and all the other 4HWW vocab that might be new to you.
If you think that Lifestyle Design is a scam or some kind of fad, I want to know why. What are your thoughts on LD? Do you think it's here to stay? What do you know about it that we can learn?
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North Carolina Basketball: The Season That Never WasMarch 26, 2012
As the clock trickled down to zero on Sunday evening, 13 points was the difference between Kansas making its 14th Final Four appearance and North Carolina heading back to Chapel Hill for the second straight season amid an Elite Eight loss.
North Carolina entered the year as the heralded preseason No. 1, despite losing their sixth man and best shooter, Leslie McDonald, to an ACL injury earlier in July.
As time would tell, injuries would carry more implications for the Tar Heels this season than anyone could have possibly imagined.
But the season that got away didn't start there. Eyebrows raised just six games into the season when the talent-laden squad fell to an upstart and hungry UNLV team that was playing only three miles from their campus. Questions circulated as to whether this seemingly invincible Carolina team was really all that untouchable.
Immediately following that loss, the summer-long, heavily debated question of who was better between Carolina and Kentucky only increased in popularity.
Then they matched up on Dec. 3, and Kentucky squeaked by with a 73-72 victory despite UNC leading for the majority of the game.
Most Carolina faithful chalked the loss up to UK playing in Lexington, claiming that in Chapel Hill the outcome would have been different.
But as the season progressed, UK became significantly better whereas UNC more or less stayed the same.
Then in January, Dexter Strickland's break-neck speed got the best of him as he collapsed under his buckled knee in transition and was helped to the bench in noticeable agony. The diagnosis: yet another torn ACL.
The team had now lost not only its fastest player and best perimeter defender, but also, and more importantly, its primary backup point guard.
At the time, no one could grasp the gravity of that injury. But a few months down the road, it became impossible to ignore.
Only four games after John Henson suffered a sprained wrist, the nation's top point guard Kendall Marshall fell hard to the floor against Creighton, fracturing his scaphoid bone in his non-shooting wrist and ruling him out for what would be the remainder of the NCAA tournament.
The injury to Henson likely cost UNC an ACC tournament title. But the injuries to Henson and Marshall, coupled with the all-but-forgotten injuries to McDonald and Strickland, caused many to worry that they could cost UNC a national title.
And on Sunday, one could assume that they did. But all those injuries considered, it really does make Sunday's loss somewhat easier to swallow. And it makes going in to next season that much better to look forward to.
From where UNC sits, the Tar Heels no doubt lose the irreplaceable experience and poise that is Tyler Zeller, ACC Player of the Year and a once-in-a-decade kind of player and teammate whose steadfast example will be sorely missed in the locker room and on the court.
UNC is also likely to lose its two other front line starters in Henson and Harrison Barnes.
But Barnes has been on record saying how badly he wants to bring a championship to Chapel Hill—it was the biggest factor in him returning to school last year.
Could the same hold true for this year?
It's unlikely, but I wouldn't put it past him, especially with the poor showing he had all tournament—it's hardly the way he'd want to go out.
Then there's Henson, a player who could very easily win the most improved player award if there was one. He's NBA-ready now, but what's one more year, right?
His return, too, is unlikely. But if Barnes and Henson do return to school, or just one of the two, UNC would likely be the preseason No. 1 team again. Hopefully this time, though, injuries won't stand in the way.
But even if those two do leave, UNC will still boast what would be one of the deepest back courts in NCAA history.
If Kendall Marshall were to return, UNC's back court would be comprised of Kendall Marshall, Dexter Strickland, Leslie McDonald, Reggie Bullock, PJ Hairston and Marcus Paige.
That's a lot of firepower—and the necessary vision to ignite it.
Not to mention if James Michael McAdoo returns too, which all indicators are pointing to a strong likelihood.
UNC's front court, although young and needing some work, will still be in good hands with incoming freshmen Brice Johnson, Joel James and JP Tokoto.
Hopefully Desmond Hubert improves his all-around game this summer because his number will be called next year, and he needs to be ready.
This UNC basketball season never truly took off because the team was never truly at full health.
Would UNC have been the team everyone expected them to be if they were healthy all season? I think so.
And, if healthy, would UNC have won the national title? Well, I'm no bracketologist, but suffice to say "more than likely."
However, none of this was the case and that's the beautiful tragedy that is sports—nothing is guaranteed.
I'm satisfied with an Elite Eight exit, especially with the loss of so many critical components that would be needed for a championship run.
Coach Roy Williams never made excuses, he just demanded more of his team. And they rose to the occasion in what I believe was to the best of their abilities. That's something Carolina fans can hang their hats on going into the offseason.
This long and somewhat crippling season is in the books. We will never know just how far this team could have gone at full strength, but how far it actually came despite the injuries may speak more to its character and resiliency than a national championship ever could.


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We all have the ability to create a thousand little moments of joy and when we look back at the sum of our lives, those moments add up to a beautiful story. Sometimes we need a change to make room for joy. Sometimes we just need permission from ourselves. Are you making room for joy?
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A few years ago, I went on a Birthright trip to Israel, and the evening before my group visited the Holocaust Museum, we were lectured by our tour guide to not drink too much. Apparently the year before, a Jewish bro (a Jro?) got so plastered, he vomited his Manischewitz all over the steps of the museum. That sounds bad, but at least no one got stuck in a vagina.
German emergency services were called to make a safe withdrawal of the student from the marble sculpture of a vulva in the grounds of Tubingen University Institute of Microbiology.
Some 22 firefighters in five emergency vehicles arrived to watch the drama being played out on a public footpath. (Via)
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If you're like me, you woke up this morning, and checked your preload status for Fallout 4, just to make sure you would be ready to go. Next stop? News of course! Today (Monday 11/9/15) is the day that reviewers are allowed to post their impressions of the title.
This weekend I dropped the $120 (2 copies at $60 each) on Fallout 4 this weekend just so I would be pre-loaded. Both my wife and I play, and I have to ashamedly admit, she's going to play it a whole lot more than I will. That doesn't mean I'm not still pumped about it though!
Reading this review on the Verge, which is very positive on the gameplay and the world of Fallout 4, "what Fallout 4 adds to the world is heart", stating that for the first time they cared about their character.
What scared me there was that "the game also features the series' infamous technical problems, with frustrating glitches and bugs that often pull you out of the experience at best, and at worst, lose hard-won progress"
The bugs they point out sound primarily related to NPC's being difficult, characters talking over each other, blocking doors, with one case mentioned of loading a game and not being able to move.
This PC World Review isn't quite as glowing. While the Verge liked that the game had the same feel as Fallout 3, Hayden Dingman from PC World didn't enjoy that part of the game. He goes on to say that the world is huge, but that most of the locations aren't worth exploring, and it can feel pretty monotonous.
One of the new features I'm looking forward to is the crafting. When I saw the system on the E3 release video, I immediately became excited about the idea of customizing the weapons. Dingman doesn't care much for it, and says that he ended up using the same weapons and armor most of the game.
He also points out a number of bugs / glitches, many with the NPCs. I guess that shouldn't come as any surprise, being familiar with the other Fallout Games.


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ACC Championship 2012: Florida State Will Crush Georgia Tech in Huge MismatchNovember 25, 2012
Florida State is heading to the ninth Orange Bowl in school history and there isn't much that Georgia Tech can do to stop them.
The Seminoles and the Yellow Jackets last met in 2009, when Georgia Tech went to Tallahassee and beat Florida State 49-44—but that isn't in the cards this time around.
Even though the Yellow Jackets run the ball as well as any team in the country and can put points on the board in a hurry, they struggle to score against top-flight defenses—and that's what the Seminoles' defense is.
We saw all the evidence we needed on Saturday in Tech's game against the Georgia Bulldogs. While the Yellow Jackets picked up 306 rushing yards and held the ball nearly 20 minutes longer than Georgia, they only managed 10 points and got thumped, 42-10.
Sure, Florida State didn't look good in its 37-26 loss to Florida on Saturday, with senior quarterback E.J. Manuel turning the ball over four times (three interceptions and a lost fumble) and giving the Gators excellent field position all day long, but Georgia Tech's defense pales in comparison to that of the Gators.
The Yellow Jackets allow nearly 400 yards of offense and 31 points per game.
How exactly are they going to compete with a Seminoles offense that drops more than 40 points per game on the opposition while limiting their opponents to under 250 yards of total offense and 15 points per game?
The simple answer is that they won't.
Florida State can contain Tevin Washington and the Yellow Jackets explosive rushing attack, but Georgia Tech doesn't have answers for Manuel or his complement of weapons.
The Yellow Jackets have lost to every ranked opponent that they've faced thus far by an average of 17 points.
When these two teams meet on the 50-yard line at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, on December 1, the result won't be that close.
Florida State is going to walk all over Georgia Tech—and right into an Orange Bowl showdown against whoever emerges from the Big East.


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Not Me is the ghost of the parents unborn child.It will continue to cause mischief until either the kids find out, or they call the Ghostbusters
Ida Know is a real ghost who possesses members of the family to get them to do worse things until someone dies.She wants to have her own body, and so she makes the kids break plates and put each other in dangerous situations. Eventually, someone is going to die; then she will have a corpse to take over. She only goes after overtly Christian families in syndicated comics because she was originally summoned accidentally by St Peter when he denied Christ.
Billy is a crack-head, Dolly is a nymphomaniac, the mother is a junkie turned prostitute, the dad is a serial killer, and PJ has an unhealthy oral fixation. Don't even get me started on Grandma.
- Oh, and the parents are siblings.
- YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! Can we get a fanfic on that?
The comic is, accidentally or deliberately, a Brown Note.Specifically, it causes susceptible individuals to become increasingly paranoid and take a darker view of reality. This explains both of the above entries.
The comic actually takes place in Fallout 3And they are one of the people living in Andale. The small suburban town in the wasteland full of people deluded into thinking the war never happened, and are secretly incestuous cannibals. To explain why they do not appear in the game when you visit them, they are eaten.
- Now I feel bad for killing the residents of Andale. They did what everyone in America has wanted to do but never had the balls to go through with it.
The comic will end with a Crowning Moment of Awesome strip doing a Take That! at all the buttheads who ever made fun of them.One day, the kids will get up and yell 'We're still around! And we're not happy at all you people!" and attack Pearls Before Swine and Lio and all the comics that made fun of them.
- Except that wouldn't be awesome... it'd be awesome if this crappy comic strip finally ended, and they're certainly not relevant anymore.
- Unlikely, since Bil Keane found a lot of the parodies funny, and even put some on his site. He was also friends with Stephen Pastis (Pearls Before Swine).
- Not to mention, The Comics Curmudgeon (a site that constantly makes fun of the comic), when Bil Keane passed away everyone on the site, whether they hated the comic or not. Had nothing but respect for the man. Bad comic or not, he was still a heavily influential and respected cartoonist.
This series was discontinued when Bil got some bad advice in a bar
The obscure Warhammer 40000 reference by Billy in the 2012 Halloween strip is a prophecy.Billy's wanderings will bring him across time and space to Cyrene, where he will be recruited to the Blood Ravens to become Tactical Sergeant Tarkus of the Blood Ravens Fourth Company.
The Live Action Adaption will not be taken seriouslyBecause of how near-universally hated it is to most people under the age of seventy (rough estimate) for its Taste Like Diabetes humor, its likely to be more like The Brady Bunch Movie or Enchanted, where it's Self-Parody , but not to Black Comedy levels since it's ineviatbly gonna be family-friendly anyway.


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300 attend Rose Art Museum town hall meeting
By Ben Terris
Globe Correspondent
Two weeks after Brandeis University announced it would sell off its art collection to ease economic hardships, Michael Rush, the Director of the Rose Art Museum, held an hour and a half public town meeting Tuesday night to discuss the state of the museum. Nearly 300 people, both young and old, packed a room filled with the vibrant colors of modernist painter Hans Hoffman to ask questions, share thoughts, and propose ways to save the museum.
Rush began the evening by rattling off names of the artists whose works inhabit this "modest Brandeis building"—Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns, Henri Matisse, Andy Warhol, among them —and then said to much applause, "Ladies and gentlemen, at the moment these artworks are not for sale."
For everyone present, the key phrase was "at the moment." Despite a recent public apology from University President Jehuda Reinharz for how he handled the situation, the nearly 7,000 artworks at the Rose Art Museum are still in danger of being sold off. For the people who attended this town meeting this was a tragedy.
"This museum is one of several sacred places on this campus," said Ramie Targoff, a professor of English at Brandeis. "Everyone in this room will see that it is a sacred spot for many people in our community."
For Peter Kalb, a professor of art history, what makes the Rose sacrosanct is both academic and philosophical.
"There is certainly discussion on campus now about the false dichotomy of art and academics. Art is academics," Kalb said. "This is the place where art becomes a tool to further our own creativity, further academic pursuits, and also to make the world a better place."
Perhaps the most rousing part of the evening took place when a surprise guest, Waltham Mayor Jeanette McCarthy, shared an exchanged with Rush.
McCarthy spoke about how important the museum was to the city of Waltham saying that "art is a priority" and that "it would be terrible for it to go."
The problem, McCarthy said is in trying to find enough money to maintain the museum for the future.
To this point, Rush gave his most stirring response of the evening.
"We are self sufficient," he said. "What needs to be maintained is Brandeis. The only money the university gives the museum is money for lights and electricity. My guess is whatever they do with the museum will use lights and electricity. Closing the museum does not save Brandeis university one penny."
In addition to thoughts on the museum, discussion included proposals to utilize the internet to raise money, teary-eyed well wishes for museum workers, and chastisements on the administration.
"With respect to the board and administration," Rush said. "You are not on the side of history here, not even the side of Brandeis's own history."
Having grown up in Massachusetts I came to respect and love the Rose Art Museum and was stunned by the news. It was good to hear of this meeting. I have since left the state (and wish I could have attended) but I pray for the continued well-being of the Rose and Brandies. These places are too good to be lost.
Brandeis should not sell its art work--period. It's one of the stupidest and most short-sighted decisions a college has floated and it casts doubt on the fitness of its board of trustees as well as its top administration--they are panicky and uncreative. I wonder how many of them are Republicans.
Keep fighting for the Rose Art Museum. It's worth it! Art is everything.
As a two-time graduate of Brandeis, I found this short-sighted decision horrifying. B-deis has always seemed like a money-hungry university and this announcement smacked of greed, not financial desperation. Perhaps if they didn't build a needless ADDITIONAL student center, this would not be an issue. The art should not be for sale. The museum should remain open. I can't even believe this is in question.
Curtailing the arts in order to save money is the kind of stragtegy I have often heard used by middle and high schools in rural midwestern towns, not from the prestigious university that Brandeis is and needs to remain. This is a move that will damage the university's reputation, narrow its scope, and damage its competitiveness in an increasingly competitive world. More money is not the answer to every problem, most especially when it comes to academics. I believe the board and administration need to be questioned seriously about how this decision was reached, and probably need to rethink it. What would Einstein think about selling off the art collection? How about Bernstein? How about Louis Brandeis? Let's not forget who the founders of this college were, where they came from, and what their vision was.
How many students' tuitions could be paid for with $350 million? If the museum is self sufficient, break off from the school and operate as a self-sufficient entity. If the museum can show exactly how a Warhol painting is incorporated into the students' curriculum, then perhaps the museum belongs in a school. If it is simply a museum that happens to be owned by a school, and few current, active students actually use it, while it is often visited by non-students, then it is time to break the museum away from the school and continue on it's own.
Out of the four people who have commented thus far, I find it interesting that none are current students.
Aside from the fact that Brandeis University has decided to try to solve their economic crisis by selling and scattering to the winds a collection that someone at some point felt was important to the University, my concern is that someone is looking into the legality of each sale. If the art work was donated, is Brandeis violating the terms of the gift agreement? If selling a work that was acquired with donated funds, are the terms of that donation being violated? Donors who give art to museums usually want the work of art they are giving made available to the public. While donors also get a tax deduction, their decision to give is driven by a desire to have the work of art taken care of by a professional museum staff and be made available to art lovers and students whose lives will be enriched by seeing the art.


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"I am trying to become a writer," Page says as we work our way around the circle in introductions.
It is Saturday, and we are at Equinox- a creativity retreat that me and Kris, my friend and equine assisted learning partner, are facilitating. A group of women sits around the table talking about why they had signed up for Equinox and then offering the answer to one of a handful of quirky questions I have posed to them.
Before this day, I have never met Page but I "know" her from Twitter, and I know that her career is as a writer- how much more writer do you get? I am about to say something about how she isn't just trying to be a writer when a friend of her's says, "You are a writer!" Page smiles sheepishly, not sure if to accept or demure.
Later, we are talking outside and I mention to Page that she is a writer not just because, hey, she's getting paid for it but also because all of us who care and dare to write are writers- whether or not we get paid for it. One of my friends, Mary Kathryn, is at Equinox, and she and her husband own a running shoe store. She tells us how people come into the store all the time and say, "I am not a real runner. I mean, I just run 15 or so miles a week" and how she insists to them that they are indeed runners because they run at least one step.
Every time, I do one of these workshops, I come away with some clearer understanding of a rule of life- like the importance and value of saying no – and Equinox is no different. As we talk about being a writer or not being a writer or being a runner or not being a runner, I see something about our natures or, at least, my nature.
We make rules about things, and the rules almost always exclude us. They include other people we admire but deliberately leave us out– because, hey, we have no business being in a subgroup with those people we admire. For several years, I was an endurance cyclist. Except I would never have called myself an endurance cyclist. Because that tag was reserved for the people who looked like and talked like and lived like they were endurance cyclists. And I was just little ole Rosie. With two bikes. And a lot of cycling equipment. And serious saddle sores from riding my bike for about 25 hours a week. And race numbers from the endurance rides I did. And cycling route maps etched into my brain space. Except I wasn't a cyclist. Because I wasn't fast and didn't really want to change my own bike tire in a pinch and hated Gu. I just was a girl with a bike. All those other people were cyclists.
And even when I was regularly practicing yoga, I wasn't a yogi. And though I took painting classes and gave people paintings as gifts, I wasn't an artist. And we all know that I was told by enough folks growing up that I was either too Puerto Rican or not Puerto Rican enough that I was just totally confused about all that. And, well, you get the point.
But, here's the thing, the only person who can enforce the rule of whether or not we are something is us. And when we say we aren't, we're denying ourselves something we love, something we do, something we ache for all because we have some preconceived idea of what a writer or runner or yogi or cyclist or artist or a Puerto Rican is or does. And those preconceived ideas are often directly rooted in a way that excludes us. We diminish ourselves and our capacity because, well, if the running club lets me in it, it can't be all that special. Except because we admire it, it is special to us, AND because we exist and try, we are, too. It's time we quit excluding ourselves because we can't believe someone would let us into the club. We are the only ones excluding ourselves. Enough already. We are what we do.
What label have you been denying yourself? Can you claim it now?
Wondering how Equinox was? Incredible. In designing it, Kris and I were really think about a retreat we would want to attend and so we had a great time putting it together. But conceiving a retreat is only a tiny part of guaranteeing its success. Who attends and how they interact make all the difference and we had an incredible group of attendees who really connected, were game, and really enjoyed what each had to offer. That is just about as good as it gets.
Want to join us for a future retreat? Check out First, Love You, a day long retreat we are offering two times in May (the maximum number of participants is six). It's going to be incredible!


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On 21 January 2014 01:09, KaiGai Kohei <kaigai(at)ak(dot)jp(dot)nec(dot)com> wrote: > (2014/01/13 22:53), Craig Ringer wrote: >> >> On 01/09/2014 11:19 PM, Tom Lane wrote: >>> >>> Dean Rasheed <dean(dot)a(dot)rasheed(at)gmail(dot)com> writes: >>>> >>>> My first thought was that it should just preprocess any security >>>> barrier quals in subquery_planner() in the same way as other quals are >>>> preprocessed. But thinking about it further, those quals are destined >>>> to become the quals of subqueries in the range table, so we don't >>>> actually want to preprocess them at that stage --- that will happen >>>> later when the new subquery is planned by recursion back into >>>> subquery_planner(). So I think the right answer is to make >>>> adjust_appendrel_attrs() handle recursion into sublink subqueries. >>> >>> >>> TBH, this sounds like doubling down on a wrong design choice. I see >>> no good reason that updatable security views should require any >>> fundamental rearrangements of the order of operations in the planner. >> >> >> In that case, would you mind offerign a quick sanity check on the >> following alternative idea: >> >> - Add "sourceRelation" to Query. This refers to the RTE that supplies >> tuple projections to feed into ExecModifyTable, with appropriate resjunk >> "ctid" and (if requ'd) "oid" cols present. >> >> - When expanding a target view into a subquery, set "sourceRelation" on >> the outer view to the index of the RTE of the newly expanded subquery. >> > I have sane opinion. Existing assumption, "resultRelation" is RTE of the > table to be read not only modified, makes the implementation complicated. > If we would have a separate "sourceRelation", it allows to have flexible > form including sub-query with security_barrier on the reader side. > > Could you tell me the direction you're inclined right now? > I wonder whether I should take the latest patch submitted on 09-Jan for > a deep code reviewing and testing. > Yes, please review the patch from 09-Jan (http://email@example.com). The idea behind that patch is to avoid a lot of the complication that leads to and then arises from having a separate "sourceRelation" in the query. If you go down the route of expanding the subquery in the rewriter and making it the "sourceRelation", then you have to make extensive changes to preprocess_targetlist so that it recursively descends into the subquery to pull out variables needed by an update. Also you would probably need additional changes in the rewriter so that later stages didn't trample on the "sourceRelation", and correctly updated it in the case of views on top of other views. Also, you would need to make changes to the inheritance planner code, because you'd now have 2 RTEs referring to the target relation ("resultRelation" and "sourceRelation" wrapping it in a subquery). Referring to the comment in inheritance_planner(): * Source inheritance is expanded at the bottom of the * plan tree (see allpaths.c), but target inheritance has to be expanded at * the top. except that in the case of the "sourceRelation", it is actually effectively the target, which means it shouldn't be expanded, otherwise you'd get plans like the ones I complained about upthread (see the final explain output in http://email@example.com). Perhaps all of that could be made to work, but I think that it would end up being a far more invasive patch than my 09-Jan patch. My patch avoids both those issues by not doing the subquery expansion until after inheritance expansion, and after targetlist preprocessing. Regards, Dean
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text: Can anyone please give me some advice, a few years ago I brought a potted plant consisting of an Afican voilet/palour palm and a peace lily. It became pot bound very quickly, so it is now on its third pot which is 12" wide and the palour palm is nearly 4ft high. I would like to split it into individual plants but am unsure how and when I should do it. At present there are no flowers on the violet. This plant sits on my upstairs window sill, but it is now taking all of the light away from the room.


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Since the entire country seems to be experiencing the next ice age I thought I would share a yummy recipe for some warm comfort food. Empanadas!
If you have never had empanadas before then I suggest you remedy that very quickly, because they are tasty! All an empanada is, is a flaky pastry filled with any kind of savory ingredient. You usually find them in Latin or Spanish countries. I first had empanadas when I went to Colombia with one of my college roommates and we would just buy them from the carts on the street corners. So.good. And they are surprisingly easy to make from your very own home, no street corner needed.
You'll need: Goya empanada discos, eggs, onion, mushrooms, green chiles, cheese, and ground sausage.
A quick note about the Goya empanadas. There is a certain type that I like the best and they look like this:
I think they are the flakiest and bake the best. Empanadas are typically fried, but these bake up perfectly and that is much healthier. However when I went to the grocery store to pick up the ingredients to make these they were out of my favorite empanada dough! But they did have another type that was very…orange?
Despite their bright orange color they were pretty tasty and worked just fine. Not a big deal to make the switch. But if you do happen to see the other kind, grab those first!
Okay…now to start with you'll want to begin browning your sausage in a skillet over medium heat. While the meat is browning dice your mushrooms and onions.
Once they're diced add the onion and the mushrooms, along with your can of green chiles to the sausage. Cook until the sausage is completely browned and the onion and mushrooms are soft and tender. Pour the mixture into a bowl and set aside. In the same skillet scramble your eggs. Cooking in the same skillet will ensure you get all the yummy flavoring from the meat and veggies. Once the eggs are scrambled add the sausage mixture back into the skillet and mix together. Remove it from the heat.
Now each little empanada needs to be rolled out slightly. I just grabbed a glass and quickly gave each one a roll before putting a small spoonful of the eggs/sausage into the middle of the dough. Top with a sprinkle of cheese.
Fold the empanada in half and seal the edges by pressing them together with your fingers. You can also crimp the edges with a fork to make them look pretty, but it isn't really necessary as long as the edges get sealed.
Repeat until all your empanadas are filled and then place on a baking sheet that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. I sometimes have a little bit of the filling left over but no worries! Put it in the fridge and then the next day you can mix it up with some hash browns and you have a great filling for breakfast burritos. Two meals in one!
Bake for 20-25 minutes or until the empanadas are golden brown, slightly crispy, and flaky. As you can imagine these are pretty versatile with what you can put inside and I'll share some of my other favorite fillings later. But for now, enjoy these tasty empanadas for breakfast, or lunch or dinner!


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Car Accident Lawsuit in Michigan Settles for $100,000
Our car accident lawyers in Michigan recently settled an auto accident injury lawsuit for $100,000. Our client was injured in a two vehicle car crash in Michigan. He was driving his own car at the time of the rear-end accident.
Prior to the accident, the injured client was a transmission mechanic with no prior back or neck injury. He was earning approximately $30,000 per year. Due to the injuries suffered in the accident, he is unable to return to work and has been awarded social security disability benefits.
The defendant driver was insured for liability coverage by Liberty Mutual Insurance Company. The insurance company refused to pay for the personal injury claim and we filed a lawsuit in the Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit, Michigan. Attorney George Burke in our office then demanded that the insurance company pay the policy limits of $100,000 to our client to settle the case. After taking depositions and conducting other discovery, we were able to establish that the defendant was in fact responsible for causing the accident. The insurance company then agreed to settle the case for $100,000.
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text: Sorry to start out with this question. I went to a customers home. Washer drain.. classic. Turns out sewer. He's on slab. No clean out I could find. Run from roof K-50. Tell helper probe it listen. Can't clear it can't hear it. Alright dig here. Bed rock and bricks. brick not a problem, But bedrock at about 2.5' water on it and everything. Not sewer water. Pulled tiolet in back of house water standing of course. Ran from there. No chance for K-1500 C cutter. Straight head little curve, got it. Big bill.>> Next week call back. Been running washer all day backing up. Takes a large amount of water back up. Washer is on opposite side of house with garage a small bath. Diagnose. Back bath is fine.Sewer branch needs cleaned. Pull toilet in small bath. Run and works. Hell of a call back. Needs clean-outs. Made drawing of layout which he took to head of HOA nextdoor. Guy has same set up and confirmed it. Says no clean outs in this area. Though I already knew. In one big bill. One callback. What would you do, or have done different. How do Ifind these lines. I have been to this home before, and before all this happened.


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Cuckold In DenverMy wife is 38 and I am 49 years old. We have three kids and recently moved to Highlands Ranch,. Colorado. I know this is a bit long but it is our story.
I have never gotten to see another man **** or *** in my wife but she has cucked me. Shortly after we got married she was feeling guilty and one night told me that before we married she had been cheating on my with her old boyfriend for almost 5 years but that she stopped seeing him about a week before our wedding. She was not in love with him but evidently he was hung and so good in bed she just could not stop herself. When she finally told me about all the times she had slept with him while we were dating and during our engagement she was afraid I would be pissed but I held her and let her know that I love her no matter what. This turned into a rather hot night. Not long after that her old boyfriend became the topic of our pillow talk. In time I bought her some sex toys, ******, vibrators etc. Soon the subject of our pillow talk turned to men she had seen in public, strangers or even male friends of ours. She even named her sex toys after men she had dreamed about. Her favorite ***** she named after her old boyfriend. I would use the ***** on her while she called out his name. But she always made it clear that this was only fantasy and that nothing would ever really happen. After years of roll playing she got into flirting in public with other men, dancing with, and even kissing them but she still always insisted it was just a game and nothing further would happen. Once at a company party she let a black coworker of mine take her off to a dark room to smoke a joint and then they kissed, felt each other up. She even gave him a hand job and let him finger her. He tried but she would not go all the way. About that time we started getting into reading stories about hot wives and that lead to trying other kinky things between the two of us. One year for Christmas I bought a male chastity belt. Still today she loves locking me up for long periods of time. When she really wants to drive me crazy she'll were the key on gold chain on her neck when we are out in public. I don't think anyone has figured out the significance of her wearing the key. Not long after starting the chastity play, she met a white guy. Tall, smart, good looking. At first it was just on-line with IM conversations, photo swapping. In a few weeks he got her to ********** with him on cam. One day I came home from work and she was in bed ************ and having phone sex with him. He never knew by I went down on her while they kept talking. WOW was that wild. He would beg her to meet for real but she continued to refuse. He would ask, I would encourage her and she would still say she can't. Eventually, they ended up meeting with my permission and encouragement.
I'll never forget the first night she went all the way with him. She agreed to meet him for one drink in public at 5:30 pm and told me she'd be home in an hour. She insisted that they were just friends and nothing would happen. Three hours later she called from his place and told me she would be a while. She returned home around 1:30 am. When she walked in she was shaking and nervous. She looked stunning. Her hair was a mess, her lipstick was gone. She was wearing his shirt. I kissed her and held her. Then she whispered "I did it." Evidently at the bar he told her he has some killer marijuana at his place. She does not do hard drugs but does smoke pot once in a while and when she does she can't keep her panties on. I lead her to the bed room and kissed her and undressed her. She had hickys all over her neck and all over her huge breasts. When I took off her panties they were pasted to her with his *****. I went down on her while she told me all about him and everything that happened. I came all over myself without her ever touching me. Just from going down on her, smelling him, tasting him in her, listing to her tell me how beautiful he is, how she could not stop herself once he kissed her, how she should have used a condom because it was her risky time, how incredible a lover he was.
The next morning she was feeling really guilty. I tried my best to put her at ease. However, she decided she was going to end it as soon as he called. He called around 11:00 am. Within 20 min. or so she hung up the phone. She did not say a word to me, just got in the shower. Once she dressed she told me she was going to his place and would call me later. She ended up spending all day and night there Saturday and returned around supper time on Sunday. After that they dated almost every other night for the next 8 months. I'd stay home locked in chastity for weeks on end never able to make love to her other than orally if she allowed. They did not even hide the fact that they were dating. Several of our friends and even some of my coworkers saw them out on dates.
I never got to watch as he was not into cuckolding. He never understood how I could let my beautiful wife date another man but he wanted her badly. It was much more than just sex for them, it was a romance. That was Ok with me as long as my wife was having the time of her life and I got to kiss her and hear about it afterward. At one point she told me she did not trust herself with him because of their feelings. I still encouraged her even knowing that they were falling in love. So I was locked up in chastity for weeks on end, at one point for 2 months without getting out. While in chastity, my wife was falling in love with a man who was not just ******* her but wanted to steel her from me and all I could do was continue to encourage her to go to his arms and his bed. For me it was an addiction stronger than any drug. Even today she will say it was the most incredible thing to ever happen to us. After about 8 months they broke up. It was really hard on her emotionally so she has sworn off ever doing it again. However, she still frequently talks about wanting another man.
I so hope she will try again. To get her back into it is going to take some effort, a seduction. She will not go for it just because I bring home a guy. It has to be her thing with a guy she meets who she is attracted to. Maybe one day, in her way and in her time. Good news is that we still have chastity and some otherr kinky play.
That was a hot story ! Happy that you guys can have that kind of relationship would to chat over drinks in Parker
Good story ! I also live in HIghlands Ranch Co., if ever you two need an older guy for oral sex please let me know.
This mirrors an experience of mine, although as the loverbull I did not seek to steal the wife away from her cuck hubby and he was not in chastity. However, my emotional, romanctic relationship with the wife was intense and we both crossed boundaries we did not expect to cross, even coming close to intentially conceiving a child. We still see each other but less frequently, as the more of each other we saw, the less control we seemed to have. If not for a great distance separating us, I don't think we'd each still be in our respective marriages....or the cuck would be raising my baby for me...
Thanks for your story. I don't get into the chastity thing, because I still want to make love to my wife. Too bad you liked the chastity so much, because it almost cost you your wife and did cost you a bull(perhaps).
Very hot WABillyBob, thanks for sharing.